If you're part of the BioWare or Sims community and want to talk about how those studios' queer characters and themes have impacted you and your fears for those series moving forward after this sale, I'd love to chat with you for a Kotaku story. Can be reached here or email kshepard@kotaku.com

Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterday

Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

The U.S. publisher has been taken private in a deal worth $55 billion.

gamedeveloper.com

This is ... horrific

Lady Yapper (KJ Colt)@moistenedtart.bsky.social · last wk.

futurism.com/artificial-i... Excuse me while I go cry

still one of my favorite things I've ever written haha www.polygon.com/lord-of-the-...

Queer readings of The Lord of the Rings are not accidents

Following breadcrumbs to find ourselves, in history and fiction

polygon.com

Thancred said get behind me folks with sensory issues I'll protect you

Every trans person who comes out makes the world better. Full stop.

With FanFest just a day away, a gentle reminder for all FFXIV players to treat information in it and in Live Letters as if it were spoilers. Because it is. It's literally not in the game yet. Please don't plaster all social media with it; some people want to experience the game when they play it.

Happy Disability Pride Month everyone~ 🎨 - CourtneyAhnDesign @courtneyahndesign.bsky.social

I refuse to let this evil monster worm his way into the industry again. Professionalism be damned Vic needs to face justice for the rest of his life.

A Dragon Ball voice actor loses his appeal of his sexual harassment defamation suit

Vic Mignogna's defamation suit against two women who accused him of sexual misconduct has put a spotlight on sexual harassment in the Japanese animation industry.

npr.org

revolver ocelthot@rnaboursiii.bsky.social · 2w ago

Vic got superstar treatment at his wife's former place of employment's afternoon talk show today. It came on a TV while I was in a meeting at work and it was extremely surreal. There's 24 minutes of this and iirc he didn't get this kind of treatment even when he was actively working in VA.

I wish Steam would just let me hide every game with an AI disclosure. I don't care why AI was used for it, it's an instant no from me.

last call for this! would love to speak to as many folks as possible!

Luke Plunkett@lukeplunkett.com · last mo.

Hi! I'm looking to speak to anyone who is finding ways to resist/work around mandatory AI usage policies at work. Mostly games industry-related, but happy to speak to anyone adjacent as well! Published quotes can of course be anon if desired. DM me here or email at luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

oh god oh fuck

Over on Twitter, the usual group of people are in total meltdown mode over this, but she was his stunt double during the scene with the Laestrygonian giants. The giants were all played by people over 7 feet tall. The doubles they used for Odysseus' crew were mostly under 5 feet tall.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hell yeah

(meme from link)

NESbot@nesbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

Team Cherry's lead programmer came out as trans www.resetera.com/threads/15...

What do you fucking mean they embroidered all the sprites

TodayOnSteam@todayonsteam.com · 2w ago

Scarlet Deer Inn https://store.steampowered.com/app/1553260/

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

This is art, to me.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy

if you fuck up like this you failed the test. no more car for you. it's going in the crusher

Harvey J. Miller@mobileharv.bsky.social · 2w ago

In other words they are doing their job

Happy 40th birthday to Aliens

Ripley's Shock: 57 Years Later in Aliens

Alt: Ripley's Shock: 57 Years Later in Aliens

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No backing track was added to this video: LOUD WARNING.

Me with my gf if I had a gf

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

wired.com