Happy to report Hellboy loves the desk-mounted bed

Wicked 2 was a real Resident Evil 0 to the original’s Resident Evil Remake

freelancing in 2025 feels so different than even a few years ago. healthcare premiums are so expensive, being disabled is so expensive. money worries grind down the ability to think creatively or engage deeply with the world outside day to day survival

Very confused about a recent study ("study"?) regarding the environmental impact of video games, as on Gamesindustry dot biz. For one - the article interviews the author of the study but does not link to the study. I cannot find the published study anywhere. : www.gamesindustry.biz/manufacture-...

You know how to avoid leaving "placeholder" assets in the final game? Don't use AI to generate placeholders: use clearly coloured and labelled mockup textures. Y'know, actual placeholders. Just don't use AI! It isn't hard!

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In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat. They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues. This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service. www.crikey.com.au/20...

+ there's very few who covered video games ethically left to teach the next generation of journalists how to work. Those that scraped through, they're still scraping by... to pay the rent. The ABC cutting jobs creates a generational black hole. Knowledge goes in, gets eaten up, never comes out.

If anyone feels like supporting an independent Australian videogame website with award-winning work that strictly has no advertising, no sponsored content, no corporate ownership, does not let publishers pay for travel, and discloses every code we get and image we use: thisweekinvideogames.com

This is exactly how I hopes Outer Worlds 2 reviews would go too. Having a satire of evil corporations in a capitalist hellscape seemed like an insane game for an evil corporation in a capitalist hellscape to put out, and so few reviews seemed to engage with that fact. It was fuckin crazy to see!

FUCK YES I have not played Ark Raiders since beta months ago but it's SO refreshing to see a mainstream game review in which the ethics of the game's creation actually effects not only the reviewer,s opinion of the game, but the score itself as well. Putting your money where your mouth is!

sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.

Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.

Playing some Elden Ring DLC, some bosses I never beat (like the final boss) www.twitch.tv/scotch240

FYI this is really happening and not just spooked horses in the barn. I got one of these DMs today. Report to BS and block. Don't click the link

perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers they just profited from us

google fuck offffff

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

There are no words for how evil this is

Important PSA re: the way content about trans people is often incorrectly flagged as sexual or pornographic, worth considering as you choose your settings. bsky.app/profile/vill...

I will also note that these filters, as seems inevitable, wind up only filtering liberal leaning content. I have seen plenty of violent videos of ICE agents kidnapping people, despite pretty much every filter being on when I checked my settings. Apparently conservative violence doesn't count. 🙄

Future Class was made to showcase rising voices in the industry that could shape the future. The second they decide to try and shape the future of the industry by calling for the recognition of a genocide at a prominent award show, suddenly the future class doesn’t matter anymore. Hm.

accolades are important to marginalized folks. not being able to access even an archived post hosted by TGA website kinda sucks ass. not to mention how bad of a look it is to just destroy 5 years of "hey look at us we're uplifting 50 incredible devs" to "don't look don't look"

Games industry forces RTOs (often involving moving cities for a job that may not exist in a few months) because being in office together on zoom is just ~*so heckin valuable*~ but then replaces as many people as they can get away with with chatbots because the human connection doesn’t matter Hmm!

i promise you that you have a locally owned coffee shop in your area that makes just as good a version of whatever starbucks drink you like, and isn't actively engaged in trying to dismantle labor rights in america

My son was basically a celebrity trick or treating tonight. He was on cloud 9 from all the attention. Worth the effort!

okay, update: i have had this question answered, and I am now looking to speak to game QA testers ON the record about the weirdest, silliest-sounding things they've had to do to make sure games work. the wackier the better. happy to keep folks anon if they prefer. DMs open, email/Signal in bio

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I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

I reached out to The White House and asked about its use of AI-generated Halo imagery. White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai just responded to me, and it's insane. I've removed the paywall. Please share and subscribe if you can. www.patreon.com/posts/exclus...

Games used to be designed with the idea that you were going to play them repeatedly, over and over, and occasionally you still get that but there’s so much narrative bloat and slow rolling in modern titles. You go back and play like RE4 or Vanquish and they don’t fuck around.

🚨DEAD STATIC DRIVE HAS A RELEASE DATE!!!🚨 www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases NOVEMBER 5TH Y'ALL. Congrats to @mike.reuben.games, @leena.reuben.games, and the whole DSD team - I've been DYING to play this one.

Better late than never! Here are mine and Jeremy's thoughts about Kirby Air Riders after having played at #PAXAUS 2025 It's such a funny game, you can watch us trying to make sense of it in real time in this video 😅 youtu.be/7T487Mfa4Wc

The devs behind Ninja Gaiden 4, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, AC: Shadows and a few ninjutsu practitioners told me how history, acrobatics and ingenuity made one of history's most elusive figures become a gaming icon. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/year...

Looking up game OSTs and I get this hellish reminder that Google's coming for my job

That's a lot of time..... It's gotta be new stuff, right? Is he just going to show off every mechanic and character and ride in the game? Will there be anything left by the time he's done?

Ensuring no one reads your review by making the embargo one hour before it releases on Game Pass sure is a fun strategy that does not at all feel like my work has been wasted

The Gamer's pulled its story on this. Games Radar, which quoted The Gamer's piece, has not.

Hey @insaneintherainmusic.com is this your arrangement and/or playing? It absolutely *rips*, still so stoked you got to work on this Haven't vibed this hard with a Pokémon soundtrack since Gen 4, good job Z-A team

Good work Bluesky

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

It's so over

massively seconding this. I played what I consider a LOT of Pokemon since we got code Wednesday night, but I also like, slept eight hours a night, went furniture shopping, cooked dinners, wrote other articles, sipped coffee in the garden, and lived my life. no regrets.

This is such an embarrassing way to defend an article. “Here’s our new piece. Being mad at it makes it correct! IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, YOU ARE THE COPS.” Okay, lady, we get it. You like Bari Weiss. That’s legal in America. Nobody is arresting you.

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

If this gets 1000 likes, I'll bust out the most devious dance moves at @gameonysus.bsky.social's wedding

Day 2 of #PAXAUS - I thought I posted this photo at lunch time with the word "Lunch" but instead I just took the photo and now I'm posting it much later than lunch time. There is no more lunch. Lunch is over. Also PAX got evacuated? Cos someone thought it would be funny to trip the alarm???