Jessica Cogswell 🌸

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I need Lost In Cult to get on a Pentiment book, pronto.

Literally a perfect Halloween game (and game in general). It’s a must-buy at this price, IMO

I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.

The scariest game of the year is this just-released, 100% free demo for a canceled project: @darkstonedigital.com's Playable Archive. Here's why its journey has been so strange, and why you need to play it ASAP. www.gamespot.com/articles/the...

Didn’t think this was a hot take but I don’t think BioWare made a game even remotely bad enough to “justify” it being shut down “BioWare was struggling for years,” yeah, and even its worst games weren’t as bad as some garbage that’s let slide and it’s fucking weird to imply the team “deserved” this.

if you are a "games journalist" looking at a metacritic score and viewing reviews outside the median as "incorrect" or "wrong", you really need to do some deep fucking soulsearching about what you actually view the role of the press as

WELLLL looks like I’m buying Phantom Blade Zero immediately

Phantom Blade Zero is my GOTY. GOD. I hope it makes a whole new audience fall in love with wuxia and Chinese Epics. You can read the 3k words here 👇🏽

Meet the baby I’ve been cooking up for the last year. Out next summer. Pre-orders soon!

GUESS WHAT okay I’ll tell you. Your girl is going to Thee Game Awards for the first time ever 😭💕

For @gamespot.com, I revisited BioWare's history of queer representation and how it always strove to depict LGBTQ characters and stories with nuance and respect. It wasn't always perfect, but gaming wouldn't be where it is today without Mass Effect or Dragon Age. www.gamespot.com/articles/bio...

Femshep tangoed with an Alien so the love and deep space girls could run

Oh wow this one hurts. A lot.

Hell Yeah Alucard

So, I'm back with my newsletter and it's different. I've been sitting on how to write this. So here's a pretty raw and unfiltered piece on Dawnwalker, the unique pain of losing a sibling, and the many complex ways my brother's death changed me an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/an-evening-a...

she biddy my blas til I scrib doon

Had a very fun chat with a very cool developer the other day… Over the moon to share this exclusive interview with Jeff Kaplan! Hope you all enjoy ✨ www.gamespot.com/articles/jef...

Some Fortune's Weave from me other at @mothership.blog this morning! It's time to talk Dietrich and Fabio! I was surprised how much Dietrich's route was a kind of love story, one whose various peculiarities end up twisting and turning through questions of gender and expression.

Literally all these dudes

I reeeeally enjoy playing Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave but also reeeeally think it’s not a very good game

must be true. why would she deceive us.

just another day in beautiful Ebisugaoka #silenthill #silenthillf

I did a couple of fireside chats for #LudoNarraCon! Had a fab time talking to @coldbloodinc.studio and @milktooth.bsky.social, catch the vids on Monday!

@duckvalentine.bsky.social is the gift that keeps on giving and I mean that in she is joy and sunshine incarnate and ALSO in that she left a metric ton of dates at my house this weekend

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

Just finished up one of my bucket list interviews and man, it’s so cool when industry legends are also extremely kind and open

Decided to open one (1) collector booster yesterday to celebrate my birthday and the universe did not let me down

Being frank, the more time passes from Geller's past being outed the more disgusted I am by the amount of people who shook their heads at the Cornell rapists just being made to write essays, only for those people to... immediately look for a way to excuse a rapist they like for writing good essays

the need to publicly process shit through posting is going to kill us all

can’t believe I’m gommaging today 😔

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“What do you want past abusers to do? Just die or do nothing forever?” Okay no, but cool hyperbole. I DO think that if you’ve done something like that and actually want to repent, a certain level of disclosure is necessary—especially when you position yourself as a feminist and work with women.

Refunding everyone and halting sales of another project will no doubt be a massive financial hit to LiC (an indie company!!), which makes it all the more admirable that they're doing this.

Rape culture is so prevalent that there are dudes in the comments of Lost in Cult’s IG post about severing ties with Geller stating that his OWN ADMISSION OF GUILT does not make it true. Sexual assault is SO “extremely serious” that even a man confessing he did it is not enough to establish guilt.

i love how popular Dressmaker is. really shows how we need to go back to making games catered to girls!!!! (and the gays)

guess what everyone @thesamethyst.bsky.social is coming over to my house for a sleepover tonight and we’re going to stay up SO late and watch SO many spooky movies

Anyway. @butwhytho.net is woman-run and not just by me being EIC. Outside of comics, all of our sections are run by women and if you've freelancer or written for us, you've seen that. If you wanna support us here you go:

if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us.

what a BAD week. about to go be reckless at a TCG shop just to feel something man idk 🚬

I think the lack of focus on the LSU rape case really highlights how often, even when Black women (and other non-white women) speak out, they're swept aside for a "better" story that gets more headlines. It's actually astounding how much it's been ignored, given the current conversations.

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.

they’ll put a Fortnite collab in your ass if you not paying attention

Exactly. I am tired of seeing the “I always knew”/“their work was actually bad” takes whenever allegations emerge. Sometimes—often, actually!—bad people find their way into good spaces and make good things. And you’re not better than the folks who were taken advantage of for “always knowing”

kinda feel like it should be a bigger news story that ceo of xbox is talking openly about how her chief strategist (and snow crash fanfic writer), matthew ball, has been grooming select journalists to control the media narrative around xbox