Reposted by matte jonesPUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 17hYou should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid 5773453189
Reposted by matte jonesnat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 20hfound a very important rat king mod gamebanana.com/sounds/93659 38311
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 23hgenuinely think if the first 15 hours of GTA 6 are halfway decent it will be held up as the best game ever made. buying a video game involves deluding yourself into believing you have the time to actually play it. 1120
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 04/10/2026fear that AAA developers will learn the wrong thing from the popularity of AI game remixes and design official versions when actually they just remind us of a time when massive budget games were allowed to be absolutely fucking stupid 170
Reposted by matte jonesboocanan « COMMISSIONS OPEN!!! » @boocanan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026talk to em Ben 438290
Reposted by matte jonesheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 04/10/2026when you play wipeout 2097 vs wipeout 3 you can really feel the difference between 1996 and 1998 aesthetically, in the design, in the music, in the tone. but that time would be probably not even half of a modern wipeout's dev cycle. 124512
Reposted by matte jonesJim Trinca @jimtrinca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026These guys should be forced to wear the hot dog costume when they "warn" us of this stuff 05914
Reposted by matte jonesRTL3 @russelllatshaw.bsky.social · 30/10/2024Nobuhiko Obayashi on the special effects of House 102081725
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 02/10/2026because i ask the tough questions that no one else will, i can confirm: the director of the street fighter movie has not heard that one D Double E song 120
Reposted by matte jonesJim Trinca @jimtrinca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What do the new GTA 6 screenshots reveal about the game's new mechanics and systems? And how bad is my Michael Caine impression? All these questions answered and less in the latest Trinca Perspective: youtu.be/LUsylvbL_2o?...youtu.beWhat GTA 6’s Latest Screenshots RevealYouTube video by IGN 1163
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the reason i've lasted this long is i'm happiest when i'm making the most inconsequential fluff. i can't imagine what it's like to be doing this and still really REALLY hope to make a difference. our strongest soldiers. 150
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 01/10/2026meeting andrew koji in an hour. being normal about it. 230
Reposted by matte jonesJessica 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
Reposted by matte jonesmatte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 29/09/2026if it's me you're mad at / you'll get a scar on your chest like sagat 041
Reposted by matte jonesmatte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 28/01/2025gamers love to complete "optional objectives" 1629
Reposted by matte jonesBrian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Still have a few more projects going up before my last day at IGN this Friday. All of them really special to me. One of them a 44 minute long conversation with legendary artist and director @realgdt.bsky.social. Hope you all enjoy this! I'm really proud of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgCM... 1844952
Reposted by matte jonesJoe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 30/09/2026nothing is more optimistic than a mailing list being like "did you unsubscribe by mistake?" girl don't even ask you are embarrassing yourself 0736
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 30/09/2026when a journalist discovers a new game and sincerely shares their joy in the hope you'll feel the same way, it's often some of the worst performing posts on social. like. what is the audience supposed to do with a game they've never heard of and haven't played yet. how do you have a take. 17210
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 30/09/2026one of the funniest recurring things that happens to me as the partner of a much more fun person is whenever i show up to something either earlier or alone the first thing anyone says to me is "mat! hi! is alex here?" 140
Reposted by matte jonesAlaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.akpub.ioMeet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champBackpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world. 161673588
Reposted by matte jonesFailbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs 3816901088
Reposted by matte jonesnat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026new deadlock characters look great 040276
Reposted by matte joneskate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just wanna remind everyone that this is the same team that made the excellent UMURANGI GENERATION 431794
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i can't believe deadlock is adding home alone 2 pigeon lady 140
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 29/09/2026can't imagine reviewing digger. feel like i'll be changing how i feel for the rest of the year. at once a necessary snapshot of our exact cultural moment and the way art pacifies our response while pretending to give us the tools to battle it. and also: eh..? 010
Reposted by matte jonesKeza 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
Reposted by matte jonesashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com 65490176
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 29/09/2026if it's me you're mad at / you'll get a scar on your chest like sagat 041
Reposted by matte jonesgeorge benjamin jones @mole.club · 29/09/2026yeah bro it’s called buying it 07113
Reposted by matte jonesJames Archer @jamesandstuff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Games and tech freelancers : I am once again asking for freelance pitches for PC hardware features (not reviews or guides, sorry!) on RPS. Email's in bio, genAI users need not apply (it's much, much easier to spot than you think) 31815
Reposted by matte jonescones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026WHY IS THERE A CHIBI ANIME ANDY BURNHAM 31603117
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i believe the commenters mean it when they say it's fine for a theoretical, unnamed influencer to sell promotional merch. i just also expect those same commenters would say any journalist they could name who did it should have known better. 170
Reposted by matte jonesheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/09/2026rotating an idea that halo is the defining media franchise of the 21st century. i look at how its been mismanaged for 20 years, no one working on it has a job, its games don't even sell anymore but. they cant let it die. the IP must continue. everything becomes halo on a long enough timeline 151287261
Reposted by matte jonesWill Potter @thequiffisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026After 5+ amazing years, my role at Ninja Theory is at risk of redundancy and I'm therefore looking for new opportunities. 63924
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 28/09/2026just saw a clip from a new games brand's stream that's edited in the kind of way i can only describe as, like, aware this concept is good enough to bother, but not profitable to put more time in. i always say games press isn't competing with itself, the challengers are alone in their bedrooms 100
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 27/09/2026silent hill townfall so 90s kids remember this but man: felt fuckin good to peel this stuff off. 1211
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 27/09/2026old enough to remember people were professionally disgraced for trading in their xbox 360 review copies at CEX 612316
matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 26/09/2026turning off the scent trails for optional stuff feels like the wrong lesson; if they were so inconsequential the devs wanted people to find them quicker just to get it over with, mostly there out of expectation and genre convention, then... what would the game be like if you fucked them off entirely 170
