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I did make a Starter Pack. So here are all the South African nerds and gamers I could find & remember. Lemme know who I missed cos there def more of us. And if you on here and wanna be removed, please let me know. go.bsky.app/GiMZTJN

I am gonna watch Supergirl again

Spot on. #Supergirl

Well, I loved it. I am so happy right now. I had a blast. Made me happy to be a Supergirl fan.

So we're all agreed that Elon Musk's official title is World's Richest Loser, correct?

The House of Hikmah releases today! You play as a fully-voiced Maya in Islamic Age dealing with grief in a cel-shaded 3D puzzle adventure. Played two hours of it last week, and interviewed wonderful developers/team. An ingenious puzzle game that uses findings of real-life Islamic scholars. PC.

Eid Mubarak from the IGN Africa team.

It is increasingly difficult to be positive and productive while Rome burns.

Here's me, and @boganintel.bsky.social. "Collating the recent escalation of fascist state fuckery in Australia"

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

The Board of Peace event played a truly wild video by FIFA advertising a plan to build football infrastructure in Palestine. The video is clearly AI generated because they mis-spelled "Peace" with what I believe is a fully new letter combining "Y" and "L," neither of which appear in the word "Peace"

Some pretty wild music choices at the Board of Peace meeting

that's better

To slightly spoil Kinda Anime this Friday, it’s insane to me that people try and convince themselves that One Piece is not political

Today, while driving my wife to work, I ended staring at her face because she's so beautiful. And then almost rear ended the Polo in front of me.

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

I scrolled through a week of Musk's X feed. I needed to find a specific post for work. I thought it would just be irritating. I have seen reams of the nastiest, most spiteful, most dishonest, upsetting bullshit. I'm left feeling this deep sense of horror. I feel like crying.

Hey Larian devs: if you all say, "NO WE'RE NOT" at the same time, he can't fire all of you.

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

See what my friends are doing. @thatnomadshad.bsky.social youtu.be/yHYNjvXYYig?...

For every good and/or revolutionary Call of Duty game released, it's followed by a year or two of lacklustre entries. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is one of the latter. Here's our Blops7 review, covering all game modes.

A reminder: Disability can happen to anyone. Disability can happen to anyone. Disability can happen to anyone. Disability can happen to anyone. Disability can happen to anyone. Disability can happen to anyone. Disability can happen to anyone. Disability can happen to anyone. Disability can hap—

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Listening to latest Triple Click Podcast (pca.st/podcast/d7e7...) and pleasantly surprised to hear @midimyers.com talk about Thabo Bester. Always cool to hear South African stories... Even if it's about prison break\con artist\murder guy. Thanks Maddy😄

A former DOJ staffer said the department is “broken.” trib.al/DQUOZsv

I'm hiring for an Associate Community Manager (Contract) for @ruckus-games.com ! This is an entry level position, especially great for streamers/content creators looking for the opportunity to break into the industry. bit.ly/48vLiuw #gamedevjob #indiegame #streamer

I tell people my favorite song is Time After Time but my real favorite song is The Wii Shop Channel theme. You can hear this tweet.

Errr

It’s a miracle at all that any game gets made but THIS GAME it’s even more so because of my problem with it

We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically: - Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already) - Dying Light: The Beast - Silent Hill f Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at james.archer@rockpapershotgun.com

The Gulf states pledge to activate the joint defence pact as Arab and Islamic leaders stand in solidarity with Qatar.

We could have had Star Trek but instead we picked Mad Max. Well, I call dibs on the hockey mask and assless chaps.

FINALLY.

Ziff Davis just reported their "strongest quarterly revenue growth since 2021," up 9.8% to $352.2M, with gaming and entertainment up 7.5% YOY. So why were 8 of our members and 23 members of @zdcreatorsguild.bsky.social just laid off? bit.ly/3H0Osvb

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain. Not this time. Not anymore.

Just looked up some Battlefield 6 beta gameplay running on Series S out of interest, and EXCUSE ME, how the hell is it looking and running like this on an XSS? Vid I found: youtu.be/t1NP_MhOi84

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:

Israeli forces kill 12 Palestinian civilians seeking aid hours after US envoy Steve Witkoff visits Gaza.

live action catbus looking pretty sweet