Chris Bratt
@chrisbratt.bsky.social
One of the people who makes People Make Games.
[email protected]
[email protected]
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We have @jacobgeller.com and @grubb.wtf flying in to Minneapolis for our big ICE Out Charity Stream with @giantbomb.bsky.social! Tune in at 5pm Central as we raise money to protect our neighbors from ICE. youtube.com/live/SMcO71c...
January 30, 2026 at 3:21 AM
We have @jacobgeller.com and @grubb.wtf flying in to Minneapolis for our big ICE Out Charity Stream with @giantbomb.bsky.social! Tune in at 5pm Central as we raise money to protect our neighbors from ICE. youtube.com/live/SMcO71c...
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following last week's announcement of a ubisoft restructuring that will lead to layoffs and game cancellations in pursuit of (even more) cost cutting, five french unions representing ubisoft workers have called for a "massive" international strike
January 28, 2026 at 8:33 PM
following last week's announcement of a ubisoft restructuring that will lead to layoffs and game cancellations in pursuit of (even more) cost cutting, five french unions representing ubisoft workers have called for a "massive" international strike
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Probably the biggest problem with being a game critic is you never hear what other people think of you
January 28, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Probably the biggest problem with being a game critic is you never hear what other people think of you
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🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft : enough is enough! Faced with the arbitrary decision of the CEO who doesn’t even dare talking to employees anymore, unions are calling for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th.
January 28, 2026 at 12:10 PM
🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft : enough is enough! Faced with the arbitrary decision of the CEO who doesn’t even dare talking to employees anymore, unions are calling for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th.
Very, very excited for this! If you live near Brighton and would like to come along and hear the two of us get stuck into the weeds on Keza’s latest dive into the history of Nintendo, grab yourself a ticket.
January 28, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Very, very excited for this! If you live near Brighton and would like to come along and hear the two of us get stuck into the weeds on Keza’s latest dive into the history of Nintendo, grab yourself a ticket.
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We're launching a website.
Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers.
jank.cool
If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.
Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers.
jank.cool
If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.
January 27, 2026 at 12:50 PM
We're launching a website.
Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers.
jank.cool
If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.
Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers.
jank.cool
If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.
I really love how this new cohort of audience-funded sites are so clearly designed with readers in mind, rather than advertisers.
It loads so quickly! It's so clean! It's a website I want to actually use and spend time with!
It loads so quickly! It's so clean! It's a website I want to actually use and spend time with!
guess what... i made a website www.mothership.blog
Mothership
Video game coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
www.mothership.blog
January 26, 2026 at 2:16 PM
I really love how this new cohort of audience-funded sites are so clearly designed with readers in mind, rather than advertisers.
It loads so quickly! It's so clean! It's a website I want to actually use and spend time with!
It loads so quickly! It's so clean! It's a website I want to actually use and spend time with!
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Just crossed 50,000 subscribers on my main video essay channel :) thank you for watching and sharing and supporting me in this crazy freelance experience!
(btw I still get comments from Polygon fans saying they had NO IDEA I have my own channel now - so if you know any, send 'em my way!)
(btw I still get comments from Polygon fans saying they had NO IDEA I have my own channel now - so if you know any, send 'em my way!)
January 23, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Just crossed 50,000 subscribers on my main video essay channel :) thank you for watching and sharing and supporting me in this crazy freelance experience!
(btw I still get comments from Polygon fans saying they had NO IDEA I have my own channel now - so if you know any, send 'em my way!)
(btw I still get comments from Polygon fans saying they had NO IDEA I have my own channel now - so if you know any, send 'em my way!)
PMG won the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism last night at the @nyvgcc.bsky.social!
It feels like we've come such a long way since we first launched this thing nearly eight years ago, but winning a journalism award at an event in NEW YORK CITY still seems totally mad to me.
It feels like we've come such a long way since we first launched this thing nearly eight years ago, but winning a journalism award at an event in NEW YORK CITY still seems totally mad to me.
January 19, 2026 at 9:54 AM
PMG won the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism last night at the @nyvgcc.bsky.social!
It feels like we've come such a long way since we first launched this thing nearly eight years ago, but winning a journalism award at an event in NEW YORK CITY still seems totally mad to me.
It feels like we've come such a long way since we first launched this thing nearly eight years ago, but winning a journalism award at an event in NEW YORK CITY still seems totally mad to me.
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after flying back from Vegas last week, I was just laid off from Inverse today. I'm open to connecting over email at [email protected] and I'm definitely still in the writing and editing space. Expect a more in-depth explanation coming soon in my Updater newsletter. shannonliao.substack.com
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January 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM
after flying back from Vegas last week, I was just laid off from Inverse today. I'm open to connecting over email at [email protected] and I'm definitely still in the writing and editing space. Expect a more in-depth explanation coming soon in my Updater newsletter. shannonliao.substack.com
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Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
www.ashparrish.com
Ash Parrish
www.ashparrish.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
www.ashparrish.com
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Great coverage of this. The "top secret" information was...that they wanted to get 32 testers to test *something*. RS's barrister wouldn't even discuss these messages out loud in court, but it seems RS forgot or didn't care to apply to restrict reporters from accessing this evidence.
We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Great coverage of this. The "top secret" information was...that they wanted to get 32 testers to test *something*. RS's barrister wouldn't even discuss these messages out loud in court, but it seems RS forgot or didn't care to apply to restrict reporters from accessing this evidence.
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Essential viewing
We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Essential viewing
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Vital reporting here from the PMG team in the wake of the recent interim relief ruling, including evidence that appears to indicate one person was fired for posting a 15-word message in the union Discord channel.
We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Vital reporting here from the PMG team in the wake of the recent interim relief ruling, including evidence that appears to indicate one person was fired for posting a 15-word message in the union Discord channel.
Oof, it's been a mad scramble trying to get this one ready in any kind of good time for the interim relief result being announced.
Huge shoutout to Anni for all her work on this from back home and to @wretchedmorgan.bsky.social for being our incredible camera guy up in Edinburgh as well.
Huge shoutout to Anni for all her work on this from back home and to @wretchedmorgan.bsky.social for being our incredible camera guy up in Edinburgh as well.
January 13, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Oof, it's been a mad scramble trying to get this one ready in any kind of good time for the interim relief result being announced.
Huge shoutout to Anni for all her work on this from back home and to @wretchedmorgan.bsky.social for being our incredible camera guy up in Edinburgh as well.
Huge shoutout to Anni for all her work on this from back home and to @wretchedmorgan.bsky.social for being our incredible camera guy up in Edinburgh as well.
We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
We'll be publishing our full report from the hearing tomorrow afternoon (UK time), but needless to say, there's an awful lot of additional context to understand about what happened here.
This is a really tough outcome for the union's members, especially those who were in the UK on work visas.
This is a really tough outcome for the union's members, especially those who were in the UK on work visas.
BREAKING: A UK judge has *denied* interim pay to the 31 employees fired by Rockstar Games last year, saying she "was unable to conclude that it appears likely that the tribunal will find that the principal reason for the claimants’ dismissal" was union organizing www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Fired Rockstar Employees Denied Pay by UK Judge
The 31 staffers argued they were dismissed for unionizing. Rockstar said they were fired for leaking information in an online chat group.
www.bloomberg.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
We'll be publishing our full report from the hearing tomorrow afternoon (UK time), but needless to say, there's an awful lot of additional context to understand about what happened here.
This is a really tough outcome for the union's members, especially those who were in the UK on work visas.
This is a really tough outcome for the union's members, especially those who were in the UK on work visas.
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The developers of PEAK explain pricing
January 12, 2026 at 7:01 AM
The developers of PEAK explain pricing
It’s the most precious of things: actually good games journalism news!
we'll launch mothership.blog in its final form on jan. 26, featuring stories by amazing writers like @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social, @nicoleclark.bsky.social, @susanapolo.bsky.social, @supercrip1994.bsky.social, & @applecider.bsky.social. you can subscribe early for a LIFETIME 15% OFF discount!!
Board the Mothership.
You're just in time.
A couple weeks from now, on January 26, 2026, we'll be launching the full version of our new gaming website, Mothership, which aims to analyze games specifically through the...
mothership.blog
January 9, 2026 at 7:46 PM
It’s the most precious of things: actually good games journalism news!
This is perhaps a good time to mention that I attended this preliminary hearing at the start of the week, met some of the fired union members in its aftermath and have been able to review Rockstar's evidence in-person for myself.
We'll have more to share once the result has been announced.
We'll have more to share once the result has been announced.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 PM
This is perhaps a good time to mention that I attended this preliminary hearing at the start of the week, met some of the fired union members in its aftermath and have been able to review Rockstar's evidence in-person for myself.
We'll have more to share once the result has been announced.
We'll have more to share once the result has been announced.
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I know it’s probably deeply annoying to see Americans go “holy shit, the nakedness of this” after our history of indigenous genocide and global regime change, but what is especially scary about this is that the more recent bullshit alibis at least took some time to drum up and put into place.
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I know it’s probably deeply annoying to see Americans go “holy shit, the nakedness of this” after our history of indigenous genocide and global regime change, but what is especially scary about this is that the more recent bullshit alibis at least took some time to drum up and put into place.
As promised, PMG has just donated $5000 to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.
We've made the donation to PCRF directly as our fundraiser on YouTube has now completed, but if we add the two figures together that's a total amount of $61,914.62.
Thank you so, so much to everyone who participated!
We've made the donation to PCRF directly as our fundraiser on YouTube has now completed, but if we add the two figures together that's a total amount of $61,914.62.
Thank you so, so much to everyone who participated!
January 2, 2026 at 11:58 AM
As promised, PMG has just donated $5000 to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.
We've made the donation to PCRF directly as our fundraiser on YouTube has now completed, but if we add the two figures together that's a total amount of $61,914.62.
Thank you so, so much to everyone who participated!
We've made the donation to PCRF directly as our fundraiser on YouTube has now completed, but if we add the two figures together that's a total amount of $61,914.62.
Thank you so, so much to everyone who participated!
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In the first month of our campaign OVER 2,000 people have signed our boycott Xbox pledge! So far that's:
🎮 1,913 gamers
🔨 296 game workers & developers
✏️ 179 game writers
👾 146 streamers
Thank you for your support with our launch, we can’t wait to build the campaign bigger and better next year!
🎮 1,913 gamers
🔨 296 game workers & developers
✏️ 179 game writers
👾 146 streamers
Thank you for your support with our launch, we can’t wait to build the campaign bigger and better next year!
December 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In the first month of our campaign OVER 2,000 people have signed our boycott Xbox pledge! So far that's:
🎮 1,913 gamers
🔨 296 game workers & developers
✏️ 179 game writers
👾 146 streamers
Thank you for your support with our launch, we can’t wait to build the campaign bigger and better next year!
🎮 1,913 gamers
🔨 296 game workers & developers
✏️ 179 game writers
👾 146 streamers
Thank you for your support with our launch, we can’t wait to build the campaign bigger and better next year!
$41,000 donated in just two days!
We worried that the same energy that got us to $67,000 back in 2023 might not be here this time around, but thank you so much to everybody who's proven us so very wrong here.
We worried that the same energy that got us to $67,000 back in 2023 might not be here this time around, but thank you so much to everybody who's proven us so very wrong here.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
$41,000 donated in just two days!
We worried that the same energy that got us to $67,000 back in 2023 might not be here this time around, but thank you so much to everybody who's proven us so very wrong here.
We worried that the same energy that got us to $67,000 back in 2023 might not be here this time around, but thank you so much to everybody who's proven us so very wrong here.
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This hits so close to home. The professional and personal isolation both @ramiismail.com, @tamoorh.com and many more describes is a brutal, unspoken reality. For many of us, the last two years haven't just been "difficult" but a systematic stripping away of support and community.
There’s a moment in this where @ramiismail.com talks about people distancing themselves or being told to do so because of his advocacy. Most never talk about but, man, it’s so real. The last couple years have been professionally and personally isolating in brutal ways. It’s been really eye-opening.
December 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This hits so close to home. The professional and personal isolation both @ramiismail.com, @tamoorh.com and many more describes is a brutal, unspoken reality. For many of us, the last two years haven't just been "difficult" but a systematic stripping away of support and community.