🎂 HAPPY 33rd BIRTHDAY to the Star Fox franchise! (Originally out on the SNES in 1993!) Our 81st FREE community VGM arrangement album, Star Fox: Double Wing Damage, is now available! 🔥 🦊 2+ hours, 6 games, 30 tracks, 37 musicians! (NOT genAI music/art, no thanks!) 💿 DOWNLOAD: starfox.ocremix.org

Rebekah is a wonderful journalist and every academic I know w/ intersection in games should be following her. This is WILD and yet not surprising that it happened to a studio known for black characters, about black women in particular. Disgusting. And I also believe they never reached a human. :(

Okay, I can’t seem to host an Unreal 2004 server successfully; LAN works but no one outside my home can connect. Anyone else had any success? @pcgamer.com staff any guides would be very welcome after your news update that the game has been patched (and still feels great).

This is still true, team, except that dedicated servers don’t seem to be working. I have one computer running a client-participant server (a “Listen” server) instead. Will connect to it and play this afternoon but anyone can go ahead if you’re around…

Alright team, if you're playing Unreal 2004 this weeked thanks to the new patch (see www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/un...) I am hosting the "Musicology Community Server" on the server list for all my friends. Password is AMSRetro. Join in!

I know we are in a wash of reissues and remakes, but let me say that it is very good to have MGS4 playable in a modern hardware format. “I had that dream again” is an all-time Gamer Moment that I wanted to be able to have my children experience.

@aerialknight.com Aerial_Knight's DropShot is available now on Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and mobile platforms! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl0y...

Hooray, JSMG Vol.7 Issue 1 is published, which means my new article is live! If you're in my musical orbit*, please go read "Recreating the Sonic Aesthetics of the Super Nintendo" over at JSMG and let me know what you think! *Academic access required; if you're an industry friend DM me.

Hey Olympics-watching musicology friends: I enjoyed this writeup of copyright's intersection with Olympic figure skating since rule changes in 2014 (it's earlier for ice dancing, as noted): www.bfvlaw.com/copyright-at...

It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.

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Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

The idea that Unreal Tournament 2004 -- the best FPS game ever made, fight me -- got an update is the stuff of dreams. This AND Diablo II in the same week?! Time travel. Give me @funkyrustic.bsky.social's incredible UT theme through my speakers please, this rules. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/un...

Corollary to this especially for my fellow dudes here: You may not be in a position to offer encouragement in a way that doesn’t read as intimidating (or too interested) to a person you don’t know. It’s okay to just like a post and not respond directly in those cases.

It’s a beautiful place.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

The finale of the first season of The Flash is so wildly good. “I have a mug that says ‘World’s Best Boss;’ I doubt my teaching assistant would testify as to its authenticity” hits harder now that I’m a professor. One of the top five episodes across the entire Arrowverse run.

Free chiptune platforms you can use instead of paying for Suno Premier Plan: Famitracker FamiStudio KiraStudio LSDJ nanoloop Furnace Tracker Raster Music Tracker Bambootracker WaveTracker Mariopants Adlib Tracker II BeepBox/JummBox/UltraBox ChipNomad LittleGPTracker Magical8bit Plug & More....

Don't mind me, just thinking about the fact that Nintendo seemed to be the only company on earth with the institutional knowledge and desire to make 3D Zelda dungeons like Ocarina of Time's, the best dungeons in the entire video game medium And the fact that it's now been 15 years since they did

Listen, it was us nerdy, artsy & eccentric types who made social media what it is in the first place. Allllllll these other folks who made fun of us in the 90s for talking to strangers online ruined OUR party. They can go. We're here 'til closing. Last ones out the club turning off the lights!

I'm hecking dying.

Of recent media, only Dispatch (2025) uses the word “bitch” enough

Spouse is between jobs so I am running a sale on book proposal developmental editing: I’ll do a review of your book proposal (no sample chapters) with editorial letter and 30 min Zoom for $250 if you book before 2/28.

I just played through the new free DLC for Rabbit and Steel and I cannot recommend a game on gameplay merit more highly, particularly if you like a challenge. Better with friends but also incredible solo. Go support small indie people please!!

The other night on Jeopardy, two players were tied going into final. The woman in third made a small wager and her answer was, "I hope they both bet everything." They both did, all three got it wrong, and she won. As if that wasn't already hilarious enough, turns out it was all a master plan!

🌼My new game is here!🥀 "She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died." alienmelon.itch.io/flower A game poem and interactive fiction about The End. You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil. #IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game

The No ICE in Minnesota bundle has launched, raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Over 1400 items for $10.00! itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Opera friends (hi @pwallinga.bsky.social) I am loving this annotated score for Christopher Tin's recently commissioned ending to Turandot. It'll feature at the Olympics on Friday in the men's free skate as well, so prep now! :p www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwKE...

Okay everyone, I met and had a nice quick conversation with Carl Craig today, realized the panel I’m on with him next month here will also feature Chris Vrenna, and Blizzard announced and launched a new Diablo II expansion pack today. Let’s go all the way on this theme and launch UT99 HD please.

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential! gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

What’s the current standard for being held in contempt of Congress? I have met and known reasonably important military personnel and I cannot imagine any of them mouthing off the way Bondi did today without consequence.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Worth a note (read: complaint) about that last RT — I cannot play the Nintendo App over the radio. Give me discs to purchase please!

huge big incredible ups to Yoshito Sekigawa, Shoh Murakami, Yoshiaki Kimura, Hiroki Morishita, and Fumihiro Isobe we will never know who wrote which of the 244 tracks unless a physical set is released with actual accreditation nintendo

I’m solo parenting tonight so only one post during the show, but hit up wkar.org right now to hear woodwind player @fieldofreeds.bsky.social on public radio! Currently hearing a suite of her performances as part of @awintory.bsky.social’s recent games…

This was so fun! I'm exceptionally grateful to anyone who lets me ramble about games and woodwinds. And Ryan is awesome ✨️

Tonight at 7:00 PM US Eastern Time, tune into Source Coda for my interview with game industry luminary and woodwind soloist @fieldofreeds.bsky.social featuring a selection of her performances across multiple instruments and styles. wkar.org in one of my favorite episodes to date.

I am conflicted because I really liked that Jesus commercial pushing against a capitalist framing of our existence and tacitly against the push to use AI for everything but it is funded by people like David Green (Hobby Lobby) and I don't care for their _specific_ religious beliefs at all.

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

What can you do with a history degree?

This, right here, is the point. This is art. And this is *everything* genAI is trying to take from you. This is everything capitalism is trying to kill in you.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

NGL that karaoke mix for the coin base as left me thinking there was something wrong with my soundbar more than any other emotion or impact (also fuck crypto everything)

Today is John Williams’ 94th birthday. I have been thinking about what it means that one man wrote the score for so much of our collective childhood, and it occurred to me that he was seven years old when Wizard of Oz was released.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

It is a wild honor to be in the orbit of any of these organizers — the team at vgmtogether are miracle workers and talented beyond understanding. Congrats to everyone on a successful event! <3

I need everyone to realize there are so many AI ads because you have the power to fuck over rich stupid people by simply laughing at all those tools and avoiding them. They are desperate.

Didn’t know the singer but SSB was buttery smooth and a really nice belt into the bVI extension. Thought it was pretty good!

I've been singing this to myself all day

sharing it again because i’m still upset and had to see some stupid posts excusing this all again so… www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/abu... i guess i should update this with more receipts, again, because no amount of proof is ever enough. it’s always excuses.