mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.

the first 13 months of Switch 2 exclusives almost seems designed to actively weed out people who actually like Nintendo games vs people who just like Mario and Zelda lol

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You’d think I’d be smart enough to bring a book to the Doctors office and lab, a notoriously slow process, but alas

We really are at the point where a lot of the professional managerial class in the US believes the propaganda they put out. They genuinely cannot understand how Iran, who have faced US aggression for decades, is still able to launch missiles and drones at an ever increasing rate.

I've seen enough, bring back Wishbone

Thank god MCU fans are getting the payoff they deserve in Avengers Doomsday: Shang-Chi will finally face his arch-rival, Gambit, in single combat

This is all going to end up with us going back to only Spider-Man and X-Men movies for a while huh

I think comic book movie watchers are dangerously close to being trained into accepting movies that are all plot and no substance. I am so tired of seeing these things trotted out knowing they aren't actually about anything

I’ll go see it, but I felt next to nothing watching that trailer

Finally getting to Deltarune Chapter 5

Platinum 28

Dawg, people just wanna be PR so badly

A great strategy to ignore key-jingling is to turn away

Alyssa wanted to watch Rocket Power So we’re watching Rocket Power And man We used to be a country

Oh he got HURT hurt

why

Very okay game, didn’t regret my time with it

Also important update: I’ve gold starred every level on Switch I have also bought the game on PlayStation to get the platinum

The market fundamentalists have succeeded in effectively eliminating the requirement that developers include affordable homes in new construction in San Francisco. With this change, new private developments here will be exclusively for millionaires

The statement on official id accounts about how being reduced to the same headcount it was at for Doom (2016) isn't a decimation of the workforce needed to ship a game in 2026 onward is some deeply misleading creative corporate framing.

Denshattack! understands skate culture better than EA’s skate. (2025) I would’ve been on the gamescast later today to give my full thoughts, but civic duty calls. (I gave Tim my notes. If he doesn’t share them, start throwing tomatoes at him and start booing Roger)

Well, fuck. If you don’t know, Mike Z has a very public history of sexual harassment, racist remarks, and more. Unless someone’s new to the FGC, everyone in the scene knows this. GGI is made up of old FGC heads. This is like intentionally having Bobby Kotick on your board of directors in 2026.

The American Cornhole League is on at the gym Time to lock in

an issue with how we talk about the games *industry* is that i think we have normalized talking about studios like interchangeable labor pools instead of groups of artists making creative work

fun fact: i only learned months after I'd written it on the US site that this story nearly had kotaku uk (who had automatically republished it) blown into low orbit

Uncle Buck is on at the gym Time to lock in

Oh Science Saru’s Ghost in the Shell is gonna HIT hit, huh?

It’s not that they don’t know games are made by people. It’s that they desperately wish they didn’t have to be and want a world where “people-made games” are boutique experiences alongside the yearly factory-made money producers that the C-suite doesn’t think needs artistry.

xbox watching id write this

Mayor Daniel Lurie vowed to root out corruption in his 2024 campaign. But this year, the San Francisco Ethics Commission is losing staff members under his budget while the amount of money in local politics explodes. missionlocal.org/2026/07/big-...

I don’t care what people say Ska kicks ass

Watch how sick Unbeatable is pls

is it good that every single games studio i still own is having all its staff leak comments like "we cant possibly make games under these conditions" in ten thousand articles

Sony abandoning physical games and Xbox laying off so many workers are opportunities for gamers to learn more about the world around them. We are existing in a moment that, if we understand it correctly, should radicalize us in ways that go far beyond our care for videogames. Expand your worldview

gonna be thinking for a bit about how PlayStation abandoning physical games inspires more politically charged language than layoffs, union busting, labor exploitation, or the BDS boycott ever did

it's going to be fucking surreal when xbox tries to get people excited to buy $1200 closed system pc, that charges you to play online, and with no games on it that you couldn't just play on steam

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

~HR exists to protect the company from your lawsuits, not you from the company~

We gotta stop using “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” as a shield to not do anything within our power to help create change from a working class level. It signals that you recognize the problem but don’t really care.

A lot of people like to call out my bias against Xbox, which did exist before they were even on the BDS list. If you’re wondering where that came from, no…it wasn’t because of console war bullshit. It’s because I ran the Xcast.

A lot of people pointing out how ridiculous this number is. But you know who eats that kinda childish shit up? Potential buyers. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

The game industry is so fucking back

I want to re-emphasize one part of this Xbox story: Half of the 3,200 cuts are happening today and half are happening in the next 12 months. In other words, even people who survived today's layoffs will have to spend the coming year wondering if they're going to be next.

blogged it aftermath.site/microsoft-xb...

Trying to figure out if there was ever a sign that things were about to get fucky

"CEO Asha Sharma wants Xbox to reach 1bn players a day (it currently hits 1bn a year)." Oh.