Fuck everything. Will April 8 stand as a mark of shame on humanity to anyone outside of Lebanon?

Hard to put into words how awful it is to exist today. The whiplash suffered from the last 24hrs (let alone 3 years) is a lot to handle. 7 seconds into an evening check-in call with mom got interrupted by the sound of an incoming missile and explosion nearby yesterday. She's thankfully fine.

Insanity really. We don't know what to do and who to check in on. Friends and family are all over the area there. This would be condemned in any other nation on earth. Fierce brutality and viciousness.

I've wished for Arab-made games about Arab mythology for so long, and despite assisting on the project I still can't believe there's one swinging for the fences this hard. House of Hikmah is something very needed in a time where the world would rather erase us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZTu...

It's incredibly depressing and alarming to see how this generation has just gradually kept increasing in price. 6 years in and we are now at almost 1000 USD for the Pro and a 30% increase on the base PS5s. The entry price for next Gen whenever that time comes is gonna be tough.

It's rough when an award show omits talking about people deeply tied to their industry and their losses, doesn't it Geoff? I feel like there's some kind of lesson here...

all will rise is handing back Microsoft money & pledging @nogamesforgenocide.com — it’s a difficult thing to do when funding and attention are scarce commodities for indies like us, but we hope more of our fellow devs and indie studios will join us in taking a stand 🔥 www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

They are dropping pamphlets over Beirut with QR codes asking Lebanese citizens to join them. One of them even makes fun of Gaza. Under no circumstances should anyone scan any of the codes. Please do the only logical thing and dispose of them.

This is approximately 1/3 of Lebanon's map. What in the ever living heck are people expected to do and where are they expected to go?! 700 people killed in the span of a week, 100 of whom are kids, 1M displaced. Just pure freaking madness.

I'm Malek, in the games industry 15+ years across media/AAA, currently a senior manager at Ubisoft's DIA team. You may have seen me talk about AC Mirage (a lot), localization, gymming, better representation of Arabs in media, Palestine/Lebanon (my homes), and more! This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

From @ spatial(dot)data(dot)candy on IG, a visualization of how large the area of forced displacement in Beirut is. We are talking a projected 500-800K worth of people, with similar warnings issued to the entire Southern region of Lebanon and Eastern Bekaa Valley, all during Ramadan in cold winter.

What is there more to say beyond rage. They want to "evacuate" one of the densest suburbs of Beirut and have a quarter of a million+ people just move elsewhere and accept the fate of the destruction of their homes or worse the loss of their life. Fucking nightmare.

Really don't know what to say, think, feel, or do anymore. They will displace around 800K+ people, and maybe potentially invade (like they weren't illegally occupying parts of the country for decades). Truly maddening how bloodshed and war have become a staple of our existence.

It's sad it's come to this. 2 high quality high produced AAA shooters pulled out of market in the 2-6 weeks from launch. Fortnite, R6 Siege, CoD, and more have needed the time and investment to recoup and build a fandom. It's surreal we cannot afford that anymore. The industry has changed a lot.

I'm freaking glued to the TV at 3 am seeing Lebanon be dragged into another bloodbath (not that it ever really stopped) and I don't know what to do anymore. Please stay safe, and I'm here to receive rants and help best I can. Genuinely fuck the timeline we are in.

We are definitely not in the good place. It's so fucking tiring.

The Japanese Pokémon 30th anniversary stream has one of the most bop-y bonkers pre-show streams I've ever seen. I would love to have a dedicated video for this animation looping for 10 hours. Pretty freaking cool #Pokemon30 #PokemonDay

We are only in the 8th week of the year bro. What in the holy heck is happening. I was told year of the fire Horse goes fast, but this is blazing lightspeed.

Heck dude I was hoping they would be working on the trilogy remake... This is pretty freaking sad.

I find it super wholesome that two lunar events started on the same day. Chinese lunar new year and Ramadan. So happy year of the horse, and Ramadan Kareem everyone!

The way I bloody shot up from the couch and literally started jumping up and down! Seems like it's still far but BOY am I ready to jump back into that world.

MGS4 PS3 Cell Exclusive (2008 - 2026). The era of PS3 exclusive games is finally over after 18 years.

PMG won the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism last night at the @nyvgcc.bsky.social! It feels like we've come such a long way since we first launched this thing nearly eight years ago, but winning a journalism award at an event in NEW YORK CITY still seems totally mad to me.

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I don't know about you folks but Heated Rivalry has been the exact hot but wholesome queer energy that I need to end this year on. Cannot recommend it enough. The one shame is that the last episode of the season airs next week. It starts raunchy but evolves into something much more than that.

There’s a moment in this where @ramiismail.com talks about people distancing themselves or being told to do so because of his advocacy. Most never talk about but, man, it’s so real. The last couple years have been professionally and personally isolating in brutal ways. It’s been really eye-opening.

If we manage to pass $25,000, PMG is going to donate a further $5000 in the first weeks of January (once we have the funds to do so). If you're unable to donate, any help sharing this video would be greatly appreciated!! YouTube didn't exactly do us any favours when we covered this back in 2023.

We're also running another fundraiser too! This one, like last time, is for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. Back in 2023, PMG viewers donated $67,000 to the PCRF, which is mad. I've no idea if that's possible again here, but please consider chucking a few quid into the pool, if you can.

If you didn't already know about this boycott, or if you felt it was somehow futile when considering the scale of the corporation it's targeting, this video is for you. The topic is not an easy one, but our aim here was to create something that'll give you a bit of hope & importantly, some agency.

Here were a group of game developers working at a Microsoft-owned games studio who felt compelled to lend their own voices to the boycott, despite it targeting the very games they would be making. And so, we traveled to Lyon to hear from them for ourselves.

Although Rami told us he still felt let down by the industry's response to the genocide overall, he told us to pay attention to those who have been brave enough to step forward. Like, for example, the @stjv.fr union members working out of Arkane Lyon, who'd released a statement in support of BDS.

Having covered the relationship between video games and Palestine through @tamoorh.com's video in 2023, we wanted to come back to that topic once again and find out how much has changed over the last two years. Given I was already in the Netherlands, it was obvious who I needed to speak to.

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement has been targetting Microsoft for years now, describing the company as "perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide". But their most recent campaign has gone after Xbox specifically.

Thanks to the immense pressure that's been applied onto the company from both inside and out, Microsoft has just terminated some of its contracts with the IDF, including the particular unit responsible for capturing these phone calls. And a key part of that pressure came from a boycott.

It felt important for us to see this for ourselves; to make a physical connection between Microsoft and the genocide it's helped enable in Gaza. The data may be hidden from view, but it's significantly more difficult to hide the infrastructure itself.

I recently traveled to Middenmeer in North Holland to visit a data centre belonging to Microsoft. These buildings, we now know thanks to reporting from the Guardian, +972 magazine and Local Call, were used by the IDF to store **hundreds of millions** of phone calls made by the people of Palestine.

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

Please do not purchase Luck be a Landlord on Xbox. I will be making a $10,000 donation to The Palestine Children's Relief Fund to (hopefully) help offset the revenue the game has generated for Microsoft.

If I'm not mistaken, Sandfall's @expedition33.bsky.social is the first game to have won every single category it was nominated for. Absolutely surreal feat for the team and everyone involved in the creation and publishing of the game. Kudos on delivering one heck of a game.

do you feel a weight lifted off your shoulders after ignoring the future class alumni and press who've asked you to comment on it's abandonment? or is editing hype trailers the most meaningful work you do

I hoped that he'd be willing to talk to the Future Class alumni to collaborate on a way forward for the program. Instead, his team effectively told us to get lost and manage ourselves and he never even bothered to reply. So much for rebirth, renewal, and finding hope that he talked about I guess.

Currently working on a story about the Xbox boycott and hoping to have it up on the channel before the end of the year. But in the meantime, I'm very happy to have my name (and PMG's) attached to today's pledge from @nogamesforgenocide.com.

couldn't be prouder to be part of an amazing team at No Games for Genocide which has worked very hard to provide comprehensive info and steps to take action to boycott & divest from Xbox until Microsoft ends its complicity in the genocide and colonisation of the Palestinian people. consider signing!

Such an honor to host the 2025 @arabic.games Showcase with a tremendous lineup of Arab made games from all across the Arab World. More than 60 games and tools, across an hour, and I cannot be more proud. Big kudos to the team behind the scenes, and speakers throughout. VOD: youtu.be/oE72ZONsXM0

The @arabic.games showcase is live!!! Tune in, and enjoy the show! It's the first time I ever host something like this. youtu.be/oE72ZONsXM0?...

The conference is now live across two tracks. Track 1: www.youtube.com/live/Z3f6Bb6... Track 2: www.youtube.com/live/3uRb7wX... The games showcase is later today at 6pm Paris time: youtu.be/ydrq4kACYJ0?... Some really cool Arab made games. Quick sneak peak at something I'm very proud of 🤘🏼💜