SCOOP: double fine is unionizing

Also, from the secret files of the review embargo...

🌆 Amberspire is OUT NOW 🌖 A dice driven science-fantasy city builder. Grow your city atop a mausoleum moon, interact with strange weather and ecology, gain influence and make deals with powerful off-world factions. Experience the history of a future city. PC, Mac, Steam Deck s.team/a/3350750

if scraping through an english lit degree taught me anything, it's that everything is about death if you squint hard enough delighted to be cohosting this writing workshop with the wonderful @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com at A MAZE next week. see you in workshop room 2

I will be here showing off a funky little card-based fighting game! It will be good and/or interesting i promise.

Games criticism owes so much to Garrett Martin. Quietly one of the most influential people in the space, a guy who was happy to publish anyone that had something interesting to say. A shame AV Club is shuttering its games coverage. End of an era, long live Paste Games

the first op-ed on why mps are uniquely impoverished self-sacrificing heroes who simply must have their subsidised on the job drink or they will literally die has landed

while my thoughts are with those who were present at the correspondents dinner, i can’t help but think that becoming an active shooter represents an innovative new discovery strategy for indies navigating a difficult and crowded marketplace

In Moves of the Diamond Hand, sequel to the IGF award-winning Betrayal at Club Low from cult-favourite Cosmo D, the vibes so far are transcendent. Our early access thoughts: www.eurogamer.net/moves-of-the...

I love being part of and continuing to write for Bullet Points. Keeps my dreams of what games criticism could be alive. Please support us on Patreon if you can: www.patreon.com/bulletpoints

It's out!!!! You too can make Henry go outside and plant a tree for less than the cost of a cup of coffee! With this one handy link... store.steampowered.com/app/3531490/...

Moves of the Diamond Hand - out now! store.steampowered.com/app/2778210/...

I've had the pleasure of working with Henry on the code side of Treeplanter for the past year, and I'm delighted to hear folks are having a meditative time with the demo! Plays, wishlist, reviews, reposts, etc. appreciated! Full game releases in ONE WEEK!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3531490/...

God help us.

New Blog: Let Games Die "Let Code Die is rooted in a trust that if we have code that we like and we lose it, we can write it again. What would it mean to trust ourselves as game developers, designers, critics and players in the same way?" www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/l...

which is perhaps unfair. not much can compete with gay sex. not even half-life. definitely not skyrim. but every modder has to make this choice somehow, every day. really it's a miracle any mods get made when you could be having gay sex instead

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Israel has passed the death penalty solely for Palestinians, enforced through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. Israeli Minister Ben Gvir popped champagne. The Israeli government is raising a toast to genocidal apartheid. The UK government is arming and funding it.

I think about "Barack Obama remains the President of the United States. He has clearly abolished Constitutional term limits, and God knows what else with it." far too often.

Gamer Mom x Gamer Son

Today is my birthday! It's a good time to get Children of the Sun while it's also 60% off right now! store.steampowered.com/app/1309950/...

Fortunately, wargaming has given me extensive experience of situations where wars spiral out of control to the point your war aims are just to return to the status quo ante. That's how I know what these guys need to do now is load from an old autosave.

Its v. v. possible that this will be one of the best games ever made and won't YOU sound cool when you're the first one to tell your friends about it

every negative review of marathon is like ah the narrative doesnt work and the treadmill of the extraction shooter feels empty. but every positive review of marathon is like i hate myself and what i have become. i feel my tolerance for hate growing with every round. i hate you for making me kill you

I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it. Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮

These Pernicious Gambling Apps Will Embed Themselves Deeper and Deeper Into Public Life, Disintegrating Social Trust In Unpredictable and Dangerous Ways vs. No It Won't

Jesus this is insightful banger after banger.

all will rise is handing back Microsoft money & pledging @nogamesforgenocide.com — it’s a difficult thing to do when funding and attention are scarce commodities for indies like us, but we hope more of our fellow devs and indie studios will join us in taking a stand 🔥 www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful. Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

Real don't quote me hours

(｡•́ ̫ •̀｡)っ✿♡︎ hi, you know all those screenshots I've been posting for the past year? I'm releasing the thing they're from!! right now!!! It's asynchronously online!ヽ(๏ ∀๏ )ﾉ Walk around in the garden, make wishes, if you talk to angels they might spill some tea 🍵 flan.itch.io/angel-garden

key moment in this talk

There's obvs been a lot of trading of imagery between the modern Millitary and modern millitary video games, but theres something about this that feels particularly notable / nauseating. Call of Duty 4 tried to "look like" war, and now war is trying to look like Call of Duty.

Oh boy. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

This just makes me sad

sorry I like daylight savings, it's a nice reminder that time is arbitrary and we can just change the numbers when we feel like it

Update: Strike on Iranian girl's school kills 24 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-strike-iranian-school-rises-24-local-governor-says

Good things being possible??? On this blighted little island??? Crazy

Reigns : The Witcher, the game I've been working on for the last year and a bit is out now on Steam, iOS and Android :) apps.apple.com/gb/app/reign... play.google.com/store/apps/d... store.steampowered.com/app/1651600/...

oh god: theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

hate this government with every fibre of my being

The degree to which I kept thinking while playing this "I'm down to throw some money their way, I like this and want it succeed" but also "If this dies in the next few weeks, what will have been the point?" Well!

Unwinnable subscribers saw an excerpt of this last month, but here's the much, much longer convo I had with Autumn back in December about cultural criticism, my process, and a long, ongoing battle with alienation from my own taste and craft. A little rambly, apologies unwinnable.com/2026/02/11/a...

anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

DELROY LINDO

We've made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects! 100% Free for commercial use. #GameDev

It’s exhausting and disheartening and brutally sad, not least of all because fundamentally, it could be a different way. We could build it a different way. But a lot of people who say they’d like that to be true are, themselves, too afraid to believe it’s possible. I wonder who built them that fear