really fond of the way Kamille kicks off Zeta Gundam by suddenly starting to Do Things with the same feral intensity that Link has during a Breath of the Wild speedrun. except instead of destroying ganon he's speedrunning becoming so psychic that his brain explodes

New from me: "Being engaged in videogames over the last decade has meant watching a cohort of publisher executives inherit an industry of products, professionals, and consumers they seem to actively resent for failing to produce instant, infinite profits."

New from me: "Being engaged in videogames over the last decade has meant watching a cohort of publisher executives inherit an industry of products, professionals, and consumers they seem to actively resent for failing to produce instant, infinite profits."

the legacy of blind box unboxing videos is long and terrible

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

disturbing news. there were four (4) incorrect beans in my can of chickpeas

platonically ideal creature

I'm not upset that I pronounced "quinoa" wrong until I was like, 18. But I am upset that I'm pretty sure it was Klonoa's fault

i like my food one way: bristling with Nodules

"It was so painful whenever I'd finish a battle and couldn't clamber over to my Pawn fast enough to partake in the thunderclap camaraderie of their congratulatory high five—both Dragon's Dogma 2's best feature, and its greatest source of heartbreak."

goddammit, george

Spoke with King of Dragon Pass designer David Dunham about Thousand Hells, his upcoming "tactical narrative" game that's aiming to make a new watermark for storytelling systems he formalized in the '90s: www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/th...

for 404 media, i wrote about video game clones—who makes them, how they make them, and where the line gets drawn between inspiration and cloning

Spoke with King of Dragon Pass designer David Dunham about Thousand Hells, his upcoming "tactical narrative" game that's aiming to make a new watermark for storytelling systems he formalized in the '90s: www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/th...

I've reached the "doing hand-brushed color correction" phase of gunpla sickness and it's been a very effective way of confronting the great sin of Pride

Possible Worlds Games is proud to announce Path Apparatus by @ckunzelman.bsky.social & @mmcwh.bsky.social—a study of & system for lifepaths in TTRPGs! Find it alongside our fall pre-orders, available on its own or with combined shipping for November delivery: realis.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

"The Kennedy Mudslide"

Seeing a whole lot of people saying 'I want to get back into/catch up with Warframe but I don't know where to start!' Log in. Are you on a main quest? if so, continue that. If not, go to the Codex terminal. Click Main Quests. Whichever is uncompleted and in the top left? That's what you do next.

Sometimes all you need to see is ten seconds to understand that a game has The Sauce. No title or Steam page on this one yet but I'm on board day one.

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

this whips

Something a bit more personal than usual: For the last 10 years my dad has been struggling with a version of ALS, a terrible neuromuscular disease. He's kept up his spirits by making photo books chronicling his life as a photographer+traveler. I'm helping sell them now to pay for nursing care:

Part of why I love PC Gaming is you can see an Odin Sphere dev made a fifteen dollar game after going full monk mode and just throw that shit in your cart.

goddamn manchego is good as hell

I love data:

tfw the US economy has changed significantly over the last generation, and never more so than right now

What Microsoft did to id Software this week was a tragedy -- a failure to safeguard the lives of its workers. But it was also a telling failure of vision to have *that* legacy in your hands and to discard it like so much nothing

"She'll be joined by Stanford economics professor Chalres I. Jones—'currently on leave at Anthropic'—and Marc Andreessen: tech VC, major AI investor, and guy who believes you can improve an LLM's results by simply instructing it to be very, very smart."

little tip for anyone who wants to be reading stuff online more attentively (this is sincere): Take your hand off the mouse when you don't need to scroll farther down the page. Helps curb the impulses to chase the good brain chemicals by finding something to click

back at Kotaku, talking about the new audio-animatronic pirate at Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean, a very serious subject worthy of close consideration kotaku.com/disneylands-...

if nothing else, I'm comforted by knowing this will all make for some pretty compelling episodes of the niche enthusiast podcasts enjoyed by future generations

this is terrible, man

tfw the US economy has changed significantly over the last generation, and never more so than right now

Lincoln Carpenter, news writer for a videogame website, ends his workday in the typical fashion: closing a series of browser tabs related to Federal Reserve monetary policy and CDC statistics on drownings

they sure will:

ME, MINUTES BEFORE DISASTER: man I should really find something else to get up on the site before the day's over

"She'll be joined by Stanford economics professor Chalres I. Jones—'currently on leave at Anthropic'—and Marc Andreessen: tech VC, major AI investor, and guy who believes you can improve an LLM's results by simply instructing it to be very, very smart."

goddammit i cant stop laughing at this fuckingn post

I love data:

Launching a new website about video games today. Meet @respec.net. A sibling to @rpgsite.net, a spiritual successor to VG247, & a brother from another mother to other 100% independent UK media brands like @videogameschronicle.com and @trueachievements.com. www.respec.net/feature/87-w...

sorry, @dmg04.bsky.social

New from me: Talking to some of the folks on the frontier of porting retro games to PC, and saying 'fuck AI' while they do it

you don't tug on Superman's cape you don't spit into Superman's cape you don't pull the cape off the old Superman and you don't tug on Superman's cape

"You'll need a shortened cape transmog to pair it with, though; otherwise, your cloak will obscure the desired fecal effect. Can you imagine? Going through all the trouble of shitting your pants without anyone being able to see the results? Embarrassing."

this looks sick. but also: is the uptick in vampire games a recession indicator

the machines have robbed me of my god-given right to do some cornball shit now and then and I won't stand for it

I tried something different for my Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake review. I played the new game... and then beat the 2013 original as well. www.pcgamer.com/games/assass...

"You'll need a shortened cape transmog to pair it with, though; otherwise, your cloak will obscure the desired fecal effect. Can you imagine? Going through all the trouble of shitting your pants without anyone being able to see the results? Embarrassing."