it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries

The last time Tim Sweeney *designed* an actual game was 33 years ago. Just sayin'.

New games for DOS, all from the DOSember Game Jam.

Since I'm being crabby about abandonware, I will recommend two folks that I think do a nice job updating games that are no longer for sale and working on modern OS, and take downloads down when they're rereleased Collection Chamber collectionchamber.blogspot.com Zomb's Lair www.zombs-lair.com

The correct Doom 3 experience is the original one, where you must choose between having your flashlight or your weapon equipped.

If you enjoy a game, it's a good game. It doesn't matter what anyone else says or thinks. What matters is that you are enjoying yourself.

I'm going to start pushing for demasters of remasters. Yes, System Shock 2 remastered, I'm looking at you (and my eyes hurt).

🥳After 38 years, a brand-new adventure is about to begin on the Commodore 64!👉Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave is finally coming, bringing the full experience to our beloved 8-bit machine #bubblebobble #c64 #commodore64 @freeze64.bsky.social @commodoreblog.uk @freeze64.bsky.social @c64news.bsky.social

We did a podcast with DOS Game Club about Ascendancy, a 1995 4X turn-based strategy game set in outer space. It's not the most famous game or anything, but I had a good time with it and very much enjoyed talking about it with some of our club members! www.dosgameclub.com/ascendancy/

Look I get that Linux has its own gaping wounds, but at least it doesn't force you to edit s core component purely to turn of the perpetual slope machine that will steal your data.

EGA Giger would have still looked great. Who knows, this might have played better!

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

Half-life 1 is 27 years old today! Good day to revisit Valve's 25th Anniversary celebration content, and @lambdageneration.com 's fun little browser-based Half-life adventure game hl25.lambdageneration.com www.half-life.com/en/halflife/...

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." With three megs of hot RAM burning a hole in our pocket, we step into a computerised version of the Sprawl in 2058. 📺: Neuromancer, Interplay, 1988 (C64 version) Little 🧵 will follow

Good, let it burst, and every CEO who bought into this should be tarred-and-feathered, and never given a position of responsibility ever again.

The pre-release for UZDoom's debut is here! If you'd like to help us test UZDoom in preparation for 4.14.3 grab the build here: github.com/UZDoom/UZDoo... (expand the Assets tab) (Windows and Linux available; Mac coming later) Read the details here: zdoom.org/wiki/UZDoom_...

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

That reminds me, I was going to find the time to play Call of Duty 4 again…

I've made a video game! Do you like Snatcher but thing it's way too optimistic and also too long to pay attention to? Yes, check out my free short DIGITAL COMIC VISUAL NOVEL ADVENTURE GAME: CYBER PUNK JANITOR It's like Snatcher for people with ADHD who have to clean bathrooms

B.J. Blazkowicz roleplayingly killing nazis and raiding tombs. (Your reminder that a PC port of the iOS version of "Wolfenstein RPG" is available here: www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/... )

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

We just mapped out all the games we're going to be doing in 2026 with DOS Game Club. Many of these are long-time forum suggestions. Very excited for next year, I think there's something for everyone in here. www.dosgameclub.com/forums/forum... #dosGaming

Bad dream simulator, like the ones where you know you’ve got to wake up but you can’t, so it just keeps getting worse and worse.

Microsoft has laid off more than 15k people this year

🛑🛑🛑 ACHTUNG ! 🛑🛑🛑 Darkenstein 3D releases TOMORROW ! - A free single player adventure where you fight your way through the Axis hordes to rescue your dog. - A humorous, skill-based tribute to the id classics! - Made with <3 ⚡️ Time to get psyched! ⚡️ #indiegame #videogame #fps #solodev

Making retro DOS gaming simple - the standalone DOSBox Pure Unleashed is out now #DOSBox #DOSBoxPure #Retro #Gaming #RetroGaming #OpenSource

Been talking to* my Windows computers for years... *Swearing at

Brits sitting on £1.6B gold mine of future Linux PCs. Reuse rather than recycle. (The article does mention this, despite the headline)

This is why I'm not generally in favour of remasters as they tend to lead to the erasure of originals, or at best, they are relegated to becoming DLC for newer versions. This is not preservation, just a cynical cash grab, ironically by a company that is not even the original it claims to be.

Over the years I've found these really useful from a game preservation point of view, some of the better warez CDs out there.

Drumroll please... HELLO//GOODBYE is a charity bundle containing 203 games for only $12. Every dollar goes directly to Virginia charities providing free legal aid to people facing injustice. Available now until November 5th. itch.io/b/3276/hello...

Attention retrogamers: Download the FREE digital edition of this 10-game C64 compilation (compatible with C64 emulators and consoles): www.patreon.com/posts/140492... #c64 #retrogames #retrogaming #games #indiegames #gaming #gamedev #retro

It's worth reading this and some of the quotes people have made, to make an informed decision about supporting the SNES RPGs book.

oh its the thing everyone said was going to happen when this got brought in and it immediately happened

I don't be too much of a downer here, I'm appreciative of the preservation effort, but sometimes I wonder what's getting preserved? It may be too much to expect, but many of these 'preserved' games no longer run on old PCs, or are modded to a point where they no longer resemble the original.

This is so true. Getting the games working IS the game.

Reposting some evergreen content hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

"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...