I have wanted to know the answer to this question for the last ten years tbh

She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free.

disiri and I have been obsessed with 868-BACK, @smestorp.bsky.social‘s latest game. The writing and music are phenomenal, and construct a tech dystopia that’s just barely a parody. We’ve been singing Bootleg Burrito Blues to each other for weeks.

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Seaside Shock (Cruelty Squad, PC, Consumer Softproducts, 2021)

😎 awesome link to 🔗 surf the internet 🏄 👉 hypertext.tv “Hypertext TV is a celebration of small, handmade games and sites. Sites air at a particular day and time each week. Come back at different times to see different sites!”

Two more weeks until Neurocracy expands once more with a batch of new stories! Starting now and running for the duration of these stories, we've discounted the game to half price, with all proceeds donated to help the people of Venezuela after the devastating earthquakes Please share if you can 🙏

You Are Jeff Bezos

almost every story at @mothership.blog this week is free to read. JUST SAYING if you want to sample our stuff, it's a good time to do so

If you're curious what a non-preservationist gaming ecosystem looks like, you can look at the mobile stores, where most of the shit you remember does not exist in any form anymore.

I posted my History of Games keynote: - A materialist reexamination of the canonical game crises from a developer's POV - Thoughts on the ongoing game industry restructuring - Indiepocalypse, AAApocalypse, deprofessionalization, games at the knitting stage www.molleindustria.org/HistoryOfGam...

round 2 of concept art for my procedurally generated found footage turn-based multiplayer horror RPG game film a documentary about that thing in the woods. see if all of you can survive. or some of you. or one of you. live your best Blair Witch Project life #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

there’s no way they sell Enough copies of GTA btw

Imagine having been in there for 9-11

yeah im watching EVO tonight Enjoying Videos Of Iron Chef on the Filmrise TV YouTube account

oh wow!

I preordered!

happy pride! i edit an online literary magazine called beestung that's for two-spirit, non-binary, and genderqueer writers and readers. you can support me by reading us and sharing what we're doing. we're also open for new work for The Pleasure Issue! beestungmag.com

this is truly the only way. conflating “immersion” with expensive 3D puppetry, wannabe film bro mocap fantasies and lifelike pore design is a big reason we’re in this shit

remembered the Lesbian Orgy Room from Dawn of Sorrow

detach your interest in games and game-making from any notion of “the industry” or “the community”

I strongly believe in cooking meat with fruit. I just had pan seared sirloin with sliced kiwi

If you love match-3, but hate free-to-play monetization, I have a bundle for you! 💎 Titanium Court 🦖 Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion III 🐸 Spirit Swap 🏹 Mythmatch Currently 32% off if you buy all four! And an extra bargain if you already own some. store.steampowered.com/bundle/76579...

I know we all know this, but just to reiterate, when a company lays off workforce *without itself closing* what the executives are actually doing is stealing the future wages of their workers - wealth that the workers themselves generated - to line their own cash-stuffed pockets.

the fandom term “shipping” is now in regular usage in the love island universe

this is an incredibly niche statement to make, but: whoever does the sound design for the Pluto TV idents is so brilliant

It's out now! Me and @rubyrockatansky.bsky.social present volume one of 𝕿𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖁𝖔𝖑𝖙𝖆𝖌𝖊: 𝔄 ℭ𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔗𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔐𝔢𝔱𝔞𝔩 𝔇𝔦𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔤𝔢! transientvoltage.bandcamp.com/album/transi...

give me fixed camera angles and tank controls or give me death

Well, I've been affected by the Bungie layoffs, and I guess I'm now looking for work. I'm a senior narrative designer on Destiny 2. I'm going to thread a little list of stuff I've done on the game; normally I go out of my way to avoid attention, but today I'd appreciate reposts.

ohhhh you’re gonna start your own studio? ohhhh of course, that will be a solution, surely that’s a great idea that will definitely work for you. let’s celebrate.

It's Color TV Day! My Mother Posing for Me, one of my all-time favorite photographs, by Larry Sultan, 1984:

happy pride. if you're a straight girl and you call it a 'date' when you get coffee with your straight girl friend then you have to kiss each other sorry i dont make the rules

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

lmfao the courses are even AI-“designed” come ON

we need to go back

Submission form is now open for Game Poems Magazine Issue 2! Learn more and submit your game at www.gamepoems.com/submit Submission deadline is July 1, but early submissions are welcome. Thinking of submitting something, but haven't started yet? No worries, you've still got a whole month. :-)

there are a lot of deeply entrenched myths about how "genius" goes hand in hand with domineering behavior and emotional volatility, and i just think it's all individualist self-mythologizing. great work can happen in unhealthy environments, but that doesn't mean the unhealthy environment is causal!

remedy opened a senior writing position-- best of luck, fellow weirdos gamejobs.co/Senior-Write...

yes I will absolutely take the train from Brighton to Halifax this weekend. for Her

The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"

burnt my youth & frayed my nerves hustling for the future of games as a new horizon for experiential storytelling. well that was energy well spent lol

It's not news that Xbox seems to have no idea what it's doing in its big "reset," but talking about axing a studio it was praising just weeks ago for doing the very thing the company seems to claim it wants is... well, basically what we've come to expect

Microsoft buying these studios that make wonderful prestige titles always felt off because Xbox lacks a sense of identity that lasts longer than 3 fiscal years. This contradiction was made even worse by their unwillingness to respond to the BDS Boycott in even a perfunctory way.

The entire fucking games industry right now: