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Rob "Wear A Spooky Mask" Rich
@robsteinone.bsky.social
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(he/him) Designer, amateur toy art critic, goofball. Writer for Slashgear, Columnist and Exploits Games Editor at Unwinnable.
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
The award for "Most Workers Laid Off" goes to...

EMBRACER GROUP
For laying off roughly 7800 workers between July 2023 and July 2025
The award for Most Workers Laid Off goes to the Embracer Group, for laying off 7800 workers in the past two years
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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robsteinone.bsky.social
Watching an awards show (particularly *this* awards show) because of potential announcement/reveal trailers is monumentally unserious. 🤷‍♂️
December 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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kdinjenzenvo.com
Over 45,000 reported jobs laid off, which doesn't even count the smaller studios in this amount.

Countless studios and projects shuttered forever.

Constant union busting tactics.

And top major studios investing countless millions and billions into gen ai.

But sure... let's put on the award show.
December 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
Security tried to stop us but we are out here in front of The Thing™️

(Posted with permission of those photographed)
A picture of several UVW workers and a NWU protester in front of the bizarre sculpture previously found in the Mojave Desert
December 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
Come by the Peacock terrace and get a leaflet, or digitally spread them around online!
THE INDUSTRY IS DEAD leaflet. Visit UVW-CWA.org!
December 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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zeboydgames.bsky.social
And all it took was a dream and almost $10 million USD.
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 7h
Best Independent Game goes to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
December 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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charlypudding.bsky.social
Gentle reminder there is nothing more Christmassy than violently traumatising capitalists until they pay their workers fairly
Patrick Stewart as Ebeneezer Scrooge
December 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
robsteinone.bsky.social
Hot take: Folks had every reason to be nervous about Prime 4's MacKenzie based on the previews, and while *he* is ultimately fine, the game does still overdo it with the hand-holding.
December 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
robsteinone.bsky.social
Watching an awards show (particularly *this* awards show) because of potential announcement/reveal trailers is monumentally unserious. 🤷‍♂️
December 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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brentosaur.bsky.social
The existence of school lunch debt is a moral failing. School meals should just be free everywhere by default.
beatgrrrl.bsky.social Beat𝗚𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗛 ✳ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 15h
Patti LaBelle and her son Zuri Kye Edwards have wiped out more than $667,000 in unpaid school lunch debt, helping thousands of children across the United States. LaBelle called the act “a victory greater than any Grammy,” emphasizing that no child should ever have to learn on an empty stomach.
December 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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mackeza.bsky.social
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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stuhorvath.com
Fuck the Game Awards. Pass it on.
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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allisonpregler.bsky.social
So from my understanding, this guy made a video saying everyone knew about Justin and were complicit in covering up assault, except for CA, who posted a chat log about said assault in their response document, and also sexual harassment is made up if it happened to a guy? Is that what he's saying???
jeremyfuscaldo.bsky.social Jeremy Fuscaldo - looking for a job and an agent @jeremyfuscaldo.bsky.social · 17h
Apparently, Nettles about CTC is such an apologist for Channel Awesome that he claims that Sean Fausz made up the story about Mike Ellis' harassment despite CA themselves confirming the incident happened and per the reason he had 'resigned.'
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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cyricz42.bsky.social
Announcement:

I will not be writing a GameFAQs guide for Yakuza Kiwami 3/Dark Ties.

Full statement below:
Hi everyone. CyricZ here. After giving myself time to reflect on my options, I’ve decided that I will not be writing a GameFAQs guide for Yakuza Kiwami 3 / Dark Ties. I will not be purchasing the game, nor playing it in any capacity. I write guides because I love writing, and I write for the games that I write for because they inspire me. The joy I find in them drives me to give my best work. If I were to write a guide entirely out of obligation or expectation, I do not believe my best work would find its way to the page. With the hiring of known sexual harasser Teruyuki Kagawa to the face and voice cast of Yakuza Kiwami 3, I do not find myself inspired by the game. The Like a Dragon series has a long-standing history of opposing sexual misconduct in all its forms and I feel this casting goes against that message. Key members of RGG Studio have refused to speak on the hiring of Kagawa after his misconduct was made more widely known. While they are by no means required to speak about this, by their silence they have sent a message that they do not view Kagawa’s misconduct as a dealbreaker for inclusion in the series cast, nor do they deem it worth addressing. This stands in contrast to steps taken in the past to replace other cast members that did not align with their values. I won’t go into further detail on the issue itself as the information is widely available via the #REMOVEKAGAWA movement. The rest of this will be about me, my guides, and my relationship with RGG Studio and the Like a Dragon series. I remain a fan of the Like a Dragon series. It’s not something I can just excise from myself. I intend to continue playing past Like a Dragon games on stream as they are some of my favorite video games. That may be subject to change in the future, but the plans are to continue playing the games on stream in my intended order, with the exception of Yakuza Kiwami 3 or Dark Ties. The only minor thing that will change with regards to my streams is that I intend to take special note during stream of the many, many instances during the series that remind us of the societal ill of sexual misconduct. As to future games put out by RGG Studio, I reserve the right to not make a decision on those at this time. That will be a “wait and see” situation, dependent on future actions or inactions by RGG Studio. Further, if things change with regards to the release of Yakuza Kiwami 3, I reserve the right to reassess all the preceding. RGG Studio still has the opportunity to do right in this situation, and I hold onto hope that they will see the best way forward. Finally, I promise to all my readers that my GameFAQs guides for the Like a Dragon series and other RGG Studio games will be going nowhere no matter what happens. Not only are they some of my best work, but if I preserve the guides with myself as the author, I remain in creative control of them. This prevents others from taking the text and redistributing it without my consent, which is something I fear would happen if I were to remove them from GameFAQs entirely. For those of you who read my guides, thank you so much for your support, and I’m sorry I will not be helping with this upcoming game. For anyone who wants to write a guide on GameFAQs for Yakuza Kiwami 3, be my guest, not that you need my permission anyway. For those of you joining me in solidarity against Kagawa and this release, I thank you all for sticking with it. Your commitment has inspired this. Be good to each other, Scott “CyricZ” Zdankiewicz
December 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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brentosaur.bsky.social
Found another pair of these girls if anyone is after them.
December 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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jordanwminor.bsky.social
corpos trying to "work with" AI slop be like
December 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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quatoria.bsky.social
This was straightforwardly an attempted murder.

Their hope was that he would freeze to death. Don't look away - ICE just tried to execute this man.
longtimehistory.bsky.social LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.

Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.

Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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thomasnoppers.com
Some of my logos and titles.
Call me if you need something looking this fun.
A collection of playful and colourful logos. Some pixelated. They look like they are for toys and videogames.
December 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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georgieboysaxe.bsky.social
I’m live right meow!
presspauseradio.bsky.social Press Pause Radio @presspauseradio.bsky.social · 1d
Hey everyone—We're about to go live with Sin & Punishment! Tune in & hang out!

Check out the streams/follow us here:
Twitch (shorturl.at/SAyYh)
YouTube (shorturl.at/vjrO4)
#Twitch #YouTube #Sin&Punishment #N64 #videogames #videogamestreams
December 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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direkris.itch.io
If you hate Chu-Chu you hate powerful feminine energy
A bad phone capture of Xenogears (1998). Chu-Chu, a small pink furry hamster-like creature, says, “Uh hmm… Chu-Chu’s not a good girl. I’m in that dangerous age right now.”
December 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
7. Sorry We're Closed

Beautiful and surreal and extremely queer Survival Horror game that has some truly wondrous worldbuilding, some great puzzle mechanics, and excellent characters, I loved this one and hope you will too!
Save 25% on Sorry We're Closed on Steam
Sorry We're Closed is an eccentric story-driven survival horror game about demons, angels and what happens when both sides collide. A mix of classic fixed-camera exploration and arcade-style shooting ...
store.steampowered.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Okay, I'll make a thread of 50 indie games which I'll add to over the week, staring with.

1. Carimara

Play as a little goblin creature summoned by a witch to investigate what's haunting her cottage, it's a creepy bite-size mystery akin to the Frog Detective games, and has gorgeous visuals.
December 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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ladynightscale.bsky.social
Correction cus just did the math myself on my lunch break!

- 15 shillings is worth 75 new pence
- 75 pence in 1840 (when Christmas carol takes place) is worth 83.18 GBP on 2025
- at a rate of 1.34 USD to GBP, thats 111.46 USD per week

Original memes math is way off!
Screenshot showing 15 shillings is worth 75 pence Screenshot from the bank of england inflation calculator showing how 75 pence in 1843 is worth 83.18 gbp Screenshot of googles currency converter showing 1 GBP is 1.34 USD, thus resulting in $111.46 USD per week
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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ladynightscale.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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thetrin.blacksky.app
I'm hoping for more articles on this situation, because we cannot stay quiet: www.gamesradar.com/games/simula...
Publisher says Valve rejected complaint about hateful Steam review: "'Has Muslims, not recommended' is literal racism, so there should be no conversation needed"
"I just don't know what to do about this"
www.gamesradar.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM