Jay
@jayedwrites.bsky.social
29 year old Writer of media crit. GM and TTRPG designer. Non-binary, regretably British, Autistic work in progress. They/Them
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Hey what the fuck?
“Once we got to the Game Awards (most people flew in from other countries, which was expensive), we showed up, and it felt like we were pushed to the side door … We found out later that Keighley had a party in another room with all the influencers and industry people.”
“Once we got to the Game Awards (most people flew in from other countries, which was expensive), we showed up, and it felt like we were pushed to the side door … We found out later that Keighley had a party in another room with all the influencers and industry people.”
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Hey what the fuck?
“Once we got to the Game Awards (most people flew in from other countries, which was expensive), we showed up, and it felt like we were pushed to the side door … We found out later that Keighley had a party in another room with all the influencers and industry people.”
“Once we got to the Game Awards (most people flew in from other countries, which was expensive), we showed up, and it felt like we were pushed to the side door … We found out later that Keighley had a party in another room with all the influencers and industry people.”
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“Don’t post publicly about Geoff or you’ll be blacklisted from the industry.” Listen I truly understand why anyone would say that, but being an old man who lived through gamergate and was told by my superior to STFU about it online and refused to: I’m still here and making games.
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“Don’t post publicly about Geoff or you’ll be blacklisted from the industry.” Listen I truly understand why anyone would say that, but being an old man who lived through gamergate and was told by my superior to STFU about it online and refused to: I’m still here and making games.
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The IWGB has just announced that 220 letters, signed by Rockstar staff, have now been delivered to leadership at the company, demanding the immediate reinstatement of their fired colleagues.
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The IWGB has just announced that 220 letters, signed by Rockstar staff, have now been delivered to leadership at the company, demanding the immediate reinstatement of their fired colleagues.
Its wild to see a DLC literally be an asset flip using assets from a fuckin 360 game...
Like at least do more stages than Green Hill. This feels like such a cash grab.
Like at least do more stages than Green Hill. This feels like such a cash grab.
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Its wild to see a DLC literally be an asset flip using assets from a fuckin 360 game...
Like at least do more stages than Green Hill. This feels like such a cash grab.
Like at least do more stages than Green Hill. This feels like such a cash grab.
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I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
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I feel like the best game of 2025 simply could not be prominently and obviously on an anti-apartheid boycott list 🤷🏽♀️
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I feel like the best game of 2025 simply could not be prominently and obviously on an anti-apartheid boycott list 🤷🏽♀️
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the game awards had to cut the future class because they needed to fit in one more trailer for a ps5 exclusive nobody will think about in a year
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
the game awards had to cut the future class because they needed to fit in one more trailer for a ps5 exclusive nobody will think about in a year
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I have largely stopped feeling the need to openly be a cunt about the Honest Hearts DLC, but know that it's always there, lurking below the surface...
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I have largely stopped feeling the need to openly be a cunt about the Honest Hearts DLC, but know that it's always there, lurking below the surface...
Earlier this year I started going bald and in the time since I noticed it the area has just grown and grown.
I’ve always loved having long hair so losing it just fuckin sucks.
I’ve always loved having long hair so losing it just fuckin sucks.
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Earlier this year I started going bald and in the time since I noticed it the area has just grown and grown.
I’ve always loved having long hair so losing it just fuckin sucks.
I’ve always loved having long hair so losing it just fuckin sucks.
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Games are maybe the only medium where it's expected that the critic constantly meet the art on its terms only and not bring any of their personal opinion to it.
Wild opening paragraph, maybe you shouldn't be the one reviewing a Warriors game then
November 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Games are maybe the only medium where it's expected that the critic constantly meet the art on its terms only and not bring any of their personal opinion to it.
@allicrombie.bsky.social Letting you know, because of my goverments stupid laws I can't actually DM you on Bluesky anymore. So if we're gonna watch the Game Awards for our third year, it'll have to be over Twitter or Discord.
November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
@allicrombie.bsky.social Letting you know, because of my goverments stupid laws I can't actually DM you on Bluesky anymore. So if we're gonna watch the Game Awards for our third year, it'll have to be over Twitter or Discord.
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Seeing some people in my circles play outer worlds 2 and finding it kind of mediocre and there's something depressing about seeing someone buy a Microsoft thing while the boycott is ongoing in order to have a mid experience they didn't enjoy
November 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Seeing some people in my circles play outer worlds 2 and finding it kind of mediocre and there's something depressing about seeing someone buy a Microsoft thing while the boycott is ongoing in order to have a mid experience they didn't enjoy
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This seems outrageously cruel.
And just a handful of months before these folks would have been set to enjoy the release of one of the biggest games of their careers too.
The imbalance of power in the games industry remains utterly fucked.
And just a handful of months before these folks would have been set to enjoy the release of one of the biggest games of their careers too.
The imbalance of power in the games industry remains utterly fucked.
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings
Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’
www.bloomberg.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This seems outrageously cruel.
And just a handful of months before these folks would have been set to enjoy the release of one of the biggest games of their careers too.
The imbalance of power in the games industry remains utterly fucked.
And just a handful of months before these folks would have been set to enjoy the release of one of the biggest games of their careers too.
The imbalance of power in the games industry remains utterly fucked.
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Anyway, boycott Microsoft. And if you really can't help yourself, there's a fit girl out there who probably loves Outer Worlds 2
Microsoft
Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
bdsmovement.net
October 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anyway, boycott Microsoft. And if you really can't help yourself, there's a fit girl out there who probably loves Outer Worlds 2
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Doctor Who, surely, has never been more dead.
October 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Doctor Who, surely, has never been more dead.
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It's fucking wild seeing people madder at Microsoft for not disavowing the Halo ICE thing than actually like you know...
Profiting off the facilitation of genocide.
Profiting off the facilitation of genocide.
October 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
It's fucking wild seeing people madder at Microsoft for not disavowing the Halo ICE thing than actually like you know...
Profiting off the facilitation of genocide.
Profiting off the facilitation of genocide.
I would understand the hesitency if it was Nintendo on the BDS list or Valve. But boycotting xbox might just be the eassiest boycott to follow ever.
Also take it from someone who deeply cares about videogames as art, but art is not the most important thing. Human life will always hold more value.
Also take it from someone who deeply cares about videogames as art, but art is not the most important thing. Human life will always hold more value.
October 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I would understand the hesitency if it was Nintendo on the BDS list or Valve. But boycotting xbox might just be the eassiest boycott to follow ever.
Also take it from someone who deeply cares about videogames as art, but art is not the most important thing. Human life will always hold more value.
Also take it from someone who deeply cares about videogames as art, but art is not the most important thing. Human life will always hold more value.
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Halo's coming to the PlayStation for the first time. No matter what console you play the remake Halo: Campaign Evolved on, though, its publisher Microsoft remains under BDS boycott. www.endlessmode.com/article/halo...
Halo Remake Coming to Both Xbox and PlayStation, as BDS Boycott Remains in Effect
Halo's coming to the PlayStation for the first time. No matter what console you play the remake Halo: Campaign Evolved on, though, its publisher Microsoft remains under BDS boycott.
www.endlessmode.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Halo's coming to the PlayStation for the first time. No matter what console you play the remake Halo: Campaign Evolved on, though, its publisher Microsoft remains under BDS boycott. www.endlessmode.com/article/halo...
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with the release of Outer Worlds 2 - now thoroughly sick of the omnipresent "Fuck Capitalism" story: loose, toothless, mugging at the camera with no specificity or intent. it has gone the way of "be gay, do crimes"
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
with the release of Outer Worlds 2 - now thoroughly sick of the omnipresent "Fuck Capitalism" story: loose, toothless, mugging at the camera with no specificity or intent. it has gone the way of "be gay, do crimes"
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More art you say? More art! A party for a Vampire Dnd campaign where most are vampires! And I say most for there is a werewolf in our party xD
December 28, 2024 at 3:54 PM
More art you say? More art! A party for a Vampire Dnd campaign where most are vampires! And I say most for there is a werewolf in our party xD
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“Portrait of a Rowdy as a Young Man”
(A fanart of Maxwell Gotch, played by Brian Murphy, from Dimension 20’s “Cloudward, Ho!” campaign)
(A fanart of Maxwell Gotch, played by Brian Murphy, from Dimension 20’s “Cloudward, Ho!” campaign)
August 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
“Portrait of a Rowdy as a Young Man”
(A fanart of Maxwell Gotch, played by Brian Murphy, from Dimension 20’s “Cloudward, Ho!” campaign)
(A fanart of Maxwell Gotch, played by Brian Murphy, from Dimension 20’s “Cloudward, Ho!” campaign)
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friendly reminder that the BDS microsoft boycott is still happening
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
friendly reminder that the BDS microsoft boycott is still happening
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thegamingbrit's video on silent hill 2 remake got him a lot of shit but he was 100% right when he said that constantly remaking classic games by destroying them completely to make them "look modern" is the creative impulse that leads to replacing everything with ai slop. same thing different degrees
October 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
thegamingbrit's video on silent hill 2 remake got him a lot of shit but he was 100% right when he said that constantly remaking classic games by destroying them completely to make them "look modern" is the creative impulse that leads to replacing everything with ai slop. same thing different degrees
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master chief: hey man i know its been a while but you gonna play my new remake
me (pulling collar): ah yeah you know i'd love to but the boycott and all its just yeah hands are tied. it looks great tho man
me (pulling collar): ah yeah you know i'd love to but the boycott and all its just yeah hands are tied. it looks great tho man
October 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
master chief: hey man i know its been a while but you gonna play my new remake
me (pulling collar): ah yeah you know i'd love to but the boycott and all its just yeah hands are tied. it looks great tho man
me (pulling collar): ah yeah you know i'd love to but the boycott and all its just yeah hands are tied. it looks great tho man