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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 16h

One of these days we're going to hit one of these milestone anniversaries for Diablo 3 and my time will come.

Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sad to report that me and Liv finally finished drafting our way through the MTG x Spider-Man booster box I bought on sale and we managed to snag basically every mythic except the Soul Stone 😔

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Red Kiss has been on my Steam wishlist since I saw the first trailer, so it was a real treat to chat with the team behind the game for Multiplier multiplierau.substack.com/p/can-red-ki...

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Can Red Kiss thrive where Bloodlines 2 fell short?

Vampire: The Masquerade meets Citizen Sleeper sounds pretty good to me.

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dee 方传嫣 @hellenus.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

new twilight imperium meme

David and Victoria Beckham arguing "be honest" meme.
I need your homeworld for one turn.
Be honest.
I just need it for a secret objective.
Be honest.
I'm going to destroy your homeworld because you took a technology planet I needed five hours ago.
Thank you.

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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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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I can't believe I went through years of irate posts about The Bear (a show I liked) being categorised as a comedy at the emmys and only to hear crickets when Window's Bay (a show I did not like) is categorised as a comedy at the emmys. How dare!

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Left a cinnamon roll dough to rise and it’s been too successful, eating up the doctor, the town police, and a whole cinema of reckless rock and roll teenagers. You’re next…..you’re next!

A small plastic figure of a b-movie victim. Stood atop a kitchen work surface. He cowers from a formless shape

3 further plastic figures. One is running, while a plastic lady has fallen down and rising an arm to fruitlessly hold the oncoming monster at bay. Again, a shapeless mass is entering the photo.

We cut to an overhead shop, which shows the last of the plastic figures running from a large rising sweet bread dough.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Odd slate of Blizzcon announcements. Feels like a lot of stuff is being announced way earlier than usual. Would have liked to hear more about what's happening with Diablo between now and 2030 or whenever D5 is due. WoW: Forever seems interesting tho, and I'm always here for new Warcraft RTS content.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is probably one of the most evocative cinematics Blizzard has done in years imo www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eQU...

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STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion

YouTube video by StarCraft

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have to be honest, the negative reviews of Wolverine do make me more interested in playing it.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The closest I have to an iPhone Duo take is that I cannot wait for everyone on iOS to discover why most Android manufacturers bailed on under display cameras after only a generation or two.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A timely reminder that one month from now I will be at @paxaus.bsky.social with my most deranged panel to date. Whether you've seen Highlander or not, I strongly encourage you to come along and bear witness to the strangest TTRPG panel on the schedule

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 10/09/2026

Sony saw "phys-" and didn't bother to read the rest of the word, they just knew they needed out ASAP.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The next chapter of my year of fantasy bullshit begins. That's right, folks - I'm getting into Elric of Melnibone.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

QQ x BLM episode of Adventuring Academy is giving me life today

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Y'all ever grip a mouse so hard it breaks?

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As Vince Gilligan intended it...

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The shorter page count and faster pacing is doing a lot for me but Path of Daggers is probably one of the better Wheel of Time books I've read so far.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

'AI Girlfriend in a Jar' feels maybe a little on the nose imo

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Cadsuane is a strong contender for the best Wheel of Time character that the TV show never got around to so far.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This segment about Tolkien and the appendices from the new episode of Shelved by Genre is going to live rent-free in my head for a while I suspect.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Fourth game of Trench Crusade was maybe the most fun I've had with wargaming ever. Absolutely loony tunes nonsense. The spellcasting mechanic of the Court of the Seven Headed Serpent made for a completely different experience.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This week's issue of Multiplier is a real treat. I tracked down the co-founder of Witching Hour Studios for a retrospective on the criminally underappreciated CRPG Masquerada ten years later multiplierau.substack.com/p/why-didnt-...

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Why didn't Masquerada make its mark on the CRPG crowd?

How many songs, shadows, and star power does an indie RPG need to succeed?

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It is better to have Big Walk'd and gotten lost than to never have Big Walk'd at all.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Third game of Trench Crusade was the best to date. Only one or two better dice rolls away from snatching a draw or win from the jaws of defeat. Assassin continues to be the best model in the Iron Sultanate arsenal and I got my mind around how Blessings work!

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I realise this may be a contested topic, but if the rumours are true and Apple is putting cameras on AirPods it truly might be a contender for the dumbest thing the company has ever done.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Absolutely crazy for them to recommend watching that last Captain America movie

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is such an incredibly fun and fascinating read from Jamie, the best kind of shit you can get up to on a non-commercial reader-supported videogame website like this week in videogames dot com!!!1

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Watching a list of JoJo themes ranked on YouTube and shaking my head disapprovingly and muttering 'shoulda been higher...' like it's the Hottest 100

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sylvia @sylvibullet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

So I'm still early into the first ASOIAF book but from what I can tell Robert Baratheon and Ned Stark were kind of the westeros version of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I forgot to post about it yesterday because everything is a bit on fire this week but this week's issue of Multiplier is a hoot! Really intrigued by ANGEL when I saw it at ALT earlier this year multiplierau.substack.com/p/is-this-in...

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Is this indie game more about racing or finding the rhythm?

Low poly. High speed. Flow state.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 12/08/2026

You can keep this on mute and it's a great silent film of someone's soul leaving their body

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Is there a good app out there like Backloggr that supports both video and board games? preferably one without any garbage ai features in it?

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

For some reason, this was the first game I played when I bought my Steam Deck. I did not think it was particularly good but its resurgence is perhaps promising sign of things to come with regards to delisted LOTR video games like BFME, etc www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

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A long-lost Lord of the Rings action RPG makes a surprise return to Steam

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North was removed from Steam in early 2019.

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./yemáko/badgames.zip @badgameszip.itch.io · 10/08/2026

sorry to the haters but the CORRECT order to play the series is A Short Hike Big Walk Marathon

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