seems silly to be talking about if people who play AAA games have long enough attention spans when the people who own AAA game studios don't have long enough attention spans to let teams actually make stuff

the average salary of tens of thousands of games industry professionals is actually now $0, hope that clears things up

Privatisation has turned employment services into a tick-a-box profit-driven industry that rewards providers for keeping people in a cycle of unemployment, and these numbers are proof of that,” she added.

Not grabbed a lot of “big” games this year (for obs reasons), but did grab the HD-2D version of Dragon Quest I&II the other day, and have been appreciating the experience of grinding though the first game so far. Sometimes it’s nice to disengage and just watch the numbers go up.

Ever wonder why a Supergun has such a stupid (but cool) name? It was just a name used by Taiwanese firm Gamesgroup Corp, similar to later products like Super Wildcard & SuperUFO game copiers Raven Games (London) got their own version made to UK spec & called it Supergun Deluxe. It stuck 1/4

Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported. www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

We released Tetris Forever one year ago today. Play 15+ games, a new game, or scroll through the wonderful documentary. In a world where games come and go – Tetris is Forever! https://www.digitaleclipse.com/games/tetrisforever

Now available for paying supporters on Patreon/Ko-Fi is another dive into Hamster's Arcade Archives with another bunch of picks I Just Think Are Neat! www.patreon.com/posts/early-... ko-fi.com/post/Early-A...

Interesting. Real interesting. Been wondering if they'd do something like this for a while, and it makes a lot of sense to.

Whelp. Guess I finished it. Some quick edits to do, then another render. I'll probably throw it up for early access to (paying) supporters tomorrow on the usual places. Nice to have this in the bag.

The true joy of big shitty games studio/publishers coming out saying "ai is inevitable" is seeing the sheer number of indie studios across the world who actually give a damn about art, human lives, & the planet, loudly proving them wrong Don't buy games made with gen"ai" Support human creativity 💜

Managed to get a nice editing streak today. (Yes, this is about as exciting as things get here some days) Had wanted to get a bit over half the base timeline in place, but managed to knock it all out. Just one gap I need to fill before I can do the stuff to tidy it up.

New No-Nostalgia Retro Gaming video uploaded and ready to watch! youtu.be/9_F_C0f2kG0

We're excited to announce that the Frosty Mini showcase will premiere on December 10 starting at 8am AEDT / 10am NZDT (that's December 9, 1pm PT for our USA friends)! Tune in for exciting news and surprise announcements from 20+ of the coolest games made in Australia and Aotearoa NZ.

Funny. I kind of felt a little less existential dread the last few days. Not enough to feel like things will be less hard, but enough to survive a bit better. But that seems to have faded out, and come back once again. I miss having proper optimism about things tbh. 😢

the important philosophical discussion that happens at rehearsals to make each show the best it possibly be 🙏😇 Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane you’re up this week !!! WED 12 NOV - SYDNEY THU 13 NOV - CANBERRA SUN 16 NOV - BRISBANE

Here's something fresh for everyone on PS1 shmup Einhänder! I had to really dig to find this game's treasure, but I did find it in the end: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/11/10/e...

In 1984/5, a spectacular Konami arcade game carved out genre norms for what we'd now call fighting games. Ocean had conversion rights, but were stretched enough that one version ended up subcontracted to a 14-year-old. It still became the UK's bestselling game of 1986. New post on Yie Ar Kung-Fu:

My Untitled Goose Game book seems to be in stock at The Nile at a bit of a discount. It’s a good Christmas present for any fans of the game in your life! And there are no f-bombs so that you can buy it for your teen without worrying it’ll corrupt them! www.thenile.com.au/books/james-...

✋ Don't wanna defer to the bot, don't want my brain to rot. I may be stubborn at times, but I enjoy the process of learning, even if it means it takes a bit long to achieve a thing sometimes. But stolen content, resource usage & fasc tendencies just add fuel to my reasons to avoid it.

Intellivision Archive opens 1982 wirh Star Strike, Mattel’s knock off of Star Wars’ trench run that wound up as a high selling, critically (and artistically) acclaimed game youtu.be/lO0pup2Wizs

It’s funny, had a real low energy morning yesterday, which kind of made me feel worse because I wanted to record the voice work for next vid. Pushing it out today has shad its upsides though, I got a lot more sleep, so I’m feeling better, and might even be able to start the editing too!

#RandomGameSaturday Here's one I haven't picked up in a while. Spriggan: Lunar Verse, a PS1 character action game licensed to the Spriggan manga, a year after the movie's release. Published by From Software, developed by their internal b-team Liquid Mirror (of Echo Night 2 fame).

Spotted this poking out of a drawer so… (Amazing cover art, right?) #RandomGameSaturday

Pulled off my copy of “GG Aleste II” for Game Gear as today’s #RandomGameSaturday pick. As you’d expect from Compile in their prime, it utterly pushes the Game Gear hard, and is a tightly put together portable shmup.

Last Ancient DOS Games filler video of the year is now uploaded and ready to watch! youtu.be/85tT55CSf3c

Here's a fresh piece for everyone on the best licensed game ever made: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/11/07/g...

It is Pixelcast day, and episode 172 sees @pretendbeard.bsky.social, @shaunhubp2.bsky.social and @robcap.bsky.social trying to take a guess at the winners in this year's GOTY race. www.player2.net.au/podcast/the-...

HELL. TO. THE. FUCK. YES. I absolutely adored Estique when I covered it earlier in the year, and I'm so glad it's going to be made available in a form that folks without actual NES/Famicom hardware can enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDZF...

Hot damn. In reasons-I-wish-I-had-an-actual-Commodore-128-news, a chap did a damn awesome enhanced version of Stunt Car Racer. I had a quick spin of it under VICE, and the optimisations and switching to 2mHz mode (in the borders) really boosts the frame rate! csdb.dk/release/?id=...

"Crows roost on large background ornaments before swooping in for the kill, candles flicker on huge chandeliers hung from high ceilings, and enormous skeletal figures dramatically kneel in reverence on their plinths" kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/03/14/d...

Alright that's enough of that, time to talk about something important: the game and technological origins of Atari's Sprint series, which then led to Super Sprint. Bring back Super Sprint, it rocks.

A frog friend to confide in 🐸🧡 #hades2

Holy shit, this week's Arcade Archives release is TOKYO WARS www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Xr...

oh gosh. Learning that my noise cancelling headphones can have the noise cancelling enabled when wired (and not trying to connect to my phone) feels like unlocking something I've totally needed when background noise gets too much here.

After the gutenfucked day of "training", I finally get a reward. Been looking forward to getting a proper play of DSD after trying the demo at PAX all those years back. Congrats on the launch @mike.reuben.games & the team 😀

Help. Trapped in eLearning hell. Not the good kind. The kind which is about the most mind numbing work shit as possible. (The joys of employability skills bullshit. I wanna gnaw my face off. Send help.)

New Boot Leg Gaming video uploaded and ready to watch! youtu.be/ZOkk-NKEXbA

For those following for dev stuff - apologies for the lack of talk on that of late, real life things have taken a bunch of time away and not been able to spin up Godot in a while. Hopefully regular service returns in a couple of weeks. 🖤

Games Group tonight had its yearly Decathlon - where members had to compete in 10 challenges based on 10 different games/genres/platforms. Managed to win 3 of the events, and took home the silver! Kind of helped that some of the really skilled folks weren’t there this time 😉

My Night Striker Gear article's now available for everyone to read! "It’s flashy and exciting and looks as at home on my PC as any other game released in 2025." kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/11/04/n...

hello, currently live with various games! Just started Lily's Well. Come hang out! twitch.tv/aciddotexe

New awareness campaign

The SEGA 32X has its 31st anniversary this month, and so here's the "10 Favorites" version of this article over on the free site. Remember, if you want to read my ranking of every cartridge released on the SEGA 32X, please subscribe to my Patreon! postgamecontent.com/post/7991708...

Disgustingly disorganised but have got a whisper of a plan for my stream anniversary celebration tomorrow! Starting 9am AEDT TOMORROW over at twitch.tv/aciddotexe

For the new #RandomGameSaturday I have the original Painkiller [2004]. It is needless to say it was a great FPS and it still is. So surreal I needed 3 CDs to install the game.

There is something about existential loneliness (or feeling uttely alien) which is fuelled by the normie response to being passionate about something being "how do you know so much", and not really knowing how to express a response in return.

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Here’s this week’s #RandomGameSaturday pick! Phantasy Star Nova is kinda offline PSO2, in the same way the Phantasy Star Portable series was offline PSU!

Today's pick for #RandomGameSaturday is SimCity on C64! It wasn't the first version of it to see release, but was where the series' first steps begun (before being shelved for a while). Which means it's pretty limited compared to many of the other versions of this City building classic.