Riot Spent A Decade Developing A Fighting Game Then Laid Off Around 80 Developers Less Than One Month After Release

'Overall momentum hasn’t reached the level needed to support a team of this size long term' | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 12 hours ago

Discord Leadership Only People On Planet Who Think Adding Age Verification To Discord A Good Idea

'As part of this update, all new and existing users worldwide will have a teen-appropriate experience by default' | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 18 hours ago

Activision Blizzard Tattled To Hack Maker's Mom

Activision Blizzard is suing two hack makers it claims won't stop selling hacks | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 18 hours ago

Movement To Remove Voice Actor Who Has Admitted To Sexual Assault Has Yakuza Fans At Breaking Point

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s silence on #RemoveKagawa widens the rift with fans, revealing fractured values, uneven accountability, and a directionless franchise. | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 21 hours ago

Genshin Impact Maker Suing To Take Down Fan Wiki

A month ago, the wiki owner stepped back from the endeavor | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 22 hours ago

All Her Fault Is A Thriller About Gender Roles

A story about a kidnapping is a jumping off point to explore expectations within families | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 23 hours ago

Baldur's Gate 3 Heads To TV, An Assassin's Creed Gets Cancelled & Nvidia Cards Delayed Because Of You Know What: All The News From February 4-6

Also: a Ubisoft town hall goes very poorly | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 3 days ago

Your Subscriber Dollars At Work: Aftermath Has A New Regular Contributor And Monthly Columnist

Welcome Ash Parrish and Joshua Rivera to our regular rotation of writers | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 3 days ago

You Gotta Hear The Music In This PS1 Looney Tunes Game

An ode to that one track from the bizarre, 2001 PS1 game Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf AKA Looney Tunes Sheep Raider starring Ralph Wolf. | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 3 days ago

Epic Clarifies That, No, Jeffrey Epstein Is Not Still Alive And Playing Fortnite In Tel Aviv

"This was a ruse by a Fortnite player" | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 3 days ago

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Has The Juice

Y'all I swear to god this show is actually good, I promise bro. | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 4 days ago

Nintendo’s Trailers Of Violent Games Are Full Of (Purposefully?) Missed Shots

I can't unsee it | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 4 days ago

As A Principled Video Game Executive, I Believe AI Is ‘Metadata’ Mixed With A ‘Parlor Trick,’ And We Should Be Skeptical Of It. Then Again, Counterpoint: Never Mind

Life comes at you fast | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 4 days ago

They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should

Xfinity's Jurassic Park superbowl ad is a lesson how to do everything wrong when the original movie did everything right. | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 4 days ago

The Steam Machine Has Been Delayed Because Stupid Little Babies Can't Stop Using AI To Write Their Emails

'The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing' | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 5 days ago

Nobody Needs This Man, We're All So Tired

There's jokes and then there's whatever this was | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 5 days ago

They Do This Because They Can

Wednesday's Washington Post layoffs didn't need to happen | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 5 days ago

Meet The Unconventional Publishers Trying To Unfuck The Games Industry

Developers turned publishers like Innersloth and Pocketpair are leveraging their success to help other indie games thrive. | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 5 days ago

The Console Wars, As Told By '90s Nintendo And Sega Advertisements

'The way you come to understand [anything] inside and out is by seeing how it evolved over time' | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 6 days ago

The Ashes Of Ashes Of Creation, Iron Lung & Project Genie Bullshit: All The News From January 31-February 3

Also: AI podcasts, because we live in hell | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 6 days ago

Adobe Is Ruthlessly Killing Off Software That Animators Around The World Are Using Every Day [Update]

'The entire toolshed is being demolished' | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 6 days ago

The Epstein Files Reveal What Powerful People See In Video Games: Profit, Coercion, And Control

Epstein's apparent associations with the likes of Bobby Kotick, Steve Bannon, and Peter Thiel paint an ugly picture | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 6 days ago

What If I Just Never Leave Cairn's Tent

All my little chores | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 6 days ago

Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate

Sharing a YT video about labor and working from home is enough to get you terminated, it seems | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 7 days ago

Once A Hack, Always A Hack

Darren Aronofsky producing an AI slop show isn’t surprising when you consider how he’s been aping Satoshi Kon’s work | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 7 days ago

Blizzard QA Workers’ Newly Ratified Union Contract Locks In Pay Increases, Better Benefits

Three years after unionizing, the group has a contract | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 8 days ago

Pokémon Company Apologises After Advertising Event At...Controversial War Crimes Shrine

'Brands that disregard history and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people will ultimately be abandoned' | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 8 days ago

It’s Impossible To Keep Politics Out Of Games When They’re Literally Banging Down Your Door

"It doesn’t feel safe to be recording and having fun in the streets of Minneapolis these days" | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 10 days ago

Censored Hogs, GDC Cancellations & Amazon Layoffs: All The News From January 28-30

Also: Valve is facing a $900 million lawsuit | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 11 days ago

We Need A Word That Goes Beyond 'Slop' For This One

We've gone way past the bottom of the barrel | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 11 days ago

Deadlock’s Sleepy New Hero Rem Is A Perfect Little Guy

Rem, the newest character in Deadlock, is a sweepy widdle buddy who takes naps and a perfectly designed character. | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 11 days ago

A Horse Tries To Make It To The Super Bowl

Anime and football fandoms collided during the Denver Broncos' season, as Umamusume cosplayers rallied around their local team | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 11 days ago

'We Will Not Be Bullied Into Submission': Ubisoft Unions Call For Massive International Strike

"Our goal is to make great games again, without having to look over our shoulder constantly, wondering what the next announcement brings, and who will fall" | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 12 days ago

The New Baby YouTuber Thumbnail Meta Changes Everything

In a month of the most depressing posts possible, posting was fun for a brief second. | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 12 days ago

Warhammer Takedowns, EB Games Closures & Ubisoft Embarrassment: All The News From January 22-27

Also: Capcom's AI bullshit and 1,294,188 verified signatures | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 13 days ago

"I Do Not Feel Safe In The Country": International Developers Are Skipping GDC Because Of Trump's Border Chaos

'The reality is the US has become increasingly hostile to foreign nationals regardless of origin' | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 13 days ago

The Anime AI Closed Captioning Situation Is Crazy

Crunchyroll getting in bed with an AI localization company and Netflix declaring it’ll use AI to improve localization spells bad times ahead for anime fans. | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 13 days ago

Gambling Isn't News

News outlets' forays into prediction markets confuse noise with information | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 13 days ago

Despite AI's Best Efforts, I Fixed My Kid's Airpods Through The Collective Power Of Human Troubleshooting

"Suck on the one with low sound" | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 14 days ago

Highguard Is Yet Another Symptom – And Victim – Of A Rapidly Decaying Internet

In an online ecosystem ruled by cynics, clip farmers, and ragebaiters (and built by those who seek to profit off them), Highguard never stood a chance of having a normal launch | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 14 days ago

Kokuho Has The Juice

Kokuho is a blistering look at how far an artist will bleed, bend, and break in pursuit of perfection | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 14 days ago

You Gotta Love It When A Good Game Takes The Time To Get Even Better

You don't often get to play the same game three different ways over seven years | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 17 days ago

Nintendo’s Games Are Special Because Its Teams Are Intergenerational

"If you are the newest guy making Mario, you are sitting in the same team as Takashi Tezuka who made the first Mario" | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 17 days ago

US Lawmakers Urge Review Of EA Sale

The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 18 days ago

A Game Doesn't Need To Be ‘By And For Fans’

Life Is Strange: Reunion could be a story that grapples with old choices and mistakes, or it could be one that tells fans and characters they "deserve" stories that make everything OK | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 18 days ago

Following Layoffs And Cancellations, Ubisoft Announces More Layoffs And Cancellations

Sands of Time remake canceled by company regrettably incapable of rewinding time | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 19 days ago

That's No Moon Ex-CEO Hijacked Domain And Caused A $1M Problem, Cofounders Say In Lawsuit

The domain issues took email offline, too, according to the complaint | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 19 days ago

Milk Is Not $20

'Is that worth 20 bucks to me?' | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 19 days ago