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Today's the only day you can post this, get it while it's hot

This also answers the other thing I'd always wondered about. The Saturn version looks absolutely awful, with weirdly stretched-out sprites, but the English internet claimed it was only a Saturn game. Finding the PC version explains it; the art was drawn for high-res PC and not all converted properly

New blog post! I wrote about Father Christmas, the weirdly barebones Japan-exclusive CD-ROM game based on the British storybook. It's... not very good, so I didn't have much to say, but I *did* find some interesting stuff in here anyway. cdrom.ca/games/2025/1...

you can't be mad at her #animation #cat

The 1994 CCTV Romance of the Three Kingdoms show is next level. It's like Beyond. It has a random song in the middle of an episode about the legendary steed Red Hare after the national villain Dong Zhuo gives him to Lü Bu

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

Gonna drop this here since I created it: leavesubstack.com

lmao, Holocure spotted???

it's _extremely_ funny seeing this just as I get back into playing Angband (there are multiple variants still in active development over at angband.live !)

boy steam has been astonishingly unstable this winter sale huh

Man wow Urban Myth Dissolution Centre made a really big impact among japanese devs this year huh

It's the Christmas issue of Famitsu, so that means many Japanese gaming industry folks gave their personal Game of the Year lists. I'll update this thread periodically since there's a lot of them once again.

West coast friends, it's our time

I'm genuinely not sure which part of the AAA mario video is more perfect, "Focus, M" or "...and I MIGHT just have an upgrade waiting for you" just, absolutely flawless understanding of the ah, Prestige-Game House Style

I have to say it's been really interesting playing through Stray Children and Octopath 0 at the same time because I cannot think of two games with more-opposite approaches to the "JRPG" genre label

When I left 2K Marin in 2013 and went indie, this statement (from a Rock Paper Shotgun guest piece about Deus Ex written by my friend and former colleague JP LeBreton) was seared into my mind.

"I'm open to critique" / after the critique is given

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Here's concept turnarounds I made of Ms. Garter and THRONE's car, The Morning Star! By itself it's a regular rally car, but when driven by the two it becomes a biomechanical menace capable of high speed and crushing power. It has amazing spatial awareness too, since it can see in all directions.

UNBEATABLE PATCH 1.6.0 IS LIVE, happy eve eve. you can replay chapters now and a ton of stuff is fixed. well bye im going to go nog it up

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

"Epic Gamer Grandma" Buried With Her 3 Million Followers

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

(To the tune of Dreams Dreams) Silent Night Deadly Night Look out it's Garbage Day out there 🎵 Silent Night Deadly Night Let's all pretend that we're not scaa-aa-aaared 🎶

"ENGINE ANGEL" is still seeking funding to become a full freaktastic game! If you want to see, touch and smell this thang irl tell everyone you know. Immediately!!!!

Now that our game pitch "ENGINE ANGEL" has been introduced to you all, over the next weeks I'll be sharing the environment visuals, tech art and level design that I worked on for our prototype! Here's a lil peekie of whats to come 👀🤘🏿.

this is why computing is bad now. why can i no longer make a chart that surpasses the limits of good taste

Before Gearbox had us replace him with Zero, we had invented an entirely new Vault Hunter for Tales from the Borderlands named Skip Raytrace as a reference to that piece of trivia.

I was told by an ex Lucasarts designer I worked with at Telltale that Dash Rendar, the main character of Shadows of the Empire, got his name from the command the engineers used to update the scene: -render

Tiny blog post: I got annoyed at webpages getting a minor point in game history wrong for no clearly obvious reason, so I wrote up my research on *why* it's wrong in addition to what the right answer should be www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/20...

love watching old Computer Chronicles episodes and finding business ventures that failed so hard and so fast they don't even make their famous founders' wikipedia pages

y'know, in case you were wondering why slarpg hasn't shown up in any other humble bundles since 2023, this is why. got invited to be in a pride bundle this year and i told them no because of how much AI shit they're pushing all the time

humble pushes so much AI bullshit these days, it's crazy. they currently have not one, not two, but THREE software bundles running with "educational materials" for how to use AI, including one dedicated to teaching vibe coding. repulsive

Rei8bit - Polar Landscape [Nintendo 3DS / Daigasso! Band Bro.P] #バンブラPアドベントカレンダー2025 に参加しました！ #Digitalfusion #Chiptune #バンブラP

wow hi random person you are INCREDIBLY party member coded

if you like mystery games, games with multiple protagonists with overlapping stories, and/or absurd humor, get on this right the fuck now

UPDATE: I just got off the phone with the bank, and to get my car back, I need to pay the entire remaining balance, which is a little over $5K. I feel awful asking for any more after how overwhelmingly powerful the response has been so far(!), but unfortunately we aren't quite out of the woods yet.

Outside these walls, the Children say, the grown-ups are monsters, and nowhere is safe. Our critically-acclaimed new bittersweet fairy tale RPG #StrayChildren is now 20% off in the Steam Winter Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/...

Also unrelatedly if you made a game with the name "Edge" in it during this time there was a 70% chance a weird copyright troll would sue you

Excluding costs, the biggest impediment to AI adoption in game dev is that the output quality sucks ass and it makes games worse. AI adopters need everyone to use it so that people lower their standards and become more okay with buying garbage

save FIFTY PERCENT on the game i put out late last year that didn't do well but people do think it is good!!! this is what we call "honest marketing" store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...

Incidentally this is also why your boss and middle management tell you that discussing your salary is gauche and unprofessional, because if most of you learned about your salary gaps you might get mad as fuck at them. The only ones that benefit from decorum and professionalism are power brokers.

I wonder why War of the Visions isn't on that squenix gacha chart. bc they don't operate it...?

here's the full image First SOLDIER had a profit margin of negative 494%

hey so you know that thing with all that square enix info turns out there's revenue for their mobile games aand ever crisis is actually one of their few ones that turns a profit, at 71% by comparison, KHUX apparently had a profit of negative 611%