Newsom's people know he's being discussed as a possible 2028 candidate. *Everything* will be filtered through that So either he thinks transphobia is a viable path to securing the nom, or he is *so* committed to transphobia that he just can't let it go Either way fuck this ghoul

Holy shit, Metroid Prime 4 AND Routine on the same day? Is it my birthday? Is it International Long Awaited Games Day?

Well this is a surprise 👀 I've only dipped my toes into Darkwood but I'm familiar enough with it to know that Ice-Pick Lodge is about as perfect a fit as you could find, and having the original team still involved is great to hear Definitely gotta play more of the first one

I know next to nothing about baseball but after a certain number of innings they should just start adding random modifiers to mix things up. Multiball, reverse the direction of the bases, two players have to swap teams, one of the balls is secretly a piñata, etc

if you saved 100,000k a year you would be a billionaire in ten thousand years. it would take you 4,840,000 years to obtain elon musk's current net worth at that rate. there are zero ethical ways to accumulate that much money in a lifetime, it's built entirely on exploitation of workers.

It's not part of the Steam Sale, but I'll take any opportunity to remind folks that you can also get Red Candle's second game, Devotion, DRM free on their site. And you should, because it's extraordinary One of the absolute best games of its style

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What if we tried starting off every meeting with publishers by strapping the execs to their chairs and Ludovico-ing them with every "promising game is sabotaged by the corpos" episode of What Happened

I dipped my toes into AM2R back when it first came out but I'm *finally* putting some long overdue proper time into it. Really is an incredible piece of work Having scan logs in 2D Metroid is really neat. Definitely wouldn't mind seeing the official games bring that over from Prime

There are a disturbing number of people who think like this. I've been seeing a rising number of commenters on my Hidden Gems roundup who are upset at being shown games they've never heard about, because if they haven't heard about it, it must be bad and thus it can't be a gem, so I must be lying.

still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too. can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator

Hey Bernie, quick question, what the fuck is wrong with you? www.newsweek.com/bernie-sande...

The funny thing is if Halo wasn't owned by an ontologically evil company that went all in on genocide and AI bullshit, I wouldn't be opposed to a new remake of Halo CE. Since Anniversary is... kind of a mixed bag Unfortunately we don't live in that world

The important thing is Microsoft is still a BDS target, and here's the executive producer/lead designer both giving some very unsatisfying vague answers about the use of generative AI Wonder if we'll see a disclosure about that on the Steam page

Personally, I've always liked the "shamblers are fluffy because that's how they generate the lightning" argument

if you are actually concerned with devs getting paid what they're worth you could probably say more useful things than "games should be $100". you could condemn excessive exec pay. you could fight for unionization and better labor protections. you could display, like, any interest in ending poverty

No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.

Bringing back this thread. These so-called "crime free ordinances" are getting worse. They're the most racist laws you've never heard of, and they're most prevalent in BLUE states. And they're spreading.

Imagine the Illusive Man from Mass Effect saying this

If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...

Let it burn. Salt the earth

Damn ye! Let Neptune strike ye dead Krafton! HAAARK! Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til’ ye turn blue and bloated

Just judging by sales numbers there are probably a lot of Hollow Knight fans out there who've never played Metroid So hello Hollow Knight fans! Have you finished Silksong and now you're looking for something new?

Judonarrative dissonance, in which your videogame character kills a lot of people with martial arts despite taking a vow of non-violence.

No matter how many things you have in your backlog, there are always those couple of games you just accidentally find yourself replaying without really meaning to Anyways yes I did restart Metroid Prime again

So I was gonna make a joke about the ruins theme because of course But there are whole tracks of random beeping in here that I genuinely didn't realize were part of the score until this exact moment. Dead serious I honestly thought they were an early attempt at ambient background sound effects

Steam Nextfest recap time 1: Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown I'm not an expert on this kind of strategic management game so I can't promise how it'll play for those who are. But as a big fan of Voyager, this was charming as all hell. I can see myself putting a lot of time into this

Ok, I REALLY dislike the way they casually lumped procedural generation in with AI Having a mathematical tool that you control the input, process, and output of is not the same as asking a box of stolen material to staple itself together into something cool so you don't have to

You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.

Accidentally stumbled into someone defending Mass Effect's Destroy ending and that shit makes me so irrationally annoyed I'm sorry but who the fuck looks at a transcendent evolutionary leap ushering in an era of mutual understanding and peace and says "No, I'll take the multiple genocides instead"?

The shorter games with worse graphics made by less people discourse is starting again and the nuance lost in this conversation is: we absolutely CAN make big, hyper-realistic games, sustainably. The problem -- and the money drain -- is executive pay, leadership overreach, mismanagement, and whims.

my god there has never been a more accurate use of this

I'm so glad Nine Sols seems to have done well for Red Candle, because not enough people have played Devotion. Probably the best "PT-like" I've come across It's not on Steam for very absurd, stupid reasons, but you can get it from their site. And you should shop.redcandlegames.com

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

Israeli ceasefire means it will massacre the emaciated maimed shell of a body they left you in for entering your own home, then claim Israeli terrorists were feeling unsafe near your house while they were destroying what was left of your life and family. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Smeary Aang must be protected at all costs

You know what, I'm on board I'm not the biggest fighting game expert, but it's a good fit for Avatar and so far it looks like they're really nailing the art style. 2D hand drawn was definitely the way to go

Fashy Cinemasins That's what this is, the effect the proliferation of "anti-woke" youtube grifters have had on their audiences as a whole, stunting their ability to engage with media and training them to look for "DEI sins" to call out, atrophying their ability to enjoy the games they're playing.

Playing Red Steel on an Xbox controller actually kinda makes it more interesting, just because of how unusual the controls become as a result. The unlocked aiming reminds me a little of the GoldenEye/Perfect Dark/Medal of Honor style of early console shooters

Update: did some more digging and turns out Dolphin *does* have conditional inputs! Current approach is using R1 to swap the right stick from pointer to swings and L3+direction for nunchuck shakes It's definitely still janky but it's working

This is a day one for sure. Can't say no to megastructure exploration 😍

Oh, I get it. It's called Castlevania because it's a metroidvania set in a castle!

Experimented a bit with trying to map Wii games to an Xbox controller in Dolphin. Seems like it's either a little awkward but works better than you might think, or ends up completely unplayable. All depends on how much of the Wii any given game is trying to use I really wish Dolphin had mode shifts

Viewtiful Joe is like the quintessential Rented-from-Blockbuster game of my youth It would be really nice if Capcom remembers this series exists, but failing that I hope we can at least get it on the NSO Gamecube library at some point

Progress isn't flying a different flag over the exact same abusive power structures. Justice isn't choosing who gets sacrificed to keep the wheels spinning If Democrats end up supporting all the same things as Republicans anyways, all we get to vote for is the color of the boot that steps on us

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

Doom 3 isn't the traditional Doom experience but it's a delightfully spooky successor to Half-Life and I'll always love it for that. A real gem of that middle era of early 2000s post-Half-Life/pre-COD narrative FPS design

If you haven't played Remedy's masterpiece yet, please do yourself a favor. Bright Falls is lovely this time of year Alan Wake 2 wasn't just my GOTY for 2023, it's my favorite game across the board