there needs to be a new Carmen Sandiego game in the game mechanic style of things like Hypnospace Outlaw, The Roottrees Are Dead, and the like

Not only was Independence Day one of the greatest summer blockbusters of the 90s, it was also (possibly) *the* greatest, pettiest cinematic diss track @secretbase.bsky.social @jonbois.bsky.social

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This is exactly what anime should look like imo

Devs only do this work out of passion, and players only want to buy games made with evidence of developer passion. If your only passion is money and the stock market, get out of games and go sell oil or beer or cars or some other boring shit. GTFO. We don't want you.

Egypt is currently playing deeply inspired by the pyramids, in that they're not moving and look like they haven't moved in several centuries.

I'm happy to say Egypt scored twice in the knockout World Cup match against Australia, but less happy to say it's 1-1.

Wanted to capture the full exchange

✨New Codex Compliant✨ Let's take a trip back to the mid-80s when Games Workshop tried their hand at being a video game publisher (and make ourselves very confused in the process). youtu.be/U8yGrpvdIzc

Hey indie peeps. I'm going to be doing Kotaku's Indie Penance Day on Friday July 3 this year. If you have an upcoming or recently released game that deserves eyes, please email me at [email protected] with the subject "INDIE PENANCE 2026", and include a store link and YouTube video. Rules follow.

are you a 3d artist who can make+texture med-low poly (~dreamcast) game ready unity models? i've got a liiiittle work for a LOT of you. and it's coming in hot with a mid-august due date. starting with muts only. inquire within.

It's too warm and all our computers are on fire, but it's Lancer day! Let's have CAM-DELTA blow up something with their Barbarossa! www.twitch.tv/kaynsd

when the ending of a work of serial media focuses on the plot and themes established through the series instead of addressing nonsense hyped up by youtube theorists

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Wait they can still excommunicate people?!

I honestly find it bizarre that despite the fact there are like only two consumer electronics architectures and two or three ways of doing graphics programming and two OS architectures, and that it's been that way for about two decades, the best way to preserve software is still "DOS Emulator"

Show me a cool physical game

Back on my bullsh

See this is what happens when you break the rules in Monopoly by letting people claim money on free parking or ignore rent or auction or house limit rules, the game goes on too long and stupid things start to happen. You've got to completely reset the board every two to four decades or THIS starts.

literally any non-games enterprise job of similar ilk, you'll be the best practitioner in the room almost instantly, that shit is dire inside.

Pulling off the disguise on another procedural generation book/talk to reveal that it’s actually just marketing for tarot cards again. Thank you for reading the book and I’m so glad you’re enjoying it!

FOC has arrived! If you want to ensure your local bookseller has a copy for you, call 'em up today!

There is a clear market here for gachapon games that people aren't embarrassed to play to fill their I Hate My Family hours. I figure developing an addiction to Infinity Nikki and Umamusume and Arkknights and running all of them at the same time would be cheaper and less embarrassing in the long run

An excellent use case for why people really need to be able to define “AI” and recognize it’s an umbrella term, not a synonym for heavyweight commercial LLMs/frontier models.

There's a very special game celebrating its 25th birthday today: Ion's Storm's cult classic ANACHRONOX. This is one wild, ambitious game with oodles of heart. One of those games where a western dev wanted to make something like a JRPG. It's pretty much the Fifth Element as an RPG.

Ah it's Free RPG Day, but I am inside doing some remote stuff with friends. What a missed opportunity to go to the FLGS and-- [sees weather outside is melting] [sees train line cancelled near me requiring replacement bus] [looks at nice cool air-vents and fridge full of cool water] ...never mind :)

we are living in a reality where there is an impending console shortage while price increases hit every manufacturer and console sales are also hitting record lows these things are all happening simultaneously

Hi there, nice to see you. Professional craftsperson here to say: THE VALUE IS ABSOLUTELY IN CREATING A PERFECT FLOWER POT YOU WEIRD GARGOYLE (1/?)

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Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

New video: an HOA lawsuit update! We helped changed the laws for 2 million people! We got an investigative story in the city's legacy newspaper & the city council! But a new HOA policy disproportionately hurts the elderly & handicapped. More fundraising is still needed: youtu.be/RXdlsHGOpro

fun fact: they found the original digital master tapes of all the Reboot episodes that we previously only had in VHS quality, refurbished the extremely rare and expensive tape machines required to play the masters, and are currently uploading them to youtube for free in 1080p! youtu.be/inKdUICLmXY

You can laugh at this but it’s fifty years of reactionary politics at a glance. Yes, they got everything they demanded; yes, they’re angrier than ever and yes, they want more cruelty, vandalism and idiocy. As I told you in the 2010s: they will always be like this, they can’t be pleased or appeased.

Haha oh Ed he's so hyperbolic. ... ... Wait what do you mean that actually fucking happened?!

I have been playing a game that's entirely about metanarrative, and after choosing to put it down where I feel it is complete it's great looking at a discussion forum about the game [so utterly missing the meaning of it]

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

Only 4 more days to put your game into the game industry hardship fund! Please add your games (and TTRPGs are okay too) so we can make some money for out of work game devs! Do it over the weekend! itch.io/jam/game-ind...

TADC finale was very good. I probably should have seen it in the theater.

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Truly inspiring to see large corporations like Unity and Epic openly learn from each other and create true interoperability, in that both engines now equally and seamlessly support "moving to Godot". www.unrealengine.com/news/the-roa...

We're going live with some Lancer! Don't tell the team but I'm taking them to the beach and packing them sandwiches! www.twitch.tv/kaynsd

Warhammer needs a sim city type game where you build a hive and have to fend of genestealer infections, mutie uprisings, political machinations, occasional orks etc all while keeping the population balanced between downtrodden and rioting

VECT SIMULATOR

Versailles. This is why you need historians.

While I agree and Godot is my primary engine, my heart goes out to everyone who has to stick with Unreal and deal with the new slopbucket all because 90% of all studios without their own engine leapt over to it over the past ten years (and why everyone's stuck with C++ still)

I know it's a frustrating and upsetting time in the games industry, but some of you need to just have a nap and stop treating anything that diverges from your taste as a personal affront.

Jensen. Jensen, buddy. Do you WANT us to call Generative AI The Postmodern Moloch?