Just a neat little way to spend my 32nd birthday. 🎉

Again, I cannot emphasize enough: do not go to the US even if you're privileged enough to have never been scared or worried of a border crossing in you're life. Do not go ESPECIALLY for something as optional & outrageously expensive as GDC. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Speaking of AA single-player story games players should have supported, I'll die on the hill saying that Banishers is great and deserved more success. You can't lament the days when we got three Uncharteds in a generation and then not support *new* games that aim to fill this gap. Play Banishers

people worry about nintendo, but could a troubled company do this:

On Bluepoint newsletter.hitpoints.co/361-pointless/

From our awards show three months ago. Congrats to Xbox!

Less than a week until the new Requiem sequel releases.

Sell your Xboxes. It's over.

Getting on it tonight. Properly hardcore.

"why are younger gamers disinterested in following premium console game releases like I was at their age" can be partly answered by the fact that if you were a PS2 owner in the 2000s you had 3-6 of the best games ever made come out annually, and since 2020 the PS5 has 3-4 big sequels and little else

Massive reprint haul due in May 🚛📚📚 Check out the coming soon area on our website: www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/... #bitmapbooks #booksky #gaming #reprints @gamesthatwerent.com @aaronpotter.bsky.social @hg101.bsky.social @alexanderhad1.bsky.social @stuartmaine.bsky.social

May the birthday weekend fun begin! 🎉

Recent Sony game studio acquisitions - 2021: Nixxes - 2021: Firesprite (layoffs in 2024) - 2021: Bluepoint (closed in 2026) - 2022: Valkyrie Entertainment - 2022: Haven Studios - 2022: Bungie (layoffs in 2024; new game soon) - 2022: Neon Koi (closed in 2024) - 2023: Firewalk (closed in 2024)

Absolute fucking shitshow.

New PvP episode, who dis? This time... 'Turn-based RPGs are boring?'. (I don't think so!) youtu.be/Zr9POOsYPxM?...

Nice! Now do Astral Chain. 🙏

There are so many reasons these days where I’m feeling like this focus on generative AI might be one of the worst mistakes in recent human history. Whatever perceived value it could provide isn’t worth the damage it’s doing in so many areas.

The new Virtual Boy accessory really is a nice bit of *kit*. Authentic to no end, yet almost exclusively for diehard retro heads. Oh, and Virtual Boy Wario Land is ruddy awesome. 👌 youtu.be/L14mTqmD1AI?...

Working incredibly hard in the office today entering the virtual space. 👍

Hot damn! The silky-smooth 60fps update for Skyrim on Switch 2 looks and plays so nice. Why couldn't it have launched like this? Game-changer.

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

God of War: Sons of Sparta is a good (not great) Metroidvania but a pretty disappointing God of War game. My review:

Er, so I caved.

Bookseller Scrambles To Hide All The Classics After Seeing Emerald Fennell Approaching Door https://theonion.com/bookseller-scrambles-to-hide-all-the-classics-after-seeing-emerald-fennell-approaching-door/

This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

God of War's 20th Anniversary year comes to an end on March 22, 2026. And if these two beauties aren't playable natively on PS5 by then, well, that would be a *crying* shame. (Just saying!)

A brilliant end to a brilliant (but rainy) Valentine's Day weekend.

It lacks much of the polish you'd expect from even a mid-budget FPS, but High on Life 2 is still a blast. Packed with crazy jokes and inventive gunplay. My review:

The RE: Requiem hype level has hit boiling point, so I've just downloaded Resident Evil 4 remake again. (It actually runs really well on Steam Deck).

In aid of Reanimal's recent launch, I spoke to @tarsierstudios.bsky.social about how the game allowed them to step out of Little Nightmares' shadow. www.mirror.co.uk/gaming/reani...

One takeaway from the DICE convention here in Las Vegas, where game makers gather to pitch and schmooze? Most video games should not cost $70. This week’s column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Incredibly stacked week from us at All Out Gaming. SIX quality videos from a four-person team? It's nothing to sneeze at (and I am so, so tired). Check us out if you haven't already: youtube.com/@alloutgaming

God of War trilogy remake is the game you make when 12 live service projects didn't work out

New intro screen for Metal Gear Solid 4 in Master Collection vol 2

Pretty cool to have a GOW prequel with Deimos featured as a secondary protagonist. Ghost of Sparta is genuinely one of the best PSP games.

Video games are fucking cool, you guys.

MGS4 no longer being stranded on PS3? Praise the (outer) heavens! 🙌

Gonna play the shit outta that Kena sequel. What a great way to open the stream!

Courtesy of my sister's special makeup effects class final project, I can finally achieve my goal of becoming a Doctor Who villain. RTD, give us a call.

Full review coming soon, but High on Life 2 delivers *exactly* what I wanted from a sequel. The new skateboard movement style is a game-changer, and this is some of the most fun I've had welding creative weapons since R&C: Rift Apart. Humour aside, glad to see most critics giving it a fair shake.

Out today in the UK, even those with a mere passing interest in Nintendo should pick up @mackeza.bsky.social's new book, Super Nintendo. An easy recommendation.

I’m sure a certain subset of online shitheads is ecstatic right now, but what happened to highguard — and the many people who worked on it — is tragic. we can’t keep making games like this. a more sustainable approach is literally the only way forward

Finally loaded up Mewgenics only to immediately clock the "humping animations" slider in the game settings. Damn, what am I in for?

Had a real heart-vs-head debate with Reanimal. Ultimately, it scratches that same Little Nightmares itch I love and would happily take more of, but I wanted Tarsier to give me just a *bit* more new within the format. Here's my review:

Three back-to-back reviews in as many days? Surely not. And yet... 👀

Went into my Pokemon Pokopia demo with an incredibly sceptical attitude. Came out thinking this could be Nintendo's first GOTY contender. Here's my full preview:

Too many games to play, not enough time. Hoping I can make time to play Mewgenics eventually. Seems like a perfect fit for Steam Deck!

Did not expect the story of Mario Tennis Fever to basically begin with “Daisy is on her deathbed.”

If your review average is a 7 because everybody gave you a 7, that's one thing. If your average is a 7 because it's half 10s and half 4s, that is how you know it's The Good Stuff

Me and the Mrs have been watching The Walking Dead on/off again since we moved in. We've somehow made it to S10 and fuck me, it's so blatant they should've killed it, like, two seasons ago. Honestly, the zombies in this world have it made, not having to suffer through this plodding.