Chark - a Balatro-like chess roguelike with card modifiers - has an early build playable now, and is seeking publisher support. (Read more: Gaming on Linux)

Dying Light: The Beast has reportedly sold over 1.5 million copies. (Read more: Gaming Bolt)

The Steam storefront has had a nifty redesign. I'd suggest developers especially familiarise themselves with the changes, to better understand and optimise for the new visibility changes. (Read more: Eurogamer)

Costco has quietly stopped stocking Xbox consoles in the US & UK in the last few months, though is still stocking PlayStation and Nintendo consoles. (Read more: GamesIndustry)

Borderlands 4 has been indefinitely delayed and digital pre-orders cancelled, the week before its intended release. (Read more: IGN)

I actively don't want Silent Hill to have good combat, which is a really odd and difficult thing to properly convey. I want it to feel clunky, I want to actively avoid it as a last resort. SH2 Remake improving combat was my only nitpick with that game. Sounds like SHf got it?

Hauntii is DoesItPlay? approved! Testing for Switch (including Switch 2 BC) and PS5 has concluded. Hauntii is the 4th @lostincult.co.uk release to earn our Badge of Approval. Pre-order at lostincult.co.uk or at these ref links: VGP: videogamesplus.ca/Lc... PnP Games: pnpgamesonline.com/?...

The US Department of Homeland Security has posted a "meme" video of ICE rounding people up, set to the Pokémon anime theme song, interspliced with footage of Ash Ketchum, Poké Balls, and detainees superimposed on to Pokémon cards. Pretty grim. (Read more: Kotaku)

Palworld: Palfarm announced - a creature-collecting farming sim spin-off. Rather than looking like a lesser spin-off, I'd say this looks more like the next major title in the Palworld franchise. (Read more: Game Informer)

Sony has announced Franchise Rewards - a new rewards scheme that can earn you physical items for unlocking time-sensitive in-game trophies. Similar to Nintendo's ol' rewards program, but requires playing games to earn physical prizes. (Read more: IGN)

PlayStation's State of Play is airing tomorrow at 2pm PT/5pm ET/10pm BST. Includes 35+ mins of reveals and news, including 5 mins of new footage from Housemarque's new game Saros. (Read more: PlayStation Blog)

Finished Split Fiction tonight - that whole finale sequence was really quite something.

We are incredibly pleased to reach $100,000 for the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle. With just 2 days left to go, please RT and support the bundle, and let's push it as high as we can go!!! Thank you for the support!! Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

Johnny Gioeli - Crush 40 singer of the Sonic classic song "Live & Learn" - has had his case against SEGA dismissed, with legal rights to the track seemingly left in limbo. (Read more: Sonic Stadium)

A Daft Punk collab is coming to Fortnite on September 27. (Read more: Fortnite blog)

Tomb Raider IV–V–VI Remastered has removed its AI-generated voice lines, after Lara Croft's French voice actor claimed the game AI replicated her voice without consent. (Read more: Time Extension)

MrBeast has joined the cast of the Angry Birds 3 movie. (Read more: Pocket Gamer Biz)

Borderlands 4 has surpassed 2.5 million players, with estimates revenue surpassing $150 million. (Read more: GamesIndustry Biz)

Cascadence announced - a falling block puzzle game with solo or CPU levels; available for freeee on itchio. (Download on itchio)

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HYPERFUNK announced - an extreme trick and graffiti game, from Team Reptile (Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Lethal League). (Steam store page)

The UK government will discuss the Stop Killing Games petition in parliament on November 3. (Read more: Dexerto)

Palestinian Voices in Games announced - a network of more than 50 industry professionals supporting Palestinian video game creators, with 4 games currently receiving help. (Read more: Palestinian Voices in Games)

The new Super Mario Galaxy release for the Switch actually isn't just the exact same version as the 3D All-Stars release again. (Watch more: GVG)

Steam will no longer accept games with "mature themes" for Steam Early Access, due to ongoing pressures from lobbyists targeting payment processing companies to successfully censor video game storefronts. (Read more: GameSpot)

The #NintendoDirect is now starting: www.youtube.com/live/tpso9Kk...

The owner of 100s of devkits, and undumped prototype game carts from a SEGA office clearance - which the Video Game Preservation Museum had been pursuing - has been raided by UK police and the devkits taken. This ongoing story is wild, includes undercover SEGA agents. (Read more: Time Extension)

Mega Malamar revealed as the latest Mega Pokémon for Pokémon Legends: Z-A.

Nintendo Direct announced for September 12th (in two days) at 6am PT/2pm BST. Feel like Nintendo will have to pull some cool stuff out of the bag to build better Switch 2 momentum.

Nintendo has successfully patented the mechanic of summoning a character and letting it fight another in video games - a feature used in many games outside of Pokémon and Palworld. (Read more: Games Fray)

Panzer Dragoon II Zwei: Remake has popped back up, with a playable demo at Tokyo Game Show later this month. (Read more: Noisy Pixel)

Genki has settled to pay an undisclosed sum to Nintendo after showing off a mock-up Switch 2 hardware before the console's reveal. (Read more: Eurogamer)

3D platformer Teeto announced for consoles and PC. (Read more: Gematsu)

Pacific Drive: Whispers in the Woods announced - the first major expansion to last year's hit survival game. (Read more: PC Gamer)

Adventure of Samsara - Atari's reimagining of the classic Adventure game - is a really cool, slick, modern pixel art metroidvania! It launched on the same day as Hollow Knight: Silksong - maybe give it some much-needed love? (Read more: VGC)

Hollow Knight: Silksong's first patch will slightly lower the difficult of some early bosses, among other fixes, next week. (Read more: Eurogamer)

I'm back! After a nasty combo of being pretty wretchedly sick the last few days, and going through a (sadly continued) mental blip, I'm back here and working. Bear with me - being away from stuff makes me anxious and feel outta the loop while I catch up with everything! ❤️

I have thrown up more over the last two days than I accumulatively have across the rest of my entire adulthood 😵 Been a pretty fucking rough weekend in bed, y'all! What has everyone else been up to?

Apologies for the socials disappearance - and, actually, my erratic and infrequent posting this year as a whole. I'm suffering from pretty bad burnout and some mental health and home troubles - all of which are being dealt with, but a long time coming. But I'm still here! ❤️

Apologies for the socials disappearance - and, actually, my erratic and infrequent posting this year as a whole. I'm suffering from pretty bad burnout and some mental health and home troubles - all of which are being dealt with, but a long time coming. But I'm still here! ❤️

My partner's Macintosh SE from 1987 hasn't worked for a decade - potentially its hard drive from "gummage"? We're both keen that stuff like this is finite and does not get trashed. Is there anyone that knows if it's at all recoverable to anyone? @nostalgianerd.com

Ta-da - announcing the physical releases for NORCO on PS5 + Arco on Switch! 🥳🎉🎉 Two incredible titles, available in our lush EDITIONS, or as standard retail copies. Genuinely such an honour to work on these. ❤️ Please consider supporting our legit preservation!

Ta-da - announcing the physical releases for NORCO on PS5 + Arco on Switch! 🥳🎉🎉 Two incredible titles, available in our lush EDITIONS, or as standard retail copies. Genuinely such an honour to work on these. ❤️ Please consider supporting our legit preservation!

Straight off the back of Gamescom... Our next two EDITIONS physical releases will launch today! A different game for the PS5 + Switch this time, due to neither being on the opposite platform... What could they be? 😉

Day 7 in Germany, and I'm pooped! After 6 days running about for meetings etc, with my flight from Dusseldorf this evening, I'm staying at my hotel there to get some work done. So, that's Gamescom sorted for me! Lovely to see old friends and new - sorry for those I missed! 😭❤️

The worst thing we universally do as a modern culture is care about being cringe. These people are having a better time than us. Cringe teen me was happier than adult me.

Day 5 of Gamescom (sort of!) 🩷✨ Back to pink outfit today because I like it and it's less warm now. Running about for meetings... will also try and buzz around the indie area a bit today! Please say hey if you see me! 🩷

What a pleasure meeting the folk at @atari.com and @nightdivestudios.bsky.social today, genuine highlight - I mean this when I say what they're doing is exceptional and important for games preservation and availability of titles. Been wonderful seeing their new era absolutely killing it. ❤️

Anyone at Gamescom happen to have a Windows Surfacebook charger I can borrow? I need to do some work still at Motel One lobby, but left my charger in my hotel in Dusseldorf, and really can't travel there and then back to Cologne again for meetings later! 😅