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Take a sneak peek at the upcoming 35th Anniversary short form animation, Sonic the Hedgehog: Memories and Beyond!

I got a weird feeling about this place #anthologyofthekiller #deltarune

Back when I was still in the closet, my mom once surprised me for christmas by printing posters of a bunch of extremely Gender art I had drawn and stored on my photobucket and then did not understand my mortified reaction at all

my game InFlux Redux is on sale for HALF OFF on account of the STEAM SUMMER SALE. It's got NO AI IN IT and actually is made by the person who hates AI MOST in the WORLD buy it and leave a POSITIVE REVIEW. if you are a cavalier you will do it immediately store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...

Ko-fi Headshot Commission Columbo for @objelisks.space

people who're up late can enjoy me, for some reason, ranking my fav/least-fav maps in Hitman Freelancer mode (more of these to come because I have too many thoughts for one post) auratriolo.com/blog/2026/07...

Looks like we've got a new winner on Wikipedia's list of longest-lived hoaxes! 21.15 years, added in 2005 and removed two weeks ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

remembering the time i spent several hours making a huge spreadsheet of Final Fantasy Tactics stat multipliers and growth only to do the math and find out that the most extreme differences between leveling as one class vs another other amounted to about 0.5-0.6 max HP gain per level and ~0.03 attack

My Cousin Vinny: Ace Attorney Had to finally release this from my head

is it just me or are a bunch of artists suddenly and suspiciously all posting the same out-of-nowhere fundraising message in a ton of people's replies over the last few hours? did ppl get hacked or something

okay here's my pitch: XCOM 3: Terror From the Deep, and this thing is your base

some people are replying to the marvel rivals post with "I'm downloading it right now!!" and I really hope people have more respect for themselves than to pay for a gacha skin to see wiggling captain america dick. you can find much cheaper and higher quality dicks in so many places

They didn't have much new to share about .hack//Z.E.R.O but they have these illustrations. Also a new Little Tail Bronx series title is currently in development.

"when we were creating Fuga we had to explain the game's Soul Cannon mechanic to platform holders and Microsoft executives called us crazy"

Seated for the CC2 Anime Expo panel

tfw poorly-tested crotch skinning becomes a catastrophic PR situation lmao

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Proud to announce our HARDSHIP FUND: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun... If you've been recently laid off and need support, we got you.

well, it's july now somehow, so: Here's the Games I'm Playin' for this month! Shorter than usual I think since I ended up playing a lot of demos, lol auratriolo.com/blog/2026/07...

so many beautiful anime girls are named “skeb”

This interview in Vanity Fair came out in 2010, and this exchange from it has lived rent-free in my head ever since.

Wow thanks humble bundle

The Overton window keeps sliding.

Developing a theory of sexuality where you can determine anyone's preferences solely using the cast of umineko

gang, we did it the gals are IN! DUNGEON GALS AT FLAME FATALES 2026 FIND ME ON MONDAY 14/9, 9:41PM CEST/3:41PM EDT ON twitch.tv/gamesdonequick we had three weeks. we did it.

Was gifted Guilty Gear Strive by @kylegaddo.bsky.social so if you haven't bought my games, please buy this bundle so I can afford the DLC packs

I just made it easy for y'all with anything I've released that I could price - pay what you want, including nothing, I've always been broke too so I get it

*whisper* I'm gonna be honest its a little funny seeing discourse pivot from "if valve doesn't subsidize the steam machine the pc market will die and everyone will just buy consoles" to "why would anyone buy consoles instead of pc if there's no physocal releases anymore" within the span of a week

Industry friends--looking to do a Game Developer podcast episode about localization. Any cool folks in the community that I haven't met yet?

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

God I didn't realize they were shutting down the PS3 and Vita stores too. Honestly, in our game availability study, we didn't even count PS3/Vita games as "available" because the stores were so broken that they barely worked. That's the long-term state of digital storefronts

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

ANNOUNCEMENT Forget Starlight is a tabletop rpg set on an infinite feudal space station. Written by me, edited by @deptofmeteors.bsky.social. Out this summer with a print version available as well. More info here: enceledean.itch.io/forget-starl...

You Are Jeff Bezos

well, it's july now somehow, so: Here's the Games I'm Playin' for this month! Shorter than usual I think since I ended up playing a lot of demos, lol auratriolo.com/blog/2026/07...

Spending my morning writing a statement for press inquiries about all this when all I want to do is say "consumers haven't had purchasing power in about ten years now because we gave all of our money to like ten weird guys, what did you all expect"

New blog post: The End of Physical Video Games Threatens Games Education jabortnick.com/2026/07/01/t...

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

But the contents of those homebrew stores aren't complete. They require people to dump and upload license keys of their purchased content in order to generate download links for everyone else to use. Meaning, after July 2027, there will likely be a near total freeze on content updates from them on.

I'll clarify this point since someone asked. If you are using "homebrew stores" to download games to your PS3 or Vita instead of archival sites, I expect they will continue to work for a time post-shutdown for as long as Sony lets people download previous purchases. How long is obviously a big if. 🧵

A thing I keep thinking about, to be honest, is... how many ps5 games actually launch if you put a disc in fresh with no internet connection? And how many demand a day 1 patch or they won't start at all? It feels like this move has been creeping out under the scene for a long time

To this point, I will also reiterate that PS3 and PS Vita digital download preservation remains incomplete, particularly for Japanese games and DLC, where I imagine the bulk of that work has taken place abroad. This essentially gives a one-year deadline to plug some sizeable, yet quite tricky holes.

Cosmic Star Heroine raised $132k USD (and this was back during Kickstarter's heyday, cooler games than ours these days struggle to raise $100k). If we had actually gotten living expenses for everyone for the whole development, we would have needed to have raised closer to $1 million.

the Steam summer sale is underway, and you can get the very beloved (by me AND some others) Perfect Tides: Station to Station for 20% off! store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...

one of my favorite things to learn about Yoshi's Island was that some of the most impressive effects in the game weren't even done with the Super FX, they were just HDMA trickery. like Salvo the Slime is made of numerous stacked lines pulled from a triangular background image