Sony's making an animated Bloodborne movie with the production company that was tapped to make the Death Stranding movie. And also, uh, JackSepticEye.
h/t @faith.bsky.social who saw this reveal on the ground at CinemaCon 🤩
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I’ve been so down on ASOIAF and House of the Dragon didn’t help, but Knight of the Seven Kingdoms really made me want to go back and rewatch GoT. Hope he likes it!
Gamers aren’t alone in rejecting gen AI — game developers oppose using it to generate things like art assets, but other uses, from admin to code assistance, have cautious support. My report on AI in the games industry from GDC 2026:
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😂 the city is TOO good. I walk the streets thinking “what are we even doing, America”
Here with the mighty @cnet.com team for day one of #MWC26, my first time at the show (and Barcelona!), reporting on phones, wearables, and maybe a wee bit of AI.
It’s almost the end of Day One and I r seen enough to write half a dozen stories.
Ahead of MWC 2026 and all the exciting new phones, @katiecollins.bsky.social casts back to a tale of a Samsung phone from 2012 that survived a decade in the Arizona desert — and the detective work to find who it belonged to
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Now that I'm on the other side of my forced hiatus (no we're not unpacked, mind your business!), it feels like the right time to drop a reminder that I am open to new clients and available for full-time work.
Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.
Anti-homeless benches in Pokemon Legends ZA
why is there anti-homeless architecture in pokemon
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Kicking off 2026 with a look at the gaming landscape and how generative AI has ensured gamers can't trust that the games they play are completely made by humans
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
If you want to learn more about how game developers & the games industry are engaging with climate change and sustainability, preorder The Game Needs to Change, due out in 2026 (Lente graciously submitted quotes for my chapter):
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In this and other stories (including some I wrote), Lente explains she didn’t set out to make a game about sustainability, but the themes are intrinsic to her game, Spilled! It’s one of many ways game devs are incorporating caring for the world + the impact of climate change in gameplay.
Love this story from @jacksonwryan.com about Lente, a game designer who developed a game about cleaning up waterways on a boat while, yes, she was living on a boat. More lovely stories about the people behind games by talented writers, please!!
CNET’s @outonalumb.bsky.social took the #OnePlus15‘s cameras for a spin around LA. This is OnePlus’ first phone since its partnership with Hasselblad ended. Take a look at David’s photos to see what OnePlus is doing without the iconic Swedish camera maker
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I’ve written about sustainability in the games industry and this book will be a great comprehensive overview — perfect for folks wondering how games will clash with climate change. I’ve even got a chapter in it covering games media’s role!
give greta thunberg a gundam
I should’ve been more specific: high end for max battery life/efficiency (aka laptops) formats
Qualcomm's also got a pair of new PC chips: the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (high end) and the Snapdragon X2 Elite (slightly less high end). Aside from performance/efficiency upgrades, it's powering up Agentic AI:
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Qualcomm debuted the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip with performance & effiicency upgrades plus extras, like a new video codec that lets you pull still images at photo quality from footage. (Also a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 coming later, presumably slightly less premium.)
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In Maui, I’m at the #snapdragonsummit2025 keynote with @katiecollins.bsky.social hearing about what Qualcomm’s got in store for next year’s phones and PCs via their chips
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Very excited to try the new Star Wars mixed reality playset experience - my colleague @outonalumb.bsky.social checked it out in LA, and I’m envious www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...
If only so many of the writers we need right now hadn't lost their jobs
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Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.
ZDCG demands accountability for continued attacks on media workers in Gaza:
Happy birthday Manda! Plants, nurturing, growth for next year — all the good metaphors for 39 🙌
This sucks so much, you and everyone at IGN deserve better, Amelia 💪
