Ella "RATTLE ME BONES" M 💀
@ecmsquared.bsky.social
Game writer (most recently Baldur's Gate 3 at Larian & Plarium). Former Total War community content editor and ESL senior editor. I like TRPGs, theme parks, and spooky things. My cat is prettier than you. https://linktr.ee/ellamcconnell
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It me, Ella.
You may remember me from:
⚔️ Accidentally being the figurehead for the "women in Total War: Rome II" thing (lol)
🎮 Video game journalism (esp. a dating sim column in RPS)
💀 Writing weird little guys in Baldur's Gate 3 (see my showreel!)
🐱 My himbo cat Mori
More: linktr.ee/ellamcconnell
You may remember me from:
⚔️ Accidentally being the figurehead for the "women in Total War: Rome II" thing (lol)
🎮 Video game journalism (esp. a dating sim column in RPS)
💀 Writing weird little guys in Baldur's Gate 3 (see my showreel!)
🐱 My himbo cat Mori
More: linktr.ee/ellamcconnell
Me seeing this just after finishing the latest Defunctland video 🤔
⚠️ First look at Olaf, who will come to life for the Guests of World Of Frozen at Disney Adventure World
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Me seeing this just after finishing the latest Defunctland video 🤔
This is my favourite @defunctland.bsky.social video so far - another masterpiece by Kevin www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyIg...
Disney's Living Characters: A Broken Promise
YouTube video by Defunctland
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is my favourite @defunctland.bsky.social video so far - another masterpiece by Kevin www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyIg...
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I'm really really struggling to find potential Sponsors for @limitbreak.co.uk at the moment
We're not looking for huge amounts of money. We're a very lean programme thanks to our amazing volunteers!
Can you help? Look at out Sponsorship Deck or share this post 💖
limitbreak.co.uk/sponsorform
We're not looking for huge amounts of money. We're a very lean programme thanks to our amazing volunteers!
Can you help? Look at out Sponsorship Deck or share this post 💖
limitbreak.co.uk/sponsorform
Limit Break - Sponsorship Deck Request
Please fill in the following, and we will reach out with our most up to date sponsorship information.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'm really really struggling to find potential Sponsors for @limitbreak.co.uk at the moment
We're not looking for huge amounts of money. We're a very lean programme thanks to our amazing volunteers!
Can you help? Look at out Sponsorship Deck or share this post 💖
limitbreak.co.uk/sponsorform
We're not looking for huge amounts of money. We're a very lean programme thanks to our amazing volunteers!
Can you help? Look at out Sponsorship Deck or share this post 💖
limitbreak.co.uk/sponsorform
Excellent news for multiple hour video essay sickos such as myself
If you could set aside 4 hours and 18 minutes today for my new video, that would be much appreciated.
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Excellent news for multiple hour video essay sickos such as myself
Catching up on demos and baffled by how many have either poor or no in-game volume controls
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Catching up on demos and baffled by how many have either poor or no in-game volume controls
I'm not able to attend #AdventureX this time but am very much up for organising online hangouts with mutuals to aid in our collective FOMO 🙏
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I'm not able to attend #AdventureX this time but am very much up for organising online hangouts with mutuals to aid in our collective FOMO 🙏
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The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.
Labour plot to slash electricity prices for AI companies
LABOUR are planning to cut electricity prices for tech companies while energy bills continue to leave families struggling, The National can reveal. 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2563567...
LABOUR are planning to cut electricity prices for tech companies while energy bills continue to leave families struggling, The National can reveal. 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2563567...
Labour plot to slash electricity prices for AI companies while families struggle
LABOUR are planning to cut electricity prices for tech companies while energy bills continue to leave families struggling, The National can reveal.
www.thenational.scot
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
mfw babby me starts editing Petz files for the first time
they call it a hex editor bc you are casting little spells on the computer
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
mfw babby me starts editing Petz files for the first time
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THERE IS
NO MIDDLE GROUND
BETWEEN RESPECTING LABOR
OR DESTROYING IT
NO MIDDLE GROUND
BETWEEN RESPECTING LABOR
OR DESTROYING IT
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
THERE IS
NO MIDDLE GROUND
BETWEEN RESPECTING LABOR
OR DESTROYING IT
NO MIDDLE GROUND
BETWEEN RESPECTING LABOR
OR DESTROYING IT
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Last day of this!
Please leave a review if you played it, it's important for visibility and also makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside
Please leave a review if you played it, it's important for visibility and also makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside
It's the Dates & Wires release anniversary sale!
Pick up @cryodraws.bsky.social and @ioblack.bsky.social's alt 1995 dating sim for the price of a dubious VR trip and do kisses with sad Eastern European cyberpunks!
💾 Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3136150/...
💿 Itch: itch.io/s/167325/aug...
Pick up @cryodraws.bsky.social and @ioblack.bsky.social's alt 1995 dating sim for the price of a dubious VR trip and do kisses with sad Eastern European cyberpunks!
💾 Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3136150/...
💿 Itch: itch.io/s/167325/aug...
Dates & Wires: Augmented Edition - Announce Trailer
YouTube video by Cryo Draws Trash
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Last day of this!
Please leave a review if you played it, it's important for visibility and also makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside
Please leave a review if you played it, it's important for visibility and also makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
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Maybe the solution to art block is just taking a marker and going at it until a cunty demon shows up
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Maybe the solution to art block is just taking a marker and going at it until a cunty demon shows up
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I need to share this baffling shelf display choice
November 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I need to share this baffling shelf display choice
I need to share this baffling shelf display choice
November 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I need to share this baffling shelf display choice
I had my last official meetings with my @limitbreak.co.uk mentees this week!
Definitely a bit of a surreal experience becoming a mentor this year with how the games industry is at the moment (😅), but everyone was lovely and I'm looking forward to seeing them do lots of cool stuff in the future! 💖
Definitely a bit of a surreal experience becoming a mentor this year with how the games industry is at the moment (😅), but everyone was lovely and I'm looking forward to seeing them do lots of cool stuff in the future! 💖
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I had my last official meetings with my @limitbreak.co.uk mentees this week!
Definitely a bit of a surreal experience becoming a mentor this year with how the games industry is at the moment (😅), but everyone was lovely and I'm looking forward to seeing them do lots of cool stuff in the future! 💖
Definitely a bit of a surreal experience becoming a mentor this year with how the games industry is at the moment (😅), but everyone was lovely and I'm looking forward to seeing them do lots of cool stuff in the future! 💖
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expect beauty shots with my *NON* PAYPAL/APPLE/STRIPE/GOOGLE card machine at #ThoughtBubble
It'll be the first outing of my lil guy, so if you want to come to our table and buy Artistic Erotica Made With Great Artistic Intent (alongside all my usual horror/scifi/cyberpunk comics) come to A25!
It'll be the first outing of my lil guy, so if you want to come to our table and buy Artistic Erotica Made With Great Artistic Intent (alongside all my usual horror/scifi/cyberpunk comics) come to A25!
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
expect beauty shots with my *NON* PAYPAL/APPLE/STRIPE/GOOGLE card machine at #ThoughtBubble
It'll be the first outing of my lil guy, so if you want to come to our table and buy Artistic Erotica Made With Great Artistic Intent (alongside all my usual horror/scifi/cyberpunk comics) come to A25!
It'll be the first outing of my lil guy, so if you want to come to our table and buy Artistic Erotica Made With Great Artistic Intent (alongside all my usual horror/scifi/cyberpunk comics) come to A25!
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It's Dates & Wires Steam release anniversary! Now you can enjoy our VN about dating sad Eastern European cyberpunks for less than a cup of coffee ☕ #visualnovel #indiedev #datesandwires
Save 60% on Dates & Wires: Augmented Edition on Steam
The year is 1995, and you're newly single and ready to mingle in Stradania, the dysfunctional micronation whose chief exports are pig iron, human misery, and radioactive souvenir mugs. Sample the nigh...
store.steampowered.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's Dates & Wires Steam release anniversary! Now you can enjoy our VN about dating sad Eastern European cyberpunks for less than a cup of coffee ☕ #visualnovel #indiedev #datesandwires
Plus a lot of studios who were formerly chill about remote working are increasingly leaning hard into getting everyone back into the office for no discernible reason (especially when many companies/teams are split across multiple countries anyway)
Just fucking insane to see the absolute (intentional) collapse of full remote jobs available for AAA studios in so short a time. Why would I EVER move for a job again when I could be laid off weeks after moving my entire life across the globe??
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Plus a lot of studios who were formerly chill about remote working are increasingly leaning hard into getting everyone back into the office for no discernible reason (especially when many companies/teams are split across multiple countries anyway)
THIS IS SUCH A COOL IDEA store.bandainamcoent.eu/dark-souls-f...
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
THIS IS SUCH A COOL IDEA store.bandainamcoent.eu/dark-souls-f...
Just tripped over a cupboard door, ripping it off its hinges and hurting my heel, leg, and apparently neck 😎
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Just tripped over a cupboard door, ripping it off its hinges and hurting my heel, leg, and apparently neck 😎
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I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...