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CONTINUE Magazine @continuemag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IT'S GAMES WEEK+!!!!!! CONTINUE 01 is here. We made a magazine to celebrate and interrogate videogames and culture. It's print. It's tangible. It's real. It's available to purchase now. Regular Edition -- shop.acmi.net.au/products/con... Special Edition -- shop.acmi.net.au/products/con...

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

uh this is real hard to top

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm going to create a business where I just post "AI good" every day at noon. I am accepting investment now. This is already the second most profitable AI business in history.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Shout outs to erik b and rakim, to whom I always owe my entire Friday to, because paid in full makes me feel like it is worth celebrating that we survived another week

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 02/10/2026

InFlux Redux is half off. You have the opportunity to BE THIS BALL Leave it a positive review so I can finally hit 100 of those!!! store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...

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Chris Wilson @chriswilson.dev · 02/10/2026

This reminds me of photography in the before times. You'd get people who'd buy the most expensive camera and assume they'd instantly take the best photos. "What do you mean I have to study the craft!?"

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

maybe all genAI is really doing is removing barriers to seeing that actually most people don’t know how to tell a good story and won’t be able to without actually studying it and practising it. Which most people don’t want to do

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Serrels @serrels.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me writing a novel: "Generating the words, it seems, is easy... collating them in a sentence like structure appears to be the real challenge..."

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Once the technology for the Best Story happens, only THEN will we get Best Story!!!!!

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lmao sometimes feels like tech people are in kindergarten tier English class!!!! We are currently paying *crazy money* for these people to realise something humanities grads understand and can wield expertly for less than the price of this bad software

resonated with me. As someone still experimenting and learning with Al filmmaking, I'm finding that generating something visually impressive is becoming easier, but creating something that actually makes people feel something is the real challenge.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Watched a video today of a Japanese woman in a police station asserting her rights to record and: the absolute violence of her politeness in Japanese was completely aspirational. It was like watching Sailor Moon with a pink switchblade quickly slash someone who only later realised they were bleeding

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Robin Ward @eviltrout.com · 01/10/2026

We're delighted to announce The Mysterious Mansions bundle, which contains The Incident at Galley House and The Séance of Blake Manor. This is just in time for the Steam Autumn sale, so it's a great time to pick up some mystery games. store.steampowered.com/bundle/90016...

News: Announcing the Mysterious Mansions Bundle

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

been going back to choice-based narrative recently and man is it pleasurable to write branches with markup again and playtest it immediately to see what it would feel like to play, it’s got that feeling of being a whole game even before art assets arrive

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hello! I’m getting ready to announce the release date of WRITING FOR GAMES second edition! I’d love to put some reader quotes in the press kit/on the website. Would you like to feature? Reply if you’ve found the book useful and a name you’re happy to be attributed via. 💛

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James Muirhead @deepcrypt.games · 01/10/2026

Finally a game where you can experience the horror of Fife

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A beautiful new video game magazine in 2026? You can hear about the creation of @continuemag.bsky.social in the back half of this week’s episode!

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Game Controls Corpse with A.I. from Hell

A new horror novel stars the scariest thing of all: a gamer.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

brain has stopped working. pls send snacks

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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New EDITIONS day! Delighted to feature @finruin.bsky.social's work in the booklet for this one – she delivered a fascinating Q+A and her essay is phenomenal.

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 30/09/2026

nothing is more optimistic than a mailing list being like "did you unsubscribe by mistake?" girl don't even ask you are embarrassing yourself

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it.

A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026

I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...

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Dressmaker on Steam

Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

sometimes I remember the penis beaker incident on Mumsnet was the first sign of a terfnest

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 25/09/2026

Come along to the launch during MIGW!!! CRASH ACMI, PARTY DOWN (don't tell them I wrote this) It's free www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/mel...

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In publisher speak this often translates to feedback like “you don’t seem to know what you are making yet” no, you don’t seem to be able to extrapolate from concept art and an extremely detailed deck what we are making. Those are not the same things.

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ghoulnoise @ghoulnoise.com · 28/09/2026

someone please hire me to do a deadly premonition coded OST for you

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Being online when the conversation turns to sexual assault is fucking hell for survivors. By the way.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think there should be a law against firing people at the end of a project so that you can steal their future wages??

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some really nice UK remote jobs here

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

at a certain point, there's nothing to gain by boosting the words of random rape apologists. you're just exposing more people—including survivors—to that harmful rhetoric

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

forgot to say that if you get the very last issue (sob) of The Skinny you will read me and Brian Baglow singing the praises of Scottish game developers and absolutely burning our London and Edinburgh governments to the ground about the complete lack of structural support developers receive from them

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

happy birthday to me. I got an incredible meal accompanied by THE gluten free caterpillar cake for breakfast. can’t do better than that imo

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Gargaj @gargaj.umlaut.hu · 27/09/2026

Dissociating! In the Big Tesco

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 27/09/2026

if youre mad about the lesbian bar story becoming a spectacle for people to gawk at then tell your friends not to talk to journalists. everyone involved in that story agreed to be in it

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

old enough to remember people were professionally disgraced for trading in their xbox 360 review copies at CEX

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 27/09/2026

Nighthawks has sold TEN THOUSAND copies in less than one week! For a tiny studio like ours, this is a huge milestone. To all the supporters, backers, wishlisters, and everyone who believed in this game and us, thank you so much.

Lux and Becca from Nighthawks, with the text "10,000 copies sold."

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching a let's play of Still Wakes the Deep where they're using the "please translate all the hard words into English (International)" subtitles option, and it's got me strongly believing non-scots players should just suck it up and learn what a jobbie is through context

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

United Tech & Allied Workers (a part of the Communication Workers’ Union) AI Workers Inquiry 2026, from the executive summary, their policy essentials. techworkersinquiry.org/ai/

The emerging policy directions are:

Transparency alone would not be enough; workers need meaningful consultation and negotiation over AI deployments.
AI use must not be mandatory; workers need legal protections from detriment for refusing AI use, and employers limited in AI-driven management decisions.
Safeguards against AI externalities; strong regulations to ensure the AI we build does not harm people and planet.
Stop the brain drain; establish and defend AI-free learning pathways for junior and graduate workers.
Workers get the final say; bake in collective bargaining over AI at work.

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felix link in bio @legobutts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

can we go back to irc yet

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Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I saw this screenshot going around, found this detail charming, looked more into the game (I've never played a Silent Hill) & decided to buy it. Btw these are the "unimportant" background assets AI idiots think AI should be used for

Screenshot of a Twitter post by Val / @shegoingtogloat - it's a Silent Hill screenshot showing a close up of a cork board. On it, a paper says "Welcome to Shorefront Family Clinic" in a classic wiggly 3D font style. The tweet text is: Is this a Silent Hill asset made using PowerPoint lol"

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watching the new British Bake Off is fun because Nigella literally just wolfs every cake and then later hiccups like ‘ive got a sugar high’ relatable content

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Met Florence Pugh at Netflix HQ today for a Q&A about creative leadership and forging a path through difficult industry times. she was incredibly informative about how to navigate creative leadership and crises self confidence. It does give me hope for the UK that we can support someone like her

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Fireproof Games @fireproofgames.com · 24/09/2026

We are delighted to announce The Room Three & The Room 4: Old Sins are available now from the eShop for Nintendo Switch™. Buy now on Nintendo eShop! 🇪🇺 bit.ly/eshop_EU_TheRoomGames 🇺🇸 bit.ly/eshop_US_TheRoomGames 🇯🇵 bit.ly/eshop_JP_TheRoomGames #TheRoom #NintendoSwitch #eShop

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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)

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