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

oh okay. g'night

Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 4h

Finally watching

Possession, 1981, dir. Andrzej Zulawski.

Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 4h

Finally watching

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 6h

I liked it, too! Haven't seen it in ages, but it was a lot of fun (and angry)

Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 7h

i did it, ma. your boy's a kpop demon hunter

Victory screen in Fortnite's limited-time Kpop Demon Hunters "Demon Rush" horde mode.

Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 8h

Correction: if you do use it, you’re going to lose your audience to folks who have enough respect for their craft not to.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 10h

"If we in Hollywood stick our heads in the sand and don’t use it at all, we’re going to cede content creation to other people"

variety.com/2025/film/fe...

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 8h

What is this one? Elysium?

Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 8h

She's so damn cool

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 9h

“I ain’t dead yet!” The dearly beloved Dolly Parton creates a “proof of life” video, assuring those who adore her that, even though she is dealing with some things, she is fine and still going strong 💛

Long live Dolly Parton ✨📚

📹: Via Dolly Parton

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 15h

"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it."

@jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 13h

We goin to space this year

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 10h

🧑🏽‍🍳🍕

Pipin' hot!

😎

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 10h

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 11h

Mostly it's worked wonders for me over the last ~2 years, though it can have a knockout/drowsiness effect if you take it first thing in the morning for sure. I sometimes switch to taking it at bedtime just to avoid that, but that depends on how stressful a week I'm having.

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鋼のStephen Meyerink @sjmtaelus.bsky.social · 11h

Folks with connections to the voice acting world, especially those who were around in the early 90s-- I'm trying to track down info on a "talent coordinator" named Jon E Grayson. Anyone have any insight?

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 11h

Looks like they did art and production work, too, so maybe more of a dev than an actor/director? Some folks they worked with multiple times, in case you hadn't seen this list yet:

Jon E. Grayson - Frequent Collaborators (People) - MobyGames

Jon E. Grayson has been credited on 6 games with 302 people, including: Robert C. Taylor, Nancy Janda, Ken Koch, Mark E. Seremet and F. J. Lennon.

www.mobygames.com

Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 12h

During development, I was told, one of the biggest games in the world featured at least two female Asian characters. By the time the game shipped, one of them had been replaced by a quirky white, male NPC.

Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 13h

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 13h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

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Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social · 12h

“woke has to come back”

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 12h

A game where the big wish-fulfillment fantasy is actually having enough money for all the groceries you want. Absolutely.

Thomas Marrone @thomasthecat.bsky.social · 12h

I think if a AA studio got like 5-10 million dollars to make a really polished "supermarket simulator" type game, it would do numbers.

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 12h

Like half the proper nouns on the map

The name Illinois, on a Google map of the state.

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 12h

Not sure what's worse: never getting to play this or not being at all surprised that C-suite cowards canned it

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 12h

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 12h

The Innkeepers is so great

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 12h

Sinister was so good! Need to revisit that one

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

10 horror movies to get to know me by

The Fog (1980)
The Exorcist III: Legion (2016)
Honeymoon (2014)
Us (2019)
Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Invitation (2015)
Prince of Darkness
The Strangers (2008)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
The Night Flier

Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 13h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🐈‍⬛ Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)
🪻 Annihilation (2018)
📺 Ringu (1998)
🩸 28 Days Later (2002)
🏚️ Hausu (1977)
🐝 Candyman (1992)
📸 The Others (2001)
💻 Kairo (2001)
🟣 Color Out of Space (2019)
👨🏻 Nosferatu (2024)

TAAAAAAHliesin 🦇🖤 @bad-m00n.from.legal · 15h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

☎️ Scream (1996)
🐕 The Thing (1982)
🌫 The Mist
🐑 Silence of the Lambs
📍 Hellraiser (1987)
🎄 Black Christmas (1974)
🧜‍♀️ The Lighthouse
🏠 The Rental
🐦‍⬛ The Crow (1994)
🎃 Halloween (1978)

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

They make me so anxious sometimes, but I basically lack object permanence if I can't see an important notes doc or whatever, so...

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

Think these were the last four that I *really* loved

Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna.

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle.

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

I'm looking forward to it!