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Converge @convergecult.bsky.social · 20h

I wrote a tribute to our friend Andy Williams. Grateful for the time we shared, and wishing there had been more. I Know This One Hurts: jacobbannon.substack.com Celebrate & Support: andywilliamsforever.com

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

God, what a bittersweet thing this is. Disfear already lost a bassist in 2011, last year their vocalist died and just recently their drummer passed away—all three to cancer. The latter two, however, were able to finish one more album before they passed—the first single of which is an absolute RAGER.

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DISFEAR - Early Graves (Official Audio)

YouTube video by RelapseRecords

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Ace Combat 8 intro is WILD. You come looking for crazy aerial acrobatics, and instead you get half an hour of watching MGSV before you actually control a plane

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Guardian is doing some major hiring right now! If you have 2-3 years' experience in journalism, media and/or content creation, you can apply for the Digital Journalism Scheme - full time roles including 20% training time, £48k pa workwithus.theguardian.com/digital-jour...

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Digital Journalist Scheme

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maria @eurothug4000.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#ad NEW VIDEO! I played SILENT HILL: Townfall and it got... quite close to home. The details of the in-game world are something that made the experience for me, so I wanted to make a lil essay focused on that <3 Thank you to KONAMI UK for sponsoring the vid! youtu.be/55mgRMzLcRw

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 28/09/2026

"there needs to be more writing about how gay the modern conservative movement is" i will direct you to everything that has ever been written about fascism in its history

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Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Don't engage" is such a hard lesson and it took me a lot of years to learn it. Im still tempted! Sometimes people say the most frustrating shit in the world and it just feels like being unacceptably passive to just let it go, but thats the trap. You're immediately judged harsher by replying at all.

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For as much as I hated Mafia 3 when it released, it's genuinely cool to see parts of it reappraised in a way that puts it in line with the other games in the series. Mafia sure does love to make protracted travel meaningful! (also this article is ten years old now jesus!!!)

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‘Mafia II’ Is the Game That Made Being in the Mob Brilliantly Mundane

It was sold as GTA in the 1940s, but the prosaic depiction of gangster life proved to be the finest quality of 'Mafia II.'

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ace Combat Assault Horizon is weird because on the one hand it totally makes sense that they made this game but on the other it is incomprehensibly bad

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All the shite with the govt/media openly questioning if ADHD is even real is really mad because it gets framed as yet one more example of people wanting to "leech off the system" or whatever. Basically everyone I know who has gone through the diagnosis process desperately, *explicitly* wants to work

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wait, YouTube is now introducing A/B testing of VIDEO EDITS?! I already fucking *hate* how the thumbnail/title stuff has you creating essentially three sets of packaging for so little reward (to the extent that I just don't do it). You think I'm gonna make three separate *videos*? Fuck off ya wanks

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hotcyder @hotcyder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Memes can come true 🙏

Sony patent could let players tap a credit card on their PlayStation controller to buy games - Dexerto
Sony has filed a patent application for a PlayStation controller that could read payment details from a nearby credit card or phone.

10 year old reddit meme
UPDATE. EA announces plans for next gen controller.

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Walking through duty free at an airport the other day. Realised I'd never actually been inside the wee bit they have for tobacco products. Not a smoker but thought fuck it, why not. With how wild tobacco packaging has got over the years, it was genuinely fucking insane. Walls of grotesqueries

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 23/09/2026

the thing i find most strange about this current wave of pr about don’t worry you can skip the grinding, you can speed up the cutscenes, don’t even worry man is that ff7 (original) is so simple it was a not insignificant of people’s literal first game ever and it sold a billion playstations

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The ironic thing here is that I absolutely, genuinely ADORE how everything looks in Normal Golf Game lol

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pressed A in Control Resonant. Off to a cracking start

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Dan @kingklonoa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have been playing a lot of hacks, mods, and remakes lately. It has me wondering about how opposed I actually am to changing games. Maybe games are built to be changed. nebula.tv/videos/kingk...

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KingK — Games Are Built To Be Changed

Maybe it's fun when we change our video games.

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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TehSnakerer @tehsnakerer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've made a big big video, many many words spent all to say that 'Dead Rising is a Timeless* Classic' Please share! youtu.be/wP5VVLCefF8

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My thing is, even if you "fix" Wolverine's blue trails, was that *really* the thing holding the game back from greatness? Does that make the game not shite? Like, I guess I don't know why *that* was the thing people were so focused on among all the other problems

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Genuinely - *genuinely* - thought this was a @theonion.com headline. Holy shit.

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I remember liking Alan Wake 2 a lot, but I think this gets at the core of why Remedy stories rarely stick with me. There's a lot of pointing and going "look! It's visually inspired by Lynch!" and I'm left wondering "ok but where are the *CHARACTERS* that aren't just bits of soggy cardboard"

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

they're saying it's the least claimed offer in the history of games

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I DO NOT HAVE TIME TO BE STARTING WORK ON MORE ALBUM PROJECTS. I HAVE TO RELEASE THE STUFF I HAVE DONE AND I HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO MIX AND FINISH. AND YET I HAVE STARTED WORK ON A POST-HARDCORE ALBUM AND A D-BEAT/CRUST ALBUM AND MAYBE A DUB ALBUM. MY BRAIN WILL MOT SHUT UP UNTIL I MAKE EVERY ALBUM

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very normie coded of me to say but Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing is probably the best show of all time

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Had a look at that Persona soundtrack bundle one of the physical edition companies is doing and boy howdy. 75 bucks for 4 *cassette tapes*. As someone who has made and released tapes in bands before, that has to be one of the steepest fucking mark ups of all time.

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tonight's listen. Really glad I got my hands on this one. Easily their best release as far as I'm concerned

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I will say with all the shite around Wolverine and the stuff I complain about with the review, there is something quite reassuring about being 11 years into this thing and still somehow being able to produce your most widely viewed work, if that makes sense

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's really nuts that not only is IGN sacking so many people, but that there's seemingly so many Big Names in there. Not that it's somehow better or whatever that other people lost their jobs of course, not remotely, but like, some of these people were The Brand! What are we doing!

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bl⚰️ke @metallicaisrad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've spent the last 2 years working on this: (Post)[Culture] @lostincult.co.uk's new pop culture imprint. And I couldn't be more excited to announce our first project: ARCHIVE: Shinya Tsukamoto, a collaboration with, well, Shinya Tsukamoto. I've never been more proud of anything I've ever done.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Like this short, punchy blog from @jakesteinberg.substack.com. Jake does something useful here in highlighting how many reviews treat criticism like inspection, identifying problem areas and determining if the product is sound. jakesteinberg.substack.com/p/perfectly-...

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the horrors of the modern age are, in fact, also deeply deeply stupid

Screenshot from Google, with the top article reading "US military confirms it has deployed weapons in space". Below is Google's AI overview feature, answering the question "Does the U.S. have weapons in orbit?" with "The United States does not currently have active, deployed orbital weapons systems or weapons of mass destruction in space."

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of the reasons I've never really bought into the whole "you can never separate art and artist" thing is that Macklemore seems like a pretty cool guy

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Checking comments, the Wolverine cycle has started to shift from "SONY IS SELLING US WOKE GAY TRASH" to defenders going "YOU SO-CALLED "JOURNALISTS" WERE LYING ALL ALONG. GAME IS PEAK" Like clockwork. Can never just be "people have different tastes." Absolute children, man, swear to god

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

look lads. the newswire burst that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma spends "hours" responding to CS tickets - whether true or not - is low hanging corporate propaganda. throw that shit in the trash. it's an insult to your intelligence.

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Booted up No Man's Sky for the first time in... five years? Was curious to see where they were at. Absolutely rad they've stayed with it so long. The barrage of information that was hurled at me upon getting in-game made my head hurt and I have zero time to try and make sense of it all lol

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