Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

Avec tout ça j'ai failli passer à côté de cette annonce : EA de Solasta 2 le 12 mars ! Le jeu s'annonce très cool, et je dis pas ça juste parce qu'il y a des p'tits bouts de code à moi dedans 😎

Thanks so much to @startmenu.bsky.social for having me for their Winter Spectacular! This was my first time being asked to write a guest feature, and I’m really pleased with how it turned out! Blue Prince isn’t just my personal GOTY, it felt like THE game that captured the absurdity of 2025. 🏠🗝️🚪

Burned out.

i did not have straight people in mind when i made this game

Wicked isn’t queerbaiting but an alternative, funnier thing: a work where everyone involved in every single part of its production is independently committed to making it as gay as possible but nobody wants to be the first to say to the others that it’s what they were doing

"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."

This one's one to read, this part in particular really hit me

At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs. There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.

Eager to learn more of the terrors of tennis, friends and I started (re)watching Aim for the Ace.

Melinoe and Nemesis

Vous avez sorti un jeu cool en 2025 et n'avez pas forcément de quoi le soumettre aux #Pégases2026 ? Cette industrie a besoin de plus de diversité, de personnes comme de contenus ! Je prends en charge vos frais d’inscription : pegases26 -at- monkeymoon -dot- net. (Exception : pas de contenu IA.)

I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).

I do all of that btw. That's the perks of being an indie

The Best-Reviewed Games of 2025 so far: www.metacritic.com/browse/game/... #5 - Blue Prince [92] is a Metacritic Must-Play

fashion victim (2024)

Credits are basically a free space. Players will watch them or not. Those who do will come to understand how each person participated. We also credit everyone who ever touched the game in any way. This means for a relatively small team our credits are long. But who cares? Why be stingy with it?

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.

We even credited everyone who worked on localization - yes, including temporarily trade show localization that didn’t ship in the final game. Crediting people is super cool and very legal you should do it too!

2025 pour les gens pas trop trop fan des racistes

Crepax drawing a totally innocuous panel like it’s the Mona Lisa

Treasure Planet was released 23 years ago today... and literally takes us off in this magnificent shot. ✨

I know people who have spent their entire career on an unreleased game, and some who worked on it, left to ship another game, came back, left again to ship another game, and came back again.

My controversial take is that if you didn't get credited on a game you have proof you've worked on, just list it on your CV. I do with one. Never had any issues. Not being credited still sucks but you don't need to be polite when they're not.

Love Hemisphere. 💞

Non seulement on a quasi compensé X avec Bluesky en moins d'un an, mais on s'est sorti d'un égout toxique à qui on a arrêter d'envoyer du trafic et de la crédibilité. Les réseaux sociaux ne représentent que 3% de l'apport en visites chez nous, 2025 ou 2024 2/2 poke @arretsurimages.net @lesjours.fr

Bilan d'impact pour un média ( @canardpc.com ) de l'abandon de X pour Bluesky : _ 11 mois après l'abandon d'un compte X à 45K abonnés, notre compte Bluesky est proche de 20K abonnés _ Malgré cette différence, les visites venues de Bluesky en 2025 représentent 90% des visites 2024 amenées par X 1/2

NVIDIA has had the excellent luck to wind up in a market position where it just fucking prints money, and they're on the verge of squandering it out of FOMO and market mania.

selkies!

it is very much Lovecraftian cosmic horror bc the horror isn’t something “scary” as much as an sense of deep violation upon the contemplation of a sexual act between a woman and a strange creature from New England that non-ironically hates human lives

elon installs a new feature that publicly displays the country where your app was installed and operates from people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL elon pauses location feature

We are delighted to team up with the genre-defying atmospheric adventure @blueprincegame.bsky.social to introduce The Blake & Blue Bundle available now: store.steampowered.com/bundle/63704...

my secret transgender project… @annehealthcare.bsky.social

It’s never a bad time for this meme, but International Men’s Day might be the best time

the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now

En désaccord profond avec la fin de Yakuza 5.

Methodology

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How do you test a game like Blue Prince that goes so deep and refuses to be predictable? Tonda Ros talks about finding playtesters and watching over 2,000 hours of playtest footage! @blueprincegame.bsky.social

NieR Automata genuinely might be one of the most important game releases of all time explicitly because of how it directly inspired DXVK, yes. www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ni...

Valve is making a console. The Steam Machine, a sleek box with the guts of a mid-range PC that runs SteamOS, will arrive in early 2026. Prices TBD, but unlike the failed Steam Machine initiative from a decade ago, this is Valve's own device. Big news www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

On the other hand, I cannot do my job effectively if a writer isn't there to explain their reasoning for the lines and where it came from to a director, who then translates that into vocal technique to the actor. This is a very collaborative process that requires human interaction and intention.

et bonne chance à toutes et tous les freelances qui bossent aujourd'hui :')

NEW from me: CO2 emissions in China have now been flat or falling for 18 months, the first time that energy demand growth at or above historical averages doesn't drive emissions up, thanks to the clean energy boom. 🧵👇

Hey all you gamers claiming to "want shorter games made by fewer people who are paid more to work less" here's your chance to put your $15 where your mouth is: a spooky & elegiac exploration game made by ex-Bethesda & Ubi devs. It's excellent. Buy it & prove there's a market for games like this!

Blue Prince somehow makes for an incredible esport

A plea for help. 🙏 One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor. His story, contact and donor information can all be found on iggyland.org Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙

Yakuza 4 m'a fait un peu chier donc j'étais pas trop motivée à lancer le 5, mais vraiment il me fait voyager de Banger en Banger au point où je vais me donner à fond sur les mécaniques que je déteste le plus et où je suis nulle (les jeux de rythme) juste pour le rêve de mon perso préféré 🥹 ♥

Not now, carnivorous death ball

It doesn’t look very threatening. It looks a lot like a lazy 1980s sci-fi illustration. Artist just sits down with a circle template and a rapidograph, and lightly stipples shading on a bunch of circles.