BIG NEWS... we got gerbils again...we will spam pictures on this account...sorry in advance

It had a pack-in game called Lair of Squid, which was inspired by DOOM. Ah, classic MS-DOS weirdness.

Wrote down my thoughts about Lumines Arise, earnestness, and how it serves as a reminder of what games can and should be. aftermath.site/lumines-aris...

I got to see her cute butt so much today ;3;

Kinda late to post this, but here’s a commission I did for @keeperixx.bsky.social of Doe Remi (by @ajmarekart.bsky.social) in the fantasy AU as a bard. Hope you like it! Sorry for the lack of posts lately, work and life stuff’s been keeping me busy

working on a second bunny video does anyone have any suggestions for what namco game i should do next

Cold Fear is now restored and improved, fully DRM-free, and ready for modern systems! I Am Alive also joins our catalog and the GOG Preservation Program. Learn more about it all: gog.com/news/release_cold_fear_and_i_am_alive

Want your game to be loved? Hire real human artists, voice actors and programmers. Want your game to be hated? Use AI for everything. You know what the correct option is.

Not enough people know the existence of that magazine, so I figured I'd bump my Worst Rated Games episodes here. #playstation #playstationplus #playnation #ps1 #psx #psone Part 1: youtu.be/zFWN2xN7aTk Part 2: youtu.be/ZVD1jXiKaUQ

You love to see it. 💜 All the writing and zine work I do has been and always will be GenAI/ChatGPT free. Seeing the casual use of it in some retro gaming/tech circles has only added to my dislike for it.

one of the things that makes me most mad about genAI (and there are many) is we've been told there's not enough money for hiring. but there's billions poured into ai. so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.

All I want for Christmas is the GenAI bubble to pop so we can move onto the next tech bro scam. Maybe some socks too

Would you like me to clean up everything in your house? :3 Art by @excali.bsky.social!

Perfect illustration of how truly and utterly disconnected the rich are from the rest of us, and how they view us with utter contempt and disdain.

Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K

I don't know about anyone else, but in terms of my life, this is some impactful shit right here. Thank you, Joel, Trace, Josh, Kevin, and Jim.

How about they instead bail out everyone who repeatedly drilled into their heads that this was a horrible venture in every single regard that shouldn't be supported? Just a thought.

Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving

#BlackFriday? Don’t buy from (supporters of) dictators and terrorists. #BuyEuropean* or don’t buy at all 🇪🇺💪 buy-european.net/en/alternati... www.pushtoleave.org

This post is extremely important to follow

In a post-Share button world, it's been very hard to tell what games are actually hitting. It takes effort to post clips or fan art. That new Digimon game has some fan art. Death Stranding 2? Very few clips Yotei? A little here Kirby? You would think it's the biggest game in the world right now

like no joke until a couple months ago i had NO idea that kingdom come deliverance 2 was as big as it was, let alone that it had shooters. and sony's dogshit playstation app pales in comparison to nintendo's app, both of which SUCK compared to just direct-uploading.

elon fucking killed a major piece of not only driving game discussion, but also sheer inherent word-of-mouth advertising. it has no doubt kneecapped many small- and mid-sized titles and i can't even tell what big games are popping off right now unless they have a Little Guy people wanna doodle

#Atari 50 (and Atari Mania, to an extent) is a far more meaningful anniversary celebration.

this corporate shit is merely a *spit* in the 100 years of Disney's success in selling dreams. They can kick rocks, Disney deserves creative minds

Unfortunately, said film was a mixed bag of interesting ideas but lackluster execution as many creators behind the scenes revealed a lot of executive meddling.

Happy Birthday to my friend @birchly.bsky.social

The short film "Once Upon a Studio" had more of an impact than whatever this was

Our statement in solidarity with our fellow workers' ongoing protest against @rockstargames.com's gross union busting!

It's disgusting that leadership at these companies won't do anything to protect their teams from bad-faith harassment campaigns, yet immediately cave to the absolute worst people who weren't going to buy their game anyway! Firing Drew did nothing but emboldened more harassment campaigns.

I'm immensely sick of the figure heads of game dev companies being silent about the harassment of game devs. This is how this nonsense becomes "the norm" and it should have never been accepted as such in the first place.

Two months after firing over Charlie Kirk comments, Ghost of Yotei dev blames harassment campaign, not 'bad joke' aftermath.site/sucker-punch-c...

👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻And this isn't just games. EVERY employer needs to wake up to how discourse works online and do the bare minimum to step up for their employees speaking like humans instead of insta-capitulating to any online mob (which often are NOT made up of humans).

For Aftermath, @alyssamerc.bsky.social spoke with the Sucker Punch dev fired over Charlie Kirk comments and others, who highlighted the unique way the backlash played out in games

By allowing this to happen once we enable it forever. "But when the ire for Yotei eventually fades, Harrison knows it will just be transferred to another game, another group of developers, or another individual. That’s why she wants people to remember what actually happened to her."

This is still one of the better free resources: onlineharassmentfieldmanual.pen.org

It's disgraceful how little so many studios are prepared for, or even really give a shit, about what to do when an employee is targeted. This is not a new phenomenon, there are resources and consultants available, and creating a real plan doesn't take that long.

But it always takes someone(s) challenging the internal notion that 'everyone knows' that toxic players are a large part of your audience. And it's a fucking thankless job that often gets you labeled as 'difficult', regardless of the results.

We openly blocked bigots, racists & homophobes on social channels for one project. The result? Huge social channel growth, record MAU, positive sentiment shift. By avoiding challenging the tiny sliver of the toxic players, you're sacrificing the retention of your larger audience

"Studios don’t want to address toxicity against their employees because they see it as confronting the dark sides of their community, which they believe is a core demographic." Yep, pretty much. Even in the face of quantifiable evidence to the contrary.

This is what happened to me. Employers across the board need to be aware of how harassment campaigns work and do better to protect their employees from them. These people should not have a platform to profit off of harassment.

Will never understand why that greasy cretin gets so much attention

It’s been over a decade for me, can confirm.

extremely good point by @imodrew.bsky.social

A great article, and extremely depressing towards the end because it’s true: this is going to happen again, the harassment towards team(s). It never ends, and nobody seemingly wants to do anything about it.

Thank you @alyssamerc.bsky.social for this story because I feel insane that I’m the only one that still thinking about this firing. A good reminder why I did not buy this game. Even though I felt like the only one abstaining from a product made by a company that wanted to protect a fascist.

if you're a human on the internet and you work at an organization without any strategy for dealing with Infinite Gamergate (which is basically all of them), you should read this:

I (and everyone else!) am tired of seeing creators lose their jobs and of wading through a sea of negativity because a movie has a gay character or a video game heroine's tits are on the smaller side. It's stupid and wasteful and rotten and has to stop.

The internet and society will not get better until we confront the legacy of Gamergate and stop treating racist, sexist, homophibic Neanderthals as the gatekeepers of culture.