Congratulations to The Drifter for winning Aussie Game of the Year at The NextPlay Game Awards 2025! @barney.powerhoof.com @dave.powerhoof.com

Okay, one last legit shout-out to close out this thread: Type Help! I've just started it, but am already in-deep and I love seeing what it's doing in a text-based format william-rous.itch.io/type-help

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄 Today is the anniversary of the great George Michael's death, and this was the bumliest picture in his huge art collection! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Horst P Horst's "Male Nude (Knee)", 1952, displayed in "The George Michael Collection" by Christies in 2019 We miss you, George ❤️

Nvidia chips are being used as collateral for loans. Chips as currency. Capitalism!

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! #whamaggedon

Okay this is some strong as hell maths. Can't tell you how much buying the Size Five games helps me out. If you follow me but don't own these yet, please grab them now. It's the *actual best Christmas present* to help keep my weird little company afloat. Thank you.

Calibre has decided to go all in on AI, so now there's a fork called Clbre that takes out the AI bits. I'm not one to look back with nostalgia at the good ol' days (I like to look at the past from afar thankyouverymuch) but jfc this timeline is really putting a strain on my future-oriented mindset.

Happy GenAI user Larian CEO saying they've had to optimize Divinity more than they normally would at this point in development 'cause RAM prices are going insane, and it's unknowable whether future PCs will be able to run the thing... where those RAM price hikes are being caused by GenAI. Oh irony.

As Larian and other studios are being dumb about AI, it's time to remind everyone to put this badge on your Steam page Since AAA and the like are just going to lie about using gen AI, it falls to us to ensure players specifically that we DO NOT use it in any way I've used it on my page for a year

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Ok I'm going to bed, this shit excuse of a game awards show is not worth staying up another minute, I'd rather pass out than waste eyeballs on this. I thought it was bad in previous years but wow, it is definitely striving to hit rock bottom this year.

geoff: we love indie games and we want to showcase them. thats why we had the best indie award in the presho

in case anyone was wondering wtf happened to @thelouvreof.bsky.social/Louvre of Bluesky: the creator got doxxed, bsky did nothing, and they decided to go out in a blaze of glory

Evanescence??

jfc these trailers are bad

Video game award shows aren't really about video games. They're about saying, "I may have no actual talent and am devoid of charisma, but I sure do have some famous friends." Here are some of the presenters you'll see next week at the Hard Drive Game Awards. (12/2 7PM ET) www.twitch.tv/harddrivemag

Tune into the Hard Drive Game Awards this Friday at 7PM EST on twitch.tv/harddrivemag! Fabulous guests, including: @hbomberguy.bsky.social @mikedrucker.bsky.social @charalanahzard.bsky.social @airbagged.bsky.social @emmakidwell.bsky.social @benstarr.bsky.social @alyssamerc.bsky.social

And the last, but certainly not least award of the night, the Players' Unpopular Choice Award for "Worst CEO" goes to... TIM SWEENEY CEO of Epic Games WOE BE UPON YOU, TOO ❤️

Não é preciso ser-se sindicalizado para fazer greve. A greve é uma forma de protesto. É um recurso à disposição dos trabalhadores para manifestarem desagrado face às entidades patronais e ao governo. Eu até gosto da minha entidade patronal, mas Amanhã dão greve. E tu?

Professional diplomatic corps use Comic Sans, everyone knows that.

Oh man, Christmas miracles *do* happen!

Good for them, but jfc tell me you never ran a profiler without telling me you never ran a profiler! A year after launch you figure out where your loading times bottleneck is?? jfc people

We’re so freaking back. Videogames. Board games. Role playing games. I wanna show case you at ALT: GAMES 2026! Submit in the cheeky link. Successful applications will be paid an honorarium. If you love me, please read the webpage. All the info is there. Link: powerhouse.com.au/alt-games-ca...

it's generic late november discounts time! kitsune tails is 33% off, its biggest discount yet, but if you buy the bundle you get all our games for the price of one full price copy of kitsune tails: itch.io/s/169922/kit... please help us survive winter 🙏

Valve has decided to provide additional context. The context is that yeah we're killing this game studio, but two years ago we discussed it a lot internally without talking to the studio before deciding to kill it and not tell them why or allow them to change anything.

I am so torn between wanting to share this with no context so that the reader can have the full experience of developing a relationship with each of the parties in the discussion to this PR, and with knowing that the full impact of what is happening here might evade many without more explanation

"I'm not so certain we're not doing what Walt would have wanted us to do" is still rolling around in my head y'all

This is an odd situation, and genuinely one worth reading about if you actually Do care about games as art Because is there challenging, troubling imagery in the game? Sure, yes Is any of it like- porn or whatever? No. Not even remotely. But this is why rulings against porn media hurt everyone.

"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban www.eurogamer.net/its-extremel...

I was today's years old when I was reminded that I have had an Amazon account since 1997, so I guess I'm 2025-1997 years old? Whatever that is, I'm not doing that math. This is what I ordered in 1997, apparently. No clue why they're all marked as not shipped, I certainly got them.

I was today's years old when I was reminded that I have had an Amazon account since 1997, so I guess I'm 2025-1997 years old? Whatever that is, I'm not doing that math. This is what I ordered in 1997, apparently. No clue why they're all marked as not shipped, I certainly got them.

Ran by the same people who brought you such hits as "women characters are hard to model, it's the boob physics that really gets ya", "a crunch a day keeps the doctor away, just sleep under the desk", and "it's totally not sexual harassment if I don't mean it like that".

Hey, immersive, larp, ARG, theater and game folks: I'm working on Immersipedia and I'm linking out to other design/knowledge wikis like the Puzzle Hunt wiki, Nordic Larp wiki and Game Detectives, plus the whole WikiBruce archive. Are there any others I should be including?

Oh man, I cannot think of a better way of inspiring creativity and creating great games than having "autonomous, efficient, focused and accountable business units". I can only imagine the amazing things this new studio with its accountable business units will put out into the world!

This magic stuff that looks like styrofoam can handle temperatures of up to 1000° Celsius with thermal conductivity (W/mK) between 0.07 and 0.17. Not that I know what that means, I just know you can fire a blowtorch straight at it and on the other side you'll barely feel any temperature increase.

Reads like the ranking of the cities that sell the most postcards tbh

Heavy "how do you do fellow kids" vibe

Woken up at 3am with a thunderclap so loud and ominous that I thought something had exploded. No light, just sound. Went to take a look at the treeline behind the house this morning and, well, that's different.

*twitch*

I’ve just posted my 700th video! Thanks for helping me support this genre 🙏 It’d mean the world if you’d join my Patreon which helps me everyday continue to make this content. Just 1 tier for the price of a sandwich a month. Www.patreon.com/yakwaxlips Thank you ☺️

There were *so many* of these this year! And, like, there's 800 games to judge, sifting through it all to try and uncover the gens only to constantly be running into 5 minute demos that barely contain any actual gameplay is supremely frustrating.

Last few days for funding “Go Computer Now!”, a book about the nearly forgotten, pioneering Utah computer firm Sphere (1975–1977) that you likely *never heard about*. (I edited the book.) Help us get over the last hump at www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo... @bzotto.bsky.social

10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...

So. To recap. Discord, a company NOT included in Australia's social media age restriction law, had its age verification partner breached and leaked around 68,000 Australian PII details. Even though it isn't included in the ban. Which hasn't started yet. Such a great start before we've even started.

I love how I spot someone vagueposting about cheney and I vaguely wonder why someone is suddenly mentioning that asshole, and then another part of my brain goes "you know, I bet someone's put up a domain years ago called isdickcheneydead.com " so I hit that and yes, I understand now 👏

That's the same password as my luggage! *changes luggage to 12345*

Kitsune Tails will be on Games Done Queer later today, check out the schedule here: gamesdonequick.com/schedule/61 It also happens to be 30% off on itch and Steam, and you can get this award winning gay fox girl platformer on either platform via kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

It wasn't Gabriel Knight 3's cat mustache puzzle that killed "adventure games." They never died, even if the industry killed off Sierra On-line. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...