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Nate Ferguson
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Frame #3664 from 60sE11 the small planets
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Frame #573 from E07 A Miner Affair
October 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Sign our petition urging the US FTC to watch this deal closely. If left unchecked, this deal spells disaster for EA's workers and players alike, but there's still time to do something about it!

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Make EA Better for Workers and Gamers - Not Billionaires
A group of investors - including the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners - wants to buy Electronic Arts, concentrating even more power and wealth into the hands...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Please read our statement regarding the proposed Electronic Arts buyout. We refuse to let corporate greed decide the future of our industry.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA Statement on Proposed Electronic Arts Buyout October 15, 2025 NATIONWIDE — The following statement is from United Videogame Workers-CWA Local 9433. The recently proposed acquisition of Electronic Arts (EA) by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and private equity firms, including Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, will further concentrate power and wealth into the hands of a few gatekeepers while doing nothing to address the concerns of players and workers. EA is not a struggling company. With annual revenues reaching $7.5 billion and $1 billion in profit each year, EA is one of the largest video game developers and publishers in the world. EA’s success has been entirely driven by tens of thousands of EA workers whose creativity, skill, and innovation made EA worth buying in the first place. Yet we, the very people who will be jeopardized as a result of this deal, were not represented at all when this buyout was negotiated or discussed. We are particularly worried about the future of our studios that are arbitrarily deemed ‘less profitable’ but whose contributions to the video game industry define EA’s reputation. Since 2022, an estimated 40,000 video game workers have already lost their jobs due to mass layoffs at AAA and indie studios alike. As reported in Game Developer, this deal will result in EA having to finance nearly $20 billion in debt—who will be spared, which corners will executives cut, and what studios will be sacrificed in order for that to happen? If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors’ pockets—not to strengthen the company. Every time private equity or billionaire investors take a studio private, workers lose visibility, transparency, and power. Decisions that shape our jobs, our art, and our futures are made behind closed doors by executives who have never written a line of code, built worlds, or supported live services. We are…
October 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Frame #3462 from E96 Kangaroo Express
October 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Frame #2763 from E17 The Search
September 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Jack lifting Stephen mood high,high above the deck ♡
September 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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ghost club
September 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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The Moon Glade ~ dreaming banjo in a quiet wood | Wander & Rest
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September 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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healing gems
September 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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I could make a whole sub-bot based just on programming books with dragons on the cover. (Source.)
A blue book. Up top, pteradactors and the Interface Publications logo flirt through the sky. In red text, the words "Creating ADVENTURE GAMES on your DRAGON 32." Center, the main art - a muscular black-eyed green dragon reaches forwards with a great big paw, crushing a tiny thatched-roof cottage. The red text at bottom reads, "Clive Gifford."
September 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Frame #5336 from E63 Flying Carpet
September 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The censorship on Steam is coming for everyone on the internet
Game developers are being denied early access, while others are struggling to get paid in the saga involving Steam, Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal
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September 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Frame #3793 from E72 Little Denali Lost
August 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Frame #5774 from 60sE19 treasure for henry
August 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Reject adobe, return to our roots
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Mario Paint is Available Now as Part of the SNES library for Nintendo Switch Online Members. ow.ly/3i4F50WwsME

Uses Mouse Controls on the Joy Con for Switch 2. USB Mouse Works for Switch 1.
July 29, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Frame #2609 from 50s E43 in a fix
July 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Frame #6268 from E82 Robot Farm
July 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Frame #7253 from E40 A Real Seal
July 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Frame #762 from 60sE77 stuck on books
July 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Frame #5751 from E56 Young Granny
July 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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We published this year's Polaris game design papers. Some of the best game design writing for senior designers on the entire planet.

Our team worked on designing collective decision making systems. polarisgamedesign.com/2024/how-to-...

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How To Design Collective Decision-Making Systems
JC Lau, Elaine Gusella, Ian Schrieber, Daniel Cook 1. What is this all about? If, as Sid Meier has famously said, “a game is a series of interesting decisions”, then a co-op game is a series of intere...
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January 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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protectmypublicmedia.org - Urge Congress: Save Public Media
Protect My Public Media
Take a stand for the local stations and programs you love.
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May 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.
April 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM