iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social · 3h

In general, the kind of content journalists want to create, and the most engaged readers want to see, makes the least money. We all try to do good stuff, but it’s increasingly tough. Publishers and devs with galactic revenues ask for support, but few give back. Support your media!

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Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social · 3h

Games media cuts have felt unending for a while, but the mood feels especially grim among indie outlets with the latest wave of layoffs. More than ever, if the game industry values its media, it needs to support them. Buy some advertising, sponsor content, purchase subs. It makes a big difference.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 9h

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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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 8h

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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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Apropos of nothing, here's the callout I wrote for Eurogamer about the glaring lack of female voices in the games media. I wrote this in *2018*. Things did seem to get better for a while but now we're backsliding again and the reasons for it haven't changed. www.eurogamer.net/why-the-game...

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Why the games media has a diversity problem - this website especially

Eurogamer has far too low a proportion of articles by female writers. Keza MacDonald, the Guardian's games editor, explains why this happens and what can be don

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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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James Archer @jamesandstuff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Games and tech freelancers : I am once again asking for freelance pitches for PC hardware features (not reviews or guides, sorry!) on RPS. Email's in bio, genAI users need not apply (it's much, much easier to spot than you think)

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Guardian is doing some major hiring right now! If you have 2-3 years' experience in journalism, media and/or content creation, you can apply for the Digital Journalism Scheme - full time roles including 20% training time, £48k pa workwithus.theguardian.com/digital-jour...

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Digital Journalist Scheme

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026

Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 28/09/2026

Used the OG Switch a bunch on holiday last week and I just want a Switch 2 with a similar form factor. Happy to go for a smaller screen - it's otherwise just too uncomfortable to use!

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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 28/09/2026

@rustybrick.com Hello! Would you mind sharing this post? Figure your followers might be able to help here! bsky.app/profile/matt...

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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 28/09/2026

UK publishers / media owners - have you turned off AI overviews in Google Search Console for your site(s), and if so, what impact has it had? Should be a no brainer decision as this post says it won't affect rankings, but I'm wary that's actually not true!

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UK publishers allowed to opt out of Google AI search results

The Competition and Markets Authority says it would put publishers "in a stronger position to negotiate content deals with Google".

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Will Potter @thequiffisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

After 5+ amazing years, my role at Ninja Theory is at risk of redundancy and I'm therefore looking for new opportunities.

A collage of photos and graphics from the projects I’ve been involved in during my time at Ninja Theory.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 27/09/2026

Does anyone know any Kurdish freelance journalists based in the UK?

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One More Catch @onemorecatch.site · 27/09/2026

A quick stop at Battersea Power Station this morning to pick up Pokémon Go's new Adidas Timed Research 👟

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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 27/09/2026

This was *so* good. An orchestra playing Bonetrousle and Spider Dance? Perfection.

Outside the Hammersmith Apollo with a sign saying 'Undertale in Concert'

A picture of the stage at Undertale in Concert

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One More Catch @onemorecatch.site · 27/09/2026

The latest newsletter is out! Here's what to expect from Pokémon Go this week: 🍎 Harvest Festival event and the debut of shiny Applin 🔥 Gigantamax Cinderace Max Battle Day 🧑‍🚀 Astronaut Pikachu in World Space Week 2026 Read (and subscribe - it's free!) here:

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This week in Pokémon Go (28th September to 4th October): An a-peel-ing week

The upcoming schedule and what to focus on - including the 'Harvest Festival' event - plus news from the week.

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One More Catch @onemorecatch.site · 18/09/2026

Well, that’s a first

A screenshot of a PokéStop Showcase results screen with five 1st place finishes

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 17/09/2026

Good, beefy update to Scopely Explore's best game (sorry PoGo!)

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Oli Welsh @oliwelsh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Resident Evil is phenomenal as a pure exercise in the physical logistics of action — for horror, for comedy, for excitement — the blocking, framing, timing, the design of each moment; perfect. It’s The Thing via Die Hard, but slapstick. A genius approach to the material.

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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 16/09/2026

Aniimo also marks the first major non-Pokémon game covered on @onemorecatch.site! Lots on the site this morning, with more to come: www.onemorecatch.site/aniimo/

The home page for One More Catch showing various Aniimo coverage

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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 16/09/2026

It's Aniimo launch day - and time for a new byline on One More Catch! A pleasure to work with @ressiejessie.bsky.social once more:

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Aniimo Helion or Lunara: Which is the best starter Aniimo?

The best guardian Aniimo for your preferred way to play.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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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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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 15/09/2026

Not to say the discourse has been trying, but how is Marvel's Wolverine only out _today_?

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Logan Plant @loganjplant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you haven't seen the news from Brian himself:

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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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Mothership @mothership.blog · 15/09/2026

It's time for our first-ever AMA! Got questions for Mothership's founders Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah? Drop 'em below and we'll respond (maybe even in video!) throughout this week and next.

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Springboard @dbspringboard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The biggest App Picks so far. 20 apps to mark this week's release of '27' updates from Apple. darylbaxter.com/posts/app-pi...

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App Picks - September 2026

iOS 27, macOS 27, and the rest are here, and so are the app updates

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Andi Hamilton @andihamilton.com · 15/09/2026

some mad lad has ported PSO to a web browser and now I will never get anything done again psoreborn.com

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Phantasy Star Online

Play PSO Reborn, a browser recreation of Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst.

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 15/09/2026

“Asha Sharma spends hours doing customer service” no she doesn’t. That’s not true. What’s her AHT? What’s her CSAT rating? Give me her KPIs for the month to-date or shut the fuck up

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay

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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 14/09/2026

Exciting news! Hookshot (the team behind Nintendo Life, Time Extension, Push Square, Pure Xbox) has launched a new site - @steamhype.com:

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Welcome to Steam Hype!

Here comes a new challenger

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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 14/09/2026

Exciting news! Hookshot (the team behind Nintendo Life, Time Extension, Push Square, Pure Xbox) has launched a new site - @steamhype.com:

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Welcome to Steam Hype!

Here comes a new challenger

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Liam Robertson @liamrobertson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm not totally sold on the art design in the new Ocarina of Time but there's some truth to this. The lack of vocabulary people seem to have for describing its style is a shame. I think we should generally refrain from insulting any human made art design as "AI" especially.

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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 11/09/2026

A real pleasure to write for Eteo Games about a game I love delving into - thanks @goneefk.bsky.social and @eteogreg.bsky.social for the opportunity!

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One More Catch @onemorecatch.site · 13/09/2026

This week's newsletter is out! Here's what's happening in Pokémon Go in the days ahead: 🥽 A Pokémon Horizons: The Series Celebration event 🦎 PokéStops get daily showcases and more Kecleon ❓ A mysterious Spotlight Hour Dates, times and tips here:

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This week in Pokémon Go (14th to 20th September): It's crossover week

The upcoming schedule and what to focus on - including the Pokémon Horizons crossover event - plus news from the week.

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