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Blizzard’s Platform and Technology Workers Have Unionised Almost 400 workers have voted to unionise under the Communication Workers of America, joining a long lineage of unions at Blizzard.

Almost 400 workers at Blizzard’s Platform and Technology department have voted to unionise.

They join several preceding unions, including Activision QA workers, Activision user research workers, as well as the World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo teams.

PC gaming boom: Steam sets new record with 41.6 million concurrent players Steam has reached a new milestone that underscores the accelerating momentum behind global PC gaming. Data from SteamDB shows Valve's digital distribution platform recently surpassed 41.6 million...

PC Gaming is dead, long live PC Gaming

www.techspot.com/news/109882-...

A snap from DOS Dune II with the select your House panels with the logos and names: Atreides, Ordos, Harkonnen

"Now, three great Houses fight for control of Dune." ⚔️

"Your Battle for Dune Begins... Now... "

Oops - late reply. Cool! Any good?

Nice! What are you watching?

work in progress of vaelus (critical role campaign 4)

respectfully: mommy

Nadia from the Russian Doll series on Netflix remarking: Thursday! What a concept!

Thursday! What a concept!

Development ends on Hyper Light Breaker as studio Heart Machine says it’s making layoffs | VGC The Hyper Light Drifter prequel has had mixed reviews while in Early Access…

The studio behind Hyper Light Breaker is ending development on the game and has confirmed it will be laying off some staff as a result.

The game entered Steam Early Access in January.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/develop...

we live in the clip farming economy for pvp games bc marketing elsewhere is dead. in games like apex legends, it has (in my experience) absolutely decimated any opportunity for thoughtful play. everyone wants to be the next Sweetdreams, nicewigg, etc and treats lobbies as harvesting grounds for that

"This is terrible... I just can't look at that thing."

The lead designer for Urbz: Sims in the City @bangbangclick.bsky.social explains how the surreal Sims off-shoot came to be and why The Black Eyed Peas tried their best to get out of re-recording their music in Simlish. youtu.be/aMl5fUlDxEU

Digital illustration by galacticjonah. The illustration shows Thjazi Fang on his death bed, covered in tributes by friends and family. Thjazi is an orc man with a greying beard and hair, dressed in a wine red shirt, lying in peaceful rest. Below the blankets covering him change into a banner that is catching flame. The banner shows a white falcon.

"I can still hear the falcon's cry. Do you?"

What a way to bring everyone together!! And boy does it feel kinda nostalgic to get lost in some fanart for a brand new episode...
#CriticalRoleSpoilers #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanart

"That's no moon."

Played some Codenames last night. Still great, even with two people. We were...not in sync.

Sounds great enjoy! Sort of the same for me - just with Aldi, Costa and Sainsbury's thrown in somewhere.

a little girl wearing sunglasses and a blue dress is running in a hallway . ALT: a little girl wearing sunglasses and a blue dress is running in a hallway .

Happy Birthday!

Hi! It's my birthday and I'd really appreciate it if you share what I do!

I mostly do book reviews, I love fantasy, and I'm really lucky to beta read and read ARCs too! Here's my favourite review I wrote this year: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I also draw sometimes but I have mostly WIPs 😂

Oh hi! 👋

Wahoo! Happy weekend.

Even The Ex-FTC Chair Is Slamming Microsoft's Game Pass Price Hikes Lina Khan's FTC sued Microsoft to stop it from acquiring Call of Duty

Microsoft in 2023: "Game Pass prices will not increase as a result of the Merger"

https://kotaku.com/xbox-game-pass-price-lina-khan-ftc-microsoft-activision-merger-2000631611

Haha!

It was..fine? Friends and family members have been sending their ratings and rankings of individual songs. Neither required or requested 😅.

Got the new Google Pixel 10 Pro XL and it is, as predicted, pretty much the same as my Google Pixel 8 Pro but with some more unnecessary AI stuff sprinkled in.

Does anyone want this? Just let things end...

I have no clue what's going on with them.

And it sucks as a Playstation owner as it's likely Sony will only become more and more complacent while Microsoft do...whatever it is they're doing and shed whatever is left of their goodwill.

Yeah I think because I had Mistborn as a comparison I could tell that Elantris was a little rougher, but it didn’t really hurt my enjoyment. I really liked the setup and the mystery around the city, and the ongoing wounds/pain was harrowing!

Definitely looking forward to reading more of his work.

I really liked it. It kind of feels like one that will sit with me for a while and I'll like it more and more with each re-read.

Loved the setting and the world building. It was definitely a slow burn (which I don't mind) but then it did feel like it kind of rushed to an ending in the final third.

My pleasure. Always good to meet people!

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Oh hi! I'm 3 books deep into Cosmere and really enjoying it. Started with Mistborn then back to Elantris and now on Well of Ascension.

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Great to meet you. Thanks so much for the follow!

Damnit I didn't say Marvel! 🦹