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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It feels like more and more studios are realizing this of late and it is so smart in every way.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m really happy that @leadergrev.bsky.social and PMG are getting this story out and I urge you to watch it.

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This was my first thought when I saw the word "consolidating" this morning. Like, "Oh, the big dogs are going to absorb the littler ones as support houses for established IP, exactly the same way Activision did with studios like Raven on Call of Duty."

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a piece of advice I always give when I consult: you need someone to have final say. Even in a co-op, even in a group of peers. There needs to be someone who can say “okay, we are implementing this” someone has to take on responsibility for the decisions

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don’t want to start a discourse but the Resident Evil movie did have some Parasite Eve ass monsters

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh, that's a good look, Charles!

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Miss working with you a lot, John!

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It literally never would have happened without you, Kris (and I would probably still be a complete nobody to this day if not for you. It also certainly wouldn't have been the same kind of weird, beautiful Thing it became without Imran and everyone else. I still miss it to this day.

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's truly something special. Glad you got to experience it!

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's funny seeing the difference in reactions between my professional timeline and everywhere else. Here it's like "sad" and "edgy" Metroid. Meanwhile, every lesbian in all my Discord servers is hooting and hollering and pointing at the screen.

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Really been looking forward to this one. Withering Rooms was one of my favorite indies of the last few years. Sad to see it's the latest "Valve is not approving this and just not updating the developer" situation. It was supposed to be out yesterday and updates from the dev say it's still waiting.

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Three Moves Ahead @3ma.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's time for a 2026 summer catch-up with @len.bsky.social, @neriumstrom.bsky.social, and returning special guest Diana as we discuss some smaller games that didn't make it into a full episode, EU5 addiction, and a little bit of mechsploitation. www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes...

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Three Moves Ahead: Summer Catch-Up 2026

Episode 654. Fun Out of the Sun.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/08/2026

guys its so fucking good

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/08/2026

Isabel Fall complete vindication

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 17/08/2026

Who's deciding the fate of this game?' The secretive process of getting a game with sexual content on Steam aftermath.site/steam-censorsh...

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Charlie Kaufman I need to know if you've seen I Saw the TV Glow.....

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Synecdoche, New York had some plausible deniability, but I'm Thinking of Ending Things is like I Saw the TV Glow if it was a screaming wail for help. The movie ending on a fade to fucking BLUE is insane. Like, it's so fucking blunt it's WILD.

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Just wrapped up I'm Thinking of Ending Things, went to the Wikipedia page, and did not see one mention of "gender" and I'm really starting to think that we're the only trans women to ever watch a Charlie Kaufman film.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 13/08/2026

Alright y'all, this is it! The final stretch for the game industry hardship fund. We've got $13k to raise in 14 hours to meet the final goal, I think we can do it. itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I can only imagine it failed to pop off more BECAUSE it's so direct, whereas the hot thing in horror right now is to be metatextual and LOOK like it's saying something. The Vourdalak just throws a brick in your face that says things like "the trans girl is expected to perform masculine violence."

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The movie is so blatantly textual with its themes of the patriarchal family unit always needing define itself against a transfeminized "other" and lands those swings so tightly in just 90 minutes.

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Watched The Vourdalak with my girlfriend last night, which I had never heard of and am DISTRAUGHT has not found more of an audience. It's very bluntly queer, full of gender politics, shot entirely on Super 16, and makes the INCREDIBLE choice to have its vampire played entirely by an amazing puppet.

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yeah, I'm not really trying to make any judgment here. Just providing the actual context since it didn't appear to come up at any point in that discussion.

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Just out of curiosity and for posterity, I did search up the interview with the Senior Producer that the commenter seemed to be referencing after I saw that little exchange: www.euronews.com/culture/2026...

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jordan's ghost 🍖💧 @jordo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hey I uh, I wrote some songs? There's five of them, and they're on an EP called Meanwhile, which is out now and you can listen to it. Wow! It's an acoustic/folk thing with some avant-garde wrinkles and I hope you like it! soundcloud.com/jordanmallor... jordanmallory.bandcamp.com/album/meanwh...

The oil painting cover of my new EP, Meanwhile. An abstract landscape of blues and purples where a large floating white orb is suspended between two angular mountainesque protrusions. In a sandy blue expanse in front of that, "MEANWHILE" and "Jordan Mallory" are written in white.

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Happy to say If It Please the Court is part of the Nonbinary Coded Games event on Steam! Be a sapphic spy wielding swords, seduction, and sabotaging (or saving?) the monarchy during the dawn of the French Revolution! store.steampowered.com/app/1385260/... store.steampowered.com/curator/4610...

The cover of If It Please the Court surrounded by a promotional banner for the Nonbinary Coded Games event.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

after 13 years and multiple industry upheavals, warframe is still here. not only that, it's about to release its most ambitious update yet: tau, a whole new star system. but as recent events have shown us, nothing lasts forever. warframe's developers know that all too well

Warframe, which began as a humble co-op space ninja shooter and evolved into a sprawling sci-fi epic with too many gameplay systems to count and one of the most dedicated communities in video games, has proven remarkably resilient in an era where live-service games drop like flies. Even Destiny 2—to which Warframe is often (if erroneously) compared—met what basically amounted to its untimely end earlier this year.

"Games as a service, it's a scary world. We've been doing it for 13 years, and we have no secret formula. We have no cheat code."
And of course, Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs remains all too fresh on everyone’s minds as hardware prices skyrocket and Sony adapts by killing physical discs. Change is afoot, with traditional triple-A games looking more and more like a potential casualty. No one is safe and nothing is sacred. Not even a seemingly unshakable pillar like Warframe.

“It’s fucking awful, what’s happening in this industry,” community director Megan Everett told Aftermath during a recent interview. “I feel very lucky to be working on this game and to have this dev team and the community that we’ve built, because I’m no stranger to the fact that it could all end tomorrow. Games as a service, it's a scary world. We've been doing it for 13 years, and we have no secret formula. We have no cheat code. We have just stayed in our little Canadian homebrew lane, put our heads down, and really tried to make this game what we want and what our community wants it to be.”

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Playing DOOM: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck and it is literally *unbelievably* well-optimized. Truly on some black magic shit to run and load as fast as it does. There are a lot of things to be mad about, but messing with a team like that is like saying you don't want to turn lead into gold anymore.

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Always pleasantly surprised when I see you posting about mechsplo. Like "Oh, yeah. That tracks. You find *everything* eventually."

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PlayWarframe @warframe.com · 07/07/2026

Remember, Tenno — be sure to link your Warframe and Twitch account ahead of #TennoCon 2026! Learn more: wrfr.me/4veba5N

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

GOOD! Suffer, as I have suffered.

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Realizing I don't remember ever being on a flight that wasn't heavily delayed, cancelled, rebooked, and/or plagued by mechanical issues. I've always called it bad luck, but I'm genuinely curious if, like, ANY plane takes off and lands without issue anymore PERIOD. Are y'all just flying normally?

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Kallidora Rho @kallidorarho.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My DMs are open, Hollywood

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Mothership @mothership.blog · 11/06/2026

What would it look like for female characters to be fully realized moral agents? @catbussell.bsky.social returns to Mothership with an analysis of how rarely women get to be bad, or even just morally gray, in video games today: www.mothership.blog/awful-women-...

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Awful women deserve better games

When it comes to portrayals of women behaving badly, we deserve better than consequence-free power fantasies or unthinking vilification

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy is a helluva game.

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yeah that is extremely good and true and everyone should do this more.

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Excited for this one, but curious if it still has the somewhat bizarre horny(?) writing. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, but the writing in the demo felt like such a strange series of almost non-sequiturs.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 16/04/2026

That's not what unc means: aftermath.site/unc-aave-afric...

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Massive congratulations, Natalie! All the love the trailer is getting is well-deserved and you have every right to be proud!!!!

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Genuinely kind of crazy how much it seemed to fly under the radar. Absolute banger.

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I bought Marathon (2026) and then immediately just downloaded the original trilogy to catch up on the lore. Because I'm an unserious person.

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Nerium @neriumstrom.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Marathon (1994) is a rare example of ludonarrative harmony, because every single level really really does make the game feel like someplace built under the auspices of a gleefully deteriorating AI.

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