finally heard this line in killer7 last night and pointed at my screen

The only socials links on the YouTube are Twitter, Twitch and Kick 🫠

Next taste-testing: Entering Host, which bafflingly has only THREE user reviews despite coming out in August. From the few levels I've played so far, it's a very polished, cinematic puzzle-platformer where you control a tiny spider-drone that can hack and control larger robots with new abilities.

More and More people are making 2026 the year that they reject Video Games cultural cringe.

the 2000s can be defined as two eras: - before, when the Sopranos intro had the world trade centre in it - after, when the Sopranos intro no longer had the world trade center in it its crazy that the twin towers said all that shit and got cancelled so they had to cut that shot from the intro tho

In Zelda 2, a woman appears in each town, beckoning Link into her home. They disappear inside and Link's health begins to refill. One reddit user recently asked if this scene was *intentionally* suggestive. While that seems very unlikely, I thought I'd look into it.

Die Hard VII youtu.be/4pG8_bWpmaE?...

hole

✳️ The Triad's Reliquary is OUT. :) ✳️ GZdoom or UZdoom required. Hardware requirements likely to be high due to size and lighting. Get it here: www.moddb.com/mods/the-tri... ❓ Let me know how it works for you if you try it out! :D

Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...

Perhaps the real slop detected was the friends we made along the way?

Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us. www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...

Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

Tiny blog post: I got annoyed at webpages getting a minor point in game history wrong for no clearly obvious reason, so I wrote up my research on *why* it's wrong in addition to what the right answer should be www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/20...

60 Minutes (Series, 1968 - )

Absolutely in love with the style of this. So good. store.steampowered.com/app/2950200/...

There's almost no weird steam sales gimmicks to explore your "discovery queue" et al this year. I suspect this won't be a positive for the smaller developer.

Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there. Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.

regarding the Indie Game Awards. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3We... Ambersun's first new song since 2022 is The Toymaker! An interpretation of the story of The 7th Guest and the various timelines that sprang off it. With nods to various pieces from George Sanger's great soundtrack, and introducing Penny as the haunted dolls :)

I deeply want some games journo deep-diver to figure out what the absolute hell is going on with Cookie's Bustle. I want a full exposé on whatever freak is doing this. I'm sensing drama on Tallarico levels here

Netflix's new Christmas movie imagines a world where Santa changes his pronouns. I mean hers (Source: tinyurl.com/y97n73uf)

The Winter Sale numbers have been pretty abysmal so I’m just going to keep shouting about my games being on sale until things pick up. Buy my games, please. I guarantee you’ll have fun with them. store.steampowered.com/curator/4430...

every day this becomes more true

every product in 2030 is going to have thousands of tests implemented as like test_x => true

if you are going to implement ANY ONE THING as a human being while letting AI do the rest... it should be the tests

Oh shit. I didn't know a fork of "Liberal Crime Squad" appeared that makes the game playable in a browser, as well as updates the game's setting into a more modern one. Liberal Crime Squad: New Age - www.jonathansfox.com/lcs-new-age/

This is the pattern with the Cookie's Bustle troll. They abuse free/cheap legal resources to make spurious takedowns, and then never follow up, because they have no legitimate claim. If you push back even a grain of sand, you will never hear from them again

I contributed to this list. Top 10 games that were most influential to me as a designer, personally polarisgamedesign.com/the-polaris-...

cape hideous is still 74.9% off even right now store.steampowered.com/app/3187550/...

Stepping from one world to another for this week's #RandomGameSaturday with Funcom's The Longest Journey. Still one of my favourite point and click adventure games. 💜 I connected so hard with April Ryan too at the time, making it even more of a special first experience.

My proposal is to add an infix tetration operator `***` to JavaScript. For example, `3 *** 3` would evaluate to `7625597484987`; this would be one of about five possible meaningful results the operator was capable of producing (maybe ten if we allow BigInts)

Who coined "Metroidvania"? It wasn't @jparish.bsky.social, and he'll be the first to tell you. Besides, there are far more interesting questions, like: How did it spread? Evolve? And what's it got to do with rickrolling? Watch til the end for a post-credits sting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...

Monkey paw situation: All missing episodes of Doctor Who survive, but only in the Game Boy Advance Video format.

Transgender people are real. God is fake. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

This is awful. Shame on Critical Reflex. This is some Blizzard/Activision behavior. #indiegames #criticalreflex youtu.be/aB6jrARl_jA?...

How embarrassing

oh your black metal band substitutes the letters f for v and c for k? that's poser shit, check this out

the two-headed monster emerges from the depths of the black sea, writhing and raging with a mournful voice! love ❤️ game @sylviefluff.bsky.social @aria.garden

It's that time of the year again

The father of indie games is probably some casual games grifter that everybody has forgotten about.

"NOAA makes a predictive weather system that uses 1/300th the CPU power of older systems and extends accurate forecasting out 48 more hours" "NO! AI BAD, DESTROYS THE ENVIRONMENT AND IT'S WRONG ALL THE TIME" ...this is not the same kind of AI, please read the actual release for the love of satan.

There's been a lot of speculation about this! My opinion now is: I don't care anymore. It is effectively like a random person claiming they own Star Wars and it should be treated appropriately

This has been underreported about Cookie's Bustle. The "copyright registration" that's been used for takedowns is just a website where you can say "I own this" with zero validation. It is not an actual copyright registration! It does nothing to support their claim

"A sci-fi strategy game based on Issac Asimov's Foundation" Is it though? I must have missed the bit in the books where the sexy lady in the low-cut skintight jumpsuit bumps arses with a big green alien, that must have happened in the later weird prequel stuff.

No matter what your approach is regarding the Firefox browser AI news stuff, whether it is to move to a different fork or continue to manually disable those features with each update or find a Chromium fork that doesn't track your shit or whatever, my only recommendation is don't use Brave.

Written by @polarrhoid.bsky.social : Businessman’s arcade with booze and fancy watches as prizes