I cannot overstate how profoundly influential Space Ghost Coast to Coast was on my being. When I was a sullen teenager, it was Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and The X-Files that gave me a window into a weird world into which a weird kid like me would someday fit.

We will look back at the era of "Compiling Shaders" and laugh. Can't wait for that point.

The lead singer of Imagine Dragons helped create a game studio. It launched a live-service shooter this week on PC. It advertised it with the band's social accounts (10 million followers) It has yet to reach over 600 concurrent players on Steam. Stop making live-service games, folks.

Even The Lead Singer Of Imagine Dragons Can Barely Get Anyone To Play His New Live-Service Game

Players thought Clash of Clans was joking about selling feet decorations but it very much was not https://kotaku.com/clash-of-clans-decides-to-sell-feet-pics-2000688639

Clair Obscur has now won GOTY at all five major award shows. Only the second game to do this. Baldur's Gate 3 was the first.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

LMAO But Why Tho? Dying because of a shitty developer is not what I had on my bingo card. We have 48 hours to figure out what to do for a new host and find a developer to help us.

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The codev company says the hard times are trickling down: "Players consume games in new ways. Publishers have different criteria for investing in the development of games. This new normal has impacted all our partners."

Iron Galaxy has revealed another round of mass layoffs as it tries to "evolve" for the game industry's new normal. One source told Kotaku as many as 90 employees could be affected. https://kotaku.com/iron-galaxy-layoffs-tony-hawk-last-us-part-2-remaster-2000688573

Robot Runner Crashes And Burns Before Even Starting Race kotaku.com/robot-runner...

TMZ setting up in DC to follow politicians around is FINALLY the appropriate lowbrow "news" coverage this administration has merited all along.

The evil idiots in charge of the US Govt are so stupid they don't realize that one of the most important parts of maintaining your regime is to keep the soldiers you need fed and happy.

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Even if they didn't provide any new mod tools, the official Tomb Raider remasters really lit a fire under the fangame scene. They've gone and made *multiple* current-gen, improved new engines of their own and the majority of new stuff released now runs on them. There's SO much on TRLE and TRCustoms

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag fans will enjoy pirate RPG Windrose, but only if you can put up with some survival/crafting jank.

Been playing a lot of Windrose. The survival / crafting stuff might be too much for some. BUT if you can get past those opening hours, the game becomes the Black Flag successor we've wanted for years. The ship combat/sailing is directly inspired by Black Flag. Shanties are sung by the same guy!

wrote about unc, and the way that the internet works as an accelerator of cultural appropriation aftermath.site/unc-aave-afr...

It Blows My Mind That The Division Used To Look Like A World Of Warcraft-Style MMO, As Recently Revealed By Ubisoft

dude check the news doesn't matter what channel kotaku.com/northernlion...

Been playing a lot of Windrose. The survival / crafting stuff might be too much for some. BUT if you can get past those opening hours, the game becomes the Black Flag successor we've wanted for years. The ship combat/sailing is directly inspired by Black Flag. Shanties are sung by the same guy!

Epic's Head Of HR Is Out Less Than A Month After Mass Layoffs https://kotaku.com/epics-head-of-hr-is-out-less-than-a-month-after-1000-layoffs-2000688217

Metro 2039 looks incredible in its first gameplay reveal. The Ukrainian devs also talked about developing the game while living through the ongoing Russian invasion and war. "When Russia's full-scale invasion began, it changed the lives of everyone in the studio."

Lana Del Rey doing the video game James Bond theme the same day Brian Williams signs a podcast with Netflix? An entire NYC nepo baby gossip cycle about Lean Dunham? The 2010s are so back.

When I ranked BF6's maps, New Sobek and Blackwell Fields were at the very bottom. Happy to see EA agrees and is reworking these very bad and horrible and annoying maps.

The worst maps in Battlefield 6 are getting reworked later this year to make them suck less.

EA laid out some big plans for the rest of this year in Battlefield 6: -Prox chat -Server browser -map reworks -7 new maps (wake island!) -Naval warfare with working aircraft carriers -ranked play -new weapons -new vehicles -spectator mode -solo BR queue -a special holiday treat in fall -and more!

Battlefield 6 devs shared the big plans they have for 2026, including adding seven new maps this year, a server browser, proximity chat, and more. The devs also confirmed they have been "slightly overindexing" on small/medium maps. So some of these upcoming maps are very, very big.

perhaps bluesky shouldn't be vibe coded?

Absolutely dying at right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg getting so angry that Mr. and Mrs. Met hugged @mayor.nyc.gov that he started calling them antisemites and became a Yankees fan.

Wow. The music in the Sega CD port of "Eye of the Beholder" is NOT what I expected. 💿🔊🎵

DoBlu is refreshed! All sorts of new features, light/dark modes, better search functionality, and just all around nifty stuff happening (and we're still playing/tweaking stuff as we go!): www.doblu.com

Going to start posting some of my work from People of Note! My desktop is packed for the move so I only have access to the stuff saved to my laptop for now, but figured I would get the process started since there is 4 YEARS worth of stuff to show!! Starting with one of my favorite areas- Lumina 💙

The recent leaks showing GTA Online makes a million (or more) a day got me thinking about the game after GTA6. Can they co-exist? Will GTA 6 be able to compete? Will GTA Online get shutdown? Looked at Rockstar history, industry trends, Take-Two, and more to put together this very long breakdown

GTA Online's Incredible Success Leaves GTA 6 With An Impossible Task

hell yeah let's goooooooo youtu.be/FLKZnVB4F9k?...

I wonder what the shortest amount of time is between someone being baptized Catholic and excommunicated because we may be looking at a new record here shortly

The @nightdivestudios.bsky.social story in detail! www.shacknews.com/article/1416...

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream brought me back to the golden age of dumb tech. Where computer programs were a proving ground that challenged you to outsmart a machine. It’s a joyous shitpost factory where every ridiculous screenshot feels like a victory. My review. www.polygon.com/tomodachi-li...

Allbirds, a shoe company once worth over a billion dollars, crashed so bad that a holding company picked it up last month for $39 million. Now what remains of Allbirds is pivoting into an AI company. You hear that sound? That's the sound of the AI bubble popping...

Zombie Shoe Brand Announces Plan To Become AI Company And Stock Price Increases 300 Percent Because Everything Is Stupid Now

yeah, seems like you're definitely headed for "transformation"

NYT runs a nonsense op-ed by an 84-year-old man yelling at cloud about darn kids that is on face directly contradicted by months of its own reporting.

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

this has to be in the top 5 funniest tweets of all time

“Hollywood, believe it or not, is a blue-collar town...“It’s thousands and thousands of Grips and Gaffers. Drivers and Decorators. Builders and Boom operators. Camera teams and Caterers... And they’re all about to get f*cked” Damon Lindelof Reveals Reason He Signed Anti-Paramount-WBD Merger Missive

fell down a rabbit hole, apparently the most thorough guides for Baldur's Gate 1&2 are written by a woman who has been thoroughly blogging all her video game opinions since the 1980s. she gave Baldur's Gate 3 a 2.1/10 rating and scathingly calls it a reddit RPG lilura1.blogspot.com/2024/01/Redd...