Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

One of the best to ever do it

Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Get Kotaku’s #7 game of 2024 for just $7.99, its deepest sale ever! Gross! store.steampowered.com/app/2596420/...

Clair Obscur’s now confirmed Gen-AI usage during the development process has caused their IGA debut and GOTY wins to be retracted.

A news: This was my last week @panic.com! (Though I'll still be an advisor.) We did a lot of cool things together, and I'll miss my friends, but it's time for a change. - I'm working on a new game that I'm VERY jazzed about - I have some other things slow-cooking - A new collab with YOU, reader??

All Systems Brough - 868-HACK Nick, Doug, Rob, Sarah, and Andy are joined by @shawndoublea.bsky.social, @colewehrle.bsky.social, and @wehrlegig.games to discuss the first game in our yearlong series covering @smestorp.bsky.social's work. secretlives.games/all-systems-...

A news: This was my last week @panic.com! (Though I'll still be an advisor.) We did a lot of cool things together, and I'll miss my friends, but it's time for a change. - I'm working on a new game that I'm VERY jazzed about - I have some other things slow-cooking - A new collab with YOU, reader??

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

Ah! I missed the 10-year anniversary of the release of my SotC book for @bossfightbooks.com! (Which, wildly, is the same amount of time that passed between the original game and book launches!) And there's actually some cool stuff cooking around it for next year! bossfightbooks.com/products/sha...

Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.

The cursed sorcerer

We’re not running out of good ideas, but the tech fetishists who have no ideas other than “but I put a lot of money and emotion into this basket” always do, and their narcissism does not allow them to consider that their failed ideas suck, and the flop sweat is palpable.

Ep. 150: Making It Great w/ Kimmo Lahtinen Nick is joined by guest co-host @plante.bsky.social for a chat w/ @gimblll.com about his dynamite twin-stick shooter Sektori. We discuss pursuing excellence in an oversaturated genre, and how limitations shape solo dev. secretlives.games/150-making-i...

holy moly, ok! we did it?? we made a collection??? it's the first 13 games, bundled up with unlockable dev notes, updated audio, some sneaky bug fixes, cloud saves, and Steam Deck support!! store.steampowered.com/app/4044300/...

Very jazzed for this

My PR peeps: EA is looking to hire a PR manager to work on our Star Wars and Marvel portfolio as well as Skate. Application here. jobs.ea.com/en_US/career... FYI: I'm not involved with the hiring on this one. Just a PSA.

I’ve only played a couple hours so far but Angeline Era is rad! Feels like nothing else I’ve played, so confident in its direction and effortlessly interesting in its sprawling new ideas.

important!

sorry to some folks, but if we want games to be viewed as consequential art and not products - eventually game development at large is going to have to move past the realm of linkedin, forbes 30 under 30, how to market your game, professional business conference stuff and into something else.

SEKTORI

“Fuck ICE! Fuck Trump! Free Palestine! Pay Artists!” “Oh… wait, what? Change my streaming platform? Take all of an hour to cancel Spotify and transfer my playlists? Oh no no no no no. That requires a minimal amount of effort on my part. I’m good!”

It’s my birthday. Please honor me by buying yourself a $5 copy of a unique, interesting game made for adults, whose release is exposing several of the biggest, most depressing issues in videogames.

I swear to god none of the people involved here have actually played this game because if they did they’d be embarrassed that this is what they’re afraid of.

I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).

Come help us write articles for the internet made by humans https://kotaku.com/kotaku-is-looking-for-freelance-contributors-2000650081

Playing chess in a beautifully rendered park with an AI reconstruction of my deceased grandfather. I think of all the things I never got to say to him, and also review the DLC hat options

@nsuttner.bsky.social recommended this one years ago, I got it, and it was literally life changing. My gf got it, too. It makes saving, organizing, editing, and sharing recipes completely painless. It’s a one-time purchase. It’s everything good apps used to be

I don’t use the word bonkers lightly... …but if you’re graphic-novel curious but will never buy them at full price or in physical form, and have an e-reader of some sort (or any iPad, especially), this is a TRULY BONKERS deal. www.humblebundle.com/books/image-...

On this Thanksgiving eve, while t’others slept, I conquered the Experience campaign in Sektori. Look upon your golden god, for I am untouchable this day. Also, play Sektori. All of the other cool games people talking about it are (also) right.

Every day, Sektori climbs another rung up my GOTY list

Heavyweight has always been amazing, but this is one of the best podcast episodes I’ve ever heard. Also, devastating.

The extent to which the storefronts dictate what games can reasonably be made is an ENORMOUS problem. This is a particularly egregious example, and worth paying attention to: www.gamesindustry.biz/santa-ragion... Besides the point, but I found HORSES to be deeply compelling (I don't like horror).

This takes SO MUCH PREAMBLE out of hyping this beautiful podcast I’m so blessed to run with. So hyped for this rebrand and peep this lovely homegrown art by the one and only Dick Hogg!

maybe i am going insane

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?

My bf is excitedly telling me that the reason we can't find Bigfoot is because they "simply" explode when they die.

It has begun.

Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time

John Carmack's been openly a huge dirtbag on twitter for years and years and it drives me absolutely mad how seemingly no one ever notices. I hate John Carmack. All my homies hate John Carmack.

Damn. Sektori is LEGIT. Big Geometry Wars 2 + Pac-Man: CE vibes. cc @gregford.bsky.social @andrewpfister.bsky.social @ryanodonnell.bsky.social @danshoehsu.bsky.social, I need some leaderboard battles! store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...

Brandon does a lot for both videogames and his community, which - if you can afford it, reader - are pretty excellent reasons to support something, regardless of your interest in the thing itself. (Though I for one am very excited to play Demonschool!)

Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow

Very excited for this videogame

@jpotterfield.bsky.social Heya Jacob! What's the best way to message ya? Mind DMing me? Thanks!

Eggplant is one of, if not the best, videogame podcasts I've ever heard. Made by game developers, their conversations are approachable and lighthearted all the same. This latest one, being about Consume Me, fills me with joy.

many are saying canceling everyone's flights and food benefits right before the Traveling & Eating Holiday is a good move, politically