Knowing that aging Namco fans like nothing more than a nice comfy snooze, Kadokawa are releasing 3 Namcot Famicom Box Blankets Printed on both sides with the front & rear of the boxes, they come in replica boxes, all with a 16 page FC Namcot game booklet. 3,300円 each www.famitsu.com/article/2025...

Last Samurai Standing Chapter One was really, rather good. Hope we don’t have to wait too long for Chapter Two. #samurai

Live now! Playing some RV There Yet? with my buddies @jmondmon.bsky.social and @kaorihoriuchi.bsky.social! Live on Twitch: twitch.tv/jembawls And Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACbo...

Ghost of Yotei day!

10 handy quality of life tips for working in Unreal Engine. No weird, edge case stuff here, I use this stuff almost every time I open the editor.

Haven’t made one since last year, so I decided to make a new starter pack for the gamers still active here in 2025, as well as some of the main console brands and publishers. 150 accounts included! go.bsky.app/KohJvg7

Giving the Kickstarter campaign for the first issue of SCANLINE ARTIFACTS magazine a fresh boost. It's been a wild success already after just a couple of days, which I'm eternally grateful for <3 Cool features, anime nostalgia, pixel galleries, and gaming memories, delivered right into your hands!

Bought the “Technical Artist Starter Kit” today…gonna try and learn how to be one…or at least how to communicate with the TA’s at work better 🤞 #gamedev #japan

Hello everyone! It's been a while. :) We would like to thank Time Extension for their recent article highlighting the current financial state of the GPS. We would like to expand on it somewhat and respond to some of the comments left by readers. www.timeextension.com/features/we-...

Was browsing MeruKari the other day and decided to search for #TheGetaway …just in case…amongst all the movie dvds there was this! A promo money clip for the #PS2 game! The seller thought it was a promo item for the 70s movie lol. I had one back in the day but lost it on my move to Japan.

Just read the Cannon Fodder article in RetroGamer 269, @hkt3030.bsky.social , and it mentions the PS2 version. I “worked” on that briefly with Jon Hare, putting together a menus/gameflow visualisation in Flash. Think that’s as far as the project went before the London studio was shut down 🤔

Been updating to UE5.5.4 and I do like the fact that the code for “many lights” has been renamed to “mega lights”. lol Some marketing guy had to have a word with a programmer “yeah, I know there are many lights but come on, we need to “sell” this sh*t right? Big it up a bit you know…” #gamedev #ue5

A collectors edition without a disc, is not a collectors edition. Going for the standard edition then. Hopefully they'll release a Steelbook.

This is amazing news! Square Enix, Capcom, Taito, and Sega aim to "archive past development materials" to preserve historical assets for research and exhibitions. Use your browser translate feature to read this great article - unless you can read Japanese anyway! gamemakers.jp/article/2024...

Yikes. Gotta pay an extra ¥20,000 if you want languages other than Japanese on your #switch2 That really sucks 🤦‍♂️

Just finished the Tomb Raider Remasters 1~3 including the extra missions 😅 Those games have some control issues lol. Fun, frustrating but ultimately fulfilling though 👌

Finally finished the Pikuma.com course 2D Game Engine with C++ and Lua. 🎉 Used Lua on KofXIII a bit but never really studied how to use it from scratch. An interesting course. Might do their PS1 programming course next…it’s been years since I did any of that #gamedev

Just a reminder that the latest issue of Retro Gamer is in stores now. It features a PS2 feature, 32-page book of the best PS2 games, a double-sided poster and much, much more. Don't miss it. www.magazinesdirect.com/az-magazines...

There are over 900 unique shmups across all different arcade, console and PC systems, going all the way back to the 80s. Check out our BACKLOGGD page if you want to get into STG or are looking for that long lost title! backloggd.com/u/shmupdb/ga...

Retro Gamer 270 celebrates the PS2's 25th anniversary! Developers share their memories of working on the console, and the Mini PS2 Companion highlights 60 classic games. Also inside: Bubble Bobble, Turrican II, Dino Crisis, Jaz Rignall and more. Get it here: www.magazinesdirect.com/az-magazines...

Thank you @retrogamermag.bsky.social for inviting me and my old bestie @jjbadger1.bsky.social to reminisce about our time at Sony during the PS2 era. Always an honour & a privilege. @hkt3030.bsky.social @retrogamerdaz.bsky.social

UE combining bloom and tonemapping in the same shader thus inextricably tying them together has caused me a few problems this week lol. I’m sure there’s a very good reason for it, but added some flags and managed to work around it 🤞 #UE5 #gamedev

Needed to remove bloom and tonemapping from my translucent materials so got stuck into the #ue5 engine code and added a new translucency render pass (after post process tonemapping). Got it working and learnt a lot of new stuff about the engine code. #gamedev #unrealengine #AGoodDay

Is it a #gamedev thing that on a day off you still end up checking work chats and thinking about how to mask out that 2D UI widget with a 3D render pass stencil buffer? Or does everyone do that? #ue5

🚨 ALERT🚨 It looks like @snutt.bsky.social is in trouble and needs a bit of help!! But never fear, ya boi is here! We'll be teaming up once again for the STREAM OF A LIFETIME (not really) tomorrow at 5pm GMT. idk what time that is in your timezone or mine but i hope to see you there! lil trailer 👇

Been having a little trip down my coding memory lane looking at code I wrote over 20 years ago (3 console generations ago 😱). Impressed with younger me…there’s some nice, clean, well commented code there. Yay me. (Need to go to work tmw and clean up my more recent code 🤦‍♂️) #gamedev

Lot of excitement at the station today…crowds of people taking photos of the local train 🤷‍♂️ #trainspotting #japan #trainspotters

Any recommendations for Canadian whiskey in the bourbon style? I usually drink Four Roses and Makers Mark but gonna switch to Canadian whiskeys for #reasons #whiskey #bourbon

It's Shermie's birthday month so time to post Sherm pics up to the 13th of February ! #KOF #Shermie #cosplay #SNK

The Video Game History Foundation initiates a digital library accessible to all individuals interested in studying games ##gamedev##gamedevelopment##indiedev

Key terminology in Game Publishing #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

If you can download a game and play it is not a dead game, how hard is to understand this!?

Hang on…I think I might have just realised a childish schoolboy error I made and can combine two of my GBuffers into one 🤔🤔 Something to look into tomorrow #ue5 #gamedev

Tempted to make a #shmup this year 🤔 Bought a good Japanese book on the algorithms years ago, so maybe I should try them out Just need a bit more motivation and a LOT more free time. 🤷‍♂️ #gamedev

So started looking into #ue5.5 code and so far doesn’t seem to have radically changed much from last version 😅 which is nice. Hopefully I can just copy my code changes over 🤞 #gamedev

Decided to see what’s going on over here as the “traditional” services are…not what they were. Let’s see how this works out…