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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So good. Would love a deep dive into how they set this up in Wwise /s

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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Universal Monster Fruit Snacks (2004, 2005 2006, 2007): A line of assorted-flavor fruit snacks, shaped like the heads of 4 different iconic Universal movie monsters--Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and Frankenstein's monster. Received 4 consecutive Halloween-season releases

A yellow box with images of Dracula, Wolfman, Mummy, and Frankenstein's Monster, in their classic Universal appearance, along with some colorful fruit snacks

A box with a dark and stormy night aesthetic, with Dracula in the foreground holding up his cape next to some fruit snacks. The Mummy and Frankenstein's Monster peek in from the right side

A neon lime green box with lightning bolt and the images of Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, Wolfman, and the Mummy

A box with a dark and stormy night vive, with a massive closeup on Frankenstein's Monster's head, next to some fruit snacks

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Got a new raincoat, didn’t see that it was “virtually noiseless” and now it’s my favorite feature

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Have some BIG NEWS, and it really is wild that today is also the anniversary of the Fanbyte Apocalypse. But my time at Game Developer is done, and hence, my time as a full-time game journalist has come to an end. 20 years in a career sure is something. www.tumblr.com/danielling/8...

After 20+ years of writing professionally about games, including time at Polygon and Idle Thumbs, launching Waypoint, serving as editor in chief of Fanbyte and finally as EIC at Game Developer, my time is done. I'm officially out at Game Developer. Given the state of game journalism, this obviously means leaving the profession, at least as a full-timer.

I'm out, with respect to my colleagues, and a lot of love for the site as it was. We've published work that I'm extremely proud of, particularly our reporting on labor and on how workers are finding things in a miserable, gutting moment in the game industry. I'm proud of the dev-authored features we had for so many years, the resources and knowledge and bits and pieces of know-how that I still use, to this day, in my own game design courses.

What's next? Well, I'm not leaving games. I'll always be making and teaching and writing about games, it just can't be my full time gig anymore. I've actually been doing narrative design on a game since 2022, with a team I really believe in, and I can't wait until I can show that off properly. I am also OPEN TO WORK. Anything involving writing or editing words, editing video, teaching (I've been teaching college since 2009), and hey, I'm an EMT and got my phlebotomy cert a couple years back. I'm versatile!

For full-time employment, I am eventually going to try my hand at medicine. I've served as an EMT here in NYC since 2016, and I've been taking science courses post-bac since January 2025, usually 2 or more at once concurrently with... the full time job, my part time adjunct job, and volunteering on said ambulance. Exhaustion set in years ago, lol, so I've settled into something beyond that at this point. I feel like I've been climbing a mountain, and trying to make many things work at once. I had a pretty good rhythm going, truth be told, despite all the burnout. I'm proud of myself for that.

I'd really like to be a physician assistant one day, or potentially a nurse practitioner. It's a very, very long and hard road to either of those paths, but I'm going to make my way as best as I can.

How do I feel? Again, devastated was years ago. We're pretty far past that at this point. What's happened to journalism in America is... a topic for a very depressing, very well-researched book. I hope someone writes that one day. What happened to game journalism... well, it's more of a niche, but I can say only that reporting honestly on layoff after layoff and corporate malfeasance writ large and executives gambling the whole industry down the drain was tough, but somebody had to do it.

But it's not something one can do without editorial independence.

It's dramatic, but I'm going to mourn this career. Twenty years of my life, at 42, is just about half of my days alive. I put a lot, and I do mean *a lot* of myself into this. I tried at all times to lead with empathy and care for the human beings around me and to be as honest and frankly honorable as possible in my work. I really, really tried to live my values in my work in this career, and the only way I can keep that reputation is the path ahead of me.

So there it is. Expect to see me making games, making art, teaching game design, writing about games from time to time @VeeGeeBees. Expect to hear more about my adventures as an EMT, and hopefully, soon as a PA student, and eventually, as an advanced practitioner. I've kept telling myself, in the darkest and worst days of the last few years, that I'll fly again, somehow. It'll just look very different.

To sign off, and pull an old favorite out of my pocket: be good, and be good at it.

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Adam Riches @supernorn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Everyone's immediate reaction to the visuals in the new Ocarina Of Time remake.

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you aren’t writing your recipes like this then you’ve gotta start

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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

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Dennispr @dennis.videogameworkshop.com · 14/08/2026

Meeting a milestone sometimes means your code comments look like this: #gamedev #indiedev

A hole in a wall with a sign across it saying "we know about this"

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

original Game Boy with Super Mario Land! I still wonder why ancient-Egyptian imagery and Easter Island heads are part of this game

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Warcraft 2 (1995). Anyone remember this? Feels like a lifetime ago.

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The “get a video game with your food purchase” was a funny era

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Wow core memory unlocked, I put some serious hours into this back in the day

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𝓢𝓽𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷🤘🎸💙 @redfives.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

New PlayStation marketing just dropped

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

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Tokyo Game Life @tokyogamelife.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Nintendo 64 turns 30 years old today in Japan! Yes, the Japanese box art is just that cool.

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Sharb 🏳️‍⚧️ @firengames.com · 21/06/2026

Decided to look into that reflecting pool i keep hearing about, and idk there's some blue in it

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Doug @dougblot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Our game SWAP MEAT released today. This game saved my creative soul. It's also currently pretty cheap! Go play it and please please leave a review, it really helps smaller developers like us. store.steampowered.com/app/2790700/...

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Save 40% on SWAPMEAT on Steam

Rip through hostile alien worlds, harvest mutant body parts mid-combat, and adapt faster than your enemies. Every alien you harvest gives you new body parts with unique powers, like triple-jump legs, ...

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Posting this for a specific audience here.

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SoundTrail @soundtrail.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I hope the Ocarina of Time remake leaves "no" as the default option so first-timers can experience the pain.

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Zelda Ocarina of Time Owl: Did you get all that?

ALT: Zelda Ocarina of Time Owl: Did you get all that?

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Getting a gig is cool because I can support cool people doing cool stuff. #airwiggles merch!

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laryssa 🎶 @laryssaokada.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

⚠️ new music .ᐟ (✧ω✧) ･ﾟ⚠️ i have two new very fun tunes out that i wrote for TFT's newest graffiti arena in 17.4! working on this music was so much fun, i'm stoked they asked me to do this !! streaming anywhere u like ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ◈ graffiti chic street ◈ chic street shuffle

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

There’s something real special about recording your AC unit and then hearing it in the game you’re working on #sounddesign #gameaudio

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Never too early to start planning the costume(s) 🎃

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Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 @computerjames.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

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Damiano Gerli @damiano.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This quit screen from the quite obscure 1996 DOS 3D shooter Cylindrix is quite perfect as an endnote to basically anything.

"You've experienced it" eye with rough polygonal models

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

#FMOD Live Update feature appreciation post (it’s so good)

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Murray Somerwolff @patattiemurray.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🚨🚨🚨ANNOUNCEMENT!!!🚨🚨🚨 WAX HEADS IS OUT!!! Our cosy-punk, puzzle narrative record store game is finally out on PC / Switch / PS5 / Xbox This game is our love letter to music, to the way it connects us and a celebration of human made art. We hope you enjoy it ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuAm...

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Wax Heads - Launch Trailer

YouTube video by Curve Games

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Rev. Dr. Bradley D Meyer @audiogre.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

a fun chat. Hopefully there are some interesting tidbits for people

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I contributed some #music to this new podcast! Cool people talking about relevant stuff (working as creatives in today’s weird world) Had fun writing some chiptune via Magical 8bit Plug for the theme 👾 check it out! #deadpixelspod #chiptune

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Introducing the Dead Pixels Pod - Episode 0

YouTube video by Dead Pixels Pod

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Stoked on this shock mount/hand grip upgrade for my field recorder 🎤 Heading out to the coast tomorrow and you better believe I’m coming back with fresh sounds #fieldrecording #audio

A field recorder with a shock mount and hand grip being held

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Egg Day.

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Matthew M @mattesque.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

ok #gameaudio people of the PNW, I have an ask of you. Our Sonic Landscape is coming up and I'm looking to spread the word. I would greatly appreciate if you would share this news with another audio person to let them know about it. especially if they aren't on this site. www.oursoniclandscape.com

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

100%. I remember when it was fun, like Gmail announcing a feature that let you back date emails. Now it’s just…

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Those really were the days (was def younger than these kids in 1991 but the single-desktop-home vibe felt the same)

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alexis_tahiri @alexistahiri.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Feel like I’m flying close to the sun with only 50gb of space left on my machine…need to figure out clearing out those UE temp files #gameaudio #stress

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