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PlayStation has laid off 900 employees from its workforce which equates to 8%, according to Aftermath. The video game industry is in the toilet.
Gita Jackson on her terrible time at Kotaku: The key to being a daily video game blogger—or a daily blogger of any kind, but especially one in an industry as small as video games—is that you both have to be constantly producing and constantly consuming.
No chance of fighting for the controller where parents are concerned!
Hair Nah is a brilliant travel game where you play a Black woman swatting away white women’s hands trying to touch your hair. Shout out to Momo Pixel and the team for making this.
Merry Pac-mas!
Aftermath on the games Henry Kissinger can’t play now he’s dead. The list starts with Grand Theft Auto 6 and I hope Hell involves him getting busted and/or wasted infinitely.