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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Guardian is doing some major hiring right now! If you have 2-3 years' experience in journalism, media and/or content creation, you can apply for the Digital Journalism Scheme - full time roles including 20% training time, £48k pa workwithus.theguardian.com/digital-jour...

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are you or have you ever been a narrative designer (as your official job title)? I would like to interview you for a video! Pls reply to this if you’re interested ❤️.

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Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Small event update: the venue is open til 11pm. Wanted to also be clear that your ticket gets you a cocktail on arrival, included in the price. It's an Alien cocktail! With an egg in it! Me, speaking with Alien game devs, at Loading Bar Brighton, on October 14. It'll be fun! luma.com/p4pjgibd

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Aliens: The Video Games: In Conversation · Luma

Join author Mike Diver in conversation with Steve Collett (Alien 3, 1993) and Howard Rayner (Alien: Isolation, 2014), for an insightful chat about making Alien…

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 14/09/2026

🎂2️⃣5️⃣th 🕹️🧊 Not seen on the shelf, Resi 4 as that is actually on loan to a friend.

A shelf of GameCube boxes with favourite titles like Zelda Twilight Princess, Animal Crossing, and Mario Party 4. In front of the boxes there is a little LEGO build of Celeste, a red star gazing owl from Animal Crossing.

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 08/09/2026

Anyone know a good copy editor who could refine the script for a YouTube video? 👀 I'm working on my video about use of AI for video editing and the topic is so sprawling I want another set of eyes on it 🙏🏻 (Paid gig!)

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 02/09/2026

So excited for this. Game Republic NH is shaping up to be a banger this year!!

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DevGAMM @devgamm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Monday is the last day to apply for DevGAMM Awards. Don't say we didn't warn you. devgamm.com/awards2026/

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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george benjamin jones @mole.club · 21/08/2026

Reminder that I will be at Gamescom next week and PAX West the week after, looking for cool new indie games Unity isn't aware of yet <3

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 11/08/2026

As I had a #NintendoUK order this week, and it's the #eclipse tomorrow, I've made this cursed Mario Welding glass eye mask for my hubby. So pleased 😁

An empty cardboard box left over from a Nintendo store order, with Mario printed on the inside. He is doffing his hat

I have cut out Mario's face from the box, and stuck a piece of shade 12 welding glass to the back

I have cut out Mario's eyes so he won't be blinded by the sun

My husband now had a welding goggle mask to watch the eclipse. He is holding the Mario mask up to his face as a test, it has folded back wings where Mario's ears are to grip the mask. Mario's eyes are now not the same size. His big friendly button nose is very prominent under his new welding glass coloured eyes

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John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A smaller number of emails than usual, so there's a far better chance of getting featured this time out! Indie devs, to action!

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Jared Rigby @jaredrigby.co.uk · 24/06/2026

Our indie studio is looking for some freelance support for our current project Mithra. If you are a 2D artist or narrative designer based in the UK, check out our job listings!

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You Vs Zombies @youvszombies.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

EPIC RAP BATTLES OF ... Zombie fighting..? Who's downloading the demo and trying a run with Tyler, the Cremator? Childish Cannibino... anyone? #indiedev #gamedev

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You Vs Zombies @youvszombies.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We made a game where YOU get to summon any body and fight zombies away. So obviously we chose Rick Grimes. 🧟 (Sorry for that ending, Keira Knightly. We know you're reading!) #indiegame #gamedev

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You Vs Zombies @youvszombies.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Having a bad day? Just remember, you could be in a zombie apocalypse. 🧟 So get up, go again, fight another day. Oh, and play the free demo of You vs Zombies, so you can even play a rogue-like as anything you can possibly imagine. #indiegame #gamedev

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You Vs Zombies @youvszombies.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Pause to see your zombie apocalypse personality 🧟 Would you survive? #indiegame #gaming #roguelite #zombiegame #gamedev

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 16/05/2026

I actually think the "Milk Maids of the Night" tune here is a banger! Happy #eurovision to all that celebrate!

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

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Call for Applications: Writer in Residence - Blooming Bloomsbury and the Modernist Archives Publishing Project -Creativity and Community Co-Curation (2026) | Museums and Collections

The selected writer will spend the summer months (June—September 2026) drawing inspiration from MAPP to develop new creative work. From September to December, they will build on this...

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 12/05/2026

🎶🌳🧪A lovely musical slice of video game whimsy today to celebrate the launch of "The Wilds Of Dacrima: Field Notes From A Poorly Supervised Alchemist and his Unruly Clockwork Companion!" open.spotify.com/album/3Mz3Cr...

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ON games journal @ongamesjournal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Fancy writing for ON3? VaatiVidya and SmoughTown will each pick a new writer, who’ll be guided by Christian Donlan. Submit the first 50 words of your Elden Ring feature to info@on.games before 16/5/26. @vaatividya.com @smoughtown.bsky.social #EldenRing #GamesMagazine @kickstarter.com #ON3mag

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You Vs Zombies @youvszombies.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

To celebrate Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday, we... made him fight 100 zombie bosses. Obviously. Boaty McBoatface proved a worthy opponent. 🧟⛴️ #indiegame #gaming #roguelite #zombiegame #gamedev

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You Vs Zombies @youvszombies.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by, played, and survived. And to @londongamesfest.bsky.social for having us. Some of the heroes you created were genuinely heroic. Some... deeply questionable! Missed us? Don’t panic. The demo will be coming to the apocalypse in the next couple of weeks 👀

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 16/04/2026

Setting up for a couple of magical wizard zombie bashing days & a new roguelite hero has been summoned! @youvszombies.bsky.social @michaelfrench.bsky.social @londongamesfest.bsky.social #NewGame+

A large monitor shows a bright yellow menu screen, showing a hero called Michael French MBE, who looks curiously similar to the director of London Games Festival. The game being promoted at the show is You vs Zombies by 10six Games

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 24/03/2026

🦹🏻‍♀️What makes a compelling video game villain? 💭 If you have thoughts, feelings, opinions, baddies you love to hate, traumatic end of level boss memories etc, fancy helping out a friend with her masters thesis by answering a few questions? Pls share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 15/03/2026

🧟‍♀️This is every hero created during the GDC demo! If you were at the show, see if you can spot YOU in the line up! Missed GDC? See you at London Games Fest!

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You Vs Zombies @youvszombies.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

🤔 AI curious and heading to #GDC? We’re showcasing how we’re using LLMs in YOU vs Zombies Describe any hero and summon a fully personalised character in seconds at runtime! 📅 Book a slot: google.jifflenow.com/external-reque…

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 07/03/2026

Been clearing out my office, found this press kit from Amuzo Games (2011/12 ???) and now think the thumbdrive in here is *actually* a Biohazard...

The sealed bag on the left has biohazard written on, and has a sticky thimbdrive inside. The printed pamphlet with it says please examine contained sample, take all precautions, level 6 quarentine. You have approx 8 minutes to destroy brain stem, it's the only way!

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 05/03/2026

I lurve my Playdate, even got a little pizza box cover for it + Mars After Midnight is SUCH an awesome title, is worth getting one just for that! 🟨

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You Vs Zombies @youvszombies.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

YOU vs Zombies is making its public debut at #GDC in the Google Cloud lounge 🧟 Describe any hero, watch The Ritual summon them in seconds, then hurl them into the zombie apocalypse 🗓️ Book a demo slot: google.jifflenow.com/external-reque…

A stylized, animated zombie character stands in front of a shadowy, cityscape background. The text reads, "We're coming to GDC." The zombie has green skin and is wearing a suit with a badge.

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

People have a pop at AI vibe coding but I presume actual humans wrote the Ticketmaster app and they shouldn't be allowed out without adult supervision

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Thomas BIDAUX 👁️ 🔜 DICE Europe @icotom.icopartners.com · 18/02/2026

PSA - for everyone in Europe booking meetings for GDC, keep in mind that the US is switching to DST the Sunday before the event (8th of March).

Image showing a clock and reminding the date for the DST in 2026: 8th of March

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 13/02/2026

Just landed! That's my weekend SUPER sorted. Very looking forward to this one @mackeza.bsky.social ☁️🪙🍄

The new book from Keza Macdonald about Super Nintendo, has a bright blue cover with clouds and coins on it. Sat on a bookshelf next to a bright red plushi Bokoblin from the Zelda video game series

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You Vs Zombies @youvszombies.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

💪 CALLING ALL HEROES 💪 Want in on our first ever playtest? The bunker doors open TODAY! 🧟 Head to Steam and request access now 👇 bit.ly/3NOdTTL #YouVsZombies #IndieGame #PCGaming #SteamGames #Playtest #InteractiveNarrative #ZombieGame #ApocalypseGame

This image is an animated character with a rugged appearance, featuring dreadlocks, an eyepatch, and a beard. The character wears a tactical vest labeled "Police" and has wristbands with spikes. The background includes abstract shapes and colors.

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 12/02/2026

A CRACKIN' line up for @londongamesfest.bsky.social this year, with a special shout out to my friends @youvszombies.bsky.social - can't wait until April to find out more, their playtest open up tomorrow #Friday13th #ZombieRoguelite #IndieAI store.steampowered.com/app/4224660/...

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 10/02/2026

Timeline cleanse! This is what the internet's true purpose is 🐎❤️

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 06/02/2026

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

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You Vs Zombies @youvszombies.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

From biker to baker 💪 Who would you be in a zombie apocalypse? 👇 Comment below and we'll test it in game! 👇

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James Batchelor @jamesbatchelor.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Reminder: The launch party livestream kicks off at 8pm this evening. Come and learn more about The History of the Pokemon Games, ask me anything, and take part in a Pokemon quiz to win a copy of the book! www.youtube.com/live/gQvlOi1...

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The History of the Pokémon Games: Live Book Launch

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You Vs Zombies @youvszombies.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🧟 PLAYTEST YOU VS ZOMBIES 🧟 A zombie roguelite starring YOU… or a fire-breathing ballerina or a spell-slinging punk with no coping skills Describe your hero and Unleash them on the apocalypse. 🗓️ Playtesting opens 13 Feb 👉 Request access store.steampowered.com/app/4224660/…

Image displaying a screenshot from the You Vs Zombies game. Featuring a stylized game character labeled 'Hero Found!' with the title 'Zombie Fighting Guy' below. The character appears in a dynamic pose, wearing a casual outfit with a flashlight and a tool belt, set against a dark, windowed backdrop that suggests an urban night scene.

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Filippo Beck Peccoz @fbeckpeccoz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Are you a dev making a "Fake OS", Interface based game a la Her Story, The Operator, Desktop Explorer... or Imprinted? : D We are organizing a dedicated steam sale and would love to include your game as well!! forms.gle/5G4uSLroqq7r...

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Steam Event: Fake OS Games / Interface Sims

Please fill in you details to apply for our 7-day Steam event from April 27 to May 4, 2026. Signup Deadline: February 7th, Midnight UTC

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VR Games Showcase @vrgamesshowcase.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

👀 VR Games Showcase returns in March 2026 👀 💥 New reveals, release dates & more 🥽 Games for PC VR, PS VR2 & Quest 😱 Some of our biggest-ever surprises Want to join VR's biggest Direct-style showcase? Get in touch: buff.ly/zjstqFV

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 26/01/2026

I LOVE my copies of ON; this is a great opportunity for new game writers to be included in the next edition, which I will deffo be buying!

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 24/01/2026

Ready! @rspb.bsky.social #BigGardenBirdwatch Might have already eaten more biscuits than birds spotted... Though the Ring-Necked Parakeets are putting on a good show today

The RSPB bird guide books sit in front of a large window overlooking a green meadow. There are also binoculars, a cup of coffee and a packet of biscuits on a tray.

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