I've run out of ways to tell people to buy The Long Dark. It's one of the best games I've ever played. If you are mildly into survival games and you haven't played, now is the time.

Possibly the best performing guide ever written for @shacknews.com. You wouldn't believe the traffic if I told you (I won't tell you). You can measure the interest in Destiny 2 based on the this guide's performance on any given day, week, or month. Great work by @samuelchandler.bsky.social.

If you're a fan of THE LONG DARK, tune into the Survivor's Corner podcast this Sunday at noon Pacific time. We're going to talk about TLD and whatever the chat tries to trick me into sharing about secret stuff. Sub to the channel to get notified! Should be a fun time.

On today's episode of Indie-licious, we're playing Montabi from @mankibo.bsky.social and @akuparagames.bsky.social! It's a creature collecting deckbuilder with a demo on Steam. Join us as we go live shortly collect critters and battle them to save the city! #indiegame #indiegames #indiedev

This is doing well. I think a lot of people are feeling the same.

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It's wild that the political tension between Canada and the US has reached the NHL. American players (Q. Hughes and now Brady Tkachuk) are requesting trades from Canadian cities to American ones.

Had a hard time going back to Destiny 2. There's a sour taste in my mouth. Seeing layoffs over the years, the way the game wasted away over the last two. Players have felt a connection to the developers at Bungie, and those developers have suffered. Tough to put that out of your mind while playing.

Turns out I make an iced coffee 5x better than Tim Hortons by simply not drowning it in cream and syrup. You can actually taste the coffee, which I feel like is a big selling point for a lot of folks?

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If you see stuff about game studios shutting down right now and your first reaction is to go post your thoughts about how they deserved to fail for not making more commercial games, basically just fuck off. That's the only corrective action you can take. Fuck. Right. Off.

Saw this fella on my way home. Even had the Travois on me to lug all the meat back. This couldn't have gone better.

Not a bad game to play for a massive project.

Sucks that incredible studios that make incredible games have to die because corporate executives need the line to go up by any means necessary. Also, don't ever, ever, ever, ever take on a corporate investor or sell to a corporation if you value your business.

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635 days down. One year to go.

Edge of Tomorrow is such a good movie and Angel of Verdun is one of the coolest names for a character ever.

What a great video. The developers at Bungie have been incredible over the years. No other game has ever come close to giving me and my friends what D2 did. I'm not sure any other game will again.

Opening night for me.

The bringer of goods.

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EPISODE FIVE, "The Light at the End of All Things", is now available on Nintendo Switch. The game is also currently on sale! www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

This is the only reasonable path forward. It's not Marathon. It's not whatever new IP they are working on. Yes, those can exist and could be amazing, but the answer is and always has been Destiny 3. Having an older player base isn't a bad thing.

Asif and David react to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake reveal at the end of today's Nintendo Direct. #Zelda #NintendoDirect #Gaming

The way to do that is make good games that respect their time and don't feed them a steady diet of shit they don't want to play. And understand that this demographic is generally very suspicious of big companies; they were gamers when it was only really a thing for hobbyists.

Like, this is already the largest gamer demographic currently. I don't think you should try to recruit the 50+ folks who aren't interested in games -- they've had plenty of time to get interested and would have jumped in earlier if they felt like it. Keep the *current* 50+ gamers interested!

It's super interesting to me when game industry folks talk about the challenge of "onboarding" gamers that are 50+. Most of these folks have already been playing games for decades -- they don't need to be onboarded, they just need games that don't feel like a waste of their time/money.

I'll be dropping some words tomorrow about Destiny. Where it all went so predictably wrong. We have several features in the works from a few people, including a podcast-style chat. Where Bungie/Sony is right now is nothing shy of mind boggling. One of the biggest fumbles I can recall.

This is our jam, @janolepeek.com and @duhstee.bsky.social.

I had to write a news post about this. Watch it. That's what I had to work with.

Yup, I'll play this.

Sometimes you just need to rip and tear.

The day will come when @janolepeek.com will be successful at getting me back into MSFS. Maybe.

Sharing this because our EIC just said, "Somebody share this on Bluesky, it took five tries." Bluesky continues to be the WORST place for video. Shacknews literally has its own social feature with better video support.

I'm in!

I don't understand how Bluesky can be three years in without analytics or anything close to decent video support.

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Didn't even give us a year, so probably 2028?

I'm going to play the fuck out of this God of War game.

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Time to get big and strong, folks.

Had a wonderful conversation about The Long Dark with @raphlife.bsky.social not long ago, and happy to report that the video is now out. Look forward to the next chat! youtu.be/xVxmpcZeO9o

Games journalism loves to work in USD, which makes sense, but often lost is that, in many countries, price hikes are even more dramatic. Yes, I understand exchange rates, but I assure you telling a Canadian it's only $949 USD for the 1TB isn't going to make this any easier to swallow.

I'm curious how devs who are building PC games intended for high-end hardware are looking at things. Who is going to have the rig to run your game on the highest settings? Is the ROI there?

The way Sony and the suits at Bungie fumbled Destiny is infuriating.

I really appreciate it when competition cuts corners. It's like smelling blood in the water