as a result of today's microsoft layoffs, much of warcraft rumble's team is being let go – around 100 employees, some who've spoken to aftermath say – and the game will no longer receive new content. other blizzard departments affected include customer service and marketing

When I went to Blizzard in February, they had a little museum that changes out from time to time. Warcraft Rumble was the focus at the time, and there were amazing artist drawings and fan mail hung up in there. Feel so bad for that team making something they cared about.

someone in my mentions cited deadspin as evidence that kotaku writers are in trouble now, apparently having never heard of defector, one of the most successful recent ventures in all of media and proof of just how high writers can fly when freed from g/o’s shackles

• Mamdani is not in the country illegally • He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism • Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic • He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’ • He’s not a communist More: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

It's been a week of highs and lows. We're going live at 4 PM ET with AmericanTruckSongs9 of Kotaku and Garrett Martin of Endless Mode to discuss the former's long-awaited sale and the latter's surprising launch – and of course, the Microsoft layoffs

a lot of y’all are very stupid “oh my insurance is expensive why should poor people have free insurance” bro your insurance gets MORE expensive if less people are insured. even if you don’t care about others you’re also fucked!

we’re live!

CWA, the union that represents thousands of games workers across microsoft, once boasted a mutually beneficial relationship with the company. to say that relationship has deteriorated over the years is probably an understatement

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Games media actually had a good week, for once aftermath.site/aftermath-hour…

none whatsoever!

buy now pay later is a predatory scheme – another means of luring desperate people into debt – and games are worse for including it even as an option

On today's stream we're joined by Grant Stoner to discuss Disability Pride Month and accessibility in games, and then – because it has consumed chris person’s life – the horse girl sensation that's sweeping the nation: Umamusume. We go live at 4 PM ET

Accessibility has become a marketing buzzword for video game companies in recent years, but Grant Stoner argues that it’s been a double-edged sword

is charlie guillemot, son of ubisoft ceo yves guillemot and now co-ceo of ubisoft and tencent's new subsidiary, the very definition of a nepo baby? yeah, sure, probably. don’t worry about it, though!

umamusume is, by many measures, already one of the most popular horse games ever. except… it’s not really about horses. this has left gaming’s premiere horse consultant and advocate, Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮, in a bind