Alex Van Aken

I saw everything

Signing off this week by finally processing all the emotions I've been feeling since Wednesday. It's been nearly a decade since Andromeda, and after years of uncertainty as the BioWare was jerked around by EA, I finally have to grieve the series that made me who I am today.

'Report: Arkane Studios has until November 13 to find a buyer - "Several forms of takeover" reportedly under consideration.' www.gematsu.com/2026/10/repo...

I adore the time system in Blood of the Dawnwalker (interesting to see this and and a few other games exploring these ideas in the same year). Creating a limiting factor in an RPG--so I literally *can't* do everything*--makes it so much more likely I'll actually finish it! I'm making choices!!

made this awards season movie release date tracker for me and now i'm sharing with you!

This show's been around eight years and somehow this is the first time I've had to bleep myself out.

Some creek simulation on N64. Using Mannings equation and inspired by a real life creek in my childhood home backyard. I'd like to out this in the game to show what it was like during the still summers and intense rainstorms. #N64 #Homebrew #GameDev #IndieDev #ScreenshotSaturday

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I was the only person in that showing of You Can See Everything with the Guile hair popcorn bucket.

Everyone talking about final fantasy while I’m out talking about flying a plane around WuHu Island

so glad we got Nadia on GI to review this! be sure to check out the video review too. making it felt like a little USgamer revival, in a way.

*sees gay couple* “which of you dodges and which of you parries?”

Blood of Dawnwalker has some stellar performances among its minor characters. If you meet Iulian, I recommend following his quest!

Every time I see a chat message in Deadlock it's like. That's real, that hero canonically said that

my Ace Combat 8 review is up! really enjoyed this game. easily one of my favorite Ace Combats, and the one i'd recommend to anyone wanting to jump into the series.

I can confirm that this client runs like shit.

lordt I've seent what you've done for others

shout out to Barb in my local Buy Nothing for the free Sony Trinitron!

happy sickos day to all who celebrate

hi #portfolioday! i'm emma kidwell, an award nominated video game writer who likes rpgs with systemic choices and wants to write a romanceable companion someday. i'm currently helping an indie studio with their debut. maybe you'd like to hire me full time in the future: emmkid.info/game-dev

Hire John!

"i think video games should be made by people" should not be a radical take but lol, lmfao

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Bobby Kotick is joining Skydance? Sounds like a great time to reshare PMG's excellent investigation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

i will paint your favorite pokemon cards in exchange for money or pokemon cards ✨

oh my god

We’re just normal men

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

BREAKING: Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor has brought some of its furloughed workers this week. Most of the studio was furloughed a few weeks before launch Over half of the studio is now back, a source told me. The rest remain furloughed www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...

For @aftermath.site: I had a borderline religious experience playing Titanfall 2 VR, a fantastic and still improving conversion of an already perfect game. It is one of the most moving single experiences I've had in VR since Half-Life: Alyx

the woke agenda took Botox Marcus Fenix from us

Don't mind me, just Valve patch notes-posting. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

However much your hero shooter cares about lore, it's not as much as Deadlock

this is who owns ModRetro btw

remembering when everyone changed their usernames to be Halloween themed and then Musk broke twitter and people were stuck with stupid ass names until they eventually deactivated their accounts

It now also (like all DF games) supports an independent Double Fine!

On Jacob Geller

Jacob Geller is no longer a part of MinnMax. He won't be on content moving forward and we won't be publicly airing this week's episode of The MinnMax Show. We're in shock and deeply hurt. Thank you for your patience during this sensitive time.

jess is right! it’s worse than ever for women in this field, and it was still pretty bad at our peak. im one of the lucky freelancers who has regular work (probably work more than i did at polygon!), and it’s still not a livable amount of pay. it’s pushing important and skilled women out.

I feel like I have so much I want to say but it’s just this incoherent ramble. But do you know how much it weighs on me to be the one woman on staff at GameSpot? To be one of VERY few women in the industry? To be one of ever fewer moms? To walk into press events and be the *sole* woman?

I am just so tired of women experiencing so much violence in this industry and then just being expected to keep working like nothing is happening

I'm incredibly nauseous reading this. Believe women, even when it's about a friend.

Late to stream but we got some Reality Fracture to open before we continue Kingdom Hearts 2 Also subbing directly supports me/the donation link at the bottom of my stream so if you wanna see me continue to cover games and make content that’s the best way to do so :) Twitch.tv/Mamavitelli

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Ashley is immensely talented and funny as hell. Hire her!!