Len
@len.bsky.social
Solo indie developer. Strategy/RPG/Horror games freelancer at IGN, PC Gamer, and others. Producer: Three Moves Ahead. Lover of languages, folk metal, and history. she/they
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New custodes model release finally giving us Wide Women With Questionable Undercuts some representation, it's heartwarming to see
January 17, 2026 at 6:37 AM
New custodes model release finally giving us Wide Women With Questionable Undercuts some representation, it's heartwarming to see
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Would love to speak to any regular international GDC attendees who are skipping this year's show (or were going to attend and have now cancelled) due to the current political climate. DMs here or [email protected], thank you!
January 17, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Would love to speak to any regular international GDC attendees who are skipping this year's show (or were going to attend and have now cancelled) due to the current political climate. DMs here or [email protected], thank you!
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SEO-funded games journalism is in freefall with no floor and it's up to you now to fund quality coverage out of pocket. Support @aftermath.site, @remapradio.bsky.social, @secondwindgroup.com, @vgbees.com, @rogue.site, @skyboxcritics.com, @bloodgodpod.bsky.social, @mothership.blog, @3ma.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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Proper journalism, yes even journalism about art - movies, games, music, etc - is vital. And it’s no coincidence that the landscape of media and art is being ravaged alongside the rise of oligarchy and fascism.
January 16, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Proper journalism, yes even journalism about art - movies, games, music, etc - is vital. And it’s no coincidence that the landscape of media and art is being ravaged alongside the rise of oligarchy and fascism.
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The most frustrating thing about media right not, not just games, is that people want reporting, they want crit, they want analysis. The numbers prove it too. But so much legacy is run by enormous man babies that don’t fucking get it, and just want more and more money
January 16, 2026 at 11:16 PM
The most frustrating thing about media right not, not just games, is that people want reporting, they want crit, they want analysis. The numbers prove it too. But so much legacy is run by enormous man babies that don’t fucking get it, and just want more and more money
Bunch of other shout-outs in the replies and the QRTs you should check out as well! We can't all support everything but find the ones that speak to you.
SEO-funded games journalism is in freefall with no floor and it's up to you now to fund quality coverage out of pocket. Support @aftermath.site, @remapradio.bsky.social, @secondwindgroup.com, @vgbees.com, @rogue.site, @skyboxcritics.com, @bloodgodpod.bsky.social, @mothership.blog, @3ma.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Bunch of other shout-outs in the replies and the QRTs you should check out as well! We can't all support everything but find the ones that speak to you.
[my mother, watching an AI-generated youtube video about art history]: "I don't know how much of this I agree with."
[me]: "No, it's bullshit, it's AI. I can tell from the voiceover that it's AI."
[her]: "Well even if it's AI doesn't someone have to like-"
[me]: "Fact check it? no."
[me]: "No, it's bullshit, it's AI. I can tell from the voiceover that it's AI."
[her]: "Well even if it's AI doesn't someone have to like-"
[me]: "Fact check it? no."
January 16, 2026 at 11:15 PM
[my mother, watching an AI-generated youtube video about art history]: "I don't know how much of this I agree with."
[me]: "No, it's bullshit, it's AI. I can tell from the voiceover that it's AI."
[her]: "Well even if it's AI doesn't someone have to like-"
[me]: "Fact check it? no."
[me]: "No, it's bullshit, it's AI. I can tell from the voiceover that it's AI."
[her]: "Well even if it's AI doesn't someone have to like-"
[me]: "Fact check it? no."
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here for all of the sites mentioned, but i would also like to add @stopcar.ing, @unwinnable.com, @startmenu.bsky.social, @intothespine.bsky.social, @noescapevg.com, @bpmonthly.bsky.social, @bloomedwings.bsky.social, @innerspiral.lol, @mads.haus and @deletedsavesmag.bsky.social 💜
SEO-funded games journalism is in freefall with no floor and it's up to you now to fund quality coverage out of pocket. Support @aftermath.site, @remapradio.bsky.social, @secondwindgroup.com, @vgbees.com, @rogue.site, @skyboxcritics.com, @bloodgodpod.bsky.social, @mothership.blog, @3ma.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 9:23 PM
here for all of the sites mentioned, but i would also like to add @stopcar.ing, @unwinnable.com, @startmenu.bsky.social, @intothespine.bsky.social, @noescapevg.com, @bpmonthly.bsky.social, @bloomedwings.bsky.social, @innerspiral.lol, @mads.haus and @deletedsavesmag.bsky.social 💜
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every year feels like it's just getting harder to keep chugging along - but we've relied on community support - you can help us out here --> butwhytho.net/support
SEO-funded games journalism is in freefall with no floor and it's up to you now to fund quality coverage out of pocket. Support @aftermath.site, @remapradio.bsky.social, @secondwindgroup.com, @vgbees.com, @rogue.site, @skyboxcritics.com, @bloodgodpod.bsky.social, @mothership.blog, @3ma.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 9:54 PM
every year feels like it's just getting harder to keep chugging along - but we've relied on community support - you can help us out here --> butwhytho.net/support
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For the last two years, I've been diving as deep into women's soccer as I could, trying to become an expert on both WHAT to watch and also HOW to watch it. I've turned that expertise into a newsletter, so you all can enjoy women's soccer!
this-week-in-womens-soccer.ghost.io/this-week-in...
this-week-in-womens-soccer.ghost.io/this-week-in...
How To Watch Women's European Club Soccer - 1/16/26
MATCH OF THE WEEK
In France, the Paris FC take on league leaders Lyon (Sun 7am EST, DAZN).
this-week-in-womens-soccer.ghost.io
January 16, 2026 at 8:23 PM
For the last two years, I've been diving as deep into women's soccer as I could, trying to become an expert on both WHAT to watch and also HOW to watch it. I've turned that expertise into a newsletter, so you all can enjoy women's soccer!
this-week-in-womens-soccer.ghost.io/this-week-in...
this-week-in-womens-soccer.ghost.io/this-week-in...
SEO-funded games journalism is in freefall with no floor and it's up to you now to fund quality coverage out of pocket. Support @aftermath.site, @remapradio.bsky.social, @secondwindgroup.com, @vgbees.com, @rogue.site, @skyboxcritics.com, @bloodgodpod.bsky.social, @mothership.blog, @3ma.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 8:05 PM
SEO-funded games journalism is in freefall with no floor and it's up to you now to fund quality coverage out of pocket. Support @aftermath.site, @remapradio.bsky.social, @secondwindgroup.com, @vgbees.com, @rogue.site, @skyboxcritics.com, @bloodgodpod.bsky.social, @mothership.blog, @3ma.bsky.social
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Inverse's Gaming section is being shut down as the company "divests" from gaming content. I'm out of a job along with my wonderful co-writers. I've put my heart and soul into this job for four years. Gonna need to take time to process, but I'm now completely open for work - and boy do I need it.
January 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Inverse's Gaming section is being shut down as the company "divests" from gaming content. I'm out of a job along with my wonderful co-writers. I've put my heart and soul into this job for four years. Gonna need to take time to process, but I'm now completely open for work - and boy do I need it.
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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
One really cool thing you realize when you go fan-funded is that when your revenue doesn't depend on google, you can just talk about whatever. Like people don't care. You can talk about a game from six years ago. Go for it, Doesn't even have to be an anniversary. Timeliness is kinda made up.
January 16, 2026 at 1:53 PM
One really cool thing you realize when you go fan-funded is that when your revenue doesn't depend on google, you can just talk about whatever. Like people don't care. You can talk about a game from six years ago. Go for it, Doesn't even have to be an anniversary. Timeliness is kinda made up.
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is a series known for its brutal kill animations and intense battlefield atmosphere.
We got a chance to chat with Thomas Derksen, animation director on Dawn of War 4, about how King Art Games is taking the animations to the next level. https://bit.ly/45KwrKt
We got a chance to chat with Thomas Derksen, animation director on Dawn of War 4, about how King Art Games is taking the animations to the next level. https://bit.ly/45KwrKt
January 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is a series known for its brutal kill animations and intense battlefield atmosphere.
We got a chance to chat with Thomas Derksen, animation director on Dawn of War 4, about how King Art Games is taking the animations to the next level. https://bit.ly/45KwrKt
We got a chance to chat with Thomas Derksen, animation director on Dawn of War 4, about how King Art Games is taking the animations to the next level. https://bit.ly/45KwrKt
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While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
Please, for the love of whatever you believe in, don't forget that the world is good and those who seek to do ill will always feel the weight of that casting them back. It doesn't mean every day will feel idyllic, but that hate and despair can never permanently obscure the light of being.
January 15, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Please, for the love of whatever you believe in, don't forget that the world is good and those who seek to do ill will always feel the weight of that casting them back. It doesn't mean every day will feel idyllic, but that hate and despair can never permanently obscure the light of being.
state department suspending my passport after finding searches for "can you still enlist at 36 years old" and "how to defect to denmark"
January 15, 2026 at 6:26 PM
state department suspending my passport after finding searches for "can you still enlist at 36 years old" and "how to defect to denmark"
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this is like the wargames nerd equivalent of an anarchist feeling patriotic while reading about the Union Army during the Civil War
Warhammer Maker Games Workshop Bans Its Staff From Using AI in Its Content or Designs, Says None of Its Senior Managers Are Currently Excited About the Tech - IGN
Warhammer maker Games Workshop has banned the use of AI in its content production and its design process, insisting that none of its senior managers are currently excited about the technology.
www.ign.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:14 PM
this is like the wargames nerd equivalent of an anarchist feeling patriotic while reading about the Union Army during the Civil War
Not only would it be better to light every dollar we've spent on ICE on fire, but in terms of real outcomes for the American people, I think it would be genuinely better to like send it all directly to the Taliban or North Korea. They couldn't do *more* harm with it than the goons are already doing.
January 15, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Not only would it be better to light every dollar we've spent on ICE on fire, but in terms of real outcomes for the American people, I think it would be genuinely better to like send it all directly to the Taliban or North Korea. They couldn't do *more* harm with it than the goons are already doing.
My review-in-progress for Hytale is up! Basically, this is Minecraft 2 made by a different studio. It's not an offshoot like rock is from blues. It's more like the Hendrix cover of Dylan's All Along the Watchtower. Same essential thing done by a different artist. Which isn't a bad thing!
Hytale Early Access Review So Far - IGN
There really isn't a better way to describe it other than it's basically Minecraft 2.
www.ign.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:47 PM
My review-in-progress for Hytale is up! Basically, this is Minecraft 2 made by a different studio. It's not an offshoot like rock is from blues. It's more like the Hendrix cover of Dylan's All Along the Watchtower. Same essential thing done by a different artist. Which isn't a bad thing!
Every time I hear an "electric boogaloo" joke I just think, "I guess you kinda had to be there for that one, huh?"
January 14, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Every time I hear an "electric boogaloo" joke I just think, "I guess you kinda had to be there for that one, huh?"
I still wish t-shirts came in "Long" sizes the way you can get shoes in "Wide." Like I don't want to have to choose between going a size down and having it turn into a midriff top or a size up and feel like I'm wearing a bedsheet.
January 14, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I still wish t-shirts came in "Long" sizes the way you can get shoes in "Wide." Like I don't want to have to choose between going a size down and having it turn into a midriff top or a size up and feel like I'm wearing a bedsheet.
Indie game development could best be described as wanting to bake bread and then realizing you need to build the entire bakery first so you start studying architecture.
January 14, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Indie game development could best be described as wanting to bake bread and then realizing you need to build the entire bakery first so you start studying architecture.
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