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kelly weng

@pen-ultimate.bsky.social

game designer. formerly @ LOTRO. 🌟 they/them/他. opinions are my own.
https://kellyweng.carrd.co/

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kelly weng @pen-ultimate.bsky.social · May 9

made a short twine game recently about a conversation that never happened between two old friends. content warning for implied death.
pen-ultimate.itch.io/to-someone-l...

also hi, first post on here! i never post anymore but will try doing so here and on twitter. :]

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Nathan Grayson

@nathangrayson.bsky.social

months after the BDS movement added microsoft to its list of priority targets, prompting a reckoning among members of the games press and a game removal by one indie studio, devs at arkane, a microsoft studio, have publicly spoken out against microsoft's complicity in genocide

“Arkane Studios’ STJV section joins BDS and the No Azure for Apartheid in their demands for Microsoft to stop supporting the Israeli regime,” Arkane workers wrote. “We think that Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide, and as Microsoft employees, we don’t want to be part of this sinister project for Gaza. Moreover, we think it’s our responsibility, as tech workers, to raise the alarm, and to ensure that our technologies are used to make the voices of the oppressed heard, and not facilitate their demise. Finally, in a more direct manner, we think this could very well affect our life directly, by reducing the audience for our games, thus directly compromising the viability of Xbox Games, and, in the long run, our very own jobs.”

The letter includes a list of specific demands, which echo those of No Azure For Apartheid: an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, termination of all ongoing or future contracts with Israeli occupation forces, disclosure of all ties to the Israeli military, protection of pro-Palestinian speech within the company, and “a transparent, independent and public audit of Microsoft technologies, contracts, services and investments to make sure they are not used to violate the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, and Microsoft’s own Human Rights Statement, in Palestine or anywhere else.”

August 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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Aftermath

@aftermath.site

Hell yeah, another Blizzard union
aftermath.site/blizzard-union...

August 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM

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Anna 🌿👁️

@annacwebs.bsky.social

The people yearn for video game to stage adaptations tbh

August 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM

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Gaur🔜TFF

@gaur.beast.sex

This doesn’t mean to stop calling by the way. The execs in those meetings are shifting the levers back ever so slightly so they can see where it is we’ll stop calling.

Don’t stop calling.

itch.io @itch.io · Jul 31

itch.io/t/5149036/re...

Reindexing adult NSFW content - Developer Updates

Today, we are re-indexing free adult NSFW content . We are still in ongoing discussions with payment processors and will be re-introducing paid content slowly to ensure we can confidently support the

itch.io

August 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM

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Rock Paper Shotgun

@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social

Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material

After delisting thousands of games with adult or NSFW sexual material, indie store Itch are looking to move away from Paypal and Stripe.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

July 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM

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Iantos

@iantos.bsky.social

Maybe we could find out.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · Jul 24

Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?

We got like way more people than that don't we?

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Jul 24

ok then. one angle of attack then needs to be actively bombarding Visa and Mastercard's phone numbers and emails.

are customer support phone numbers/emails the best avenue to start with or is there a better option?

July 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM

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Brandon Sheffield

@brandon.insertcredit.com

Might be a good time to remind folks of the No ICE in California itch bundle raising funds for the immigrant defenders law center (or you can donate to them directly) itch.io/b/3110/no-ic...

A screenshot of the no ice in California front page bundle showing it has made $37, 630 of its $50k goal

July 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM

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More Perfect Union

@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Microsoft is about to lay off another 9,000 workers.

This news follows two waves of layoffs in May and June, where Microsoft fired more than 6,000 employees.

The company made $88 billion in profits last year.

July 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM

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Aftermath

@aftermath.site

Layoffs begin at Xbox
aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-july

July 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM

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anima interactive

@anima-interactive.com

The journey begins. Take Us North is a narrative-driven game inspired by real-world stories that follows the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the US-Mexico border.

Back it now on Kickstarter and help humanize migrant stories: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tak...

Take Us North

A narrative adventure/survival game that follows the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the US-Mexico border

www.kickstarter.com

June 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM

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Rebekah Valentine

@duckvalentine.bsky.social

really, really upsetting to see what's been happening at EA over the last several months. it feels like it's every month just about, another thing shut down.

www.ign.com/articles/ea-...