Been trying to explain why economy increasingly feels like it's running wholly on rich people passing each other same bag of money - innovation is stalled, unemployment is rising, but stock tickers are still somehow going up. This example captures the current state of our economy perfectly.

this is one of the most chilling scenes in jurassic park, wherein, rather than showing us the brutality on screen, the movie uses sound effects to imply the gruesome violence as the cow beats the shit out of a bunch of velociraptors

For our map theme week, I wrote about RPG overworlds and how their abstraction of a space let them avoid the tedium that many modern open world games suffer from. I also have something in there about Borges and the French New Wave because why not, Garretts currently on a boat, no one can stop me.

The original "hueg liek xbox" photoshop, discovered this week on an old hdd.

Well don't I feel stupid

Missed this one as a kid

Missed this one as a kid

A closer look at a directional signage from the Colorful Mall track of 'Sonic Racing CrossWorlds'. Bathrooms, baby changing and wheelchair accessibility icons appear - but uniquely, all of them have animal ears!

Videodrome - a man who thinks he's immune to idealogical manipulation goes insane due to idealogical manipulation and kills a bunch of people due to idealogical manipulation, 10/10, too bad the internet wasn't invented yet so there's no way it can be relevant today.

Good morning

While I'm all for telling people to play old games encouragingly, acting like people watch old movies as an example of what other media do rather than remakes is a fucking laugh riot. Most people out there would rather die than watch a movie older than DVD

It's kind of crazy how much AI slop is on the internet like I'm talking AI slop generated descriptions of obscure MS-DOS titles like Scooter’s Magic Castle

In honor of Myst's birthday, here's some footage we helped Cyan recover... This is part of an unused easter egg from Myst that would've appeared in the Mazerunner puzzle, featuring the original dev team! Watch the full video in our digital archive: archive.gamehistory.org/item/f969182...

Actively talk about how insane this is let people who are not online know how much this will impact them and how fucking creepy is. Stuff like this pass easily due to apathy and distractions like what’s going on in global politics. Once shit like this is in no government will chose to remove it

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Wikipedia: Jack falls down the hill and injures his head. Jill stumbles as well shortly after. TVTropes: The hill scene. Dear God, the hill scene. Not only did Jack fall down and get a head injury, his sister did as well. Water fans will think twice about fetching a pail after seeing this!

The game Asmongold asked 'Who is this even for?' over. The answer, apparently, is 'everyone but him'.

Small TGS thread starting with this game where you have to lift a bale (empty) into the correct position

A new addition to the list of Games with Perfect Cover Art

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They do know JC Denton has abs right? Like they are aware that he is ripped? He's a cybernetic super soldier, they know that right?

The more I think about it the more I’m fascinated with the idea of remastering a game from 2000 to look like a game from 2004.

This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.

this is like when you opened an EGM in early 2005 and saw a fake prerendered screenshot for what ps3 games could look like

Here we are - born to be kings

It keeps happening, I hate it.

*being force fed directly into the mouth of a shark that hungers for the flesh and blood of man* why can't we just all get along everbody?

"oh but it's clunky oh it's ugly oh I have to rebind the controls oh I have to download a zip file" do you actually want to play this game, or do you just want to be able to say that you've played this game

made this as fast as i could

I love it so much when that kinda thing happens

I’ll have a full review on this once I’ve finished it, but needless to say it’s a remaster with all the care and respect needed to improve on the classic original. It’s clear Maehiro understood the assignment. And, I can’t believe I’m saying this, the new graphics are gorgeous.

The ultimate in Japanification of box art (PAL version is the original)

Hades 2 | Reviews 10 - IGN 10 - GameGrin 10 - TheGamer 10 - Gamespot 10 - Eurogamer 10 - Noisy Pixel 10 - Screen Rant 10 - Videogamer 10 - Hardcore Gamer 10 - GameReactor UK 9.5 - Destructoid 9.5 - GamingTrend 9 - Slant 9 - PCMag 9 - Twinfinite 9 - GamingBolt 8 - Metro 8 - Inverse MC: 93 OC: 93

So it seems that HDR is broken in yet another UE5 games. Devs are dropping the ball and Epic has a real problem here. HDR generally never works right in UE5 games and it needs addressing. OLED TVs are hugely popular - most displays do HDR these days.

The ultimate Sega Nomad - the box From 家電のケンちゃん

'NiGHTS: Moonlight Dreams' (Original demo) by Marco Fly with NiGHTS to the tops of the mountains or descend to contemplate the beautiful bonsai trees floating in the moonlight. https://sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showcase/nights-moonligh-dreams.2800/

I thought this had been painted until I saw the sides, then bottom. That's some yellowing right there. www.ebay.com.au/itm/27534000...

We had some great guests on on this one so we get to talk about Space Invaders and Dogpatch from more of a holistic historical discussion and not just you press the button to shoot - enjoy! (Yes the thing about running low on coins to play the machine is true).

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Sometimes in my work I need to delete the Blender Default Cube, but don't worry, the cube consents to this!

in June of 2026 the arms of everyone who has licked a Nintendo Switch game "just to see how bad it is" will fall off simultaneously

The Bologna museum of coin-ops and pinball seems to have unearthed the original schematics for the early (1976) Sega coin-op Heavyweight Champ (today considered to be lost media). Using them, the game could now theoretically be rebuilt from scratch.

for those who don't know, this is what Higurashi is actually about

C'mon man, Higurashi When They Cry is 100% not that.

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

吞食天地4:楚汉光辉 is a 1999 Tactical RPG that plays like a mix of story-based RPG + Heroes of Might & Magic / King's Bounty. You play as a Liu Bang in his journey to become the first Emperor of the Han Dynasty. More importantly, the combat animations are insane. Look at this duel between generals: