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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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for my first inside baseball week feature: new you are error episode about how video game industry investment works and where all the money went after the covid-era boom period, featuring @futterish.fsquared.biz

Why isn’t anyone funding video games anymore? aftermath.site/you-are-error-...

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 can tell this piece is going to piss me off and hurt my feelings. I can't wait to read it.

I've managed to get gigs outside of gaming journalism but I'm only surviving because I'm in the middle of nowhere, while new job openings almost universally want on-site in New York or LA. The dream is all but dead and it both breaks my heart and terrifies me, but mostly I'm just angry these days.

Check this out if you want to read a bunch of ex-journalists' thoughts on the current (gestures to the smoking crater) state of things, and also me being very very nostalgic about the games magazine era

"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

When losing a job means losing a career: what comes next for laid off games journalists? aftermath.site/aftermath-game...

I sold $16K in Pokémon cards and it fucking sucked aftermath.site/pokemon-card-s...

*grimaces* *closes eyes* *clicks*

Great piece on a bleak trend. Really ridiculous how anyone could look at the problems with games media right now and still blame it on the workers being “dumb hacks” or whatever

my first feature for inside baseball week 2026 is live and it couldn't be much more inside baseball than writing about games media. thanks so much to everyone for taking part, this was not a fun thing to talk about

Pretttty fantastic piece imo about the abysmal current state of affairs in game journalism (myself and a couple of friends and close colleagues are all in here) bsky.app/profile/afte...

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...

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.

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.

sad news to start the week: layoffs have hit sucker punch

Layoffs hit Ghost Of Yotei developer Sucker Punch aftermath.site/sucker-punch-l...

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.

Our first Inside Baseball Week story is here, this roller coaster ride by @lucasderuyter.northsky.social about the darker side of selling Pokemon cards

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!

A Little Age is a neat little game about building tiny towns: aftermath.site/a-little-age-i...

Dog Online reminds me I used to like websites aftermath.site/dog-online-neo...

Devs shouldn't have to be protecting their games, Valve should be protecting its shopfront: aftermath.site/steam-indie-ga...

Every single hobby I love has has been infected by slopped up and unserious software. It's exhausting. aftermath.site/ai-slop-hobbie...

Why do mainstream publications keep trying to help Xbox rehabilitate its image? aftermath.site/aftermath-hour...

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

Some updates to previous pieces. I did end up swapping the trackball of the keychron out for a compatible steel ball bearing. Much better! Still need to find a good compatible lubricant that won’t mess up the electronics though.