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It’s a special day: we’ve made our Grand Theft Auto VI cover story (by @marcusstewart7.bsky.social) free to read in the Game Informer app. But make sure to subscribe to get a print copy for your collection: gameinformer.com/subscribe

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 23h

Ashley is immensely talented and funny as hell. Hire her!!

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 29/09/2026

been watching the floor for weeks and couldn’t spot @danryckert.com. We’re like five episodes in and have rewinded so many times thinking we spotted him. We’ve been watching the wrong damn season.

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Kyle Hilliard @kylehilliard.com · 29/09/2026

Now would be a great time to download the @gameinformer.com app.

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Jan Ochoa @janochoa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

CATCH ME IF YOU DAN 2! I think this might be one of the best things I've ever made and I'm very proud of it. Dan and I spent less than 48 hours in █████ and had a blast. FUN. FUN. FUN. youtu.be/3FeQ_ZZhGAg

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Catch Me if You Dan 2

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my dawnwalker review being on this issue

spongebob pointing at himself on the tv barely visible behind a window in the background

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Marcus Stewart @marcusstewart7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As a games media writer, this will probably be the biggest cover story I’ll write in my career. As a lifelong South Florida resident, this is the most Florida thing I’ve ever Florida’d.

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

Thanks to Mikhail Klimentov (@leadergrev.bsky.social) for bringing this story to us, having first been tipped off to Kotick's campaign against the press a couple of years ago. Since then he's become obsessed with tracking down the various legal threats being sent to journalists behind the scenes.

A still from the video, showing Mikhail looking into the camera.

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 24/09/2026

I traveled to Washington, D.C. to help People Make Games film this important investigation led by @leadergrev.bsky.social. Help fund more of their work: Patreon.com/PeopleMakeGames

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The gaming industry deserves better than what Microsoft is doing to it.

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Jesse Vitelli @mamavitelli.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I also got to lead the Giant Bomb Quick Look for Control Resonant :) Come for the good vibes, stay for the moment Dan realizes he didn't know the main character's name.

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A Quick Look at Control Resonant

YouTube video by Giant Bomb

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SeverLink - Wishlist NOW! @severlink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

SeverLink crowdfunding campaign is LIVE We have a playable prototype - just grab it at: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... If you long for early 2000s stealth revival and you like what you see in our build - GO FUND US and make it happen! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #y2k

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 19/09/2026

me after leaving theater class in 8th grade

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 18/09/2026

mom found pictures of the gorilla costume she made me out of feathers for Halloween in ‘96

An old photo of me wearing a gorilla costume made of black feathers as a kid

Old photo of me posing with my aunt (left) and mom (right) while wearing a homemade gorilla costume. There’s a SEGA genesis box on the floor in the background

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Giant Bomb @giantbomb.com · 18/09/2026

Fall Review Season continues! @mamavitelli.bsky.social wrote our review for Control Resonant, and you can read it here, RIGHT NOW! ➡️ giantbomb.com/reviews/cont...

Giant Bomb review graphic for Control Resonant.

Score: 4.5/5

"Control Resonant feels like a confident step in a new direction from Remedy, one that is far from perfect but reminds me of the beauty of not knowing everything. Not needing to be the smartest person in the room or correct all of the time, but the beauty in knowing who you are and what you want to be, warts and all."
- Jesse Vitelli

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 18/09/2026

they’re trying to make us forget how fanta was pronounced and I’m about to blow this thing wide open

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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · 17/09/2026

This is my custom foiled drawing of Gobby the adorable black cat! #cat #art #blackcat #printart #handmade #commissions #catart

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i’m just ken @shepardcdr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now that EA's been acquired by the Saudi PIF, sources tell Kotaku company execs are swearing its new "partners" won't make creative decisions, but queer fans who found belonging in Dragon Age, Apex Legends, and The Sims are mourning that their favorite games have gone somewhere they can't follow.

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EA Tells Devs Its Saudi Arabia Owners Won’t Make Creative Decisions, Queer Fans Don’t Buy It - Kotaku

BioWare, Sims, and Apex Legends fans found belonging in games they feel they can no longer support

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 16/09/2026

"It's almost malpractice to not use AI in some form" – just overheard at the coffee shop 🙄🙄

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🥁🥁🥁 Just wrapped up my first day as a news editor at Politico! I’ll be working with the breaking and White House teams.

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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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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Arrest him?

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IGN Creators Guild @ignunion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We are tired of posting statements like these.

Today was an awful day at IGN. We were blindsided by the layoff of four union members and many more people across the organization who contributed years of their careers to making IGN an unparalleled voice in games and entertainment.

With each successive layoff, core parts of IGN’s operation continue to be stripped away. Today, IGN has decided to do away with many of our talented producers, editors, hosts, and other crucial roles, both within and out of the union. How many layoffs will occur before we no longer recognize the company we work for and the content that we make?

While we recognize the challenges the media industry is facing as a whole, it is difficult to understand how laying off valuable employees better positions us to meet those challenges. In turn, remaining employees bear additional workloads worsened by anxiety over the ever-looming threat of another layoff.

We are devastated, angry, and heartbroken for our colleagues.

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 15/09/2026

There are people here that spend their precious time obsessing over the ways in which their peers may showcase inconsistency, needling at their imperfections with subposts instead of ever taking action themselves. Meanwhile, the other person is at least fucking trying.

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 15/09/2026

happy to be home with my little lady

My grey tuxedo tabby cat named Hazel, resting on my leg (not pictured) that’s covered by a knitted blanket.

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 15/09/2026

I don’t know what I did to you but I’ll take a Pinot Grigio

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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bl⚰️ke @metallicaisrad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Two years of work. Tomorrow.

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 12/09/2026

was waiting for an interview at BlizzCon and LE SSERAFIM came outta nowhere and suddenly a crowd swarmed us lmao

LE SSERAFIM posing in front of a BlizzCon backdrop for a media photo opp

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 11/09/2026

watching the saddest shit on my plane: an anime pfp X user vibe coding what looks to be a dog shit NFT(?) browser game where you collect genAI wands as they cycle between ChatGPT, Claude, and scrolling Sam Altman’s feed

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

update: i'm parting ways with my freelance news gig at game developer at the end of the month. helping the team since april 2025 has been a great experience and has taught me a lot if you're looking for an experienced b2b news writer, or just an experienced freelancer that can do it all, i'm around

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/09/2026

After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...

the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 08/09/2026

trying to explain to someone that my cats know English but not math

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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 03/09/2026

Is it giving Samanosuke or Jūbei? Watch @wesleyleblanc.bsky.social make a fool of himself in our Onimusha: Way of the Sword rapid-fire interview. youtu.be/JP7eE6QqNWg?...

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Wesley LeBlanc @wesleyleblanc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don’t get nervous about interviews ever these days but I have dodged doing a Rapid-Fire Interview for five years now because of how intimidating it seemed. Here’s my first one - turns out, they’re good fun (when else do you get to ask so much about jet skis?)🫡

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 02/09/2026

A freshly indie price for a freshly indie studio! 😎

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026

it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show

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Aggro Crab 💥🔪 @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

REBOUNDER. A new game developed by ThirtyThree, published by Aggro Crab. Rebounder is a hand-crafted precision platformer about a roughneck worker recruited for a hazardous job on a distant planet. Nail the run. Deliver your line. Dropping 2027.

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 01/09/2026

Of COURSE Dan got on The Floor. Amazing!!!

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Alicia Haddick/アリシア🔜Tokyo Game Show @aliciahaddick.com · 31/08/2026

Hey, I'm in this issue, with words about indie games being turned into movies and the power of media mix and multimedia cross-productions to make the indie gaming scene more sustainable! AND, it's the 35th anniversary of the magazine, so you should also get it for that too

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 01/09/2026

rent increase gonna make me have to re-open my Etsy and complicate my taxes once again 😩

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"In the week I've spent revisiting Star Wars Galaxies, I've seen very little other excitement. I've killed no impressive enemies. I've done barely any quests. It's an MMO that's content to let me log in and do little of note whatsoever—and that's exactly what I've been missing."

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I want MMOs to waste our time again

I've accomplished very little on a Star Wars Galaxies private server, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

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