I BEAT HALF-LIFE('s tutorial) ON A RECEIPT PRINTER TONIGHT HOLY SHIT IT'S BEEN EIGHT HOURS

in the stripped club. straight up "jorking it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say.

You can get 20% off my critically-acclaimed* Scrabble mafia novel ESCAPES direct from the indie publishers Unnamed Press using the code HOLIDAY20. An ideal present for people who like Scrabble/books/death www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/... *3 critics liked it

there is a “video games in north korea” article

Game: Pokémon: Yellow Version (1998, GBC) TAS Author: MrWint Source: tasvideos.org/3358M

Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season

I did a Scrabble speedrunning thing the other day that I am still baffled and amazed by PAL PS1 Scrabble has several languages you can play in (English, French, Spanish, and German), and I've wanted to do speedruns in every language Well I finally did my last one, and look at my non-English times

Obviously everything this article gets into is bad, but I'm sharing this for something mostly unrelated. Where did this cover picture with the Scrabble tiles come from? Why is it using a German set of tiles?

And we have a new world champion - well played Adam Logan

There's something that I think more people really need to understand

New Paper: "We Call This Controller Skip: AI For Speedrunning" by me, @mastermilkx.bsky.social, M Awiszus, F Carnovalini, A Dockhorn for #exag25 ceur-ws.org/Vol-4090/pap... What is speedrunning? Why is it interesting for AI researchers? What fun, silly, playful things could we make together?

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

A Spyro the Dragon artwork disc has been uploaded as part of @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social's GamePro collection. There's some lovely concept art in here that I don't think I've seen before! archive.gamehistory.org/folder/34988...

It's not that any one chair is particularly funny or incredible. It's that you see fifteen or twenty of these chairs, and start thinking, "But surely this account will run out soon. There can only be so much variety in the world of Spider-Man chairs." But sure enough, we see a new chair every day.

We got Lego Batman 3 Hundo into Reallyreallylongathon lets GO!! Always wanted to showcase a LB Hundo run at a marathon

Just 5 days to the WESPAC world championship tournament from Ghana. Early Bird (Monday) and Last Chance (Tuesday) , followed by 4 days of the Main Event. Don't forget to tune into LetsPlayScrabble for live streaming coverage www.youtube.com/@letsplayscr...

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

bug yeah

Please let's all add "I can't understand these programmers who spend a year on their games" to the great canon of gamedev quotes

Over the last two months on my blog, I've written about the history of each of the nine computer games to reach #1 in UK sales charts during 1985. Here is a thread with links to those posts, plus one thing I learned for each of them www.superchartisland.com

Trying to make a sequel that is "everything from the first game but better" feels like a really risky move. If anything, I think it might be good to purposely leave in some reasons for people to prefer one over the other.

how do spyro 100% runners do it, man. if I did a whole level and was a single gem short I would be apoplectic. i would set a hex upon the insomniac offices that consigns them to an even worse fate than making marvel shit for all eternity but those guys just handle it. it's so easy to miss a gem too

I got a Japanese copy of Final Fantasy 7 last weekend, and tried playing a little bit of it yesterday It's really fun to play a game where you can't understand anything that's going on, forcing all your focus onto the things you can understand, like the environment and music What a beautiful game

It's time! Today we're celebrating N++'s 10th Anniversary, aka TEN++, with style -- a fancy free update to the game and a Daily Deal on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/230270/N...

Wild to think this game came out more than a decade ago. Even if I don't play it much anymore, my life would look very different if I hadn't ever gotten into it. My time speedrunning would have been totally different. I wouldn't have met many of my closest friends. Complete alternate timeline.

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

Check out Fall Fest from the @slightlyfurry.bsky.social Taproom in Seattle this Thurs-Sat to watch the event and participate in their charity drive to help us support Trans Lifeline! As a bonus, on Saturday, they will be hosting @killingpepsi.bsky.social 's run of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts LIVE!

Did some content editing for the wonderful Righteous Vow series of books for #Shadowdark. If you want to pick up a copy you can pre-order here! righteous-vow-3.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... Or if you want to pick up some of the prior volumes, you can do so here! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

When @aceottorney.bsky.social first told me about this I said "this could change people's lives and stop developers from getting exploited" and having seen the final resource, I think I was not wrong. I'd call it a must-bookmark for indie devs.

My new open world precision "batformer" Vampire's Best Friend is out now on Steam and itch with a 10% launch discount! Vampire hunters are after a mischievous vampire girl, and it's up to her pet bat to save the day!

Finally, a real speed tech

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Waypoint is live 🚀 Nearly a year in the making — a custom-curated calendar for indie games, updated every few days with new gems. Every game since June 2024 (and more) is already in there. We’re building in public, and your feedback will shape it. 👉 waypoint.indieformer.com

It's a real hidden gem

In July 1984, Imagine Software went bankrupt and collapsed. Just over a year later, its name appeared at the top of the UK charts for the first time with Hyper Sports. New post on that story and how Ocean ended up with dual Daley Thompson's Decathlon sequels: www.superchartisland.com/hyper-sports

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Today I was the best. Final Fantasy 8 Any% world record speedrun - 8'18"26 This is everything to me. Years in the making, and it happened on my birthday of all days. Thank you to everyone who believed in me, even when I didn't believe in myself. Here's me crying about it 🙂🤠🥳🇦🇺

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ever since microsoft's layoffs in early july, the two zenimax unions have been fighting for impacted employees following the cancellation of the elder scrolls online studio's unannounced mmo. they've won laid-off workers more time (aka more pay), better severance, recall rights, and saved some jobs

as a fan of hard games like silk song, I can confirm that soft kitten experience is indeed a good video game that more people should play

All I'm getting from this is that Chilean music slaps

ngl the game having tank controls may be the actual selling point for me

You Are Peter Shorts - Any% in 28:37 (IGT) by Chief_PMB

Yeah, my discord has a vent channel. Every day one member is randomly assigned to be Gordon and the rest of us @ them with pictures of headcrabs in there. If they don't respond with :crowbar: within 20 seconds we ban them.

In one of my Words With Friends games, I just played FEET for 69 points

Between June 1983 and February 1985, fully 20% of the games to top the UK charts were by just one developer. Now I have reached their sixth and final #1, an example of a new genre of 3D platformer. My new post on Knight Lore, Alien 8, and the end of Ultimate: www.superchartisland.com/alien-8

The Japan-only Cowboy Bebop game for PS2 has just been fan translated by SONICMAN69.

Crazy Frog's cover of We Like To Party has really opened my mind to what covers can be They took a song that is explicitly about a party bus travelling across the country, and the only lyrics they changed is "The Vengabus" to "The Crazy Frog"