I may have just hacked my brain: Teams is turn-based Slack. I get it now.
Charlie Hall
@charliehall.bsky.social
Writer, editor, and journalist. https://charliehallwriter.com/
all my besties — er, i mean, mothership freelancers — wrote about their favorite feminist games www.mothership.blog/whats-in-the...
What's in the feminist games canon?
It's complicated! But here are some recs from our regular contributors
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In other news, anyone see any deals on the Daggerheart core book at Gen Con gimme a holler, yeah?
I woke up today with the knowledge that I can have my own damn thoughts about WotC and D&D that I just get to keep to myself now...
for 404 media, i wrote about video game clones—who makes them, how they make them, and where the line gets drawn between inspiration and cloning
404 Media@404media.co · 4w agoVibecoding has made it possible to create a cheap rip off of a video game in just a few hours.
Flying squirrel at the suet feeder! I’m a foot away. Surprised’em bringing in the oriole feeder.
WOTC and Hasbro can still voluntarily recognize our union at any point up to the NLRB election. We encourage you to sign our letter of support, and make your voice heard. cwa.org/uwotcletter
Tell Wizards of the Coast to Recognize Our Union!
The workers at Magic The Gathering: Arena have voted overwhelmingly to form the union: United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC)! We are asking Wizards and Hasbro management to voluntarily recognize ...
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Instead of voluntarily recognizing our union, they've forced us into a redundant and drawn-out election process, rather than listening to the overwhelming majority of employees who signed our initial letter to management.
Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa
More good stuff from @spookysyntax.bsky.social who is out there doing the work. A thoroughly sourced piece.
Wargamer@wargamer.com · 3mo agoBoard games are bigger and more welcoming than ever, but women still face an uphill battle for the right kind of representation. www.wargamer.com/board-games/... #BoardGames #Wingspan #Tabletop
I had a great time chatting with Mollie, and the her article is fantastic! Definitely worth a read & some soul searching.
Wargamer@wargamer.com · 3mo agoBoard games are bigger and more welcoming than ever, but women still face an uphill battle for the right kind of representation. www.wargamer.com/board-games/... #BoardGames #Wingspan #Tabletop
🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.
i've now read this comic three times. one of my favorite things @mothership.blog has commissioned so far. (also the final panel would be a perfect tattoo 🤔)
Comic: Pokopia is my post-gender utopia
The most recent Pokémon game takes a lax attitude toward gender and pronouns
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… and Gordon Shumway as Star Fox!
Jesse Vitelli@mamavitelli.bsky.social · 3mo agohey why does he look like that
Paste Magazine was a tour de force in games criticism, and @garrettmartin.bsky.social is a legend. In the replies, share your favorite works from the Paste Magazine/AV Club/Endless Mode archives.
Polygon died a year ago today.
Dr. Emily Friedman@friede.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe end of the AP book currently swings out to be an elegy for all the games media that I thought would be around to help this book into the world, because the book wouldn’t exist without @charliehall.bsky.social helping me adapt my voice to a new form, & so many peers, all of whom deserve better.
hey. thanks! thanks to everybody who wrote for us, thanks to Eli, Moises, Holly, Jenn, Gita, and Maddy for helping edit it, thanks to Kirk for passing the baton, thanks to Chris for starting it up, and thanks to everybody who ever read it. see ya around.
Paste was among my first bylines back, what… 15 years ago? It was an early home to so many people I respected in this space. This sucks. Garrett doesn’t deserve this shit.
"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.
Been saving these for a special occasion. First one went well.
the story made the front page of today’s newspaper! its always very excited to see your work in print. i walked two miles to try to find a paper this morning and failed, so settling for digital for now
Nicole Carpenter@nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 3mo agoit felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...
Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa
Announcing United Wizards of the Coast - CWA!
MTG Arena workers announce unionization as United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, calling on WOTC to voluntarily recognize their union and begin collective bargaining.
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it felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...
A Virtual Escape for Rikers Inmates
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Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign onto our open letter in solidarity with Hachette Workers Coalition!
To the management at Hachette Book Group, We are authors, publishing professionals, readers, and union supporters, and we are proud to express our full support for the Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC...
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Below is a statement from the unionized workers of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
That’s roughly a half million a head. Give or take.
AmericanTruckSongs10@ethangach.bsky.social · 4mo agoAdweek reports that Polygon was sold to Valnet for $20 million.
Huh. Well, I got COBRA at least. For a little while.
AmericanTruckSongs10@ethangach.bsky.social · 4mo agoAdweek reports that Polygon was sold to Valnet for $20 million.
