Bumbling around the dam earlier, I suddenly had an angry German lady chasing after me shouting “Are you friendly?” and shooting. I eventually unmuted my mic and shouted back “I’m just looking for 3 apricots for my chicken FFS!” and then she apologised and left me alone. ARC Raiders is GotY by a mile

Everything about making video games is harder than you think.

I did not have ‘sneaking past a horde of drones and gankers with a precious cargo of 3 lemons and an apricot’ on my ‘top gaming moments of 2025’ bingo card, but here we are

I’m not generally into pvp and certainly not extraction shooters, but ARC Raiders is absolutely fantastic. Haven’t been this obsessed with a game in years.

Best costume last night - two year old kid in a penguin outfit. I knelt down and asked if he had a joke. He just said “Noot noot.” Gave him all the sweeties.

Time to repost this…

There’s a guy near us who has a mobile petting zoo, you can hire him for parties and he’ll turn up with spiders and snakes etc. Every Halloween he does an open house for the local kids. Child 1 was telling us about how she went there last year and “He gave us sweeties if we stroked his snake.” 😬

Seen outside hospital while visiting - man in a hospital gown standing having a smoke. Taxi pulls up, he walks over, window comes down and a hand holding a bottle of Buckfast appears. Money is exchanged, man returns inside with bottle inside his gown. Love Ayrshire

BALL x PIT is OUT x NOW! This brick-breaking, base-building roguelite is so wonderfully addictive, even the launch trailer narrator is losing his mind...

@suckerpunchprod.bsky.social Is there an option in #GhostofYotei to disable camera bob while walking or riding the horse? I can’t see one and the movement is making me nauseous :(

The Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is an absolute joy. What a great game. Still holds up.

The smaller child saw an ad for the new Sonic Racing game and immediately said “That’s just a Mario Kart ripoff!” Clearly I’ve raised her well.

Happy final Cardiacs album day to all who celebrate

The Scotland we live in works for all of our people Reject the bampots spreading hate and fear. Love Scotland, and all her people #OldScots #NewScots #AllJockTamsonsBairns #ScotlandForAll

Someone is remaking Space Station Silicon Valley (first game I ever worked on) in Godot and making a devlog ❤️ youtu.be/Uw62v5-CuVo?...

Borderlands 4 is yet another game that puts “!” markers on new gear in your inventory that should disappear when you look at the item, but sometimes they don’t and you’re just stuck with them forever. Is this secretly a really hard thing to implement? Because it keeps happening and I hate it.

Nintendo account help needed. I have a Switch 2, my kids have profiles on it. I also have a Switch 1. If I sign up for the Nintendo family account and turn their profiles into full accounts, I can then move all their saves from the S2 to the S1, right?

Have you ever wanted to just be a worm for a day? Then good news because we're announcing a new game! wirm is coming SOON! 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🍎 Wishlist it on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...

it's so funny that all these economic pieces are like 'could it be that silicon valley has made a bad bet?' and then the bet is that a text prediction software will achieve consciousness

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Can anyone recommend a good co-working place in Glasgow city centre or west end? WFH is great but I wouldn't mind getting out a bit more too.

On Artificial Intelligence, and what sci-fi didn't prepare us for: computers that just make stuff up. thecritic.co.uk/plau...

Stop calling everything 'slop.' FFS.

Gamedev heads-up. People (especially non English speakers) are skipping tutorials and then asking LLMs how to play your game. An LLM told a Maia player a core mechanic (repairing your base's life support) was purely cosmetic. And with Trash Goblin it made up game mechanics and items.

Child 1 is inconsolable because one of her Animal Crossing villagers (her favourite one, of course) said they’re going to leave the island. Argh!

Hercules got halfway out and decided it wasn’t worth the effort I guess

I wanted to love the BF6 beta but it has fairly aggressive camera bob during movement and (unless I’m mistaken) no way to disable it. Saves me the money I guess but I wanted to play it. It’s an odd omission given the otherwise pretty decent suite of accessibility options in the game.

Did a new one

New cat tree seems quite popular

Saw this with my kids this morning. It’s really beautiful. youtu.be/ZgZccxuj2RY?...

Demolition of Cockenzie Power Station, East Lothian in 2015.

When grating cheese, it’s normal to always do the grates in multiples of 8, right? It’d be wrong to stop after 7 or 13 or whatever.

I'm not sure what this is but it looks beautiful and I want to play it

noclip but instead of filming high-production value documentaries about great games and studios, we film high-production value previews of upcoming games from smaller, underserved development teams making cool stuff but with zero marketing budget

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Steve & Hercules. I got my laptop out to do some work so they came to help by sitting where I was going to sit and refusing to move

ONE MORE WIN Ridge Racer Type 4 Fanzine Digital / Physical Available now 🔗 ultrabrilliant.etsy.com

DK Bananza is a very un-Nintendo game. It’s scrappy and rough around the edges and full of strange ideas that often don’t quite work. It’s weird, I love it.

Gen-AI can get in the bin, but I’m already sick to death of hearing anything vaguely related described as some variation on “slop.”

Baked a cake. Not sure what all the fuss is about, seems easy enough to me

Child 2 got a calculator today. Got her to key in “5318008” then turn it upside down. It took a minute but the eventual moment of realisation and subsequent cackling was worth the wait. Another parenting checkbox ticked.

Hercules

Steve

At a campsite in the highlands with my kids. They and a group of other kids are running around playing. They picked up a little guy, maybe 5 years old with no English. The group went into a huddle to discuss how to communicate. Finally, one went over to him and said “Do you know Skibidi Toilet?”

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Hope everyone in Glasgow is enjoying the rain and a wee bit of relief from the heat. Except that is for whoever it was nearby that was blasting The Sex Pistols and The Stranglers at epic volume non-stop from 11AM to 11PM yesterday. I hope you’re miserable and you have a really shitty day.

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

Driving home tonight, as I was waiting to turn into my street, guy in the car coming the other way stopped and waved me through. Instead of turning into my street, I somehow managed to a) stall the engine, and b) turn on the windscreen wipers. I'll probably just sell the car and not drive again.

Online people are really, really good at Mario Kart WTF

The smaller child asked if she could make a PowerPoint and the title is giving me cause for concern