One of the Straftat brothers is making a movement game called VHOLUME and I'm afraid to say it has unbelievable amounts of sauce.

I am so sick of watching devs get predictably screwed over by steam reviews. How many times does this have to happen before we admit it's a bad system that doesn't work? Anyways, Relooted looks super neat. Can't wait to check it out

Don't you fucking dare Can we not have ONE thing? One single unspoiled speck?

vholume's environment design is kind of incredible.

Really enjoyed playing through the demo for Vholume, new game by one of the Straftat/Babbdi devs and featuring music by 1000 Eyes (Signalis composer). In love with the architecture, the hidden little snapshots of lives lived in an impossible space.

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

I’m annoyed by the delay too but Valve has allowed for games with AI-generated content on its storefront, at some point we can’t just sit there & say “grrr AI tech bros bad I can’t get a Steam Machine yet” without noting that the call is coming from inside the house. Valve is enabling the problem

I'm picturing something like Fatal Frame but instead of photography you frisbee these at spirits

The Lego Riven dagger arrived and it's basically everything eight year old me could have ever wanted Not only is it a really clever set that looks perfect, but they even styled the instructions like Catherine's journal and included a note from her Great job @cyan.com and @timtoon.com

I've complained about this a lot on here as I've played through the series, but the evolution of Fatal Frame is one of the best pro-tank control arguments I can make. Moving away from fixed cameras doesn't just change the general presentation, it actually hurts how ghosts behave in the environment🧵

Anything less than the complete and total destruction of ICE is collaboration Trying to "reform" ICE only justifies the lies that it was founded on. If you fight this hard to protect it, you're telling us who matters to you and who doesn't We don't need ICE, and we don't need you, Chuck

I *love* Thousand Year Door. It's my favorite Mario game But I did the Pit of 100 Trials for the first time and fuck this whole thing was a mistake. Fuck Bonetail. I really didn't need to be soured on a beloved game from my childhood but this is just miserable I can't even leave. I'm stuck here

"microtransactions in games started by cabal of pedophile elites for the purpose of indoctrinating kids into an economy" Ok. Well, we all knew it was evil somehow but I really didn't expect Epstein to be responsible for why video games are bad now. That's just not what I would've thought.

Even on hugely popular games with 95%+ Steam user review scores, you will almost always see some interminable, essay-length negative rant flagged as the 'most useful' and put front and center on the store page. Part of it is Steam's upvoting system being busted. Part is human nature being stupid.

One negative review killed Pendragon. It was posted within hours of release: a detailed "objective" explanation of why they didn't connect with it. But it's ticked as helpful by passing people *who have not played the game*. This keeps it pinned to the top. It's longer than our description text.

Checking out Team Fortress 2 Classified, and according to steam I haven't played TF2 in ten years. Honestly makes me kinda sad. I started falling off once it really started doubling down on unlockable weapons. It didn't *break* the game, but I liked the balance of the classes just being the classes

Just saw Iron Lung tonight and holy hell this is the real deal. Absolutely loved it Longer thoughts hurriedly written in a sleepy haze for anyone curious

Not to be over dramatic but I started replaying Silent Hill 2 just to fully wash the taste of the movie out of my eyes

In my restless dreams, I see that fake James Sunderland beard.

I'm tempted to replay Fatal Frame 2 before the remake drops but I can't help being a little worried that playing them too close together will just make me have a worse time with the remake. Besides, I still have to finish 5 anyways

I saw this post and bought it five years ago. Checkmate

in a way aren't we, people using words to say mean jokes about the people getting rich off taking our tax dollars which were stolen from our healthcare as payment for kidnapping children and murdering helpful citizens in the streets, just as bad as the people doing those things? makes u think 🤔 🤔 🤔

"Lovingly force your fandom and hyperfixations on your friends" is honestly so real 😆

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

As I see more middle-of-the-road Dems process the tragedy that befell Alex Pretti, I see them processing grief by trying to differentiate ICE from Police. To claim that their actions are qualitatively different, somehow. And I wonder on what planet they've been living.

I'm not someone who enjoys hating movies. Like it's one thing to get baked with some friends and laugh and Madame Web. But I don't get anything out of "being a hater" the way some folks on here do Return to Silent Hill is a train wreck. A pointless, miserable, baffling misfire for no reason

There is no "Trump's" ICE It has always been an evil organization of racist violence. It was evil under Biden, and Obama, and Bush. You can't reform it or redeem it because it was built to do this. No amount of "training" will fix it, and refusing to acknowledge that is why we're here now

Nintendo made some truly bizarre decisions with how the N64 controls map to the Switch. Just confusingly bad. Even with the new remapping options I still can't get GoldenEye or Perfect Dark to handle correctly So finally I just got the N64 controller and thank fuck they're actually playable now

I'm fascinated by how often I see people tell game devs "Please for the love of god do anything other than play games" vs how often I see directors/actors/film critics/etc praised for saying "I eat, breath, and bleed film. I live in a movie theater" Don't really have A Take, it's just interesting

Begging people to stop using the framing of "a new policy that lets agents enter your home" because the policy is illegal. It doesn't "let" them do that because it doesn't have the authority to let them do that. It's institutionalized unconstitutionality; an intentional erosion of existing rights.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

My first feature of the year explores the phenomenon of Quake Brutalist Jam for @theguardian.com, and how the FPS mapping community is keeping old-school level design alive. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

*sigh* I'm gonna have to go see Return to Silent Hill aren't I? I just... I need to know

Had a lot of fun with the first mission of Thief VR I knew the reboot is contentious for some fans but I enjoy it for what it is. It was always very *tactile*, and VR seems to be building on those strengths really well. "Open all the drawers and take all the things" is just so satisfying

Kid-Me would never forgive me if I let this go. This is basically my two big childhood obsessions in one

It's always nice when my wishlist shrinks without me having to spend any money.

This should be boosted regardless if you're anywhere near Minnesota. Since organizing general strikes is something that should already be on the minds of Americans across the entire country, might as well talk about and support any where they may be popping up.

Immersive sims are notoriously hard to describe or define, but amusingly easy to demonstrate

I have a hard time imagining being able to share a civil society with anyone who disagrees with this? "Is there any circumstance where the appropriate response to a five year old is an armed federal agent arresting them?" Is pretty close to my version of a Voight-Kampff test.

"Protecting the galaxy means hunting down the remaining Jedi - not blowing up planets. That's why I'm proposing a bill that redirects 75 billion away from building the Death Star and towards the training of new Stormtroopers."

"hello!" "what's new with you?" "nothing i'd tell you about." "i hear the united states has armed paramilitary in the streets attacking their own people, and even kidnapped the president of venezuela." "the united states seems to be getting more dangerous by the day." "take care." "bye."

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

The cast and crew of a new Jaws sequel start getting hunted by the robotic shark they built for filming

Please do not confuse Horses 2025 (2026) with HORSES (2025).

Now that I've started catching up, I really hope Konami releases MGS master collection vol 2 by the time I do, and that it includes MGS4 As much as I'd love to have my PS3 hooked up right now, I don't really have space for it anywhere

Technically, I've probably died a lot more in Metal Gear Solid 2 so far than I did in 1. But it doesn't *feel* as hard because the majority of my deaths in 1 were action scenes where I felt like I was fighting the controls more than the enemies In 2 I'm just fucking up the stealth, as it should be

Yep. ⤵️ And every "reform" they suggest - from "training" to body cams to fucking QR codes just gives more money to ICE that they'll use to continue terrorizing and murdering people. "Reforms" are a generally a scam to FUND ICE.