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"Which is your favorite/definitive version of the original Prince of Persia?" 💾As promised-- after 35 years, here's a proper blog post with my thoughts, and the story behind Prince of Persia's multiple 1990s ports. www.jordanmechner.com/en/latest-ne...

Kenny Who? Writers John Wagner & Alan Grant and artist Cam Kennedy saw the potential dangers of AI art back in the mid-80s. Dredd stories were always prescient but this one hits hard today. See also America. 2000AD PROG 477. Published 5th July, 1986.

It was all downhill after Windows XP

Interesting article about the science of inverted controls - and the answer isn't that it's just because non-inverters are weird 😉 Although, having said that, I didn't invert keyboard controls, in that brief time between key-look and mouse-look...

Probably the most consistent art style I've seen in a Vampire the Masquerade product. I would have loved a rulebook done entirely in this style.

Once had an IT manager ask us to send a company-wide email out to inform people of an email outage. Bad IT managers don't usually last long, if you know what you're doing you'll outlast them.

Hi I’m writing a silly article on strangely memorable lines of video game dialogue - I don’t mean the classic quotes, I mean things YOU’VE remembered, maybe from lesser known games/scenes, and you don’t really know why. Do you have examples?!

I'm finding the perks of going back to gaming on an offline PC are, no achievements, and no online walkthroughs to look at, just gaming without any noise, and I'm really enjoying it.

Out of interest, have any UK people tried buying Steam Keys from resellers and adding them your account? Can you access content if you do?

While countries like Sweden and Netherlands had active pirate scenes, others like Italy employed crackers (underage coders) in a huge pirate market where registered companies were actually selling pirate games in stores and no one cared. genesistemple.com/a-swashbuckl...

Hey Firefox users.

There's an absolute peak Windows 3x CD-ROM that explores this 'haunting', and others, called Ghosts. The bonus is that it stars Christopher Lee, who is a consummate professional throughout. You can download it here (and check out the rest of the quoted thread): archive.org/details/ghos...

Sigh... Tied to your account location by the looks of things (so your VPN won't get round it). Of course, games can be bought elsewhere...

Infogrames always felt like they were trying something different back in the early 90’s, something I put down to having a bit of a ‘French’ approach to things, back in the day…

I am excited to announce the Games for Palestine charity bundle page is now live!!! Over 300+ games with proceeds going to UNRWA USA in support of Gaza relief. Thank you to everyone for your support. The bundle launches on Sept 2nd 9am PST. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

At this point, it's morally wrong to purchase Microsoft games, or games from companies they own. archive.is/QvYpM But, if you're going to boycott, then you need a list: Activision Arkane Studios Beenox Bethesda Blizzard Entertainment Compulsion Games Demonware Digital Legends Double Fine (1/5)

The latest OpenAI story is bleak. The UK government was looking at spending billions to give free ChatGPT access to UK citizens, and of course it wouldn’t be sat behind the Online Safety Act’s age verification (nor would user generated AI porn either).

With the 30th anniversary of Windows 95's launch, I was reflecting on what seismic change this was at the time. Back then, Win 3x was this weird side environment for dull business stuff, and we didn't really understand why Microsoft insisted on pushing it onto us - all the good stuff ran on DOS.

Not every old game needs a remaster, you don't need 4k path tracing to have a good time If more people were open to trying older games & learning how to play them despite "bad" graphics or outdated mechanics I think a lot of them could find so much more to love & be inspired by

Welcome, Mississippians, to the ever growing international fellowship of VPN users.

lol, no.

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In a sea of idiots, Dame Rachel de Souza is a standout idiot. We (the UK) have a tech-illiterate government legislating technology. This is the problem of a government now consisting of sycophants to 'dear leader', rather than knowledgeable experts. How would this ever work...

Another option is to use Startpage, which gives you Google search without the AI overview (and no tracking etc.) www.startpage.com

Only downside to this is, in my case, that’s not so many games classed as “vintage”…

Psst... hey kid, you wanna make a DOS game? I'm hosting a DOS(ember) Game Jam! All details are at the attached link. Please feel free to join in – no experience necessary!

To bring some positivity, I'd like to share 4 games only available on itchio that I love: - Basilisk 2000, a "found footage" mystery from KIRA - Shards of God, a Dune/Name of the Rose point & click - Digital Tamers 2, an amazing Digimon fangame - UNDER A STAR CALLED SUN, a touching bitsy story

This sums up the noise around itch.io very well.

Never thought we’d get to the point, in the UK, that we’re contemplating passing around illicit copies of Wikipedia on disks, but here we are…

One of my favourite tabletop games magazines, highly recommended. I've been with them from the beginning, and hopefully, not until the end, any time soon. Get yourself a copy!

I appreciate Microsoft aiding the BDS boycott by canceling all their games.

This was inevitable... It was never just about adult games; it's censorship of anything they disagree with, despite the fact that the simple solution for them is just not to buy the games in question, and just let everyone else enjoy them! www.thegamer.com/grand-theft-...

VILE: Exhumed may be banned for sale, but I refuse to let that stop people from playing the game. It’s now available, for free, at WWW.VILEISBANNED.COM Please share the site, share the game, and fuck anyone who tries to control storytelling and expression.

This, or a variant of it, is also how you create a Windows 11 VM on your Linux PC, for the times you absolutely have no choice but to use Windows.

AI is just replacing things that were of no value in the first place. Case in point, MPs…

This is extremely cool. GOG is taking a stand against payment processors caving to fundamentalist religious groups and is offering a bunch of "banned" games for free. freedomtobuy.games

I made an anti-AI post on LinkedIn and the people angry or defensive all have Visionary or Founder as their listed role, and everyone agreeing with me has a real job. Amazing how that is.

The Derby Computer Museum is a UK museum that I've visited before. They're a volunteer run charity looking for contributions towards a fund-raiser for maintenance and project costs, if you can help. www.gofundme.com/f/derby-comp... www.derbycomputermuseum.co.uk

Clearly written by someone with no understanding of their subject. The Ghosts rely on rules-based logic and have deterministic fixed movements (personalities) which gave the illusion of "intelligence" back then. Certainly not an example of AI as we know it now - i.e. they don't learn or evolve.

You do, actually, really, truthfully have to treat "websites with single-digit staff counts doing their best" with more respect and sympathy than multi-billion megacorps, if only because if they decide the grief isn't worth it then the extremely inclusive platform they built Goes Away

Like, laugh out loud incredible www.pcgamer.com/hardware/bri...

UK users when the website asks them where they're posting from today.

Another way to avoid UK age verification using uBlock Origin. Click on the extension and then the settings (cogs) Go to the My Filters tab Tick 'Enable My Custom Filters' and 'Allow Custom Filters Requiring Trust' Paste the text from the post below into the text field and click 'Apply Changes'

There's a fantastic classic Dungeons & Dragons games bundle available at Humble. www.humblebundle.com/games/dungeo...

Also, if you don’t want to use Vivaldi, Proton VPN has a free browser plugin that’ll work with the browser of your choice.

If you want to support developers, you can curate your own lists and make them available for others to view - it's a short term workaround, better than nothing in the current circumstances.

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