It's such a relief using Kagi and not having Amazon at the top of the search results shilling me stuff.

We've hit 30,000 members! Thank you! To celebrate, we're dropping a ton of new merch: aftermath.site/weve-hit-30-00...

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

I see my magazine :O

people claim to want "indie games with worse graphics made by people paid more to work less" right up until said indie game costs more than $20

😅

This is bombshell stuff.

As an added bonus, we're doing something we don't really ever do: We're offering a high-resolution download of our new cover art, with our logo completely removed. The art is absolutely stunning, so I'm glad we could work with Halo Studios to make this happen gameinformer.com/HaloCoverArt

troubling how common it is for people in the games space to use the word “support” when talking about buying things. like sure that is one way to frame a transaction. another way is as, you know, a transaction

South of Midnight a game I think more and more highly of each passing day, a legit modern Black game classic! I'm replaying on Switch 2 Obviously fuck Xbox, this was probably inevitable given that mess, but I also can't help but side eye everyone who didn't check this one out for whatever Reason

Depressingly, the tale as old as time. Studios that imaginative games - owned by companies that don't give two shits about the actual craft of making games, systemic knowledge, or anything like that. All they care about is getting a few numbers up on a spreadsheet and making investors happy.

Amazing. A family of fraudsters. Eric Trump is trying to make money off UFC fights, assuming they were rigged. Cormer has since deleted the posts.

Digimon World 3/2003 and the DS Digimon games are objectively The Coolest Thing Ever™, with superb pixel art, music & vibes... ... but are also grindy as hell and extremely poorly designed. So the mods & cheats are like "remove game from game, I just wanna vibe".

White trash is cooler, it’s got its own pulse, it COMES from something. This is just boomers trying desperately to signify wealth and power. Gold and noise and fireworks and planes and sneakers with suits and Joe Rogan looking like Spike from Tom and Jerry in a Joseph A. Bank sales rack suit

Putting Bud Light out in front of the Trump White House is a funny statement about the durability of culture war complaints

Got Affinity working on Linux. All is right with the world.

PS5 Controller's Best Features Are Finally Working Over Bluetooth on PC. (Repost)

A nice short essay by Rachel Aroesti on the joyless uniformity of taste served through algorithms www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Damn, Pokémon ROMhacks are getting real hardcore

This is dope, I want to read games magazines again Check it out if you wanna see one of my glitch captures for Lady Dracula in print 😁

StreamGuides.gg will officially expire by the end of June. I will not be renewing it. All pages have been saved to IA, I've also exported a static site version that I might be able to tack onto another site to have a mirror. Thanks to all who supported it during its prime!

Go check my Giant Bomb VOD if you missed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLeE...

ohh, I miss gaming magazines..

StreamGuides.gg will officially expire by the end of June. I will not be renewing it. All pages have been saved to IA, I've also exported a static site version that I might be able to tack onto another site to have a mirror. Thanks to all who supported it during its prime!

Stoked!

Mmm.. real paper. A physical thing Get one, you can show it to random kids on a street and tell them about humanity.

Yo, this looks great, instant buy in for me! Support independent print!

Go check my Giant Bomb VOD if you missed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLeE...

When you beat Pokémon Puzzle League on Easy Difficulty, it tells you "Congratulations! Try 'Normal' Difficulty!", and man, I don't need your sass, Pokémon Puzzle League

HAPPY FRIDAY We've got @demodisc.zone joining us on GMM today to chat about Forza Horizon 6 saves getting erased, Gears of War: E-Day, Valve, and more! giantbomb.com/live/chat twitch.tv/giantbomb youtube.com/live/gLeEQ3V...

Douglas Adams: > Anything in the world when you're born is normal, ordinary and a natural part of the world. Anything invented between when you’re 15-35 is new, exciting and revolutionary and you can get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things. 1/

Ten years. I think of this every year on this day. How visceral and personal it felt, even though I was so far away. And they are still coming for us, the Capital C and small c conservatives. Even harder. Remember this day. Remember these names. And keep fighting.

one of the best things I learned in traditional publishing was the [tk] trick. you put [tk: intention] when you don't know what to do yet just so you can move the fuck on and have a searchable thing you can come back to later for all the lines you were stuck on (and it's cheaper and better than AI)

Narrative-driven CRPG Vampire: The Masquerade - Eternal Whispers announced for PC: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/20664-narrative-driven-crpg-vampire-the-masquerade-eternal-whispers-announced-for

A $400 Xbox that displays constant banner ads on the lower third of your screen seems… not outside the realm of possibility. Xbox leadership keeps hinting at bold changes to avoid the $1k console. I expect a big swing

I always have kind of mixed feelings about framings of the indie scene as like, a sort of artistic paradise or a thing that is free of the constraints of capitalism. I feel like it's a framing that feels more based in the illusions of indie game the movie et al than it's ever felt based in reality

Aaron Sorkin’s idea of smart dialogue is people smugly saying trivia at eachother and scowling until one of them’s clever meter is full and they do their ultimate clever boy limit break move and win the conversation

erasing chalk messages is some school bully shit, just the pettiest little move imaginable

We've got a big one today. Almost 20 years after Maxis released Spore, we talked to eight people -- including Will Wright -- about the studio's big experiment.

@dannyodwyer.bsky.social Hey got a crazy idea that I think is not so crazy. May you lend your ear for a brief pitch?

even in a world where generative asset tools had significant upsides to production time, it should be clear that the reputational backlash against them makes it absolutely not worth it. in fairness to Valve, their storefront AI disclosure requirement has really forced this issue into the open.

IGN lays off tech workers following Summer Game Fest, where pro-union messages were erased aftermath.site/ign-summer-gam...

Cooking the oceans and using stolen labor For The Fans, baby,

Oh hello retrorgb.com/eposvox-laun...

We really went from "hey cool games" to "fuck this entire industry" in record time this year, huh.

OK this but for painted miniatures

Gosh, I wonder why component costs for Xboxes have skyrocketed. Probably no reason that Microsoft is a huge contributor to.

Remember that layoffs are a weapon used in class warfare to cause division and exert pressure on the working class.

1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.

"Xbox is Microsoft's pathway to the living room" was definitely said on CNBC 25 years ago, and it was doomed from that moment