But You Will Not Be Here To See It.

”But you will not be here to see it.”

”Do not be so sure of that. The game is not over. The game is never over.”

BASIM in ASSASSIN’S CREED: MIRAGE The Forty Thieves Bonus Quest

five hundred and thirty people laid off from riot. We aren't even one month into 2024.

there is no security in the work within game development. My dad would tell me 'just work hard, be essential and earn your place' but that isn't how it is anymore. You could be the best, most amazing artist, as so many of my friends who were laid off were, and it doesn't matter. They will get rid of you just as easily. I don't even know what to feel anymore, but as someone who had been laid off in the past, I cannot convey how devastating it is to have your life uprooted just like that.

listened to an interview with Karlach's VA and they said that Karlach's like an almagation of Aphrodite and Ares and I cannot stop thinking about it. like. she is adored by everyone because she has so, so much love to give, sees so much beauty in the world and wishes to preserve it, but the war she was dragged into prevents her from it, literally beats and bursts in her chest like a molten core of lead, but even then still she's proud, valiant and good, because if she isn't, what was all the suffering for? If she doesn't breathe in every little second she has, what good was all the fighting to death, what good is any loving to life?

By Beth Fuller

Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) dev. Larian Studios