Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialMicaela “grossly unremarkable balls” Deitz @dykedeitz.bsky.social · 16/10/2026it’s sad, but not unexpected, how quickly games media moved on from saying they’ll support women and trans writers to regularly scheduled programming of ignoring us. good work exists in the sidelines. we will keep making it. maybe someday someone established will give a shit. 212339 123
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Always just a tiny bit sad when I get curious about a tea (drama) channel on YouTube and click back to their early uploads, & it's clear they started the channel wanting to be something else (musician, artist, animator, etc.), but talking about niche celebrities was the only thing that did numbers. 335232 352
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialVertical Slice @verticalslice.news · 16/10/2026Rockstar accused of rewarding 'moles' for spying on union members with additional time offverticalslice.newsRockstar accused of rewarding 'moles' for spying on union members with additional time offThe Grand Theft Auto maker has been accused of union busting after firing over 30 employees in October 2025. 211650 116
midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Like, we can clearly see in retrospect how much the daily grind burned people out during the SEO era - why do we need to push that onto audience-supported media? 000 0
midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 16/10/2026what if we agreed that indie websites got to take a week without publishing content every month or two? like, if I had the dough to support a site I would still do so - it's not like there's a shortage of interesting things to read or watch, right? 100 1
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialJeetdoh @jeetdoh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Raverobber 🚧🎊 Despite numerous warnings from her much chiller older sister, the devious kleptomaniac Raverobber can't help but steal from unsuspecting bots who dance the night away. Like Ravedigger before her, I thank @sam-makes-toys.bsky.social for helping with this troublemaker! 20784237 784
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialGoldie @cityloop.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Quick shoutout to the crew at @sifterhq.bsky.social for an incredible effort on the ground at MIGW. Heaps of quality voxpops with game makers of all stripes, a fantastic push to promote some great work across the whole week. Thank you! 1285 28
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialRiley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 12/10/2026From personal experience: please don't file a chargeback, please just let me know you want your money back, there is a good chance that not only will I just give you your money back, but that I'll probably answer your email immediately in a way that makes you worry about my work-life balance 014522 145
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialZoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 12/10/2026woman journo imposter syndrome 🤝 games journo survivor's guilt 2492 49
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialChris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026🎉 HUGE CAREER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉 Today, I'm launching Vertical Slice, a new independent trade outlet committed to producing quality video game journalism that inspires, informs, and interrogates. That means daily news, incisive interviews, vital investigative work, and more. www.verticalslice.news 351116329 1.1K
midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Hello Chris, best of luck with Vertical Slice! I'm a journalism student writing a thesis on indie game journalism. I've sent an email your way - would be awesome to get in touch 😁 010 1
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.social🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Hello, I made a cool t-shirt for @mothership.blog Great way to support an excellent blog! Big thanks to @midimyers.com and @zoehhannah.com for having me on for this! Grab one here: mothership-tzk-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp/produ... 2238 23
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialMicaela “grossly unremarkable balls” Deitz @dykedeitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026buy Alan Wake, buy Rain World, buy Mouthwashing, buy an Editions of a game you love, pre-order Lock•On, or if you’re really wanting to support my mental health, buy Va-11 Ha-11a because @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social wrote it). support indie press, support the writers who lost a home for their essays. 1194 19
midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Gotta love a Danny Brown bar that just catches you off-guard and hits you with psychic damage 010 1
midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Adela explicitly wrote Nicole Kidman about what it's like to play control 000 0
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialJoseph Knoop @josephknoop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sites I love supporting with money: - @mothership.blog - @aftermath.site - @404media.co - @remapradio.bsky.social - @theindieinformer.bsky.social - @marisakabas.bsky.social What about you? 106410 64
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialEsper Quinn 💠 @esper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it’s not like i have 300k followers or anything, but any woman working in game journalism or an adjacent field, please reply to this with something you worked on recently that you’re proud of and i’ll repost it. feel free to include cash’pp/payp’l/v’nmo links. 29319134 319
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialZoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 01/10/2026Support @stopcar.ing, founded and run by Artemis and featuring only bangers from trans queer and non white games journalists 26921 69
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialSaoirse “Ghost of a Victorian Child” Stone 🏳️⚧️ @saoirsestone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I cannot emphasize enough that financially supporting Mothership is legitimate praxis. You are funding a games site that is doing it right. They’re supporting women, queer folks, writers from all kinds of diverse backgrounds, and they’re doing it with strong professional ethics. 27024 70
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialToussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I can tell that games media is in a deeply unhealthy place when I see some of the most talented, experienced, and incisive reporters and critics in the space say they don't know how much longer they can keep on doing the work. The industry is hollowing out and the writing itself is suffering for it. 221531 215
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialChris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Video game journalism is like 90 percent invisible labour and it's time to start paying for it. For all the talk about how to combat AI nonsense, SEO slurry, and corporate meddling, I feel the solution is obvious: get comfortable with the idea of paying for what you read. 46410 64
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialCarli Boo-locci 👻 @carlivelocci.com · 01/10/2026Games media is not only unhealthy because there aren't jobs. For years, games media (journalism in general, really) has run on a deeply unhealthy system that incentivized the worst kind of writing and devalued the labor of writers and other creators. 542474 424
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialKate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've been thinking a lot about how difficult it is to be in games as a woman, especially a non-white one. The very first time we brought one of our women writers with us to PAX. And how lucky I am that I do conventions and big events with my husband. 17212 72
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialSela: Calamitous @sela.bsky.social · 01/10/2026starting a thread of games media owned in full or in part by women, femmes, and non-binary folks that i recommend 14618 46
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026men in gaming don’t realize that no one is blameless when the culture is against women. i cried at SGF bc i was surrounded by male peers commenting on how i looked, not understanding that it made me feel just as alone as when the random guy on the street told me to lift my skirt 726132 261
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialWallace @exalclaw.com · 01/10/2026Mothership is one of the clearest signs we need more women and queer people bc the excitement when they launched was *palpable* and has as only continued to be so. Nearly every person I've seen discover them, or who I've shared their high quality work with, has gone "where the fuck has this been?" 19421 94
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialChris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Take a look at Mothership's homepage and just look at the range of bylines it's already enabled. One of only a few, green shoots in the games media right now and as the last few days have highlighted, its existence feels absolutely vital. 015929 159
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialMaddy Myers 🏳️🌈 @midimyers.com · 01/10/2026if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us. 2465184 465
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialJessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I 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? 161026134 1K
midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026To specify, the focus is on outlets run by people who used to work corpo gigs, lost their jobs, and decided to try and make a living in the indie space. 010 1
midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just wrote an acknowledgement on how my research sample for founders and staff of indie game media is almost completely cis men and almost completely white... sucks that it is in fact a representative sample. 110 1
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialAshley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026oh boy a new indie games media outlet let's play everyone's favourite game: 'how! many! women!!!!' 5473 47
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialSeamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 01/10/2026Narrator voice: the games industry does not value its media. 1224 22
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialAndy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Games 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. 323459 234
midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"It’s not unusual for them to do multiple songs in the same season..." Tom Jones has entered the chat 050 5
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 16/09/2026Hey everyone. Things have been tough around here and they are about to get worse. I’ll probably need to make a bigger ask soon, but right now I’m asking for some help covering essentials. Next post has what I’m trying to cover. PP: @StellaSacco CA: $sacc No Venmo 14584462 584
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialBrendy_C @brendyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sprinting into games media collapse discourse like a slavering hyena, barking: "jAnK! heeeheeehaheee! JAnK!!" 0183 18
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialChron 🇨🇦 @xhp.ca · 30/09/2026Listen to The Board, folks 3589167 589
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialChris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Video games journalism is in the thick of a generational change, and it fucking sucks. Eventually, things will improve, but what comes next won't look like what exists today.postgame.substack.comThe Nine Lives of Games JournalismWhere video games websites, video channels, and podcasts go from here. 49414 94
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialToussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I will probably never work in games media again and I'm at peace with that. It's not because I wasn't "good enough," it's that there's too few opportunities, working conditions continue to worsen, goal posts keep shifting, and people keep getting laid off. I'm ready to move on to whatever is next. 7712 71
midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Can't wait to watch through! Please keep sharing cool video essays - sometimes they're the best pieces of writing I'll have come across all week. 010 1
midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Does it hold up? Really wanna get into Remedy's work, but I'm sure my pc would struggle with any of their releases post-quantum break 100 1
midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Thanks man - followed and opened my DMs - didn't know that wasn't on by default hahah 000 0
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialKeza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Apropos 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...eurogamer.netWhy the games media has a diversity problem - this website especiallyEurogamer 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 420675 206
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialAshley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026increasingly it feels like there was some kind of fluke in the late 2010s and early 2020s in which women were hired in games media and as the overton window continues to shift, it's going right back to the 90s and 00s just doesn't feel like it's ever getting better 1191 19
Reposted by @midi-ochre.bsky.socialNo Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 29/09/2026the way games media has become so heavily gendered even beyond what it was a decade ago kinda fucking sucks man 322230 222