I was having a nightmare and right when it was about to really kick off @johndelancie.bsky.social showed up as TNG-era Q, looked me right in the eyes, and clicked his fingers. I woke up! If I were Grant Morrison, I think I’d tell you I just met (and was saved by) a fictional character? Thanks, Q.

Four games that defined my 2025: (... yes, I am still behind on Like a Dragon, but I did finish Man Who Erased His Name. I hope to catch up again in 2026.)

I’m leaving MCV/DEVELOP in the new year, which means that I’m available for work! If you need: - Narrative / Game Design - Screenwriting or Comic Scripts - News - Reviews - Interviews - Features - Mock Reviews & Consultancy … or anything else we offer over at hologramghost.com, please hit me up!

attention new bluesky users: pick up that can

Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question: Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends. Make. Friends.

“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.

Everything at @hologramghost.bsky.social is done by humans. We even do our own PowerPoint presentations! Just in case you needed a new favourite game studio.

shake it, baby ☢️✨

I need Microsoft to know that every time they show me an ad in Windows a little progress bar for me moving to Zorin OS shows up and moves a little bit

whoever moved the “OK” button for screenshots on iOS 26.1 and replaced it with a “delete my screenshot” button should be arrested

"video game mechanics?" Actually, they're called developers.

I mainly just like that the page title shows up in the post as "Nothing's Ever Really Dead on Steam"

the tokusatsu community should be using this more often

I’m leaving MCV/DEVELOP in the new year, which means that I’m available for work! If you need: - Narrative / Game Design - Screenwriting or Comic Scripts - News - Reviews - Interviews - Features - Mock Reviews & Consultancy … or anything else we offer over at hologramghost.com, please hit me up!

“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI” Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”

What a great headline

Captain Jonathan Archer in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 6 pls

Don't let anyone upset you today remember you can always go home and play video games

One of the two Doctor Who short stories I did for Titan Comics is in this bundle! ☕ You should go buy it (DRM-free!) and support Children in Need!

Happy Doctor Who day everyone! remember to celebrate in the traditional way (kidnap two school teachers)

STOP LOOKING INTO THE CHAIR COMPANY

I want that new Steam Machine SO BAD

It is time that the game buying public accepted that all game development studios are headed up by a lazy man who can’t be arsed to go get his morning coffee. It is the new normal. The question is not “am I comfortable buying games by a sleepy man?”, the question is “am I, the consumer, wrong?”

We're working on Nothing's Ever Really Dead, a point-and-click adventure game where you and the ghost of your best friend solve the murder of your best friend. It's a cyberpunk comedy! #PitchYaGame

No More Robots made their first in-house game!! (It's actually an in-boat game. I'll see myself out.)

sorry, that's my emotional support fried chicken and kimchi sandwich

"you should work nine hours a day six days a week making money for somebody else when you are young so you can (maybe) not have to work at all when you are 65" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

I'm just like a large language model in that I've read everything on the internet and it's made me effectively useless

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

good water

The folks at @galaxiesshow.com spill the beans on their upcoming showcase, Silver Script Games discuss recording at Abbey Road, and MCV/Develop editor @limeyotoko.bsky.social tells us about his foray into gamedev. Yes, all of that and more in Debug++ 25.10 - Out now! Subscribe for free: debug.plus

Thanks to @retrohistories.bsky.social and @limeyotoko.bsky.social, we've added nearly 200 more issues of the British game industry magazine MCV to our digital archive! We're now at 400+ issues archive.gamehistory.org/folder/eb206...

Meet team @hologramghost.bsky.social, part of the Aurora 2025 Pilot! This UK studio is fearless in blending bold ideas with thoughtful narrative design. Through Aurora, they’re developing Nothing’s Ever Really Dead — a story of identity, choice & transformation. Proud to be on this journey with them

Here's a secret, just for the adults: you can make hot chocolate cold (like a milkshake) and the police won't show up or anything

"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see

Genuinely think Psygnosis IP being sat on by Sony for 30 years has been such a blow for UK gaming culture. Whatever you think of them their games were hugely important and successful and most of them just vanished. Even Lemmings ffs and that's a game even my mum still talks about

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

Do we still need stories about an aspirational immigrant who's so devoted to his adopted country that he regularly puts himself in danger to help even those who fear and distrust him, and who's primary antagonist is an egotistical tech billionaire? Yes, fucking obviously. You numpties.

Spike has a Red Ranger from 2007’s Power Rangers Operation Overdrive in 28 Years Later, despite the outbreak starting in 2002 How much disbelief am I supposed to suspend here??

Adi Shankar is a Max Landis echo fighter

How to be a writer, no. 1256899 1. Write 2. Think about writing 3. Worry about writing 4. Write some more 5. Be the envy of social media with your fictional playboy lifestyle 6. Tea

Limited Run Games has now fixed the game breaking bug in their rerelease of GEX 2 and 3 that made you listen to Dana Gould “do comedy”

every UK economic policy is like "we must defund the arts (massive, we're a global leader, generates vast amounts in tourism) and pump that money into tech (we're bottom of the barrel, basically just cheap outsourcing because wages are a fraction of America) or fishing and steel (employs 11 people)"

House of M-merdale

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

The average American has three friends

Here's a secret, just for the adults: you can make hot chocolate cold (like a milkshake) and the police won't show up or anything

Babe, wake up, the maguffin for the next Paddington film just dropped

I just saw an ad for a product that said it helped out with “leftover curry” and frankly I don’t understand the premise