for your consideration: sprite mint with rum in it

What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

"Many of the games included in Neopets: Mega Mini-Games Collection – The Neopian Arcade Odyssey are deeply unoriginal. They're clunky. Awkward to play. Also, I absolutely love them."

So that's a lawsuit. They're using the likeness of the actor and presenting a false interview as a true one without permission of the actor, which is a violation of so many legal rights including likeness rights and right of publicity.

Super Mario Galaxy Movie... Great visuals and animation, absolutely tepid everything else. And I liked the first movie well enough. Feels like the Illumination desire to be little freaks is completely squashed here. Barely chuckled. Barely felt a single emotion.

"You'll end up with a Frankenstein's monster of a game in the end – but I absolutely have the ambition to make that"

Okay, here we are. It's not a review, more a eulogy for Max and Chloe's story. I hope you find time to read, and get something out of it. medium.com/@jimcrikey/l...

"The magic of childhood is the most fragile kind". Great time to read @ashleybardhan.bsky.social's incredible piece on Lost Records!

well, now i wanna go back to bed

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Oscar's a little more down on this than I am (the reason for which will become apparent in the blog post I'll write which three people will read), but I agree with almost everything he says here. It's a great explanation of what ended up going wrong.

Finished Life is Strange: Reunion over the weekend and wrote far too many words about why I unfortunately hated it. A soulless mess that tries to be a sequel to both Double Exposure and the OG game and spectacularly fails at both. Honestly reminds me in the worst ways of The Rise of Skywalker. 🫠

Some of my favourite reviews and crit to read are ones I disagree with. Pretty sad state of affairs to not be able to engage critically with the things you claim to like, to be honest. It honestly sounds so boring. Fandom parasociality.

Great review, and thoughtful comparison to the fantastic Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, which is feeling like one of the best yet overlooked evolutions of LiS' genre.

I'm as susceptible to nostalgia as anyone else and it's nice to see Chloe and rewind back. But I've played few games that feel as obviously strangled by project constraints making for a messy and oddly paced adventure, which just feels like a shame in the end. My final review!

Darwin's charming tone and fun animation carries me through.

More of you need to play Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, and it shows

In this interview we talk shorter runs, permanent progression, and tackling difficultly with nuance in Saros!

Very strange to me that Chloe's backtalk ability in LiS Reunion has morphed from a fun insult battle into a simple fact-checking trivia challenge.

Saros' eclipse mechanic is both gorgeous and exciting to play!

Lovely edition of a great book. Always find myself reaching for it whenever I replay Resi to read back through sections.

I will crowbar Crazy Taxi into any conversation

Haven't had access to the new Life is Strange for long, so here's some early thoughts! Pleasantly surprised by a couple of tweaks, but overall feel like I'm drowning in a story prioritising the powers rather than the characters. Would love to be proven wrong by game's end, however.

Can finally confirm that in Finland I ate a burger that had both paprika and cucumber mayo in it.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

I'm rarely this effusive about a preview, but Saros has blown me away so far. I liked but didn't love Returnal, and this feels like the tightening of that loop I was craving. More Saros features will be going live over the next few days 🙏

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

After Requiem, should Resi 5 Remake come next? In this article, I kill @dashiellwood.com with a laser beam.

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

I helped pick out some Steam sale recommendations! Which includes a super price on Perfect Tides: Station to Station, so far one of my favorites of the year!

That's me! Check out The Horror at Highrook!

lost records: question arc lost records: answer arc

More great horror writing from Ashley! Can't wait to play this.

If you love Monkey Island and Sam & Max like me, you owe it to yourself to play this!

They whitewashed a white woman.

sometimes I have to put on a Sam & Max: Hit the Road longplay just to feel something

"Grammarly has never been interested in writing, or even improving it. Its only interest is in making money...The company's business model is designed to make people feel insecure about their own writing so that they believe that they need an AI assistant to do something as simple as send an email."

Great to have Sophie's words on 1348 on the site!

Don't think of this as a "gaming" story. This is about impact for pretty much any industry with a large international market of conference-goers. And academia. It is, to use a term I believe I first saw in The World Is Flat, a clusterfuck.

I recently went for a Big Walk.

I am going to be utterly obnoxious about this for at least a week

polls project lammy and Starmer are going to lose their seats to greens mainly because Labour have taken right wing money and pissed all over us???? unsurprising

deleted a lot of deserved incendiary drafts, but regarding LRT just, jfc, why is it too much to actually listen to or talk to trans people? but, it's all bad faith. facts never matter, people don't matter, always - those who crave power just want to exert it over others

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.

This continual assault on trans rights within the UK stinks of corruption and foreign money, and Wes Streeting is right there in the middle of it. Possibly holding a bulging brown sack with a £ printed on it

The Cass review, used to justify an ideological decision to withhold medical care from trans teenagers, is throughly discredited. The Health Secretary and NHS England are lying to patients and their families and to the public. This is severe institutional transphobia. bbc.com/news/article...

Great to read another @ashleybardhan.bsky.social horror banger, as usual!