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NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

Casting a net of questionable size here, if you’re an ex-BioWare dev (or know of one who may not see this) working on something cool you’d like featured in a roundup at Kotaku, drop it below. Store page links helpful, and let me know what your role was at BW. Projects big and small welcome! RTs plz!

Sun and fog this morning at the Montrose Beach Dunes

Reminder that if you need the whistles part of this equation, go to linktr.ee/3Dwhistles and we will send you between 100-3000 whistles (more if you need them) for absolutely free in the United States.

DC is structurally disempowered and legally disenfranchised but they do find ways to stick it to their overlords lol

Saw an old guy with the craziest drip today

The biggest danger to this administration is being a non-white person who is funnier and better at posting than them. That's why they're arresting this woman's family members for running a weed store two weeks before an election. She has the juice and that's dangerous.

Former BioWare Senior Writers Mary Kirby (Varric, Vivienne, Lucanis) and Sylvia Feketekuty (Liara, Josephine, Emmrich) and Sarah Hayward (Former BioWare Cinematic Director) have found a home at North Mist with many others in our network.

One more for the afternoon crowd. Two of the last lines of dialogue I wrote on the last BioWare game I shipped.

If you're a BioWare fan, a developer influenced by its games, or a media person who was impacted by them and want to talk about what the studio's games have meant to you for a Kotaku story, please reach out in a dm here or at kshepard@kotaku.com

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

I genuinely don't think I'd have had a lasting love of video games without Bioware. All the games from the 00s that grabbed me were Bioware games. Without Dragon Age, KOTORs, Jade Empire, and Mass Effect I don't think I would have kept playing video games after the ps2/xbox era.

Also: Dragon Age 2 is an incredible video game that took storytelling swings no one else was even considering in 2011, had one of the best ensembles in any medium, and was a goddamn feat of development that got made in A YEAR AND 4 MONTHS. Haters can get bent, Kirkwall 4 life

this is 1000% EA's fault for killing these games by trying to force them to chase trends instead of being unique, distinct propreties www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

So incredibly devastated by the Bioware news. Like the writing was on the wall after EA was bought but still seeing it happen sucks so bad

I’d sure love to see a LOT more work on this. We cannot let this blood-spattered beast continue to control anything.

Team Italy's dugout espresso maker

Your daily reminder that more people are playing and buying PC games than ever before. This is a growing industry. The only reason the industry is struggling is because the people are the top are vacuuming up all the money made to divert it to AI in an unhinged all-in multi-trillion-dollar gamble.

bbc is airing an interview of the head of signal and treating her like she is harboring criminals by holding a hard line on privacy they asked “what are you doing to protect women & children?” they don’t even think about how many of us are on signal to protect women, children, & families

Holy shit

Just a reminder that when Dems turn against trans people for power, it's also a reminder that they'll do other things for power that you might not like too, such as supporting billionaires.

The last half of this quote wasn't circulating nearly as much yesterday, but it's actually the clincher. God bless this brilliant, gifted, absolutely deranged man.

Kyle Schwarber, welcome to The War on Cars.

Cali, NYC, whatever volume of whistles you need, we got you.

IT IS NOT REMOTELY THE FUCK UNCLEAR

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

“Everything the U.S. empire does is bad, so everyone who does something against the U.S. is good” is a really silly political ideology

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

When colonization came to call in the US, many folks wrote about america as a pristine Eden whose forest were filled with delights and bounty. This was because indigenous folk (Like mine) built up food forest. Things that were razed and destroyed as a part of racist violence. Colonization is ongoing

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.