An important update from Compulsion Games.

THE X-FILES (1998) Dir. by Rob Bowman #KillerQuotes

Hey, you remember magazines that came with free video game demos, right? Or were they demos that came with a free magazine? 🤷🏻‍♂️. Either way, those days of trekking to your local newsagent are long, long gone. My next video for @retrohutch.com discusses what made them special. Why not have a teaser?

I fear we were too hard on the CD Cenobite. A beautiful creature who really embodied the pain/pleasure of being a dedicated lover of physical media.

Let's go! c.org/sN5YC4FKrH

Evercade - Physical Forever. https://evercade.co.uk

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"We're ending physical disc production, but don't worry — we're ALSO shutting down our digital stores!" blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/a...

So announcing this and closing the PS3 and Vita stores on the same day takes some balls. I hope games decide to kick them in them.

incredible of playstation to announce the end of physical disc production the week after they deleted all the movies you bought digitally from your account

this news coming at the same time as "We're stopping physical media production" means I don't even have to explain why fully shifting to digital is Bad

The world was a better place when Lemmings was such a big deal they couldn't make enough of them. Are any of the old DMA Design guys still at Rockstar? It's not too late to cancel GTA 6 and make Lemmings Paintball 2 instead

#Starmer's 10 words that created his own downfall. Hammering the nails in his own coffin.

I don't want a download code, I want a physical game on a disk

Sounds like AI is a huge liability and billionaires are mega-crybaby about it as per. "established studios with a positive track record see a "catastrophic" 40% to 60% drop in sales when they use AI"

A fascinating read for Gremlins fans. IndieWire explores the discovery and reconstruction of a nearly three-hour assembly cut of @thejoedante.bsky.social’s Gremlins, reconstructed from the director’s VHS work tapes. www.indiewire.com/features/int...

Insomniac Games on ‘Wolverine’ 🎮 “The physical version will include a disc in box”

mk2 reflecting pool

The Blair Witch returns in 2027. From director Dylan Clark, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT will release in theaters September 24, 2027.

every time you see a headline that begins with “we have to,” replace the “we” with “you” and you’ll immediately understand the purpose of the piece and the power dynamics at play

Goodbye to the human rights lawyer who decided that elderly peace protestors with cardboard signs are terrorists

Remember him this way *forces out a tear*

"I say, the door is open and you can leave"

LOL - could you live on £115,000? Given about 97% of the UK population do live on less than that, the answer is yes, very comfortably Huddled masses outside the Telegraph offices, "please 'curse' me!"

Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

*announcer voice* “RESIDENT EVIL… TAX EVASION!”

Holy shit they have risen! @mylifeingaming.bsky.social and @cgquarterly.bsky.social

Great moments in gaming history: Lara Croft conducts the London Symphony Orchestra while they record the score for Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness.

So tired of blacking out every full moon when I really want to stay up and help the townsfolk hunt for the werewolf

C’mon England!!!

We asked the Crystal Dynamics team about its use of generative AI in developing Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. Here’s what Jeff Adams, experience director on the game, had to say.

30 billion street and environmental scans from Pokémon GO players were used to train US military drones www.resetera.com/threads/15...

Here's a cool indie game that got lost in the noise this week. 👇 ROLLA is a Katamari-like, horror B-movie inspired arcade destruction game where you roll around a city as a mass of flesh. It's got the sauce. One of my fave reveals this week. 🍝 (Wishlist ROLLA on Steam)

Every day brings new ideas, tasks, and information. Joplin helps you capture it all in one place, so nothing important gets lost. #Joplin #NoteTaking #Productivity #DigitalNotes #OpenSource

In Paper Mario: Color Splash, a Shy Guy is trapped in a water wheel after being bullied. The internal name for this pose is "crucify". This suggests that the original intent may have been for him to actually evoke a crucifixion before it was decided this may be in bad taste.

‘It soothes me’: why The Blair Witch Project is my feelgood movie

Centrists sometimes do not understand why the far-right wants to remove the best-functioning parts of the economy: they prioritise inequality over traditional growth. Renewables, active mobility, public transport and nature restoration benefit almost everyone. www.businessgreen.com/news/4530440...

Gitaroo Man and an hour of some other games

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

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An intern approaches the throne room of He Who Decides NSO Games. "My lord, the players, they beg for Nintendo DS to be added to NSO, and they threaten to-" HWDNG interrupts by raising a hand, and says "Give them Bible Adventures on NES." The intern's eyes well up with tears and thanks HWDNG.

Victoria's land tax freed up supply and lowered prices for families. That's what we want. "From an affordability perspective, home values being flat or falling is actually good news" "the loss of property investors has been offset by first home buyers returning"