"I'd Never Seen My Boss So Angry" - How A Family Holiday Cost A Studio Mortal Kombat & "$40 Million In Royalties". (Repost)

One thing that emerged above all else from my chat with John and Brenda Romero is that they are an extraordinarily sweet couple. Just lovely to see.

Picked up the original run of this and it's superb. Would recommend.

I don't often do threads breaking down our game launches anymore, but the launch we just had for Piece by Piece was so weird and batshit We ended up with roughly x3 as many sales as we had hoped for, all due to a crazy naming coincidence

I had a lovely time at the @gamerepublic.bsky.social Dark and Doomy night. John and Brenda Romero are an utter delight, and The Dark Room was an absolute hoot. Plus the selection of Doom-inspired games to play was a great idea (Alien Breed 3D brought back a lot of memories). Well done, everyone.

@landfall.se you need to get on this ;)

What a fun idea!

All this talk of Project Helix being a console that plays PC games (or is it a PC that plays console games?) has made me think we've been here before...

I hate to beg, but the truth is any hope of me finishing my next game depends on sales of my previous ones, and Rosewater could use a lot more. Get it for 25% until March 26th.

If you haven't seen it, Rhell looks super good. Like a throwback to proper crazy indie games of the 2010 era, where Devs would just run with batshit mechanics and you sort of can't believe no one's done it before.

This looks lush. Love a game that nails an aesthetic.

This story from Peter Moore in the latest @thegamebusiness.com newsletter immediately made me think of @backpagepod.bsky.social and their ongoing fascination with Yuji Naka :)

This is not the King Rollo you remember.

This morning I dreamed that Rosewater had sold 948 copies and I was ecstatic. Then I woke up and thought “aw,man.” Help make my dream a reality!

The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI aftermath.site/gameshub-click...

Ay carumba

Big day for Matthew today. I wish all Pokémon enjoyers a happy FireRed and LeafGreen.

A mighty video. And I'm particularly fond of Richard Dawson's selection of oddball hats.

I played a demo of Pieced Together at WASD a couple of years back and absolutely loved it. Although at the time I seem to remember the devs telling me they were looking for funding, and weren't sure about their next steps. So glad to see they found a way through to launch, congratulations!

Oooh, this looks fun.

My fancy new GamesIndustry.biz business cards arrived. Coming to an event near you, soon.

This is such a shocking story. Unbelievable. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

On Bluepoint newsletter.hitpoints.co/361-pointless/

Rebecca Attard-Phillips gave a presentation on practical communications advice for indies at the recent Game Republic Trends and Opportunities event, and she has kindly written it up for GamesIndustry.biz. If you're an indie developer, please read and share - this advice is GOLD.

Looking forward to this one :)

Mad Max remains one of the most underrated games out there.

I chatted with the Black Mesa devs about their new game, Rogue Point. My favourite bit from that interview was that the game features a planning stage where players can freely draw over a map of the area, and they reckoned the "time to penis" was "about three seconds".

My latest, on a town's escalating fight to fix a broken road, in which become accidentally radicalised by Nick Offerman. m.youtube.com/watch?v=RKiV...

I wrote a tribute for BYTE Magazine's amazing cover artist, Robert Tinney, who died Feb 1st Tinney painted 80 vivid and surreal covers illustrating various concepts in early personal computing from 1978-1990, usually airbrushed with gouache. May he RIP ❤️ arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

One of our writers has worked as a car mechanic IRL. The other... has not. Here's how they got on in a co-op car mechanic sim. www.jank.cool/its-a-car-me...

This is the kind of content I’m here for.

My lovely wife’s new book is out on 10th September - get your preorders in now! www.waterstones.com/book/the-lit...

Our cat Totoro has taken to sitting on the armchair like this. The ultimate lounge cat.

Real-life TR-49 futurism.com/future-socie...

First time making some hot cross buns. I’m considering this a practice run for Easter. 🐣

I sat in on this interview! Super interesting stuff on how Indy came together, how MachineGames plans ahead and growing the studio a bit (but firmly keeping its identity intact).

I had a very long and insightful chat with Jerk Gustafsson from MachineGames, which took an enormous amount of time to write up, but I think it turned out pretty well. Enjoy! www.gamesindustry.biz/machinegames...

good job

This is so strange. It’s like people have forgotten how to work pubs. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Man, I love weird peripherals. I was working on a feature about unusual accessories for the Famicom/NES a while back that sadly never got finished... Might have to pull it out and start working on it again at some point. There were some real oddities that everyone should know about.

Oooh, lovely!

So I'd reposted the @jank.cool announce from @grahamsmith.bsky.social earlier but I'm gonna instead suggest reading their first big post - a "best games of the decade so far". If you find yourself nodding along & grinning like I did, perhaps go support them! www.jank.cool/the-best-gam...

Just finished TR-49 - what an absolutely cracking game, and one of Inkle’s best in my opinion. Nicely head-scratchy, but easily finishable in around six hours, and with a wonderfully eerie atmosphere. Highly recommended.

Poldark on Mopeds FTW

I started playing TR-49 last night, and it already has me hooked. One of those games you can lose yourself in, happily following threads to see where they go…

After a mega train delay, I’m finally nearing Pocket Gamer Connects. Come say hi if you see me! #PGConnects

I just read about The Blood of Dawnwalker in @edgemagazine.bsky.social, and it sounds tantalising. From the director of The Witcher 3, it’s an RPG made entirely of side quests, where time passes and quests can be missed or change if you don’t do them quickly enough. Neat idea.

My home video gaming history book, The Console, covering 50 years of under-your-telly evolution, is 35% off right now at the publishers, @penandswordbooks.bsky.social If you fancy a detailed account of how we went from the Brown Box to the PlayStation 5... www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Console-...

Spotted on Digging for Britain - is that a Tapeworm T-shirt @alastairlow.bsky.social ?

This is wonderful.