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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe I’ll butt in more often hahaha

Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · 16h

Hello being shameless and trying to get a discount for CookUnity meal service this week lol it’s my favorite one by a huge margin

Sign up with my code casedefre1 to get 50% off your first order. 😋 www.cookunity.com/referral?utm...

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · 1d

Loving Legends: Z-A, more than I thought I would. Excited to talk more about it with Reb on NVC this week!

IGN @ign.com · 1d

Pokémon Legends: Z-A had a short review period and a strict embargo, so while we're not quite ready to put a final score on it, what we've played so far is already real good.

Our review:

Pokémon Legends: Z-A Review in Progress

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · 16d

ICYMI: I guested on Nintendo Voice Chat to talk Pokemon and indies :D

I have since become absolutely obsessed with Hades 2 btw

youtu.be/wK8bgTP8deM?...

Hades 2 Continues 2025's Incredible Run of Indie Sequels - NVC 780

YouTube video by IGN Games

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · 21d

I went to the real-life Lumiose City, Paris (!!) and played Pokemon Legends: Z-A for an hour. You can Mega Evolve different Pokemon in the same battle!… with some caveats. Read my full preview:
bit.ly/46jsCwF

Pokémon Legends: Z-A – The Final Preview - IGN

We sent our resident Pokémon superfan to play more of Pokémon Legends: Z-A on Nintendo Switch 2, and she came back with lots of thoughts and comparisons to Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Sep 12

That’s what I said!!

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Sep 12

Where is my promised retweet

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Sep 12

Best part was Bulbasaur’s face when people-Ditto turned its arms into tentacles

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Sep 12

That Nintendo Direct was SICK.

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Sep 5

Malamar has infiltrated The Pokemon Company International office 😱

(Thank you for the package, My Friend Malamar ~ you ARE the coolest ~ )

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · Aug 5

Shared with permission: my incredible colleague, NVC producer Red Rigos, was impacted by IGN's layoffs yesterday. We're heartbroken: Red is kind, funny, talented, and dedicated and has been a huge part of NVC's growth and success.

Please hire him: www.redrigos.com/ign

IGN | home

www.redrigos.com

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Aug 4

We’ve lost a lot of my favorite people to work with who were the best at what they did at IGN today.

If you have opportunities, please consider my colleagues who were let go today.

IGN Union @ignunion.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild.

This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public.

The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events.

Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts.

At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI

threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical.

This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech.

While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jul 31

MONSTER HUNTER STORIES 3

Adult protags???

life is worth living actually

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jul 22

my son

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jul 17

Catch an exclusive look at some of the new Pokémon merch coming to the 2025 Pokémon World Championships Pokémon Center here! www.ign.com/articles/exc...

Look at this Arcanine line!

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jul 16

I was able to uncap Kitasan Black to lv 40 too 👀

Trainer id if you wanna borrow her ✌️
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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jul 16

Got Kitasan Black (upgraded from an R!!) on my first pull 🤯

Blessed by the horse god

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jul 16

Got Kitasan Black (upgraded from an R!!) on my first pull 🤯

Blessed by the horse god

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Umamusume is good actually

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jun 28

Live now with a Pokémon Crystal nuzlocke with @katbailey.bsky.social and @inkydojikko.bsky.social for charity! ^ ^

LINK: twitch.tv/bloodgodpod

BloodGodPod - Twitch

Defend Your Favorite Final Fantasy | AOTBG x Trans Lifeline Charity Stream 2025 DAY 1

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jun 27

I’m guesting on Axe of the Blood God’s charity stream Saturday at 11am PT! Join us for a Pokemon Nuzlocke run sesh :D

Axe of the Blood God - An RPG Podcast @bloodgodpod.bsky.social · Jun 27

STARTING TOMORROW we'll be raising money for Trans Lifeline w/ special guests @senabryer.com, @grubb.wtf, @merrittk.com, @adashtra.bsky.social, @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social, and many more!

LINK: twitch.tv/bloodgodpod
DONATE: tiltify.com/@seamoosi/bl...

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jun 26

UNDERWATER LAGIACRUS?!

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jun 7

I might be a lil jealous of everyone in LA at SGF and IGN Live rn 🥲

I won’t even be able to go next year because of GTA 🥲🥲🥲

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jun 7

Did you know Sonic hedgehog causes the growth of penis-like appendages

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jun 5

Showering before I go pick up my Switch 2

(this is a threat)

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Casey DeFreitas @shinycaseyd.bsky.social · Jun 4

Thank you so much! It made me want to go back and play more of the Indigo Disk DLC for sure, and I think a looooot of people are going to be tempted to play it again!

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