I love how they expanded on the story in this game.

Yup. We’re looking for ANOTHER narrative designer to join our project! Come work on Star Wars!! ✨ www.respawn.com/careers/narr...

Breaking news: Man who does not respect consent is unwilling to hear "No"

we laid off the people who develop the games, we laid off the journalists who cover the games, everyone is freelance and there’s no freelance budget. It’s probably fine though

Passing privilege and the pull to present in extremely binary, unobtrusive ways are about to get much more polarised & powerful in the UK than they've perhaps ever been. I'm really dreading the damage that may do to the collective consciousness of trans people. Solidarity is our byword, kay?

I'll say it again: They're afraid of UBI because having a stable income means fewer people will be desperate enough to accept or stay in shit jobs. And that scares them. They hate the idea that as employers or management, they'd have to pay and treat their employees better.

a lot of folks are reposting this because it appears nice at a glance but between the claude folder in the website and bizarre coding style of the unreal plugin, at least, it's reasonable to assume this is slop until proven otherwise imo

The expanded class action suit accuses X “of shielding child predators by obstructing police investigations into Grok-generated child sex abuse materials (CSAM).” CW for descriptions of child harm and sexual assault.

doom and quake studio id software was reportedly working on multiple new project pitches before this week's layoffs, which according to a WARN notice reduced headcount by 136. now? nobody knows

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

I am going to continue my longstanding egregious overuse of em-dashes — even when they’re not necessary or grammatically correct — because if I have to start getting proficient with semicolons, the robots win.

Couldn't fit this into the piece, but the belief that the left needs its own oaf means that Trump is still dictating the rules of engagement. Believing 1) white working class men are the voters that matter and 2) that they will only vote for themselves is just MAGA with a different coat of paint.

A short comic about Lenny #TheSimpsons #comics

The cherry on the sundae is that she's a policy wonk for Heritage, so getting this sort of coverage is part of her job, but it also speaks to how the NYT's culture pieces are basically, 'journalist interviews their friend in the same elite circles.'

This will lead to students dying by suicide

Indie studios and solo devs are constantly talking about how impossible it is for them in this climate, they also need investment, they also need the industry generally to be healthy. So this "who cares about AAA anyway?" crap I keep seeing is as clueless as it is crass.

In an ideal world people would be excited for this but it’s hard to read this as anything but being forced to make a complex game at gunpoint after your studio has been gutted.

This woman has been the subject of three NYT pieces in 2025-26

listen--the internet is absolute hell for survivors of sexual assault right now. but use this opportunity to shut people out of your lives that would post things like the statements in the screenshot.

Bithell Games reveals Vampirium: 1997, an immersive sim where you work as an assassin for Dracula. gameinformer.com/2026/07/08/b...

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I am begging my fellow Americans to learn how parties work *literally* every where else. Candidates are not more legitimate just because they were selected via a primary. Parties regularly select candidates and then voters, in an election, tell the party if they liked them or not.

Something I love about Count Binface is that he’s clearly been played by several different men at this point, while remaining the same character. This makes him a quintessential British Hero like Doctor Who and James Bond.

Again, I beg MPs and the government to actually look at the policy they may or may not be implementing and think through both the human consequences and their willingness to have 1/6 of all care staff be deported.

Mine was on by default so this is worth reading and checking for yourself

I mean, I'm glad they're *finally* saying this stuff on the BBC. But either the likes of Robinson have only just realised this. Or they've been pulling their punches. Either should be a sackable offence for a high-profile political journalist.

This is like going to the hospital with a hemorrhaging stab wound and the doctor says “great news, we have a plan to get that splinter out of your foot”

why couldnt it have been something at least kinda funny like a second nazi tattoo hidden in a different place on his body - instead its something that just reminds us all that the world around us is dominated almost exclusively by predatory men who see women as property rather than people

We had some leadership changes on Lily’s Garden and one of the new guys told me we “[didn’t] need an Arab character because we already [had] a guy with brown hair”

23 year old "internet history" influencer in 2052: so uh, in today's vid we're discussing the 2020s niche social media site bluesky. now they had this term called "skeets," which was a reference to the practice of launching one's rivals into the air and shooting them with a rifle

this is what i do at home. when i have excess energy i hoist bricks to the roof of my house and when im having a bad day i chuck them off to feel better

"We acquired 40% of the gaming industry in order to produce 5 franchises until they are no longer profitable."

The "Well excuuuuuuuse me for believing a human can change and get better" argument re: Platner is utterly bizarre to me. At what point has he shown genuine contrition or attempted to make things right rather than explain away and insist he's just a downhome guy bein' a downhome guy?

I can’t help thinking all these players would be better at soccer if they played more often than once every four years

IO Interactive: -regained full ownership of Project Fantasy. "We will continue to develop and fund it independently amongst our other projects." -Istanbul studio has closed

as much as he's finally being challenged by the press I wonder if this is the "oh, Reform are actually getting public support, I better get out of this before people expect me to do work" moment

So Microsoft, after hoovering up a bunch of studios in a stupid, expensive gamble, turned around and fucked them when they couldn't meet the absurd financial demands necessitated by the stupid, expensive gamble?

"You just sent 1600 people into one of the worst job markets in history for the industry, and you’re talking about an install base of a billion, are you fucking high?"

"These are delusional, careless, and tedious people who will never suffer consequences like these, attempting to massage a bad message so they can get patted on the back for it" aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...

"Shouldn't I be able to learn a language in a month" is just an objectively delusional idea, a statement that shows total disconnection from reality. You couldn't learn a language in a month if you had a whole team of teachers doing 24/7 immersion teaching on you at all times.

You want 1 in every 6 people on the internet on the planet playing Xbox games every day. Assuming you just mean over 15, that’s just under half of all adults with internet access on the PLANET EARTH playing Xbox every day. And your first crucial move is to *fire* 1600 people. This is madness.

FWIW I think it's a little strange that "Arkane's Blade is late and over budget" is becoming a lingering news story when the total number of big video games that were *not* late and over budget could be counted on one hand

Normalise headlines that accurately handle the absurdity of public statements.

Trying to figure out if there was ever a sign that things were about to get fucky

Case in point: the staff of Blizzard Entertainment were told today that they won't hear how the reorganization impacts them until "further communications"

I want to re-emphasize one part of this Xbox story: Half of the 3,200 cuts are happening today and half are happening in the next 12 months. In other words, even people who survived today's layoffs will have to spend the coming year wondering if they're going to be next.