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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 2d

The answer to why no one seems to be making new Deus Ex or whatevs is pretty much entirely that: they are, but then some guy with money goes "but that doesn't look like the game that sold well this year!" and shoots it with a shotgun

All the classic Legendary games were pre-venture capital in games

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 15h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 13h

Comics incels : women that have muscle mass is woke propaganda

Jack Kirby : haha big barda go brr

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 13h

How dare our bodies refuse to cooperate under relentless torture, dehydration and nutritional abuse

Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 16h

God no wonder one of these voices was so familiar!! I was a Caira main on Evolve.

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 18h

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 20h

I'm reading this in this voice.

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 20h

This is like the second to the last entry of an Umbrella researcher's journal

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 1d

Battle Suit Aces is out now!

I'm a big fan of Battle Chef Brigade (sequel when? jk! well, actually...) and knew that whatever @team.trinketstudios.com would cook up next would catch my interest. A spacefaring Trek-like adventure where you command mecha using cards? I mean, sure, let's fucking go!

BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW 🤖 @team.trinketstudios.com · 1d

BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW‼️

Adventure through the stars with the found family of the Zephyr and uncover the secrets of the mysterious Relic suits. Play the Battle Chef Brigade team’s new heartfelt, dynamic card-battling narrative RPG NOW on PC, PS5 and Switch!
store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/...

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah tbh, I wasn't expecting it so soon. The counter placed its launch time well before normal launch hours, which is why I was kinda excited! Should have known it was too good to be true. I just wish these kind of countdown errors -- this isn't the first I've seen -- were less common on Steam.

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 1d

"What does it say about our democracy that for nearly a decade, a non-existent tape shaped the way Filipinos saw a major opposition figure? What national conversations did we lose to the noise of this phantom scandal? Who profited from the circus while real issues went ignored?"

[OPINION] The sex tape that never existed

Now that one of Leila de Lima’s final cases has been closed, we’re left with a choice. Do we continue to let rumors dictate our politics? Or do we demand evidence, accountability, and dignity?

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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 2d

Dear game developers, please remember what 'on the record' means

Let's discuss the role of journalists and journalism in the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 1d

Just a few hours ago, Steam told me this was coming out in less than an hour. Now it's... not?

BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW 🤖 @team.trinketstudios.com · 2d

one day more 🤖

honestly a little unbelievable. we are so excited to share this game with you.

T-one day until you all get to meet our characters and their stories and their cool mechs. we hope you'll love it.

Captain Heathcliff has shiny black hair and a thin mustache and goatee. His baseball-style t-shirt is cut open at the neckline, revealing a bit of his chest. He wears glasses. His hand is on his hip. The text reads "1 day until launch. Battle Suit Aces. October 7th, 2025."

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unangbangkay @unangbangkay.bsky.social · 1d

LRT blood boiling that the rules society and companies put in place (ostensibly) to ensure safety and security are now being dismantled or undermined by the same forces that imposed them in the first place because they become unimaginably inconvenient or abused for hostile goals

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 1d

a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .

ALT: a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 2d

Have you considered making your Spooktober handle "Von DoomSKRULL"?

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 2d

Listen, @burgerbecky.bsky.social is one of the greats. If you can spare anything at all, and you have love for this medium, I can guarantee she's in some way part of the games you love. Please help our industry help her out.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 2d

The 88 year old director with dozens more IMDB credits to his name than nearly any other filmmaker says if fewer movies were made we wouldn't be awash in mediocrity. I definitely think we didn't need House of Gucci.

Ridley Scott Says Movies Today Are “Drowning in Mediocrity”

The 'Gladiator' director on how the "mediocrity" of modern films has sent him fleeing back to his own.

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 2d

some people would get so upset at me doing or say things that were critical of people in spaces around me. it was really miserable that i was trying to be honest to the best of my abilities while not making anything personal and still have so many people hate me for it.

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 2d

Notice how great film critics, people like Walter Chaw and Angelica Jade Bastien and Manohla Dargis and Jourdain Searles and Richard Brody, never say, “Well, it’s not good, but I liked it.” They argue from their own convictions, confident in the taste and knowledge they’ve cultivated over time.

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 2d

"Yet at home, calamity funds became receipts without accountability. Relief goods arrived late, some never at all. Yolanda’s housing projects remain unfinished, substandard, or ghost. The Pharmally scandal taught us that in the Philippines, disaster is always a business opportunity."

Quakes, storms, and the politics of forgetting

It was an ordinary Tuesday night, almost 11 p.m., the tailend of my 10-day duty at Bantayan District Hospital, 137 kilometers from Cebu City. The kind of night when fatigue turns corridors into

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 2d

Also LRP/LRS: I feel like there's a tendency for some to walk away from stuff they don't agree with and generalize the entire profession -- "I read one or two critics, and none of them are right!" and that's alongside weirdos who demand consensus, "every critic but you gave it a high score"

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sam candles🕯️ @samcandles.bsky.social · 7d

i feel like a lot of people get caught up on genuine blanket hatred of game journalists as a concept not realizing how iffy it comes across

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 3d

Letterboxd should let us rate The Game Awards. That's it. That's the skeet.

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 3d

"By flooding prisons with low-level drug offenders, [Duterte's drug war] failed to dismantle drug networks but entrenched structural crises within prisons — congestion, heightened mortality, and spiraling costs."

[OPINION] The hidden impact of Duterte’s drug war

One of the most enduring legacies of Duterte’s campaign is not just the lives lost in police operations but the systemic collapse of prisons and jails tasked with absorbing the unprecedented influx of...

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