WINTER BURROW I've been playing the demo on Steam for a while now and this is one of the few "cozy" games that still interests me. Gorgeous art style; tough survival ambience. This one has that 'special' tag written all over it for me. All depends on the game progress loop now. Thanks, Kotaku - TGS

XBOX sell-off at Costco New Zealand Saw this on Reddit ... Has this been happening anywhere else?

PERSONA 3 MANGA Atlus have made the first volume available. persona.atlus.com/p3r/download...

"Their presence in this country helps keep New Zealanders safe." Yeah, right. I bet. 🙄 #NZsecurity #FBI

Overnight the poppies popped up! Flowers know when real springtime starts. 👍

Re-read David Hill's excellent article. He's such a treasure, a taonga. #NZbooks #childrenslit

WOBBLY LIFE "I don't want my kids playing slop where the 'content' is nothing more than a road to profit." (Hello Roblox) "I honestly don't think there is a better game for kids to mess around with. I think the key ingredient is a commitment to quality." Wobbly Life: a game with heart

I just played the demo of Alabaster Dawn and it's easy love at first sight. Beautiful pixel art and fast-flowing action.

#AI will consistently lie to you. Getting really tired of this toddler-level nonsense. The answer is Yon-Germain Bakery and also the fridge at LeBlanc! megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Moist_K...

#Trails 10 days until it arrives! 🤸🤸‍♀️

New video is up. Dungeon crawling the old-school style: tough! 😎 youtu.be/qZns9roiYD4

This ticks pretty much all my boxes! 😎

They do need something better! #authors Not wishy-washy initiative corporate-speak. 🙄

"The Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) is the world’s second-largest species of lizard, reaching lengths of about two metres ..." “It’s actually really nice to see them when you’re going about your day and then suddenly you see a nice little Godzilla swimming through the water.."

".. because the video game industry is very obviously an industry that makes a lot of money. I see that these publishers will try and just exploit platforms for money."

I nearly fell over these grapefruit in the garage! 😄 PoodlePa picked them today. Normally they'd already be going dry in September, with warmer spring temps - but not this year! It's been cold and the fruit kept well.

Lessons from the past how an ancient society responded to crisis with adaptation rather than conquest. Its survival strategy – moving closer to water, maintaining trade networks & sustaining art and ritual – is a 3,800-year-old reminder of how cooperation can endure even in times of extreme stress.

I'm keeping an eye on Alabaster Dawn - from the makers of Cross Code. Demo on Steam is inbound on the 18th!

I'm playing the demo of the upcoming Digimon Story: Time Stranger and it's definitely enjoyable. Still the Digimon interface and critters we know from earlier games, but with a new - and a bit darker - style of story.

Only just seen this - so Ghibli-esque!

I love time travel and I like Digimon. I'm really hoping this new game will improve on what Cybersleuth offered. I'm hopeful! 😀

"positioning generative AI as a disruptor is like calling the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs a “wee rock”." "My macro concern – beyond the enshittification of everything – is that humans are framed as slow, inefficient meat sacks crying out for optimisation."

"God, there’s so much more rubbish around this, but you get the gist."

Having some fun over the weekend with light-hearted Rabi Ribi. 🐇 Imagine you're a bunny and you wake up one day ... a human girl! 😮 I hadn't expected a platformer to have so much entertaining story in well-judged bite sizes. The game is 10 years old.

COPYRIGHT “This landmark settlement far surpasses any other known copyright recovery. It is the first of its kind in the AI era." Anthropic is not admitting any wrongdoing or liability.

My copy of Katabasis arrived! 🤸

Spam for AI tools is flooding my YouTube email inbox. This one takes the cake, wanting me to place their noxious ads on my non-monetized channel. 😄 I'd rather poke my eyes out ...

I have a lot of time for Kodaka. Assuming responsibility is something that has fast fallen out of favour in our times. Always appreciate seeing someone stand up and push back. 👍

A tempting trade-in offer made it possible. Let's see what the China Hero Project has to offer. #LostSoulAside #PS5

RPM issue no. 7 arrived from @2old4gaming.bsky.social with a lovely art card. #playstation #retro Where else would you find an extensive retrospective on PS3 game Afrika? 🦓

Woah 😮 that's a high Famitsu score for Shuten Order! Releasing 5 Sept. in the West for PC and Switch. Could be another success this year for Too Kyo Games?

It's important to sit down, take a breather and admire the world around you. You see new perspectives.

"History is not a straight line, and a wrong answer is not a meaningless one." We finished Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, one of the most fascinating anime (based on eponymous manga) about the history of ideas - heliocentrism specifically. Review www.polygon.com/anime/548084...

ESET spots "PromptLock" AI-powered ransomware www.itnews.com.au/news/eset-sp...

#Shenmue Are you pleased? Any Shenmue fans here?

Discussion of 'Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages' by Carlota Perez "As for AI, we remain in that manic installation phase." (First time I quoted FT! 🤦‍♀️ I find their belief in "golden ages" quaint.)

WitchSpringR I can't believe I've only just discovered Running Errands! That'll make my witch life a lot easier. 😎 The art in this game is really nice, and menus are well designed. 👍 www.witchspringr.com/en/

Please don't let this amazing game pass you by. The very first Trails game and it feels so *fresh*. This remake is gonna set a new standard. Screenshots from PC demo of Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter.

Long read but worth it.

"I'm sick of seeing games with an air of corporate weight sitting on top of them. I'm tired of watching a scene and going "yep, that probably tested well with audiences". I'm exhausted by this pervasive idea that writers are to be resented, or that I have the memory of a goldfish.."

Google advertising service "nails" it. 🙄🤦‍♀️ dailygalaxy.com/2025/08/i-wa...

It’s so weird how people don’t feel entitled to being lawyers/solicitors, doctors, engineers, etc, but now with gen AI, so many feel entitled to ‘being a writer’ or ‘artist’. They get mad when you point out they did none of the work and aren’t what they claim. It’s bizarre.

The amazingly beautiful Metaphor ReFantazio official game guide by Future Press has arrived! The photo was taken very quickly because the book weighs 2.4kg - my lifting exercise for the day. 😄

This is a typical Krushworth video: fun *and* interesting! Please visit his tiny and comfy channel. 🙋 Devs would do well to listen to his points. I came to a very similar conclusion about Pendulo games as Krushworth when I made my Black sad video. 👍

PS VITA I have set up a YouTube Premiere for my video celebrating the Vita. "Premiere" simply means there is live text chat available. 😎 When? 16th or 17th August (depending on time zone) You can check your local showing time and click the notification here: youtu.be/s5g3nmDxpwE

Still freezing cold here, but PoodlePa is up in them hills, planting more trees .. and taking photos at 9am. 😊

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit⁠—all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided." Brian Eno

WUCHANG beautiful Fallen Feathers

Chief of War ".. the choice of location is more a reflection of the troubled state of the film industry in Hawaiʻi." Article by a postdoctoral research fellow at AUT.

Ray's doodles are always so cute and show a mastery of cartoon art style! 🌼🌞