Almost 8 years to the day since Minit, by @jwaaaap.com and friends, shipped on Xbox and I still think about it regularly. Such a fun experience www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...

You know in SimCity when you build some infrastructure and you see people kind of filling it up and using it in real time? I feel like I'm seeing that happen right now on the 2 line from Redmond to Seattle. The 2 line was a ghost town last week and now that it goes to Seattle it's packed.

Some really cool announcements today from Team Xbox: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

When some skaters took up residence outside the ID@Xbox showcase yesterday at GDC, @jessicatronn.bsky.social hooked them up with ID@Xbox fingerboards and a limited edition High on Life x Xbox deck for Best Trick. If you're at GDC come talk to us at the Lobby Bar in South Hall and grab one too!

OMG if it's midnight and you're in some weird part of San Francisco, please don't be: a) wearing your GDC badge, b) stumbling around heads down in your mobile phone.

Aerial_knight's DropShot OUT NOW!!!! WE DID IT!!!!! 🥳💪🎊🎉🎉🎉

Today was one of those days where you have other plans and then the next thing you know there's a plumber in your crawl space* and suddenly you're about to get a new driveway.

"That looks really good, have you considered the blue from the Luxembourg flag? That blue seems like it's going to be really hot soon. Just get the Pantone for that and try it." -sentences that are super weird unless you work in game development. Also, that Luxembourgian cyan/blue is pure gold.

After nearly 5 years my "notes from in person meetings at shows" notebook is full. Flipping through reveals early notes on so many amazing games, it's like a time machine. Stickers and stamps are from Gamescom, DICE, and BitSummit

I didn't think Josie gets enough credit as one of Blink-182's best songs.

Congratulations to Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection for winning the #DICEAwards Fighting Game of the Year! @digitaleclipse.bsky.social

So happy for @digitaleclipse.bsky.social!

Congrats to Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection for winning fighting game of the year!!

Congrats Hades II

videogame x videogame x videogame x crossword.

Videogames x crosswords #106

I'm writing an article about an Easter Egg in #IDARB for my zine and I just rewatched the credits and OMG I forgot how funny the credits song is.

I was just talking to Xfinity and while we were talking I got a call from Xfinity so I conferenced everyone together. (It went exactly as well as you'd expect.)

All it really does in a daily basis is serve music, and run some scripts if I digitize a CD, but I'm still pleased with the uptime since I got it working.

Videogames x crosswords. (Also note 2 Down for a gamescom geography reference.)

I always thought this was a funny cover.

Toilet rats. Who needs survival horror games when you can just be alive?

I saw a video comparing Donkey Kong by Coleco on ColecoVision vs 2600. The 2600 shipped in '77, 5 years after the game industry was born. ColecoVision shipped in 1982, 10 years after. About the same relative distance to Pong as PS1 vs Series X. Or Coleco and SNES. It's interesting to think about.

Entex MAC computer. The name makes it almost unsearchable on the Internet. (Entex made the hecka rare Adventure Vision handheld too)

Really sad news.

My wife is not a fan of anything licensed as part of Christmas decorations so every year this sticking gets displayed for about 45 seconds while I take a picture.

Kitchen Stage Old version versus New! #fgc #fightinggames #indie #indiegames #gamedev #dev #wip

Loved this game on Steam and absolutely recommend now that it’s on console!

Immerse yourself. The Xbox full screen experience is coming to Windows 11: xbx.lv/3XIMwMk

if you haven't played despelote yet, you're missing some of the greatest storytelling in video game history. not exaggerating despelote.game

Congrats to Despelote for winning excellence in narrative (and $10K) at the @devgamm.bsky.social awards tonight!

All the lighthouse news that’s fit to print! Fun to see Keeper get such a glowing review in the @nytimes.com! (Beaming? Shining?) In the print edition, too!

All I could think of when I saw this was Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime... It's like the exact same scale.

Just wait till next year!!

Looking forward to seeing folks at DevGamm!

I worked with Nick at my first game dev job at EA in the mid-2000s. He was such a great guy, and he went out of his way to help me learn the ropes, even though I wasn't even on his team! He had such a great attitude, and really seemed to delight in working with other people to make games.

Really missing Nick today. I'd love to talk to him about the Xbox Ally and hear what he thought!! Missed in most tributes (like the great one linked here) is that he was a core member of the original ID@Xbox v-team, in addition to later leading ID@Azure. netyaroze.com/Community/Re...

I'm at a wedding and most people here are hardcore rock/gem/mineral people and it's interesting how close the conversations are to videogame people but with a different subject. "I have so many rocks. I mean not too many, but so many..."

That new Arby's Italian sandwich is pretty awesome.

Videogames x crosswords. This one's a little meta.

Anybody who knows anybody that might be interested in Demonschool and might give it a little boost, please entice them to fill out this form! We put a lot into this game and we really want people to see it.

BYTE stands alone: archive.org/details/byte...

I'm playing the Xbox PC edition of Octopath Traveler II on my ROG Ally right now and every building looks like Strausburg. Also I know I'm LTTP but it's 🔥. Had to drag myself away from pixelated half timbered buildings to go look at real ones this morning.

This is the exact kind of place you go inside and in the first room there's a save point and like 3 maximum health / spell point packs and then someone asks you if you're ready to go upstairs or if there's more you need to do in town first. (Also Strausburg is very beautiful!)

This is a berry that is edible and common in Europe that they don't have in America. Also I was going in a secret entrance at gamescom and a guard asked me if I was at kolnmesse for the aircraft equipment conference or the game show. I'm like "ma'am I'm wearing a polygon skull t-shirt..."