Would have killed for this kind of resource on RPS and Eurogamer. Staying on top of calendars like this takes so much work, but planning coverage was so much harder when you could see major crunch points forming in real time. Huge props to @indieformer.com for releasing this into the wild!

Finally getting round to Öoo, the latest from Elechead genius NamaTakahashi, and cor, this puzzler really has the juice, the sauce AND the gravy. Lovely stuff. store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...

Now that's how you kick off a Friday.

"Where's my Breakfast?" by Daniel Arthur

The end of DK Bananza goes so hard and absolutely smashes it.

I've had to abandon the Indiana Jones DLC after a glitch has made any further progress impossible, and I'm absolutely gutted. A great game brought low by a goddamn pipe puzzle of all things.

Hot damn, new Fire Emblem looks rad as heck.

Oh man, clocking Phanto in Super Mario Wonder Switch 2 Edition has awoken long hidden memories of his endless, It Follows-style pursuits in SMB 2. Looking forward to excavating some good childhood trauma there...

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie better have a stonking rendition of Gusty Garden Galaxy or rampages will be had.

New Toukana game day is always a good day.

Been thinking a lot about Yasuke since finishing AC Shadows. I didn't use him nearly as much as I thought, despite really liking everything about him at preview (and still do even now), and I think that comes down to the friction he creates as you move through the world. BUT! This isn't a bad thing!

Seeing people go "Reviews aren't needed for this. People will buy it regardless," and like... reviews aren't just a thing to be used by people to decide if they should buy something. A critical appraisal of a game is still worth having even if a bunch of fans are going to buy it anyway.

A powerfully ominous cloud.

The only good announcement today. youtu.be/o_Xmv9eAIZA?...

Done.

prepared for sakurai "why is making a game so hard?" memes for the rest of forever, congrats game devs

Give these champs the AC Shadows spin-off they deserve.

Finally rolling credits on Assassin's Creed Shadows be like

Right now, there is no editorial leadership on RPS, GI.Biz, VG247, and from the end of August, also IGN? Cool. Cool cool cool. kotaku.com/ign-john-dav...

Clearly today's the day for exciting game announcements. Extremely pumped to see the developer of Six Ages: Ride Like The Wind and King of Dragon Pass still cooking up the good stuff.

Hot damn, Heretic is a core gaming memory for young Katharine (or at least the first couple of free shareware levels were, anyway - we never did get the full version back in the day!). This is excellent news.

Nice to see Ludocene out in the wild. If it serves up my 'expert' card, adding it to your search will serve up loads of detective and mystery games I've enjoyed. Hey, I'll take any chance I get to push The Centennial Case.

Is it me, or is there a hint of Fi's Theme in that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment tease at the end there? youtu.be/0SLxs5kgcOs?...

If Inkle's A Highland Song has taught me anything, it's that I just need to hop through a couple of background layers and I'll be at the top in no time, yeah?

You take the high road, I'll take the Lo(mond) road 💙

This ridiculous thought entered my head at 2am and I had to make it real Presenting... ✨🍃 KIRYU MOODS 🍃✨

If you're lucky enough to work with someone like @grahamsmith.bsky.social who cares deeply about the art and craft of writing, criticism and making a damn good website, HANG ON TO THEM FOR DEAR LIFE. They're the most important people you'll ever work with. www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-p...

Tag yourself, I'm backward-facing grimace no.6.

And if *I* get murdered, it was definitely Matthew.

Suddenly, I'm 12 again. Perfection! youtu.be/ueB0oNajuEg?...

Can't believe Nintendo buried DK's Link audition like this.

I still stand by my old pitch for what the Assassin's Creed TV show could/should be. Come on, you know this would be great! www.rockpapershotgun.com/give-us-the-...

Donkey Kong Bananza takes a moment to find its feet, but once it does it's every bit as glorious as you'd hope from the brains behind Odyssey, Galaxy and the like. Few better feeling games.

Best bit of the Donkey Kong Bananza Ask The Developer interview is the revelation that they prototyped it with a goomba with two giant stone fists.

Listening to @itsjensim.bsky.social on this week's @backpagepod.bsky.social reminded me of an old RPS supporter article I wrote once about how I thought creating the same character again and again made me really *boring* and unimaginative, but maybe not! www.rockpapershotgun.com/i-always-cre...

Going to be at Develop next week (Tues & Weds), so if we haven't seen each other in person for a while, let's meet up!

Sharing this for the simple reason that it's worth knowing about. This will kill parts of the internet you dislike, but it will kill a much larger part that you probably value.

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Absolutely obsessed with the food in Mario Kart World.

Toad's new burger head raises so many questions. Like, what would happen if someone took out the flag skewer?

Should have just played three more hours of Mario Kart World last night.

I’m seeing reports that say that unless you own every hardware peripheral for Switch 2, that obtaining a 100% completion rate in Switch 2 Welcome Tour is impossible. That’s….not true? A character in the game explicitly tells you how to bypass challenges if you don’t own the necessary hardware.

Only @backpagepod.bsky.social have the answer to this.

Three years it's taken me to play the final 8 hours of God of War (2018), which is just about the time it took to remember how to play the damn thing.

Now to pick up my 18-month-old, 8 hour Assassin's Creed Mirage save like a true sicko instead of just starting Shadows.

Somehow managed to inhale Caravan Sandwitch this weekend, despite not wholly loving it. The slate-like flintiness of the landscape is very satisfying to clamber over, and there's a strong hint of Promise Mascot Agency / Sable in the way you bomb around this desolate little microcosm in your van.

One of the best things about discovering Tim Crouch's excellent play "The Oak Tree" today (a surprise treat from @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social) isn't just getting to see two fab performances. It's finding Tim's Instagram, that's full of Polaroids and lovely notes about all the actors he's worked with!

This was brilliant. Lucky enough to see Monica Dolan - often quite terrifying in things, here very playful and totally convincing in some heavy emotional beats. Properly amazing to see someone do that stuff on the spot.