Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.

Going to bring some games I’ve been wanting to play to PAX Unplugged: Nemesis Grimcoven Hero Gudnak Token Terrors Battlegrounds Age of Wonders Planetfall Archwynd Unsettled Black Rose Wars Duel (Lex) Metal Gear Solid Primal Plunderlust Varia Re;Act And maybe a Tiny Epic game…

Couldn’t be prouder of this team.

In my time at Game Informer, it has never been available at newsstands, but it's always been something I've dreamt of for the magazine. You can still subscribe if you're in the US, but starting soon, you'll also be able to walk into various retailers and buy the issue you want. We're so excited!

I'm sure the DICE and GDC Awards, selected by peers, will not make the same mistake.

If you had told me Call of Duty would be the linchpin in our government finally getting loud about AI regulation regarding jobs, I would have laughed at you. www.ign.com/articles/us-...

I think I just received the worst GPT-slop press release ever for a game I was previously interested in. Without naming names, this does NOT belong in a press release. Additionally, if I were a dev paying this PR company, I would be pretty unhappy right now.

Chicken tagine for our last dinner of the @causewaystudios.com leadership retreat!

Remember if you truly despise GenAI and its outputs you need to put a lot more time celebrating and lifting all the artists not using it and trying there best and learning. Share their art like that art and just talk about the stuff you like and enjoy. Don’t let the anger of GenAi stop that.

Specifically the interaction with the cultural fund destroys trust: with players, with government orgs, with communities, and partners. Trust like that isn’t easily rebuilt. If you farm out a cultural touchstone to machines, what are you saying about the people who play your games?

Vote with your wallet. Send the message that this is simply unacceptable. And I hope the German government rakes them over the coals for taking 6M Euros from a cultural fund and then using AI localization. It’s one Eff You after another to players and now cultural institutions.

Norman Rockwell was Antifa

Thanks to @kyleor.land for asking for my thoughts on the Steam Machine. I wrote him a huge book (sorry, Kyle!) and this is such a thoughtful piece with multiple perspectives. arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

This is wild. If Ubi goes private like EA or is acquired by another industry player, we sink further into the depths of consolidation hell.

Yup. Let's go.

Oh man. This makes the Tencent / Light of Moritram case SOOOOO much more interesting.

it's always the ones you most suspect

Great choices. I love Marissa Marcel!

Happy Proof He's a PDF day!

Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."

First of all, Bobby Kotick is notoriously not a video game player. Secondly, either is Elon Musk.

A reminder that the President, an adjudicated rapist, a fraud, grifter, murderer, and felon, is also a pedophile.

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

Following the launch of Arc Raiders, it’s important to assume that whichever CEO who talks about the extensive application of AI across the industry is talking total fucking bullshit.

I think this read is the one that baffles me the most about AI-pilled execs. It’s the ultimate telling on themselves and they don’t even see it. Every exec forcing AI on creatives is *screaming* that they just do not care about the quality of their company’s experiences.

Apple's brand marketing history, Our Users Are -Revolutionary visionaries (80s) -Like Picasso, Einstein "think different" (late 90s) -Cool creatives (iMac/iPod) -Successful, high status (iPhone to iWatch) -Unprepared bad workers, office loser, can't read/write one line emails (Apple Intelligence/AI)

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

Reminder that I have a Starter Pack of all current and former Game Informer staff if you’re interested in following us. I don’t think I missed anyone, but let me know if I did, because I want to be all-inclusive and not leave anyone left out. go.bsky.app/Ea2R4VT

A significantly shorter listen than Part One. We had a bunch to say about all of the labor issues hitting, including the big layoffs and scale-down at Amazon, Take-Two / Rockstar's union busting, Ubisoft's re-org, and more! Thanks again to Andy Pan and @gregoryalderton.bsky.social for joining us!

I think some ppl on this site need to take a moment, step back, and say aloud to themselves "If Dems cared, theyve have made Republicans do something that was obviously in their best interest to do" and contemplate a bit based on that framing why that outcome didnt come to pass.

I helped a friend build a platform for this back at the very start of AI. I consulted to give the games perspective cause hey! No more "Arrow to the Knee"! But no. It sounds good til you explore it. Once you think it through it falls apart entirely, just crashes and burns.

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

Great write up on this situation.

Time to replace my Steam Deck battery! Getting garbage play time. Thankfully iFixit has official parts and amazing instructions.

This was always the plan: 1. Let the 8 take the fall as the safest among them. 2. Pretend to be outraged at the deal (spoiler: they weren't. It was theatre.) 3. Tell us that we need to put our feelings aside and support THEM, while they ALL just threw us under the bus. Primaries are coming.

Human laundromats love to fold

Oh fuck off

We need younger people in office. And we certainly need people like Mamdani, who take the time to actually meet people who aren't throwing money for favors.

This game should have gotten more love. It's quite good.

This is a must-watch for sound designers.

Hey all you gamers claiming to "want shorter games made by fewer people who are paid more to work less" here's your chance to put your $15 where your mouth is: a spooky & elegiac exploration game made by ex-Bethesda & Ubi devs. It's excellent. Buy it & prove there's a market for games like this!

LOVE to see this.

Currently scheduling for PAX Unplugged. Can't wait for a weekend full of board games and cheesesteaks.

And now we know why the shutdown is ending.

I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really

BECAUSE YOU FUCKS FOLDED. TRUMP WAS GETTING BOOED BY STADIUMS FULL OF PEOPLE. POLLING HAD THE GOP PEGGED FOR BEING THE CAUSE. BY CAPITULATING, YOU STARVED WORKING PEOPLE FOR NOTHING. CALL AND FAX YOUR SENATORS TODAY AND DEMAND @schumer.senate.gov BE REMOVED FROM LEADERSHIP.

I just called Congresswoman / Governor-Elect @repsherrill.bsky.social office. I got a human on the line and left my comments. Neither @booker.senate.gov nor @kim.senate.gov have people answering the phones. I left messages.

Keep making your calls this morning. Let them know how utterly disgusted we are.