Nathan Grayson

I’m nathan website: @aftermath.site (please subscribe) book about twitch: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Stream... (please preorder) cat: biscuit (please appreciate)

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Hasan Piker filed a defamation lawsuit against CNN commentator Scott Jennings in federal court and wants more than $72 million in damages

Another Inside Baseball Week piece, and this one was a bummer (such are the times!) I wanted to speak to the people actually having to DO the layoffs, not the executives waving hands in an earnings call, and to nobody's surprise the whole process fucks everyone up

You Are Error is our monthly podcast about gaming’s greatest misconceptions. You can find it on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also watch it on our YouTube channel:

What happened to video game funding after the covid-born boom years of 2020 and 2021? Where did all the money go? @futterish.fsquared.biz explains

today we’re at 5,750! just 50 more until we unlock the zine. conveniently, annuals are 25% off. tell your friends, enemies, and mutuals you’ve been looking for an excuse to DM aftermath.site/aftermath-su...

just a quick note since there seems to be some confusion: you are error actually returned last month! it’s now on a monthly schedule. you can check out the first post-hiatus episode here

great news

You Are Error returns

been saying this - the art form of videogames needs to be decoupled from the market in a way that it has never truly been before.

I very much enjoyed this conversation. Nathan asked extremely insightful questions in a conversation that starts with the good times (five or six years ago) and explores what the heck happened to put the industry where it is today.

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"Why don't you go to the bathroom in more survival games?" is a joke that came up during our podcast over the summer. I reached out to developers about it, and their answers were complicated and fascinating, from spiraling design issues to the deeper meaning behind where to put the toilet

6500 is a also a huge, huge deal, and something we'll hopefully get to soon. we've hit the limits pretty much on what we can do or learn ourselves, there's some important growth and business stuff that we'd absolutely love to get professional help with

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.

with another inside baseball week comes another subscriber drive! 5,800 is imminently achievable and unlocks a goal I’m extremely excited about: an annual, physical zine of our best stories aftermath.site/aftermath-su...

Layoffs Hit Ghost Of Yotei Developer Sucker Punch 'According to an ex-Sucker Punch employee, 26 people have been let go.' aftermath.site/sucker-punch...

Welcome to the AAA video game "business," where being your publisher's best-selling game of the year can't save you from arbitrary staffing cuts.

and there it is 🖕🤬🖕

There's simply no excuse for this. Sucker Punch has delivered two back-to-back acclaimed and high selling games. This team should be safe and celebrated. and yet this industry continues to be fucking demonic.

Couldn't be more thrilled to be the leadoff hitter for Aftermath's latest Inside Baseball week! Honored and elated that one of the worst experiences of my life could become an opportunity to stand among some of the people whose work motivated me to pursue writing, criticism, and journalism.

that’s right, we’re doing it again. you’ve been warned

Our theme week is back! Get ready for some absurdly specific blogs! We've got a lot of stuff I'm very excited about!

you have to work out every day you’re in gainesville, florida. anything less would disrespect the name of the place

REAL exciting week coming up at @aftermath.site, monday is gonna rule

This week Fortune joined NYT, Entertainment Weekly, and The Wall Street Journal as the latest mainstream publication to write a glowing piece about Xbox’s new Asha Sharma-led regime. Why does this keep happening, and who is it actually for? @kerrblimey.bsky.social explains

I joined the @aftermath.site crew this week to chat through my pivot to independence with @verticalslice.news and other video game GUBBINS. Here's my partial take on the Asha Sharma marketing tour:

Man it's wild that after all the lawsuits, the hateful behavior, the endless harassment of Trisha Paytas among others, the lying and the weaselly cry-bullying about the genocide in Gaza - after ALL OF THAT - the thing that finally stopped H3 was Ethan Klein cheating on his wife

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

I'm sure it's good that over the past several days I have seen multiple vibecoding people say their individual versions of "yeah this is like playing a slot machine for me and I find it hard to stop and I love that actually"

Subscribers at our 'Member' tier get loads of perks like merch discounts, an invite to our community Discord and a private RSS feed. You can get a 'Member' sub for just $8.30 a month on an annual plan! aftermath.ghost.io/?ref=after...

SonicFox, forever a real one, pulls out of event that used gen AI aftermath.site/sonicfox-drops...

I have been meaning to write about this for a month or so now but it breaks my heart. AI has infected every hobby. Everything is noise. It's hurting existing communities and trudging through the slop is exhausting.