You can also use the map in the story to look up vaccination rates in your local schools! This was a HUGE data lift: we reviewed and mapped tens of thousands of individual schools’ data, assembling the most comprehensive public database. And we published this data here: github.com/washingtonpo...

Atlus has launched a 30th anniversary celebration website for the Persona series, and it's getting its first update very soon.

Can I get a hell yeah:

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

@eddyburback.bsky.social joins IGN to recount blindly following the whims of artificial intelligence in "ChatGPT Made Me Delusional", and all the ways he channeled his existential dread and anxiety surrounding "AI psychosis" throughout the video's cinematography and editing. https://bit.ly/3YFdKnt

The Kickstarter campaign for Hope Springs Eternal went live recently, bringing original content to the fantasy TTRPG Daggerheart, bringing new campaign frames to the game.

Goes so hard

Workers at Ubisoft’s Halifax studio have become the French publisher’s first North American employees to unionize.

The University of Oklahoma has stripped the graduate student who gave a failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky of instructional duties, calling their grading in this case “arbitrary.” This is a disgraceful capitulation by a university to those who seek to destroy it.

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

Bethesda developers including chief Todd Howard have issued an update on The Elder Scrolls 6 — but stopped short of confirming a release date. https://t.co/bmjoOeVzBf

I'm sure The Escapist article also led to this AI Overview, but here's yet another case of it making up information and damaging the reputation of more companies. Someone saw this and shared it, saying that PC Gamer confirmed Blue Prince used gen-AI, when that's not what happened at all.

“...feels wholly unique in how it spills its cryptic secrets revealing a tale of horror card by card.” Inverse Now 30% off during the Steam Winter Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...

Bloober Team has announced that its survival horror game Cronos: The New Dawn will get a new, easier difficulty mode for story-focused players next year.

If you're waiting on tenterhooks to play Ark 2, then you might want to curb that enthusiasm, according to an update from Studio Wildcard.

Just fancy that! Time Person of the Year. From the new Private Eye, out now.

IT: Welcome to Derry Season 1's Chris Chalk discusses the past, and future, of Dick Hallorann. https://bit.ly/4oYOTpG

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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

doom creator id software just became the latest microsoft studio to unionize. though the neutrality agreement that has allowed CWA to organize so many studios recently lapsed, id devs told me that only applies to activision blizzard for now aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa

Here's everything that was revealed or announced as part of The Game Awards 2025!

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Xbox has revealed that it has a Developer Direct show planned for next month, and a very special developer will be featured during the presentation.

The Workers' Choice award for "Most Corporate Speak/Tactless Layoff Announcement" goes to... SATYA NADELLA Chairman and CEO of Microsoft "By every objective measure, Microsoft is thriving [...] and yet at the same time, we've undergone layoffs." What.

If you needed further proof that there is no afterlife, here it is, because if Hell were real Walt would be punching his way through the Earth's crust to hunt Bob Iger down.

Pathea Games, the studio behind the My Time series, has revealed The God Slayer, an action RPG set in an "Eastern-inspired steampunk metropolis".

"Snow Bear" is now available for free on Youtube (and in 4K). A hand-drawn animated short film directed by legendary Disney animator Aaron Blaise. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXo...

The original Let It Die was famous for its absolutely amazing soundtrack. Akira Yamaoka went and got in touch with a HUNDRED of his favourite indie bands and commissioned each to do a track named 'let it die'. The result was borderline mystical. They're AI-generating the music here. Fuck that.

After promising to make more studio acquisitions earlier this year, Nintendo has made good on that promise by acquiring one of Bandai Namco's subsidiaries.

Recently, CD Projekt Red and Go On Board launched their crowdfunding campaign for The Witcher: Legacy board game. It was fully funded in just four minutes

We got to sit down and learn how to play Drunkerds, Druggies and Delinquents with Chris Prynoski while hearing about production design decisions and tarrif woes. Check out the full interview!

Titmouse has announced that their chaotic board game experience, Drunkards, Druggies, & Delinquents, will be available at the end of November

Another year, another incredible PAX Unplugged - follow along as we highlight the games you won't want to miss.

17 strikes and you’re out. 💀

That Roblox interview is mind-melting stuff. So far past the point of putting your foot in your mouth and into the territory of somebody actively swallowing his own legs like some executive-brained ouroboros.

The 2025 Holiday season is here and we have a list of games that will make great gifts for any gamer friend or family member.

Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed. I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

Riftbound Origins is now out and with it we've gotten a deeper look at the cards, mechanics, and what we think of the game overall. Check out our review!

Renegade has announced that they will be adapting Matt Dinniman's LitRPG book series, Dungeon Crawler Carl into a board game and a TTRPG.

Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.

The nominees for 2025's Game Awards have been revealed, and big indie hits like Hollow Knight: Silksong and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are in with a chance of winning big this year.

Jim Henson's dark fantasy film Labyrinth, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly, will be heading back to theaters January 2026 in celebration of its 40th anniversary.

NEW: the new game Dispatch is a huge hit (1 million copies!). But few people know how close it came to never existing. Here's the wild story, from a canceled Splinter Cell game (scoop!) to a Telltale divorce to the founders not taking paychecks for six months: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

A group of incensed Rockstar employees have written a letter to management demanding the reinstatement of colleagues recently fired for so-called "misconduct".

How does Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun and Adventures In Faerun expand upon a very well-travelled land, and has it been too short a time to return?

The Game Awards isn't the only major gaming ceremony happening in December, so if you prefer acknowledging big indie hits over AAA certs, step this way.