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Ethan Anderson
@okayea.bsky.social
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Writing about games. Words at GameSpot, IGN, PCGamesN | Stressed Raptors fan | 🇨🇦🇯🇲 | ethanaand@gmail.com
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okayea.bsky.social
The new Pokémon has me feeling optimistic, so I wrote a bit about it 🙂‍↕️
September 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
okayea.bsky.social
It’s a great time to be a Tales fan 🙂‍↕️
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · Aug 19
Tales of Xillia Remastered confirmed, out Oct 31st, 2025
August 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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shinycaseyd.bsky.social
We’ve lost a lot of my favorite people to work with who were the best at what they did at IGN today.

If you have opportunities, please consider my colleagues who were let go today.
ignunion.bsky.social IGN Union @ignunion.bsky.social · Aug 4
Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:
Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.
August 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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lifebarmag.com
⏰ LIFEBAR ISSUE 004 IS LIVE⏰

IN THIS ISSUE:

🤖 TWO (2!) great thought pieces about System Shock 2's relevant and divisive legacy
⚽ Reclaiming online gaming, one Rematch game at a time
🐴 Does "everything is wrestling" apply to anime horsegirls?

+ MORE

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August 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
okayea.bsky.social
Might need to grab a 7 and a 1. Need to know which ones sell the most
June 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
okayea.bsky.social
LIFEBAR ISSUE 003! And I’ve got a pre-SGF Splitgate 2 interview in there 🙂‍↕️ come have a look
jarrettjawn.bsky.social JRT GRN @jarrettjawn.bsky.social · Jun 20
🚨 LIFEBAR ISSUE 003 IS LIVE🚨

In this issue:

🔫 PAX 2025 Splitgate 2 interview by @okayea.bsky.social‬ with Ian Prolux (before The Hat)
🃏 TWO PAX 2025 interviews by card game ace @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social
🍸 A review of PAX 2025's VIP Red Bull Creators Club lounge by moi
LIFEBAR MAGAZINE
STORIES AND INTERVIEWS FROM PAX EAST 2025
lifebarmag.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
okayea.bsky.social
Xillia or Abyss, please 🙏🏾
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · Jun 8
The next "Tales of Remastered" title will be announced this summer
June 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
okayea.bsky.social
At Fate’s End looks amazing. Need that immediately
June 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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jwhitbrook.bsky.social
god, is there a higher high than when an RPG gives you a 9,999 damage limit and then lets you exceed that limit
A cropped screenshot from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, showcasing the stats for a battle. It took 10 minutes and 27 seconds, featured 49 successful parries (no successful dodges, we're not cowards here), 2,115,557 damage dealt, 19,525 damage received, and 157,710 damage was the highest delivered in a single attack.
May 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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edgarallanbro.bsky.social
I reviewed Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves for Digital Trends. It’s a great fighting game dragged down by the state of the world. This is the hardest review I've ever had to write. I hope you'll read it.

I can't thank @marioprime.bsky.social enough for giving this a home.
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves review: one last show in South Town
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is a strong fighting game, but one that feels a bit creatively compromised by the business dealings powering it.
www.digitaltrends.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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jarrettjawn.bsky.social
Counter-argument:

You should use Sinners to springboard yourself into some other Black American horror like the following
April 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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huggablehipster.bsky.social
My review on South of Midnight is OUT NOW! Huge shout out to @compulsiongames.bsky.social and @xbox.com for the review code!
"Sometimes the best games and the ones with the heaviest messages and meanings are the shortest ones."
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyFI...
April 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
okayea.bsky.social
Just recently finished writing up the entire South of Midnight walkthrough for IGN, and I think the game is beautiful

Love and appreciate Hazel so much. Compulsion did their thing with this one (finding 103 collectibles took some time tho)

www.ign.com/wikis/south-...
Walkthrough - South of Midnight Guide - IGN
South of Midnight follows the story of a Weaver named Hazel as she embarks on a rescue mission while navigating her newfound powers. Hazel’s journey
www.ign.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
okayea.bsky.social
Doing my best to find and re-follow everyone over here 🙃

Hoping to see some of you at PAX East next month!
April 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM