the kids those guys on XBL conceived with your mother are able to vote now

***New video is out!*** I made the Blue Prince video. It took me 6 months. It's here. Video here: youtu.be/RYQl5hcipUM Support me here: patreon.com/pixeladay Thanks to @electrondance.com for lending his voice and also doing the best writing on puzzle games that the Earth has ever known

This one's from me! I thought it'd be fun to poke and prod at the concepts of hard and hardcore games, and ultimately how unrelated the two terms are: www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜

a few days ago i used every penny i have + borrowed money from family to pay for Lucy’s cremation, Buddy’s $180 medicine, and now Kitkat is peeing blood. i need to take her to the vet but quite literally have -$2 in my account. anything helps right now, i’m so sorry for asking again

Fish have committed credit card fraud

I see the 'what even is an indie game' discourse has reared its reliable head again. Here's my take from a year ago. Repost it along with your favourite underrated indie game/s youtu.be/67V-GSaceFQ More random thoughts below.

I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED THE DOCUMENT I'D BEEN WORKING ON FOR WEEKS! I'm going to go cry in a corner now.

I don't really care about my follower count here (good, because it's practically non-existent). But I'd like to grow it. For no other reason than wanting to share my adventures in JRPGs with others. I'd love to bring awareness of more good games to people.

"Grandia’s a game keen on showing you what’s happening rather than telling you about it, detailed sprite sheets packed with so many unique grabs, poses, pointing, high-fives[...]you wonder how they managed to fit it all onto two CD-ROMs." kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2020/11/20/a...

Bloody hell, I didn't want to wake up to it being this cold! Good frigid morning, Bluesky!

Smaller, passion-led projects created by talented people who care about their craft are still out there! Please don't give up. Support the internet and the creatives you want to see! 🧵

America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI' Remember that. Remember her.

Hungry Ghosts is one of the coolest and most inventive games I've ever encountered. It's an all time top 10 contender for me at this point. I desperately wish that it had been more broadly influential, but at least it remains fascinatingly unique. I obviously recommend Kimimi's article below!

"... I definitely didn’t sign up for Shrödinger’s Sexual Encounter" Dragon's Dogma 2 dropped the ball in many areas, but to me its strange idea of "romance" felt like a particularly large and conspicuously unforced stumble: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/04/25/i...

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Finished watching King's Game. That sure was an ending... Opening song is still a banger, though.

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it" My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

"... a mess of corrupted nothings and indecipherable scrolling objects, chunks of absent graphics still pulsating to an unknown rhythm against an expanse of broken information." Some things are best left alone: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2020/10/17/f...

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

Hey, there's a fresh article on my site! Sword and Fairy Inn is hypnotically stressful, utterly charming, enjoyably complex, and a lot of fun: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/11/14/s...

I want our sustainable future back, where indies can experiment, can grow their community, where we get stories about games stumbling but surging to succes over time. These stories became rarer and rarer, and now they are an oddity, and that is bad... very bad. and doesn't need to be..

This is such a shitty position for the workers to be in either way. They're either out of work, or reinstated while being the target of every ounce of corporate malfeasance Take Two/Rockstar c-suite shitheads are prepared to throw at them as employees.

While I understand people are skeptical of the Steam Machine as being too wonky to make a dent in PlayStation or Nintendo, I absolutely see a scenario in which it replaces Xbox, which does not seem to be difficult at this point.

“Drawing all that sexy art of video game men might affect your professional art career” well well well

This thread provides actual knowledge for things that I had a vague gut feeling about -- and many things that never would have occurred to me -- about the more affordable Japanese PS5. But Japanese Gen Z playing 3DS more than PS5 illustrates how much of an uphill battle *Sony* faces at home.

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company” automaton-media.com/en/news/kraf...

I was planning to get some game writing done today, but my flat needs some expected repairs, which is very distracting.

If you're a games freelancer and you're going to physically be in LA around TGAs in December, and you still have capacity to pick up further work, I would love to hear from you: [email protected]

Octopath Traveler 0 Demo Out Now

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

hardest decision ive ever had to fucking make in this game dude. fuck. shit.

Subtitles on by default.

credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point

okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form: forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...

Very cool article by @faroukk.bsky.social. A number of games made use of StreetPass features too, like speeding up rebuilding Norende in Bravely Default, or coins for steps that could be spent to revive yourself in Shin Megami Tensei IV. I miss things like that, too.

This week: community and continuity form a thematic throughline for seventeen new picks: critical-distance.com/2025/11/09/n...

Goon a movie Memoirs of a Goon

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice. They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

This is the turning point in the year where I just live under piles of blankets for months.

Happy 20th anniversary to #Suikoden Tactics, which was launched in North America on the PS2 today! Known as Rhapsodia in Japan, this solid strategy RPG fleshed out the world of Suikoden IV and featured excellent combat. Read our review below! Review: www.rpgfan.com/review/suiko...

I try to put a bright face on things, but this sinus infection is really knocking me down.

Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.

So advanced it was in colour before its host hardware was! Hataraku Chocobo's a lovely game: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2022/08/01/f...

Given that Rockstar is famously anti-labor, to the point that they have a culture of 100-hour work weeks for big projects, and refused to credit devs who worked on a game if they weren't on the team when it shipped, I'm believing the union.

Labyrinth of Zangetsu has the potential to take over my life. If you don't see me again, I have been consumed by the Ink.

This is the most arse-brained thing I've heard today.

me, sitting down at my video game website job this morning: "how can i make this about new york city mayor-elect zohran mamdani?"