You really do have to take dating sims/romances seriously. Not love them. Not know everything about them. Not even play them. But take them seriously. They're a legitimate, influential, long-running genre, and the lack of awareness and acceptance in English-speaking circles should be embarrassing.

Personal update: today is my last day at tinyBuild. The past 3.5 years have been amazing. I learned so much and met so many great people, many of whom became close friends. I feel incredibly lucky to have worked on iconic, award-winning games with my talented colleagues. Thanks for everything 💙

Did someone say ✨BRAND NEW DEMO?!✨ That’s right, Hozy is taking part in #SteamNextFest and we’ve got a new demo for you to try! Find out everything you need to know here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3326230/view/613188207016673354

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

After listening to The Rising Tide for a few more days my latest verdict is that it's Good, just very much not emo Overall Sunny Day is great for people who enjoy melody more than lyricism, and guitar-centric rock minus flashy solos (solo as a concept simply does not exist in SRDE universe)

‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

GodotCon 2026 is happening soon and it is time to submit your proposals! 🇳🇱 Amsterdam 📅 23-24 of April 📍Pathé Amsterdam Noord The ticket shop up yet, but you can start submitting your proposals for talks or workshops using this link: 🔗 talks.godotengine.org/godotcon-ams...

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

My game "Heavy Is The Crown" is out! A game about consequences, originally made as a Game Poems submission with the theme "First Moves". Peep the Kingdom Hearts reference. rinoaskyes.itch.io/heavy-is-the...

My latest take on Sunny Day Real Estate discography: Diary: needless to say it's a timeless masterpiece, a lightning in a bottle, a moment of eternity captured in sound. But it's also the single gateway for anyone to get into their music. So sadly if you don't fw Diary then SRDE is not for you

Happy Year of the Horse 🐎 🧧🎊

The latest episode of How to Pitch Games JUST DROPPED 💥 Join the tinyBuild team and guest judge Valeria from @devgamm.bsky.social as they evaluate pitches from @frogteamdevs.bsky.social and Ada Eden! Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/OT5rM5dhoUA

"But RPG Maker only lets me make ugly, old-lookinh pixel rpgs" Not true

The wildest part of learning Chinese kids’ obsession with midwest emo is that the album made by the band that this person from the post below is in showed up among midwest emo album rec videos on my Douyin FYP a couple of times already 😭 bsky.app/profile/zogz...

Wow I completely missed this, the last edition in Oct 2023 was a lot of fun! It's a great event to enjoy games and talk to devs in a more intimate setting See you there!

Especially true for certain countries 💀

I know it's meant in good faith but "if we just made smaller scope games and charged 20-40 dollars for them it would fix the industry" is very funny to me. indies release like 20 of those a week on steam. are you buying them? is the industry fixed? no? hm. sounds like you need a different solution

RTs appreciated~

Valve is introducing the ability to include your hardware specs in any reviews you leave on Steam. https://bit.ly/3ZzVRHu

Finally wrote another blog post! I shared the full chart of the top 20 best-selling Chinese premium games in 2025 and wrote a recap of all the drama, controversies and review bombs. Also includes some personal game recs and commentary jingtong.bearblog.dev/chinese-game...

I’d like to flex that I saw Deftones for the second time yesterday 🫰

This is like seeing HQ kill the joke of 67. Chinese Embassy in the US has started a “becomingchinesechallenge” on Facebook. Now you have a four week window to become Chinese! Just kidding that’s the death time of this trend.

Refreshing game title store.steampowered.com/app/3898880/...

Really enjoyed playing through the demo for Vholume, new game by one of the Straftat/Babbdi devs and featuring music by 1000 Eyes (Signalis composer). In love with the architecture, the hidden little snapshots of lives lived in an impossible space.

I was led to believe by video games and martial arts films there would be more underground fighting tournament societies than pedophile trafficking cults

Someone made a fan game for Guangdang on itchio, arguably one of the best cats that exist and have ever existed www.instagram.com/p/DUcxBcjknM...

Should have listened to Xi.

I came across this post that made me understand why midwest emo or emo culture in general is a big deal for Chinese teens It's that same melancholy feeling of being stuck in the middle of nowhere (physically or metaphorically) at an age that promises youthful joy and passion

How To Short Babies: an adventure in four steps

"A healthy society shouldn't only have one voice." - Dr Li Wenliang

Let me share a few poems from this publication that I find interesting with the original and Google translated English versions. First one is 女武神 Valkyrie by my talented friend 王井: a poem about the experience of being a woman in virtual and real worlds inspired by FPS games like Overwatch

Saw my poet friend sharing a publication called Selected Poems on Games, where Chinese poets write about their gaming experiences (video games, board games etc). There are poems about Gorogoa, Minecraft, League etc mp.weixin.qq.com/s/PYp48pg5oN...

Something is clearly broken with the Bilibili algorithm, every time I open my front page there're at least 3-4 videos/streams with suggestive content clearly targeted at men. As if I didn't spend most of my time watching makeup tutorials This alone is offputting enough for me to avoid it entirely

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

I sent a DM asking how to play the certain part of a song to the guitarist of the band that I've been obsessed with for months (iykyk) expecting a short reply at best, but he made me videos of him playing and gave clear explanations 😭 I’m afraid this will make me their soldier for ever and ever 🫶😭

Highly recommend this great feature about Ding Miao, game art director turned professional MMA and power slap fighter! mp.weixin.qq.com/s/BWLH8MvF-j...

So this is the official new trailer for an in-game event from Snowbreak: Containment Zone #theStateofChineseGames

Random douyin internet culture observations - there’s an interesting emo scene by Gen Z/Gen Alpha kids across fashion, lifestyle and music - surprisingly midwest emo is big for Chinese alt kids? I see it getting mentioned everywhere - Chinese hiphop scene is literally the most hilarious subculture

MOCHI-O might be the funniest game I've played in a while In short it's a survivor-like side scrolling shooter under a simple layer of tower defense. The twist is that you control a biological weapon that happens to be a hamster. store.steampowered.com/app/3596670/...

Newsletter and bluesky now live for @untitledgamesevent.bsky.social, our monthly event for experimental games in Amsterdam. Subscribe / follow, and help us spread the word! Lots of exciting stuff in the works, and edition #2 is set for Sunday Feb 15!

hey guys, just to confirm this is my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it. my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...

Important news: new season of Single’s Inferno is out!!!

Want to dedicate a lifetime to making a single game? Read this article by @tanyaxshort.bsky.social first! kitfoxgames.medium.com/e9b916491afe

Had a great evening at Untited Game Event! Krish killed it again, I'm excited about the new Amsterdam experimental games scene 😂 Tip: it will be a monthly event, you should definitely go to the next one!

The game added official Simplified Chinese localization just before winter sale, and has since hit new PCCU record and is currently the #3 best selling paid game on Steam in China and got nearly 1k positive reviews in Chinese language. Finally a good ending

friends! acquaintances! help! i'm looking to hire a game designer (living in the Netherlands) to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks. know someone who's a good fit? pls forward this, ty! hiddenfolks.com/job-opening/...

I have some room in my schedule so I'm looking for new soundtrack projects! I've been making music for games professionally for 15 years now. I'm open to almost any kind of game, but I'm looking for something more narrative or horror focused. Check out my work at www.benpruntymusic.com

I know a group of Game Developers with threat of deportation from USA. Are any games journalists interested in being connected up?