The Séance of Blake Manor made the GameSpot 10 Best Games of 2025 List. "The Séance of Blake Manor's pacing, design, art, and narrative coalesce into an elegant detective experience that will leave you punching the air as its secrets begin to unravel." www.gamespot.com/gallery/game...

So making a bad AI advert that nobody liked took significantly longer than just filming it would have? Hmm… I wonder what’s the material and legal distinction between unionised film production and AI tech bros… Nope, no idea… <_<

As Claire is probably not making a comeback any time soon, a reminder that Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is actually rather good - it’s the same leads as the remakes of 2 and 4.

Leon Kennedy being in another Resident Evil game is bad actually, in this essay…

Currently watching @cmanticore.bsky.social playing Thief Gold for the first time after years of me talking about it. Bafford’s down and she’s now into Cragscleft, not a fan of the zombies but guards are proving no real issue.

I’m baffled that they somehow made an amazingly beautiful and melancholic Metroid Prime game and then added in a bunch of escort missions and chatty companions circa-2005. O_o

Samus Aran, Combat Archaeologist.

We have been delighted with the reception to The Séance of Blake Manor from those of you who have played and and those who reviewed it. 🥰🫶 To celebrate check out our Accolades Trailer:

I have played the tutorial and first level of Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow. I like it. VR asides - and there are some nice VR specific touches - it feels like a cross between Thief 4 and Deadly Shadows.

Chris Person takes a look at Horses, "the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form" (quoted from the article blurb). aftermath.site/horses-indie... At least read this paragraph:

That list of HORSES’ content going around as some kind of condemnation is particularly ridiculous, because you know what else has blood, gore, torture, full frontal nudity, depiction of slavery and implied sexual assault? Baldur’s Gate 3! And somehow no issues being sold. I wonder why (it’s money).

The kids are alright…

It’s 2025 and there’s somehow a new Metroid Prime and a new Thief game out tomorrow.

I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).

I made sure to let @gtelephant.bsky.social know about them before he got home last night and still scared him with them accidentally.

Oh no, my room has been invaded by Mimics… #Prey (Made by @cmanticore.bsky.social 🥰)

The “British Public“ voted for Brexit don’t fucking listen to us…

Based on the stated guidelines GTA V should probably not be available to buy on Steam or EGS. 🤔

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

This might still be disappointing, but I appreciate the laser targeting of this trailer toward me specifically. youtu.be/UvLlHUUmP9M?...

Execs pushing AI are "not the most humane or creative people," says Rockstar co-founder, comparing the tech to "mad cow disease" www.eurogamer.net/execs-pushin...

So they added Fortnite Crew to GamePass added the prices together and took off $1?

“… unlock agentic productivity for Office artifacts.” Come on, what are we doing here? This is utter nonsense.

It is not 23 years old, you take that back right now… 👨‍🦳

So… There are still technical reasons for this though they are ones that could be solved another way. The most common is their use as a way to break up the NavMesh so enemies can’t follow players into certain areas. This seems to be their primary use in Silent Hill f for example.

Silent Hill f feels like it understands Silent Hill - and late 90s early 2000s survival horror - perfectly. In the most positive way it feels like it is a product of that era.

Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

If the US government shuts down can they still pay the wages of the troops they are sending into US cities?

~8 minutes of continuous gameplay and they don’t get into a fight and are actually sneaking. O_o youtu.be/hRpMnw70PXk?...

If EA gets prime rate (which it wont with a single B rating) its 7.25% which is $1.5 B. Their total profit was for 2024 was $2.08B. This doesn't look like a company meant to survive.

I’m sure giving a British PM control of Palestine will work out fine, not like that’s ever gone wrong in the past. <_<

It's another Steam sale, which means it's time for 65% off our debut game, Eternal Strands! That's SO MANY PERCENTS! store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/...

Hollowbody is 40% off over on Steam 🙌 go grab it and leave a nice lil review if you wanna support more games from meeeee store.steampowered.com/app/2123640/...

I wrote about this in "The Unaccountability Machine" - when you describe leveraged buyouts to ordinary people, half of them say that it should be illegal and the other half are often convinced that it already is.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Hard Drive Has Been Sold to Shinra Electric Power Company in 100 Trillion Gil Deal

"Back when game devs still cared..."

Generally this stands but the back half of the game sure does like to go all “Blighttown” on the player.

Good luck to everybody at EA about to be sacrificed to the pyre of capitalism.

EA privately acquired in $55bn deal by group of investors, including Saudi Arabia's investment fund and Donald Trump's son-in-law www.eurogamer.net/ea-privately...

As much as I want, and fully expect, the AI bubble to burst we’re at the point where when it does a large chunk of the world economy is going to go with it and we’ll be facing another global financial collapse, so that’s a comforting thought.

We really shouldn’t be contorting ourselves to please the folks whose take on Silent Hill 2 Remake was that the sexual abuse victim wasn’t “hot enough”. <_<

The first combat tutorial you get in Silent Hill f is how to dodge, the next it’s how to run away and hide. You don’t get a weapon until the third or fourth encounter. Weapons degrade and break to the point that constantly fighting is unsustainable.

To a great degree we’re dealing with the fallout from a generation of men who got lucky once during a specific moment in tech evolution, made to feel as gods, but are all now suffering their mid-life crises having accomplished nothing else of note. These men have made nothing other than money.

Charlie Kirk’s memorial coincides with reported Grindr outages in Arizona https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/23/charlie-kirks-memorial-coincides-with-reported-grindr-outages-in-arizona/?utm_content=1758644405&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

LOL

My professional assessment is that Ezra Klein is a moron @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

You know you can just make GDC style talks and post them online, that’s like a thing anybody can do*. *Assuming clearance from legal where applicable.

Interestingly the reason paracetamol is hard to get in the US is because when it was invented the guy who’d invented aspirin slandered it in true Edison style. I took aspirin once for a migraine in America: might as well have put a lemon on my forehead. joke medicine

Oh I just googled what the hell tylenol is and, lol. it’s paracetamol. Here in the UK every child under 6 is about 5% calpol between October and march so i guess we’re just going to beat the shit out of the US at chess for years to come