I love how they expanded on the story in this game.

Girlfriend woke me up in the middle of the night scared that I was dead on account of me not snoring for the first time ever

Many big budget game launches are like opening a coffee shop in a grand cathedral built just to house it and when you're like "why did you build a whole cathedral for this" the answer is just "that Starbucks down the street is in a converted church and we wanted to be bigger"

I like Huang more than Raman, but I suspect the reason she has not dropped out is because the campaign needs to earn a bit more money to qualify for city matching funds. I think the reporting is credible that they did not expect it to be denied, and now risk being in a large amount of debt.

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Get hyped for Mina by playing Chambara on PS5 😇 lol

Charlie Brown as victim of the Havana-syndrome raygun

It would really make more sense, for anyone calling for a procedural end to Trump's removal, to just call for impeachment. The Constitution doesn't give a specific definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors", Congress interprets it. Just throwing that out there for any Congressmembers who follow me

Perfect little game 💯

Back by popular demand, I’ve revived my little game design newsletter! First up, a selection of notes I took while at GDC last week. Featuring insights from Donkey Kong Bananza 🍌, Silent Hill f 🐺, and an AI sermon that backfired 🌝 estebanfajardo.com/2026/03/20/t...

I had a great GDC! Probably the highest concentration of evil people I have spoken to of any previous year, though

Oh hey, I did a bit of design work on this! Excited to play, congrats to the team <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R2W...

Hear me out. 3pm? One of the most classic times of all time. 5pm? Another classic time. 4pm? 4pm is waiting for 5pm, spiritually still 3pm. It’s the $7.99 is $5 of clocks.

My bro and I had a good time with a videogame at the Getty 🖼️ 🏰 🐴

Incredible stuff

This what this list of raids looks like... And we’re still learning of more late. We’ll have to update this in the morning. lataco.com/daily-memo-j...

Just finished Legends of 16-Bit Game Development, an incredible book chronicling the early days at Treasure. I’ve read many game dev history books and memoirs, but this one sets the highest bar

You know, 11 years ago. Same shit

Hold Music is very annoying, but I am currently on hold with a corporation and the call has no music or sound whatsoever, and I think this is worse

I don’t ever want to hear anyone say “the raids aren't as bad.” this is the last 2 days. lataco.com/daily-memo-d...

Earlier this year my friend gifted us some tea after returning from a trip to the UK, and after googling the brand we discovered a peerless tea review site that must be seen to be believed www.martintop.org.uk/blog/smoky-e...

America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent

Not sure why this new Nintendo console has a control scheme made for mice instead of a more common pet like dog or cat, but I suppose it is a start

I continue to be vindicated for not upgrading to a PS5

Scott Wills paints a background for the first run of Samurai Jack (2001–2004), created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Cartoon Network Studios

I wrote about the Netflix CicLAvia buyout and how the Branding of Everything™ during LA's megaevent era has now become our reality — but it's less about the unavoidable commercialism that's already seeped into our major events, and more about who sets the standards that align with our values

Interesting argument for why the poverty line formula is out of date and how that has skewed economist analysis www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

"...as households' perceived probability of attaining homeownership falls, they systematically shift their behavior: they consume more relative to their wealth, reduce work effort, and take on riskier investments." This new paper seems very pertinent papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Why are all my fire sprinklers evil

I adore all the people playing Kirby Air Ride for the first time and losing their minds posting clips of gameplay that look, to me as someone who has played the first game since middle school, like the most mundane normal clips of normal gameplay

I haven’t listened to a podcast in months…

Game design is simple, actually. Except when it isn't. Here are the 12 things you need to know.

Favorite game I played this year

My friends did an AMV festival last week so I made an Chainsaw Man one! I came away with an important lesson: don’t use Clipchamp to try and edit anything youtu.be/0s-muexL-5A

1X111 by @abagames.bsky.social one of the classic japanese game hobbiests, Kenta Cho recently tied together 111 of his single-button games into an old-school wario-ware you can play on your phone (he's been making tiny free games since the 80s) abagames.itch.io/1x111

I LOVE CICLAVIA

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

I gotta hand it to whatever advertising firm Informa hired to make these, there really is something almost poetic about GDC's advertising being "an AI-looking depiction of an industry staple being destroyed with no clear elaboration of what comes after." Masterclass in unintentionally nailing it.

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Big fan of Pumpy’s Big Clumpy

Holy shit this interview ahahahaaa

Found the craziest passport holder

Now that I have some distance from my GDC talk, I think if I were to boil down my game design advice into a single sentence, it might be something like: Focus less on adding stuff to your game, and more on developing connections between the stuff you already have.

god bless Open Doom Crescendo

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

new blog post: mgs3 and photorealisming the painterly game www.joewintergreen.com/mgs3-and-pho...

Long shot but if I know anyone who wants to buy a small boba business in downtown LA — space, equipment, branding, secret recipes — for an *outrageously* low price, I’m neighbors with the owners and they need someone to take over. It’s my favorite spot in the area, would hate to see it shut down 😔