bee wertheimer
@beewertheimer.com
games writer (they/she)
words at kotaku, a.v. club, unwinnable, into the spine
beewertheimer.com
words at kotaku, a.v. club, unwinnable, into the spine
beewertheimer.com
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new year new website! beewertheimer.com now features every article i've ever written, plus more games, more art, and soon more blog posts
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Inverse has decided to "divest from gaming content" so I'm out of a job again!
This is almost certainly the end of my career in games media, and probably the end of my writing career. I'd love for that not to be the case, so I'd appreciate any leads but I'm honestly not hopeful for obvious reasons♥️
This is almost certainly the end of my career in games media, and probably the end of my writing career. I'd love for that not to be the case, so I'd appreciate any leads but I'm honestly not hopeful for obvious reasons♥️
January 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Inverse has decided to "divest from gaming content" so I'm out of a job again!
This is almost certainly the end of my career in games media, and probably the end of my writing career. I'd love for that not to be the case, so I'd appreciate any leads but I'm honestly not hopeful for obvious reasons♥️
This is almost certainly the end of my career in games media, and probably the end of my writing career. I'd love for that not to be the case, so I'd appreciate any leads but I'm honestly not hopeful for obvious reasons♥️
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Inverse's Gaming section is being shut down as the company "divests" from gaming content. I'm out of a job along with my wonderful co-writers. I've put my heart and soul into this job for four years. Gonna need to take time to process, but I'm now completely open for work - and boy do I need it.
January 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Inverse's Gaming section is being shut down as the company "divests" from gaming content. I'm out of a job along with my wonderful co-writers. I've put my heart and soul into this job for four years. Gonna need to take time to process, but I'm now completely open for work - and boy do I need it.
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if you like games criticism read it. share it. post about it.
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 PM
if you like games criticism read it. share it. post about it.
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Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
www.ashparrish.com
Ash Parrish
www.ashparrish.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
www.ashparrish.com
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Reminder that video game journalism cannot exist without functioning newsrooms that have the capacity to mentor and train new talent and the bandwidth to pursue long-form investigative pieces and break news—all while paying writers a living wage.
January 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Reminder that video game journalism cannot exist without functioning newsrooms that have the capacity to mentor and train new talent and the bandwidth to pursue long-form investigative pieces and break news—all while paying writers a living wage.
my phone updated to liquid glass last night without my permission. what did i do to deserve this
January 16, 2026 at 7:41 PM
my phone updated to liquid glass last night without my permission. what did i do to deserve this
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Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges. www.wired.com/story/why-ic...
Why ICE Can Kill With Impunity
Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.
www.wired.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges. www.wired.com/story/why-ic...
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What even is a video game backlog in 2026?
What Even Is A Video Game Backlog In 2026?
Some games won't end while others end forever, which makes crossing stuff off a backlog these days tricky
kotaku.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
What even is a video game backlog in 2026?
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Fascists are pathetic: defector.com/fascists-are...
Fascists Are Pathetic | Defector
Two days before a shouting cluster of its agents surrounded the car of a Minneapolis mother and shot her to death last week, ICE was demanding answers from the Hilton hotel group on X.com. “Why did…
defector.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Fascists are pathetic: defector.com/fascists-are...
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Animal Crossing: New Horizon's 3.0 update is here. I wrote about returning to a game that was so linked to a time of fear of isolation. Can you still find a cozy home in a time capsule loaded with emotional baggage? www.polygon.com/animal-cross...
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a time capsule full of 2020 anxiety
Get ready to unpack some baggage
www.polygon.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Animal Crossing: New Horizon's 3.0 update is here. I wrote about returning to a game that was so linked to a time of fear of isolation. Can you still find a cozy home in a time capsule loaded with emotional baggage? www.polygon.com/animal-cross...
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Eating a vegetable:
This is sensible. This is how plants should taste. This is grass and wood at its most edible
Eating a fruit:
This is a delicately crafted lure. Flesh engorged with sugar to attract me like a bird, to fill me up with seeds. A sexual organ. This is the reverse of the Jumanji plant
This is sensible. This is how plants should taste. This is grass and wood at its most edible
Eating a fruit:
This is a delicately crafted lure. Flesh engorged with sugar to attract me like a bird, to fill me up with seeds. A sexual organ. This is the reverse of the Jumanji plant
January 14, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Eating a vegetable:
This is sensible. This is how plants should taste. This is grass and wood at its most edible
Eating a fruit:
This is a delicately crafted lure. Flesh engorged with sugar to attract me like a bird, to fill me up with seeds. A sexual organ. This is the reverse of the Jumanji plant
This is sensible. This is how plants should taste. This is grass and wood at its most edible
Eating a fruit:
This is a delicately crafted lure. Flesh engorged with sugar to attract me like a bird, to fill me up with seeds. A sexual organ. This is the reverse of the Jumanji plant
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🚨Leaked docs about the ICE-led deployment to Minneapolis: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigratio...
Immigration Agents Terrified by ICE Backlash
Leaked documents show Border Patrol needs volunteers for Minneapolis surge
www.kenklippenstein.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:29 AM
🚨Leaked docs about the ICE-led deployment to Minneapolis: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigratio...
hey i’m at kotaku now!
The promise of Last of Us multiplayer lives on in this busted, fan-made pipe dream https://kotaku.com/last-of-us-2-online-mod-multiplayer-pvp-2000659021
Last Of Us Part 2 Modder Revives The Dream Of PVP Multiplayer
The fan project might never work but it's cool that someone's trying
kotaku.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:58 PM
hey i’m at kotaku now!
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I wrote about MAGA Minaj from the perspective of a Barb (a condition for which there is lamentably no known cure) johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/a-mf-monster
A MF MONSTER
Thoughts on MAGA Minaj from a Barb in recovery
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
I wrote about MAGA Minaj from the perspective of a Barb (a condition for which there is lamentably no known cure) johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/a-mf-monster
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in our game you parkour up mountains with your friends: you might think we have metrics.
but we never graybox. it's just more fun to download models and prototype in real places, like blood gulch.
#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev
but we never graybox. it's just more fun to download models and prototype in real places, like blood gulch.
#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev
January 10, 2026 at 12:42 PM
in our game you parkour up mountains with your friends: you might think we have metrics.
but we never graybox. it's just more fun to download models and prototype in real places, like blood gulch.
#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev
but we never graybox. it's just more fun to download models and prototype in real places, like blood gulch.
#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev
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I've been trying to find more poems by Renee Good, the woman murdered by ICE. This seems to be the only one floating around, and it's quite good
www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/com...
www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/com...
From the Poetry community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Poetry community
www.reddit.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:01 AM
I've been trying to find more poems by Renee Good, the woman murdered by ICE. This seems to be the only one floating around, and it's quite good
www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/com...
www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/com...
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Such a wonderful experience for watching 4 games writers genuinely having fun and presenting critical ideas about writing at the same time.
Makes me hopeful during a bleak time. #MAGFest
Great job @aguaspoints.bsky.social, @theautumnwright.bsky.social, Stuart, and @jakesteinberg.substack.com
Makes me hopeful during a bleak time. #MAGFest
Great job @aguaspoints.bsky.social, @theautumnwright.bsky.social, Stuart, and @jakesteinberg.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Such a wonderful experience for watching 4 games writers genuinely having fun and presenting critical ideas about writing at the same time.
Makes me hopeful during a bleak time. #MAGFest
Great job @aguaspoints.bsky.social, @theautumnwright.bsky.social, Stuart, and @jakesteinberg.substack.com
Makes me hopeful during a bleak time. #MAGFest
Great job @aguaspoints.bsky.social, @theautumnwright.bsky.social, Stuart, and @jakesteinberg.substack.com
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New Yorkers, be on alert. Kristie Noem is going to be giving a press conference today at 9AM In the city, and after yesterday, who knows what they're going to do.
Known abduction vehicles have already been spotted around the city. Be safe. protect each other.
Known abduction vehicles have already been spotted around the city. Be safe. protect each other.
SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE
A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
January 8, 2026 at 1:22 PM
New Yorkers, be on alert. Kristie Noem is going to be giving a press conference today at 9AM In the city, and after yesterday, who knows what they're going to do.
Known abduction vehicles have already been spotted around the city. Be safe. protect each other.
Known abduction vehicles have already been spotted around the city. Be safe. protect each other.
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We're hard at work gearing up for @magfest.org ! We'll be there with all the beloved indie arcade community classics, like HOVERBURGER by Robysoft, Nightmare Kart by @b0tster.yeag.gay, Dyebreaker by @runningjump.games , and a new build of TRAPPED IN HERE WITH ME, by @jameskor.in and @kokode.io !
January 6, 2026 at 4:12 PM
We're hard at work gearing up for @magfest.org ! We'll be there with all the beloved indie arcade community classics, like HOVERBURGER by Robysoft, Nightmare Kart by @b0tster.yeag.gay, Dyebreaker by @runningjump.games , and a new build of TRAPPED IN HERE WITH ME, by @jameskor.in and @kokode.io !
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It's been 5 years since a group of alt-right revolutionaries attempted a violent coup on the United States government at the behest of Donald Trump.
A year ago I attended a gamified version of that terrible day for @rascal.news. Its terrifying to see how much has changed and how much hasn't.
A year ago I attended a gamified version of that terrible day for @rascal.news. Its terrifying to see how much has changed and how much hasn't.
Red hats, red blood: roleplaying the January 6 insurrection in a Brooklyn warehouse
What about America is worth fighting for?
www.rascal.news
January 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM
It's been 5 years since a group of alt-right revolutionaries attempted a violent coup on the United States government at the behest of Donald Trump.
A year ago I attended a gamified version of that terrible day for @rascal.news. Its terrifying to see how much has changed and how much hasn't.
A year ago I attended a gamified version of that terrible day for @rascal.news. Its terrifying to see how much has changed and how much hasn't.
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Seems like a good time to pull this out again
January 6, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Seems like a good time to pull this out again