James B. Jones

You know what? It lasted longer than I thought it would and it was better than it had any right to be. Cheers, Pokemon UNITE. You were (still are, until March) a dope time.

This made me sad for so many reasons, one of them being - and forgive me for sounding reminiscent about my time at the big megacorp - but this does not sound like the EA I worked for so many years ago. This sucks for everybody, and I feel for the folks having to navigate through this mess.

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That would be a stupid fucking direction for the industry to take. Which is why this is probably the case.

We have reached the point where recruiters - RECRUITERS - are on LinkedIn peddling the "this review was bought" nonsense. Have we, as an industry, just decided to completely stop taking the work seriously?

Whoever said that Milwaukee wasn’t built for October baseball better be eating all the crow. Every single crow. Eatin’ it.

I'm sorry but that Save Mass Effect thing really bums me out I absolutely understand and know what it is to be profoundly impacted by such incredible works. But if BioWare projects meant a lot to you, I implore you to care more about the people who built those worlds than the fate of the IP

Forget Valve. Forget Steam and Half-Life and Dota. The best thing Gabe Newell ever did was not have a social media presence.

I'm asking this half-facetiously and half-seriously since I don't actually know how this sort of thing works but... isn't a buyout just a voluntary layoff?

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.

Walter Koenig was, by just about all accounts, a kind man who was generous with his time. He was also quite the underappreciated actor - outside of Star Trek, Koenig's run as Alfred Bester on Babylon 5 remains one of the best realized antagonists in all of fiction. Damn.

Battery laws should be waived if it’s a Pokemon scalper being jumped. (for legal reasons I am being mildly hyperbolic) (mildly)

$700 for the mini. $1,000 for the mini without a binned CPU. I hate what the manufactured hype around "AI" has done to tech, y'all.

Me, before bed: “Let’s go check on that post I made earlier that I muted because I value my sanity.” Me, thirty seconds later:

Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

No joke.

Foodie freighter captain makes friends, enemies.

Eat shit, Jim Caviezel.

Real ones remember

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Should Republicans get away with stealing the midterms (because there is no legitimate path for them to win honestly), I’m not convinced that Trump won’t try to give Alaska to Putin.

“Everyday, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it. Just let it happen.”

Tahoma is lookin’ mighty grand on the day I begin my final year of my 30s.

When you understand just how poorly Epic has been mismanaged, Tim’s obsession with the cost-saving magic prompt box makes a lot more sense.

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Since Looking Glass Studios is on the brain this morning, I just wanna throw out there that, like... if anyone who worked there wanted to maybe leak any playable builds of the Voyager game y'all were workin' on back in the day, like... yeah. That'd be pretty dope.

"This is the bit where the comet hits the earth and the dinosaurs die, but the way is cleared for cooler life forms to evolve." I would say that I'll remember this quote for when Tim eventually finishes burying his own company, but I'd never so flippantly disrespect to the actual devs over there.

Yesterday: Warren Spector justifiably furious about how f'd up the razing of Bioware is Tonight: Warren's in Brooklyn talking with us about his career, and probably also all this f'd up #!(*% extractive consolidation going on? Bring your questions ALSO at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter see you there

If you’re an adult troll-posting all day on social media you should have court-ordered therapy. If you’re a parent you should have to explain what you’re doing and why to your kids with a therapist present!

If this supposed Mass Effect trailer is legitimate then, like... EA, what are you doing?

They announced this yesterday but for obvious reasons nobody gave a shit. Well it’s a new day and this is fucking ridiculous.

If your reaction to Bioware closing is "Mass Effect was shit, they should let me run the whole games industry" you deserve *every* bit of the ire your peers already regard you with.