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Evan Campbell @darthburrit0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are literal videos of them saying that they were doing this. specifically saying things like they were adding people to a terrorist data base or a 'special list'. I am glad there are official court filings but yeah we know. Corrupt ass org bent on ignoring constitutional and human rights.

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Neverway - COMING IN 2027! @coldbloodinc.studio · 02/10/2026

our indie game: - hand drawn by Celeste's pixel artist - music by Disasterpeace - made on our own game engine - sound by Martin Kvale - a slow-burning horror RPG - meet (or date) 10+ charming characters - fast-paced combat - customize your playstyle with crafted items and combat abilities

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Evan Campbell @darthburrit0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I thought I would never leave games and I am still trying not to but this week more than ever I understand why people and especially women leave this space.

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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 01/10/2026

Sony has announced Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), a new AI upscaling tech coming to standard PlayStation 5 consoles today, improving visuals for Wolverine and Ghost of Yotei. vgc.news/news/remarka...

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‘Remarkable’: Sony reveals new PS5 upscaler tech, QSSR | VGC

Unlike PSSR, the new upscaler will work on standard PS5s…

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 01/10/2026

Jacob Geller is no longer a part of MinnMax. He won't be on content moving forward and we won't be publicly airing this week's episode of The MinnMax Show. We're in shock and deeply hurt. Thank you for your patience during this sensitive time.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

liiiiiiiterally this is the plot of Silo

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Jordan Middler @jordanmiddler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Absolutely all of this, including us, goes away if not for reader support. If you enjoy VGC, or your favorite podcast relies on us for news, please consider supporting or upgrading your pledge. AI and Google have destroyed this industry. Independent media is the only way forward.

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Evan Campbell @darthburrit0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meredith Whittaker (President of the Signal Foundation) warned about this exact thing at least a year ago as reported by The Economist and further iterated on in this Nicholas Thompson interview youtu.be/aMNWOqXpxcc?...

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AI’s Threat to Privacy - Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the Risks of Agents

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allsee @allsees.online · 29/09/2026

solve puzzles with your best bird friend in the co-op adventure game Reason And Rhyme, inspired by Flipnote Studio

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Shannon Liao @shannonliao.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I reviewed American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee, out today. My article is called, American Rat Race, and in it I examine whether the college admissions process told across multiple families can make for a compelling novel shannonliao.substack.com/p/american-r...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟‍♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com

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Heather Wald @heatherteacup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hire Ashely for her extremely good words and invaluable voice. Ashley is truly one of the most talented writers out there, and I’ve always greatly admired her work (even before she was at GR+). I never tire of reading her insightful, passionate words, and she’s such a wonderful person to work with

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 24/09/2026

Hey! Have you enjoyed my CRT photography over the years? If so, I could use some help. My PVM is in good hands now, but repairs are going to be pricey. If you’d like more CRT photos and can spare a couple bucks to help with the repair costs, my PayPal is here: PayPal.me/aidanmoher

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Evan Campbell @darthburrit0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Went to schedule my car for service online. Site literally says phone is the best way. Better than an online scheduler where you just claim a time. Phone number goes right to an AI assistant. What an absolute waste.

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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 23/09/2026

"I just assume someone is being greedy" - Double Fine’s Tim Schafer says he doesn’t know why the industry isn’t bouncing back yet. He also says Double Fine's survival is "worth fighting for" following its split from Xbox. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/i-just-...

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‘I just assume someone is being greedy’: Double Fine’s Tim Schafer says he doesn’t know why the industry isn’t recovering | VGC

He also says Double Fine’s survival is “worth fighting for” following its split from Xbox…

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Christian Sparks @hippowombat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey there friends! Unfortunately, I was among those impacted by layoffs at Heart Machine last week. If you or someone you know is looking for an experienced Unreal Engine Technical Artist, I'm available for full time, part time, or contract opportunities.

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Evan Campbell @darthburrit0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah. The thing about calling the recent Xbox layoffs a "restructuring," which is how it's being framed by some, is that it's pretty clear this is not that but an extreme culling of anything that doesn't make MS exorbitant amounts of money and it's being executed with a reckless ghoulishness.

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Evan Campbell @darthburrit0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just a heads up for anyone who hasn't been paying attention. A fast 4TB external SSD is $800+ now. I bought the same exact model at beginning of summer for $500 and a year before that $400.

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Evan Campbell @darthburrit0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For all the flowery language and all the people who talk up Sharma... Xbox sure is acting like a company that doesn't really care about it's games business anymore.

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hi! I was the hacker culture and cybercrime consultant for this fantastic game, and I was *just* thinking the same thing. I answered a LOT of questions about predictive policing on the press junket. We made a great game that saw all of this coming and made it feel good to fight back.

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Swedish trade unions Unionen and Sveriges Ingenjörer have issued a strike notice against King after executives rejected a proposed collective bargaining agreement last month www.gamesindustry.biz/king-workers...

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

fangamer hiring for a designer position. GenAI/LLMS explicitly prohibited.

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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 17/09/2026

You still need to convince the people with the money to greenlight projects. Teams will assume that they'll have an easier time securing their future if they don't take chances.

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John Katsin @crouton-salad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

After 9 years at IGN this is the last video I edited: m.youtube.com/watch?v=nStf... 3 people, including me, who worked on this video were laid off, with out notice, just a couple hours after publishing it. It was an honor to work with them and so many others at IGN impacted by these layoffs.

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Steam Frame Review – A Great All-in-One VR Headset, But It'll Cost You

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I need to point out that a lot of the people who used to report on games industry layoffs and closures have stopped doing so, except maybe for extreme headline stories. There are almost no reliable and consistant sources for this information remaining.

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Max Scoville @maxscoville.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Welp. Starting in November, I will no longer be employed by IGN. It's been a hell of a ride and I cannot understate how much of an honor and a privilege the last 11+ years have been. This was a dream job, but the best part of IGN is, was, and always will be the people.

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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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Clint Gage @clintgage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well friends, that's it for me. This week IGN let me go, effective immediately. It's been a pleasure talking about movies and TV and to anybody that's read/watched/laughed at any of my work on IGN and CineFix over the years, here's a heartfelt thank you to contrast the grimace in this picture.

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

look lads. the newswire burst that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma spends "hours" responding to CS tickets - whether true or not - is low hanging corporate propaganda. throw that shit in the trash. it's an insult to your intelligence.

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Alicia Haddick/アリシア🔜Tokyo Game Show @aliciahaddick.com · 15/09/2026

I can now, finally, share this: I've wrote a book! And you can order it! Driven by never-before-seen access to his archive of storyboards, props and images and one-on-one interviews, Archive: Shinya Tsukamoto is a deep dive into the creative process of the cult indie director

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Brenden Groom @begroom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Salem, MA residents— you need to email the Zoning Board today and tell them you oppose a data center being built here. zoningboardcomments@salem.com Full details of the zoom meeting for the appeal taking place tomorrow: www.salemma.gov/AgendaCenter... We need to stop this from happening.

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bl⚰️ke @metallicaisrad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've spent the last 2 years working on this: (Post)[Culture] @lostincult.co.uk's new pop culture imprint. And I couldn't be more excited to announce our first project: ARCHIVE: Shinya Tsukamoto, a collaboration with, well, Shinya Tsukamoto. I've never been more proud of anything I've ever done.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 15/09/2026

Honestly a serious proposal for AI regulation would be something like: 1. ban on new gas turbines or other onsite fossil generation. 2. moratorium on new GPU capacity in data centers 3. severe privacy protections, with auditing requirements, for SaaS consumer products 4. ban on chatbot interfaces

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Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · 15/09/2026

Reminder that Luftrausers, everyone's favorite PlayStation Vita game, is currently free for the personal computer through the Epic Games Store. store.epicgames.com/p/luftrauser...

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it’s so great and normal that Steam is randomly censoring games like this for no reason, at the same time as they’re blasting “HENTAI VS FURRY FEST” banners all over the front page, which takes you straight to full-frontal nudity in one click

a banner proclaiming it to be Hentai Vs Furry Festival 2026, with some very busty ladies, lizards, and foxes glaring competitioningly at each other from the sides of the screen

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So with the news of the layoffs at KO_OP, I'm officially looking for work later this fall. I'm an experienced narrative designer that's worked on both sprawling open world stories and intimate cinematic narratives, even netting some award wins and noms. More details on my experience below!

key art for Goodbye Volcano High by KO_OP

key art for Spirit Swap by Soft Not Weak

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Danreb Victorio @danreb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is absolute insanity. We're in the middle of the busiest Q3 in modern gaming history, and ZD is letting go of IGN's very best people... for what? @brianaltano.bsky.social and Seth Macy are some of my favorite people to read and listen to every week. The industry is worse without them.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Really enjoy how deep GN is going in on how fucked up the Quest is for privacy. I’ve been really disappointed that a lot of places don’t interrogate this stuff more. youtu.be/vcerOYY_K1g

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Valve Steam Frame VR Review vs. Meta Quest 3 | Privacy, Latency, & Benchmarks

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 14/09/2026

Apparently you can still wishlist Nighthawks even if you're blocked from viewing the store page! 👇👇

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Evan Campbell @darthburrit0.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

if you want to help out a game that seems like it's being unfairly censored:

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💉🔪🩸kelly 'arekay' yeo🩸💉🔪 @kellyarekayyeo.com · 14/09/2026

This is legit making me tear up. All the work, time, emotional & physical labour, mental anguish, creative energy, and passion that we’ve poured into organising over the last 3+ years has been worth it. I always think I could have done more but this is the best thing I’ve ever been a part of

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Interviewed an imsim legend: “For Xbox to buy Arkane Austin and quickly turn around in a few short years and dissolve the studio was just a pretty dire warning.” www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/th...

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Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen refused to work for Xbox because it would be like 'walking past some stakes with human skulls on them' and pretending 'it's probably fine in this direction'

The immersive sim will find a way outside of AAA.

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Evan Campbell @darthburrit0.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

PS and Xbox are dropping their bad news now in hopes everyone forgets when they ramp up their console marketing. Also Sharma was brought in specifically for layoffs. So fall-person. ax-person. maybe both. Game Pass $ was dropped but it's also losing features and time games stay on. Too messy.

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Consoles’ brand value and loyalty is being tested, says Rob Fahey. But when Sony and Microsoft need to get consumers on board for hugely expensive new hardware launches in the coming years, they’ll need every drop of goodwill they can muster bit.ly/4r7pP2g

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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 23/06/2026

Here's a thread following my process of learning Unreal Engine! My end-of-summer goal is to make a realistic-ish narrative scene with MetaHuman and Unreal's cinematic tools. Expect screenshots and recordings! Just a fun way to share my progress 💜 mute this thread if you hate seeing unreal things

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Unreal Engine Compiling Shaders Cat Meme

Alt: Unreal Engine Compiling Shaders Cat Meme

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