CULTIC getting me in the christmas spirit

www.gamesradar.com/games/tomb-r... Hold up. The other new game is a remake of the first game, and connects the reboot-trilogy Lara to the current one, which incidentally is the same as the one in the Legend Trilogy, which itself contains a remake of the first Tomb Raider game? I need to lie down.

Definitely prefer this version of the cover

There is no peace amongst the stars. youtu.be/KVgCDqLTaJk

There's a Senior Game Designer position open at Creative Assembly if anyone on here is interested. app.jobvite.com/m?34mgpnwX

It's pretty funny how we went from "the internet is great, if one node goes down we can just reroute so there's no single point of failure that can take out half the internet" to "lol, half the internet is down because of AWS" "again"

Ah I see it's that time that comes around every few years, "Can I make it past the half way point of a Between the Buried and Me album before I turn it off"

need another quiet saturday night like this one again soon

Fun fact: as a technical designer, GAS can stand for both Gameplay Ability System and Gear Acquisition Syndrome.

Grabbed a JHS 3 Reverb Pedal. I'm bestowing this thing the "most satisfying pedal click" award. Everything else just feels wrong now.

Giving the ol earplugs a workout

today is a momentous day as we have finally paid off our car it also hopefully marks an end to the "UWU ARE YOU SUUUURE YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE ON MORE DEBT" emails from the car financing people

looking at the new games workshop logo and for some reason wondering if bolt thrower ever reformed they'd use this logo

Moved into our house this week. It's great, but: lightswitches. WTF. "Let me just turn the hall light on" "Nope, that's the upstairs landing. Nope, that's the porch light. Nope, that's the kitchen. Nope, that's the downstairs loo. Wait, what, there's only 3 switches?"

against my better judgement I read a games tech thread on resetera today and learned that because a lot of people don't know what anti aliasing is that games don't actually need it

I do solemnly swear that if I ever get to start my own game studio in the future, I will make a cool modestly scoped game as a foundation and not promise to redfine the entire industry with my quintuple A hubris

One thing in the game price discourse that makes me laugh is pointing out how N64 games were, and that they're cheaper after inflation than games are today. As if they live in the alternate universe where wages even remotely kept up with inflation and we aren't all significantly poorer than then.

I don't really have a horse in this "dev team size" race that's going on at the moment, but I'm happy that all of the most annoying people on the internet have something new that they don't really understand to be really annoying about.

sorry random toad player, but lets be honest you probably deserved it

The letters from the car finance people are incredible. "hey you'll have finished owing us money next month! If you don't let us know what's next we'll be forced to assume you just want to keep your car instead of taking on more debt from us!" Like yes I bought the car so I could keep it

Lots of amazing stuff in Mario Kart World, but so far the online races feel like a massive miss to me. It's basically like the only thing that actually matters is how close to the finish line you are when your turn to get battered by 8 billion items and sent to last place comes around.

Our team has some open roles. Are you up to the challenge? ➡️www.creative-assembly.com/careers

Every interview with Yvette Cooper

I think the GTA delay is good for almost everybody making games. Nobody has to compete with them for mindshare in 2025. Folks act like money flowing into "the industry" affects others, but it doesn't. This delay only affects GTA fans, who can wait, and take-two investors, who I don't care about.

I like the way these achievement names are written like linkedin job titles

doom wads, where the answer to the question of "what does this do" is always "8000 revenants, 12 archviles and a cyberdemon"

wow the Oblivion remaster is 120GB? I can't believe the devs didn't press the magic "compress all the assets losslessly" button, smh

doom is good send post

good: the person selling the house we're buying has found somewhere to buy and it'll end the chain bad: why is moving house so expensive jesus christ

Switch 2 preorders are weird. Official date is next week but most retailers seem to have been taking orders already, apparently including Nintendo themselves. Managed to get one ordered, but wonder if this means there's loads of stock and they're drip feeding it.

my dog trying to wake me up at 6am

I'd like to thank gumtree for my first tube amp

Once a dog is an adult they should be called Cappoochinos, not Puppycinos

been playing custom Doom WADs a bit lately, as I want to play some of the biggest community stuff but not get absolutely pasted. Moonblood was pretty cool and honestly pretty brutal after about 10 maps. I could have done with a few fewer Archvile closets and trial/error ambushes mind.

Worked out how to do Harmonics properly on my guitar. Bad news for my wife, who will now have to put up with me playing the intro to Davidian over and over. Good practice for when I finally figure out doing pinch harmonics consistently though 😏

"You know when you've been Tangoed"?

Oh hell yeah

I'm still in the first area but Avowed is a great and unapologetically game-y game. I've found treasure behind like 7 different waterfalls so far.

Ah, another day goes by with me baffled how Confluence became the industry standard for internal knowledge sharing.

Occasionally while writing documentation, it occurs to me how weird the term "gameplay" is. Unless I've missed something and people are actually using the terms "bookread" and "moviewatch" to describe the experience of those media too.

Saw The Halo Effect tonight. Basically comfort food for anyone who loved mid 2000s melodic death metal. Great support too.

I'm admittedly not an expert, but I feel like "we have to sneak this on your without your permission" is perhaps an indicator that people aren't that into your product and your goals of the product making you 8 trillion dollars per second could in fact be unrealistic.

they make suits of this stuff?

going to repost this every time work makes me feel this way and see what percentage of my feed it ends up being

I'd like to thank discord for delivering unto me the perfect response to use in Teams every time someone causes me the mildest inconvenience at work

The giant L the lead is referring to here is being at the vet at 5am because monty has conjunctivitis 🫠

I feel like the only real purpose linkedin serves for me at the moment is for me to login and block whatever person with the most banal game industry insights of all time linkedin has recommended me on that given day because there's no "please never show me this person ever again on my timeline"

TIL I did not use my Nintendo Switch this year

RIP to my Dread Delusion playthrough, where I was near the end but Steam decided to stop cloud saving properly and eventually seemingly decided to just insist on overwriting any and all save games with an old one in the cloud, and then got rid of it altogether.

My favourite thing my dog does is [whatever my dog happens to be doing right now]