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paint finally getting ahead of the curve

i love that there's a roguelike deckbuilder that's based on AFL store.steampowered.com/app/1543960/...

the paw patrol/hot wheels monster trucks developers are making a ... formula 1 homage? can see at least abu dhabi, spa, monaco included www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsLn...

who misses covfefe already

While we strongly discourage visitors, economic policies, and human interaction at any level, we would be thrilled for you to take a break from world events and learn about various penguin species wwf.org.au/blogs/protec...

I've been wondering how tariffs will affect the table top games industry- answer- not good.

Kiwi humour still top tier. From the NZ Herald.

small PC hack that shouldn't be necessary but sadly is if you're trying to uninstall razer synapse, the uninstaller will routinely bug out every time you try to delete it but if you unplug/disconnect the PC from the internet, the installer will proceed and actually start deleting files

thank god mtg arena is good these days (h/t to the legends at @goodgamesmorley on tk)

Having both Split Fiction and Two Point Museum both drop and be outstandingly good in their respective niches is a real treat. they're both so much fun, please play at least one of them

apparently the xbox game bar now has a meme-making function

epic (via EGS) are running player surveys upon exit of an application; don't mind this but the scattershot approach sometimes doesn't totally land

monster hunter bringing ginger cat energy

Nice Friday W, and from EA of all places: they've uploaded the source code for a stack of old C&C games, including Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, Generals: Zero Hour, Renegade, AND the Remastered Collection github.com/electronicar...

literally might be the first time I've seen any positive press about Bleeding Edge venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft...

least likely choice, but if the Space Marines 2 devs were working on a Hasbro IP it'd be pretty rad if it was GI-Joe would work with the SM2 style of combat and level design, would be a great shot in the arm for the franchise, lots of cool directions (it's prob d&d though, and that's cool)

Humble Bundle changed its terms of service back in December. Unused game codes now expire after 3 years and in cases where the retailer is out of stock and alternate keys are "not available", Humble says that it is "not obligated to provide them." Seems bad: www.reviews.org/au/games/hum...

things I don't want in Windows updates: mini-ads for other Microsoft services to juice their user numbers

i loved avowed!!!

fyi: umurangi generation, one of the cooler games out of ANZ in the last 5 years, is available for $2.15 right now store.steampowered.com/app/1223500/... (if you loved pokemon snap back in the day, this is absolutely your jam)

this feels like an octodad gag

Thanks for all of the kind words about MinnMax's revealing interview with Ready at Dawn's co-founder. youtu.be/g7t6Wo2IcU8 This is what the backend looks like for an interview that spawned news stories on every major gaming site. Independent games media only exists by support on Patreon.

these YT chat summaries (on the State of Play video) really aren't it

new game announcement: Tryhard is our upcoming sports RPG about managing an underdog rugby club in New Zealand! "wishlist now on steam" etc: store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/... website: tryhardgame.com idle in our discord: discord.gg/qRUZQQX5Tz

jfc

i've never understood how one device can be updated so many times with literally zero noticeable impact to its performance or utility

Someone is breaking into all the Melbourne LGSs and stealing their stock. 7-9 or so stores in the last 8 weeks. Please keep an eye out for suss sales in the next few weeks online to try catch these despicable knobs targeting small businesses.

Rogue Company, the original Smite and Paladins all shuttered development. as a small note of positivity, Smite and Paladins both had an incredible run. Smite surviving in a world where games like Heroes of Newerth died - no small achievement. And Paladins did great for how much it took from OW1

Citizen Sleeper was fantastic with a killer soundtrack. Wouldn't be surprised if this is the first big "indie game sells X million+" of 2025. also, it has a cute void cat this time

Another NFT game done with 55 employees now seeking work. Kind of a foregone conclusion almost with how 2024 panned out, really I can imagine some of the major publishers will be keen to talk to Robert Bowling about future ideas though - wonder if we see a new team spun up in the next 3-6 months

This 👇 but also some other ways: ➡️ Use the Bye Bye Google AI chrome extension ➡️ Use UDM14 ➡️ Add the &udm=14 to your searches by making a search engine shortcut in your browser settings. As of now, all of these work but who knows for how long

Windows is running surveys asking people for feedback on "is your PC running slowly" how much time have you got

great story on the insanity that is the dopamine-burning Simulation Clicker www.afr.com/technology/t...

One of Nvidia's best addons - Nvidia Broadcast - just got a 2.0.0 update this morning: 👉 improved background noise removal 👉 better foreground/background separation 👉 Virtual Key Light for AI-powered face relighting 👉 new Studio Voice (RTX 4080, 5080+ rec.) 👉 side-by-side preview

industry sure as hell isn't going to get more sustainable if this is the way going forward; people will just stick to free games/game pass/playing older stuff they already own switch 2 launch pricing of games is gonna be real interesting

extremely questionable emails, exhibit a

For context: I said “indie” budgets prolly start at about 500 thou but they certainly do not stop at 1 mill and I’d say that it would be better for everyone if more money was put into the 2mill to 20 mill black hole we got going on out there in game budgets.

WARNING: this post contains graphic language GPU. Nvidia. Anti-aliasing. Dynamic shadows. Texture

threats to national security: tiktok, silver surfer decks

wow: the Aussie developer behind the sci-fi immersive FPS Fortune's Run is stopping development because ... they're being imprisoned for 3 years steamcommunity.com/games/169224...

increasingly convinced that people these days will just accuse any writing they don't like (or aren't impressed by) as "being written by AI/ChatGPT" without ever actually thinking why or how an AI would write that way

doomguy wandering around a gallery with a glass of red is perfect, actually www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPRv...

Bonkers, underrated year.

when the dps says they're switching to tank

Heroes of Newerth making a comeback?

what a time to inform people about ~$80 jump in subscription pricing way to go adobe

chrome's binging on my RAM like it's christmas

out enjoying the stars/sixers t20, which has been excellent so far In the interim though, @teganjones.bsky.social and @dcriism.bsky.social have also been introduced to the ongoing Stoinis/Zampa cricket fanfic saga