More people need to know that Kingdom Hearts was not the first epic Disney crossover, and we missed out on a big one not long before. pophistory.club/feature/virt...

When it comes to the history of storytelling in video games, what are you most interested in learning about? The first intros in manuals? Multiple endings? Cutscenes? Cinema screens? Scripted scenes? Dialogue trees? FMVs? Environmental? Anything else you can think of? What do you want to know?

Now's the time, after my own Bond binge, I have to bring up that Connery's 007 enters in as the type of boorish dork who learned his way into high society during wartime intelligence for the chicks and fancies himself an expert on guns, and yet tunes out during Q's own hyperfixations on cool tech.

I only care about the new Bond if they pick Abigail Thorn

RE: StreamElements (This is going to be long.) To get everyone on the same page, here's a breakdown on what's happening, because rumors always travel further and faster in a vacuum. Earlier today, there was an initial rumor that StreamElements was laying off all staff and shutting down.

We have some exciting news... BLOW! is 80% funded, which means we got the 🚨GREENLIGHT🚨 to go into production!!! But we still need your help crossing the finish line. The rest of the funds are going towards: 💰 crew wages 🍔 feeding them on set 🩸 and buckets of red/pink blood, to name a few.

Thanks all, for thinking of me when you see some types of work pop up & tag me with good intentions. And in the end, I do follow games journalism since I have high interest in it. But despite some Japanese education, I want to remind everyone to read my profile, which says what I do and don't do.

You've never known the effect those same 100 songs have until you spent five years straight with them playing on loop in a chain restaurant, mixed in with the most highly filtered classic rock and only a tad of random indie rock. Not to mention, they preempt "I like country, but not the new stuff."

Geocities was one of the first free web platforms I ever tried to build an online presence with. It's a shame that there's a whole history of so many people with important messages to be shared that are now lost to time.

Hey look it's me on @lateralcast.com again! This time with @heyrowanellis.bsky.social and Verity Babbs!

Jet Lag: the Game fans will undoubtedly recognize at least a couple of locations shown here in the Taiwan Formosa Flying Theater ride at E-DA Theme Park in Kaohsiung. Taiwan is a really really cool place, and I highly recommend you visit if you can! youtu.be/QPr-SGRwzfY

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Having many friends n colleagues who work in or adjacent to things like erotica/kink/NSFW content etc., it's a slippery slope when companies like this bend to the whims of payment processors and we're one step closer to fully censoring voices, not only artistic expression, but entire livelihoods.

as an (amateur) video game historian I'm personally offended whenever the wikipedia page for game doesn't link to mobygames, and mobygames isn't on the front page of google for the games name 99% of the time when I google a game I want mobygames, damn it! yes I'm too lazy to make a keyword

here's some examples of 3d character work i've done

Seems to be a fully in-house effort, but one I'm greatly happy to see done. I'm a big fan of Dan's channel, but any effort to get its captions out of familiar "e-book reader vibes" is going to be a great boon for viewers.

That's just what a Peter Pan apologist would say. 🤔

I’m told my acceptance speech upset some of the BBC journalists who were in the room. I said what I said and it’s the truth 🤷‍♀️

It's the 10th Anniversary of #Batman V #Superman; not just a bad film but arguably the beginning of the slow-motion disaster that destroyed Warner Bros as we know it. In this playlist: a realtime look back: "MARTHABOX - THE POINTLES LIFE & MEANINGLESS DEATH OF THE DCEU" youtube.com/playlist?lis...

For the second year running, 'Lateral' picked up the gong for 'Best Live Show' at the Golden Lobes comedy podcast awards. Thanks to @rialina.com, @iszi.com, @misterabk.bsky.social and of course Tom himself for their wonderful contributions.

see who this season's winner is on Nebula now nebula.tv/videos/jetla...

Welcome to Jet Lag: Lost & Found nebula.tv/lostandfound

Dieselpunk - Where you somehow invent the microchip before the chemical battery.

EP. 186 HIGHLIGHT: Coral and the number 420. Featuring Sam Denby, Adam Chase and Ben Doyle from 'Jet Lag: The Game'. youtu.be/mE-JsgvX-Wo Full episode: lateralcast.com/episodes/186

Not that anyone needs yet another reason to steer clear of Microsoft, but VSCode now adds Copilot as a co-author of all your commits, regardless if you used Copilot. This was added silently as a default. This is some next level insanity.

Still lasted 22 times longer than the Star Wars hotel.

I can finally share that I won an AuSpec Award for best new character for my "My Adventures With Superman" spec script. More photos to come!

An underappreciated detail with this is that back in the 90s, publishers generally went for protagonists with a particular real-life counterpart or influence. Whereas since then in indie, even if the fans can pin down archetypes, the species and design is more often readily mixed.

I now have a Bandcamp page. If you're looking for a way to support what I do that goes beyond streaming, this is by far the best way. It's going to take a little bit of time for all of my albums to make their way there, but I am working hard to get them all on there. brianmetolius.bandcamp.com

Is anyone else still using that Shinigami Eyes extension? I haven't checked up on its maintenance, but it's been kinda silly on my end to see people occasionally linking to mostly UK news outlets with bright red links.

The second panel from MGC 2026 is live! Eugene Jarvis and Ed Fries talk about their experiences in the business 25 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eciD... Stories about the new arcade, the Xbox, and gaming preservation!

Today I want to talk about Trauma-Informed filmmaking. How do you create art about trauma, without revictimization? Let's dig into how we approached it with our horror short, BLOW!

That's just what a Peter Pan apologist would say. 🤔

Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.

Dan Olson is the LEAST "condescending" person on YouTube. He practically bends over backwards to understand and be fair to subjects even when he clearly detests what they represent, and even when he has nothing nice to say he says it plain. If you want to see condescension on YouTube, watch MY show👍

...and also shouldn't have to rely on Truck-kun to get there.

If you are not on our Patreon-exclusive Discord you are missing out on some VERY juicy and important discoveries patreon.com/gamehistoryorg

Are we sure we don't have a 100 million view bodycam video with one of the team being arrested for trespass at a Dollar Tree or Walmart?

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Half-Life: Alyx is 75% off (historical low)! Absolute steal, if you don't have VR, you can use the NoVR mod to play it. Obviously less of an amazing experience, but still a good game/story even then. store.steampowered.com/app/546560/H...

I'm opening up comms again! I'll be starting them next week, with limited spots. Fill out the form if interested: forms.gle/FENce2yU1L6i...

First trailer for Coyote vs. ACME, starring John Cena, Lana Condor, and Will Forte. The Looney Tunes movie is in theaters on August 28.

Finally done with my work queue and I have like 9 days to make rent, so I'm taking commissions again!

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My memory of the "It's the beginning" quote as used on the Chrono Trigger: The Brink of Time quote is lingering into greater knowledge of a weirdly shared musical history with Moon Child!

We're hiring a fundraising manager! If you have business development or non-profit fundraising experience, consider joining our team! Extremely proud that, in a field that struggles with funding and stability, we're offering a competitive salary with benefits!!

They are running full length videos as ads. How many views does that translate to? More than a few! They have also sunset all their multilingual channels in favour of using YouTube's audio tracks (a feature they claimed credit for) which drives more traffic to the main channel.

pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a... The postmortem of the *last* big outage shows that it was because they DOS'd themselves through vibecoded slop.