CONGRATS BECKYYYYY!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

We are racing the clock! Help us meet our fundraising goal by 11AM PDT today (Tues. 4/14/26)!

You can donate at locusmag.com/igg26 or via our bio! We still have a ton of cool items you can claim as a reward for donating. Catch them before they go!

MECO confirmed. Oh my. So good. And… holy stage separation! #ArtemisII

If anyone is hiring for a game designer with 23 years of experience, hit me up.

Farscape started 27 years ago today.

"Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew."

SFWA Career Mentor Questionnaire Greetings, SFWA Mentorship Program Mentor Applicant! We're happy that you're interested in our program, and we're gratified to see you “paying it forward.” One of the Mentorship Program's goals is to…

MENTORS WANTED: Help newer writers in the SFWA Career Mentorship Program! Apply by February 21 to provide 3 months of professional development. No critiques required, just advice!

You do *not* need to be a SFWA member. Apply here: 👇️

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"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

This is superb. Ian McKellen delivers a blistering pro-immigration monologue written by Shakespeare, that makes you want to punch the air with exhilaration. Wow, wow, wow.

An absolute must-watch. (Starts at 20:10 but the entire interview is a joy.) youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag

❤️

portal and portal 2!

A little black cat with an ARC of Thrall

Alright, I’ve got THRALL ARCs burning a hole in my living room floor. Who’s ready for a giveaway?
🩸RT to enter
🩸USA only (I’m so sorry! Tariffs ruin everything)
🩸I’ll pull 3 winners next Monday: one from Twitter, one from Bluesky, and one from Threads

Stop doomscrolling and watch a rescue mission in fascist territory instead.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

I can also see you rocking the 3 ghosts that haunt scrooge.

krampus!

yeah I think that one was my favorite too. He does all the voices really well!

aww I miss you too!!! might be time to listen to some poirot before bed again 〰️

Writing for Games was a part of the stolen data set (and copyright was registered on publication). Just in case this feels distant to you: they stole from me. They burned carbon on my words.

Photo of Deva, a white woman with straight brown hair and large black cat-eye glasses, holding a finished copy of House of Dusk and smiling.

Today is THE DAY. You can now actually order for-real copies of my adult fantasy debut HOUSE OF DUSK in hardback, ebook and audio format pretty much anywhere books are sold! Lots of links and blurbs here: devafagan.com/house-of-dusk/

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky

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this is going to be delicious and terrible

Keith David reacting to the announcement that he will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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a game designed in 5 minutes by

Calvin Wong

You thought it would be fine to just put (make this part better later) in the draft. Surely future You can come up with something

BOOM! a portal opens in your room! Future You has traveled in time to stop your sloppy placeholder!

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

Stay to the very end.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

more and more elements of the games industry are going to align themselves with gambling in the coming years, in a normalization of market failure. it is crucial to build a new paradigm for games and it must be ideologically opposed to this one. restructuring around gambling is anti-culture.

Purple-streaked background with the SAG-AFTRA logo in white at the top-center. Beneath it reads "VIDEO GAME CONTRACT TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED" in white and yellow lettering.

We have reached a tentative agreement with the video game bargaining group, which includes some of the largest video game companies in the world, and we are hopeful that our video game strike will be suspended in the coming days. #SagAftraStrong ow.ly/wZzx50W6Lwv

hit the iced coffee so hard this morning i gave myself brain feeze. 🤸‍♀️

in 2025 two different popular SFF shows have used pregnancy/children to both remove female characters from the story and emotionally galvanize the male main character. we've gone from fridge to incubator y'all.