This week's Arcade Archives release is Mega Zone, a vertical shmup by Konami. Take your floating tank and destroy the enemy, with features like branching paths and trading in one of your extra lives to make a super tank! Dreamwidth post! tepidsnake.dreamwidth.org/37241.html

Not sure a good way to commemorate the Glencoe Massacre is with AI slop, Facebook feed

I wrote about Reign of the Warlock, the first significant new content for Diablo II in 25 years.

Bill Hader doing an impression of Oliver Reed explaining the difference between acting on stage & acting on film. Love how he cracks Paul Giamatti up.

They added DRM to the steam release of Dino Crisis 1&2. Which is really weird since you can get it for the same price, DRM free, from GOG. Why did they do this?

B5 is free to watch on YouTube! cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...

Many Happy Returns to Peter Gabriel.

Watching the men's skeleton ("skellington") at the Olympics like this 😬😬😬😬😬

The Japanese ambassador is in town! @robbiejourno.bsky.social made some predictions about the visit in his writer's edition. "I am lowkey dreading the inevitable: Suzuki downing a pint of Tennents & saying something cringe like “giein it laldy”. Two hours later:

When gaming museums use a cracked game to show Lemmings, you know the pirates ruled the scene in the 90s. (Skidrow crack-intro by Dan & 4MAT of Anarchy)

this may be the most English man ever to exist.

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Riddler's Den #minireview from #computerandvideogames magazine #zxspectrum #retrogaming

This is a great example of just how revolutionary the PSX generation of gaming actually was. Yeah "lol wobbly low poly" but what we see here, over 25 years ago, is how a modern version of this type of game would still work in terms of gameplay and basic visuals.

I don’t care if it’s Pete McTighe or Jack Thorne, but whoever the next Who showrunner may be, I’ll bear your children if you make this the version of the theme you use:

This is a perfect storm of the contemporary far-right

Rest in Power, the man made bangers www.youtube.com/watch?v=EME0...

Big market on YouTube for angry AI-generated Johnny Carson

LUDWIG (1977): Mirek and Peter (Pigeon Street) Lang created this deeply surreal children's cartoon about a sentient gemstone (*something* lived inside it) with legs, a rotorblade, and a penchant for Beethoven, which lived in a forest and was spied on by the deerstalker-wearing narrator.

I think Labour figures photographed with toothy grins next to "my good friend Peter Mandelson" in 2021 and those same figures secretly hating Mandelson's smarmy guts are entirely reconcilable things.

‘Betraying his country’: 19-year-old Iranian footballer on death row for protesting Family of Amir Hossein Ghaderzadeh say the teenager was sentenced to hang after taking part in sweeping anti-government demonstrations, Chloe Hadjimatheou reports https://bit.ly/4qqS4ak

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

The Fanmade Mega Drive / Genesis Port of The SNES Shooter 'Super Pang' Has Just Been Updated.

My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...

Ben and I got drunk and made a record to fund @noiseboxradio.com, which has become so popular the PRS fees have skyrocketed. So go and buy it, it's a Eurodance version of the theme from Minder like I might have done with Daz twenty years ago.

Bloody hell just seen this "tribute" to John Virgo on Facebook. Possibly the worst thing I've ever seen. And will this snooker ball be the new Paddington? (Or penguin, I can't keep up).

This is one of those things you learn in introductory economics that makes you go “uh huh sure yeah right” but turns out to be empirically true

Crisp take: the Walkers "sticky teriyaki" crisps are very nice 👍

Post a meme made by you

'Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the moves that would make it easier for Jewish settlers to take over Palestinian land. "We will continue to kill the idea of ​​a Palestinian state," he said.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer and the "blue labour" faction treated Scottish Labour like shit, and nats in particular had a right old go at Sarwar for his meekly playing along, not really all that surprised he's taking the opportunity of the PM's wobbliness to have a go.

Tsk, where's "sceptical scrollers" and "rooted patriots" and all those other very clear, very real social groups some think-tank made up?

Name a black and white film. The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932)

You've been wounded, friend. You should find a healer.

Not the Epstein list, but my list ... of (Pico8) WIPs :) @snuggsy187.bsky.social

Get past the catchpenny title and this is terrific schlock. Well directed with a fine cast and sharp script that simmers with subtext. Intriguingly smart. 1958. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

What's Thunberg's big issue: climate. What drives climate change? Fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are old tech, "green" energy is new, cutting edge. As ever with these cranks, they're inverting the truth.

Probably not the first time Biffo's been sucked off through a hole in the wall

For anyone with a spare 5 hours (!) the epic FFSLive show from @cheeseford.bsky.social and @alisoneales.com from 31st January is now up on the @noiseboxradio.com Mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/NoiseboxRadi...

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

Tagging @bouphe.bsky.social

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