I'm so happy to see Mohrta getting some love. Game is something special. Also don't miss out on Scumhead's other games, most of which are FREE on Steam. Lycanthorn 1 & 2, Shrine 1 & 2, Franzen, Loplight, Angel's Gear, Vomitoreum et al. Lots of rough edges across them but tons of heart & style.

Indie game-covering folks, do not skip on this. Analgesic Productions (Anodyne 1 & 2, Sephonie, etc) are a fantastic studio.

One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant. Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.

Crossworlds got updated and any mod that had modified texts are completely broken so I suuuure gotta update my mod! I should also just have the text as a separate pak file so people can just delete it when this eventually happens again.

Only an hour away now!

An anonymous Japanese game studio is making applicants draw in front of them during interviews to prove they don't use generative AI 🎮 “Only human creators can produce compelling characters and graphics from scratch”

“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

this is why we need feminism

Kill la Kill, streaming on Crunchyroll, has AI closed captions that simply decided to swap a mean word out for a complete slur.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

The AI apocalypse continues. The amount of collateral damage from AI is truly staggering. This is not likely to end well.

Nadine in: Diamond in the Grave's sale ends in around 7 hours! It's 50% off ($2.49 USD). If you enjoy Mega Man-likes and Halloween, you'll dig this game! Grab it here: arrietty.itch.io/diamond-in-t... (reposted because I uploaded the wrong gif, sorry!) #indiegames #megaman #itchio #sale

Spoilers for Horses, but like... this is it. This is the game.

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

Everyone who continues to buy Harry Potter shit is responsible for this. I am going to happily shame anyone who does.

This reminds me of ALIEN SOLDIER on the Mega Drive/Genesis. It only had two difficulties. Super Easy or Super Hard. Funniest shit ever.

This is why I was not willing to trust any company that isn't willing to put something in writing, and even if they do, they will often budget for violations of those agreements. I don't have a budget for legal fees. They do. Non-union voice work was too big of a risk when they do want they want.

Religious Payment Processor BS aside. This whole thing, along with the “guerilla” misinformation campaign by the right, feels like an attack on anything considered cerebral or artsy and this was an easy target to pick on because the studio was so small.

Here’s my Wrapped for the year.

In addition to promoting fascism, devaluing music, and ripping off artists to fund AI murder drones, Spotify is using your listening history to track your "vibe" across time, location, and life events scraped from your aggregated digital identity. www.avclub.com/spotify-stan...

Let's make a thread out of these. It's time to start speaking up about platforms using AI in closed captions for anime, just like AI in dubs. On Crunchyroll, these auto-transcribed captions were spotted on The Ancient Magus's Bride.

The Hollywood Reporter, citing an anonymous source, said that the error happened because Mad Men production company Lionsgate gave HBO Max the wrong file.

The stores here literally have no coherent reason for their action. They're reacting to rumors and hearsay. There are no rules-as-written that are being broken. And in Valve's case, there's no rules written at all. They literally don't tell developers what is or isn't allowed, merely if it's blocked

Also, some people are suggesting that Horses contains FMV, so that's a hard line that stores won't allow, like the recently-also-banned Vile: Exhumed Thing is... Indie darling Immortality has full-frontal nudity, sex AND violence and is all FMV, and nobody complained about that, let alone banned it

Oh, and just to add an extra layer of absurdity to this: The game is fully reviewed on IGN. They confirm that the content is comparable to an M-rated movie. Humble is owned by the same company as IGN. They have banned it because it is too scandalous.

To clarify, there's nothing in this game that wouldn't pass muster in an M-rated film. There are people spreading malicious rumors about it, claiming that it is more extreme. It reminds me of Night Trap, supposedly one of the most transgressive games of its age. Reality: Milder than Power Rangers.

And yet, they have no problem with all the pedophiles and sex offenders in their churches and government

America: rugged, independent, free. unless there's a chance somebody might see boobies

The tsunami of mandatory online age authentication laws will eventually reach every state, won't be restricted only to accessing online "pornography," and will expand to require mandatory identity authentication and other means to help governments surveil and control their citizens 📉📉

I've seen a depressing number of people who SHOULD know better spreading rumors that the game is outright child pornography and it feels like more people are buying into that than being corrected.

So at this point, I am of the belief that there is a conservative group in the background emailing companies and trying to get them to ban the game.

So game stores ban Horses now simply out of big daddy Steam's influence, then. As an aside, love how American corporation force their kind of censorship on the rest of the world, where you can sell something with the worst violence you can imagine and throw up from, but no tit pls

Apart from the fact that this is very obviously a ploy for the Russians to regroup and invade again - because that’s what they did last time! - that 30-50km strip of land is Ukraine’s land. Why SHOULD they give it to a bully that has been murdering their people and kidnapping their children?

someone asked on reddit, so i did a little more snooping about the often said "Fromsoftware was founded from a motorcycle accident" thing and i found this interview naotoshi zin did in 2003. it really happened man (this is machine translated) web.archive.org/web/20040604...

Starsand Island adds Switch 2 version Anime-inspired life and farming simulation game Starsand Island will launch for Switch 2 alongside its previously announced PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC (Steam, Microsoft Store) versions in early 2026, developer Seed Lab  announced.

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

I did initially feel awful about clipping footage from the Banana Fish AI dub but since they removed it *and* it’s now apparent they didn’t have permission to do it in the first place, I do now feel it’s important to have some video evidence remaining of what they fuckin did.

Vinland Saga is gone too. Unless there are anymore titles then there are no more AI dubs on Amazon. Good Job, we won!

The artist whose designs were used in Marathon without permission says the dispute ‘has been resolved to my satisfaction’ vgc.news/news/the-art...

Amazon better be ready. Granted it's Amazon the worst that'll happen is they may lose some Anime Licenses. They already showed they don't care care.

Kadokawa stated that it did not approve of an AI dub, and Sentai stated that it wasn't aware of the dub beforehand.

hoooooo boy there's gonna be some laaawwwwsuuuuuits

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express is heading to theaters on February 6!

fucking TEN reviews was huge for me. tons of indies don't even get to that! "every review counts" is more true than people know

Your reviews are so so important to indie games. 500 reviews may not seem like a lot, but to the vast majority of indies it's a ton. Your reviews largely make or break discoverability for a game.

God bless Sesame Street. The Sesame Workshop folks kept the (tasteful) parody torch glowing for nearly 60 years, and here's their latest. Curious what the guy who made the films they're parodying feels about Muppets now. And yes, this is quite tasteful: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJxz...