Today, Microsoft dropped the price of Game Pass Ultimate from $30 to $23 and PC Game Pass to $14 from $16.50. However, new Call of Duty games are no longer included with Game Pass.

Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers ​to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad i...

Total workplace surveillance. Coming now to a tech worker near you, and soon to workers everywhere

AI is the industrialization of the production of management and oversight itself

Well that change happened quickly, and we're here for it!

The Head of Xbox Agrees: Game Pass is Too Expensive Plus all the winners from the BAFTA awards

The new head of Xbox said in a memo to employees that Game Pass is too expensive. Find out the details. Plus, check out all the winners from the BAFTAs. #GamingNews #Gaming thegamesletter.com/the-head-of-...

This is fantastic.

I am so glad I dropped the Marvelverse after Endgame. No way I’m going back to anything except to watch Winter Soldier again.

As someone who is also there, it’s also the age where you realize how incredible ibuprofen is.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Spend the Night: Perfect Tides: Station to Station We take a look at the narrative-driven point-and-click adventure Perfect Tides: Station to Station

Our last Review Haiku for #InternationalHaikuDay is for Perfect Tides: Station to Station:

Finding your way through
The dilemmas of college
Learning as you go

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For the record, Culver’s hasn’t.

Spend the Night: Having a brew with Ale Abbey There’s a new bishop in town, and he realizes the importance of a frosty brew to your monastery.  Ale Abbey is a tycoon game where you attempt to make a profit for your church by selling beer to the ...

Happy International Haiku Poetry Day! For each game review we do, we create a haiku! Today we'll share some of those with you, starting with Ale Abbey:

Brewing for peasants
Monks and nuns have all the fun
Best enjoyed with beer

Check out the full review: thegamesletter.com/ale-abbey-re...

This is like training on Enron emails. Do you really want to learn from organizations that failed?

Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now | TechCrunch Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goes to since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes.

I am going to spend way too much time enjoying this music. techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/t...

@videogameschronicle.com @gamedeveloper.bsky.social and @thegamesletter.bsky.social

I LOVE THIS NEWS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!

Ahead of my NYU talk on the history/future of games journalism, I want to test a theory about how small/big games media is:

Please share links to where you get games reporting/criticism.

They can be a site, blog, YouTuber, streamer, social handle, podcast. They must be places/people you trust.

I'm not sure why this site occasionally changes my settings to turn back on auto-play video, but it's starting to piss me off.

UW athletic director Chris McIntosh abandons ship in my latest cartoon for the Wisconsin State Journal.
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University of Wisconsin is one of those schools. Ugh.

Check Out This Showcase of New Indie Games The biggest announcements from the Triple-i Interactive showcase

The Triple-i showcase showed off new and upcoming independent games last week. We have the details, along with all the latest gaming news. Subscribe today! #GamingNews #Gaming thegamesletter.com/triple-i-sho...

The greatest lie I ever believed was that local newspapers died because the internet made them irrelevant. Newspapers were wounded by the internet, they DIED because of private equity vulture owners, full stop. One of the first industries targeted.

(Read “Bad Company.”)

Doc Rivers out as Bucks head coach after 50-loss season, and more changes could be coming in Milwaukee Doc Rivers, recently selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame, is stepping down after a 32-50 season in 2025-26

And some good news on a Sunday night! Bye Doc, you won't be missed as a coach. www.cbssports.com/nba/news/doc...

Chris McIntosh steps down as Wisconsin's Athletic Director MADISON, Wis. --- Wisconsin Athletic Director Chris McIntosh is stepping down, as first reported by the Wisconsin State Journal, he’s taking a job with the Big Ten.

Wow, some big news on a Sunday night. www.channel3000.com/news/chris-m...

There are a lot of writers I would like to read more of, but the moment I see "Substack" I'm like, er, well that's too bad.

If you are on Substack and wondering why, here's a primer, with some options for other platforms.
leavesubstack.com

100% true, and I still really dig ‘em.

Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024

Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this

Congrats and excited to see what’s next for you!

We're on strike for a fair contract today (April 8), so please honor our digital picket line and don't visit ProPublica's website. Here are some things you can do instead:

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After I posted, that was my literal thought.