Maddie Agne
@maddie-b-a.bsky.social
games and tech, mainly
poetry and fiction, mostly
writer @thisweekinvideogames.com
https://readymag.website/u1817928311/5297315/
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/
poetry and fiction, mostly
writer @thisweekinvideogames.com
https://readymag.website/u1817928311/5297315/
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/
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Charlie Cox has previously downplayed his involvement in portraying Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Now in a recent press conference he has said that he gives "any nomination or any credit" to the performance capture artist Maxence Cazorla. https://bit.ly/4ifCDz8
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Charlie Cox has previously downplayed his involvement in portraying Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Now in a recent press conference he has said that he gives "any nomination or any credit" to the performance capture artist Maxence Cazorla. https://bit.ly/4ifCDz8
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Why is Hollywood suddenly so obsessed with mining videogames for ideas, and more importantly, making sure they get it right?
We get some industry perspectives, including BAFTA Award-winning actress of film, TV, and games Jane Perry (Hitman, Returnal)
We get some industry perspectives, including BAFTA Award-winning actress of film, TV, and games Jane Perry (Hitman, Returnal)
Videogames Are a “Natural Goldmine” in Film Industry’s Hunt for the Next Great IP
"What we're seeing in games now are really sophisticated narrative designs," says actress Jane Perry. "The same ingredients that would make a great film or TV series."
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November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Why is Hollywood suddenly so obsessed with mining videogames for ideas, and more importantly, making sure they get it right?
We get some industry perspectives, including BAFTA Award-winning actress of film, TV, and games Jane Perry (Hitman, Returnal)
We get some industry perspectives, including BAFTA Award-winning actress of film, TV, and games Jane Perry (Hitman, Returnal)
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Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
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Okay, yeah: Endless Mode is now The A.V. Club Games. We speedran this thing. Same editors, same writers, same content, just a different but familiar site. www.avclub.com/new-games-se...
The A.V. Club Games announces a new era
The A.V. Club's games section gets a major boost as Paste's and Endless Mode's games coverage joins the site.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Okay, yeah: Endless Mode is now The A.V. Club Games. We speedran this thing. Same editors, same writers, same content, just a different but familiar site. www.avclub.com/new-games-se...
@iwgbunion.bsky.social i love talking to unions i love writing about unions i love unions
The Independent Workers' Union has held a second Rockstar Games protest in London.
"The strength of feeling that people show up with to defend their co-workers… is not a thing that Rockstar and Take-Two can ever understand," said the organiser.
@maddie-b-a.bsky.social reports from the ground:
"The strength of feeling that people show up with to defend their co-workers… is not a thing that Rockstar and Take-Two can ever understand," said the organiser.
@maddie-b-a.bsky.social reports from the ground:
British Workers Union Stages Second Rockstar Games Protest, Calling Out "Culture of Fear"
The union general secretary called the Rockstar layoffs a "violation of employment law" and said the IWGB is "open to discussions."
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November 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
@iwgbunion.bsky.social i love talking to unions i love writing about unions i love unions
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this has probably been asked before but is there any good writing out there about how the rise of cosy games is a capitalist psyop
October 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
this has probably been asked before but is there any good writing out there about how the rise of cosy games is a capitalist psyop
speaking up for what I believe in 😔✊
With cave monsters and mortgages, cosy games aren’t so cosy anymore — so why did so many decry Tales of the Shire’s return to humdrum form? @maddie-b-a.bsky.social goes to bat for the Hobbit life sim.
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Everyone Else Is Wrong, Tales of the Shire Is Fun
It must be hard to hold a 'good' game up against an acclaimed films and novels, but ultimately it’s okay to play a game that doesn’t ask a lot from you.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
speaking up for what I believe in 😔✊
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
big thank you to union chair spring mcparlin-jones for chatting to me about za/um becoming the FIRST RECOGNISED WORKPLACE UNION IN UK GAMES ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Current developers at Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM have unionised.
The union marks the first recognised workplace union in the UK games industry.
The union marks the first recognised workplace union in the UK games industry.
Workers at Disco Elysium Developer ZA/UM Have Unionised
The group of developers at Disco Elysium developer ZA/UM is the first recognised workplace union in the UK games industry.
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October 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
big thank you to union chair spring mcparlin-jones for chatting to me about za/um becoming the FIRST RECOGNISED WORKPLACE UNION IN UK GAMES ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
"Adaptors, particularly video game people, have clung to the idea with remarkable tenacity and have wonderfully multiplied these 'witcher schools'. Completely unnecessary."
andrzej sapkowski i love your work please be a cranky old man forever
andrzej sapkowski i love your work please be a cranky old man forever
Witcher author says key plot point from the games is based on a mistake, but "video game people have clung to the idea with remarkable tenacity"
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October 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Adaptors, particularly video game people, have clung to the idea with remarkable tenacity and have wonderfully multiplied these 'witcher schools'. Completely unnecessary."
andrzej sapkowski i love your work please be a cranky old man forever
andrzej sapkowski i love your work please be a cranky old man forever
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What the heck is this BLIPPO+ thing from @panic.com? Is it even a game? We talked to one of the collaborators behind it, the dance-pop band YACHT, to try and find out.
Did we get answers? Uh, kind of?
Did we get answers? Uh, kind of?
We Talked to YACHT To Try and Understand 'Blippo+'
Alien channel-surfing sim Blippo+ asks players to "expand their idea of what's possible" in games. We ask co-creators YACHT what that means.
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September 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What the heck is this BLIPPO+ thing from @panic.com? Is it even a game? We talked to one of the collaborators behind it, the dance-pop band YACHT, to try and find out.
Did we get answers? Uh, kind of?
Did we get answers? Uh, kind of?
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Chat what does it mean when my videogame website colleagues continue be characterised by their belief in vampires and ghosts and cryptids etc
Do you believe in ghosts? New indie studio @i-knew-it-games.bsky.social talks about going for goosebumps, not scares, in the upcoming undead comedy Greta Sees Ghosts.
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Greta Sees Ghosts? I Sure Do
Game director Sebastian Hollstein talks about using the supernatural to explore calm and connection in Greta Sees Ghosts.
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September 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Chat what does it mean when my videogame website colleagues continue be characterised by their belief in vampires and ghosts and cryptids etc
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"...it’s like a cosy story, it might make you sleepy, but it doesn’t mean it’s boring or something. That’s what we want the player as well to feel… it doesn’t give you any stress. It’s very comfortable…"
Thank you @maddie-b-a.bsky.social for your article on room6 and Yokaze 🌙
Thank you @maddie-b-a.bsky.social for your article on room6 and Yokaze 🌙
Japanese indie devs want to spread their games worldwide. The first step? Turning up to international conventions, and seeing what the audience is like.
"It's quite different. Especially with the people… they are very kind and they react to anything.”
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"It's quite different. Especially with the people… they are very kind and they react to anything.”
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/room...
The Japanese Indie Publisher Bringing "Bedtime" Games West
A grassroots figure in the Japanese gamedev scene comes West for the first time, with a mission to boost Japanese indie games.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
"...it’s like a cosy story, it might make you sleepy, but it doesn’t mean it’s boring or something. That’s what we want the player as well to feel… it doesn’t give you any stress. It’s very comfortable…"
Thank you @maddie-b-a.bsky.social for your article on room6 and Yokaze 🌙
Thank you @maddie-b-a.bsky.social for your article on room6 and Yokaze 🌙
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What do you think was the best reveal at Gamescom this year?
If you said "that random American trucking simulator," you'd be right – and it just so happens to be set exactly where @maddie-b-a.bsky.social grew up.
Thankfully, she got a chance to play it.
If you said "that random American trucking simulator," you'd be right – and it just so happens to be set exactly where @maddie-b-a.bsky.social grew up.
Thankfully, she got a chance to play it.
I’m from the American South, and 'Road Kings' Just Gets It
A surprise standout of Gamescom, Saber Interactive’s new trucking simulator explores independent empire along the Florida-Georgia border.
thisweekinvideogames.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
What do you think was the best reveal at Gamescom this year?
If you said "that random American trucking simulator," you'd be right – and it just so happens to be set exactly where @maddie-b-a.bsky.social grew up.
Thankfully, she got a chance to play it.
If you said "that random American trucking simulator," you'd be right – and it just so happens to be set exactly where @maddie-b-a.bsky.social grew up.
Thankfully, she got a chance to play it.
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I'm biased ofc but I reckon Maddie is killin it at This Week in Videogames Dot Com.
Gamescom was her first consumer games convention... like ever? And she somehow survived a back-to-back schedule solo, conducting interviews that were great to listen to raw, and wonderful to read written up.
Gamescom was her first consumer games convention... like ever? And she somehow survived a back-to-back schedule solo, conducting interviews that were great to listen to raw, and wonderful to read written up.
In a discussion about religion, the pressure of legacy and the underutilization of time in games, @maddie-b-a.bsky.social asks Blood of Dawnwalker creative director @mtomaszkiewicz.bsky.social the most important question of all:
Are vampires real?
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/bloo... [PAYWALL]
Are vampires real?
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/bloo... [PAYWALL]
Are Vampires Real? The Blood of Dawnwalker's Creative Director Won’t Tell Me
The former Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 quest director talks comparisons, religion, and, of course, vampires in The Blood of Dawnwalker.
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September 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I'm biased ofc but I reckon Maddie is killin it at This Week in Videogames Dot Com.
Gamescom was her first consumer games convention... like ever? And she somehow survived a back-to-back schedule solo, conducting interviews that were great to listen to raw, and wonderful to read written up.
Gamescom was her first consumer games convention... like ever? And she somehow survived a back-to-back schedule solo, conducting interviews that were great to listen to raw, and wonderful to read written up.
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In a discussion about religion, the pressure of legacy and the underutilization of time in games, @maddie-b-a.bsky.social asks Blood of Dawnwalker creative director @mtomaszkiewicz.bsky.social the most important question of all:
Are vampires real?
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/bloo... [PAYWALL]
Are vampires real?
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/bloo... [PAYWALL]
Are Vampires Real? The Blood of Dawnwalker's Creative Director Won’t Tell Me
The former Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 quest director talks comparisons, religion, and, of course, vampires in The Blood of Dawnwalker.
thisweekinvideogames.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
In a discussion about religion, the pressure of legacy and the underutilization of time in games, @maddie-b-a.bsky.social asks Blood of Dawnwalker creative director @mtomaszkiewicz.bsky.social the most important question of all:
Are vampires real?
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/bloo... [PAYWALL]
Are vampires real?
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/bloo... [PAYWALL]
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Not content to simply have old people on the website, joining our crew on this new journey is some talented fresh blood, Maddie Agne @maddie-b-a.bsky.social!
Previously a Paste intern (🎓🎓🎓), she can answer dumb questions we have, like "hey what's a hytale"
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Previously a Paste intern (🎓🎓🎓), she can answer dumb questions we have, like "hey what's a hytale"
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Just What Was Hytale Trying To Achieve?
Ambitious imitation seemed to play a key role in the cancellation of Hytale, but looking back, it probably couldn’t have ended any other way.
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July 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Not content to simply have old people on the website, joining our crew on this new journey is some talented fresh blood, Maddie Agne @maddie-b-a.bsky.social!
Previously a Paste intern (🎓🎓🎓), she can answer dumb questions we have, like "hey what's a hytale"
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/opin...
Previously a Paste intern (🎓🎓🎓), she can answer dumb questions we have, like "hey what's a hytale"
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/opin...
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Two months after Valnet purchased Polygon, the gaming site is running advertisements designed to look like articles
July 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Two months after Valnet purchased Polygon, the gaming site is running advertisements designed to look like articles
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Hello. About a year and a half ago, some guy called Ralph asked me if I wanted to make a new videogame website.
We're launching it today. Maybe you can even visit it if people stop hammering the server for a second.
We're launching it today. Maybe you can even visit it if people stop hammering the server for a second.
This Week in Videogames - TWIV
Covering the important things happening in the world of videogames. News, reviews, and insights without ads or filler content.
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July 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Hello. About a year and a half ago, some guy called Ralph asked me if I wanted to make a new videogame website.
We're launching it today. Maybe you can even visit it if people stop hammering the server for a second.
We're launching it today. Maybe you can even visit it if people stop hammering the server for a second.
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video games make eleventy billion dollars a year but we can only have one website about them, and it’s owned by The Bastard Group
May 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
video games make eleventy billion dollars a year but we can only have one website about them, and it’s owned by The Bastard Group
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How the fuck does that happen to Polygon?
May 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
How the fuck does that happen to Polygon?
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Breaking: Polygon sold to Valnet and hit with massive layoffs
Here's @ethangach.bsky.social report.
kotaku.com/polygon-sold...
Here's @ethangach.bsky.social report.
kotaku.com/polygon-sold...
Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs
One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up
kotaku.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Breaking: Polygon sold to Valnet and hit with massive layoffs
Here's @ethangach.bsky.social report.
kotaku.com/polygon-sold...
Here's @ethangach.bsky.social report.
kotaku.com/polygon-sold...