Real answer is probably Kentucky Route Zero, but Norco is a sleeper pick for the top spot

If Sony put out a back compat retro ps console that played PS3, PS2 and original PlayStation games, with a disc drive and a stripped down, functional storefront, that would sell like absolute hot cakes

"Our family in Gaza is in absolute desperate need as we drown in despair. As a mother, I am completely helpless to shield my children from immense pain. Losing our jobs and income for two years ruined everything. Ziad and Mirna lack a decent life . PLEASE QUOTE WITH LINK" chuffed.org/project/zeya...

I think I might have cooked chat

I’ve seen the show all the way through like three times now, but the last two eps of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms make me cry like a baby every time. Rewatching this way has highlighted the flaws for me, but in terms of the emotional throughline this is a perfect season of tv

The fact that Sony so infantilizes its customers that they have to wall of console generations on their store instead of having a single unified catalogue like their competitors on PC and XBox is actually really infuriating

If the PS6 doesn’t have a compatible disc drive, this also essentially puts a countdown timer on retailers like iam8bit - hard to build a business selling physical games when the next generation of games will be played on digital only consoles

incredible of playstation to announce the end of physical disc production the week after they deleted all the movies you bought digitally from your account

PS3 and Vita stores gone from next July, no more physical games on PlayStation from Jan 2028 blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/p...

Got my PC back from the IT people, itching to make some inroads on a thing I was writing

I love how the democratic establishment in America have been handed a political platform that is finally reliably winning elections against MAGA candidates and their reaction is universally “we must crush this, we must stop it at all costs”

just sent the email ending the lease at my apartment of 4 years to move next month AND got word I'm losing my part-time editing job that's covered my cost of living for 3 years so uh hey who needs a copy editor?

Fucking hell, how did this pass me by

The Oblivion remake is radioactive for me for BDS reasons, but I do feel it’s important to stress how repellant I find the art style

It strikes me as profoundly hypocritical that the new passport features indigenous wildlife while the Irish government has spent a century overseeing the decimation of our ecologies

As much as I am deeply enjoying my beloved doomed yuri telenovella, House of the Dragon is feeling very much like the coughing baby to Dunk and Egg's proverbial Tsar Bomba this season

I wonder if speaking to an AI like it’s your battered spouse all day does anything bad to your brain

Dune Messiah is a deeply strange book. Even more than the first one it just reads like a collection of Frank Herbert’s opinions bound together with sinew and gristle. It’s a weird, lean read

Yes, I also loved 2024, when Dragon Age: The Veilguard came out

I’m not going to pretend to know Mamdani’s heart, but the fact that this looks so trivially easy for him has to come at least in part from an inner belief that he is doing the right thing. You can’t see the cogs turning behind his eyes as he mediates moral compromises while he formulates an answer

Holy shit how did I miss that Sunset Visitor have a new game coming out

The Zuko-Iroh stuff in Avatar is like the only salvageable bit of the Netflix remake, and that’s 70% because the Zuko actor is giving it every iota of his being for most of it

Texted Sue something about politics from my office

A hard thing about accepting your own queer identity a little later in life is having to square yourself with the fact that all the horrendous shit you’ve heard people saying all these years, they were saying it about you

I’m not the first to point it out but if I was some sort of AI slop goblin, i hear this and draw the conclusion that it’s possible to make 40% as much as a real game for 10% of the effort, and proceed to go into maximum slop-erdrive

I’ve said since Cyberpunk’s release that the most next gen feeling thing about it are the dialogue sequences, they’re just excellent for roleplay. We often get to choose what our pc says but getting to pace around, or move close to someone to deliver a threat seamlessly feels really impressive

Oh well if it’s not a turn on for Jesse Watters then I guess that settles it then

I talk a bit about this in the Season video, but doomscrolling is such a pernicious, paralysing personal ill because it fools the brain into thinking you’ve done something about the things in your life that frighten you

Getting rid of this team betrays a breathtaking lack of awareness about what draws people to Bungie’s games and what makes them unique. Whoever is behind this decision should be embarrassed

Yooo Netflix Avatar season 2 is out let’s goooo, SLOP SLOP SLOP

Not to Harry Potter post on main, but I’m just now finding out the French translation of Tom Riddle’s name is “Tom Elvis Jedusor” and it’s absolutely frying me

Heat wave is shit, heat wave with a 5 month old is fucking terrifying, honestly

Maybe AI can make art actually

Theres a man feverishly penning a letter by hand in the coffee shop this morning, nice to see that the classics never go out of style

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

Is he… yknow

St Vincent De RuPaul

Some really interesting discourse happening about this, I look forward to adding it to the video game discourse carousel, we haven't had a new topic in a while

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Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

I actually do resent AI art for this reason, it has made it harder to find the few drops of art that is truly special to me by hiding them in a sea of bland, boring shite

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A mere thousand marks? For a Steam Machine? A pittance, in exchange for a pewter wonder of cogs and gears

I think this is testament to the actual spirit of all the replies, which is that he did everything wrong. His policy platform was “alienate the people who voted me in by courting people who will never in a million years vote for me” Unsurprisingly, this has made him holistically unpopular

Look man I don’t know much about UK politics but I’m pretty certain this shit wouldn’t have happened to Jeremy Corbyn, but labour chose to cannibalise itself rather than know success as a left wing party and so here we are