So, just to be clear, Asha wants 12% of the POPULATION OF THE WORLD to be on Xbox every day?? In this economy?? When Xbox hasn't even sold 200 million units across all generations? This is just embarrassing 🫠

90s Lestat would’ve had a ska band

In 2025, Xbox made about 24 billion. Conservatively, that means about 700 million of that was profit. In a year with wars on 2 (sometimes 3) continents, broken supply chains, economic downturn, and skyrocketing hardware prices, Xbox still made almost a billion in net profit and it wasn’t enough.

Xbox is preparing to lay off around 3,200 individuals, part ways with Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Undead Labs, Ninja Theory, and possibly Arkane Lyon in what CEO Asha Sharma is calling "the most significant res... https://kotaku.com/xbox-layoff-3200-most-significant-restructure-history-2000712836

Fuck @microsoft.com Fuck @xbox.com fuck every one of these vampires (derogatory). I genuinely can't wait to see these businesses crash and fucking burn.

When you turn 40 all the little ziplock baggies you once bought for illicit substances become filled with sewing supplies and anxiety meds.

I simply do not believe that Microsoft can lose 20000000000 bazilblahlahblah on AI every month but needs to fire everyone who makes videogames for them like they’re a mom and pop diner

Xbox Game Studios head steps down three days after Satya Nadella tells the NYT that Xbox has been an unsustainable money pit for 25 years. Satya also said he wants Xbox to stay true to what it's done since the beginning. Which apparently means trying to fire its way out of every problem.

I think about this every day

funny story, back at WIRED, the house style was that we did not have to do any all-caps shenanigans or whatever a company demanded...𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 for "WIRED" anyway all the rules are made up, you can just do whatever the fuck you want, don't let companies bully you

There's a screenshot going around of authors admitting to AI use and one of them appears to write hardcore monsterfucking fics and this makes me sad. If you're not writing monsterfucking fics for the sheer, genuine love of the game then what the hell are we even doing here?

Actually a really good and enjoyable coming of age story that’s not about white people and features a lot of great original black music is South of Midnight

re-reading up on the history of punk/alt/goth fashion and getting back into sewing at the same time is a dangerous combination

reading the entire “american diner goth” piece feels kinda like watching the author sit alone in a drab gray room and joylessly crank his hog to completion.

Delia Derbyshire was born on May 5, 1937

sometimes social media decides to shoot you in the chest point blank with a rail cannon because it's funny

Alan Moore with the three-pointer from down the court

Happy May Day ✊

I can count the number of editors who would let a writer get away with an opening like this in a piece about 20+ year old game that goes on for some 2000+ words on one cosmic Elden Ring hand. Garrett let people find their voice, their style, experiment, fail, succeed, & coast when needed...

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"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

*watching gay porn* oh like heated rivalry

Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

not now sweetie mommy’s contemplating the ephemerality of the flesh

Check Taylor's replies to see your cool Bluesky friends do a little center-right jig

running to the Nazi website to complain that people were being mean to you for hitting the red carpet at Nazi Prom

jaina you do not need four and a half inch stiletto heels

the first two lines are how your email finds me

wine glass with a poptart wrapper in it, you’re so good to me. as a gift, have a sticky cough drop I don’t wanna finish

I do love that “it’s not gay if one girl is possessed by jesus while she fucks another girl” is a real life thing a renaissance-era nun said when she was caught fucking other nuns

I may as well reshare it myself 😇

someone pls put halimede on interior motives

evergreen

the satisfaction i get from spotting a typo in a published work can only be described as perverse i got you kirkman you sonofabitch you’re not better than me

Lock the fuck in, Gumshoes. Carmen Sandiego stole a priceless wax pressing of "One of These Nights" by the Eagles. You've got to stop her before she travels back in time to 149 BC Carthage and trades it to Scipio Africanus the Younger for a kilo of the good shit. *Rockapella bops on stage*

green room i grew up with kids like those, going to shitty punk venues out in the pnw woods, it was the only part of my teens and early 20s i have any positive memories about

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself! And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

i bet hunter s thompsons ghost is so confused rn

my autistic friends ending the zoom call

of course. tucking

canceling all my plans and taking to my bed due to a severe bout of secondhand embarrassment

dude is plugging his own fuckin collaborator merch that's his signature in the bottom right

fuck yeah steven

When you pass the Lemming statue you have to stop and appreciate its majestic arse. I don't make the rules.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

you have to ask yourself, when marketing your game, is the audience you are trying to market to worth the headache that will come with it? do you want people to associate your game with certain groups or others?

unskippable elevator ad in cyberpunk features tradwife having preem marital sex