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..."

Cologne has a great bike rental place, the aptly named Radstation Köln, and a bike is by far the fastest way to get around the city. 20€ a day and you can get to most places you need to during gamescom before an Uber can get to you.

My gamescom challenge this year is to not take any photos of the Dom.

I'm super excited to get to talk game development with folks @ DICE Europe this year!

#evo2025 we're at BYOC Table 3! If anyone wants to play the build!

This was the first console game I worked on! Someplace in here is a secret screen for my girlfriend (now wife) that I lost the code for. Also @mikejmika.bsky.social's proposal to his now wife is in here (he didn't lose the code!) www.wired.com/video/watch/...

Look I'm not saying this a curse on the 7th generation of the 7th generation thing but do you really have to put anti theft price tags right on the label art?

A world where you lower the back seat of your car so you can take something to the dump and Petz Countryside 3DS pops out from the seat is not only a world I want to live in, it's the actual world I do live in.

I loved this PSP shaped PSP test UMD holder...

I don't really collect old games anymore (I have enough!) but sometimes... I stopped to ask about Easy Working: The Filer (I tested a version as a tyke) and $10 later I had everything in the guy's sell box. Pretty awesome haul that's finally going on the shelf.

That's a wrap on Bit Summit for me! From seeing so many sweet new games to amazing conversations that ranged from games to real ghost stories it was a blast from start to finish. Can't wait to come back to Kyoto!

Another XPA title I need to check out. 💚

Backstage at Bit Summit before the industry welcome mixer. I've only seen one of those giant barrels of sake in movies and games so it's kind of exciting to see irl. So many great conversations and indie games here, this is the biggest bit summit ever - vibe was amazing on the business day!

I'm very excited for Bit Summit today, my first time back since 2018. I've heard it's grown a ton. Already had some incredible conversations (and saw some amazing games) with old and new friends at pre-events.

Playing Altered Beast in the arcade was one of the most amazing experiences. We'd drive an hour to go play it every weekend for months when I was 16. Later I bought a cabinet and it was in my tiny SF apartment kitchen for years.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (XSX) is $23.40 on Amazon Prime buff.ly/OsOvOz8 (Steam) $33.59 GMG XP Offer buff.ly/3CZpdaY $41.99 GOG buff.ly/QhafZgb #ad also on Game Pass Standard

Still remember hitting scores that would qualify for WR status... but not on og hardware! It's a lot easier with a keyboard than a joystick!

Haven't been doing the crossword lately but here's another videogames x crosswords

If you consider yourself a student of videogames, I cannot overemphasize just how valuable these trade magazines are. Games Business especially is just shockingly packed with information that exists and was captured nowhere else.