And / or normalise not having achievements in games at all

This is true

Coming from a level design background, being able to scale and rotate the same few meshes to make a lot of the final environments, for levels of any shape, is kinda the dream... which is one of the reasons my game is set underground :) (and leans into a moody, lower-resolution aesthetic, etc)

Alien Resurrection, at the end of an Alien Quadrilogy all-night marathon at a film festival. The joy of seeing Alien and Aliens on the big-screen for the first time (and back to back), followed by the novelty of rewatching Alien 3 (it's fine), and then... absolute confusion and nerd rage

If you know this video of the brilliant Anna-Maria Hefele - or just love music that seems at once to defy the laws of physics & exalt them: She graciously agreed to add custom thematic vocals + a new song performance to @thekillingstone.com - out now on Steam early-access. youtu.be/vC9Qh709gas?...

The Megadrive was a world of bangers, and I was very happy this Christmas to find my old game collection that I built up back at uni (which I thought my dad gave away years ago!):

"Chow Yun Fat getting revenge on the guy who killed his friend by blowing his head off at point blank range while covered in flour" is a top-tier halloween costume waiting to happen:

How my (weird, story-driven dystopian sci-fi) game looked after the first week of creating the project, vs how it looks now:

Blade Runner, The Last Express and Shadow of the Colossus made this the most instant-click episode for me so far

Bandcamp Friday alert: it's Bandcamp Friday, right now, and for like 22 more hours. Get some music, pay some artists.

“A robot may not kick a human in the balls, or, through inaction, allow a human to be kicked in the balls.”

This year's Spotify Wrapped thing made me realise that I spend most of my music listening time enjoying tracks from albums I already own, and was the last step in convincing myself to finally cancel my subscription and never look back at music streaming services again - hooray

Yes, yes it does

Lol Liz Truss

We launched GenExile, our solarpunk city-builder, in Early Access last week. We had ~35k wishlists before launch (not a barnburner but not nothin'). And they said, "Well, there's no way you'll convert literally 0% of your wishlists to sales." I looked them dead in the eyes and said, "Watch me."

lol

tl;dr - down with yellow paint

As an apparently freakishly fast touch-typer, I'm now addicted to the demo of Final Sentence, a hardcore competitive battle royale typing game: store.steampowered.com/app/4021860/...

Whenever I read a new headline about the dickhead's new ballroom, all I can think about is Mike's Marbleopolis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWGP...

Life tip: do not be a man who likes the vehicle

Rich was a level designer on Bioshock 2, then Senior LD on Dishonored 1, then Lead LD on Prey. Hire him you fools

I DRINK YOUR NONLINEAR KALEIDOSCOPIC HORROR NARRATIVE I DRINK IT UP

this is the funniest thing the internet has produced in a long time, but only for the small group of us millennials who came of age around south london. amazing that an american has nailed this so perfectly youtube.com/shorts/NZtfn...

With the collapse or enshittification of practically every website in 2025, my heart skipped a beat when it occurred to me that zombo.com might no longer be around. But thankfully, zombo.com is still zombo com:

Play all these games, go back and play Silent Hill Shattered Memories, watch Brandon Cronenberg’s movies then take a look at the state of the world and you can start to imagine what is in the oven over here

We hear a lot about boys getting radicalized online, and not enough about how to stop it. This is good video with 5 specific things parents/adults can do:

🧵Thread of photos I took of my favourite signs from yesterday's Trump protest. First up: Fuck off

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

I hate that it’s 2025, and “mature themes” in videogames still means anime tits

Delivery, delivery, lemon delivery www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh8a...

i think about this tweet every single day

Last week I changed Firefox settings to use DuckDuckGo as my browser instead of Google, and now I can't believe I didn't do it sooner. No AI summaries on every search, an option to not display any AI results in the image search etc. So much better

doom monsters wearing high heels

oh my fucking god

game of the year

This is how insane people sound when you tell them why A.I. is bad

When the budget started to balloon, the studio asked Cameron to remove the biker scene. A studio executive spoke to Schwarzenegger and asked him to talk to Cameron on their behalf but Arnold turned them down and said: “Only a studio guy would cut out a scene like that.” 27/42

🧵 of my photos from the protest outside Parliament on Wednesday, over the government’s shameful decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group:

Michael Madsen wasn’t even in Pulp Fiction, ffs

C&B has been dying a slow death for months, and it seems that no one cares. Support articles like the one below; soon they won't be anywhere on the internet. For the last time, we are asking you to help us survive; please share this link with all your friends: cinephiliabeyond.org/donate2024/

As mentioned before, the least realistic part of T2 is when a tech guy learns that his project is going to have negative consequences, and *agrees to help shut it down.*

Apropos of nothing - a reminder that in the French version of Back to the Future, instead of Doc saying "Great Scott!", he says "nom de Zeus!": www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYH4...

When it feels like everything good in the world is crumbling, it's nice to know that people still go to Gloucestershire every year, to chase a big wheel of cheese down a really steep hill. Women's race: www.youtube.com/watch?v=thQR... Men's race: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMrr...