When Giger shipped over his designs for the facehugger, US customs was so alarmed that they detained them. Dan O’Bannon had to go to LAX to convince them they were for a horror movie. The customs officer O’Bannon met described the images as “repulsive.” 25/39

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

Appreciate the folks who spoke to me for this story. I think every worker in this space knows how hard it is to just put out good work and support your colleagues as new, ehm, challenges keep coming down the pike

this is a state sponsored children's torture camp

The rulebook for Gwent: The Legendary Card Game is getting an upgrade! Download and view the new rulebook today with an overview on what changes were made. Check the blog post: www.noloadinggames.com/blog...

💀ABIDE💀

Asmodee USA has announced several new non-exclusive hobby distribution agreements with tabletop developers, ensuring more diverse tabletop experiences end up on store shelves.

For all the “TTRPG Legends” infuriated by the misuse of their likenesses and elements of their IP on clearly-commercial grifting sites…

Subnautica 2 promises to be bigger and better than its predecessor. Can Unknown Worlds Entertainment strike gold twice? Read our Subnautica 2 Preview to find out!

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

I really hate to do this but my corgi has been sick for the past two months and it's reached the point where we've depleted all of our emergency savings. Please don't feel the need to donate if you can't, but it would mean the absolute world if you could share. Thank you 😭 gofund.me/c02000a66

Jungle survival game Green Hell has racked up a very respectable amount of sales since launching in 2019, Creepy Jar has revealed.

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education

From Bilbo Baggins to Vision to Jace screwing with the multiverse, MTG just dropped a TON of new card previews.

Fuck jk Rowling. Pass it on

In a new event on right now, @playpalia.com is celebrating 10 million players, and announcing a brand new expansion coming in May that will add mounts (horses), a new villager, and more. www.mmorpg.com/news/palia-c...

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is here to fill Mass Effect's imposingly large anti-grav boots, but can Owlcat's newest effort measure up? Check out our preview to find out our thoughts!

In celebration of its 10th Anniversary, Free League has announced a Kickstarter for revised Symbaroum books, including a brand new setting.

It hasn't even been a week since Kraken Express announced Windrose's last sales milestone, and now, the game has hit another one.

Grave Seasons releases 14th of August, 2026! Wishlist us here: store.steampowered.com/app/3255110/...

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...

As part of the Lovecraftian Days Festival on Steam we're organising a #charity fundraiser in cooperation with Voices of Children to help fund Ukraine's first dedicated space for long-term psychological rehabilitation of children affected by war. More information: voices.org.ua/en/projects/... 🦑❤️

“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth. The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors. ➡️ www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

Support trans people and let them live their lives, please.

“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

Limit Break, the award winning mentorship program for marginalised people working in the UK games industry returns! 💖 Part of a marginalised group in games looking for a mentor? 💖 Want to help level up the next gen of game devs? Apply to be a mentor &/or mentee now! ⤵️ limitbreak.co.uk/apply

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio Warhorse is apparently going all-in on AI for its translation, at least if the account of someone claiming to be a former translator is to be believed.

The summer show period is looming, and Xbox has announced the date of its annual showcase, as well as the game its post-show Direct will be focusing on.

Call for co-streamers! The triple-i initiative showcase is back and this year we have announcements from games like Windrose, Dead as Disco, Solarpunk, Risk of Rain 2, Far Far West & many more, PLUS new game reveals! All in 45 minutes of back-to-back trailers. Sign up: forms.gle/vtmjxBNiGrPX...

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

Are you getting fed up of respawning zombies in Dying Light: The Beast? The game's new Restored Land update, which is due to land this week, should fix that.

It's almost time to pit your favorite Pokemon against one another in Pokemon Champions, for a release date has finally been announced.

Ambitious open-world adventure Crimson Desert continues to go from strength to strength in sales terms, as another huge milestone has been passed.

Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has issued a message to players addressing complaints around the game’s controls, which have been widely criticized. https://bit.ly/4lMKlTh

Looks like Nvidia really messed up with this whole DLSS 5 garbage. You don't ever piss off the people who make the games. Source: insider-gaming.com/dlss-5-gamer...

We're back with what you need - 45 minutes of back-to-back game announcements with zero fluff. World premieres. Gameplay reveals. Release dates. No hosts. No ads. Just games. Be there April 9th - 9am PDT / noon EDT / 6pm CEST.

The White House turning war and death into content mimicking video games is a moral collapse, not a messaging strategy. War is not a game! EPIC FAIL

Unionized game workers launch petition to protect immigrants from ICE agents

Thanks to some esteemed minds at Cambridge University, a new computer program may have figured out the rules for a board game at a Roman site in The Netherlands.

Cover reveal time! An adult science fiction novel tinged with horror, about the crew of a small warship in a relatively near future where humans hitch rides to the stars on sentient star-faring mountain ranges called Massifs. Can be pre-ordered at the usual places, *please* do so. Thank you.

Latest: Remember when the police chief of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota held a press conference about how ICE was racially profiling residents? I FOIA'd the police department for complaints and incident reports and interviewed two people who say they were harassed by ICE reason.com/2026/03/03/a...

The endpoint of journalism is that an AI startup turns you into a fake "editor" without telling you and against your will www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Meet the hydrangea dragon! Their blooms change; acidic soil produces blue blooms, and alkaline soil produces pink. Balanced soil produces blooms of both colors!. Art by Kintheartist for The Field Guide to Floral Dragons

The Pokémon Company has issued an official objection after the White House used Pokopia for a meme, pushing back against the Trump administration’s repeated use of its intellectual property on social media. https://bit.ly/3N13pQO

WEBTOON will begin serializing Dark Horse's The Witcher comics on March 9, and we've got an exclusive preview of the first chapter. bit.ly/3N5PRDq

Tides of Tomorrow gives players a new way to experience an RPG's story. Read our preview to learn more!

Please watch @peterspittech.bsky.social's essay about how intertwined Call of Duty gamer culture is with real-world oppression youtu.be/IQYwCClbDUw

Please, PLEASE, be loud about this topic, Android being open is what makes it useful, you own your phone and you should be able to install apps from wherever you wish to, don't let Google tell you what's allowed on the device you payed for! keepandroidopen.org

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

Great report from @jacksonwryan.com about this mess. To show you all how frustrating this has been -- ClickOut Media's GamesHub still lists me as an active "Games & Tech Editor", and I'm placed alongside their fake AI 'writers'. I've asked them to stop, but these sites are desperate for credibility.