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Nom👾 @nomibelle.bsky.social · 10h

Obsessed with this hat I bought from button fox at PAX

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yall wanna see a puppy with hiccups getting mad

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 18h

Would be the funniest thing I've seen all day if it weren't for the clear AI-gen graphic layout

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 13h

Most akward parent interaction I've had was when son was small and his friend's mom asked me where to get merch for 'Muscle Tails', her daughter's favorite character in Sonic. She showed me pics from the kid's iPad which were all from NSFW Sonic fan art

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Nom👾 @nomibelle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Such an insanely fun panel! Thank you to those who came along I had a great time 😄

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Game Pass Ultimate costs $23 a month. Let's not say that Gears was 'free' with Game Pass, ok? Game Pass isn't free. The framing is ludicrous.

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Paramount has completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. In the press release confirming the deal has closed, the word 'games' is not mentioned once. I've been pinging both Paramount and WB all week for clarification on what the future holds for WB. Games. No reply yet.

skydance.com

Paramount Completes Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Creating a New Global Entertainment Leader, Skydance | Skydance

Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds ...

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Backrooms is a pretty solid metaphor for AI, but it's also a good metaphor for AI companies

The interview, like so much of what Altman says, is devoid of substance, hyping up how AI will cure diseases and improve people’s lives without ever really getting into how. In Altman’s very first statement to Guiducci, he marvels that “we have been seeing this exponential progress and we have been confused about why more of the world has not seen progress the way that we’ve seen it.”

Large swathes of the world have not welcomed AI because they’re the direct recipients of its downsides: data centers, slop content, useless tools being forced into their work and lives despite Altman’s claim that AI isn’t something that “happened” to people, and what jobs remain in the current economy going to people who can spew the latest AI buzzwords rather than the people who do the work AI steals from. If the backrooms are an AI metaphor, Async is the Sam Altmans, Elon Musks, and Dario Amodeis of the world, who can’t see why the people who keep randomly falling into its monster-filled hallways don’t think it’s the best thing to ever happen to them. In Phil’s conversation with Mary, he can only focus on the backrooms’ mystery and promise, even as he sits in front of someone traumatized by her experience there, and even as the Backrooms YouTube shorts show how Async researchers themselves have experienced its horrors. Phil doesn’t seem to understand–or cannot allow for–the idea that Mary might not want to be conscripted into Async’s vision of the future.

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John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Valve is due to make $20 billion this year. Here's a few suggestions for how they could spend some of this money to make life better for games developers: kotaku.com/valve-steam-...

kotaku.com

Here's What Valve Should Do With The $20 Billion It's Making This Year

There are so many ways Steam could work better for the developers that generate the profit

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Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sega’s newly launched Sonic Discord server is off to a rough start with questionable content, bans and a lockdown. One member says they were banned for posting “I like Super Mario” vgc.news/news/segas-n...

vgc.news

Sega’s newly launched Sonic Discord server is off to a rough start with questionable content, bans and a lockdown | VGC

New users are currently blocked from posting messages on almost every channel…

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Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf · 06/10/2026

The launch of #Playdate Season 3 is TWO DAYS away. Now that you've all preordered it, you can try to tolerate the unbearable wait by obsessively watching the opening of my game "Sound Mind," which will arrive at some point during the season. play.date/games/season...

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Nom👾 @nomibelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Starting to think I should get one to match 😆

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Nom👾 @nomibelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

True they are losing their natural hair shield

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Austin Gallagher @austingallagher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Quick little write-up about the ACMI community games library! Thanks to the team for taking the time to answer a few questions about why physical ownership is so important. Check it out October 2-11. checkpointgaming.net/features/202...

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Experience the joy of physical ownership at Melbourne International Games Week's Community Library

There’s a new event joining the schedule running the full length of MIGW that we think you should make time for, the ACMI Community Library.

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Nom👾 @nomibelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A bunch of people I know are rocking a haircut that I like to call the pre-Pax fade: a fresh cut that happens when a games journo needs to leave the house. Games week is so here.

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Nom👾 @nomibelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Get yourself a man who will program his racing pedals to sew for you

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Nom👾 @nomibelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My cats are obsessed with them so I definitely know the struggle of keeping them safe, make sure to upload pictures of them to moth tracker if you can so even though we can't save them all we can learn about their migration patterns 🫶

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Nom👾 @nomibelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know it's hard (moths scare the heck out of me) but the ones flying through Sydney at the moment are endangered, please leave them alone, turn off lights and don't spray them and they will continue on their migration 🫶

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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.

postgame.substack.com

The Nine Lives of Games Journalism

Where video games websites, video channels, and podcasts go from here.

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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 01/10/2026

Marc Merrill, Chief Product Officer at Riot Games, says that there "wasn’t an alignment on the strategy" for its fighting game 2XKO. The game, whose active development will end in December, would've required "high hundreds of thousands, if not millions" of monthly active users to stay sustainable."

thisweekinvideogames.com

Riot Games Co-Founder Discusses 2XKO Struggles, Admits "Riot Hasn't Been Very Good at Acquisitions"

Merrill admits that Riot has “no one to blame but ourselves” for the misalignment in strategy.

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Louis 🔜 MIGW @louis-van-dyke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yo pikmin bloom doing a thing for pax??? that's fun!

event description screenshoot. "PAX Aus 2026, here we come!"

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 01/10/2026

me 🤝 Takashi Iizuka aftermath.site/ocarina-of-t...

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CONTINUE Magazine @continuemag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IT'S GAMES WEEK+!!!!!! CONTINUE 01 is here. We made a magazine to celebrate and interrogate videogames and culture. It's print. It's tangible. It's real. It's available to purchase now. Regular Edition -- shop.acmi.net.au/products/con... Special Edition -- shop.acmi.net.au/products/con...

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/09/2026

ok thank you jun takeuchi

“‘Requiem’ isn’t just a title chosen for its meaning of ‘requiem,'” said Takeuchi via GamesRadar. “The spelling of Requiem (REQUIEM) contains not only the ‘RE (response)’ … but also a ‘Q (question).’ In other words, this ‘Requiem’ presents both an ‘answer’ and a ‘question.’ I will explain the meaning of that at some point in the future.”

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sam ! @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 30/09/2026

FYI this is how your service worker friends feel when you ask em to play overcooked or plateup

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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New from me: I did a deep dive and spoke to Pokemon fan game creators for @fansplaining.bsky.social. This was so hard to source, but I am humbled by the sources who took the time to talk to me about this super massive, and relatively under-examined, fandom. fansplaining.com/pokemon-fang...

fansplaining.com

Pokémon Fangames Evolve Beyond Their Origins

For fangame creators, the work they develop and the communities they inspire are inextricably tied.

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if you work at Microsoft and want to share a picture of the counter I will keep you anonymous 2673263042

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote about this kind of thing before: it makes tons of sense for Sharma to go on a PR offensive, both personally and for the business, but journalists simply do not have to help Xbox do it aftermath.site/xbox-intervi...

aftermath.site

Outlets Don't Have To Do Xbox's Work For It

A glowing profile of Xbox in Entertainment Weekly is just PR in a different hat

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sebmal @mrdo.pro · 30/09/2026

explains why nobody is buying one

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 30/09/2026

kinda feel like it should be a bigger news story that ceo of xbox is talking openly about how her chief strategist (and snow crash fanfic writer), matthew ball, has been grooming select journalists to control the media narrative around xbox

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