alyssa mercante
@alyssamerc.bsky.social
culture journo, reluctant gamer, reclaimed italian
creator and writer at inverted
bylines at aftermath, the guardian, rolling stone, gamespot, kotaku, jezebel
patreon.com/InvertedbyAlyssaMercante
alyssamercantewrites.com
creator and writer at inverted
bylines at aftermath, the guardian, rolling stone, gamespot, kotaku, jezebel
patreon.com/InvertedbyAlyssaMercante
alyssamercantewrites.com
Pinned
Two Months After Firing Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Ghost Of Yotei Dev Blames Harassment Campaign, Not ‘Bad Joke’
"I really don’t want this to happen to anyone else, because I feel like with the state of everything, it will absolutely happen to other people," says Drew Harrison
aftermath.site
For @aftermath.site, I spoke to @imodrew.bsky.social, the Sucker Punch dev fired after making a Charlie Kirk joke.
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
He looks like that? Lmfao
Palmer Luckey Wants to Take War Beneath the Earth's Crust https://gizmodo.com/palmer-luckey-wants-to-take-war-beneath-the-earths-crust-2000695764
Palmer Luckey Wants to Take War Beneath the Earth's Crust
"People think it's some kind of crazy, crazy, nutty thing," said Luckey.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
He looks like that? Lmfao
Reposted by alyssa mercante
We can always count on Alyssa for taste
December 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We can always count on Alyssa for taste
Reposted by alyssa mercante
Is Lady Gaga in your Spotify Wrapped or do you have bad taste?
December 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Is Lady Gaga in your Spotify Wrapped or do you have bad taste?
Heated Rivalry drives me crazy because in a just world we’d have Ilya and Shane but in the real world we have the Tkachuk brothers spewing bile at a 7th grade reading level and Tony Deangelo still playing hockey and Carter Hart allowed to show his face
December 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Heated Rivalry drives me crazy because in a just world we’d have Ilya and Shane but in the real world we have the Tkachuk brothers spewing bile at a 7th grade reading level and Tony Deangelo still playing hockey and Carter Hart allowed to show his face
Reposted by alyssa mercante
I'm at the combination
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I'm at the combination
Reposted by alyssa mercante
Over at Kotaku, we are trying to cover at least one cool indie game every week. It's called Indie of the Week!
kotaku.com/opinion/impr...
If you are an indie dev with something cool, feel free to send it to [email protected]!
kotaku.com/opinion/impr...
If you are an indie dev with something cool, feel free to send it to [email protected]!
December 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Over at Kotaku, we are trying to cover at least one cool indie game every week. It's called Indie of the Week!
kotaku.com/opinion/impr...
If you are an indie dev with something cool, feel free to send it to [email protected]!
kotaku.com/opinion/impr...
If you are an indie dev with something cool, feel free to send it to [email protected]!
Reposted by alyssa mercante
hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Reposted by alyssa mercante
No Games For Genocide wants the entire industry to boycott Xbox https://kotaku.com/no-games-for-genocide-xbox-microsoft-boycott-palestine-2000650175
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
No Games For Genocide wants the entire industry to boycott Xbox https://kotaku.com/no-games-for-genocide-xbox-microsoft-boycott-palestine-2000650175
Thanks to @nogamesforgenocide.com for the chat!
"The games industry in particular is at the intersection of entertainment and tech...there are a lot of connections between the games industry and the genocide that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people."
kotaku.com/no-games-for...
kotaku.com/no-games-for...
No Games For Genocide Wants You To Boycott Xbox
A collective of video game workers, journalists, and union organizers recently announced a pledge to boycott Xbox for Palestine
kotaku.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Thanks to @nogamesforgenocide.com for the chat!
"The games industry in particular is at the intersection of entertainment and tech...there are a lot of connections between the games industry and the genocide that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people."
kotaku.com/no-games-for...
kotaku.com/no-games-for...
No Games For Genocide Wants You To Boycott Xbox
A collective of video game workers, journalists, and union organizers recently announced a pledge to boycott Xbox for Palestine
kotaku.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"The games industry in particular is at the intersection of entertainment and tech...there are a lot of connections between the games industry and the genocide that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people."
kotaku.com/no-games-for...
kotaku.com/no-games-for...
Reposted by alyssa mercante
Come help us write articles for the internet made by humans https://kotaku.com/kotaku-is-looking-for-freelance-contributors-2000650081
Kotaku Is Looking for Freelance Contributors - Kotaku
We're looking for thoughtful writers to help with covering news, reporting, and more
kotaku.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Come help us write articles for the internet made by humans https://kotaku.com/kotaku-is-looking-for-freelance-contributors-2000650081
That's on *taste*
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
That's on *taste*
So fun to edit Harper for the first time!! What a piece!
My final(?) bit of writing for the year and in an interesting twist of fate it's at Kotaku! I reviewed Octopath Traveler 0.
I truly loved this game and it gave me a great deal to this about re: earnest story-telling and giving oneself permission *to love* something.
kotaku.com/octopath-tra...
I truly loved this game and it gave me a great deal to this about re: earnest story-telling and giving oneself permission *to love* something.
kotaku.com/octopath-tra...
Octopath Traveler 0: The Kotaku Review - Kotaku
A mobile spin-off transforms into the best game in the RPG series
kotaku.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
So fun to edit Harper for the first time!! What a piece!
Reposted by alyssa mercante
the U.S. government illegally killed him. His relatives say Alejandro Carranza was on a routine fishing trip, and his wife told reporters he left home to fish and had no ties to drug trafficking.
Colombian killed in U.S. strike was on a fishing trip, wife claims: "Why did they just take his life like that?"
Alejandro Carranza's family is questioning U.S. claims that he was carrying narcotics aboard a small vessel targeted last month.
www.cbsnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
the U.S. government illegally killed him. His relatives say Alejandro Carranza was on a routine fishing trip, and his wife told reporters he left home to fish and had no ties to drug trafficking.
Reposted by alyssa mercante
HegSSeth gave the order to “kill everybody” to his commanders because he is unhinged and undisciplined and is running the most powerful military in the world like he’s playing Call of Duty from his mom’s basement.
December 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
HegSSeth gave the order to “kill everybody” to his commanders because he is unhinged and undisciplined and is running the most powerful military in the world like he’s playing Call of Duty from his mom’s basement.
Reposted by alyssa mercante
My consortium of investors t-shirt is raising lots of questions already answered by the shirt
EA isn't being sold to a "consortium" of investors, it's being sold to Saudi Arabia, new filings reveal: https://kotaku.com/ea-saudi-arabia-ownership-trump-jared-kushner-2000649726
December 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
My consortium of investors t-shirt is raising lots of questions already answered by the shirt
Chat is this good
EA isn't being sold to a "consortium" of investors, it's being sold to Saudi Arabia, new filings reveal: https://kotaku.com/ea-saudi-arabia-ownership-trump-jared-kushner-2000649726
December 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Chat is this good
Reposted by alyssa mercante
Mild jump scare realizing yesterday was three years since I accepted the job at Kotaku. G/O originally didn’t want to hire me because I would be recovering from surgery and they wouldn’t let me start remote. So I uprooted my life while fucked up on pain meds.
Then I outlived G/O. Fuck ‘em.
Then I outlived G/O. Fuck ‘em.
December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Mild jump scare realizing yesterday was three years since I accepted the job at Kotaku. G/O originally didn’t want to hire me because I would be recovering from surgery and they wouldn’t let me start remote. So I uprooted my life while fucked up on pain meds.
Then I outlived G/O. Fuck ‘em.
Then I outlived G/O. Fuck ‘em.
Reposted by alyssa mercante
Reposted by alyssa mercante
sometimes people on here complain about harassment over like, review scores, and everyone jumps in to "support" and i wonder what would happen to some of you if you experienced a fraction of what unceasingly comes at Alyssa every fucking day
Incredibly weird behavior from a man who has previously sexually harassed me. AI makes it even easier to spread low-effort misogyny, so I'm not surprised the online right is using it so much that it's melting their brains.
Exhausting, but expected.
Exhausting, but expected.
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
sometimes people on here complain about harassment over like, review scores, and everyone jumps in to "support" and i wonder what would happen to some of you if you experienced a fraction of what unceasingly comes at Alyssa every fucking day
Reposted by alyssa mercante
SIGN OUR BOYCOTT XBOX PLEDGE: We are asking gamers, game workers, streamers & journalists to join us in boycotting & divesting from Xbox, to force Microsoft to end its complicity in the genocide of Palestinians.
We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com
We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
SIGN OUR BOYCOTT XBOX PLEDGE: We are asking gamers, game workers, streamers & journalists to join us in boycotting & divesting from Xbox, to force Microsoft to end its complicity in the genocide of Palestinians.
We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com
We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com
Reposted by alyssa mercante
Casual sexual harassment of women and femmes is so common that it’s often difficult to convince people that it even is harassment
Incredibly weird behavior from a man who has previously sexually harassed me. AI makes it even easier to spread low-effort misogyny, so I'm not surprised the online right is using it so much that it's melting their brains.
Exhausting, but expected.
Exhausting, but expected.
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Casual sexual harassment of women and femmes is so common that it’s often difficult to convince people that it even is harassment
She's right there!
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
She's right there!
Reposted by alyssa mercante
getting really fucking sick of ppl telling alyssa to ignore these posts, which regularly escalate into violent threats regardless of what she does
Incredibly weird behavior from a man who has previously sexually harassed me. AI makes it even easier to spread low-effort misogyny, so I'm not surprised the online right is using it so much that it's melting their brains.
Exhausting, but expected.
Exhausting, but expected.
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
getting really fucking sick of ppl telling alyssa to ignore these posts, which regularly escalate into violent threats regardless of what she does
Incredibly weird behavior from a man who has previously sexually harassed me. AI makes it even easier to spread low-effort misogyny, so I'm not surprised the online right is using it so much that it's melting their brains.
Exhausting, but expected.
Exhausting, but expected.
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Incredibly weird behavior from a man who has previously sexually harassed me. AI makes it even easier to spread low-effort misogyny, so I'm not surprised the online right is using it so much that it's melting their brains.
Exhausting, but expected.
Exhausting, but expected.