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Huge GTA 6 interview drop has revealed just about as much as we could want to know about the game insider-gaming.com/gta-6-int…

Never mind

GTA 6 coming to XBOX Cloud could be an insanely shrewd move. You've just opened access to the most sought-after game ever made for people without a PS5 or an XBOX console. You've also technically given PC players a way to enjoy GTA when it drops. Just as you change the pricing model and make the platform more accessible and lucrative as a business. Very, very shrewd.

This month is DISGUSTINGGGG for extraction shooters - DMZ launch - ARC Raiders PvE update (and Frozen Trail) - Tarkov PvE update - Gray Zone (extraction-adjacent - 0.5 update) What else?

Veeeery excited for season five

Super happy to see this update arrive; I might stream later and give away some game codes insider-gaming.com/escape-fr…

Might be a hot take, but I actually enjoyed Watch Dogs: Legion insider-gaming.com/watch-dog…

GTA grifters when television broadcasters pre-arrange ad spots and coverage for the biggest game of all time that's launching in literally a month

The minute Embark Studios turns around and announces a large-scale, all-out-combat kind of game with vehicles, big maps, and factions, Battlefield Studios is going to shit its breeches

I tried to take some @tarkov screenshots that @nikgeneburn himself would be proud of (Bonus points: I used the Velociraptor) #EscapefromTarkov

I took a bit of time this morning to dive into the PvE vs. PvP debate that's plaguing modern multiplayer gaming. And even NON-multiplayer gaming... 🥲 insider-gaming.com/pve-vs-pv…

Seeing your site's showcase featured on Steam ❤️

I don't think I'll mourn a game as much as PIONER I followed this for years, tracked it through E3 announcements, the build-up to early access, the tests, the launch in December, and now I follow the implosion of the game as it inevitably prepares to drop offline I've made videos, shorts, put out dozens of streams, written articles, interviewed the developers, and checked the newsfeed for updates every few days. In July, the team said: 'Right now, we’re working on an update with a nice version number — EA 0.2.0. Yes, we missed our original schedule (sorry, the team has been going through a difficult period), but we’re still planning to deliver something really exciting. My colleagues will be sharing more details with you very soon.' Nothing since then. The company has faced huge issues, and what was once an extremely promising post-apocalyptic MMO-lite game has crumbled entirely. There are times in the day when just two or three people in the entire world are playing PIONER. I'm sometimes one of those one or two people. Sadly, because of the nature of the game, when PIONER goes offline (and I believe it will soon), it'll be gone forever. Years of development, extinguished. It's such a shame. insider-gaming.com/pioner-pl…

MMO world has one designer, apparently

Second part of my interview run with Bruce Nesmith, and this time, we're talking about Skyrim: insider-gaming.com/exclusive…

Can take the man out of Japan...

One year of @DyingLightGame The Beast ❤️

Yeah man, Google Play knew exactly what my second pick would be!

I'm gonna blow away a random pedestrian, take a bump of coke from my pocket baggie, then waltz into a strip club to get handsy before going on a heist and cussing everyone out Wild stuff insider-gaming.com/gta-6-mos…

Copying a post I wrote on LinkedIn here at 2 AM because it's important as fuck and I have a blue tick, so I can make girthy posts 👌 In response to a post from @_Tom_Henderson_ about the state of our industry: To have stood up a brand-new platform that has gone from flat nothing to being a global, thriving, and diverse organization in under four years is incredible, and I'm honored to have been there for the entire journey. But this is something we MUST dwell on. I know of so many people who have had their careers soured by the changes this industry is facing. I've seen people fail at getting the wheels turning time and again, forcing them out of this business entirely. Too many sites rely on nefarious tactics or shadow measures to claw together some traffic. Every article you write becomes something of a gamble, and returns are dwindling. The world is actively and quickly moving on from traditional articles, and the industry is rapidly replacing 'real' journalists with AI-driven solutions. If you're not diversifying your offering as a 'journalist', then you're already yesterday's news. In this market, you need to be capitalising on every inch of traction possible: 1. Networking at every single opportunity. 2. Creating content and building a following on every platform that accommodates it (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube...). 3. Experimenting with things that might be new to you and refusing to stand still (podcasts, interviews, talks, social studies, editing, consulting...). 4. Being known for you, not for the platform you represent. This is the toughest thing to accomplish, but what happens to your identity as a journalist if the site you write for goes offline tomorrow? Who knows you? Who understands your brand and what you're capable of? If you're a one-trick pony, you're done. It's that simple. I do as much as I humanly can to keep myself in this business and to support my family. We live how we do because I do what I can. It's a brutal balance and, at times, I'm drastically overworked, but I will not run the risk of being left behind. Step back, identify where you are and where you're headed, and determine what you need to do as a journalist to survive. At Insider Gaming, we're constantly bringing our experienced team together with a start-up mentality, pooling our ideas and ingenuity to see what we can do next, how we can innovate, and how we can evolve. If we don't change, we lose. I say with a heavy heart that traditional journalism will be dead in two, maybe three years. It's inevitable. But I'm damned if I'm going down with that ship 😆