Woooooo!

My puzzle game Rhell is in the steam summer sale at 35% off! The game is all about creativity so heres me solving the first puzzle in the game in 35 unique ways for the 35% sale

Just finished up @polyarcgames.com 's Moss 1 & 2 via PSVR2 on PC. Phenomenal all around and I highly recommend them for anyone with a VR setup, especially if you're new to it. Honestly felt a little sad when it was over, had to load up a save and give Quill a few parting rubs before I shut it off 🤣

Retrospace demo has me thinking about leaning in games. Thief 1/2 and System Shock 2 really spoiled us in that department. I've played a lot of games over the years and to date I've not encountered a lean as good as those games had. Even Deus Ex, landmark game that it was, has a *terrible* lean.

Retrospace demo is awesome. Anyone who liked System Shock 2 or the 2017 Prey should take a look. Though I will say that it doesn't even come close to dethroning Thief 1/2 and SS2 for having the best lean ever. This is more Deus Ex "camera pivots to one side" store.steampowered.com/app/2783450

oh shit, Retrospace demo is OUT https://store.steampowered.com/app/2783450/RetroSpace_Demo/

Sorry, maybe I shouldn't say this but ahahah. I am very angry. So I went to Xbox's Fan Fest event to attend a preview event. And it was the most flagrant display of wealth imaginable. Five stories filled with caterers and hundreds of smiling faces there to assure me of the brand's strength.

The SPRAWL zero demo is OUT NOW! We're thrilled you can finally get your hands on the demo on Steam now! To let you fully dive in, we’ve included the first two levels. So much hard work from everyone here at MAETH, building the game of our dreams! store.steampowered.com/app/4247830/...

i am losing my mind dude. videogames are BACK. play this demo ASAP store.steampowered.com/app/4247830/... store.steampowered.com/app/4247830/... store.steampowered.com/app/4247830/...

Wow, looking at Steam it seems there's exactly one option for buying the new 007 game. Even though it's $70 it's a nice change from the absolute cluster that the last few Hitman games have been. I'm still not 100% clear on what stuff I've got in Hitman 3... er, I mean "World of Assassination"

You can bulk edit all your videos to turn this off btw!

It's not just consoles either. I'm looking at the price of PC hardware as well and thinking I'm just going to be sitting it out for the duration unless I have to replace something that breaks. Just going to hammer away at the 'ol backlog which is literally long enough to last until I turn to dust

Reading @kayin.moe‬ 's post on Thief: Deadly Shadows and "these games compromised themselves for a market that didn't care about them, at the expense of the market that did." is the best description for what happened with Deus Ex: IW and Thief: DS I've ever heard. kayin.moe/thief-deadly...

Just finished Mixtape. A little bit mixed (ha!) feelings on this one -Completely nails the vibe -It's *very* short -Decent price, especially with the launch discount -It's more a slightly interactive story than a game -(personal) Being a death metal kid from the '90s the music didn't do it for me

Just looked at the achievement list for Pragmata and saw this. From everything I've heard about percentages of people who get even halfway through games, much less complete them, 30.7% seem like a *really* high completion rate. Which is great tbh.

jfc youtu.be/qjesRkTFZqY?...

Loving Pragmata. I think I'm about to wrap up the first playthrough here shortly. The people saying it was 10-12 hours were very wrong though. I'm at 35 hours so far and while I did grind a little it wasn't for 15+ hours lol.

For me one of the big signs that a game is really special is when I start dreading the end. Not wanting it to be over. Deus Ex, Thief, Prey, and a few others are all games where as I neared the final bits I got a bit melancholy and tried to prolong it Pragmata is shaping up to be one of those games

Holy shit, can't believe I've just learned about this. A VOIVOD metroidvania, with direct involvement from the band. Both art and music. store.steampowered.com/app/3589910/...

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The demo for this was excellent, one of the best horror experiences I've had in the past couple years. Glad to see it's still happening!

Wow, this is a first. An RTX Remix mod that doesn't look like overly shiny garbage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4j...

Tried out a game called Cloudbuilt that I've apparently owned since 2014 (!). It's built around jet-parkouring through giant challenge maps and it's surprisingly fun! Especially for a game I've never heard anyone talk about *at all*. Also as of 2023 has workshop support youtu.be//w?v=q0_scWQ...

I hope that someday there's some way to accomplish shader compilation in a better or way or something. Twice in the past day I've played demos that had several minutes of it on the first startup. Cronos: The New Dawn and Pragamata (which was almost 10 minutes!).

UE5 is wild. I know people clown on it's performance but it's kind of true. Played a demo of a game (CTRLSINK) and the area I started in was honestly about on par detail wise with the original Quake levels. But my GFX card (4080 super) was blowing like a jet engine couldn't maintain a steady 60 fps

The dichotomy between a simulation/strategy game and a *Paradox* simulation/strategy game.

Listening to the new Carpenter Brut. Man, this song, once it kicks in with the synths sounds straight out of the original Unreal Tournament. Super Cool youtu.be/OktIj7wvWyQ

Every time I play an Unreal Engine game I wonder what the decision making process was behind making all these games have two separate executables run when you launch it.

Played the Airframe Ultra demo. Was loving everything about it until I got out of the tutorial. Only option was to play online (yuck), and over half the rooms available were named extremely racist names ("Burn/Kill all the *blank*, etc, etc.) Hopefully there'll be a worthwhile SP campaign on launch

This has me crying in real life 😂😂😂 🦁

Played the demo for HYPNOS by @redlockstudio.bsky.social The follow up to their game BLACKSHARD. Much like BLACKSHARD it's a exploration and story focused walking sim that's beautiful and just oozes atmosphere. *Really* looking forward to this one! store.steampowered.com/app/2861210/

Played the demo for @harktheghoul.bsky.social 's game "Hark the Ghoul". Fabulous. Best kick since Zortch. Loved the exploration and whole vibe of the thing. Really beefy demo as well, took me around 5 hours. Really looking forward to the full release now. store.steampowered.com/app/3058660/...

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Finally got my Ayn Thor on Friday and started tinkering with it today. Seems really cool but man it really shows how much work Valve did with the Steam Deck to make it as accessible as it was. I could for sure see some people buying this and being totally lost.

New Carpenter Brut video is nuts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eqf...

Hey y'all. A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews. Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂

HEY HEY! Every wondered about the music I occasionally use in my videos? Well I finally feel brave enough to post a bunch of them in the form of the PALE IMITATION EP. Six tracks of electronic audio creations for your listening pleasure/displeasure.

Ok, VHOLUME's pretty cool even in beta/demo form! So far these guys are on a roll. Babbdi, Straftat, and now this. Managed to get the gold on the unlockable level even though (imo) I got progressively more sloppy as the run went on youtu.be/QfwGnUvjUf0

Her radiance

Playing through Castlevania: ReVamped and this son'gs been on repeat in my head all day long.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgsC...

Epic made provably incorrect statements about the game’s content, refused to provide details supporting their claims, and has not shared their claimed AO IARC certificate, which normally includes a link for the developer to appeal. They do not ‘love that studio’, they have effectively ghosted us

Decided to try out Recore this weekend. I feel like I remember this game getting shit upon when it came out, but tbh I'm kind of having a blast with it. Way more of a platformer and 'vania than I expected, mixed with kind of proto-Horizon open world mecahnics. Good stuff. youtu.be/0fn6SyaUw0g

Just played the demo for @regularstudio.bsky.social 's MOTORSLICE. Man, that was cool AF. Felt great to control, lots of little hidden areas, great music. Just great all around. Only missed one secret drone out of eighteen in my playthrough, might go back and see if I can find it. s.team/a/2830030

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Headquarters designed by architect Paul Rudolph (1971) r/brutalism

Well, guess I'm playing Indika www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnUr...

Testament (Practice What You Preach tour) Megadeth (Rust in Peace tour) Bolt Thrower (Warmaster tour) Deicide (Legion tour) Dimmu Borgir (Spiritual Black Dimensions tour) - bit of a cheat here since I was in one of the opening bands for the US leg of this tour. So I saw them like 30 times 😄

Just played through "Call of the Abyss". Pretty good and free! Only took about an hour or so but was still pretty engaging. mathue24.itch.io/call-of-the-...

A game about building/coding #emulators titled EmuDevz is out today and free on #Steam. Here are some key features: • Full #NES emulation guide from scratch in JavaScript • Interactive 6502 Assembly tutorial • Implement CPU, PPU, and APU in any order • Play homebrew games to unlock ROMs ..and more!

Retro Textures 1 is out now! 🎉 Completely free to download and use in any of your projects. Includes 115 textures like walls, floors, windows, doors and much more! kenney.nl/assets/retro... (no tracking, no ads, no sign-up, etc.)

For over a decade I have tied my shoes one specific way: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot. I learned it from Ian (aka Professor Shoelace) whose site is over two decades old. The knot has never failed me. I spoke with Ian about knots and the dangers of the modern internet. aftermath.site/ians-shoelac...