Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf

Alternativt forslag: KRF kan sporenstraks reise tel helvete og bli der. Satans soppskolta.

I can only assume the people who made this poisonous-mushroom shaped teething toy for babies are in fact enacting a devious plot to reduce the global baby population www.thenaturalbabyco.com/products/oli...

Fountain pens are wonderful to write with, beautiful to look at, and so pleasing to hold. And more fragile than the cheapo disposable pens. Yes, I dropped another Metropolitan on the floor. Yes, I bent the nib and snapped the shaft. (In some ways less dirty than it sounds, in others...not so much)

psst, no one is struggling with this - we are trying to create singular things that resonate with a huge audience or resonate hugely with a specific audience. We "struggle" with how tech and VC funding has broken almost every creative economy we have. So thanks but no thanks

Oh, God, this is one of those "where do I even start" things, because Roblox is, like, *fractally* fucked. They are terrible at content moderation. A lot of the games are rated incorrectly, so kids can encounter graphic content (sex or violence) out of nowhere --

Ikke at jeg bryr meg en døyt om fotball, men 100% enig i dette "[...]popularitet formes av ressurser, prioritering og synlighet. Kvinnefotballen blir ikke mer populær av at skjevfordelingen videreføres." Man skjønner hva som betyr noe ut i fra hva det får av oppmerksomhet og synlighet.

Les denne!

Hooooo boi that gave me major creeps.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

"We found out later that Keighley had a party in another room with all the influencers and industry people. You know where Future Class met that day? At a Starbucks.”

Har dere noensinne irritert dere over mangelen på salt i Hyrule, eller at Skyrim og andre fantasysettinger ignorerer følgene av landbruksrevolusjonen i sin fremstilling av primærnæringer i spill? Det har jeg. www.gamer.no/artikler/jeg...

Being stuck on a bus with a bunch of drunk, singing football fans, reminds me just how much I hate football.

we are currently in the bad quadrant of "historically interesting" x "strategically deeply unfun to play"

strategy games often have historical trappings, as people are familiar with the narratives of historical wars. But this focuses "games that deliver history" on "histories that are strategically interesting", and precludes much of "histories where people are really fucking irrational and it's bad"

Men herregud da NRK

The Game Awards not paying for Future Class members' *coffee order* is fucking batshit, and it is far from the worst thing in this thread.

Good to have that extra time for union busting

One of the albums I keep coming back to is Myrkur’s Mareridt (2017). Beautiful, powerful and serene. Utterly magical and bewitching. A no-skip through and through, combining black metal and folk music beautifully.

the level of wishcasting is astonishing, they really believe they have a magic fairy dust they can sprinkle over a game production and it'll make huge chunks of the workforce redundant

doodles.google/doodle/celeb... Yo @developers.google.com did you pick up a couple copy of Venba? We're just a teeny indie team and our art was pretty distinctive and this looks eerily similar Anyways in good faith, the game is on all platforms, credits easily accessible, link below

I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.

I feel so bad for the workers exposed to this nonsense from the big hats, and for video game culture at large. Fuck the big hats.

Trying to get work done when someone is running powertools and drilling concrete in the building is so. fucking. exasparating.

Også byråkratens fredagsfølelse

Autumn weather is here, and I am all for it. Be content little tea-dudes, you’ll get plenty of soak in the coming weeks. Just look at how content those two look, gloriously smug and content.

I wrote earlier about the magic of B-games and @keefstuart.bsky.social continues that perfectly while looking at Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. "The game is also a reminder that flawed-but-fascinating games were once the backbone of the industry." Go read and remember the OK-weird games

Signal er en nydelig app! Den er lagd som et svar på at de kommersielle løsningene alle dreide seg mot overvåking, reklame og misbruk av opplysningene dine. Signal sentralt vet bare 3 ting om deg: telefonnummer, når du registrerte deg, og når du brukte den sist. Mine barn har Signal. Det burde du og

Once again: oliviarafferty.substack.com/p/50-spotify...

Ok, time to find a better alternative to that shit. Long overdue either way, due sheer laziness and years of playlists, but no time like the present. Which streaming service treats the artists best?

This is why I’d even pay a premium to have things *not* connected to the web.

The mind turns to a slimy slug covered in mucus and feathers when you’re stuck in a conference you *really* have no interest, reason or cause to be at beyond «it’s important to show face.» They had even hidden away the coffee machine so that I couldn’t find it ’til halfway through!

I note some opposition to this proposition, ie "But surely [author] holds up better than every other!" and "there is no perceptible variation in literary opinion based on disparate life experiences," and in both cases: oh, honey. Okay.

Nettavisen fant tydeligvis ut at det ikke var plass i overskriften til å nevne at de bortviste var MOTdemonstranter som hadde opptrådt 'verbalt ubehagelig' _mot_ Palestina-demonstrantene.

"While most players barely buy games at all, a small fraction of them spend a ton. 'Hyper enthusiast, price-insensitive players are really keeping things going, especially in the non-free-to-play gaming space,' he wrote." #gamestudies

Spill er lek, fylt med mening. Men når konkurranse tar over, mister vi spill som handler om følelser, omsorg og refleksjon. Spill som ikke ber deg om å vinne, men om å være til stede og å reflektere.

for anyone who hasn't seen these things happen before everything said by EA here is lies. not optimism, uncertainty, or naive confusion - just fully aware, calculated, researched, expert lying. no one in giant deals like this goes into it for business as usual or gets surprised by not planning ahead

I recommend Unavowed with all my heart. It is one of my favorite games and just a bloody good example of what a excellent adventure game can be. Do yourself a favor, give Unavowed a peak.

This isn't a review of Silksong, since I physically can't play. Instead, this is a reflection of the Metroidvania genre, particularly exploring Silksong's failures and minor successes. Read my latest Access Designed on @ign.com here: www.ign.com/articles/hol...

If you don't have it yet you should pick it up now in case they try to do a shitter move and have the free/cheap editions pulled to juice the remaster's numbers later.

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

Norsk presse: Det er krise at folk ikke henter nyhetene sine fra redaktørstyrte nyheter. Også norsk presse: Charlie Kirk var en snill, kristen familiemann, som kjempet mot de onde transhordene for retten til å kunne beskytte familien sin mot invasjonen av ulovlige, kattespisende innvandrere.

"hvorfor sender NRK dette propagandistiske USA-arrangementet direkte, fullt av ufiltrert kristen-radikal ytterste høyre-nasjonalisme?" Vet du, det lurer jeg også på

This feels relevant and current... Why does this feel relevant and current? hmmm...

I'm not one for the action-packed zombie games like the Dying Light-series, but having seen the trailer for The Beast, I had malapropos idea; what about a theHunter Call of the Wild-type of game with zombies? Just bare-bones survival and living of the land in the zombie apocalypse.

Do you invert your controllers? Do you think about why? Well, someone did and published a research paper on just that. #gamestudies