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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 11h

if you’re a dev who’s been contacted by this guy on The Everything App, it is not me. it is a scammer. i don’t use X, don’t own sunglasses, and i’d kill myself before i appeared on a crypto podcast

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Asked the BDS movement if it'd like to provide comment on today's House House news:

"The Palestinian BDS movement wholeheartedly welcomes game developer House House’s principled decision to boycott Microsoft’s Xbox in the release of their new game “Big Walk”. By refusing to work with Microsoft as the company actively enables Israel’s ongoing genocide and apartheid against Palestinians, it is clear that the world of arts and games can be disentangled from Israel’s atrocity crimes and be used as a force for good. The BDS movement calls on all gamers, game developers, games journalists and workers to sign the No Games for Genocide pledge and boycott Microsoft’s Xbox to pressure Microsoft to end complicity."

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

simply can't reconcile myself to bragg-less In Our Time. i try and i try but the show demands an ornery elder vampire as host. sailing the seas depends on the helmsman

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House House @househouse.com · 15/10/2026

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

when the commenters are mean to me

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I invite you to notice that the Times is yet again targeting individual, named members of the public, a thing they’ve been doing at least since they were naming and “exposing” individual black students who wanted to move a statue or change the English lit reading list ten years ago.

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Excl: Pro-Palestinian activists ran an organised campaign inside the Green Party to recruit members, secure influential party positions and reshape its policies from within, The Times can reveal.
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He claimed it was "naked entryism that is corrupting the party beyond recognition".
Another longstanding party member said there was "clear evidence" of "a highly organised campaign by a small number of infiltrators to take over the party's key votes and committees".

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In which I pitch exciting Deadlock characters like Professional Baseball Minotaur, Three Gnomes in a Trench Coat, and North Pole Elf Labor Rights Activist:

pcgamer.com

Don't worry, Valve: I've got your next Deadlock character concepts sorted

The Cursed Apple is ready for Humpty Dumpty and the Loch Ness Monster's Precocious Preteen Child.

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

today's 'modding GTA 5 every day till it becomes GTA 6 or breaks' feature has produced my favourite screenshot i've ever taken

Modded, mutant screenshot of GTA 5. It is in first-person, the player character is firing the minigun from Doom 2, the Doom 2 HUD is along the bottom, a massive UI element reading 'FLOSS DANCE' whose options are in Arabic is on screen, Doom demons are present as are GTA 5 NPCs and a modded-in gang of people in fursuits with guns, the cops are pursuing me, several cars are flying, the map glows red, a notification tells me my ownership of LifeInvader is making a loss, a timer counts down to my next random teleport, it is snowing.

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i am temporarily back on win11 for Witcher 3/Nvidia reasons and the sheer amount of time i've had to spend pruning the OS of bullshit is mind-boggling. Linux can be a faff but at least i feel like i'm building it into the thing i want instead of actively fighting against it being something i don't

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Given current circumstances, you might think I'm just primed to notice nightmarish aristocrats bleeding us alive to sustain themselves. But after too many hours of spreadsheet data entry, I'm convinced devs really have been dabbling more heavily in Draculas as the economy feels increasingly dire."

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Vampire games on Steam are a recession indicator and I have the charts to prove it

Nothing is scarier during Halloween season than amateur statistics.

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm sorry, Release the Epstein files, but I don't think I'll be needing any more of your, ah, 'help'. Excuse me.

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Robert Jones @robertnjones.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This month @pcgamer.com magazine gets world-exclusive access to @blizzard.com's incredible @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com: Forever. A new golden age of MMOs begins! Plus, Total War: Warhammer 40K, Rainbow Six Tactics, Bodycam, Afterworld, Max Payne 2, and much more, too. tinyurl.com/2cerxhyf

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PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: World of Warcraft: Forever

Plus, Total War: Warhammer 40,000, Stronghold 4, Rainbow Six Tactics, Bodycam, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, and much more, too

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Rhiannon 🇵🇸 @rhithewitch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well. That's me gone from TheGamer too. Six years of service, and I was at least given the dignity of it ending in a phone call. Right after dealing with weeks of institutionalized misogyny too! Thought things might be getting better So. Uh. Looking for work now I guess!

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sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I catalogued over 500 hours of Youtube footage for a website that lets you stare out the window of a train, and also control the weather somehow train.samismith.com

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

if i am polite enough the enemies who want me dead will surely treat me fairly

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

bit in Rabinowitch where he remarks that Russian traders sent stock prices rocketing in 1917 when they were convinced Kornilov was days away from kicking in the door to Petrograd and hanging everyone left of Milyukov. capital simply loves a fascist to come in and Set Things Right

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No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com · 02/10/2026

We’re excited to launch No Games for Genocide’s blog, with our first post by yours truly, exploring Call of Duty’s role in the imperialist war machine. Read below - and remember to join us for our political education & action session on Saturday 10 October! 👇🏽 nogamesforgenocide.com/blog/call-of...

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Call of Duty's Propaganda Machine

The role of militarism and propaganda in the video game industry

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

did journalism today www.pcgamer.com/games/halo/h...

PC Gamer headline: How every major character in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment would fare if they had to survive the plot of Halo 1

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Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What is the greatest FPS mode of all time, and why is it [INSERT DEMOCRACY HERE]? www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ma...

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Making our favorite FPS modes 1v1 to decide the greatest of them all

Vote on the greatest FPS mode of all time. There can only be one.

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

did journalism today www.pcgamer.com/games/halo/h...

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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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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

genuinely nervous about how good AI is getting

Siri conversation log where I ask her to do some subtraction and then she tells me how to spell (???) the sum I have given her rather than solving it

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the media and events conspire to bait me into having an opinion on 'hasan piker' but i refuse. i refuse

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Echo Apsey @echoapsey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I realise this is a terrible time to look, but if amyone has/knows of any guide freelance work, it would be much appreciated. Some regular work I have had for almost 3 years is coming to an end from Oct 1, so am looking to fill that hole. RTs appreciated and feel free to DM me

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

utterly chilling notification to wake up to

linkedin telling me i have been Mentioned

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Remedy is flexing all its finest talents: sculpting uncanny hellscapes, placing tactical redactions in bureaucratic lore collectibles, and capturing endearingly human performances in circumstances beyond human comprehension. Unfortunately, melee combat isn't on that list of strong suits."

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Control Resonant review

[Redacted] is the better Faden.

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

‘Lyon fit la guerre à la liberté, Lyon n'est plus’

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

sometimes you write a stupid temporary headline intending to change it later and then you just never really get round to changing it later

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I am Mark Zuckerberg

What more do I have to say?

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Please enjoy this headline I wrote. And all the bits beneath it. www.pcgamer.com/games/grand-...

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GTA: London 1961 is full of cockney innuendo and harder than a bobby’s helmet

In your end-o.

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

blizzard announces NEW intellectual BIOGRAPHY of Eric HOBSBAWM

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

used to have an email with these guys. legends. plagues and curses on the house of their enemies

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

a social pro tip is say this to new people you meet to put them at ease

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When Robespierre spoke about the Supreme Being, I like to imagine that this is what he had in mind.

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

scum shepherding us toward genocide

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

incredibly funny to compare Joseph Boze's other portraits with his painting of Camille Desmoulins. like he'd spent so long painting twin-chinned aristocrats that, on being confronted by a hot guy, he was compelled to imbue it with enough sexual energy to ignite the air around it

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Those people are no more Real Britain than blue-haired students or anyone else, but the dirty secret here is that these people are highly convenient for our very unpleasant, very right wing ruling class, who think politics should just be doling out public service contracts to donors, plus crackdowns

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Gave the demo for Deficit a whirl and dodgy stealth aside, this has serious potential. Combines Deus Ex sneaking with Escape from Butcher Bay punching in a highly reactive world. I threw a hammer at a wall and it bounced back and damaged me Ouch/10. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/bl...

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Blending Deus Ex with Escape from Butcher Bay, Deficit is one of the best-feeling indie immersive sims I've played—even if the stealth system needs serious work

Playing the demo for Deficit was far from a net loss.

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

i have now been ill for 7 days and am inviting one lucky winner to come and behead me anne boleyn style

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