@jamesgroundshatter.bsky.social HAH, found it! Told you you couldn't keep me away forever! I'm starting work on Monday and this time there's nothing you can do to stop me. SEE YOU BRIGHT AND EARLY.

There's a lovely Studio Profile about Size Five Games in the latest EDGE magazine, with lots of concept art and stuff. Well worth a trip to the newsagent.

Big 'my girlfriend goes to another school' energy, here. Yeah, we're playing it all the time. It's, like, soooooo good, you'd love it. It looks incredible, too. Can you see it? What, with your eyes? Um, no. No no no, not just yet, it's probably TOO good right now if anything

This is worth a read. From my side, I had a few conversations with people who are smarter than me about how LOTS of publisher are preparing to turn on the money hose *once GTA6 is out*. Big expectations that it'll bring in lots of new eyeballs to the industry, and there's money coming when it does.

There's a lovely Studio Profile about Size Five Games in the latest EDGE magazine, with lots of concept art and stuff. Well worth a trip to the newsagent.

✅ ANH is amazing buuut his wife saved it in the edit ✅ All other SW movies varying degrees of 'ropey' ✅ Prequels a fucking diisaster ✅ Raiders is amazing, buuut Spielberg It's time to reconsider George Lucas as an oracle of what is/ isn't good

The lock to get into my Airbnb for #developConf is the most Deus Ex coded keypad I've ever seen

Earth Must Die isn't on sale any more but it's still an UTTER bargain and I found another nice review, thanks to a sale round-up post: "packed with dry observations, absurd escalations, and the occasional line that lands with the quiet confidence of a joke that knows exactly what it’s doing" [1/2]

UPGRADE IT WITH SOME GAMES.

SURELY these doctors can afford to build a border by now

Just found this big fence and, uh, what are they keeping in this field exactly, do we think?

STOP. HELPING. PEOPLE. Jesus Christ Rami, it's crowded enough in this business without you letting slip all the fucking secrets. What are you trying to do, get MORE games made to clog up the Steam frontend??! (seriously: looks good, rami is v knowledgeable and fair and nice, get on this)

New (to me) favourite obsession is this German man who slices his bread, measures how good of a job he did and records it in a graph. Just endlessly entertaining content. Solid. youtube.com/@germanbread...

Bold to assume there are still places left to work.

Okay so what are people who live in hot countries doing with their phones? Because during these heatwaves my phone is constantly grumbling and shutting itself down due to overheating and... like... are we getting different phones made to you lot, or is there a cooling technique I'm not aware of?

Just found a review I never posted, good excuse to remind you all that Earth Must Die is 40% off right now! "If you enjoy absurd science-fiction humor, this is a title you don’t want to miss!" - Nice Game Hints (full quote and link in reply) store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

Who's making them? Fucking Aquaman?

This looks super cool and clever 👍

Who's making them? Fucking Aquaman?

Sometimes social media feels like it lost that fun element that made it so appealing in the first place, and I wonder if it's time to just close my accounts and then Nigel Farage runs a by-election against a man with a bin on his head and it's just GOLD all the way down and I love it

For some people, video games are about the wonder of exploring strange, thrilling, action-packed worlds but for me the joy of video games has always been all about moving to a franchise-centric planning strategy to better focus resources on long-term growth and stability amid broader restructuring.

So you guys are just, like, watching a football match and then, what, watching another one *immediately after*?

For some people, video games are about the wonder of exploring strange, thrilling, action-packed worlds but for me the joy of video games has always been all about moving to a franchise-centric planning strategy to better focus resources on long-term growth and stability amid broader restructuring.

This razor blade looks like a robot that told a big lie. This is all.

I don't know anything about football, but a video game where you play as England and have to fight ghosts, time and Mexico sounds great.

I just worry that one billion gamers a day maybe isn't enough gamers a day? Like, if you're thinking big, think BIG. 10 billion. Every day, ten billion. That's a MUCH bigger number, and there's no reason on Earth not to get 10 billion a day. SHOOT ✨ FOR ✨ THE ✨ STARS ✨

I don't know anything about football, but a video game where you play as England and have to fight ghosts, time and Mexico sounds great.

"That's no moon", etc

In the movie RAMPAGE the two villains for some reason have a RAMPAGE arcade cabinet in their office and yet at no point do they mention it or note the similarities to the game with the mayhem outside that they have caused. I would like a follow-up indie arthouse movie about why this is.

I'll tell you the other thing about physical discs, you can wrap the fuckers up for birthdays and christmas. "IOU one copy of Lego Batman" doesn't have quite the same childhood-making memories and I suspect sales will suffer as a result.

Thanks to Alasdair Beckett King, I discovered Lair of the Clockwork God by @danthat.bsky.social & @timegentleman.bsky.social , a game in the best tradition of games like Monkey Island, I just completed Ben There, Dan That. I'm now starting the sequel Time, Gentleman Please! These games are brilliant

You are not prepared for how boring a nickname the people have come up with

In light of Trump's state fair turning out to be massively shit it's easy to forget that time he made a big song and dance about a big powerful military parade that was also massively shit.

I'll tell you the other thing about physical discs, you can wrap the fuckers up for birthdays and christmas. "IOU one copy of Lego Batman" doesn't have quite the same childhood-making memories and I suspect sales will suffer as a result.

Looks like Batman's on it, though.

This looks like a wildly satisfying bit 'o clicking www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpPi...

I maintain that there is a small but very real market out there for a console that uses cartridges. Pop some exclusive games on that thing, I'd get one in a heartbeat.

we need a social media ban for the over 60s

Played Slots and Daggers on the recommendation of @mikerose.bsky.social and got instantly hooked. Juice out the wazoo, and brilliantly satisfying. Only a few quid, hop on it.

I'm not a big boy business brain, but surely in this current climate throwing no-strings-attached money at small devs is a better ROI than going all-in on multimillion dollar AAA live service games? Meccha Chameleon just sold 10m copies in a fortnight.

A Hades alike but for The Trap Door.

Also, a Disco Elysium alike but for Scrooged

Okay hear me out: a 007 First Light alike, but for Beverly Hills Cop

I'm not a big boy business brain, but surely in this current climate throwing no-strings-attached money at small devs is a better ROI than going all-in on multimillion dollar AAA live service games? Meccha Chameleon just sold 10m copies in a fortnight.

Earth Must Die is an unbelievable 4️⃣0️⃣ percent off in the #steamsummersale! 8 hours of high quality rude cartoon comedy for a bargain price! QUICK, get on it, please. store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

If you want to know why everyone in the UK has been a bit grouchy, it's because it's been too hot for a cup of tea. Tomorrow looks like it might be cool enough for the first cup of tea all week. Setting the alarm early.

One of the things I love most about flopping down on the sofa and playing video games is how they're content that attracts users on a global level and revitalise markets 👍

Quick! Put the price up!

Earth Must Buy (this game) thanks.