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Video Games Weekly: The one that happened while the Waymos burned


The thick, black smoke of smoldering Waymos was visible from the Summer Game Fest 2025 lot.

The SGF Play Days event space, where games media and influencers meet up with developers over a long weekend, is in the fashion district in Los Angeles, and this year it was a few miles from the heart of sprawling protests against ICE. After months of inhumane and legally dubious deportations of LA residents by masked federal agents — emboldened by President Donald Trump ’s far-right extremism and equipped with weapons built for war — the bubble of resistance popped. I’ve spent a significant amount of this time actively shutting down thoughts about Project 2025, government-sponsored human trafficking, neo-Nazis and all manner of hateful, bigoted policies targeting the United States’ most vulnerable people, because if I didn’t, the stress of these realities would consume me.

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