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On a mission to interview everyone who used to work for corpo game media but now is working indie

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Micaela “grossly unremarkable balls” Deitz @dykedeitz.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
it’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.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Always 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.
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Vertical Slice @verticalslice.news · 16/10/2026
Rockstar accused of rewarding 'moles' for spying on union members with additional time off
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Rockstar accused of rewarding 'moles' for spying on union members with additional time off
The Grand Theft Auto maker has been accused of union busting after firing over 30 employees in October 2025.
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midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Like, 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?
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midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
what 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?
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Jeetdoh @jeetdoh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Raverobber 🚧🎊 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!
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Goldie @cityloop.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Quick 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!
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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
From 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
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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 12/10/2026
woman journo imposter syndrome 🤝 games journo survivor's guilt
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Chris 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
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midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hello 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 😁
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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hello, 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...
A screengrab of the Mothership merch store featuring a Tshirt, in lilac with an illustration of a woman being lifted to a spaceship
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midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That's huge man, exciting stuff!
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Micaela “grossly unremarkable balls” Deitz @dykedeitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
buy 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.
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midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gotta love a Danny Brown bar that just catches you off-guard and hits you with psychic damage
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midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Adela explicitly wrote Nicole Kidman about what it's like to play control
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Joseph Knoop @josephknoop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sites I love supporting with money: - @mothership.blog - @aftermath.site - @404media.co - @remapradio.bsky.social - @theindieinformer.bsky.social - @marisakabas.bsky.social What about you?
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Esper Quinn 💠 @esper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it’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.
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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 01/10/2026
Support @stopcar.ing, founded and run by Artemis and featuring only bangers from trans queer and non white games journalists
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Saoirse “Ghost of a Victorian Child” Stone 🏳️‍⚧️ @saoirsestone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I 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.
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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I 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.
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Video 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.
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Carli Boo-locci 👻 @carlivelocci.com · 01/10/2026
Games 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.
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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'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.
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Sela: Calamitous @sela.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
starting a thread of games media owned in full or in part by women, femmes, and non-binary folks that i recommend
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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
men 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
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Wallace @exalclaw.com · 01/10/2026
Mothership 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?"
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Take 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.
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 01/10/2026
if 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.
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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I 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?
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midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To 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.
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midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just 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.
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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
oh boy a new indie games media outlet let's play everyone's favourite game: 'how! many! women!!!!'
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 01/10/2026
Narrator voice: the games industry does not value its media.
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Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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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
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 16/09/2026
Hey 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
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Brendy_C @brendyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sprinting into games media collapse discourse like a slavering hyena, barking: "jAnK! heeeheeehaheee! JAnK!!"
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Chron 🇨🇦 @xhp.ca · 30/09/2026
Listen to The Board, folks
The Board from Control says "Support independent/lonely media as they are underfunded/poor yet essential"
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Video 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.
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The Nine Lives of Games Journalism
Where video games websites, video channels, and podcasts go from here.
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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I 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.
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midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can'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.
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midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Does 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
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midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks man - followed and opened my DMs - didn't know that wasn't on by default hahah
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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 Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
increasingly 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
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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 29/09/2026
the way games media has become so heavily gendered even beyond what it was a decade ago kinda fucking sucks man
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midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ok but I need a discord of this
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midi-ochre.bsky.social @midi-ochre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
that was SO GOOD
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