🪸The Mermaid Mask🪸 is OUT NOW on Steam, Switch 1 and Switch 2 - and hopefully very soon on PS5! A murder-mystery detective adventure aboard the world's strangest submarine...

Epic. Spaceflight. Action. Roguelike. This is Rogue Eclipse, launching NEXT MONTH ON AUGUST 7th! 🕹 Arcade Flight Controls 💥 Merciless Armadas to Blast Through 👾 Epic Boss Fights to Overcome 🚀 A Story that unfolds over roguelike campaign Wishlist Here! bit.ly/4bRLumD #gaming #indiegames #gamedev

Crow Country is 🐦‍⬛🎡🎊🚨 🎉 70% OFF ✨ 👀⭐👆😱 for a Steam Daily Deal to celebrate tomorrow's launch of our new game, The Mermaid Mask We're not discounting this low again for a looong time, so grab it white you can! Already played? Recommend to a friend! store.steampowered.com/app/1996010/...

I said this on VGBees but the first episode of my gamedev interview podcast, Dialed Indie, will be coming out this week! and by this week I mean tomorrow in like a few hours https://feeds.captivate.fm/dialedindie/

Of course, this week's episode is mostly about the horrifying layoffs at Xbox and what's next for all parties involved. vgbees.com/ep-110-the-v...

Also, we have a new show on the podcast feed! The VGBees Interview debuted this week with guest @philsalv.bsky.social of the Video Game History Foundation. vgbees.com/the-vgbees-i...

imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out

@wes.readonlymemo.com Looks like a recomp based off the AKI-Club decomp of VPW 2 just saw its first release! Would be neat to hear more from this team, with which I am in no way affiliated—just a fan of your work! Decomp: github.com/AKI-Club/vpw2 Recomp: discovery.onl/Grix/a1ac11e...

Jack is extremely gracious with his praise, because truthfully it's his great ideas and research skills in tracking down these fantastic opportunities to learn more about gaming history, but I am still very happy to get to work with him on awesome projects like this!

Catching up on The Distraction and @davidjroth.bsky.social uttering the phrase “The version of Wolf Blitzer that people were seeing in clubs back in the 70s, as opposed to the arena act we all know” took me the fuck out

I'm looking to speak to folks who have worked as contractors via agencies or other third-parties, who have lost work recently as a part of restructurings/larger layoffs at companies like Xbox, Epic, Ubi, etc. Want to know about the larger, uncounted cost of these things. Email and Signal are in bio.

"Marathon is too complicated" "extraction shooters aren't fun" "what about the player count" I give you: Marathon Steve www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/c...

@patrickklepek.bsky.social @robzacny.bsky.social @cado.bsky.social It was lovely listening to you all go to Costco while I myself was en route to Costco, but what if I told you that Costco Japan has a bulgogi bake instead of the chicken bake?

I kinda assumed Lorelei and the Laser Eyes was as ubiquitous as the games it often gets compared to (Return of the Obra Dinn, Outer Wilds, Blue Prince), but seeing that it is only sitting at 2k reviews on Steam actually hurts me. buy it. this is not a request. store.steampowered.com/app/2008920/...

@edzitron.com bringing us the SoftBank slide deck has given me *very specific* brain worms

@edzitron.com bringing us the SoftBank slide deck has given me *very specific* brain worms

Personally, if I were one of the Third Way ghouls who helped to hollow out labor, vilify the poor (especially when they’re black), and lay the ground work for furthering private profit over public good, I would shut the fuck up when a new era of young politicians attempted to revive my party.

This shirt is a crime, what the hell

The Dreams on a Pillow store page is live! If you want an emotional piece of Palestinian history, then please check it out! The team have been working really hard and are crowdfunding soon to raise more money to develop the game. Please wishlist 🖤 store.steampowered.com/app/4438850/...

I am thrilled to announce that Dreams on a Pillow has wrapped up pre-production and we are about to start full production. We can’t do it without your support. We are starting our second round of crowdfunding, to support us you can find out more here www.launchgood.com/1948

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

fromsoft game narrative discourse often misses how the words are very good. item descriptions blah blah yeah sure. but "all things flourish, whether graceful or malign" is very good words

The current moment in tech is loosely understood as software guys getting so evil they made hardware guys discover Marxism from first principles.

"proton lets you play windows games on linux" windows: wait "gamenative lets you play windows games on android" windows: yo STOP?? WTF

@grubb.wtf @tolkoto.com @danryckert.com seeing as y’all started singing it during Blight Club, could I interest you in a version of Wake Me Up Inside that’s so jazzed up it basically qualifies as City Pop? h/t Oli Howe www.instagram.com/reel/DVtNrR3...

We used to have news media with integrity

Incredible work Nvidia...

absolute all-timer from Ismail

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Peep the vid, scoop the game, and pop some headphones on because this game will Do Things To You (positive)

Tokyo peeps: A friend of mine and her husband arrive at Haneda at 2 a.m. and are looking for a place to hang out in Tokyo until their connecting flight the following afternoon. Do you have any ideas about fun or interesting places spend the wee hours in Tokyo?

ちょっとメモ。 1/16、訪米中の小泉防衛大臣はパランティア社を訪問。 x.com/ModJapan_jp/... 3/5 高市首相は、訪日したパランティア共同創業者兼会長ピーター・ティールの表敬を受ける。 x.com/MofaJapan_jp... 雑感： パランティアのデータプラットフォームは、イスラエルも米ICE(移民税関局)も使っています。戦争協力にも人民弾圧にも抵抗がない会社です。 日本で大量監視システムを構築、警察も自衛隊も活用しまくることになる予感がするのですが、大丈夫でしょうか。

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

There are too many excellent people to name (and not all of them are on social media), but this was a true team effort, and it was a honest pleasure to work with every one of my talented colleagues.

Now that it's out, I can finally share that I had the pleasure of working on the English localization of the wonderful Pokémon Pokopia alongside a fantastic team! I've been waiting a looong time to see what people think of this one, and we are unbelievably proud of how it turned out!! HAVE FUN!

“Hosted by Jason Biggs”

The game is only like 10 hours long btw. It's okay to have AAA games be that length.

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

polymarket should be beyond illegal. all involved in its creation and upkeep deserve agony for the rest of their days

a bunch of gaming video essays I like! dialedindie.net/p/video-essa...

So excited to announce that Strange Scaffold is sponsoring the Frosty Games showcases this year. The degree to which ANZ teams go above and beyond to not just contribute to the medium, but also better the ecosystem of making games, can't be overstated!

Hearing this in @mobute.bsky.social’s best Delco accent. “Ehwh, yer goin’a Philaderphia?”

Nothing is surprising about the US starting another war. Nothing is more dangerous to Earth and mankind at large than the United States and its complete and utter failure to curtail the worst excesses of humanity. The US oligarchy and its influence on global politics must end.

Re: Xbox — all I can think about is the Double Fine PsychOdyssey documentary scene where Matt Booty essentially tells all creatives on the team that their ideas are property of Microsoft even if their game idea isn’t green-lit You can see the creativity stifled in real time

Good morning

[looks up from Sektori] fuck.

Counterpoint I can’t believe I have to make: you should understand the thing you’re making and the people buying the thing you’re making. Birthrate truther and AI freak isn’t top of that desired resume idk what to tell you.