I've been thinking about this post for a couple of days, and I think it's pretty close to the mark on what's happening with James Gunn and Skydance. Larry Ellison's pissed off about the '26 Blue Wave so he's turning the DCU into a Pureflix special.

ceej@ceej.online · last wk.

conservatives believe popular culture shapes the world rather than reflects it, and are therefore doomed to smashing every cultural mirror they can find without once addressing the subject. elon bought twitter because he thinks you can control the weather by owning the rain gauge

THE BELKO EXPERIMENT (2016)

David J@damjef.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Office Safety” If you don’t squeal with laughter five seconds into this you may be clinically dead.

In a properly ordered design environment, the final boss of RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM would also be the end of the modern insistence upon parry mechanics. Leon Kennedy successfully parried a tentacle strike the size of a subway car. There's nowhere to go from there. It's over. We must return to dodge.

One Day Soon There's Gonna Be a Reckoning@edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 6d ago

One of the weirdest things about modern action games is how much it hates the idea of the player blocking. Dodging? Awesome. Parry? They love that shit. Blocking? You either don't have the option at all or you're actively punished for it. The enemies, of course, can block. Baffling design choice.

Is this anything?

Inevitability isn’t what it used to be.

Seattle schools to block AI tools, limit screen time

Seattle Public Schools plans to block some AI tools and Minecraft, limit elementary school screen time and restrict YouTube access.

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We are putting trans players in Madden. You’ll have to pick an LGBTQ+ flag to install Call of Duty. Stellar Blade 2 is now about a non binary identifying Android named Sage. Concord’s servers are being brought back online. Veilguard 2 has been greenlit.

Watching Asmongold cry over last night's midterm results wasn't just fun, it was also likely the moment the long 2016 finally ended. www.garbageday.email/p/welcome-to...

"In this world, Texas is blue, Nathan Fielder is a movie star, and Red Bull comes in pistachio flavor. Fascinating"

Absolutely feeling libbed up tonight. Beautiful and wonderful. But I also want to see results. Many people in the current admin better be in prison by this time next year, heads rolling type shit. Data Centers hollowed out, woke police on every corner. Pronouns back in every bio. Invent a new woke.

Senate flip NC ???

I used to make a lot of jokes about how hard the PlayStation 5 was to fit into an entertainment center, but man, that wasn't intended as a challenge.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2w ago

XBOX Series X-BITE: a playable XBOX Series X swallowed whole by an alligator - available to win by sweepstakes news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/1...

I was always going to vote, but the political spam text I got that started with "our records show you haven't voted yet" did test my resolve in a contrarian sort of way. (I dropped off my ballot last night. Yes, I voted no on all of Heywood's amendments.)

Just deleted a couple terabytes of ai slop 😌

#sci-fi Bluesky: Years ago, I saw Robert Parker cite Lois McMaster Bujold for a particular phrase: "the right of the author to come up with a better idea," allegedly used to explain seeming continuity violations in her work. Anyone happen to know where/when she said that?

The most obnoxious thing about RESIDENT EVIL 4 is that about every 5 years until the end of time, a new group of fans will age into the game and start making all the jokes about its premise that the rest of us had exhausted by 2005. Yes, yes. This shouldn't have been a solo mission. Very clever.

It's Halloween! OoOoOoOo so scary~ We put together a list of spooky games several Skybox contributors think are worth your time. That's Seasonal Content, baby! Read on: skyboxcritics.com/2026/10/31/n...

Nation of Curation: Halloween 2026 Edition

We're celebrating Halloween 2026 with with a curated list of scary games the Skybox crew thinks you should play!

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Thrill as I try to land a running gag about impersonating a minor character from THE SUFFERING without actually telling the audience it's what I'm doing, so for two hours I'm just lapsing into Kevin Spacey's accent from HOUSE OF CARDS at irregular intervals for no obvious reason whatsoever

One Day Soon There's Gonna Be a Reckoning@edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today, I recorded a podcast about The Suffering with @stolisomancer.bsky.social, @murph04.bsky.social, and @broganchattin.bsky.social. I don't know who else can say they're talking about The Suffering in Big 2026, but it's how you know the Daydreamcast boys know ball

As a little treat, watch Lifeforce tonight.

Indies and original IP blew up in 2026. More than half of the games that sold more than 500,000 units in their first month were the start of a new series, and 43% were indies. https://bit.ly/4i8HKl5

I'd also add that the COVID sales boom attracted attention from investors/executives who don't understand and don't care to learn about the games industry, but did not subsequently exit the space. They simply kept slamming square pegs into round holes.

Brendan Sinclair@brendansinclair.bsky.social · 3w ago

I believe what's happened to games in the last few years is the effect of a period of irrational enthusiasm for the field as if pandemic lockdowns would continue forever, followed by a complete collapse of faith in its potential to deliver absurd (or even significant) growth for investors.

i hope whatever gaming industry is born after this crash is kinder, more sustainable, and more labor militant than anything that ever came before

She's "racing to save" the Xbox from... basically herself. One of my takeaways from covering PNW gaming news for the last nine years is that the threats to Xbox are coming from inside the house. From the Activision Blizzard acquisition onward, they'd have done better by throwing darts at a wall.

Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social · 4w ago

Xbox is currently leading the entire video game industry in... profiles of its CEO. Day ending in Y? Another CEO profile. Amazing. Anyways, "...the price of the Helix console has internally been projected to cost consumers between $1,200 and $1,800..." So, good luck with that.

The Michael Myers mask in HALLOWEEN started as a Captain Kirk mask that they cut up and painted white. He's technically William Shatner in kabuki makeup.

Amy "Thunderjam" Chase@amythunderjam.bsky.social · 4w ago

We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.

Only 12 ghosting days left until Halloween.

Last month we lost our jobs. This month we made new ones. Introducing X BUTTON: an independent gaming network from three ex-IGN employees. A new weekly Nintendo podcast! A new weekly video game podcast! And that’s just the start, but we can’t do it without your help! www.patreon.com/cw/XButtonShow

I haven't played in years, but nobody I knew in college could handle her dumb little tantrum move.

Just Kidding

ALT: Just Kidding

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coil@coil.bsky.social · 4w ago

Fuck a zodiac sign, who's your main in Soul Calibur? With apologies*, *not really

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Interesting how we're starting to see a few AAs/indies that are very clearly inspired by PACIFIC DRIVE.

To articulate a thought I've been having for some time: It baffles me why people keep saying "AI will let us make games faster" as if that's a desirable thing. The only people who care about that are shareholders. Meanwhile, anyone on Steam is drinking from a firehose.

Oh, for fuck's sake-- [leans out office door] GUYS! I found the Tzimisce Archon! Yeah, she's not even hidden that well!

K. Thor Jensen@kthorjensen.bsky.social · last mo.

what the FUCK is happening here