I wonder why, as a player, I always end up getting weirdly obsessed with side challenge modes, especially in Capcom games. You know, like the shooting range in RE. Or the challenged in Pragmata. People are like "it's a brief 10 hours game". Is it, when I am trying to 3 stars everything?

I made Italo Calvino in Tomodachi Life. I like to think he would have found it funny.

The kids are alright

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Metroid Prime 4 is proof that if you mess up the end part of a game everything will feel retroactively worse. And also that you should not force an open world where it's not needed.

Update day! New Wii Titles!

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Today is the Italian Liberation Day from nazifascism. Always remember fascists are pieces of shit whether they wear a uniform or have CEO as their job title.

Spring in Stockholm almost makes up for the total lack of color, light, joy, life and meaning of the winter. It's like: remember colors? Remember the air not hurting your face? Glorious

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Italian representation, finally

Yo! There's Nothing Underground is on sale at its lowest price ever! 3,89€ for the best roguelike puzzle that gives you random tools to solve levels any way you want (it's a genre, I swear) since Mosa Lina! Buy it now! store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

This game seems very cool and my very millennial hot take is that pen controls are much more interesting than touch controls. We lost a lot when we collectively decided the iPhone was a better game machine than a DS (I mean, we did not, but you know what I mean)

Snap filters caused more damage than locusts

Marathon *feels* like a single player/co-op roguelike to me, with its focus on missions and the NPC enemies being tough to fight. Also the fact that other squads will almost certainly be aggressive makes them into mini-bosses and (weirdly) ends up making the game less toxic. Also, weird insects.

Please read the text generated in the picture and imagine that several engineers, product owners, managers and other people with degrees looked at that and thought "that's good enough writing" This is what happens when people don't read, understand or respect literature.

I don't dislike Geese, but that guy sings in a very silly way

Just saying

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

She is spitting truth. Elites won't touch Gen AI for anything that matters

I cannot be the only one who reads it as Resident Evil Quiem

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

Maybe all those CEOs saying that AI is an answer to bloated team sizes and ballooning budgets should take a look at No Man's Sky and try to replicate whatever they're doing. Cause I don't particularly like what it has become but that small team has no issue pumping out insane amounts of work.

The Italian in me agrees. My Swedish side will defend oatmeal to death.

Just saying: I haven't seen cyclists and pedestrians destroy shit.

A clear explanation of a very strong feature of Godot. Much more understandable than "any node can be a scene and a scene is just a node", which is how I describe it usually

The game that got linkedin marketing experts talking (about how you should not market a game) is now on sale! store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

As Pratchett said:

As someone who finds grimdark fantasy way more cringe than Kirby, despises mouse and keyboard as input system, hates overcrowded UIs, overlong games and horror, this kind of explains why the Steam ecosystem baffles me. I wish developing for consoles was easier. howtomarketagame.com/2026/01/15/p...

I've run businesses since 2003, a large chunk of that time in games. I've worked with AAA, publishers, platforms, service providers and indies. Huge success and epic failures. No one knows what's going to work today, or in the future. Anyone claiming otherwise just hasn't been humbled ✨yet✨.

We decided to slash the price of our game to 7.99. There's something to say about perceived value and commodification of games. But reality is that the market makes the price. And, even more important IF YOU HAVEN'T BOUGHT THERE'S NOTHING UNDERGROUND DO IT NOW store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

Disco Elysium

Twinkies are the best friend I've ever had youtu.be/v_6USrg4p4A?...

What a year, huh?

I've been working out consistently for a decade and not once I felt good while I am doing it. I exercise to feel better *after* and hopefully push back death and physical injury. There's only one physical activity that feels good while you do it and that doesn't consume much calories.

I miss those times when people used the internet as a way to share what they think in text. But also, I am not gonna start a blog, come on. However, one post a year that is a bit diary, a bit reflection on my job and a bit time capsule is something I can do. www.cinquemani.it/2026/01/01/2...

Credits don't need to be boring! As a last minute thing, we decided to do something a bit more fun with the credits of our game so it's sort of a freeform gym where you can experiment with the gadgets of the game while you desecrate our names #gamedev

See? I am not the only one saying that!

Dragon Quest enemy ass pose

Honestly, these are exactly the reactions we wanted as we made this game. There's a fine line between real rage and "creative swearing" and I feel There's Nothing Underground stays on the right side of that

Gentle reminder: if you bought There's Nothing Underground and you liked it, please leave a review! If you didn't buy it... store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

Last days of launch discount for There's Nothing Underground! If you were planning to buy it, now is the time :) store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

We're starting to get clips from players of There's Nothing Underground and I don't think I could be more proud. Also, I am not sorry.

This is exactly the kind of stuff I love about our game www.twitch.tv/vizesninjonk...

Most delightful fact from yesterday's release party of There's Nothing Underground: the kids who happened to be at the party (kids of someone in our same coworking space and my daughter's best friend) ended up playing for HOURS. Without even being asked. We thought it would be way too hard for kids.

Two years in the making, finally out now. There's Nothing Underground is a puzzle game that rewards creativity and your stupidest Wile E. Coyote plans. It's cheap, it's good (I promise), it's 25% discounted on launch week. Buy it now, share, subscribe etc... store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

-1! Tomorrow we will release There's Nothing Underground, our "mosa-like", physics based roguelike where you get random tools to solve levels your own way. It's a deeply personal project for me. Despite being done in two years, it was one of the hardest I ever made. Will talk more about it.

Yikes