An eleventh hour desperate pivot to IP will certainly do wonders for the dogshit labour practices at Obsidian.

JOLTEON II

End Crisis more like

Promoting the new Game Pass line up in the same 24 hour window you post about thousands of Xbox layoffs is crazy, dog

Been chewing on this a lot due to the PS3 store closing. Infamous, Killzone, Resistance, Persona– legal availability just evaporating. These aren’t deep cut shit either, we can’t even access the populist stuff, the blockbusters.

“Backwards Compatibility” as we’ve been made to understand and accept it is such an audacious trick of the system. Platforms deign sporadic access to a fraction of the medium’s history and call it a feature, or worse a subscription. I don’t think we truly acknowledge how fucked that is.

When we talk about Xbox cutting 3,200 “jobs” I think both the enormity of the number and the language makes it easy to abstract the idea that thousands of people just lost their ability to pay rent, eat, and live. Crucial to the soul that you don’t let the memo speak dull your empathy.

It’s deranged that you still can’t change these borders

Still can’t quite believe how cooked Iron Lung is #LastFourWatched

There's so much that sucks about this but I'd be wholly embarrassed to be an AI Champion at the national broadcaster.

The Empty Man (2020)

every time someone calls the captaina america marvel rivals swimsuit equal opportunity objectification an angel loses its wings. it is some chuck tingle bullshit bro. it's like three degrees from mount your friends. it's joke

I bet the Old Blood was so refreshing though

i am quite weirded out by people who have entirely ignored BDS for a year now using the word boycott when describing their feelings towards playstation because of physical games

This looks like AI porn and I’m tired of having to pretend Rivals understands sexuality

Getting into Gunpla will fix me

Small talk at Totodiles office

Philosophically and materially evil

The thing about DLC for Mario Kart World is that you can’t patch in purpose

Every day it becomes harder and harder to not say the things we aren’t allowed to say out loud so I just think them so intensely my nose starts to bleed.

Labor solidarity is not just feeling sad for laid off developers while continuing to promote the corporation that fired them

This is literally why there's a bipartisan effort to remove internet access from young people. It's an attack on queer people, leftists, and anyone who questions authority. They don't want our children finding out that MLK and Frida Kahlo were socialists or that Stonewall was a riot.

Staggering that between Microsoft’s business with the IDF and the bright red flag of mass consolidation, the games coverage apparatus has so thoroughly failed to meet the moment for an entire hardware generation now*

Credits on Star Fox (2026) and you know what Star Fox (2026) could have used more of?

McGruff the War Crime Dog

"gaymers" in 2026 is a slur

Nobody: Roster of a Live Service Hero Shooter that will be cancelled before it leaves open beta:

Rainbow capitalism was bad but I’d still prefer performative gay shit this month over whatever is happening here

The opening ten minutes of Disney Pixar’s Cars 2 has a better grasp on the formal qualities of a spy adventure than 007 First Light #LastFourWatched

The best pop girlie in the game is a 40 year old pregnant woman. youtu.be/_Xqexqiqkdk?...

my point is that we should not confuse structural issues with taste. your enemy is not raytracing or rope physics or whatever the fuck. your enemy is gabe newell's $500 million super yacht. you wanna know where destiny 3 is, maybe try the yacht

Well, shit

Couching your Sony Says GTA VI Plays Best on PS5 article in a knowing comment about marketing doesn’t make your Sony Says GTA VI Plays Best on PS5 article not marketing.

The only time the inverse of this is true is Disney Pixar’s Cars

When asked about the album title Jepsen cited Dire Marsh as a major inspiration

this but the steam machine

I think “people simply don’t understand the hardware scene” is a pretty patronising response to consumer frustration; I guarantee you most people posting about the cost of the steam machine grasp material conditions but it’s system-apathy to suggest that should defuse their material anger.

Your bad anti-capitalist RPG was made under not just genocide complicity but labour abuse too! Really reframes the idea that Obsidian had figured out how to make games within the Xbox system.

finally getting into the amazing digital circus!!

‘marathon should be a linear campaign fps so i could see all the art and all the writing without having to get my teeth kicked in in multiplayer’ is witch in the alps posting unfortunately

They laid off 1500 of us and then acquired actiblizz a couple weeks later for $68 billion, with a B. That's $45 million per person they laid off.

Incredible start to a birthday

“Videogame YouTube essays shouldn’t be three hours long”? Skill issue. There are white boys waxing poetic about Steambot Chronicles in ways you couldn’t possibly imagine.

christ i just remembered this quote from last week www.thegamebusiness.com/p/matthew-ba...

Dunno why we need Austin Powers 4 when First Light was already a pretty funny James Bond parody