Rogue Roundup for week 3 is up. If you'd rather get this as an email, you can sign up over at rogue.site. www.rogue.site/email/57194a...

Genuinely, one of my favorite parts of starting Rogue is that it gives the world a place to read more Cass-being-Cass articles like this one. I love this so much.

I am starting a big project to Stick It To The Man™ that will be a multi-part journey of learning (read: failures) and discovery. Follow along and laugh at my mistakes.

Like @rygilliam.bsky.social, I was legitimately sad when the early access demo ended. I just wasn't ready to be done and I can't wait for more.

I tried, I really did. But it's time to admit that things just aren't working out between us @teamcherry.bsky.social

This happening at a Valnet owned site is proof that games media cannot continue to exist with 0 mentorship, editorial oversight, general education for new writers. No writer assigned a review should not understand what an "embargo" is and how to uphold it. This is just as much on their editor.

Eager to sell a strange collection of items to needy strangers? Let @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social take you back to Undermere in our Strange Antiquities review! www.rogue.site/editorials/s...

Borderlands 4 is here, it's huge, and it's pretty damn different from most of the other Borderlands games out there. But we can help. www.rogue.site/guides/begin...

Silksong is here and we've got a beginner's guide, but more importantly, @alicejovanee.bsky.social had the brilliant idea to start making us ASCII art for our guides and I couldn't be happier.

The founding members of Rogue.site will be hosting a Reddit AMA today to answer any big questions you might have about the site, how it came to be, and where we plan to take it. Post your questions here, and we'll start answering around 1 PM EST. www.reddit.com/r/PolygonFan...

Looking a Friday dose of whiplash? Might we recommend a back-to-back showing of the gameplay reveals for Mewgenics and 007 First Light? www.rogue.site/news/mewgeni...

Completely worker-owned, ad-free, reader-supported video game websites AND politicians who stand up to fascists? Wow @jbpritzker.bsky.social, Bluesky really has it all.

We need more of this. www.rogue.site/news/the-tox...

Our new project is live. A group of us former Polygon folks have come together to build something new: Rogue. We're a worker-owned, reader supported gaming site. You can read all about our goals and ideas on our (gorgeous) website. Please check us out and share us with your friends!

So excited to finally announce the new employee-owned video game website we've been working on for the last couple months, rogue.site! This is everything we wanted bigfriendly.guide to grow into and I'm so excited about what we've made.

It's really for the best that we have BF.G so @rygilliam.bsky.social can get this sort of thing out of his system.

The hottest of takes, I know, but I don't think games should cost $80.

Yet another video game guide that's going to put me on a list.

Hey gang, we weren’t able to get Death Stranding 2 early, unfortunately, so @ripefly.bsky.social and I’ve made the decision to shell out the $80 from each of our personal budgets to get the early access version of the game. Please consider sharing this and supporting us (links below!)

Come see our friends play Left 4 Dead (poorly)! And, while you're there, go support QLL and the important work they do with their Pride Fundraiser! givebutter.com/Jr8Tfu

65% percent to our goal of $50k, with just over a week to go! Let’s goooo 🌈 givebutter.com/Jr8Tfu

@rygilliam.bsky.social and I have been trying to do a Factory Friday literally since we started the site and it's finally happening! twitch.tv/bigfriendlyguide

🏳️‍🌈HAPPY PRIDE!🏳️‍⚧️ We’re kicking off our annual Pride Fundraiser today, which will keep the library thriving into the next year & beyond 🎉 givebutter.com/Jr8Tfu

In celebration of another week of BF.G, we're playing some WildGate and Satisfactory over on Twitch!

That's what we're here for!

I'm genuinely proud of the work @rygilliam.bsky.social and I have put into bigfriendly.guide this week and I'm excited for where your support will take us.

@rygilliam.bsky.social and I are going live on twitch with some Mario Kart! www.twitch.tv/bigfriendlyg...

Just a week after launching, our supporters have helped us recoup the money we put into the site. We have ALMOST 100 paid and free Patreon supporters already. Help us push past that today! Please share this, and join us on Twitch for some Switch 2 games at 2:30 ET! twitch.tv/bigfriendlyguide

This is cool! Some former Polygon staffers have created an independent gaming guides site. They've already put together a short beginner's guide for our just-released game! 👇 Good tips.

This game that @rygilliam.bsky.social recommended on our podcast has quickly become an obsession of mine.

We've got stickers (and so, so many plugs for the Patreon) for bigfriendly.guide!

It's hard to optimize something like this for the algorithm, but it's exactly the sort of thing I like to write. And I'm thankful to be able to write it now that we're audience-supported (shameless Patreon plug!).

Despite not picking up Destiny in, like, 7 years, @rygilliam.bsky.social's interview has me ready to hop back in. This is a genuinely wonderful conversation.

We're here to help if you have any questions about Nightreign!

Hey all! Some of us (former) Polygon folks are going to be streaming this Friday (May 30th), in support of the Polygon Workers GoFundMe, and also to thank everyone who's already generously donated! It'll start at 7:00 PM EST @ www.twitch.tv/cashley

Can’t tell you the number of times I got stuck on an open world game and found the answer from a @ripefly.bsky.social guide on Polygon (currently playing RDR2 for the first time). This is great news for gamers everywhere.

@rygilliam.bsky.social and I weren't ready to stop making video game guides to help people enjoy games. So we're doing our own thing now at bigfriendly.guide. If you like what we do, you can join our Patreon help shape our coverage. patreon.com/bigfriendlyguide

👀 Stay tuned, Bazirker.

I finally did the thing and made a website for my work! I needed to make this site because I'm currently looking for work, but making my portfolio also became a nice way to reflect and celebrate my previous work.♥️ www.ana-diaz.com If you like what you see please get in touch!!

After about 1,000 replies to my right thumbstick survey, I have written a lot of words about the results and learned something about myself in the process (namely, that I'm old and stubborn). Thank you to everyone who participated! medium.com/@parkinjc/th...

Next up: @petrana.bsky.social , one of my favorite people to work with and one of the people most directly responsible for Polygon's voice as a publication. Read about her time at the site and her upcoming sci-fi novel! pvguide.substack.com/p/polygon-ex...

Whether or not our children would invert was more controversial than which surname they would have, I wish to god I were joking

The very first comic @kierongillen.bsky.social and I did, Save Point strip #1 in the Playstation Official Magazine, 2003.

There's an article I never got a chance to write at Polygon about camera controls. I'm going to write it now that I have nothing but free time, but I need your help! If you could take a minute to answer these 11 questions (or share the link), that would be amazing. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

extremely excited to announce that @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social, one of the best video game reporters to ever do it, will be a regular contributor at @aftermath.site for the foreseeable future