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@trigrows.bsky.social
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Sr. Combat Designer @ Giant Skull // previously combat designer on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Marvel's Wolverine linktr.ee/trigrows

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 3h
The new episode of The MinnMax Show is now live on YouTube and your favorite podcast app. We talk about parting ways with Jacob Geller, then reset for some passionate discussion about games. youtu.be/rF3x6Iurjfw
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 01/10/2026
Jacob Geller is no longer a part of MinnMax. He won't be on content moving forward and we won't be publicly airing this week's episode of The MinnMax Show. We're in shock and deeply hurt. Thank you for your patience during this sensitive time.
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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 13/09/2026
Just a nice Sunday reminder that the Game Informer app is a beautiful, clean way to read all of our content. A wonderful reprieve from the average overloaded website. iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/game-... Android: play.google.com/store/search...
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 13/09/2026
Thanks for directly supporting MinnMax, this was a fun week! If you enjoyed any of it, consider jumping in at even the $2 tier on Patreon. www.patreon.com/minnmax
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Nathan Field: You're a real PNG file, right?

Elizabeth Holmes on the PNG checkerboard background "Why would I deceive you?"
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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026
Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more
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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 12/08/2026
Saber Interactive has denied renewed claims that it replaced a former Lead Writer so it could “use ChatGPT” in the development of the recently announced title, Rideshare “Stimulator.” In a statement to PC Gamer, Saber also acknowledged previously undisclosed genAI use elsewhere in the title.
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Saber Interactive Acknowledges Undisclosed GenAI Use In New Game, Denies Replacing Lead Writer With ChatGPT
A former Lead Writer at Saber reiterated previous claims that she had been “replaced” with ChatGPT “midway through development” on the project.
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Tri Nguyen @trigrows.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
@ohheyitsjeffm.bsky.social just watched the latest minnmax episode and wanted to let you know that redlettermedia just did a whole segment on LifeForce (timestamped to 36:27) youtu.be/u_XUeggOCXA?...
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Best of the Worst: Cannon Christmas in July
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 03/08/2026
This weekend was the biggest domestic box office weekend OF ALL TIME with over $412M. 1️⃣ - ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ ($355M) 2️⃣ - ‘The Odyssey’ ($51M) 3️⃣ - ‘Toy Story 5’ ($6.3M) The theatrical experience is stronger than ever.
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 31/07/2026
Samara Weaving has been cast as Emma Frost in the new ‘X-MEN’ movie. (Source: Deadline)
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Tri Nguyen @trigrows.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is sad since it's such a good show, but my hope is that this is similar to the Netflix show cancellations where they have different plans for these characters that they want to fold into their plans (like post-Secret Wars)
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Mike Straw | Insider-Gaming.com @mikestrawmedia.com · 28/07/2026
With the layoffs at Double Fine today, we are up to 106 studios impacted by layoffs in 2026. 8,914 employees are known to have been let go by my confirmed numbers. The real number is likely around 9,500, counting data I'm working to confirm. gaminglayoffs.com
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: “AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies”
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Since 2019, the cost of owning a home has exploded: • Emergency repairs ⬆️ 175% • Home maintenance ⬆️ 85% • Insurance ⬆️ 72% • Property taxes ⬆️ 31%
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Janet Ghoulcia (on Vacation 🇯🇵) @gameonysus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I do not understand the world’s obsession with the muppets.
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Scott @scottydo16.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.
nytimes.com
Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.
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Insomniac Games @insomniac.games · 16/07/2026
"I Ain't No Hero." #WolverinePS5 Catch a brand new trailer for Marvel's Wolverine, also playing ahead of The Odyssey in select theaters in the U.S. starting today! Pre-order now for PlayStation 5: insom.games/WolverinePS5
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
*starts FFVII Remake for the umpteenth time* 'This time, I'm playing it! For real! This time!' *game doesn't let you play for 10 seconds without interrupting you with text tutorials or cutscenes for what feels like an eternity* 'Oh well, maybe next time!' *deletes*
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 15/07/2026
This week’s New Show Plus is all about speedrunning! Join @jacobgeller.com, @yozetty.bsky.social, and special guest Christopher Nolan for a Geller Done Quick. A first time speedrun of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. New Show Plus is now available on YouTube. youtu.be/0qMYOVG4ta4
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now? A cyclosporiasis outbreak has sickened thousands across 34 states. "Make America Healthy Again."
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 14/07/2026
Fuck ICE forever.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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anokayguy most Auteur @anokayguy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I tried something different for my Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake review. I played the new game... and then beat the 2013 original as well. www.pcgamer.com/games/assass...
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I beat the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake and 2013 original back-to-back, here's my review
Newer, not better.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
BREAKING: Obsidian Entertainment is making a big pivot as part of the Xbox restructuring. It has laid off a quarter of its staff, canceled a planned sequel to Avowed, and is now beginning work on a new Fallout game, according to people familiar with the plans www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Microsoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video Game
The game maker is also canceling a planned sequel to last year’s ‘Avowed’
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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"We are deploying responsibly
developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance."
SAM ALTMAN

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
NAOMI KLEIN
@think_and_exist
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Even now there's misinformation floating around, so let me make this clear: Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs, or 20% of the organization. 1,600 jobs will be eliminated today, and then another 1,600 (including the studio divestments) in the next 12 months. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Microsoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Major Overhaul
Compulsion and Double Fine studios will become independent; Undead Labs and Ninja Theory will be sold. Xbox will also look to sell or spin out Arkane Studios.
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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
just one more layoff bro. i promise pro just one more layoff and it'll fix everything bro. bro. just one more layoff. please just one more. one more layoff and we can fix this whole problem bro
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Haley MacLean @haleyfax.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
We have never 'owned' our games, our games just had no technological protection measures. (thread 👇, I'm so mad about the PS no physical decision and I need an IP rant)
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is how easy it is to poison Google's AI search with Reddit comments Watch here and subscribe for more of this every single week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uG8...
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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
You know what Nintendo does when they have a surplus set of devs from cancellations or production ending? Put them on other projects. The ability to redeploy headcount while keeping teams together over time is like, the main strategic benefit of scale in the game industry
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/06/2026
My new essay, on bodycams and capturing the first-person perspective, is now available on Nebula. It is a relatively enormous video and one I am very proud of. nebula.tv/videos/jacob...
Jacob looks at the camera, the lens warped in a "bodycam" stylea screwdriver goes into the lens, screenshot from the film Hardcore Henrya first-person shot in which one hand holds a firing gun and the other hand records it on a cell phone, screenshot from the film Eddingtona first-person shot of Elwood extending a hand to the camera, from the film Nickel Boys
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Janet Ghoulcia (on Vacation 🇯🇵) @gameonysus.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It’s crazy bullshit the way Iran is being treated during The World Cup. Having to fly back and forth for all games because they’re not allowed to spend even ONE night on US soil. And they got their ticket allotment revoked. Our leadership is evil. FIFA is evil. www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/s...
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US says Iran was always supposed to fly back to Mexico immediately after World Cup match, despite coach’s complaints | CNN
The Iranian men’s soccer team’s quick departure from Los Angeles following their opening World Cup match was always the plan, according to the US government, despite complaints from the team.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
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It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I can’t think of anything that better captures the bullshit of modern gaming.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 18/06/2026
The new episode of The MinnMax Show is now live! @sarahpodz.bsky.social and @halelyfax.bsky.social talk about Dead by Daylight's 10 anniversary event, @kylehilliard.com shares thoughts on The Adventures of Elliot, and @jacobgeller.com raves about Project Wingman. youtu.be/lOL3vaHTU9U
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Fernando Cabrera @cabreracomposer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
💿 ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies OST is out now 💿 Stream it everywhere Buy it on Steam Nearly two hours of original music for one of the most ambitious, beautiful projects I've ever been part of — and it wouldn't exist without the extraordinary people who made it. 🧵👇 open.spotify.com/album/1NbwZ1...
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ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies (Original Game Soundtrack) - Album by Fernando Cabrera | Spotify
Fernando Cabrera · album · 2026 · 33 songs
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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 17/06/2026
All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.
Edd Coates talking about the game ui database being scraped
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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 18/06/2026
"All I see is even more cultural vandalism from the game industry’s greatest specialists in it, and a hobby and an artform rendered less interesting, and more cruel, with every passing day." @hitpoints.bsky.social shares some thoughts on Xbox's forthcoming 'reset.'
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Apparently, Cultural Vandalism is a Strategy - Bonus Hit Points
Partnering with Xbox was always going to be a risk for the likes of Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Compulsion, writes Nathan Brown
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Writing about Xbox, two images came to mind: 1) a set of headshots of Microsoft's "Gaming Leadership Team" circa the Activision Blizzard deal. Half of that team is now gone 2) a collage of studios from that time, many now gone, slashed or on the chopping block www.gamefile.news/p/xbox-studi...
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Tri Nguyen @trigrows.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Maybe one of the best martial arts movies ever made, and also contains potentially one of my favorite fight scenes of all time
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
BREAKING: Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off. Lots still in flux as many studios remain unsure about what's happening. Here's the latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Studios in Microsoft’s Xbox Division Brace for Closures
The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.
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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The final 30 seconds of an NBA game are the most tense 15 minutes of an NBA game.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REINSTALL SIGNS, EXHIBITS IT REMOVED FROM NATIONAL PARKS DISCUSSING TOPICS LIKE SLAVERY, CLIMATE CHANGE
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Wondering what to see this weekend? Lemme help you out — GO SEE THE FURIOUS. Relentless, uncontrollable and gorgeous. Everybody is king fu MURDERING.
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