Adult Swim's The Elephant is fantastic and life affirming. Absolutely check it out, also makes a surprisingly great Christmas watch

i directed the last segment of this film called THE ELEPHANT. it comes out TOMORROW, fri dec 19th, on adult swim... and then landing on HBO MAX the next day, sat dec 20th. i found it really difficult to make. there's also a BTS that airs with it, i think. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tli7...

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

NEW: For the last seven weeks, Naughty Dog has enacted mandatory overtime for staff to finish an internal demo of their next game, Intergalactic. The game won't be out until 2027, leaving some staff wondering: If they're crunching now, what will next year be like? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Come on man

NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

This feels like a 5 alarm fire for Switch 2 in the US

Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.

"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground

Ok being real there better be some free new characters coming at some point. I'll be pretty annoyed if they want to charge for them

Can I be real this looks cheap and not that different from MM11 which will be almost a decade old when this comes out

This one annoyed me more than all the others. SHf is right there

Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam This is where we're at now.

#FZERO99 1.7.0 is off to the races! ❄️ 🏆❓❓❓🎶 My 2 years with NST just passed and I’m still so proud to be on this team and making even more sounds and music for the game 🥳 (We worked hard on the new music and the BGM player so please enjoy it!) 🔊🎶

People are being really weird about this (straight up lying to say there's a way to get it in game) but also everyone screaming about "$30 DLC" is being a bit ridiculous as well. To me it's pretty clear the artistic intent (which you can debate the success of) was to have no music in the desert

No matter how bad things are just remember: it can and will get even worse

I don't mind Myles much so far. I think if you cut out that "so... Win?" Line he wouldn't make such an awful first impression lol From a visual and audio presentation perspective this is easily the most impressive Nintendo game in a while. It's not just fidelity, it's actual art direction

Music slider literally my most requested feature since launch, this is huge

I've never understood this "if we surround the main character with obnoxious fans who freak out about how cool they are the audience will also think the character is cool" thing. Half Life 2 does this too where every character can't ever shut up about how epically super awesome gordon is

Kensuke Tanabe is an extremely important and key figure at Nintendo who has worked on many incredible games but I'm starting to think maybe someone needs to shove him in a locker

Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all. www.ign.com/articles/uns...

elon fucking killed a major piece of not only driving game discussion, but also sheer inherent word-of-mouth advertising. it has no doubt kneecapped many small- and mid-sized titles and i can't even tell what big games are popping off right now unless they have a Little Guy people wanna doodle

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

there's a lot of uncomfortable discussions about the fundamental conceit of a gameplay loop and what it represents in the context of the machine zone but it is also imo very stark and shitty for Independent Video Games, the alleged bastion of fresh and good ideas, to be captured by slot machines

vampire survivors and balatro fusing to defeat good videogames once and for all

This is so shameless it's almost unreal

NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. “It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said. www.propublica.org/article/andr...

Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.

Sakamoto really has been so redeemed over the Switch gen that I'm half convinced they should have let him produce Prime 4 instead

Nintendo's premier Western dev team getting absolutely mogged by a team from Spain with notably bad working conditions what do we make of this

Retro Studios working on Metroid for 6+ years and not once did someone tell them not to add Scrappy Doo to the game

A little worried about those federation troops in Prime 4 having a relatively big role lol Otherwise things look good!

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

Brie makes total sense, Benny is so fucking funny

You could have given me 300 guesses for Bowser Jr and Benny Safdie wouldn't have been one of them lol

Wait disabling the auto target lock on is actually huge

Seemingly no one gives less of a shit about Nintendo's holiday season games than Nintendo themselves lol

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Captain Torture

Genuinely can't figure out why these trailers are so bad what is going on with their marketing department. Who chose this "Emotional Epic Orchestral Mix" ass BGM

Hey, I reviewed Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment for RPG Site! If you're a fan of these, the gameplay changes and a nice - and canon! - story expanding upon Tears of the Kingdom makes it probably the best of these yet. Excellent game! www.rpgsite.net/review/18880...

it's genuinely remarkable how refusing to cover anything up or explain anything, and just doing it out in the open, completely launders it now. no cover up no crime!

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them. After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer." www.calonews.com/featured-top...

POSTER: In my post I invented the Don’t Misunderstand the Torment Nexus Metaphor as a cautionary tale CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor

“we will rule you forever with an iron fist of suffering” is maybe not the most compelling message any administration has ever had