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Welcome to Aftermath, a news platform owned by its employees and supported by its readers. We focus on video games, the internet, and the cultures intertwined with them. Many of our team members previously worked at Kotaku, where we reported on breaking news, covered major events, and conducted in-depth investigations. You may also recognize us from our time at Motherboard by Vice and the games section of The Washington Post, known as Launcher. We reunited to create this site not only to blog together once more but also to explore new possibilities for ourselves and the field of games journalism.

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Dispatch Is A Superhero Logistics Game

2 weeks ago | aftermath.site | Riley MacLeod

I’m not really into superhero stories–as a tedious literalist, they often feel like metaphors for human struggles when I’d rather just watch regular people deal with that stuff. But the Steam demo for Dispatch is light on the parts of superhero media I like the least, instead focusing on learning the ropes of a new job, if that new job involved sending superheroes out to fight crime.
Striking SAG-AFTRA Voice Actors Reach Tentative Video Game Deal

2 weeks ago | aftermath.site | Riley MacLeod

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing video game voice actors who have been on strike since July 2024, announced early Tuesday that it's reached a tentative agreement with video game companies. The tentative agreement still needs to be reviewed by SAG-AFTRA's National Board and ratified by members.
Baby Steps Makes Me Feel Bad That I Stopped Meditating

2 weeks ago | aftermath.site | Riley MacLeod

Baby Steps, a being-bad-at-walking simulator by developers behind games like QWOP, Ape Out, and Getting Over It, got a demo during yesterday's PC Gaming Show. It's a slice of the beginning of the game that tasks you to go from Point A to Point B, and it would have made me tear my hair out if I still had hair. Baby Steps stars a schlub named Nate, who is suddenly whisked from his basement couch into some kind of mysterious wasteland.
I Don't Know What These Guys In Herdling Are, But Each One Is My Precious Child

2 weeks ago | aftermath.site | Riley MacLeod

Herdling, an upcoming game by FAR developer Okomotive, released a Steam demo during today's Future Games Show. The demo features the opening of the game, where you find some big fuzzy creatures and herd them out of the city toward the wilderness. The game calls them "Calicorns," which feels like a pretty good name: they are sort of calico-patterned, and they have big curly horns. They'll run from you or ignore you at first, but once you tame them, you can give them a name and add them to your herd.
Nice Hat, Loser - Aftermath

3 weeks ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

Imagine getting up on stage for a presentation that would have cost in the ballpark of $500,000, all promote your new video game, and instead of having people talk about it, they are instead talking about:a) Your stupid hatb) How your little speech sounded like a wizard breathed life into a downvoted Reddit comment.
Nope, No, No Thank You

3 weeks ago | aftermath.site | Riley MacLeod

Tonight's Summer Game Fest presentation included a trailer for a game called Felt That: Boxing, which describes itself as "a heartfelt and hilarious boxing game where the charm of handcrafted puppets meets the punch of arcade fighting." It's by a developer called Sans Strings Studio, who say they do "digital puppeteering." All that is very cool, and is also literally my worst nightmare. Here's an embarrassing confession-slash-unpopular opinion in the grand Riley tradition: I fucking hate Muppets.
Please Do Not Buy A Bootleg 'Destroy AI' Shirt

3 weeks ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

We were sent a few examples this week of something that is both deeply funny and, given the time and the context, deeply predictable as well. Our 'Destroy AI' t-shirt, released last month, was the result of a collaboration between human beings. The only machines involved were our personal computers (Kim, the artist, lives in Germany, so we had to electronically mail her our design ideas), and I guess a few at our merch providers, who had to print and then mail the shirts.
Ubisoft Sexual Harassment Trial: 'I've Seen Some Sordid Files, But On This Scale, Never'

3 weeks ago | aftermath.site | Nicole Carpenter

Three former Ubisoft executives are on trial in France this week, accused of creating a company culture at the video game studio that allowed systemic sexual harassment and sexism to thrive. The three men — Thomas François, former Ubisoft editorial vice president; Serge Hascoët, former creative director; and Guillaume Patrux, former game director — have been accused of sexual and moral harassment. François is also accused of attempted sexual assault.
Tell 'Em - Aftermath

3 weeks ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

One of the many announcements made today during Sony's State Of Play presentation was a re-release of the classic Final Fantasy Tactics, in a bundle called Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles. It includes two versions of the game, an enhanced/expanded edition and the original, but we're not here to discuss those details, you can read that in a press release.
We're Really Just Going Through With All This, Aren't We

3 weeks ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

You may have heard that there's a brand new video game console out this week, the first major hardware launch in almost five years. There's also a huge summer video games showcase, where all the latest and greatest new releases will be shown off, many for the first time. It should be the biggest week of the year for games. And yet. Can you feel the excitement in the air? Or, I guess, can you not feel it? Can you feel the absence of where it should be?