Jess Conditt

I do it for you, boo

Everything announced and all the winners at The Game Awards 2025 This year at The Game Awards, if your game wasn't melodramatic, mechanically innovative, beautifully presented and aggressively French, it really didn't stand a chance.

here's your game awards roundup, perverts

The world premieres and other hotness from The Game Awards 2025 Day of the Devs stream Check out new games from Deconstructeam, Finij, Panic Stations and more.

perpetually stoked for new games from deconstructeam

on sundays we listen to XG

YouTube video by Engadget Did Valve just reinvent PC gaming again? | Engadget Podcast

Join us LIVE on the @engadget.com Podcast in a few minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-eD... I'll be chatting with @jesslconditt.bsky.social about Valve's new hardware, as well as our favorite games of the year

It's Halloween night.
Do you know where your kids are?

Sincerely,
Aunt Gladys

Thank you for the chat, @maxiboch.bsky.social 🖤

Baby Steps isn't done with Maxi Boch "It's not to say that Baby Steps is not done. It's done. But whether I'm done with Baby Steps, this is a different story."

What's the best way to make an effective, powerful game about perseverance?

Lived experience.

YouTube video by LEC LoL Game Changers: Rising | SLYA VS ZERB | Playoffs Day 1 | BO5

The first game of LoL Game Changers playoffs is live 🖤 Fine viewing on a Monday morning

good

4 panel comic Panel 1: ICE “Agent” (thug) punches protester hard in the face. Agent: STOP Panel 2: ICE Agent viciously snaps protester’s arm Agent: BEING Panel 3: ICE Agent strangles protester Agent: POLITICALLY Panel 4: ICE Agent stamps on protester’s head Agent: VIOLENT

mood

The ROG Xbox Ally X handheld gaming device will cost you $1,000 Microsoft has finally revealed how much the ROG Xbox Ally handheld consoles will cost you, now that they're available for preorder.

If everything is an Xbox, why would I spend $1,000 on... an Xbox?

Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism. Inside The Project 2025 Organization's Proposal. On Thursday evening, news emerged that individuals within and outside of Trump administration were pushing to cast trans activists as domestic terrorists. Then, Project 2025 dropped its proposal.

eyes open:

Two Republican Congresspeople Call For Institutionalization Of Transgender People Representatives Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson both called for the institutionalization of transgender people On Tuesday.

amid a sea of fucked up things, this is severely fucked up

Ambrosia Sky is an essay on death masquerading as a sci-fi cleaning sim Soft Rains narrative director Kaitlin Tremblay is using a first-person power-washing game to tackle the question, "What does my death actually mean to me?"

You've heard of shower thoughts, but what about cosmic fungal extermination thoughts? A chat about death and the cosmos with @kaittremblay.bsky.social:

Fill your news feeds with the stories that fascism is trying to strangle. A starting point:

www.bellingcat.com
www.motherjones.com
www.erininthemorning.com
karenattiah.substack.com
www.youtube.com/@SMN
www.youtube.com/@BehindTheBa...
www.youtube.com/@TheDailyZei...
bsky.app/profile/deni...

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in summary and super-summary form:

Video Games Weekly: It's weird that esports is segregated by gender I mean... it makes absolutely no sense, right?

Thanks for inspiring me to finally get these thoughts on the page, Bwipo 🖤

I'm back from vacation and the weekly video game column is coming in hot

also lol? c'mon, blizzard

Video Games Weekly: Climbing games are so hot right now The climbing genre is not a monolith, but it's certainly popular right now.

I make no apologies for the first line of this week's newsletter.

Video Games Weekly: Silksong and Gamescom The gaming news you need, August 12-20.

this is an ode to the silksong subreddit:

Gamescom ONL 2025: Live updates on Call of Duty, Resident Evil and more Gamescom's Opening Night Live 2025 kicks off on Tuesday at 2PM ET, and Engadget's liveblog is right here.

come watch gamescom opening night live 2025 with @krisholt.bsky.social and me 🖤

Video Games Weekly: Censorship and stolen puritanical valor The gaming news you need, July 28 to August 5.

Let’s agree to stop giving credit to that awful conservative activist group out of Australia, OK?

good luck out there 🖤

VILE: Exhumed is an unjust casualty in Steam's sweeping censorship campaign Steam is silencing a game that can help combat gender-based sexual violence, in the name of protecting players from being harmed by these same themes.

VILE: Exhumed is a tragic example of the damage and chaos being wrought by financial censorship on Steam and Itch.

"Silencing a story about violence, entitlement and sexual expression shows the age we are living in, and I deeply worry for storytelling and art.” - @dirtlord77.bsky.social

I promise I'm not just reading jana/kenny updates