i wholeheartedly believe this too dirt 3 is up there with burnout paradise, onrush, and sega rally for me

I haven't been able to hold down a traditional full-time on-site job since 2015. Since 2015, I've: ⚡ Published 23 novels/novellas ⚡ Worked on five games that were critical and commercial hits ⚡ Worked on two unreleased titles All because I've been able to work on a disability-friendly schedule

Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.” www.therage.co/persona-age-...

Hey everyone! Always wanted to get into Picross but don’t quite get how it works? I recorded a little Picross tutorial using CiniCross! Hope this helps!

are they. are they actually genuinely stupid

I don’t care who you are, or where you’re from. Absolutely do not come to America right now.

Fires raging in LA On inaguration day Elon Musk and Big Balls Are running the big show ATC is offline Tariffs set by AI Alligator Alcatraz Hello Chicago Pope No peace for Gaza or Ukraine! Escalation, ICE Raids! Has the world gone insane? That's just the first 150 days!

I remember Resonance of Fate’s negative reception being one of those key moments where I realized just how out of sync I was with most people’s tastes. How can you look at this and not think it’s the coolest shit you’ve ever seen??

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

Kiddo’s got me grinding on Mario Kart Double Dash like I never have before Almost done!

Doing things the "right" way, burning out and then realizing there is another option, coming back and winning it all with no fucks given? Yes please tell me that story forever.

Windows 11’s multi-billion-dollar AI correctly inferred that the only reason I ever open the Win+I settings menu is to toggle between 21:9 and 16:9 for capture and prompted to do it and save me a click. Except it couldn’t even change my display resolution. Something that only took me 3 total clicks

Serious question: Shouldn't the judge…also be expected to know this?

The thing is, games are a content business, a hits business, and a passion business. The fact that they run on computers is secondary to that (and is also of course the highest purpose of any compute device). So can MS get back to that pure place? It takes a lot of work to get there.

Today’s chaotic shakeups at Xbox are sure to leave a lot of anxious gamers with a lot of questions. To help find some clear answers, I sat down with a Microsoft veteran who has a track record of helping users understand the company’s products. www.polygon.com/microsoft-xb...

This is modern luddism. Flock, a $7.5 bn tech company, is encroaching into communities against their will, and elected bodies are refusing to respond to civil and democratically voiced concerns. So citizens are taking matters into their own hands. It's a moral choice, and one that takes courage.

I DON'T WANT TO "SHARE AND CREATE MY OWN STORY" I DON'T WANT A SHARED PLATFORM I WANT YOU TO MAKE SOMETHING COOL, AND THEN I PLAY WITH IT ALONE, NOT IN A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT HOW IS THIS HARD TO UNDERSTAND

now liberals please gather round, so we can walk you through the alternatives to “just voting.” this here is called Direct Action.

“We wanted this to me a careful and smooth transition, so that’s why Sarah and I are out with you only getting 3 days’ notice”

sony kicking themselves today bc they could have friday afternoon news dumped bluepoint

anything happening in video games this week?

the immediate impact is one thing, but this is one of those weeks in the industry that's gonna ripple out over years, in ways we'll only learn about through reporting. so i guess i'm saying, now is a great time to support and read the work those reporters are doing, so they can chase it.

We had a week where all the derisive eyes were on PlayStation due to the Bluepoint closure, and now they’re all back on Xbox. Brilliantly played, Microsoft.

Spencer retiring is, like, okay, he's been signaling that for a few years. Bond not getting his job and instead leaving the company is imo the big story. Something went down there.

Ooooft. Interesting that new MS Gaming CEO Asha Sharma – who was president of Microsoft's CoreAI – promises Xbox won't "flood [its] ecosystem with soulless AI slop" and that its games "always will be art, crafted by humans". That's a big day one claim that will be quoted a lot.

ICONIC

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are coming to Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 digitally next week. gameinformer.com/2026/02/20/p...

new titles added to GOG Preservation Program buff.ly/MTp54GZ #ad -The Wolf Among Us -The Last Express -The Last Express Gold Edition -Eric the Unready -Police Quest Collection -Lost Eden -Space Quest 1+2+3 -The Dame Was Loaded -Kingdom: The Far Reaches -Litil Divil

Anyone know what cameras the mid seasons of Mythbusters were shot on? I.e. 2005 like the Chinese Invasion Alarm episode? I’m mostly just finding “handycams” and then the transition to BM Pockets at the end.

What does a God Of War live service game even look like. It’s a series about one really pissed off guy, who is sometimes a pissed off guy who is sad.

TIL different niches get different like buttons

not to be missed, though: her coach(?)’s literal cartoon-eyes awooga reaction

The job search is horrible for just about everyone but a huge chunk of the entire gaming industry lost their jobs and no one is investing in studios. There literally aren't jobs. They're not coming back for a long time. Gaming isn't a viable career at the moment, and we need to internalize that.

I don't know. I just don't think corporations can make real video games anymore.

We are single-handedly rebuilding the Gawker network

Sorry (and I know this is the point but) what the fuck is left of sociology then

windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal

Here's my guide for getting the Elgato 4K60 Pro working on Linux - youtu.be/jktcqi2V8yI

Humans make art. It's one of the few near-universal human traits. We sing, we draw, we write, we paint, we dream. We make games, we cook, we tell stories. Art is, in the words of Penn & Teller, "What's left when the chores are done." Suffering doesn't help. LIFE helps. Suffering just comes with.

WHAT THE HELL

Here's my guide for getting the Elgato 4K60 Pro working on Linux - youtu.be/jktcqi2V8yI

In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.

Rebuilding won’t happen at all when ICE raids are still going on and the reps are pretending it’s over

Bless her heart. She's never checked out a book from a library, has she?

I'm glad she said that because now they can't pin his next racist post on another staffer again.

I hope things in our industry change for the better in the future. I will not allow anyone to feel this way again.

I saw a conspiracy theory yesterday that the goal is to eliminate all local data storage and push everything into the corporate cloud where it will be scraped to train A.I. (and exploit us) And I'm having a difficult time dismissing it

seeing news about a "memory shortage." it's not a shortage. billionaires who hate you hoarded it all so they could make everything worse and stupider and more expensive, just like with most shortages

Is it fine that I want nothing to do with Mewgenics