last week, warframe’s latest, arguably most anticipated update launched, and servers predictably took a tumble. by why does this always happen when big games launch or receive major updates? I asked @rebbford.bsky.social

This week, @len.bsky.social @mhwilliams.bsky.social, and @neriumstrom.bsky.social kick back to catch up with some of the most interesting games of 2025 that didn't fit into a full episode, including a whole bunch of expansions and DLC. www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes...

You can hear me on the next episode of @3ma.bsky.social also extolling this game's virtues. It's my GOTY with a bullet.

Damn. I guess they went and made MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries pretty good at some point? And it actually kind of rules with a controller? I guess that's one more obsession for the pile.

A little something a few of us have been working on for the last few months finally just went live today...

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Well, fuck. Revoking any and all Peripeteia recommendations (and I wish I could un-back it on Kickstarter) based on the very thinly veiled transphobia from the dev (the first one in the screenshots here). I hate this.

I will teach you to play EU5 for $7 this month. (Within what I can reasonably fit into my schedule, of course.) Biggest discount we've ever offered for this tier.

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month. Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally. Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event

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It has a very real chance of failing—and *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets

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Having played all of the original Death Stranding, and now hours into Death Stranding 2, I've *just now* realized those red marks on Sam's upper body are meant to be welts from where the backpack straps dig into his shoulders...

I've talked about this a lot with friends, but the influence and acceptance of gambling as a normal, everyday aspect of culture and design (not just in video games) is absolutely terrifying and subtly enormous. Slightly quieter, but just as pervasive and poisonous as AI seeping into everything.

it is genuinely incredible that zohran's campaign completely annihilated the democratic commentariat and party cadre mainstreaming of the idea that you need to concede palestine and trans rights to the zionists and republicans to 'gather votes'. lmfaoooo

Today, the people beat dirty money

Sometimes you gotta be about something, talk to people, and every now and then meme a little. I know that's hard if you've been the establishment forever and your soul has long since turned to dust, but y'alllllllllll.

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Yeah, that's enough Blue Prince for me. Very cool concept, but I think I'm done waiting for the endless RNG to let me finally "solve" the puzzle I already figured out a real-world week ago and HOPING I have enough steps left to finish it this time.

lmao

hey so uh one of the main Nintendo Switch 2 Direct streams completely ate our trailer due to I guess technical difficulties?? so if you guys could share this it would mean a lot 😅

we didnt set out to make a trans team we were florida men making game but trans people showed up loving qud and they were all amazing and we loved them and i lol when anyone says bad things about trans people because they are stupid dummies that dont know jack shit about the real world and its folk

Judging by user reviews, the average Steam user believes that an Early Access game should be fully complete and stable, while complete and stable games should be constantly updating and adding new experimental features. I think something has gone wrong here.

Mostly only played co-op games with loved ones over the holidays, so I'm finally getting back to burning through the backlog. Starting with this guy:

I claim joint custody of the fox plushie.

Extremely funny to me that Magic de-powered all of its female characters so hard that they needed to make an entire new set about one of them getting her girlfriend's powers back.

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You don't TRULY understand how unusable the wider internet has become until you search "how to buy a Microsoft Office license," and the top five results are ads, followed by AI, followed by a Reddit thread with two deleted comments and and four replies that are ads made to look like replies.

I keep falling into the same trap of putting off games everyone says are great just because I don't immediately vibe with the art style I see in promotional materials. Anyway, this is to say I finally started playing Arco and DAMN is it great.

Digital Extremes eventually bet the farm and went independent to produce a little game called Warframe. Which has gradually evolved back into the wild, high-concept sci-fi game that Dark Sector was intended to be. And now the upcoming Warframe 1999 is tying it back into the Dark Sector we got.

An interesting piece of game history. This is what happened after Digital Extremes pitched a high-concept sci-fi hack n' slash space RPG to the world and every publisher rejected it, demanding they just make something like Gears Of War instead. Possibly the most artistically compromised game ever.

The full cover for this is gonna be amazing~ how do I know it'll be amazing you ask? Thats a seeeecret!

Nine Sols, Stalker 2, and Aliens: Dark Descent all hitting Game Pass on the same day is just a catastrophically good lineup.

Far too many to fit here, but I think Withering Rooms is still the one that made me go "Oh, wow!" the most consistently. Procedurally generated souls-like, roguelite, horror stealth crafting adventure. Starts slow and ramps into just a huge endeavor. store.steampowered.com/app/2006140/...

Balatro and Astro Bot feel well-deserved. Metaphor is fantastic, but feels a bit like a result of recency bias for when these nominees are decided. Shadow of the Erdtree is incredible, and the size of many full games, but it's... still an expansion? The others are certainly some choices.

Surely if we just screenshot the worst people imaginable saying some of the stupidest things you've ever heard more it will teach them not to say it anymore.

Had a cool little idea for a mecha horror game this week and it's all I want to think about now.

Buy the game that people I don't even know are calling "in the vein of norco and disco elysium" !! store.steampowered.com/app/3283890/

Been excited for them to finally get a Prime for a long time!

We are hours away from the release of Interstate 35, a visual novel about scavenging and going home, from @juliemuncy.bsky.social and other wonderful collaborators. It's also the first game I've published in a decade. Please wishlist and share if you can! store.steampowered.com/app/3283890/...

It's 10:20 a.m. on Wednesday, so of course I'm about ready to light a candle and sink into the floor for a week.

FROM is a really fun show, but whenever any of these men are on screen I get so frustrated I want to crawl into a whole.

One really important lesson that any writer (working in any medium) can take from Ace Combat 4 is that every story is vastly improved by including a giant anti-asteroid gun called STONEHENGE.

I got Foundry VTT up and running smoother than ever to run my latest Lancer campaign yesterday and now all I want to do is make my own mech game.

Warframe

We're gonna do a 99 Potions reunion soon but it didn't happen this week for obvious and non-obvious reasons. Expect it in a couple of weeks!

i do not understand why screenshots of stupid tweets by stupid people are being posted to here man. nobody wants to see it there what makes you think anyone wants to see it here.