No surprise here, business as usual in fact from the Reform leader.

Fuckyeah. Groovy! (Stevenage, Hertfordshire) #earhtwormjim

We're releasing the Postal 2 Redux PS5 release + vinyl for @rwsstudios.com's Kickstarter! Continuing our preservation mission, our physical release will be tested by @doesitplay.org to ensure all content is on-disc & playable offline. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

Ludocene - the game discovery app described as "Tinder for games - has publicly launched today. Pretty cool lil tool, hope it helps some great games (especially indies) get discovered. We definitely need more discovery tools nowadays with the number of games! Ludocene.com

Surprise! We're releasing a new physical version of Animal Well for Switch + PS5! Includes complete patches on disc/cart (incl SW2 compat update) for our new pressing. Mass retail ver. and exclusive variant cover by Derek Yu on our site. ❤️ Go, go, go! www.lostincult.co.uk/animalwell

Worth reposting in hopes it reaches more devs. It's hot garbo people in power are suppressing art and removing the ability to obtain or even find it.

To honor Ozzy's larger-than-life rock and roll legacy, we're making Brütal Legend *FREE* on itch.io: doublefine.itch.io/brutal-legend But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold. So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night... 🤘 🖤

Proud to announce... Hauntii - our next prestige, premium, limited Switch/PS5 physical EDITIONS release. A gorgeous collection with original art, essay booklet, and latest patch on cart/disc. Plz share to support our legit preservation efforts! 💜 www.lostincult.co.uk

The Drifter - a point-and-click adventure thriller with crunchy pixel art and full voice-acting - has launched on Steam. (Support it on Steam)

Nicolae Ștefănuță, one of 14 European Parliament Vice-Presidents, has signed and publicly voiced his support for #StopKillingGames. "A game, once sold, belongs to the customer". (Read more: 80 Level)

Holy shit. It worked! Behold, the BLW! A BLT with watermelon in place of the tomato. It works *shockingly* well. Kind of came out of nowhere... (1/5)

There seems to be wilful ignorance as to what the Stop Killing Games petition is aiming for, and it's not to force active support games for eternity. It's for future games to account for end-of-life transitions, peer-to-peer options, and to not lock SP content behind internet.

Little reminder that we launched the best solution to physical games just over a month ago. Our next release will be later this month. Check out what we're doing and pop us some support - physical, preservation, and ownership always over here! ❤️

Numbers unclear: organisers hoped for 35k to 40k to defy the threat of legal consequences. “We believe 180,000 to 200,000 people attending,” Viktória Radványi told AFP. “It is hard to estimate because there have never been so many people at Budapest Pride.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

A paTch addressed various issues include hairsTyle problem is available on all plaTforms. Thanks for your paTience! 髪型問題含む、他様々な不具合に対応したパッチが全プラットフォームで配信開始されました。ご迷惑をおかけしましたー。 deTail / 詳しくはここ 👇 steamcommunity.com/games/187532... #toaT #トューアティー

In the face of AI and end-stage capitalism, human creativity is still at an all-time high. Some of the best music, video games, movies etc ever made are releasing, despite all the obstacles, at an overwhelming pace. Humans are and always will be creative, talented, & inspiring.

Fantastic chat between @mysticryan.bsky.social and our partner in crime @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk. Valuable insights into the world of games publishing. If only more people could look behind the curtain and see what's really going on and going into publishing games. www.youtube.com/watc...

Interesting that 3rd-party Switch 2 games are underperforming - 80% of sales physical, and while it's clearly not strictly down to this, the message is clear: people do not want Game-Key Cards. 🤷‍♀️ You'll be seeing only full-game Switch 2 physicals from @lostincult.co.uk in the future.

just making headlines from casual Saturday evening socail posts, oops lol I am still adjusting to remembering I run a games publisher now lmao. Meant every word though - everyone at LIC feels this way. We're making big things, and big thanks to Nintendo Life for covering this. 🩷

Literally the only thing between me and my platinum trophy, so sweet for the acknowledgment and the little artwork. :) Well, still loads of clothing to get until, so I can keep busy while we wait. 🎮

That's a wrap on to a T, it's been wonderfully weird, definitely my kind of game. Thank you @uvula.jp .

Disney and NBCUniversal is suing Midjourney for mass copyright infringement - commencing the first major legal battle against an AI company that could dictate the future of generative AI. (Read more: Deadline)

"The will to resist is in your hands", says Final Fantasy Tactics' original writer Yasumi Matsuno, making clear the political messaging behind the game after its remaster was announced yesterday.

Announcing... Mundaun: Design Works! Our latest deep dive book into the hand-drawn world of one of the most stylistically unique and captivating games ever. LIC actually announced this before I'd even joined! Amazing it's now launching. lostincult.co.uk/mundaun

Seeing a nasty hacking scam going around that targets game workers - where compromised accounts ask you to test out a game, but it's a keylogger. Exact sort of thing so many indies would ask, but it's a scam - don't download it! (Hope Jupiter and others get their accounts back soon!)

We're hiring at Lost In Cult! ✨ A few job listings incoming soon, but this one's for a new Project Manager for our growing team, where you'll be responsible for a number of our video game projects from start to finish. Info/application 'ere: www.designjobsboard.com/job/97162/pr...

Turns out much of the Switch 2 pre-release concern was just miscommunication - Switch 2 is fully playable from the go without an internet connection - Switch 2 Edition games are SW2 branded red carts that include BOTH the SW1 and SW2 native builds on them and work on both consoles!

The number of people I've seen use Grok to do basic thinking for them is really, really shocking. And that's just what we can see on Twitter replies as it's public - what sort of extremely basic thinking are people delegating to ChatGPT? Our species is going to get very stupid.

UK video games retailer GAME has cancelled an unknown number of Switch 2 pre-orders, offering no explanation or availability of reinstatements. (Read more: GamesIndustry)

The new AI video game generator is fucking disgusting, creatively bankrupt, morally empty, soulless horse shit. Yet, I fear the masses won't care, and the day games invented by robots are accepted is coming. What's the point in a world without human-made art? We have destroyed our humanity.

I am incredibly proud to announce EDITIONS - our better, different answer to physical games. A preservation and design focused imprint that redefines what a physical game is. All details at the link - shaking with pride right now. This is my life's work. ❤️

monopoloies are bad for consumers, example #525,677

Continuing the Crow Country 1st birthday celebrations, we just released the full game & demo on @itch.io, with a 25% launch discount for the first week! Both DRM-free 🐦‍⬛ sfbgames.itch.io/crow-country

Announcing... Animal Well: Design Works! Somehow even cooler than a new Pope - our book is truly a work of art, telling the story of how 2024's indie darling came to be, in collab with its creators. lostincult.co.uk/animalwell

I always love when they put bits like this in to find. Can't believe after all these years I've finally got here. (At the time my PC was too potato, and then I moved to consoles, and couldn't come to it during the PS3 BGF release.)

Coward, loser, and stands for absolutely fucking nothing for nobody. God knows what he actually even believes at this point, but he can't out-bigot Reform. He's straight up allowing them to walk in next election, and for what? Just to harm people and help no one in the meantime?

Discord CEO Jason Citron has stepped down after 10 years - with Activision Blizzard vice chairman Humam Sakhnini replacing. (Read more: PocketGamerBiz)

haha fuck these so sad to see the successor to the Switch - which was such a bastion for physicals - shockingly become one of the more anti-physical platforms

Internet sleuths have discovered that the "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" anti-piracy campaign pirated its font and did not pay for its commercial use. (Read more: Sky News)

EA has laid off between 300 and 400 people, including at Respawn (Star Wars Jedi, Apex Legends), with a Titanfall game allegedly cancelled. (Read more: Bloomberg)

Polygon has been sold to Valnet (Canadian owners of TheGamer, ScreenRant), with many of the team laid off: (Read more: Kotaku)

Excited to say our games label is what I've been secretly running @lostincult.co.uk 🎉🎉 No spoilers, but confident we've built the best physical games offering in the world. Something different. Something better. Full details/launch on May 20th. 🔥🔥🔥

Ubisoft has released Chroma - an open-source tool for accurately replicating colour blindness over a video game screen. The tool is available freely on GitHub for all developers. (Read more: Ubisoft News)

Huge blow to LGBT+ rights and to an established decades-long truth. As ever, absolutely zero thought or clarity to what this means for trans men. And no real thought given into what this will practically mean for trans women either, who were the only group whose lives would be seriously impacted.

Really, really enjoying Promise Mascot Agency. 👍 What a special, unique game that breaks up the wholesome exploration type formula with essentially a business sim management, that feels as if Grasshopper Manufacturer had dipped their toe in this genre-blender. Highly recommend.

Kingdom Hearts IV was announced 3 years ago today. There has not been a peep on it since. Kingdom Hearts III released 6 years after it was first announced (with fans waiting 14 years for it after the release of its previous numbered entry).

Ubisoft has responded to The Crew lawsuit over the game's closure, with Ubisoft emphasising buying games is just a limited license to play, not permanent ownership. The Crew has been used as a legal testbed for the ownership rights of video games. (Read more: Polygon)

Tequila Works is selling the rights to all of its assets on an auction site, having gone bankrupt recently. The IP rights to RiME is currently on bid for just €15,000. (Read more: Eurogamer)

GAME's head office and warehouse is shutting down, with its fittings, furniture, and equipment now up for auction. (Read more: Eurogamer)

Pay has not kept up with inflation. People are poorer. Folk need to stop pretending like people have as much money as they did in the 90s. Rent costs, house prices are astronomical. It's not Nintendo's fault, but people are right to be upset their hobby is pricing them out.