Excellent post, intertwined with a topic I've been thinking on all year. Why does a game like Sea of Stars only get noms for best Indie/RPG, while EX:33 can sweep the board? Seems an expression of the same idea that people need live action remakes of animation. It's not real until it's familiar.

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Continuing the Imperial Militia Recon heresy force - this time a full fast attack detachment of Ridgerunners. Wanted these to look like they're slightly more militarised than the mining crew version, so loaded them down with baggage and bulked out the weapons. #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings

Some super interesting phrasing in here - The framing that VC "ditched" them, was there seed funding? The idea they went to friends and family, where I think one of the leads is the son of a tech magnate And the framing of 10m for the Budget - is that total, what they pitched to Kepler, or just dev?

It's worth remembering that Valve's reason for taking 30% of dev's revenue is that they have tools like forums and reviews, to help build communities. Devs literally pay for these systems, but they're not supported to moderate them in any real way. Valve just expect players to surface what matters.

I'd be a lot more convinced by this if the company's founder hadn't *also* done a bunch of damage by constantly yelling at players on the Discord because he was sick of the accusations.

All the familiars

"Competitive per-story rate starting at $50 per news post" It's definitely not *good*, but I can believe it's competitive compared to some of the rates I've seen thrown around for other outlets.

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it. Everyone, give @skatunenetwork.bsky.social your money. They deserve it.

Valve: Skimming 30% off the top of the PC games industry to fund Franz Kafka's Hays Code Experiment.

I hate every box I see From Xbox One to 360 No you'll never stop me playing on PC Oh my god! I was wrong It was an Xbox all along

I love the idea that this is gonna be White Lotus for dudes. Tropical location, new cast, big chaos.

EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum". PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...

Experimenting with some other units (and regiments) for my Imperial Militia, so finally getting to build a model I've had my eye on for years in the Tauros Venator. It makes a great little scout car for Heresy with some changes to the crew, stowage and weapons. #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings

What's interesting is that this mostly sounds like Ubisoft combining EndWar's 2008 voice control schemes with some of the pre-ChatGPT era research on large language models in games. Self-contained models with no exterior input, designed to allow for individual characters crafted by humans.

This is the post that finally made it click for me that people are genuinely treating Polymarket like the Phillips Hydraulic Computer, especially people with actual power.

If Half-Life 3 does indeed get announced, what then? If we do indeed find ourselves face to face with this white whale of video games, will we truly have succeeded? Or will it only pull us into the abyss? Herein only madness reigns.

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My gut says a delay this late in the day is more about the ability to have the call than the contents. At this point I feel like Ubisoft are used to being battered by analysts.

And then there were four! Full detachment of Horus Heresy Militia Leman Russ now ready and finalised with transfers. Had a lot of fun here working on unit markings, building a pseudo-command tank and generally adding texture to some very old, flat, models. #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings

Apparently a lot of people online think games aren't as fun anymore, but that could not be farther from the truth. There's more great games than ever now, so where is this coming from? As always, the culprit is capitalism. #blog #gaming

I had been purposefully trying not to learn about Pluribus before watching, but I'm thrilled to see it's from *this* Vince Gilligan. Deeply unsettling sci-fi and a perfect lead performance, with some great cinematography.

It's not convenient at all! This is bad press on top of bad press, not good PR. If you wanted to bury the news, you'd be releasing new images or a trailer. Instead it was announced on the day of the financial report so it was prepared ahead of time at the Take Two level, tanking the stock price.

The word monopoly is gonna come in for critique (Especially while the Wolfire case details on Steam staff demanding price parity off-platform aren't widely known), but having talked to folks last week, many think any game *store* needs the same features as Steam's *platform*. That's the difficulty.

Very interesting that this happens immediately after the IWGB helped Za/um unionise and BARB get legal support. Rockstar immediately scouring their employee base to kill union activities when they see the UK industry start making moves

I am the very model of an ancient trunkless leg of stone, My shattered visage lies half buried with a sandy sneering frown, The sculptor carved my arrogance upon these broken lifeless things, My name is Ozymandias, the self-describèd King of Kings!

Since I can see this going viral, this linkedin post from an old exec doesn't note that Reflexive was purchased in 2008 and Twitch was 2014. Amazon haven't really tried to build a store since 2020 (when this exec left) Luna literally just relaunched and afaik isn't part of these layoffs that way.

I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

"where is all the good writing about games" now replaced with "where is the money for good writing about games"

Systems design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; it drops 25 xp, 2x leather, 1x meat. Narrative design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; the other cow uses a salience-based storylet system to react with an appropriate bark ("moooo") 3c design: you have two cows. they can airdash

What's especially odd about this one is that these models are being released as part of a book that is *explicitly* about the actions of the new Chaos character for TOW. Her name is Frydaal the Chainmaker. So it's not even like there's a faction-wide mandate not to have options.

Managed to find a treat for my last Leman Russ of my Imperial Militia detachment. One of the original Sprue layouts with all the free space and even more fiddly track designs. The difference between this and the ones just released for Heresy is staggering. #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings

What's really fun is if you alter the time frames here to being paused every month, and the debate started from the moment the solicits went up, you'd have regular print comics fandom too.

If you're getting on a bus, you're obligated to look around the street to make sure no one is running to get on. If they are, you have to procrastinate long enough with your phone/card/cash, etc, so they can make it.

Been rescuing retro Leman Russ designs from eBay and trying to fix them up for my Militia, and realising the 2nd edition Guard codex has a guide for using them gives me a perfect excuse to make use of these old transfers too - for the retro feel. #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings

This made me so happy

Picked up a bunch of second hand Iron Hands rhinos that had been primed and then just lightly dry brushed - so tested retrofitting them to my Fists' colours without repainting everything. Broadly happy, so now I just need to build a bunch of stowage for the roofs. #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings

I'm not gonna say that Ubisoft of all companies has the capacity to make this game meaningful and earnest, but the scene where your character infiltrates a Klan gathering in a traditional Assassin's outfit with a white hood writes itself. I guess you *can't* make Blazing Saddles today.

Three Pikmin And A Baby is not where I expected that series to go but this is cute.

Okay she has them, but has she read them? Or understood them?

Seen a lot of folks acting as if this is some further betrayal who don't seem to get this isn't just for console owners. On mobile and smart TV, the expectation is that you'll have a free to access tier (usually with ads) for *any* app. That's who Xbox is building this for, opening the funnel more.

Proof of concept for my Imperialis Militia Cavalry now ready, returning from a rat horse to a normal horse! I don't know if I can justify converting too many of these, especially in the numbers that Heresy can justify, but this one was satisfying to finish off. #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

RPS headlines are on *fire* today

you ever just stop and remember sometimes that high violet era the national did an original song for portal 2 and it's just casually fantastic for no reason?

The only appropriate response I think

Weekend project, applying the tools learned from the Praetor to the Saturnine Dreadnought - and I think it's come along well! Lorewise, Ancient Burkhard is the core the Beta Garmon Survivors have gathered around, so him stepping on a statue of Horus felt apt. #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings

We are about to see sportswashing on a scale heretofore thought impossible, with the SPIF in charge of EA Sports. And Entertainment will almost certainly suffer

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content