Wanted the show the figure skating joy to my wife, only to find out the videos shared here are restricted (US-only) and Youtube+Google list only videos of random guys talking over photos. We were able to see it as a tiny horizontal video inside a vertical video on tiktok. An absurd future

"For PlayStation themselves to buy Bluepoint, not use them for the one thing they would have bought them for and now close them down is just the most colossal waste. It's industry vandalism, at scale."

The amount of important things about games, industry, and life that I've learned from Brenda, following her career and work and advocacy and activism and mentorship and involvements from afar - but also the times we've crossed paths for work, is staggering. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

I say this with all the love in my heart because Blue Prince is incredible - working 80 hours a week for 8 years very likely made this game take longer to make than without crunch. More time spent working does not always equate to making forward progress. Crunch often equates to negative progress.

that moment of realization in outer wilds so many good memories of playing prince of persia and wolf3d with my uncle as a kid and omg watching kar-wai wong’s movies was screen time, too or reading 1Q84 on a kindle (also, i get the general point, no need to reply with that)

US only, unfortunately, but still some of the best books ever written if you're in the right part of the world...

on Weird West, i made a "global tweakables" data asset for vars that need tweaking by folks who might not know the systems. it sucks when a designer has to assign a task for eg "lockpicking takes too long" because the value for that is in c++ or a BP node somewhere. separate code from data gang

Ep. 152: Walking Over It w/ Gabe Cuzzillo and Bennett Foddy (Baby Steps) Rob, Sarah, Doug, and Andy are joined by @foddy.net and @gcuzzillo.bsky.social to talk about their (with @maxiboch.bsky.social) multi-IGF-nominated, multi-faceted adventure game. secretlives.games/152-walking-...

Happy anniversary to #FF8, the game with one of the greatest villain themes 🪄 #FinalFantasy #FF8_27周年

that "especially" haunts me above everything else

*rings dinner bell* yall come eat Can't wait till you read the non social headline

“Please enjoy the museum”: Relooted is OUT NOW! Please share!

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Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

please subscribe to a good website aftermath.site#/portal

Hi, we're a new video game oral history site. Some highlights so far: Mirror's Edge: bit.ly/mirrorsedgeoralhistory Sayonara Wild Hearts: bit.ly/sayonarawildhearts Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/shadowotcolossus Sound Fantasy: bit.ly/49xPfha Rez Infinite: bit.ly/4pKj0BB Find us at designroom.site.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1) Sociology of Remembering and Forgetting 2) Radio Management 3) Global Justice: Contemporary Debates 4) Mass culture, mass media and society: critical mass media theory 5) Islam: Culture and Politics

i wrote about mothership.blog for @theguardian.com today by the way. thanks so much to @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell more people about mothership and what we are doing with the site <3 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

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My #Playdate horror game (still on discount for a few more hours!) just got a nice little review in Engadget: “…a truly immersive, disconcerting experience that I previously wouldn't have thought possible on a Playdate. It's really something special.” www.engadget.com/gaming/outsi...

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Spreading the word that we in Minneapolis are organizing a candlelight vigil at 7p in order to honor Alex Pretti, murdered by ICE earlier today Come out and stand with your neighbors

While the world is busy with Trump's shenanigans, a reminder that Palestinian are still being killed in a genocidal war by Israel www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...

If animated GIFs you recently added to your pages on itch.io no longer animate, try converting them to APNG! A successful workaround for me for an issue that has been around for months now. I don't know user Noree but I have to thank them for pointing this out.

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Burnout is genuinely life-destroying and I really can't say, on this website, what I think should happen to managers who not only let it happen to one individual worker but who systemically make it happen on large groups of workers.

i just closed the email client so that i’m not distracted by email while writing an email message

… it turns out that if you don’t have any time for ethics, you also don’t have any time for understanding complex systems, so neither case matters to them

Kip Henderson of Taria & Como (Playdate Season 2) fame joins us to talk the good, the bad, and the ugly of launching your first commercial game! #podcast #o3cgamesa #videogames #completion #playdate #handheld #crank #yellow #panic #taria&como #metroidvania #bioniccommando

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

me: puts on the outer wilds theme my 4-year-old: what’s this song about ne:

That is a rad shirt, holy fuck. And $6 of every purchase goes to a cancer charity.

github mass-suspended a bunch of developers making mods for popular erotic games, without warning or explanation. even when users try their best to stay withing platforms' rules, they get fucked www.404media.co/github-ban-s...

me closing tabs duplicate work tab making of gouda cheese fascism bsky bsky duplicate work tab fascism half watched youtube video on guitar tabs painful article about someones 2025 cute animals fascism 10 tabs from when i tried to lookup a game’s name perfect chives fascism ended guided meditation

When @lexluddy.xyz asked me to contribute to Startmenu's Winter Spectacular, I had another piece in mind. Then I changed it. Then changed it again. I ended up writing about a bad year, my personal failings, and believing in something, even when it costs you. This was the one I had to write.

Yes, that’s me, with noise-cancelling headphones (trying to have a moment without processing spoken word)

Thanks for this 🥹 Happier new year ❤️

My 2025 in games? My day one copy of Death Stranding 2 is still shrink-wrapped. I randomly fell off Blippo+ twice. I had to abandon Returnal (my most played game at 23 hours). My work consumed me (in a very bad way) for most of the year. Here are the games I finished in 2025:

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is far from over. Today, the Israeli government announced that it would suspend the aid work of several humanitarian organizations that provide lifesaving aid to Palestinians in Gaza living through what Amnesty International and other groups labeled as a genocide.

Guess what you’ll find in the 24th window of the Playdate Advent Calendar! Spoiler: Not a new game 😇🫣

Started crying while riding a tram after having realized that days will get longer from now on again. Ok, I’m ready for this year to end.

Oh this is just awful. Rest in peace, mate. Thanks for everything. gameinformer.com/2025/12/22/v...

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”

First Outside Parties, now Diora! Looking fw to playing more over the holidays

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc. vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/