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A Treasure on PS1: madcap brawling, throwing, and dodgeballing! Cut-out crayon scribble characters and rotating polygonal arenas make it such a cool little game that's so much fun to play. 📺: Rakugaki Showtime, Treasure/Enix, 1999.

It's ABSURD that this is a game from the director of Ikaruga and is one of the best rail shooters I've ever played and it has... 1 review listed on metacritic??? www.metacritic.com/game/night-s...

Konami's #Gradius II bible is everything a person could want to receive. Especially if that person is me, or @porkface.bsky.social.

New one about record shopping in the 90s, how intentional discovery used to be, how algorithms have taken that away from us and why we should probably start putting in the work again. (It's about games eventually, promise) Accidentally made it free. Oops! Go: newsletter.hitpoints.co/374-blue-note/

Doing a Metropolis Street Racer track walk on the way back home tonight

IGN is hiring! We're looking for a US-based news editor working West Coast hours. They will report into me (hello, I'm the director of news at IGN!), and get to do all sorts of cool stuff about video games and entertainment. Lots more at the link! www.ziffdavis.com/careers/jobs...

As a child, I thought “even educated fleas do it” seemed like a human acknowledgement of the value of a commonly devalued species Now I see the hidden emphasis on “educated”, implying that fleas live in a society where a libertine educated class live above a peasant class who are not allowed love

Fishbowl is 💜 OUT NOW 💜 on PS5 & Steam (PC, Mac, Steam Deck) 🫧 Play at your own pace 🪞 No bad endings only different paths 🗓️ Do as much or as little as you are able to 🛏️ Remember, no matter what, you got through the day The two of us are in tears. Our game is out today! 🥹🥹

It's Tough Out There, So Check Out These Amazing Websites.

Hi I went to the V&A player/performer event on Friday night and it was extremely fun www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

In the spirit of trans visibility, lemme just plug my ongoing project to document as many pre-2010 games as possible that had a trans person on the dev team. You might be surprised by what's on there. There's games going right back to the sixties! dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictranslist

Fishbowl offers the rare case of good pandemic fiction

If you squint, you might remember that brief moment when it seemed like iOS games were going to change the industry for the better.

The game we've been working on with @poncle.games for... quite a while... Has a launch date, and a price!!! Vampire Crawlers launches 21st April and costs 9.99. Get ready for a whole new addiction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaAE...

Finally, A Mark Sorrell Substack. READ HIM. marksorrell.substack.com?r=nf00a&utm_...

This is the good shit.

Paying my respects

The Avengers for people who read Edge

Mandatory :

The Friday Late for March at the V&A Museum includes performances from the London Livecoding community! I’ll be there doing a half hour visual set with Magpie. Also includes Slaystation, Car Boot Casino and lots of games. Free tickets here: www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...

From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙

Ziff Davis are fucking vandals. The way they've treated these sites is a truly rotten business.

🚨 ALERT. ALERT. BIG WALK IS COMING TO PS+ THIS YEAR www.youtube.com/live/bGdFBim...

A strong showing from Konami on today's State of Play! 👀 ⚬ Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse ⚬ Darwin’s Paradox ⚬ Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2 ⚬ Rev. Noir ⚬ Silent Hill: Townfall There's still more show to see: play.st/YouTube

A new website about PC games, from me, @brendyc.bsky.social and @jonhicks.com. Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like @jank.cool.

A Budgerigar painted onto a James Hunt Malboro World Championship Team beer mat from the 1970s. Beermat painting. Watercolour. James Hunt loved Budgies apparently. darrenhaymanart.com

Today I noticed the bongos in #Bananza. They didn't have to put the bongos in. Or give them a little start button. Or make them bouncy!? They didn't have to add an extra bongo track in the audio that comes in when you're near. But they did.

It’s race day! In just over two hours at around 6.45pm GMT the season properly kicks off with what’s always a highlight of the season, the Daytona 24. And it’s all streamed live for free (in the UK at least) www.youtube.com/live/uGOgs9b...

This is getting published a little later than intended but it's here now: a short, sharp write-up on the political resonance of FFT: The Ivalice Chronicles in the year of No Kings protests — one turn-based battle after another ✊ www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

January 01, 2026 #NeoGeo #PocketHoroscope

Wasting my one new years wish on the hope that 2026’s Ferrari won’t be a complete shitbox 🙏🙏🙏🍝🍝🍝🍝🙏🙏🙏

The most important releases of 2025 1. Ridge Racer 2. Super Dimension Fortress MACROSS II 3. The Outfoxies 4. VS Tower of Babel 5. Mach Breakers 6. Dead Connection 7. Marchen Maze 8. Nebulas Ray 9. Gee Bee 10. Castle of Dragon 1/12⬇️

Happy 26th to Shenmue, a video game that goes out of its way to celebrate the mundane and remains one of the most preposterous AAA productions. Popped by Yokosuka again earlier this year on a spare day in Japan and it only solidified what special magic SEGA and AM2 conjured

Because fuk it y not, a quick list of my fave games from 2025

Fuck AI www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...

Objects of desire... The Divers 2000 CX-1 Dreamcast + TV combi, with network capabilities and DreamEye digital camera. Co-developed by Sega, CSK, and Fuji, it had a tiny production run, numbering just two hundred. The remote is essential as it's the only way to switch it into DC mode.

Just a reminder that the charity stream in honour of Nick's birthday will be taken place later today, by one of his friends. www.justgiving.com/page/trashpa... www.twitch.tv/trashpandaja...

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

'Night and the City' by Chris Donlan remains one of the finest online articles on game urbanism ever. Somehow simultaneously personal, historical, and objective it is an excellent read, and a reminder that L.A. Noir remains truly unique. Find it here: www.eurogamer.net/night-and-th...

A Life Well Wasted 9 will be released one week from today. Here’s the poster design by Olly Moss. Screenprints will be on sale from 9/4 through 9/11 on the ALWW website. Still ad-free! Come back next week.

Shenmue programmer Takeshi Hirai at work in 1998-99. xcancel.com/takechirai/s...

Hiroshi Kawaguchi! He smuggled me and a friend into SEGA HQ for an interview back in 2019 and was an absolute treat, happily admitting he was spending his twilight years there just fucking around and making music for shits and giggles. Thanks for the tunes! www.eurogamer.net/tales-from-i...

I'm hiring a UK-based Features Editor on @gibiz.bsky.social. I fully intend to continue the site's long history of exceptional original features – come help me make it happen! Link here: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

We released a new Llamasoft game today! All the flashing lights, particle effects, and animal noises you want out of a Minter game with an addicting gameplay loop! Lots of little objectives to go for in each stage that encourage replays, very fun, especially in VR if you have a PS VR2!

This is a seminal moment: a Labour government cutting disability benefits. Not just continuing Tory levels. Cutting. This comes after a week of speculation, itself an act of cruelty by a government toying with people’s dignity. These cuts are disgraceful - and they will cost lives.