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Earthion (2025, Ancient/Bitwave) A classic horizontal shmup actually written for the Sega Genesis; the Steam release is an emulator! Includes a great FM soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro, the chiptune GOAT. Feels fantastic to play, but also a classic quarter-eater that gets ridiculously hard mid-game.

I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.

every day someone comes on this retirement home for millennial forum posters and gets my ass

Imagine doing this to id and saying with a straight face "grow and extend an enduring portfolio of franchises players love"

Hi, I have a nonfiction piece up over at Shack News that I'm a little nervous about sharing, but also really excited about letting people see.

gamers think devs put in fan-service to get more sales out of them. no. It's not true. I put it in there for me. that's MY twink with a dump truck ass thank you very much

Twenty seven years

Every day this post becomes ever more correct

xbox firing all the id engineers might be the single funniest evil decision made by a games executive ever thats could potentially somehow be stupider than the 1 billion users a day quote

So, just to be clear, Asha wants 12% of the POPULATION OF THE WORLD to be on Xbox every day?? In this economy?? When Xbox hasn't even sold 200 million units across all generations? This is just embarrassing 🫠

lately my thoughts turn to Mitch McConnell’s all too mortal jugs

Activate VVVVVVindows #sgdq2026

physical editions

Sunday night

unpopular opinion puffin: i came from a liberal arts college that happened to have a tiny CS department. a lot of my best coworkers have either come from similar circumstances, or didn’t have CS degrees at all silicon valley fixates on famous engineering universities to its own detriment

Nice.

Oh no, NileRed-themed Opus Magnum levels

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: Order of Giants DLC (2026, MachineGames) Short self-contained side story, set in some corners of Rome outside the Vatican; four to five hours tops. It was fun, but definitely wait for it to go on sale. What matters most: it has the "pet the cat" achievement.

mandatory boom boom pics

it really is hard to describe how the early 90s tapdanced on the line between cool and cringe

The most important thing you need to know is that, by my watch, the fireworks began after midnight There were no fireworks in Washington DC for our 250th Independence Day

I appreciate that someone has created a POI for this place on Google Maps, titled "Liminal Space Vivarium Suburb"

Typing Break (2026, Tholus) Tower defense (maybe more "auto-shmup"?) welded to a typing game. Type out a weapon name (e.g. "PISTOL") to start firing; level-ups can give you both more weapons, and adjectives to modify them, which can be stacked to make some very broken combinations if you type fast.

Buckshot Roulette (2024, Mike Klubnika) I missed when this went viral after the multiplayer patch, and while I've watched a ton of streamers play it, it hits slightly different to play it yourself.

new metaphor just dropped

Sorry if images aren't loading. AVALANCHE took out another reactor today. Specifically the reactor that hosts all the pornography and Quest64 memes.

we are one day away from the funniest VAR offsides graphic ever

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

"Dreamcast", a haiku Each day he rises. Asks me, "Is it still launch day?" "Yes," I lie. "Always."

hi, fake fascist monument expert here! this is not funny, they only do this when they’re in extreme distress

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

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You wanna know how cooked slop in games is? @bigbadgameathon.bsky.social -- The marathon dedicated to BAD GAMES doesn't wanna FW it.

Hell, even straight up piracy or emulation are better than Limited Run Games www.ign.com/articles/lim...

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the "d"s in that color are for "deez PPCs"

TIL the world's new favorite himbo once bought a 13th century copy of one of the Norse Sagas for $150,000, then donated it to the library because "I'm not much of a reader."

Godot’s new AI policy is here. the TL;DR: all code must human authored.

The color of the sky in Seattle is stormcloud #4e5666

Burning off stress on the canal trails

The only America 250 thing I will accept is my local ice creamery making a red, white, and blue swirl ice cream with only natural dyes and it turning out like this