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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

every time I click through on a unionizing article and it's written by @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social, I gain an extra year of life

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

in a week that saw microsoft give activision the reins to halo and bungie pivot back to destiny, one thing has become abundantly clear: the people in charge do not have a long-term, overriding plan. they’re just reacting. the result, when times are bad, is chaos

"Things are still very chaotic," a current id Software employee who was granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly told Aftermath. "While there has been an attempt to communicate to the studios, it is still entirely in bullshit corporate speak. I still don't believe they have a clear vision for the future. The only concrete thing they have communicated is they want higher profits, and they want it now. Aggressive goals are being set that would have been unrealistic even before the layoffs. ... To say the workers within Xbox have a dim view of the future is putting it mildly. We keep thinking morale can't sink lower but the obvious incompetence of Xbox management somehow keeps driving it down worse."
This mirrors shifts in strategy that have come to dominate the still-new Sharma era, including others outlined Tuesday. Rare is joining Activision, Turn 10 and Playground are fusing, and—most gallingly, considering their history—Obsidian is being folded into Bethesda to work on Fallout instead of its own original series. As with the previous round of layoffs, details betray Microsoft's haphazard approach: A Halo developer got promoted and laid off in the same week. Gears of War: E-Day's story director is out of a job days after celebrating that the game had gone gold. Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, now without a buyer after a brief glimmer of hope, is once again on the chopping block.
All of this betrays a simplistic mindset that does not accurately reflect the reality of game development: People are disposable, studios are interchangeable, and series can be traded like sports teams. Nothing matters more than franchises and their money-printing prowess. Unless, evidently, you are Hideo Kojima, in which case Microsoft suddenly has money to burn.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ooh! I’m going to say yes, with the caveat that those pulled from Night Market districts would be, more accurately, variants from other fatelines.

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I need you to understand that I've never been more serious when I say ... this is me.

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Return of the Living Dan @danlarson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Writers/Musicians/Artists told you from Day 1 that this was theft. Straight up. Always has been.

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wait, did I tell y'all I wrote this little rogue rooster? Finally unlocked him the other day. VO knocked it out of the park, love this guy.

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💉🔪🩸kelly 'arekay' yeo🩸💉🔪 @kellyarekayyeo.com · 14/09/2026

This is legit making me tear up. All the work, time, emotional & physical labour, mental anguish, creative energy, and passion that we’ve poured into organising over the last 3+ years has been worth it. I always think I could have done more but this is the best thing I’ve ever been a part of

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My carnivorous motel play “Truth or Consequences” is getting published! Shout out to 1319 Press and Fresh Ink! Insta announcement: www.instagram.com/p/DdEfzjSFIP...

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Had a fantastic time chatting about my play Rough Magic and an even better time listening to these amazing folks talk about Shakespeare and the Borderlands!

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My guild beat heroic Vashnik tonight and the whole time all I could hear was Umwak from the Ewoks animated series. (We're 4/8 heroic!)

Snake-y boi boss from the 12.1 Venemous Abyss raid in World of Warcraft.

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I also go to my library for new releases!

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

and honestly what a bummer, it was one part of my on ramp into more loremaster work. there were so many fiddly bits of the game I was getting put in charge of and I loved every bit of it.

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I also did a narrative/fiction pass on the new ability/passive names and mastery flavor text (for Warden and all the refreshed classes).

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I got to work with Elle Newlands (Diablo IV VO) prior to ESO's layoffs, truly a phenomenal voice actor and a joy to work with! I hope what we worked on sees the light of day sometime soon.

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Rik Godwin @rikgodwin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

To work 60 hours a week just to be laid off before the game you destroyed yourself to make is released is... Fuck I don't even know what that is. Disgusting, at a minimum.

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Devastating to lose both Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. I'd sing "9 to 5" with my mom while she drove me to school during my parent's divorce and Rocky Horror helped connect me to my own queerness. Genuine icons.

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Company that union busts and fires its employees and then justifies it by spreading rumors they were leaking stuff are now insisting you have to sympathize with them because it’s heartbreaking what these leakers are doing to their employees.

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry taught me it was okay to be impossibly evil and gay

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Obsessed with these boys. I've put an embarassing amount of time into this game, but hey, what else am I doing right now?

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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Today, game workers and allies are taking action at Save Our Devs actions across the US and Canada to call out layoffs and corporate greed in the industry and to demand fair first contracts across Microsoft’s gaming studios.

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Repping the Thousand Eyes at the rally today outside the ZOS office!

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

really wasn't expecting this to resonate as much as it is when I wrote this lmao seriously considering getting a molto tattoo so if anyone has any wood cut tattoo artist recs, throw them my way

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

NEW: CWA union members have inflated a giant rat and deployed a wall of red flags representing laid off Xbox workers outside the Bethesda office in Rockville. The protest was timed to coincide with a visit from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who is apparently at the studio today.

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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Developers like Atran Raikany from ZOS are responsible for making the game worlds we love feel alive. Microsoft's lay-offs aren't just short sighted business decisions - they're threats to the future of these worlds. #SaveGameWorkers and tell Microsoft to end these layoffs: shorturl.at/5ruBE

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So much about Heart’s Week, both the quests and developing the holiday as a whole, was about celebrating all the ways you can love. Nghi Vo’s “The City in Glass,” is going to seem like a weird pull for such a cozy quest line, but trust me. It’s deeply romantic in some really breathtaking ways.

The book cover to Nghi Vo’s “The City in Glass,” is presented beside a tall, tiger print Khajiit, a cat person from the Elder Scrolls Online.

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Stone Beneath Us (Eastern Solstice) Tides Return You (Western Solstice) Song of Fate (Necrom) Spirit of the Volcano (Galen) Caveat that not all written songs get recorded for bards, some of these for sure were, but I haven't checked them all! Also rip, I wrote 4 songs not 3 haha

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Yessss, I love that! Treasures are great for fleshing out cultures/lifestyles in new zones.

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Wait, here are some stealie screenshots I had tucked away! I'm fairly certain these were part of my very first batch.

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There’s still some stuff in the pipe that I’m very proud of! Crimson Veldt in particular!

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Trying to compile everything I wrote on ESO (to the best of my abilities because no way am I tracking down all my antiquities/stealies). Here are the numbers for only the things already released!

Spreadsheet listing the amount of items written per each of the following categories:

Quests: x46
Books: x36
Songs: x4
Crafting Motifs: x7
Houseguests: x5
Assistants: x2
Pets: x11

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The Elder Memes @theeldermemes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's easy after mass layoffs to forget the remaining devs have to keep going. The work continues with a gutted team haunted by absence and a silent threat that they might be next

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This was, is, and always will be a brilliantly shit illustration of how stupidly self defeating business people can be. Forgoing the universal positive of a staff self-training on their own time, because of the vague fear that one in a hundred might make some money.

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

First, if you liked Tanlorin and their companion questline, I recommend reading August Clarke's "Metal from Heaven." Class struggles, sex, violence, magic that comes from the toxic metals absorbed into your skin? Like, come on. Oh, and Vico Ortiz also voices the audio book...

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I had planned to start a little ESO book club list for quests that I wrote. Essentially, "if you liked x quest, read y." So, as I suddenly have a lot of time on my hands to catch up on my tbr, I'm starting a thread I'll slowly add recs to! 📚🧵

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Not my intention at the time, but honestly I love that. I’m certain Sanguine was making Reman do all sorts of tasks that were totallly going to lead to Imperial expansion.

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