Started playing Overlord (2007) on PC yesterday. It's fun in a Fable meets Pikmin kind of way. What really surprised me is how well it runs "Out of the box" for a console port from 2007. No issues at all. 4k/120 and no tiny text or game speed issues in sight. Wish more older games were like that.

Been listening to Kadath by The Great Old Ones a bunch recently. Probably gonna be my album of the year for sure Really digging "Under the Sign of Koth" and "Those From Ulthar" This is a 9 minute long song, the whole thing is good but the back half starting at 5:20 or so is 🔥 youtu.be/Kzd-r-xHHuM

Really looking forward to Unreal Redux. Dude's put a lot of work in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw8z...

Just saw this over on the King's Field subreddit. "Life Blood", a solo dev game inspired by King's Field, Lunacid, etc. Looks pretty awesome! www.youtube.com/watch?v=C51L...

Aww man. Maru passed away ☹️ 18 years old though. That's decent for a cat.

So I guess Mississippi passed a law about age verification and @bsky.app blocked the entire state. That's great and all, but I'm in Memphis and I'm also blocked unless I use a VPN or my cell service. I know that the problem is because my connection at some point goes through MS but it still sucks!

This is quietly one of my most anticipated games. No idea when it'll be done and that's OK. I'll be there day one whenever it is.

2025 ain't great, but at least sucker MC's don't seem to be a problem anymore.

Nice!

Man, for a game that came out in 2009 The Sims 3 sure does run poorly on a PC that decimates the sys reqs. Tried playing it this weekend and despite trying all the different tweaks I could find it's always a stuttery mess when trying to pan the camera around despite it reporting a locked 60fps.

Played and finished Martha is Dead over the last couple days. It was interesting. Less of a horror game than I thought it would be and more a tale of mental illness. However....

First trailers for this were back in 2013!

Playing Lost Records: Bloom & Rage today. Interesting even if the dialog can be awkward at times. That performance though. DLSS set to ultra perf and I still go below 60 on a 4080 super. I'm using lossless scaling FG to hit 120 because it's somehow less wobbly looking than dlss fg in this case.

BLACKSHARD's OST is available on Steam for less than 3€ 🥳 Made by our dear @alt236.bsky.social & @al9000music.bsky.social, it's a huge part of our game's identity that you can now discover outside of the labyrinth... Enjoy 🩶 🎼 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3762090/BLACKSHARD_Soundtrack/

Outer Wilds VR is neat and surprisingly enough worked "out of the box" with my PSVR2 with PC adapter setup. Only minor complaint is that the scale seems off but I think that might just VR exaggerating the game's own diminished scale for planets and distances. Planets look like toys sometimes.

Just finished up the demo for "Metal Eden". It was pretty good! Make sure to go to the Steam forums and get the instructions on accessing the beta patch. Before, the demo had ran pretty poorly for me (hitching, frame drops), but afterwards it was smooth sailing. store.steampowered.com/app/990380

JFC, it's like I've been hearing a shitty record on repeat over and over for almost 30 years with no end in sight. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

After only occasionally dabbling in Spelunky for the past 12 years, finally buckled down over the past few weeks and beat Olmec last night. Only took 877 deaths, lol. Now to check out the other paths in the game.

Got a frantic phone calls from my folks this morning. They sounded so relieved to hear my voice. My parents thought I was dead/kidnapped. Turns out they got a call from a farmer who... found my cellphone in the middle of his field? But I have my phone. And he wants to return it. Scam right? Well, 🧵

Oh shit, Paperklay is out. Been watching this one for a while. Love the style.

Just wrapped up BLACKSHARD by ‪@redlockstudio.bsky.social‬ What a great experience! Amazing atmosphere, sense of mystery, art style, and music. I'm super impressed by how they made a game about a labyrinthine megastructure but I never felt lost. All without obvious signposting. s.team/a/3223390/

I'm torn with the release. Sales aren't too good, but the reviews are excellent. The sale-to-review ratio is also incredible. I'm hoping for more eyes for Without a Dawn: store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... Thank you for your support! 💚💛 #visualnovel #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #steam

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun - Words of Vengeance available for free on Steam buff.ly/i0VvdRh

I just referred to Viktoria from Thief as "we have Poison Ivy at home" and now I feel bad.

Holy Shit, @grubb.wtf , @danryckert.com , @janochoa.bsky.social , @jerf.xyz , & @tolkoto.com now own Giant Bomb, no more Fandom. Crazy times and I really didn't forsee Fandom doing anything even remotely that reasonable. Super pumped for those guys!

Started Forspoken over the weekend. This...this is just off-brand Horizon Zero Dawn 😶 -Snarky main character who knows more than everyone around her and isn't afraid to quip about it. -Gathering resources in the world to upgrade your pouches, etc. -Mostly ranged combat (Spells not arrows though)

GOOD MORNING The Crips for eSims for Gaza Itch Bundle is live! itch.io/b/2965/crips... 200+ video games, TTRPGs, zines, comics, & more $16+ to support Palestinians surviving occupation! On sale April 28-May 20 🇵🇸✊❤️ SPREAD THE WORD!

Started playing Lollipop Chainsaw. Not the remaster but the PS3 version via RPCS3. Holy shit this game 😂

Some tunage for vibes: youtu.be/kjg1qSAX4B8

Heyyy BlueSky! In case you missed it, Old Skies is out and getting rave reviews! I'll probably put together a "pullquote trailer" next week, but in the meantime why not nab the game to play over the weekend? Humble (includes OST)▶️ bit.ly/4cKaLQR Steam▶️ bit.ly/3FYho5Z GOG▶️ bit.ly/4i2fdvk

HOLY SHIT! This might be the coolest thing ever.

Me, pretending I haven’t played this in 30 years. Also me: 😤

Ah, that's nice. Looks like Beyond Sunset is finally going to be leaving early access soon. The final release version was just submitted for testing. For a while it looked like it was stalled out due to publisher mismanagement. Some Doom community folks stepped up to finish it as a passion project.

Sunday afternoon, time to check out @redessencegames.bsky.social & @palomamcclain.bsky.social 's Traveler's Refrain

Played through Bramble: The Mountain King this evening. Really enjoyed it and only took me around 5 hrs though I missed at least one collectible. Very pretty as well. Also holy shit this game goes places 😶 store.steampowered.com/app/1623940/

Just need 3 more reviews and I reach 100! If you played it and liked you know what to do 😊🙏🏻

If you've got an hour or so of time, zero dollars, and like Metroidvanias, you should give Ascent DX by @johanpeitz.com a try. Runs perfectly on the Steam Deck as well! store.steampowered.com/app/3384890/...

Metal Gear Solid (1998)

Remember to vacuum your cats folks!

Just now discovered that I can filter out reshade "mods" from Nexus (assuming they've been tagged that is). Now to watch the mod count on the site decrease by half or more with a smile on my face. Even if it only catches a portion of the damn things the site'll be so much more useable to browse now.

Finally got around to trying PSVR2 on the PC. Only issue was the controllers. My fancy BT 5.4 dongle kept disconnecting and giving me connection warnings. So did a 5.2 Asus PCIE card. BUT my 11 years old crummy BT 4.0 USB dongle? Zero issues. Now if I could only fix my motion sickness so easily 🤢

It's one of the few days in a year here in Memphis where it isn't stupid hot, raining, or freezing cold. So the furred ones are enjoying some open patio doors and big areas of sunlight.

Out of nowhere, after several years, @nightdivestudios.bsky.social drops a Turok remaster patch. Gives me some hope for an eventual System Shock EE patch to fix the choppy movement! steamcommunity.com/app/405820/e...

Not sure what I expected when I started reading a random crime fiction book in my Kindle library, but a Too Human reference was not it.

For anyone looking to convert that new remixed Unreal Tournament album to UMX files for use in game, I used this site with WAV files from bandcamp and it works. Just gotta name them according to the already existing files. Didn't have any luck with oggs or MP3s though. bunnytrack.net/umx-converter/

Holy shit! www.techradar.com/gaming/the-u...

Time to finally get to this one, I've held off long enough 🤣 #Arcanum

FUCK YOUR DISCORD. IT'S A SHIT REPLACEMENT FOR WEB FORUMS. I DON'T CARE IF YOUR CHANNEL HAS PINS. FORUMS HAVE PINS, AND THEY AREN'T BURIED OUT OF SIGHT. Don't get me wrong, I like my chats on Discord, but I don't like it for knowledge sharing.

One thing I think is underappreciated about the original Dues Ex is the UI. -It kept every convo and data pad logged and editable/sortable -Let you take your own notes, even on images -supported copy/paste (!!!) -Supported alt+? hotkeys (underlined letters in the interface) Just slick all around.