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Alex James Kane

@alexjkane.itch.io

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Writer for hire. Boss Fight Books, Fangoria, IGN, Lost in Cult, PC Gamer, Polygon, Roger Ebert, Rolling Stone, Star Wars, USA Today, Variety. backloggd.com/u/alexjkane [email protected]

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · Mar 19

A big update: Now that I’ve got some freelance contracts going again, I’m very much Open for Business! If you need a writer for a gaming feature, a pop-culture interview, a mock review or other games-industry consulting gig, a Star Wars expert or Fallout S2 recapper, my email is [email protected].

Some print work from my previous freelance days: an issue of PC Gamer with Cyberpunk on the cover, my book on the making of BioWare, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, an issue of Edge magazine, Fangoria issue number 2 (which contains my oral history of Friday the 13th: The Game), and Den of Geek.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 42m

Psst get your anticolonial book signed from an anticolonial store (which is also close to the worker-owned pizzeria I like to go to after I sign books hint hint)

www.ebbooksellers.com/item/Hq3ZF19...

Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest by Nick Mamatas | East Bay Booksellers

In this science-fiction revision of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Kalivas lives in solitude on the Farallon Islands, off the San Francisco Bay, until the Master and his daughter M colonize his lonely rea...

www.ebbooksellers.com

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jayRPG @jayguisao.bsky.social · 2h

Feels good to write again. I enjoyed my time with Battlefield 6, and I hope you do too! 🎖🎖🎖

Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 2h

Battlefield 6 hits the ground running with a multiplayer suite full of dazzling sandboxes just waiting to be leveled, but not every part of the package is as effective.

Our review: gameinformer.com/review/battl...

A Battlefield 6 screenshot featuring infantry and a tank

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Three Hares @threehares.bsky.social · 46m

👀 #owltober #birds #art

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 48m

Just had it in my cart, hit checkout, and it said "No longer available" smh

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 54m

Will probably be my first action figure in ages. Probably since the Kenobi show was coming out? I should see if they ever released a Black Series Stranger while I'm at it...

preternia @preternia.com · 2h

TBS Kyle Katarn

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 1h

Collectors! Store owners! Hoarders! Help us out! @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is looking to source copies of this 1985 NES pack-in poster for fundraising reasons, and we need them asap. We already cleaned out eBay. Note that they need to be the ones that say copyright 1985, as pictured! Can pay!

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 1h

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
The Transformers
Are You Afraid of the Dark?

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arnaerr 🦈๋࣭⭑｡ @arnaerr.bsky.social · 1h

Some Baldur's Gate 3 landscapes from last year

#art #baldursgate3

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2h

My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.

New York Times bestselling author and film & TV critic at New York Magazine Matt Zoller Seitz's LEADING MAN, the definitive biography of Jack Nicholson, casting Nicholson as the complex main character in an era of American culture spanning six decades, while shining a light on the actor’s crucial role in shaping modern masculinity, both on and off the screen, based on new interviews and original reporting, to Amar Deol at Grand Central, in an exclusive submission, by Ethan Bassoff at WME.

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 2h

Was a big fan of the ambiguity in this, and I suspect that's why it's stood the test of time, or come back around as a classic, the way it has. Probably influenced Honeymoon (2014) and Garland's take on Annihilation, but it's also just a massive layer cake of nightmare images and meaning. Phenomenal

Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 13h

Finally watching

Possession, 1981, dir. Andrzej Zulawski.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 2h

This game rules and if you enjoy Riven-esque worlds it’s a must-play solo game.

Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 2h

Rillem is a one-player journaling game that uses cards as prompts for creating and solving puzzles, @ckunzelman.bsky.social writes. www.endlessmode.com/tabletop/ril...

Create Your Own Puzzles and Stories with Rillem

Rillem is a one-player journaling game that uses cards as prompts for creating and solving your own puzzles.

www.endlessmode.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3h

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 2h

First one I thought of, anyway:

Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 2h

Yeah, the AI “actress,” George, and Jason Blum all happening in the span of a week reeks of desperation

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 2h

Yep. People crack jokes about YouTube, streamers, podcasters, or newsletters, but that for-the-love style of coverage is where you get genuine editorial freedom now.

AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 2h

You can still do that but it's all driven by charity, personal passion and it won't impact anyone's bottom line even thought it obviously is important as people to see work we poured years into be taken seriously and engaged with deeply.

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 2h

very happy to have this review of battlefield 6 from @reidmccarter.bsky.social up on kotaku today: kotaku.com/battlefield-...

Battlefield 6 Review: A Grimly Enjoyable Spectacle Of War

Don’t expect much from the AI enemies in Battlefield 6’s campaign, but there’s plenty of grim war spectacle to enjoy otherwise

kotaku.com

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Rollin Bishop @rollin.bsky.social · 2h

anyway did y'all know that every single week for years gamesradar+ has explicitly taken the time to write thoughtful feature coverage of indie games? it's true!

Indie Spotlight | GamesRadar+

Where GamesRadar+ spotlights the indie games that you need on your radar

www.gamesradar.com

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 2h

Batman: The Animated Series
The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest
The New Adventures of Gigantor
Robotech
Speed Racer
Dexter's Laboratory
Dragon Ball Z

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 3h

8. What TV show defined your childhood?

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 2h

I wonder if that mindset extends to LGBT+ movies? It's hard to wrap my head around. People just used to watch stuff like 40-Year-Old Virgin and laugh at it; I mostly hear about this mentality through social media

Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 3h

Yeah, I think anything sex-related is gonna cause an outrage somewhere; it just isn't as "understood," maybe, as with film/TV sex scenes. People are so weird about sex scenes now — I used to watch American Pie 2 with my grandfather 20+ years ago lol

Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 3h

Fortunately, newsletters and podcasts have the freedom that interesting pubs like Kill Screen or Waypoint *used* to have.

Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 3h

This comes from upper mgmt's total obsession with data: if you spend time on anything that's not a "sure thing," you're wasting valuable resources, in their eyes. You can be writing about a Star Wars game or the biggest indie of the month — someone'll still say "Why aren't you covering CoD/Pokémon?"

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 3h

I don't know whether this true, but I can definitely say that, in my pre-journalism/editorial life, the first time I heard "Fack" by Eminem was... in my boss's office, at a bank lol

D. Brady @dbradyart.com · 3h

Interesting the "there's too much unnecessary sex in movies and TV" never carries over to music. Never see anyone complaining about Taylor Sabrina and Chappell singing about fucking too often

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

🚀🚀LITTLE ROCKET LAB IS OUT NOW!!! 🚀🚀

4 years of development, finally available on Steam and Game Pass

store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...

RTs unbelievably appreciated!! <3

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 4h

the state of games press now is that there are fewer working writers than ever, and their attentions are often occupied weeks or months in advance thanks to release calendars overstuffed by the ~20,000 Steam games launching each year.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 7h

We've been around for ages now, and we have means for getting our games out there into the word without the press

But new teams, teams smaller than ours, teams without the means -- are they just fucked?

Is this really the state of the games press now -- if it ain't AAA, go fuck yourself?

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