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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've avoided reading anything about it but I am so excited for PENGUIN COLONY. I went hoarse recommending Umurangi Generation back in 2020 and failed (but valiantly tried) to get that game to win all the awards over its AAA competitors store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/...

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Penguin Colony on Steam

Cosmic horror, through the eyes of a penguin. Rival human factions have come to your home in the Antarctic, seeking an ancient and inconceivable being. Observe their descent into insanity in this fait...

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Bryn @feelthebryn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mikhail + People Make Games = go watch this now!

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 22/09/2026

Nothing will ever be enough for these people.

Microsoft gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 was $60.482B, a 15.36% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase from 2025.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2025 was $193.893B, a 13.38% increase from 2024.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B, a 17.09% increase from 2023.

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myopia goggles @matchlockfairy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

people complain about game genre names, but it's pretty tame compared to music genres, where you have names like gabber or djent, or twenty different genres all called hardcore

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Capcom is on a generational run. But this is no renaissance: the company has never been greater. I reported on the secret of its success, from "Crapcom" in the early 2010s to its one-banger-after-another present, speaking to many of its most illustrious producers. www.theringer.com/2026/09/03/v...

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How Capcom Cracked the Code of Game Development

The video game industry is in turmoil, but 2026 could be Capcom’s career year. How does the company behind ‘Resident Evil Requiem,’ ‘Pragmata,’ and ‘Onimusha: Way of the Sword’ keep pumping out hits?

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 01/09/2026

At the very least if purchasing something does not then lead to ownership of the thing, then piracy is no longer stealing. Fine by me.

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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 21/08/2026

This is a big deal. The video game industry is already woefully secretive about data. It makes the entire industry a black box, it hurts efforts to raise funding, and ultimately creates huge lag time between market behavior and understanding trends and impact. kotaku.com/xbox-isnt-sh...

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Xbox And EA Won't Share Digital Sales Data With Circana Anymore

The industry gets a little less transparent

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

hey people sorry if some of you breeze past this part but it’s Friday. We do AI discourse on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is for stuff that rocks and is actually fun. It’s in the TOS & the packet you got at orientation. get it together please

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Reid McCarter @reidmccarter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I can't believe we've been doing Bullet Points Monthly for a decade, but somehow we have. The site has almost died many times. It continues still through a mix of bullheaded determination and the joy of working with excellent fellow editors and guest writers. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/08/19/s...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/08/2026

this is one of the most ridiculous and unprofessional things I've ever seen and I've been following video games for my entire adult life

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's internal playthrough of The Elder Scrolls 6 disrupted by a giant inflatable rat, as Bethesda union protests cuts www.eurogamer.net/elder-scroll...

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 08/08/2026

SLEEPING DOGS is on sale for like 3 bucks... i will now sing the praises of sleeping dogs. sleeping dogs is like if gta was very good instead of super insecure and littleboyish. sleeping dogs is so confident and rad and fun. play sleeping dogs imo store.steampowered.com/app/307690/S...

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Save 85% on Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition on Steam

The Definitive Edition of the critically acclaimed, award winning open-world action adventure, reworked, rebuilt and re-mastered for the new generation. With all previously available DLC included and ...

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Odyssey is good to me because it is less about presenting a faithful representation of the poem and more about Nolan wrestling with the text, and making that struggle the story

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Microsoft offered a service, which included a bunch of games that people could play the way they wished. Tens of millions of Xbox players agreed, and paid real money for access. Now, because a bunch of consumers played the game "for free" id had to be gutted? No. This is unacceptable framing.

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dretter @dretterbuilt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

one billion xbox users per day ... 8.3 billion people on earth ... i think it's possible if they make a new banjo kazooie game

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

asha sharma going "we want 1 billion players a day" a nice reminder that these execs are fundamentally incapable of understanding that their customers do not have infinite money or even just that time is finite. they just think you haven't been fed the right marketing yet to get you on board

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Bryn @feelthebryn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

There’s no excuses for running a business like this when you are making Grand Theft Auto 6. Once again, a Rockstar game is on the horizon and I’m left thinking “is it really fucking worth it?” Here’s a spoiler. It’s not. It’s not worth the human cost. Something has to change.

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"ugh another old stuff horror movie from Robert Eggers ugh" you wish you loved anything so deeply and productively

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The only America 250 thing I will accept is my local ice creamery making a red, white, and blue swirl ice cream with only natural dyes and it turning out like this

Red white and blue ice cream which is actually pastel and hence just trans pride colors

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Nick Mudry @nickmudry.com · 25/06/2026

Also the fact you can just remove the "2" from this URL and get the Concord closure sure is something. Can't even be empathetically original in your subject about ruining people's lives: sonyinteractive.com/en/news/blog...

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An Update from PlayStation Studios

Below is an internal email from Hermen Hulst, CEO, Studio Business Group, Sony Interactive Entertainment distributed today to SIE employees. **********************************************************...

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

everyone else in the world always says, "new york city will never be a major metropolitan area situated along the eastern seaboard! never!!!" and every morning we wake up and prove them all wrong

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oh god it's @lucarijoe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Yeah I'm a gamer, I play shoot-em-ups, sneak-arounds, smack n' slaps, also have some 3D grab n' gets, number-uppers, and on occasion a classic scare-em-up

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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Screenshot of the article
(I'm sorry I don't have time to type this whole thing as alt text my poor thumbs owww)

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 07/06/2026

Bari Weiss tried to get “60 Minutes” to make Minneapolis protestors look more violent, AFTER the Feds killed two of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m... (Gift link)

From the NY Times interview with Scott Pelley: You've now accused Weiss of injecting "falsehoods and bias" into at least one of your politically sensitive stories. What did she specifically ask for? What story? That's February, and my team and I are doing a story about the protests in Minneapolis against the ICE crackdown there. We've interviewed Senator Rand Paul, Republican, because he's going to hold hearings into this, and the
fact that a Republican was going to do that was quite newsworthy. So, we interviewed Senator Paul and then built out a story about what had happened — the killing of Renee Good, the killing of Alex Pretti, the protests. I felt it was very important to identify that the protesters themselves were being very aggressive and that they were half of these confrontations, and so I instructed my producers
to find images in which we see the protesters acting aggressively. We found a picture of a protester chest-bumping an officer. We
found a picture of an officer being hit in the head with a snowball. We culled together a lot of video of protesters screaming in the faces of officers because we were going to talk about the killing of Pretti and the killing of Good, and it seemed to me important to tell the audience about the entire context. I thought we'd done a really good job with this. We also included a picture of Alex Pretti before he was killed kicking out a taillight on a police car and made a point
of saying, this is Alex Pretti and this is what he did.

So, the story goes through screenings. It's very well received. There are notes as always and we do rewrites as always. But this is on a very tight deadline. It's Sunday; we're going on the air that night. And in the case of stories that are, as we say, crashing, our deadline on Sunday is noon. So, we work on all of these things. We get the piece approved by everyone. And about four hours after our deadline, Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I'm paraphrasing. I don't have the quote, but that's what was communicated to me. And the other thing, Renee
Good's car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer. This is not what you see on the video. On the video, you see the officer standing slightly off the front of the car. And you clearly see Ms. Good's wheels turned completely as far as they will go, away from the officer. But he shoots her in the head, kills her, and says
something about her that I can't repeat in polite company. We have gone out of our way in our plan from the very beginning to show the protesters for the responsibility that they had. We had
already scrubbed the video archives, looking for those scenes. Somehow that wasn't enough for Ms. Weiss. The video showed that the officer wasn't standing in front of the car and she wasn't driving toward him, but that's what the president said about that,
and that's the way she wanted it described.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The stuff going around about how conservative art isn’t good/doesn’t exist is interesting because what it means, which is true, is that the American conservative wing 2026 is completely incapable of making good art. There are several reasons for this but they boil down to the absence of vision 1/3

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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or pitches@defector.com

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/05/2026

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

A screenshot of the Summer in NYC website.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

FRIENDS!!! HOLY SHIT!!!

Screen shot of Pope’s letter

ENCYCLICAL LETTER
MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS
OF HIS HOLINESS
POPE LEO XIV
ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
[Multimedia]

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Fragrance fan level 1: I like smelling nice 🤗 Fragrance fan level 2: I like smelling a little weird 😈 Fragrance fan level 100: I wanna smell like a rusty wheelchair you threw in the east river and I will pay 300 dollars for the privilege

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

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This Upcoming Stealth Game Wants To Show You A Beautiful Palestine

“We wanted to talk about Palestine, which is a land full of people

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artemis, scary boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing · 01/05/2026

gross mismanagement yet again destabilized the lives of some of the most talented, thoughtful, and intelligent writers/editors in this space and I think it's just absurd this keeps happening.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Games criticism owes so much to Garrett Martin. Quietly one of the most influential people in the space, a guy who was happy to publish anyone that had something interesting to say. A shame AV Club is shuttering its games coverage. End of an era, long live Paste Games

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 17/04/2026

What crimes Did you see the waiver they signed They broke the T&Cs having signed legal acknowledgment of the dangers the factory presented, then acted in direct defiance of Wonka’s insistence they not do the things they did Wonka did nothing wrong

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/04/2026

wrangling cardinals is harder than wrangling congress, the pope is almost by definition one of the most talented politicians alive

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 12/04/2026

“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth. The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors. ➡️ www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

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Publishers’ AI battle hits Internet Archive

SF organization losing access to some news content

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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bloomberg NEF analysis of global light duty vehicle sales shows that pure internal combustion vehicle sales peaked in 2017. Hybrid sales are increasing slowly, while BEVs are increasing faster. Global PHEV sales are growing slower than global hybrid sales.

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Bryn @feelthebryn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Tetris is a caffeine game. Lumines is a weed game.

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ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi · 24/03/2026

this is what it looks like when you book flights from your phone

toddler on a fake pretend toddler ass phone. big cartoony buttons with emoji on them

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ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi · 24/03/2026

it's quite simple. phone is fake computer

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

People tend to think of functional illiteracy as just being unable to read words aloud or such. What it *really* means is such as not being able to perceive subtext, context, understand who the audience of something may be, etc. Media illiteracy is fundamentally part of functional illiteracy.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

And that, I suppose is my fundamental takeaway: Trump foolishly opened a door he cannot now close. He did so without Congress, without the constitutional process and we now all have to live with the consequences. Honestly, that ought to be a capital crime. It many countries, it would be.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

When you are involved in a labor union one of the most surprising things you learn is that management is often more interested in control of and power over workers than narrow financial concerns.

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Joe Barton @joebarton.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Now that Timothee Chalamet has been taught a bloody good lesson everyone can go back to doing what they do best: Regularly and enthusiastically attending the ballet and opera

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

What I find interesting about this line is that it’s an admission in order for this to happen, they need you to lose your ordinary intelligence that you already have. This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.

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