To everyone saying “Wanda,”
That first truck does not have the red glow on it. Someone else saw that teenager swinging forward and thought “he’s gotta die today.”
I keep RT'ing stuff about the Amber Heard trial because this feels like a pseudo-Gamergate thing brewing in a non-video game environment.
People are being radicalized against domestic violence survivors and you'd only know if you paid attention to instagram reels and YouTubers
They're yelling "where's the money?" because she pledged her divorce settlement to charity, then stopped the payments because she needed it for her legal defense.
She never lied about this and it's irrelevant to the case, but they've spun it into evidence that she's abusive.
We reached out to Valve and Discord multiple times to ask how a group using their platform to target a company was within the bounds of their terms of service.
No answer back yet.
Game Workers of SoCal was out here at
#TheGameAwards
protesting on behalf of Activision Blizzard workers…and right as I started chatting with them, security came up and asked them to relocate out of LA Live.
BREAKING: The National Labor Relations Board just ruled that a group of 21 quality assurance workers at Raven Software are eligible to participate in a union election.
Working on a story about Kotick's comments.
If you are a current or former employee of Activision Blizzard and would like to share your opinion, shoot me a DM or hit up my email address in my bio.
Cool cool Bobby is out here on the rehabilitation tour and Variety just decided to let him make some arguments without correcting what I will *generously* call "inconsistencies."
Did you know if you search for “Curt Schilling” on Game Developer dot com you get all these stories about he failed to pay back loans he took out?
And didn’t pay 38 Studios employees?
Fascinating.
My body my choice? Your loan my responsibility? This isn’t loan forgiveness, it’s a generation of lazy unaccountable uneducated children being covered by hard working debt paying Americans.
We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck. All users can continue to access their saved searches & workflows via by selecting “Try the new TweetDeck” in the bottom left menu.
Some notes on getting started and the future of the product…
Here's my passion project from the last few months—I talked to game developers of all stripes about how they're trying to improve body diversity in games, particularly with depicting fat characters!
Me: "Oh I guess a plane crashed on the 101 near me."
@simoncarless
: "It's a Nazi plane Bryant."
Me: "Ha ha yes the news is depressing these days isn't it"
Simon: "No seriously:"
Cool cool Bobby is out here on the rehabilitation tour and Variety just decided to let him make some arguments without correcting what I will *generously* call "inconsistencies."
This will sound stupid (and it is) but if you are savoring a new show dropped on Netflix, if it’s all the same to you, please let the episodes play through right away so the completion is counted in a timeframe that is meaningful to the show’s success.
@patrickklepek
"My kid wants a new console so he can play with his friends. I want to play more Call of Duty/Madden/Minecraft. My TV doesn't have 4K, my budget is tighter this Christmas. Which console should I get?" - Microsoft has done a great job answering this question.
@HardDriveMag
I know not with what weapons the first Barbie/Oppenheimer War will be fought, but the second Barbie/Oppenheimer War will be fought with sticks and stones.
At
#ActiBlizzWalkout
, employees walked off the job to protest the company's response to a battery of harassment and discrimination allegations.
Despite the friendly vibes on site, this was a huge risk. Here's what I saw in Irvine:
@its_natclayton
“The graphics of this game are serviceable no doubt”
“SIR YOU ARE CONTROLLING A GIANT MECH FLYING INTO A RUINED CITY WITH A BEAUTIFUL SNOWY LANDSCAPE ON THE HORIZON AND THAT’S ‘SERVICABLE??!!!’l
@thelindsayellis
also as with all things in conservative humor, his jokes are barely jokes, they're testing the waters for where his rhetoric can head. (See his remarks at the pro-life march about Baby Hitler that are burned in my brain forever)
@GenePark
Not just anime but a very popular anime too. If I wanted pictures of thrones in 2014 and searched thrones I’d probably get...Game of Thrones.
What if Zelda had an amazing, cinematic story?
What if Last of Us had incredible, skill based combat?
What if Uncharted somehow put all the violence in context?
What if Dark Souls was approachable and clear?
The answer to all of these questions and more is Skies of Arcadia
I've spent the last few months talking to developers about what it's been like to watch the rise of cryptocurrency and NFTs come to not just video games, but the companies they work at. The short version: "everybody fucking hates it."
Hey I wrote about Six Days in Fallujah.
This is a conflict defined by the deaths of Iraqi civilians, much of it allegedly at the hands of US Marines.
I don’t know how you can make a shooter out of this story.
*Experts are now anticipating a turnout of 67 percent of the eligible voting population in the US.
*That would be the highest turnout rate in more than a CENTURY.
@UnburntWitch
the woman who tried to run a database of online harassers is now working for a conservative org primarily known for dressing up in diapers
*sits down, tries to process this*
not only was the Eagle Rock fire set by guys trying to murder homeless people, one of them is the son of the president of the Eagle Rock chamber of commerce
@mikeBithell
1. Press strategy. Was it super tight, or open with plenty of opportunities to preview the game/talk to the devs?
2. Non-fanbase player interest—how is R/Games, ResetEra, etc. responding to trailers?
3. Steam Wishlists are publicly available—how high is it there?
Holy shit, that Guardian article on THE NORTHMAN is bad. I would wager 98% of audiences don’t think once about that dipshit, and most of the rest don’t think much of the comparison.