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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 1h

Every month Failbetter invites a guest writer from the wider world of games and fiction to contribute a subscriber story. They’re brave and weird and funny and choice-driven and perhaps they could become a welcome part of your routine too. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/fa...

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Fallen London is where the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Dishonored and Stellaris come to let their hair down

These interactive short stories are too bold and surprising to stay secret.

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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i think i'm going to break, finally, under the onslaught of vexatious cold approach emails i'm getting for absolutely bullshit services

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tickets are moving *slowly* for this. Which is fine. I'm not expecting it to sell out. But it'd be really nice to get a few more bums on seats between now and Oct 14. It'll be good, promise! Brighton game likers/devs, please share, tell yr pals, think positive thoughts, thank you.

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AdventureX @adventurex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Heads up! Only 25% of #AdvX26 tickets remain. Reserve your spot at the UK’s convention dedicated to narrative and adventure gaming! Grab your ticket now at buytickets.at/adventurexconferencescic/2339289. Find games and talks information, schedule and FAQs at adventurexpo.org.

AdventureX 2026, 7-8 November. Only 25% of tickets left. Photos from previous AdventureX conferences in circles, from left to right on the top: voice actor Dominic Armato in a suit jacket and red t-shirt smiles with a fan. A speaker with shoulder-length black hair holds a mic while speaking and holding up their hand. From left to right on the bottom: a person in a sweater, beanie and AdventureX lanyard smiles while talking to another attendee. A person with long curly hair smiles while two people behind them play computer games.

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Aviv Or 🔜 MCM London AA H-24 @avivor.com · 18/09/2026

The next stretch goal in the Good Society 2e kickstarter adds 5 connection cards, and I would LOOOOVE to get to draw them. Back it back it back it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...

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Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG – 2nd Edition

Navigate the pitfalls of romance, reputation, manners, and marriage in the sumptuous new edition of this award-winning regency rpg.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ADIOS RETURNS! At the lowest price it will ever go! That's right: it costs less than the price of an Arby's Reuben sandwich! store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/... If you like the game, please leave a review? We're only a COUPLE reviews away from OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE!

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

rolling my eyes back as I make a ring with my finger and thumb and squeeze the contents of six frubes into my mouth at once

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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I feel like I have so much I want to say but it’s just this incoherent ramble. But do you know how much it weighs on me to be the one woman on staff at GameSpot? To be one of VERY few women in the industry? To be one of ever fewer moms? To walk into press events and be the *sole* woman?

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

does anyone know of a helpful primer for checking your game's content viz rules for releasing in china??

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Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Great thread. Makes me think of how I first saw Disco Elysium in 2017(?) as No Truce With The Furies. Would the game have succeeded with that name? Probably. But *Disco Elysium* is just infinitely better, isn't it. And it was public, with the previous name. You can always change what doesn't work.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 01/10/2026

truculence ball

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@samuelwroberts.bsky.social *pelting across the room knocking into furniture and doorframes* THE WORKING TITLE FOR BALATRO WAS JOKER POKER

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

as your failbetter games bluesky correspondent, it is unsurprising that i am overly invested in a topic that boils down to the creative application of words (Many thanks Samuel for this fun discussion!)

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A rare place in an industry-leading writing team, for the right person 💚

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A rare place in an industry-leading writing team, for the right person 💚

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why do so many video games have silly names? I wrote about it for PC Gamer. www.pcgamer.com/games/why-so...

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Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names

"Suddenly everything's called Rise of the Bonelord: Origins of Dust."

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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i solved infinite personal music by taking loads of ecstasy in my 20s and now i can dance to the sound of a reversing lorry

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Liquid Bluesky

National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 29/09/2026

"The possibility space spirals in on itself, and suddenly everything's called Rise of the Bonelord: Origins of Dust."

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Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names

"Suddenly everything's called Rise of the Bonelord: Origins of Dust."

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Always a pleasure to spin my game name theories, thank you Samuel!

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

hey, this rules

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i had a shitty interaction with a bluesky punk who only follows 10 people, 3 of which are me/my job/a colleague. who knew what i look like despite me hardly ever posting my appearance. who knew our games well. who jumped onto an unrelated post to call me a wobbling fat cunt out of nowhere.

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Strange Scaffold @strangescaffold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something is Wrong With the Library. Our next game, coming soon. 📚 Organize the Alex Dieter Public Library and Center for Reflection 💀 Dead people are stuffed in the walls 😨 It is extremely haunted 🌊 The Drowning Room Wishlist now. store.steampowered.com/app/3971340/

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ok I'm trying to get hold of a gelatinous cube dice jail, green, by Friday One that you put over your misbehaving dice Anyone have like a friend with a 3d printer who makes these things? I don't want to get one from China or Amazon or whatever but idk if there are other options

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With the conversations happening here today, I'm thinking about how Ellis gets to have a "second chance" without doing any of the work to change or even meaningfully apologise to the scores of women he harmed and manipulated. All he had to do was wait a while.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

This right here, and it’s not just about rape. It’s literally anything he does wrong.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"does this also apply to a combine soldier from half life 2" is my "AI" news bullshit test

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the current planetary climate making 100 of these is unconscionably wasteful I hope it ends up with someone who will treasure it

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Influencers" really will receive a box of swag and IMMEDIATELY turn around and sell it for massive profit. Sometimes they even brag about it. It's the games press who are corrupt tho, remember

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Jank @jank.cool · 27/09/2026

Stay where you are. Don't move. Read these good articles about videogames. www.jank.cool/the-lie-in-35/

Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

a good present for anyone who is still playing animal crossing new horizons is amiibo cards you can get one that unlocks a rug shaped like pompompurin's asshole

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“A unique voice, tone and heart.” Everything Will Swallow You has been chosen as one of the top ten paperback releases so far of 2026 by this week’s Bookseller Magazine. Free international delivery here in case you’ve not got yours yet: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

A round up of the year’s best paperbacks, beginning with my latest novel.

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if you're bringing any drinks into a job interview you'd better bring one for me. and a little snack

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Game Wolf Advance (2001) @ator.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I LOVE YOU SENSHI. YOU JUST GET IT

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Between eBay and vinted it's amazing what you can get without buying new. There's so much stuff in the world.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Data centres make me want to apologise personally to William Blake for finding his 'dark satanic mills' line funny when I heard it as a kid. I'm sorry that 200 years later we're still finding ways to build things that destroy the environment, scar the landscape and exploit workers.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen

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