megan farokhmanesh
megannicolett.bsky.social
megan farokhmanesh
@megannicolett.bsky.social
senior writer @ WIRED reporting on video games | nyc | face god and walk backwards into hell | email: megan_farokhmanesh@wired.com | signal meganfarokhmanesh.76
fantastic story from @davidgilbert.bsky.social of a grooming victim who became a Roblox predator hunter trying to prevent the same thing from happening to other kids. Roblox then banned for his vigilantism www.wired.com/story/he-hun...
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
talked to Bennett Foddy about Baby Steps and watching men struggle unnecessarily www.wired.com/story/baby-s...
September 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“It's pretty indicative of general speech associated with the deep parts of internet culture, in particular the types that are very much into irony posting and edgelord humor," says extremism researcher @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social

With @makenakelly.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/charli...
September 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
bro i do not like human ditto. get thee behind me satan
September 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
wearing an ai that mainly insults and fights with you is actually so good for all the wrong reasons. the future is an idiot plot

www.wired.com/story/i-hate...
September 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Some of the right-wing talking points being tossed around about Take Us North are exactly the sort of falsehoods the team is trying to debunk www.wired.com/story/take-u...
September 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
happy silksong day
September 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My personal favorite is the Silksong subreddit sacrificing a handful of its members (banning them until the game drops) as a riff on Hollow Knight's dreamers www.wired.com/story/how-fa...
September 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
now that it’s (almost) september it’s time to start planning halloween costumes but tbh i don’t know how i’m gonna top last year
August 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
doing my annual closet clean out and idk maybe it’s time to bring back hand chains
August 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Sakurai calling Kirby Air Riders "basically Mario Kart" is funny, but after playing it, absolutely not true. it's more like Mario Kart's ADHD little brother with a sugar high www.wired.com/story/kirby-...
August 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
a second button has hit kirby air riders
August 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Law firms across the country are working together to file hundreds of lawsuits against Roblox accusing the company of facilitating the sexual exploitation and grooming of kids. One lawyer tells WIRED their firm alone already has 300 cases on its hands www.wired.com/story/is-rob...
August 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
they gave hasan piker the geralt special
August 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
for the most part, these are exactly the sort of questions I would expect a "Whites Only" group with racist and antisemitic members to ask

but THIS one I'm ??? www.wired.com/story/whites...
August 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
sorry wait hold on why is no one talking about ariana and amaya inexplicably at the battlefield 6 event. they made the girls Game. they made them take photos with vince zampella
August 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Raven Software's union has ratified their first contract, three years after forming. Wins include a guaranteed 10-percent wage increase over two years, on top of merit-based raises
August 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
July 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Also of note: Collective Shout previously told WIRED they'd had “no communication with payment processors” outside of an open letter. In a blog posted July 28, however, Collective Shout says it “approached payment processors because Steam did not respond to us.” www.wired.com/story/gamers...
July 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Consume Me devs @qdork.bsky.social and‪ @apthomson.bsky.social say Collective Shout's mission to protect women and girls is doing the opposite. "Their actions here mainly serve to cut off income streams for adult content creators, many of them women.” www.wired.com/story/steam-...
July 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Collective Shout says it is “not looking to ban any instances of explicit or adult content, and we did not do that here.” on Itch, however, impacted games include an award-winning game about navigating disordered eating, and another about healing from domestic abuse www.wired.com/story/steam-...
July 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Pressuring payment processors is a powerful tactic to sidestep a company like Valve or Itch's control of their own platform. “...They're able to effectively censor [content] by debanking it,” says @mikestabile.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/steam-...
July 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
this part from jason's article about hinge specifically trying to outmaneuver maniacs sorry power users is so good www.wired.com/story/yearne...
July 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM