A founder's goodbye

When we started Rogue almost exactly one year ago, one of the most exciting things about having our own site was getting to choose what stories to cover and how. Once we were no longer dependent on the algorithm, the games we wrote about and the stories we told were

Lettuce isn’t the only shitty thing about Taylor Farms

Diarrhea, bribery, and slave labor

They tried to private equity the World Cup

The parasites' latest attempt to extract profit from joy

Helen of Troy hatched from an egg, you chode

Everything is politics

Welcome to the Because Fuck You, That’s Why economy

Money makes the best earplugs

Xbox cuts 3,200 people and five studios

"The most significant restructure in Xbox history.”

The death of physical media only benefits corporations

Sony delivers the latest nail in physical media's coffin.

My favorite week of the year is coming, and it'll be dumber than ever

Shark Week is absolute trash. I love Shark Week.

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney doesn't understand AI backlash, classic literature

AI disclosures are *not* like The Scarlet Letter

GTA 6 will get a physical edition … eventually

Parts of GTA 6 will be locked behind the Ultimate Edition

Cosmetics, vehicles, shops, and more will be locked behind the Ultimate Edition paywall

Jeff's end-of-week Next Fest roundup

Six more great demos from this summer's Next Fest

Cyberpunk 2025: Listen all y'all

Part 12: Elysium and How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Another Jeff pre-Next Fest demo roundup

Six more demos for your pre-Next Fest weekend

Ro Laren deserves better

"This is not a Star Trek game like you've ever played before."

Paramount Games Studio? What could go wrong?

Why are there other media companies?

Jeff's pre-pre-Next Fest demo roundup

Early bird demos for this summer's Next Fest

Your sarcastic take is billionaire propaganda

Carrying water is just free labor

This was never going to go well for Bungie

Workers will pay the price for a $4 billion gamble

AI propaganda and the death of the internet

None of this is inevitable

Subnautica 2's EULA doesn't belong in The Discourse™

Subnautica 2 is good, but The Discourse™ was ready to be mad

Fine, let's figure out The Discourse™ around Mixtape

Why are we all yelling about Mixtape?

California's AB 1921 would mean you actually own the games you buy

Stop Killing Games versus the Entertainment Software Association

The week they left Jeff unsupervised

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