Reposted by Charlie HallRiley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Excited to have @pokachee.bsky.social and our @fansplaining.bsky.social pals on the site today! 55810
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Literally no idea where I would even bother to pitch about an upcoming high-profile TTRPG release. None. Anyone paying for stories? Anyone at all? Bueller? 363
Reposted by Charlie HallBoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026All right, here's the first call out. Within hours of me publishing an incredibly in-depth piece on CMON's finances, which covers a multitude of stock exchange filings from across several weeks, this article appeared on @tabletopgamingnews.bsky.social: www.tabletopgamingnews.com/cmon-is-suff...tabletopgamingnews.comCMON Faces Make-or-Break Moment as It Warns of "Prolonged Structural Downturn" - TGN - Tabletop Gaming NewsCMON has issued a stark warning about its future, telling investors its core business is stuck in a "prolonged structural downturn" and still burning through 715032
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Oh no. They went with OG Firaxis XCOM and not XCOM 2... *kicks rocks* 040
Reposted by Charlie HallCWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Last week, CWA members at Noble Knights Games reached a tentative agreement with the company, which, if ratified, would secure improvements in wages, performance pay, benefits, scheduling, time off, & workplace protections. Members achieved these gains without a single concession! 05716
Reposted by Charlie HallHuffPost Union @huffpostunion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026A statement from the HuffPost Union @wgaeast.bsky.social on today's layoffs. 13314147
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I may have just hacked my brain: Teams is turn-based Slack. I get it now. 180
Reposted by Charlie HallZoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 31/07/2026all my besties — er, i mean, mothership freelancers — wrote about their favorite feminist games www.mothership.blog/whats-in-the...mothership.blogWhat's in the feminist games canon?It's complicated! But here are some recs from our regular contributors 0205
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026In other news, anyone see any deals on the Daggerheart core book at Gen Con gimme a holler, yeah? 020
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I woke up today with the knowledge that I can have my own damn thoughts about WotC and D&D that I just get to keep to myself now... 2160
Reposted by Charlie HallNicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026for 404 media, i wrote about video game clones—who makes them, how they make them, and where the line gets drawn between inspiration and cloning 4419134
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Hell yeah @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social! Great piece. Perfect placement. 1111
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Flying squirrel at the suet feeder! I’m a foot away. Surprised’em bringing in the oriole feeder. 0100
Reposted by Charlie HallUnited Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 18/05/2026WOTC and Hasbro can still voluntarily recognize our union at any point up to the NLRB election. We encourage you to sign our letter of support, and make your voice heard. cwa.org/uwotclettercwa.orgTell Wizards of the Coast to Recognize Our Union!The workers at Magic The Gathering: Arena have voted overwhelmingly to form the union: United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC)! We are asking Wizards and Hasbro management to voluntarily recognize ... 0518160
Reposted by Charlie HallUnited Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Instead of voluntarily recognizing our union, they've forced us into a redundant and drawn-out election process, rather than listening to the overwhelming majority of employees who signed our initial letter to management. 144657
Reposted by Charlie HallUnited Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa 201713827
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 18/05/2026More good stuff from @spookysyntax.bsky.social who is out there doing the work. A thoroughly sourced piece. 0111
Reposted by Charlie HallConnie @connievdc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I had a great time chatting with Mollie, and the her article is fantastic! Definitely worth a read & some soul searching. 14515
Reposted by Charlie HallTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere. 9955231619
Reposted by Charlie HallChris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 11/05/2026i've now read this comic three times. one of my favorite things @mothership.blog has commissioned so far. (also the final panel would be a perfect tattoo 🤔)mothership.blogComic: Pokopia is my post-gender utopiaThe most recent Pokémon game takes a lax attitude toward gender and pronouns 1588
Reposted by Charlie HallCritical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Paste Magazine was a tour de force in games criticism, and @garrettmartin.bsky.social is a legend. In the replies, share your favorite works from the Paste Magazine/AV Club/Endless Mode archives. 2216264
Reposted by Charlie HallGarrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026hey. thanks! thanks to everybody who wrote for us, thanks to Eli, Moises, Holly, Jenn, Gita, and Maddy for helping edit it, thanks to Kirk for passing the baton, thanks to Chris for starting it up, and thanks to everybody who ever read it. see ya around. 6056164
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Paste was among my first bylines back, what… 15 years ago? It was an early home to so many people I respected in this space. This sucks. Garrett doesn’t deserve this shit. 0303
Reposted by Charlie HallHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple. 6137521209
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Been saving these for a special occasion. First one went well. 0100
Reposted by Charlie HallNicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 28/04/2026the story made the front page of today’s newspaper! its always very excited to see your work in print. i walked two miles to try to find a paper this morning and failed, so settling for digital for now 2434623
Reposted by Charlie HallUnited Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwaunitedwizardsofthecoast.comAnnouncing United Wizards of the Coast - CWA!MTG Arena workers announce unionization as United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, calling on WOTC to voluntarily recognize their union and begin collective bargaining. 8354072049
Reposted by Charlie HallNicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026it felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...nytimes.comA Virtual Escape for Rikers Inmates 16528133
Reposted by Charlie HallMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comSign onto our open letter in solidarity with Hachette Workers Coalition!To the management at Hachette Book Group, We are authors, publishing professionals, readers, and union supporters, and we are proud to express our full support for the Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC... 61505628
Reposted by Charlie HallSPLC Union @splcunion.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Below is a statement from the unionized workers of the Southern Poverty Law Center. 412296811
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 24/04/2026That’s roughly a half million a head. Give or take. 0172
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Huh. Well, I got COBRA at least. For a little while. 0130
Reposted by Charlie Halldell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 17/04/2026nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both. 151725553
Reposted by Charlie HallGarrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026whenever people assume I am excited about a movie or show based on something I loved when I was 8 I just think about how weird it would’ve been if my dad got all pumped up about a Howdy Doody movie in 1986 181021155
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Was painting… got sidetracked… have new spaceship… 3D printing rules… 3271
Reposted by Charlie HallKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Imagine being so unpopular and evil that you have to drop this amount of money and invent new forms of ratfucking so you can beat a 27-year-old who regularly wears a Snorlax onesie to bed. 452821238
Reposted by Charlie HallMichael's reanimated corpse @thepmann.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Maybe this makes me a communist, but I think they should have to file these reports before the election, not after. 121190193
Reposted by Charlie HallAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Nope Full Offense. An all white gaming newsroom in this economy isn't a fluke it's an ACTIVE CHOICE 445959
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Air BnB where we’re staying has a vintage bar area. Cold running mana and healing potions are Liquid IV. 0160
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Deception. These Hong Kong badge tokens are amazing. 160
Reposted by Charlie HallCharlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Tomb of Horrors going well. Spoilers after the jump. 191
