Hey! Do you want to pitch a feature for @unwinnable.com's Final Fantasy x Politics theme issue this spring? Use this form: forms.gle/3jqN8rJavyQc... !!!

like this a lot, just adding alt for accessibility, text search and such

Skate Story (Sam Eng, 2025)

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

On this day one year ago, #DavidLynch left us for places wonderful and strange. Rest in Peace.

There's something very dangerous about a male (or person who embodies toxic male energy) who craves being relevant at all costs. Even more so, when he achieves it, and it's not enough.

lotta layoffs today

if you think about it, fishing is the oldest Gacha

MAGFest was a blast, we hope to return next year! Special shoutout to @moreblueberries.bsky.social, @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social, @sccreatives.bsky.social, @junkfoodgames.bsky.social, @muditaheart.bsky.social @dbg-games.bsky.social and @brightbard.bsky.social for making the ttrpg section so fun!

Feels like increasingly the K shaped economy is being shaped by those who have assets (equity, property, intellectual property,etc) on the top and worker-consumers on the bottom and the gap is widening. The only place in the middle is to be someone who helps create assets for the asset owners

It's pretty wild that in order to get people to ignore important things in life, you can just say its not manly and so much of the population will believe it.

👏 👏 NYC turning up, standing up and showing up to say No Kings No War No ICE 🚫👑🧊 @riseandresist.bsky.social @socialists.nyc @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @indivisible.org @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social @nywfp.bsky.social

I'm not gonna say much about the 2010 E3 Viewing Party in Panels 1 in case you wanna go yourself in a later year, but for this photo... IYKYK (feat. @r25th.bsky.social)

not a new observation but still striking how many things boil down to the difference between people who get power and go “ok, I better try not to be a jerk” and people who get power and go “now I get to be a jerk”

That's what I'm talking about.

Seems like I mighta broke the thread, reposting!

Magfest Day 3! Just past the Atrium is the Riverview Ballroom where there's Tabletop Freeplay but also the Indie Tabletop Showcase! Play the next big hit, or niche game, meet the designers, and support indie devs! Here's a thread! #magfest #MITS

Memoir Games is set up at the MITS for Magfest! Write and draw to reflect on your personal memories in this zine collection of journaling games, such as "The Places I've Been" or "The Branching Paths" ! And check out the other cool games at the MITS in Riverview Ballroom too! #magfest #MITS

Checking out the Serious Games panel for a hot minute before grabbing dinner! #magfest

Wow!! Angeline Era received grand prize and design noms for the Independent Games Festival, plus a shout-out for audio 🏆 Very honored for the recognition!! Congrats to co-dev @even-kei.bsky.social !! How about... beginning your bumpslash journey today?? store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

I didnt get to see this live last night (bad sandwich) but I did get to watch Donkey Kong chokeslam Gym Leader Giovanni into a table on Twitch last night! I'm hooked on Cosplay Pro Wrestling! CPW! CPW! #magfest

Theres two players who played my game for like 30-40 mins. To my right, my neighbor has been demoing to a crowd of 8 people for his Magic like card game. Ahead of me, a Revolutionary Girl Utena cosplay is posing for a photo while a man in a blue beanie is trying to splay out her hair for a photo op

and the @aqualounge.tv magfest roadshow is LIVE!! for those at mag who don't know... i'm a walking demo kiosk via our homemade "video vest", bringing indie games to the people! we have 6 games for you to try out - some are brand new exclusive demos! come find me on the expo floor!

It's Magfest Day 2! come check us out at MITS promoting our axolotl with a gun kickstarter!

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Me last night: I wonder if Magfest folks are really really that creative and technical Me this morning: oh

Magfest MITS is really lively this Friday afternoon! Feels like someone pushed the button!

We are back for Magfest Day 2! Come on by at the Magfest Indie Tabletop Showcase at the Riverview Ballroom!

I dont do artist alley but I do game dev stuff and... relatable. also not considering like if you're doing a different city and need a friends couch to sleep on or if the cost of food, etc around the convention center is really high. And even when you're not working you're usually networking

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

And we are LIVE! The solo gaming event of the year, Solo But Not Alone 6! Buy 90 items for only $10, all-new singleplayer TTRPGS! We have horny ones, we have scary ones, we have therapeutic ones and kid-friendly ones and more! itch.io/b/3481/solo-...

They brought out the retro Japanese phone games this year 😫

Thinking a lot about how even those of us that survive All This relatively ok will still have worse health outcomes years. Us, our kids, their kids, the neverending grief from this will etch itself in our DNA. And for the marginalized among us, that damage will be *worse*.

Should go without saying: Game devs working in mobile (could be you, colleagues, friends etc?) should check on what kind of permissions your app asks for vs. truly needs. Don't let someone in your company casually decide to sell player locations to authoritarian governments... for a few bucks!

for Renee Nicole Good, a poet and a mother

As CEO Ryan Cohen is promised billions as a reward for explosive growth, GameStop employees claim they were barely given notice about closures

magfest people! come play my game when the time comes!

Memoir Games is at #magfest #MiTS ! If you're interested in starting to journal or doodle or solo games where you reflect on your memories, we have the game for you! Check us out at the Indie Tabletop Showcase at Riverview Ballroom past the Atrium!

Wizard casts Healing Magic... of a sort

Oh no!! 😱😱😱😈😈😈 #magfest

Can't tell if I saw the bird from Banjo Kazooie or just someone dressed as a red bird. Either way, great cosplay! #magfest

The grand total of Bundle of Joy diapers changed at #MAGFest is… 202! We’ll be sending over our donation to Greater DC Diaper Bank in the coming days and are so thankful to all the “dads” who played our demo at @mivsmagfest.bsky.social.

Folks heading to #MAGfest! Come check out a new demo of Beatdown City Survivors in the indies area at booth 33! And come by the panel I'm running - "Hip-Hop and Video Games" on Saturday, January 10th at 6PM! Featuring @megaran.com @ltheadtrip.bsky.social @maximumcrash.com and Quelle Chris!

Magfest Tabletop games (including Memoir Games) are being shown at the Riverview Ballroom! #magfest #mits

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

The most useful lesson of anyone's career. Unfortunately it's one of those things that can't be taught, you have to experience it to believe it.

Looking forward to seeing folks at Magfest tomorrow! Didn't really do any big announcements but here's the photo of our cat sitting in a cardboard box before we left! (We have a cat sitter)

NO www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🧵 A sad case of reality catching up with satire: back in 2005 I built a website that let people "bet" on where the next terrorist attack would take place. It was basically a proto-Polymarket. Mainstream media HATED IT, even as they engaged in the same kind of terror-mongering predictions…