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NEW COVER for Mitsuda month! Finally leaving his PS1 era and skipping ahead 20+ years with an example of his glorious knack for powerful, emotional pop songwriting, which seems to be his primary focus these days: A Step Away - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (full vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyK_...)

FFTT

I haven't had soda in years. someone left a coke in my fridge, and out of curiosity I tried it, and oh my god how do people drink this it's like a bottle of sugar syrup or possibly that stuff they put in mummies to make them last forever

I absorbed absolutely nothing about the game but wooooow Killer Inn has a fantastic soundtrack music.apple.com/us/album/why...

lol, lmao

polyrhythhhhhhhmmmm yes

microsoft's cuts make a lot more sense if you consider A) they don't care about games they care about freeing up resources for satya to spend on AI and B) Asha Sharma neither knows nor cares about video games and is just moving numbers around on a spreadsheet and saying "we must make tough choices"

I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.

FF12 Reddas

translating rules, what an extremely cool profession that I love dearly

microsoft as a corporation has been at the vanguard of making games worse for the people who make them and the people who play them for decades now, and they will continue to do untold destruction to the people and legacies of every studio they hoovered up with their billions of dollars.

imo laying off 1,600 people today and threatening those who survive this bloodbath with the promise that you'll lay off another 1,600 sometime over the next 12 months is literally psychological warfare

I want to re-emphasize one part of this Xbox story: Half of the 3,200 cuts are happening today and half are happening in the next 12 months. In other words, even people who survived today's layoffs will have to spend the coming year wondering if they're going to be next.

asha sharma going "we want 1 billion players a day" a nice reminder that these execs are fundamentally incapable of understanding that their customers do not have infinite money or even just that time is finite. they just think you haven't been fed the right marketing yet to get you on board

I and a good number of very talented game devs were laid off by Obsidian as part of the Microsoft sacrificial rituals this morning. If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Writer/ND with more than two decades' experience in titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, please let me know!

I really appreciate the headline here. I think studies need to be done on the CEO brain, do they think we're all very stupid, or do they have no grasp of reality at all? My bet is on a mix of both.

Jack is extremely gracious with his praise, because truthfully it's his great ideas and research skills in tracking down these fantastic opportunities to learn more about gaming history, but I am still very happy to get to work with him on awesome projects like this!

ridiculously busy and traveling a lot lately, and so naturally on my one weekend off at home I catch a cold

I love how they expanded on the story in this game.

I love SimCity 3k so much www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6mQ...

Spending my morning writing a statement for press inquiries about all this when all I want to do is say "consumers haven't had purchasing power in about ten years now because we gave all of our money to like ten weird guys, what did you all expect"

The use case for abominable intelligence is now clear: expose CEOs to the machine that makes you go crazy and then get a huge settlement after the fallout

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

as a primary pc/steam deck player now I do skew digital these days and tend to only go physical for RPGs, but I gotta tell you, from dismantling their JP portfolio to...everything else, sony has methodically done all they can to remove any allure behind me continuing to buy their consoles.

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

Xbox's unionized workers have joined forces across teams to speak out and fight back against looming layoffs, demanding protections not just for union members, but for all Xbox workers. https://kotaku.com/unionized-workers-xbox-respond-layoff-reports-will-not-be-treated-disposable-2000711455

This is literally a gag in Parks and Rec youtu.be/I1CyeKZKSrg?...

Watching the writers of the Avatar live action systemically miss the point of literally every single character's arc and then pat themselves on the back for it is making me legitimately insane

every closure and layoff is a tragedy, but seeing bungie people with 20+ years experience affected is hitting extra hard twenty years! people who worked on reach, and halo 2! and you just throw that in the bin? fuck off!

this is not directed at anyone in particular, as i have seen this sentiment shared relatively often since before i become a part of the games industry, but i don't get people who have Made It in a particular field who then tell younger generations "don't" when they dream of doing the same

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

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Bungie friends, I am so, so sorry. You deserve better.

The video games corporation is discontinuing their popular product, the video game

any bungie mutuals, happy to chat and offer referrals if you see roles at tpci you're interested in

every new release of a deltarune chapter brings us close to all of the chapters being out and me finally being able to play it

Continuing my series comparing the original and WotL translations of Final Fantasy Tactics this month! This time, I cover from where we left off at Sand Rat's Sietch to the first encounter with Milleuda at Brigand's Den. annacairistiona.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/f...

it's very important that no one does anything that could make me slightly less money no matter what it is

the only hope for new games is to do the thing that as of this moment i'm moderately sure will allow me personally to make more money

ayyy i got promoted!

Still love this Mathias I painted years ago 🖤 Can’t believe Castlevania is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year! Need to find time to draw more from this beautiful game ;v;❣️

leftist politics is rooted in taking care of each other, establishing systems and policies that support/protect a working class that could very easily fall through the cracks. it is not comparable to moderates, and you are either fundamentally dumb or disingenuous to equate it to far-right bullshit.

Translators! Please, *please* get yourselves a website that lists your publications, credits, qualifications, etc. It doesn’t have to be fancy, just a place where people can see what your deal is. I can’t hire you based on your Bluesky profile.

I am all for the continuation of Krystelle’s Chillwave! 🩵💚 I do wish they were pulling from a deeper well with these selections—almost all of these are *the* representative track from their respective games. And that’s boring! Give me weird, deep cuts. I don’t need to hear BatBB ever again, frankly.

We will be having another Kanto Manga Loc (and More) Meetup on June 29, 2026 in Tokyo! If you would like to attend or know more about the meetups, please feel free to message me.