Britton Peele

I am extremely interested in this because I genuinely thought this game was fascinating when playing it at a friend’s house as a kid. We’re gonna see how naive I was, I guess.

I need to make it back to @quakecon.bsky.social at some point. I’ve been missing it the last few years.

I lol'ed.

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer.

As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free.

Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI

threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

The cover of the book “From Myst to Riven.”

Part of a page of “From Myst to Riven,” with the heading “Puzzles & Payoffs.”

Part of a page from “From Myst to Riven,” showing a behind-the-scenes image of making live action video for the game.

@janochoa.bsky.social You asked about Myst/Riven puzzle design docs. This book From Myst to Riven is more focused on art, story and tech, but it does have a section devoted to behind-the-scenes of puzzles. (Not showing other pages because of spoilers.)

They acknowledged Myst’s worst puzzle.

I recently had a very sincere conversation with my family where I told them not to do this exact thing after I die. Thankfully, they agreed completely.

Worlds of Power books based on Metal Gear, Infiltrator, Ninja Gaiden and Mega Man 2.

Three Zork choose-your-own-adventure style books.

“Novelizations” of Gex and Donkey Kong Country.

“Novelizations” of Turok games titled “Seeds of Evil” and “Arena of Doom.”

Finally found the box in storage that had the *good* books in it.

While I think the game key card backlash is a *bit* overblown considering how few other console discs have the full game on them, it is definitely a bummer that is pushing me away from releases.

I would have double dipped on Persona 3 Reload if it was truly physical (and not weirdly $5 more?).

I was not happy to be awake so early this morning but seeing the announcement of a new Katamari Damacy game instantly put me in a better mood.

“In the future, the thing I am selling will be the most important thing you can buy” is a sales tactic as old as time.

Are we gonna talk about the fact that Mario Paint is rated T for Teen?

Are we gonna talk about the fact that Mario Paint is rated T for Teen?

“Video games aren’t just Pac-Man anymore!” has evolved into a new, worse form.

Alden Global Capital fails in its attempt to get its tentacles on The Dallas Morning News A late bid to disrupt its sale to Hearst is foiled by a fourth-generation newspaper owner turning down more money.

New by me —>

The vulturous hedge fund Alden Global Capital has been prevented from taking over @dallasnews.com — thanks to one final act of stewardship by the family that has run the paper for more than a century.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/alde...

I was indeed very happy about this.

I’m moving on Tuesday and won’t have internet in my place until probably noon on Wednesday, so I’m fully expecting a Nintendo Direct to happen within that timeframe that I’m offline.

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

Woohoo! Congrats!

“And they were roommates!”

Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found that Google users who encounter an Al summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than use 's who don't encounter an Al summary. To be precise, only [my emphasis] 1 percent of users who encountered an Al summary clicked the link to the page Google is summarizing.

Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

I pre-ordered this so quickly.

And it’s so much quieter!

I debated whether or not to pick up a Switch 2 Pro Controller at launch. Ended up doing so. I really, really like it and don’t regret the choice at all. Sounds like I wasn’t alone.

Puzzmo crossword clue: “Victorious exclamation from Geena in the video game ‘Fusion Frenzy’”

Did Bill Gates write this @puzzmo.com clue about his favorite game?

I didn't advise him to do this. There have already been a couple moments of frustration we could have avoided if he was playing on the easier difficulty. But he's being tenacious. I have helped with a couple specific areas, and Bananza isn't an overly difficult game, but I've still been impressed.

I can't guarantee this will continue, as the game gets progressively harder past what I assume is the halfway(ish) point, but I've been having a "proud gamer dad" moment this week as my six year-old son has been playing Donkey Kong Bananza almost entirely on his own *without* turning assist mode on.

Jonathan and Martha Kent are the true heroes. They took on the most high-stakes child-rearing gig in human history and totally nailed it.

A screenshot from Shadow Labyrinth.

This is a Pac-Man game.

Nintendo has always had the sauce but a lot of their magic comes down to “These people have been making games their entire lives and they actually want to teach youngsters how to make good games instead of sabotaging them to make Line Go Up.”