I really dislike this growing trend of notable industry figures adopting influencer-style attitudes towards dissenting opinions. It’s not healthy and it’s just lame as hell.

I'm very jealous of people getting to watching Speed Racer in IMAX today. The movie is so magical.

Getting back into Tekken 8, and I think I still got it. 😎

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

Supriya Ganesh's exit from The Pitt underscores TV's broader representation problem Supriya Ganesh's exit from The Pitt underscores TV's broader representation problem

wrote a little bit about THE PITT writing out Dr. Samira Mohan, the outcry around it, & the conversations we ~should~ be having more of about this whole situation:

We’re going LIVE Wednesday at 8PM (ET) to help get the crew to Summer Game Fest!

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Why Journalists Are Going Indie (with Maddy Myers) Maddy and Sam get into the launch of Mothership and the importance of owning one's own work.

Maddy and Sam get into the launch of Mothership and the importance of owning one's own work.

Acquired Burn Out

Kotaku hires Rebekah Valentine as Senior Reporter as site expands under new ownership Owner Keleops says that traffic has doubled in under a year; further hires planned to drive further growth

I work at Kotaku now! :)

You can go watch back today's KFGD to hear me talk about it a little if you want. You could also read my alma mater @gibiz.bsky.social to learn more! www.gamesindustry.biz/kotaku-hires...

For the first time in our 9-year history:

WE ARE HIRING!

We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits!

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

How the Strokes ended their second Coachella set!
#TheStrokes #Coachella

Okami 20th anniversary website updated with new art www.capcom-games.com/o-kami/20th/...

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Salute to an all-time tweet

What's really funny about them trying to claim it is that this game is very anti-fascist -- but I don't think they're gonna dig too deep into the game, lol.

Magnetic Rose from Memories is one of the all-time great anime shorts.

If you are able to help support our site migration that would be amazing! I am very bad at asking for help but right now, @butwhytho.net needs it.

We have to get set up on a new host, work with a dev, and our old host still has not refunded us the $3k they took.

Anything helps!

Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.”

America’s Mayor can’t miss.

A lot of factors to consider here, including that this isn’t a live service game, but I think the constant doomerism from media that doesn’t even ask developers their metric of success is not particularly useful.

We chatted about our time playing Relooted.
Glad I was able to get some insight about the game and its production from @benjamming.bsky.social visit to UCLA last month!

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

The value of authentic LGBTQ narratives Authentic representation can only happen if developers have the determination to make it happen.

I got another write-up on Game Developer! This was a breakdown of one of the best panels of GDC 2026, I was really proud to put this article together.
www.gamedeveloper.com/design/data-...

Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat in All The President’s Men telling the Washington Post what he knows about the Avengers: Doomsday trailer

The leaks are already starting to get out in the underground parking garage at CinemaCon

That's not what unc means: aftermath.site/unc-aave-afric...

happy thursday folks

I got a new post up for Game Developer! I spoke with the dev team behind Pragmata to learn how they made Capcom's take on a combat-puzzle action game.

The value of authentic LGBTQ narratives Authentic representation can only happen if developers have the determination to make it happen.

I got another write-up on Game Developer! This was a breakdown of one of the best panels of GDC 2026, I was really proud to put this article together.
www.gamedeveloper.com/design/data-...

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

The layoffs at Marvel have me pissed. Wes is one of the best in the industry and has been deeply influential on concept art as a profession. He is not only a veteran of the MCU and Transformers films but also is the designer of the Iconic NCR Ranger design from Fallout New Vegas.