Syrenne

@syrenne.com

Senior Producer in video games. Lesbian. Friend to all Woops, Quags, and Clods.

One of the saddest things things about studio closings is fans clamoring to save the IP. Never the artists who made it No. What matters is The Franchise, so they can have more games. Games are nothing without the people who make them, but all gamers care about is their toys. It's really gross.

Hayes Madsen@solfleet.bsky.social · 20h ago

Does it need to be said that Mass Effect shouldn’t exist without the developers and team that was working on this game? Either they come back and make the game they were, or Mass Effect dies. kotaku.com/mass-effect-...

When I think of Epic the first thing I think of is the massive old mall they bought in Cary, demolished, then ghosted the city on. It's one of the first things you see when you go there via 40 East. Just a toxic flat plain. They don't respond to town officials. www.wral.com/news/investi...

Cary Towne Center still sits vacant two years after Epic Games HQ was set to be complete

Once Epic Games bought the property, the plan was to complete its new headquarters by 2024. Two years later, there has been no new development.

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the response to the lack of infrastructure and tech stack in game development being “ai will fix it” is so detached from reality. it’s almost like we should have made cool tools for solo devs this whole time if this was really the goal. you’re telling me you intended to end up here? that’s your hill

Wisconsin is one of two states I've lived in whose insularity leads to the kind of evolutionary cultural craziness you find in animals in the Galapagos or language in isolated settlements. This is what hath been wrought in the name of sausage

Sign on the AmFam concourse advertising POSTSEASON EXCLUSIVE: BRAT RANGOON

At this point, it's become mildly fascinating to me that one of the easiest Black related "sells" of all times is constantly fumbled (and thats not even touching how dire the games industry seems to be atm which is another topic entirely).

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 4d ago

Put Blade in the bag and nobody gets hurt! https://kotaku.com/arkane-devs-say-blade-is-nearly-finished-but-if-it-cant-find-a-buyer-soon-the-studio-will-close-2000749096

Ethan Klein dressing up his wife and mistress as Thing 1 and Thing 2 while he was Cat in the Hat for Halloween and knowing his wife didn't know is a level of evil that almost enters the same zip code as his wife leaving a desk job to terrorize Palestinians

it's cool that you can send "STOP" to instantly block an automated political fundraising text message so they have to text you from a different number five minutes later