Wesker eh

if @dasharez0ne.bsky.social was active in the 19th century

It's 2026 and Mastertronic is looking for new games to publish. Maybe you have what it takes...

the eternal dilemma

The infinite growth model is one of the worst things to happen to journalism/media. At some point you reach the ceiling of people who want to read your magazine! You can just make enough money to pay people well and publish things and not grow forever!

maybe hire some actual coders instead of trading "Claude Code buddies"?

Game comes out that isn’t an extraction shooter, indie, or 200 hour open world RPG. “This is like a PS2 game.”

It's funny (not funny) how this ubiquitous symbol screams 'beware, incoming trash!' I have an instant reaction of revulsion whenever it pops up.

Started playing Tomodachi Life this lunchtime. What a lovely, silly game. Just what the world needs right now.

Ahead of my NYU talk on the history/future of games journalism, I want to test a theory about how small/big games media is: Please share links to where you get games reporting/criticism. They can be a site, blog, YouTuber, streamer, social handle, podcast. They must be places/people you trust.

if you need a chatbot for "inspiration" when ordering from a coffee shop you are a dork-ass loser who deserves to have their head flushed down the toilet

More fine work from @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social on the Evercade blog today.

Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream is a wildly surreal, weird, and funny game. It's my own fault for putting "myself" and the DDNet mascot characters into it, though. Oh, the nonsense we all got up to. Anyhow. My review of this brilliant little game: www.digitallydownloaded.net/2026/04/revi...

the thing that pisses me off about this is it's such a self-fulfilling shitty prophecy. So many people agree that short-form CoNtEnT sucks, so if everyone stopped doing it, it might actually fucking go away. Unfortunately because everyone buys into this supposed "need" for it we're stuck with it.

Today's free newsletter is about the dangers of treating AI as being more than it is - a website or app built on expensive technology, with dubious reliability and inherently unsustainable economics. The rhetoric from AI labs has to change. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never-respect-a-website/

this is why I read @edzitron.com

I did the meme. And a bonus other one for good measure, too. First one: grids.fun/t/about-me-v... Second one: grids.fun/t/donkus-vid...

truly a useless technology

busy day

Here's the conclusion of my free newsletter going out tomorrow, on the dangerous rhetoric spread by Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis. wheresyoured.at

And it's now public for all to enjoy! Crystals of Zong puts a neat spin on the maze formula of early arcade games, which shows off how early home computer games could run with those ideas for better or worse! www.youtube.com/watch?v=COfaIs…

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

I finished 9th Dawn III: Shadow of Erthil recently, and there's probably several hundred hours of more "stuff" I could keep playing with if I felt like it. This is a really fun action RPG, all the more remarkable for being, as far as I can make out, a one-man show. moegamer.net/2026/04/13/9...

if your first impression of the little girl from Pragmata is that she is “pedo bait,” it says a lot more about you than anything else FYI

we bought a new cat tree, and I can't look at the brand name without thinking of Soken screaming at his Otomatone while a bewildered pianist watches

I finished 9th Dawn III: Shadow of Erthil recently, and there's probably several hundred hours of more "stuff" I could keep playing with if I felt like it. This is a really fun action RPG, all the more remarkable for being, as far as I can make out, a one-man show. moegamer.net/2026/04/13/9...

This is a real bit that aired on Nine News last night

-I don't remember these tv shows/movies. #MetalGearSolid #ResidentEvil #Metroid #StarFox

New post on da zone! Feed IT Souls (@gumpyfunction.bsky.social) is a small, angry game that balances platforming prowess with wholly warranted techbro bashing. Specifically THAT techbro. You know the one. wackgameboy.zone/2026/04/11/f...

Okay so you might see this video with the audio muted. Now imagine how the music must sound like. I urge you to unmute and listen to what it's actually like because I guarantee you you're not prepared for it.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Picked up some cheap PSVR games as I've been enjoying RE7 in VR. Took a punt on Ultrawings, which had middling reviews, but it's a lot of fun if you like a chilled out slow burn. It's essentially Pilotwings VR.

"use AI or get left behind"

Lmao

where's the "don't get me started" button

Abusive comment on the blog this morning from an idiot going by an antisemitic pseudonym. Gosh, the Internet of 2026 is such a lovely place

there is more raw and immediately understandable human emotion in this than every AI meme ever generated combined

Wow. This is GOOD. I want to see more tech journos actually having the balls to tear into AI bros like this. Relentlessly. And if they don't answer your questions, ask them again. And again. And again.

BioMenace Remastered is coming to Evercade as Game of the Month! Load it up on your @evercade.co.uk, free! Experience the action-packed return of a classic, optimized for Evercade systems. This release includes the complete first episode: "Dr. Mangle's Lab", fully remastered for a new generation.

Game of the Month is BACK! And what a banger we have to kick it off with. Update your Evercade now to enjoy a special "shareware" version of BIOMENACE REMASTERED! Find out more: https://evercade.co.uk/game-of-the-month-biomenace-remastered Watch a vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAu-UFtXTR0

I wish everyone would stop saying "big tent"

Working on next week’s free newsletter: I will never respect a website.

This is why posting a screenshot of a Google AI summary (or chatbot output in general) to "prove" something is never -- never! -- a valid response.

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Free newsletter: We need to talk about the inherent weirdness of the AI bubble, and how strange it is that an industry that loses billions of dollars to create few productivity benefits is described as a disruptive technology rather than an industry of WeWorks. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-really...