After 31 years, Nintendo will finally do a mainline Pokémon game in Portuguese! I'm happy but also surprised, didn't expect this just as consoles & games are becoming more expensive and inaccessible... curious about the business logic behind this.

A touching, must-watch video.

Pipe Dream/Mania is from 1989. Bioshock is from 2007. Bioshock is now older than Pipe Dream was when Bioshock was released lol

It’s our 9th birthday and our 150th episode all at once; let’s party! In our latest VGHH podcast host and VGHF Director Frank Cifaldi is joined by two founding board members Simon Carless and Steve Lin.: https://gamehistory.org/episode-150-vghf-founding-retrospective/

🇰🇷🇧🇷 Governo sul-coreano preparou uma luva sob medida para Lula. O presidente perdeu um dos dedos na juventude e reagiu com um sorriso ao gesto O momento repercutiu na Coreia do Sul, onde internautas elogiaram a “sensibilidade” do governo e destacaram a importância de pequenos detalhes na diplomacia

Years ago the RPG Codex made a poll on the best CRPGs before 1996, it's a solid reference for people who never played anything from before the genre had its "renaissance" with Fallout, Baldur's Gate, M&M6, Diablo, etc These are rarely discussed outside grognard forums but are still amazing games.

Checking Slovak RPG NeverEnd, it's a bizarre mix of styles - tank controls, adventure game-style item puzzles, Grandia-like turn-based combat, JRPG random encounters... It's another of those games I would've hated to buy full price in 2006, but it's interesting to give it a play today.

É a mesma coisa em praticamente todo o sul global... mas é sempre algo surprendente pra gringo de país rico A história dos video games é contada por gente q não conhece isso, a gente não tá nela. Não tem lanhouse, locadora de jogo, modchip, MMO coreano, pirataria, etc... só vai ter se a gente botar

Video super interessante q passa por muita coisa importante pra pensar a nossa relação com tecnologia, design e nostalgia - assistam!

Sempre que aparece essa revista Gamers com meu review de FFVII ou a capa da Gamers Book, vem também a questão dos spoilers. Será que naquela época era uma preocupação tão grande quanto é hoje? Por quê? Vamos fazer uma análise histórico-material do conceito de spoiler. Pega a pipoca e vem de fio. 🧵

I always enjoyed Sacred 1 for doing Diablo-like gameplay with a horse, but turns out that 三國趙雲傳 was doing the same in 2002, two years earlier! The game has you play as Zhao Yun during China's Three Kingdoms era, mixing sword, bow & spear combat. There's party companions and several horses to ride!

Caves of Qud

I'm surprised I never saw anyone using Albert Einstein time-travel threats (from "Billy Bat" manga)

Isso sim que é pensamento intrusivo

i think the megadrive is the funniest case of this to me cause they really made the system with the intention of "we gotta rival the famicom and pc engine!" to quickly changing that purpose to "we gotta rival the super famicom!" within the span of like... three years

come watch @toddwords.bsky.social tear it up playing the 1997 single-player Magic: The Gathering computer game from Microprose. Not just fun to watch but Todd is an expert explainer and describer of what's happening on screen www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal

Lots of people replying to the Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen re-release saying you can just emulate it. If you're going down this route, I suggest instead the vastly improved fan hacks like Radical Red, adding Pokémon up to Gen 9 and tons of new features & QoL updates: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMRe...

Putting together a list of the RPGs released in 2025, I do feel it's positive that I saw ~100 new RPGs with over 500 reviews on Steam I don't know their break-even point, but it's nice that even in a busy market with little exposure games like Necromancer's Tale & Rift Wizard 2 can find an audience

I see a lot of my friends sharing this and sorry to disappoint but from a CN friend in my Elite Dangerous group, it's AI generated from the original creators mouth... the text in the background is also all garbled nonsense...

Speaking of gaming outside the "core" bubble, this is huge. Warframe, one of the biggest (and best!) F2P games on PC/consoles now has a mobile port. Unfortunately it seems like it requires a powerful phone, but I'm curious to see how much this will expand their reach.

Likely a regional thing, as in countries where most phones run on Android I would guess emulation has never been bigger Also, considering there was major drama about Google killing emulation by blocking side-loading and I saw zero bluesky discourse around it, it's also tied to the bubbles you're in

Hell yeah, Rift Wizard 3! store.steampowered.com/app/4366330/... Kinda like Path of Achra, it's a coffee-break roguelike based on making crazy OP builds to survive one-screen battle encounters - a clever and brutal mix of traditional roguelikes like DCSS & modern stuff like Slay the Spire.

saw a reddit comment on the lenghth of modern dev cycles earlier that stuck with me: "The PS2 had three Grand Theft Autos, GTA5 had three Playstations"

Seeing Caves of Qud on Switch feels magical to me – a triumph of UI design and refusal of platform stereotypes & barriers, like Baldur's Gate 2 on consoles or Dark Souls on PC: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... Happy that many more people will get to experience this absolute gem.

This week we'll get lots of discourse on the Epyllion games industry analysis www.matthewball.co/all/presenta... Take it with a grain of salt, but it hurts how it frames cassinos, bets, crypto & AI as things people do instead of gaming... Worth reading if you like this stuff, here's some highlights

Reminder that ROMchip is doing a fundraiser this week: donate.romchip.org/2026-schedul... Lots of fun streams, from playing Cosmology of Kyoto to designing a ZZT game live with chat

this essay about the importance of in-person gaming communities (DDR specifically, but it pertains to a lot of similar fandoms) is really lovely imo www.mothership.blog/love-letter-...

Sad that we never got a fan-translation of Goldenland 2: Cold Heaven because only like 50 people downloaded the fan-translation for Goldenland 2... the guy was like "why bother?" :(

I'm not a McMillen fan, and find it tiresome how seemingly every single games journo interviewed him this week... ...but that said, this is a really interesting talk.

The community behind Dungeoncrawler.org rallied together to make another #dcjam2026 again. Can't wait to see what comes out and like every year, I'll likely fail to check all of the entries 😭. Still worth it though itch.io/jam/dcjam2026

Still working on city levels for episode 3 Meanwhile you can check episodes 1 and 2 with 20% discount on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/1555590/... #fishpersonshooter #boomershooter #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Bought a whimsical little Pingu spoon, got pure existential dread

I wish I could properly explain this to my non-Brazilian followers, but we just built a mecha Lula lol

EH O MECHALULA ESQUEÇA TUDO

Quando se apaga a história de um povo, se apaga sua existência como ser humano. Mais ações de Israel para desumanizar os palestinos.

One of the cutest RPG icons I've ever seen

I dislike how the article downplays BG2... the romances in that game were wild, very different from the BioWare formula used later. You'll argue, get into love triangles (that lead to duels!), get dumped, have a child, see your love kidnapped & killed... not to mention they're all toxic as hell lol

Finally wrote another blog post! I shared the full chart of the top 20 best-selling Chinese premium games in 2025 and wrote a recap of all the drama, controversies and review bombs. Also includes some personal game recs and commentary jingtong.bearblog.dev/chinese-game...

i often think about this review

Not only it's a great story & game, IMO it's one of the most beautiful games in the PS2 library. I love emulating it at high res to see all the care they put into the scenarios. Look at how many details this random house has - and yet the devs still made a joke out of not having a ladle model lol

Gravação PESADA rolando já no sabadão pela manhã pra falar de AGRESSÃO EM MASSA @tengumaru.jogabilida.de @felipepepe.bsky.social

Finally saw part 2 of this: youtu.be/H_pkcy-wAts?... Not much new, but interesting to hear from Trent Oster that while Baldur's Gate 3 hype helped sell the original games, it was mostly BG1, suggesting few people got to BG2 I wonder the % of BG3 players who played 1 & 2... at 20M sold, maybe 2-3%?

For Black History month: Muriel Tramis. Known as the "French Roberta Williams", she's way more than that. Among the first black women game designers, her first games were her love letter to Martinique, Méwilo (87), and the incredible strategy game about slavery, Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness (90)

That chicken game made me want to revisit Ninety-Nine Nights... crazy that it will turn 20 years old this year!

You too could be watching the Oath of the Peach Garden right now!

Feeling a bit sick, surely some cozy 2000s jank will help me recover lol (game is Mistmare)

Been working on this on and off for a personal project, finally getting to something I feel happier with. Currently rigging (wish me luck) ~2500 tris, 256x256 textures

Têm uns comentários que aparecem quando eu falo sobre totalitarismo japonês que acho bem preocupantes, para não dizer xenofóbicos. Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o Japão estava sob controle de uma ditadura militar. Esse governo militar totalitário imperialista também oprimia o povo japonês. +

The Digital Antiquarian put out an article on the development & failings of the infamous Ultima IX: www.filfre.net/2026/02/ulti... While it's a mess, I'd still recommend it as a historical curiosity - to see how a 3D open-world Action-RPG played before EverQuest, GTA 3, Morrowind, Gothic, etc...