This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Telling that Elon Musk, the Space CEO himself, didn't interrupt his frenzied posting even once yesterday to mention the Artemis II launch.

Absolutely love seeing the IGN comments realizing what we've all known for years and years: Jim Trinca is very good at this.

Oh my god, one thousand people.

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...

🔴GOING LIVE IN 10 MINS!🔴 It's been many years since @johnnyohnny.bsky.social, @chrisbratt.bsky.social and I caused chaos on the battlegrounds but thanks to one small redundancy the cinematic team is BACK for an epic PUBGUNION stream! Watch here: youtube.com/live/W0x0h-A... or on twitch.tv/platform32

Last month @mackeza.bsky.social swung through town on her book tour for 'Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun' and we had a chat all about it in front of a live audience. If you weren't there, fear not, it was also recorded for this month's episode of The Games Press!

In honour of Ian being shafted by a corporate acquisition outside of his control, we’re getting the old gang* back together tomorrow night! *Minus Aoife, so we’ll need to ask Johnny to manifest some of her energy for us.

From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙

If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors. It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening. My months-long investigation 👇

For months, @jacksonwryan.com has been looking into why so many video games sites have become full of gambling and casino stories, unusual author images, and, most recently, the use of AI. We've connected these sites to Clickout Media. Here's what we've learned.

PERSONAL NEWS: After 13 years working as a (legendary) video producer for @eurogamer.bsky.social I have been made redundant in the recent Gamer Network cuts. I loved that job so much (probably too much) and I will miss the people and the opportunities it gave me, but I'm not ready to give up yet!

Personal news: I'm leaving my Editor-at-large role at Eurogamer & Gamer Network as part of new cuts. I last year approached my move to Eurogamer & VG247's skeletonization with reluctance, but I ultimately greatly enjoyed giving EG a go. But now after 10yrs & in difficult conditions, it's time to go.

And amazing that this is the guy who once twote this

Tom took a chance on me 13 years ago and completely changed my life. Funny to think I probably wouldn't be sitting here in Brighton right now if it weren't for him. He really, really gives a shit about this job and the people working for him. He's a brilliant friend and mentor. Snap him up.

Well then. After 9 years my role of Editorial Director at Eurogamer/IGNE has been made redundant. If you’re reading this and feel I have a lot of valuable experience (I do), I’m keen to explore any opportunities (full time, consulting, other) in the games industry. I am great.

I remember making VideoGamer (Pro-G back then) sat in the tiniest bedroom in a university house share in Brighton. It was my entire life for a very long time. I hope people remember it for what it meant to people and not the abomination it is today.

Oh hey, turns out both of my former employers are in the news today! What a complete fucking shitshow, I am so bummed out.

Absolutely gutted to hear this, especially so because it means the end of the Eurogamer video team. It just never stops, does it? Jfc.

Microsoft's rollout of its big Xbox leadership shakeup is as messy as everything else this console generation. It took more than one person to torch the brand and reversing the damage now will only add to the confusion and distrust.

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Absolutely awful news. That team was so talented and seemed to work on banger after banger. We interviewed some of them for our Demon's Souls remake doc. I was so excited to see what they brought to life next. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBJ...

I have a love hate relationship with the British paparazzi in that I hate them but I love this photo

With every fibre of my being, let me say this in a loud, clear, booming voice: this should have happened when Virginia Giuffre was alive to see it.

keep calling him prince andrew imo, i don't think the institution which shielded and funded him should get to cut ties so easily

Happy birthday, you grimy little bastard.

It’s difficult not to lose faith when so much of the system is rigged against support for Palestine in the UK, but god damn, this feels like a massive, vital win.

It took me months, about 495 rides, recovering from a shattered right foot and hacking a folding scooter, but I finally own a Nintendo Switch 2 using points obtained from Citi Bike. Afterwards, it left me questioning the very nature of work. For @aftermath.site. aftermath.site/switch-2-cit...

NEW: A Ubisoft union rep at Solidaires Informatique told me that around 1,200 workers went on strike yesterday to protest a five-day RTO policy and ongoing cost-cutting at the French publisher. The international strike will continue today and tomorrow at Ubisoft studios around the world.

Extremely pleased to bring The Games Press back today with Mothership's @midimyers.com & @zoehhannah.com! We talk about the current state of feminist writing in the games media, whether "subscription fatigue" is real & how they've processed what happened to them & their former coworkers at Polygon.

800 words on newspaper economics in a era where no one will pulp a magazine

We have @jacobgeller.com and @grubb.wtf flying in to Minneapolis for our big ICE Out Charity Stream with @giantbomb.bsky.social! Tune in at 5pm Central as we raise money to protect our neighbors from ICE. youtube.com/live/SMcO71c...

following last week's announcement of a ubisoft restructuring that will lead to layoffs and game cancellations in pursuit of (even more) cost cutting, five french unions representing ubisoft workers have called for a "massive" international strike

Probably the biggest problem with being a game critic is you never hear what other people think of you

🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft : enough is enough! Faced with the arbitrary decision of the CEO who doesn’t even dare talking to employees anymore, unions are calling for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th.

Very, very excited for this! If you live near Brighton and would like to come along and hear the two of us get stuck into the weeds on Keza’s latest dive into the history of Nintendo, grab yourself a ticket.

We're launching a website. Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers. jank.cool If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.

I really love how this new cohort of audience-funded sites are so clearly designed with readers in mind, rather than advertisers. It loads so quickly! It's so clean! It's a website I want to actually use and spend time with!

Just crossed 50,000 subscribers on my main video essay channel :) thank you for watching and sharing and supporting me in this crazy freelance experience! (btw I still get comments from Polygon fans saying they had NO IDEA I have my own channel now - so if you know any, send 'em my way!)

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.

after flying back from Vegas last week, I was just laid off from Inverse today. I'm open to connecting over email at [email protected] and I'm definitely still in the writing and editing space. Expect a more in-depth explanation coming soon in my Updater newsletter. shannonliao.substack.com

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

Great coverage of this. The "top secret" information was...that they wanted to get 32 testers to test *something*. RS's barrister wouldn't even discuss these messages out loud in court, but it seems RS forgot or didn't care to apply to restrict reporters from accessing this evidence.

Essential viewing

Vital reporting here from the PMG team in the wake of the recent interim relief ruling, including evidence that appears to indicate one person was fired for posting a 15-word message in the union Discord channel.

Oof, it's been a mad scramble trying to get this one ready in any kind of good time for the interim relief result being announced. Huge shoutout to Anni for all her work on this from back home and to @wretchedmorgan.bsky.social for being our incredible camera guy up in Edinburgh as well.

We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...

We'll be publishing our full report from the hearing tomorrow afternoon (UK time), but needless to say, there's an awful lot of additional context to understand about what happened here. This is a really tough outcome for the union's members, especially those who were in the UK on work visas.