Had some good conversations at GDC about potential sponsorship opportunities for Spawnies 4. If you’re looking at your 2024 budget, the next couple of months are a great time to connect with me about being a part of our show. Looking for financial, content & media partnerships!
This is a huge move for
@Xbox
, besides getting all the gaming goodies, sharing the new org chart and it having a majority of women at the highest levels is an important signaling that the team is walking their walk.
Bravo to Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo taking about the censorship of the woman’s death in the capitol today in comparison to how so many Black people who were killed by police violence was shown on the news.
if you can show Black death on a rotation, you can show hers too.
Games industry folks need to pay attention here because the conversations here are going to continue to drive much of the misinformation we see in the upcoming months and years. Get your social media and marketing teams prepared with the sea of nonsense returning post GG 1
Gamergate 2 is underway.
Former game executive and develop at Blizzard Mark Kern
@Grummz
: "The way games are funded you don't use your own money. Even EA, it's games are hugely expensive to make they're they're upwards of you know 250 sometimes 600 million dollars it's for…
If this is real then honestly, it’s really encouraging to hear. We’ve needed a shift in marketing strategy that doesn’t just look at massive engagement numbers for access. If your brand has been propping up dangerous opinions then you maybe you don’t deserve to work with them.
Dr. Disrespect was rejected a Starfield sponsorship deal due to his recent transphobia, and he got triggered on stream because the head of Bethesda publishing has pronouns in his bio
These guys wouldn't survive MW2 lobbies if pronouns trigger them
These takes are frustrating because folks in gaming spaces know this isn’t true. The past couple of years have had some of the best games we’ve ever seen. I also wish that gaming got more love in popular Black culture conversations so that folks who actually know got more shine.
I wanted to share some amazingly cool news. I’ve joined
@FirewalkStudios
as their new Sr. Community Manager. VERY excited to continue my work in the industry alongside these BRILLIANT folks.
Massive amounts of love to everyone who has helped me in this journey! ✊🏾❤️
The sad thing about Juneteenth becoming a national holiday is that a bunch of folks will profit off of it and most of them won’t be Black.
That knife twist hurts.
I’m happy that Cyberpunk 2077 has its comeback. Might be the best comeback story since No Man’s Sky. I think stories like this are good for the industry.
Why the fffffffff*********ck did this show up on my Xbox when I turned it on?! An ADD at startup??!! Are you out of your ffing mind
@Xbox
?!! Keep playing with me......
#gaming
#PS5
#XboxSeriesX
Today I get to say that I can cross off an item on my bucket list in the best and biggest way for me &
@SpawnOnMe
Happy Black History Month!
DREAM BIG!
BX STAND UP!
WE ARE CULTURE! ✊🏾
Cc:
@BigCheeseKIT
@blackgirlgamers
A couple of thoughts around the Ninja article from today.
- his stance on playing with women is still super weird.
- you have a responsibility to help defuse toxicity in the industry as a representative of said industry ESPECIALLY if you’re supposed to be “mainstream crossover”
I’m in the job hunt and my wife and I were talking about “job happiness”. I was like social media tells me every day that literally no one is happy at their job. There has to be some folks that are enjoying this life and what they do daily for work.
Tell me something good…
BEFORE I log off tonight, I want to thank EVERYONE for the love tonight and for sharing so many good words about the new studio. I'm super happy with it and hyped that I'll get to make more Brookago memories in it.
TY to everyone that supports the dream.
You couldn't have told 20 year Kahlief who had 2 drug addicted parents and was told that he would never amount to anything that he would host a full show on NBC.
KEEP PUSHING FOR THOSE DREAMS YA'LL!!!
YOU CAN DO IT!
Fun fact, this happens on pretty much every game I’ve ever reviewed. Outside of the Eurogamer convo which was weird most marketing sends code based on a bunch of various factors. To make this practice seem nefarious is silly pants. There are companies that I don’t get get access…
I appreciate the Julian Edelman reach out to Myers Leonard only because our society has kinda given up on redemption.
The problem I do have with it is we've already seen Myers take a stand against social justice in a public way. So this feels the same coddling we always see.
Any other introverts feeling impending pressure and anxiety from the world opening back up fairly soon?
There will be expectations to go outside and do stuff. I don’t know what to do with this energy...
#TheExtrovertsAreComing
One of the biggest gaming sites on the planet, just tweeted that I’m co-hosting one of the most prestigious award shows in the gaming industry with two of the biggest personalities in said industry.
Let’s go! ✊🏾❤️
At my time in the gaming division at Intel, I helped spark a research project around the time of the George Floyd murder that started from a hypothesis of “How much of a hit would the gaming industry take if you took just the Black dollar out of the system for a year”
Sample…
I am AMAZINNGLY excited to join the team while Miranda is on other duties. Getting to co-host one of the biggest shows on the planet with some of the best folks in the industry is gonna be a fun and WILD ride!!! Massive thanks to Ryan & the team for letting me to rock! Let's go!
I’m thrilled to share the news that the fantastic
@KahliefAdams
will be joining Podcast Unlocked for the foreseeable future while Miranda is locked in on IGN wiki work and unable to be on the show for a while.
I adore Kah as a person and for his whip-smart knowledge of and…
Dear
@AOC
, I LOVE THIS!
Running down what got done and how it is helping folks in my hometown of NYC (BX ALL DAY) like this is a fantastic blueprint of how to disseminate useful information when so many are apathetic to the process.
I’m down to help y’all raise funds in 2022
We’re back-back-back again!
Despite the challenges, we’ve accomplished so much together over the past year. Thank you to EVERYONE who zoomed, taught, organized, and built community with us.
Without further ado: 21 wins for 2021.
Want to join for ‘22? ➡️
@MLozada
I always laugh at these vids because I’ve had pretty much every iPhone and not broken or cracked any of them. If you don’t rock a case then I can’t feel sorry for you LOL.
Was literally about to say how overwhelmed I was about the reception to me joining Podcast Unlocked for the foreseeable future & then I get to see this kind of love (& cooking co-sign) from
@XboxP3
This is the best Monday ever! Now we gotta get Phil on
@SpawnOnMe
for
#500
The idea that the removing diversity advocates in the AAA space is going to bring about this massive rise of indie devs who also don’t care about diversity is such a ridiculous and hilarious take from folks. One of the biggest rallying cries from these folks during GG1 was “MAKE…
Maybe it’s a personal trigger at this point, and I’ll preface by saying there are so many dope writers at Kotaku but when so many article titles have this layer of snark for me it brings about this unnecessary “nose in the air” vibe.
To be fair, when you do work with creators who have been problematic on multiple occasions in the past. The onus is on the brand to do work with better people. It’s not a brand risk if you work with reasonable, thoughtful, smart with broader world view creators.
This is a harsh reality of the current drama. AAA is going to see close partnerships with creators as a brand risk and avoid it in the future.
This is a big loss for live creators :(
Diversity consulting has made games INFINITELY better. We have better characters, better stories, more worldviews that reflects more lived experiences.
Anyone who is says different has no clue what they are talking about and should get dismissed instantly.
We don't get here today without ppl caring for their neighbor.
- The person who recorded the crime.
- The BLM movement galvanizing millions
- Each individual who marched, protested, spoke out to family, used their voice for justice.
This is a win for them too.
A 3rd grader came into class attempting to play this lick from a Lil Nas X song and the whole class wanted to learn it, so I told em' the notes, and most of em figured it out in a couple minutes. It's amazing how much a kid can learn when it's something they WANT to learn.
EXTREMELY proud and happy that I can finally share this wonderful news!!
It was a bucket list item for me to go to
#DICE
& I got to cross that off my list last year. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I’d be hosting it a year later.
So excited for you all to watch!
Massive love to
@plante
for sharing this. HUGE LOVE to the
@MotiveStudio
team for surprising me with this amazing addition in one of my favorite games of all time.
I wanna believe that whoever left this on the ishimura wrote this dying message after consuming a
@vicious696
rib.
The funniest thing about the
#FreeStellarBlade
petition is that Sony paid a passionate team to make this game. In a time where so many weird ideas don’t get funded, the players inability to not be hornballs sets it up so that pubs get even more risk averse due to the bad…
I hope he gets the maximum allowed. We saw none of this crying when he calmly told the cops he killed people. We saw none of this when he took pictures with his "free as fuck" shirt.
Throw his ass in jail, then build another jail on top of that one.
#KyleRittenhouseTrial
When we started
@SpawnOnMe
9 years ago, one of the dreams I had was to put on an award show that featured content creators, devs and other talented folks that all came from underrepresented backgrounds. I'm proud to say that In Jan 2022, that dream becomes real with
#TheSpawnies
If you know any dope POC gamers/influencers who are looking for a PC upgrade and have around 7 - 10k followers on Twitter, IG Or TikTok.
Send them my way.
#SpiderMan2PS5
is the best game that
@insomniacgames
has ever put out.
In this game they have nailed it in terms of:
- Technical achievement
- Great story telling
- Fan service
Here is my spoiler free review -