Here's your friendly little #retrogaming PSA for the day Did you know that if you accidentally delete a save file from your #PS1 memory card, you can undo it by pressing L1, L2, R1 & R2 at the same time to restore it I don't believe this feature was ever documented back then #gaming #playstation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxiz... as a new scrabble player i really like this new will anderson video. i love hearing him analyze master level matches but i appreciate this in-depth explanation of a bunch of strategic considerations that good players all get but wouldn't have occurred to me

Announcing Localization Lore, a new series dedicated to learning more about the history of video game localization! 🎉Featuring new interviews personally conducted by me, this first entry is on Ys 1 and the people behind its first three English translations. lizbushouse.com/localization...

Book menu breakdown 📙 #pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

Begging people to please stop posting @halfwaypost.bsky.social's fake stories. It's not even satire. They're not satirizing anything; they're just writing fan fiction. If you look in the replies to any of their posts, it's like 95% people who think it's real. They should stop it.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

This is worth reading just to see how freaking cool some of the art for this 1986 Batman computer game was

“Life… is a collectathon,” said Christopher, in a LinkedIn post. “It’s in this spirit that I ask you to follow my recently ‘refreshed’ account for business advice, takes on the day’s news, and perhaps even a meme or two. 😁” paletteswap.site/dif...

One paid sale away from my first copper title on drivethru! I still can't believe so many people have been interested in my little #Dolmenwood supplement. Let alone giving me small tips for it. If you haven't and want to help get over the line, here is the link. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

When you meet another Sonic fan

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After years of obsessing over Scrabble, I made a words themed gameshow for my friends. My main goal here was just to have a fun time with some friends that also enjoy word games, and I think I accomplished that! 😄 youtu.be/C8d4ZdAcUbU

people have been asking what Building Relationships is about, so i made this gameplay trailer to help explain things hope this helps!

Needs to be stressed that although Scott Adams died, Dilbert is still very much alive and he’s out there somewhere right now, scared

shoutouts to spyro the dragon

This was Uproot Galaxy, a metroidvania with Mario Galaxy & Mario 2 influences. It was canceled 2 years ago after our publisher ran out of money. I'm making this previously internal pre-alpha trailer public because everyone involved has long since moved on... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUpS...

Not only does Extra Bright feature 10 memory card icons - quite an offering for a simple action game - it's the only title I've found so far that has an in-game menu where you pick which icon you want to use #PlayStation #PS1 #PSone #ASCII

It's time to officially start the 2026 TJ replies to this post every single time he gets a TurboTax ad. Every cent they spend on advertising to me will fuel me towards reminding everyone that better tax services exist. EAT A DICK TURBOTAX. GET TOUR SCAM ASS OUTTA HERE

Onirism is an insanely colourful game Powerful levels of 2004-2006 Xbox energy

I have about 5 years worth of Slippi games on my computer. Gonna start archiving the combos on my YouTube. If this interests you, feel free to subscribe youtube.com/shorts/2JbER...

This is actual dystopian horror shit. Real talk time. I post a lot of unhinged kink shit, but y'all understand (I hope) that it's all fantasy, all for fun, and that if I say no, it's time to stop. But this? This is gonna train people not to accept 'no.'

This year, across 45 posts about the history of 45 different UK chart #1 games, my blog has gone from June 1983 to March 1986. A thread of some highlights...

People are always going on about how nobody calls pizza, "za" but please stop me if you ever hear me call a hotdog "a steamie"

Language is a beautiful thing. The way it evolves. That each language has an imprint of a culture and history built into it. Absolutely incredible. Anyway I learned that BUZINESSWOMANS is a valid word in French Scrabble and I can't stop laughing

Seeing people in the comments saying that To a T was unfun and essentially that he deserves this if he can't make a good game. Gamers, I don't know how else to say this, artists are not supposed to be punished with financial ruin for making imperfect art. That's such a fucked up idea you have

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 :)

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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