Today might be the hottest day of the year… …but not because of the temperature, because it’s my beautiful wife Steph’s birthday! She’s not on BlueSky, won’t even see this, but I don’t care! She rules and I want to celebrate her whenever and however I can.

#WWE WWE Icon Brie Bella: "We Can Live Without AI"

Christina Koch, astronaut from Artemis II and Philly native, is in the TV broadcast booth. Kruk: “You have any beer up there?” What a dude.

Jaylen Brown!

I think the thing that bugs me about all this is, deep down, that the white whale these companies are trying to slay is “ownership.” They hate that a disc means YOU OWN the media, and they’ve been trying to circumvent it for years. Now, they’re not even trying, they’re just declaring war.

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

Something different this week—a column about coping with the unending tide of bad news in the game industry (and beyond). It's difficult to express, but I'm not a pessimist about all this. There is a way through—but we don't know what it looks like, and in the meantime, boy does everything hurt.

if you do not think this is a concerted effort to drive out the middle and lower class from this artform then i do not know what to tell you. drives the whole thing upmarket in an effort to lock people deeper and deeper into a walled garden

At least Bobby Bonilla is having a good day.

This has such a huge impact on people in rural areas who have to deal with ISP monopolies with unusable speeds. The industry wants to act like the infrastructure is there for this to be the way forward, but big tech is just trying to leave poor people behind.

I think the thing that bugs me about all this is, deep down, that the white whale these companies are trying to slay is “ownership.” They hate that a disc means YOU OWN the media, and they’ve been trying to circumvent it for years. Now, they’re not even trying, they’re just declaring war.

Hello backlog, my old frieeeeeend

PS3/PS Vita PlayStation Store also closing: blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/a...

Holy shit.

Thinking back to SGF earlier this month and, as I walked out of the Alien Isolation 2 hands-on, I said to the the devs, with a big smile on my face, “well, looks like you’ve done it again, go fuck yourselves 😂😂” I hope they use it on the back of the box.

POOP GAME

Did Xbox hear the pop of the crowd when Blade appeared in that Marvel Tokon trailer? What are we doing here?

Soundtrack of the day. Ironic considering the first place I ever heard this song was in a Gears of War 2 commercial.

Soundtrack of the day. Ironic considering the first place I ever heard this song was in a Gears of War 2 commercial.

Meccha Meccha Meccha Meccha Meccha Chameleoooooon

This is one of many reasons why Weird Al rules.

"Random bullshit go!" apparently means "Smashing my opponent with explosive Polygon Mans".

Jack-O pose Vs Jackass pose

Almost at the announcement block of Evo before SF6 top 8, let’s get those Marvel Tokon predictions in! Who’s joining Ghost Rider in the final team?!

Cocktails that’ll make you dance like this

How is the dude implied here still alive? How? Heihachi-ass levels of indestructible. youtu.be/1YkdKpSrVM4?...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s money.

“Pikachu-themed flippy yappy dog toy isn’t real, it can’t hurt you.” Pikachu-themed flippy yappy dog toy:

Cool story ahead of #EVO2026 today: Unico, the company behind the Neo-Geo MVSX arcade cabinets, are crowdfunding a 10-inch retro monitor with five outputs and 4:3 display. Play those old games as intended! www.gamespot.com/articles/thi...

Someone on Reddit used this prompt to get "AI" to reveal its copyrighted training data, and I decided to test it myself and what do you know, anyway, "AI" is trained on theft, don't use it

Here’s 30 seconds of a moonlit South Carolina beach, ambient sound only, to cleanse the timeline.

I’ve been posting reels and more short form content on Instagram and it would really mean a lot if you’d follow and maybe like or comment on a video 🥺🥺🥺 www.instagram.com/jesse_vitell...

Petition to change the term from “horny jail” to “goony bin”

Petition to change the term from “horny jail” to “goony bin”

Xbox execs at the end of the year getting their laurels from the board for being heinous idiots

Holy shit

We got the Bungie layoff news on the same day GTA 6 preorders opened. What a coincidence!

toby fox gets it

Compulsion overnight, Bungie now…the bloodletting continues.

Catching up on the day while waiting for dinner, and all I can say is, @danryckert.com good for you buddy.

Winding down my SGF content, almost done I swear, here’s my sitdown with @magic.wizards.com’s @imdanielholt.bsky.social to talk about the #MTGxMarvel Commander precons! Learned something about the villains deck specifically that continues to blow my mind. butwhytho.net/2026/06/marv...

So I had a few instances of this when I worked for GameStop, but one sticks out more than any other. This parent didn’t yell; she just brought an open hand straight to the back of the kid’s head before immediately leaving the store. I still hear that sound in my mind sometimes.

As at least one other person has pointed out, GTA 6 going digital only basically guarantees that the first footage of the game online won’t be grainy cell phone footage from some retail employee who smuggled a copy home early. It makes sense. $79.99 though, I am surprised. Thought it’d be more.