We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

qg con thoughts thread...

HEY have you been working on something interesting this year? Submissions to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Send us your weird games! More about the session and where to submit is on our new website: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

friction in videogames is almost always good and you can't convince me otherwise

Skeet a PERFECT Album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana

hi hello my husband recently accepted a job in Victoria, BC so we are hoping to immigrate to Canada before the year is over soooo i will be leaving my in-office IT job and be out of work again. shares and job leads welcome!

this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people

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dissertating

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the games press social media experience is like you sometimes step into a building and you can hear the dull, distant thumps of people having a knife fight somewhere in a floor above you. you're not sure if this is a new knife fight or an old one. you were outside

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

hi. i’ll be there with a game AND talk. come hang out. it’ll be cool.

I set out to complete every Cronenberg movie this year to answer a simple question: is this guy a good director? I have three left and I’m still befuddled.

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

just reminding you that this is coming up 👀

Tomorrow at 9am! Come for the zine stay for a bunch of lovely talks! #ica25

Does anyone want to help me do a summer game show next summer that’s all fake games that will never come out?

🌞ROMAN SANDS RE:BUILD 🌞 ⚠️ SEPTEMBER 12th ⚠️ Your most desired concierge experience. WISHLIST TODAY: store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/... www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFQq...

here’s a small taste

The academic year is over now for a nice relaxing summer flick

vaguely interesting to me that Cow is the first cute aesthetic Big character in Mario Kart I can think of?

It's finally done!📝 In this blog post, I apply my theory of an archaeological gameworld mental model to Blue Prince, and argue that half the fun of the game is in what happens off-screen: florencesmithnicholls.com/2025/06/03/d...

Happy pride folks I'm still fleshing out the entries, but here's a list of over 200 retro games (pre-2010) which were made by trans people or which had trans people on the dev team. We have always been here. dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictrans...

If you're gonna be at ICA in a few weeks I'll be here talking about why videogame controllers are dildos. (I'll also have zines if you're around and aren't able to make the talk!) #ica25

The Huntress and The Holders of Hands and Sammus in Portland Maine. It was such an odd & emotionally moving show. just grateful to see both of those acts in an intimate setting

....why didn't they just cut the donut to look like pac-man????????????

back on my bullshit (now in 3D)

vatican announces new pope:

anyway, support your local theater if you have one

One time I played Halo 3 on one of those wrap around imax’s and video games never got better

Post a meme made by you This was a rough time during grad seminars.

i'm on an amtrak for the first time since train jam (2019!) and getting weirdly nostalgic for the thing that kind of made me the game maker i am. also there's someone with an old timey type writer going to TOWN so best of luck to them

ok IM SUCH A BROKEN RECORD ABOUT THIS but i have to talk about the relationship of kill gameplay to game dev. "let ppl do the important work instead of busy work" === kill gameplay literally foundational. before i considered killing gameplay i was thinking: how do i apply game design to making?

Vignettes, family memories and reflection

lol.

Introducing the latest and greatest in generative AI technology: you Play YOU ARE GENERATIVE AI now! direkris.itch.io/genai

every unreal yt tutorial is by a dude who just chugged a redbull and hit some nose tork. It's wild.

if you try to retweet any of my work it'll actually cost you $45

everytime I try not to make a walking simulator I end up back... at the walking simulator

a mask is the thing you’re looking for. it is the visible reminder of how things have changed, that you acknowledge we are not coveted “normal” times—but unlike donation-earned tote bags or symbolic beaded bracelets, the mask is community care in both form & immediate function.

what will be the metroidCitizenKaneia of our lifetime

you know the economy is bad cause people are arguing about videogame niche genre names again

not even sports can be good for me right now

games that are broken! That can’t be completed! Make the narrative impossible to understand! mechanics that hurt the BRAIN! INPUTS SHOULD BE SHROUDED SHIFTING AND VAGUE

It’s wild to me that the current discourse is “how much will GTA be” and not “is the entire American non-f2p games industry about to collapse”

This is useful based on recent lived experience in the sciences

i'm not ready for gussied up flash game to be a popular aesthetic

sometimes i write 200 good words and it makes me feel like i can kill god.