November 17, 2003 I am the mustard of your doom!

November 15, 2004 Everyone loves a holographic foil box art.

I recall reading this when it came out, but it's interesting to go back to now that Prime 4 is so close I forgot that Bluepoint was founded by Retro veterans too, not just Armature I have to wonder if the supposed Halo influence in MP3 they clashed with NCL over ended up creeping in after all

Mario Galaxy: The Movie (c. 2026)

I understand this sentiment, but blaming the "attention economy" for bad game design doesn't really make sense to me, Retro Studios themselves have shown it is possible to teach mechanics to players in a far more intuitive way that doesn't involve bad writing.

If designers really feel like they should have side characters backseat players though, I'm gonna have to ask that you carve that stuff out and create a toggle for it in the difficulty options. One of the worst things about God of War Ragnarok.

we wanted to make samus’s experience as a capable woman more realistic, so we gave her an annoying man who thinks that he’s funny and constantly telling her what to do

Was mildly annoyed I probably wouldn't be able to afford MP4 at launch, but after seeing this I am in no rush to play it

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.

Finally some good fucking news

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Funny how we all just “have to” accept AI as progress even if it’s janky and either has demonstrated no improvements to productivity or outright tanks it, but we never had to accept remote work despite every study showing it improves productivity AND workers lives. Hmmmmm

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

The power of mu! There's an obscure bit of Chrono Trigger lore involving Masa & Mune's big sister, Doreen, that actually helps make sense of a random hanging thread in Super Mario Bros. 2. This one got super weird! www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/how-non...

i feel like we used to behead people over a lot less

Same as it ever was

If you’ve historically been a “vote blue no matter who” type, it’d be cool if you could use this moment to understand why vilifying leftists who actually do think it matters is basically a psyop you accidentally fell for. This is why people warn you about guys like Newsom.

Q: how many Simpsons video games can appear on the back of a 1992 Electronics Boutique game catalog? A: a lot! (The full thing: https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/3e598ac1-b4bc-4f66-a8ba-6463d78782c1 .)

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

A massive economic bubble is on the verge of bursting, a new Simpsons movie is on the horizon, and someone decided to start manufacturing plastic drums again. I've seen enough. 2007 Part II is finally here.

Ski Free's icon went hard

Rockstar accused of deflecting after claiming fired union workers leaked information

I love them so much <3 Currently re-cleaning up the art from the 1986 Million Publishing guide archive.org/details/guid... now that I made 2400dpi scans. It has some of the cutest enemy art for the series.

I saw Marge with Piccolo's cape and I couldn't stop my hands from moving.

Brianna Wu has and will always be an insufferable piece of shit

I recently rewatched the documentary "Indie Game: The Movie" for an upcoming Triple Click bonus episode (don't miss it!) and it portrays Fez as a game in never-ending development hell, with fans wondering if it'd ever come out, because it had been in production for... 3 years. How quaint!

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

I saw someone call Ai a Thneed and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionare. It left no real lasting impact, only damage.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Bubble Bobble and Puzzle Bobble are different games both starring Bub and Bob. Bust-A-Move is the western name for Puzzle Bobble, but is not to be confused with Bust-A-Groove, which is the western name for Bust-A-Move: Dance & Rhythm Action, which was changed in the west for legal reason.

SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average. This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything. Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Little #Zelda experiment. Think this was after the announcement of Link Between Worlds on the 3DS. I noted it would be interesting to do something more toy-looking. Ironically, the series' top-down titles would end up adopting a more toy-like aesthetic years later. Still like the mockup though!

lmao

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop. We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts. ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918 youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Linktober Day 10: TUNIC #Linktober #Linktober2025 #zelda #linktober #legendofzelda #ゼルダの伝説 #zeldatwt

What the fuck I was expecting this to be like, at least a decade older too

(shared AI video of the Teletubbies eating a hiker that wandered into their territory) Okay so it turns out that video was fake, but it resonated because this kind of stuff happens every day

"I think the video game industry, as we know it today, might not be around for much longer [...] but I think video games as an art form and as a product are stronger than they've ever been and will only continue to be." @jasonschreier.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/140869...

YOU WOULD DOWNLOAD A CAR

The reason techbros will never actually understand human intelligence is because understanding wont make you a god. When you truly “get it” you realize…aint no way we are engineering this. They dont want to believe that, and lack the humility to see it. THEY are the ones who believe in magic.

youtu.be/Uw2PiIO0c00 SWEET MOTHER OF MERCY I MEAN, MY GOD

Putting far more effort into this than I reasonably should tbh

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

Well of Despair 💀👻🦇 #zelda #zeldaocarinaoftime #halloween #spooky #gaming

It is entirely possible for certain people to be dicks about dismissing AI, and for the technology to still largely be a colossal waste of energy and effort in pursuit of a pipe dream that is likely impossible and may kill us all in the process. That doesn't make anti-AI people "bigots" you dolt

I realized I’ve been sort of mourning the internet lately. It’s odd. This ‘place’ that used to contain a wealth of actually valuable information, and introduced me to many people I now call friends, and which paved the way for my career, has almost completely rotted away. It’s not coming back.

GUY WHO JUST CAME BACK FROM DOING THE JABBA'S PALACE COMEDY FESTIVAL: You know, I gotta say they're really great in there, they're just like us. I thought it was only gonna be women in chains and a trapdoor monster they feed slaves to but like, they also have a band that plays cool music.