Literally my two favorite genres!

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Unskippable credits at the end of long-ass video games is terrible design

And here's Rebecca Heinemann herself telling how she freaking LEARNED JAPANESE just to read SNES dev manuals from NCL. The whole hour-long stream on Out of this World is a delight. Thank you, Becky. You'll be missed. youtu.be/tiq0OL8rzso?...

It is odd to see how people just ignored the fact that valve has been saying this since the announcement. They said repeatedly, to everyone they talk to, that it would be priced similar to PCS and wasn't looking to compete with consoles. Gaming coverage loves list wars though so they ignored it.

For hypothetical research purposes, there might a person purchase one of these delightful machines?

In PR, we call this “bridging,” part of exec speaker training. When media ask a question you don’t want to/can’t/are afraid to answer, you acknowledge the question and change direction to the topic you want to/are allowed to/are comfortable answering. This is also an example of terrible bridging

🎶 The Lumines Arise OST by Hydelic and Takako Ishida is out on February 2, 2026. Pre-order now on Bandcamp. 🎧 📻 ffm.to/hydelic 🎉 We've also released a third single, "Arise," to celebrate! ffm.to/hydelic_arise Visit lumines.game/music for more.

LP, LP, ➜, LK, HP. I went back redid my Homer Akuma. This time with synched mouth and tweaks.

Me hearing that Lumines Arise music.

If you’re in the media or a content creator looking to check out Lumines Arise, please hit me up for a code!

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy - yes even though it’s 100 hours

Lumines Arise is an incredible culmination of much of Mizuguchi and Enhance's legacy, and the result is something that Lex needed now more than ever. www.rewinder.co.uk/lumines-aris...

Last week, I sat down with @enhance-experience.com to discuss the development of Lumines Arise and the 'Kondo' philosophy that informs every meticulous design decision at the Japanese studio. P.S. I've played a huge amount of Arise and it is, as you might expect, an absolute banger.

Just learned that Creature Comforts Brewing has closed their downtown LA location aka the brewery at Summer Game Fest Play Days. Really glad that @iam8bit.com gave me my shot to be in there with my former jerb this past June. We had a blast and the CCB staff were awesome.

Happy Devil’s Night to everyone but Eric and Shelly.

recent years have seen a race to the bottom over who can push the most Content, for the cheapest cost, maximized for algorithms and bulk. and it's decimated an entire generation of writers.

TRON: ARES was a good TRON movie. Yes, Leto is weird but the movie looked and sounded great and tied in well with the ones that have come before it. Immediately after viewing, I turned on the NIN soundtrack in my helmet comms, jumped on my motorcycle and cut off a cybertruck. The future is now.

San Diego turning up in huge numbers for #nokings is making me happy even while I’m stuck in the resulting traffic

I do as well.

Will never forget watching him plunge into the Standard’s rooftop pool at an E3 afterparty because he was wearing sunglasses at 11 pm and thought there was a plastic cover over the water.

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

Death by SEO

Massive congratulations to everyone at EA and DICE on the astounding Battlefield 6 launch! It’s really inspiring to see huge numbers of players turn out for a launch like this.

This made me cackle volubly the first time I came across it and continues to delight me each and every time afterwards

I like my metal bands to look and sound like the guys who will steal your catalytic converter over night and be the same dude who installs a new one in the shop the next afternoon. Balmora at Fillmore.

There’s only one type of person who finds anti-fascists dangerous.

If only there was a perceived business solution for journalism that wasn’t wholly reliant on SEO

Going to see Turnstile / Amyl & the Sniffers / other hardcore bands in SF tonight. Hoping that I do not get pepper sprayed or have my phone stolen or get dragged into the pit by my 23 year old son. Much less pearl-clutching anxiety over the Miki Beryeni show with my daughter later in the month.

I quit two pieces of gamified software yesterday: Peloton and Silksong. One was good for my health but became too expensive, the other was ridiculously cheap but stressing me out. Ghost of Yōtei slid nicely into the game slot, now I need a new home workout.

If they rebooted X-Files in 2025

It's never been easier to build and ship a game. Every successful shipped game is a miracle. The game industry makes more money than ever. It's never been harder to make money shipping a game. ...and all of these statements are true.

This right here. This is the games industry in 2025 and beyond, perfectly summarized.

Bruce, talking to TIME about Born In The USA: "You’ve got to hold two contradictory thoughts at once: that you can feel betrayed by your country and still love it.” Oh man do I ever understand the mental and emotional trainwreck of these two conflicting thoughts.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

This is an excellent forcing function. We’re about to determine which news organizations are dedicated to journalistic standards and practices and which outlets are the NYT and WaPo.

The three types of game dev job listings

Have feeling that I will follow the same pattern with Silksong that I did with this first: succumb to having all joy slowly ground out of me and finally quit to pick up a more playoff game. Guessing I will run out of patience right around the launch date for Hades 2.

The most challenging part of getting a beer at the Hofbrau Haus is getting a server to make eye contact and bring you a beer

The physical layout of our German hotel is so weird that if it was in a video game the level designer would be demoted or fired for creating something so brutally simplistic and unfriendly to human usage

I have never, ever come so close to opening the door on a plane mid-flight and hurling my Steamdeck at Greenland

Every Chicagoan rn:

Draft-dodging coward posts A.I. image of himself in Vietnam.

Just to reiterate: GamesBeat has an opening for a writer! If anyone is interested, feel free to DM me! Must be: -Interested in the business of the industry (*very* interested; it's kind of our thing) -Willing to talk about games -Capable of writing good words Sound like anyone you know?

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Area Dad Informs Busboy He’s Ready To Order https://theonion.com/area-dad-informs-busboy-he-s-ready-to-order-1819578117/