New nocaps video today highlighting some cool upcoming indie games, including Hark The Ghoul my beloved, and you should give it a look, some neat stuff in there.

much and more is made of what xbox is doing to id but if games journalism is lucky enough to survive and look back on this time, we need to have equal smoke for what EA did to BioWare

Beyond Good and Evil 2 announced as GOTY 2027 because – by some miracle – it ends up being released AND being awesome (manifesting)

It’s like clockwork: ten seconds after releasing a new game, Abstergo lays off more developers, disbanding its Barcelona team. A highly successful game, mind. And they celebrate with the loss of 51 jobs. insider-gaming.com/assassins-cr...

ce qui me désole pour les camarades de mediapart, libé, etc. c'est qu'ils pourraient sortir une enquête accablante avec des photos de le pen et bardella en train de manger des bébés dans une piscine de billets à st-barth, bah les gens continueraient de voter RN, car : le racisme.

One way you can show Microsoft your concern is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

« C’est à se demander à quoi sert une peine d’inéligibilité, dont la fonction même est d’entraver la liberté de se présenter à une élection, a fortiori au terme d’une affaire que la cour d’appel a elle-même considérée comme d’une particulière gravité » www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

L'amertume de voir ce désastre au ralenti qu'on voit depuis dix ans s'accélérer d'un coup. On aura prévenu, bon dieu. On aura prévenu, et on se fera quand même expliquer qu'on n'avait pas prévenu correctement, pas comme il fallait, pas assez bien.

The French assembly voting in favour of all firearm shots made by police officers to be lawful by default less than a year before we face a presidential election with a real risk of victory for the fascists is... certainly A Choice™️ 😬

313 députés ont dit OUI à cette proposition de loi venue initialement de l’extrême droite, portée par les Républicains et soutenue par le gouvernement. Ils considèrent automatiquement légal TOUT TIR de policier.

L’Assemblée nationale vient de voter la loi donnant un « permis de tuer » aux policiers. C’est un vote de la HONTE.

I know some Dragon Age fans are still skeptical after the no romance trailer, but The Outer Worlds is a great franchise and TOW2 devs did a fantastic job. I swear several of you will love it and will love the companions. Just ask @antivacity.bsky.social @kahuna68.bsky.social @lizzysizzy.bsky.social

Espaces « no kids » : un rapport alerte sur la « tendance générale » à exclure les enfants de l’espace public ➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/sCD

Not that the content is any better, mind you. The level of disregard for others this requires is astonishing, every word oozes contempt.

That entire Trump video is his subconscious letting things slip. Psychologists about to have a field day with this one.

Good news: we've added face markings for the horses to our hand-drawn horse game 😍😍 Learn more about how we did it and why it was more complicated than you'd think 👇 Is this cool or what?? If this post gets 100 reposts, we'll drop a handful of beta keys in the comments 👀

Brought to you by the guy who got elected while claiming he could kill someone in broad daylight and get away with it! Only thing stopping him is that he'd need to break a sweat to do it himself

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

Gift article link here: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Latest comic: Future historians baffled by Slop-henge

we've already passed last year's auction total and we're not even into the crazy times bidding!!!!

History repeats itself - first as a 30 Rock bit, then as government policy

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

Copying @grunklemary.bsky.social in order to plug more of the #TheOuterWorlds bangers. They also wrote brilliant parodies of radio plays that should count as novelty songs imo youtu.be/eguCXgnb9NA?...

Double dipping because I don't think enough people have heard this banger youtu.be/vvANy49Kqhw?...

Manau's "La Tribu de Dana" is good in its own right - it interpolates Alan Stivell's arrangement of a Breton folk tune, & Stivell's lawsuit for rights infringement, resulted in a court ruling clearing up sampling & remix rights in Europe www.youtube.com/watch?v=80hM...

Upcoming Games should be treated as every single one containing gen-ai. Teammates, described as the company’s “first playable generative AI experience.” Ghost Recon: Longest Dormant, Far Cry Project Blackbird, AC: Codename Hexe, etc -y gamerant.com/ubisoft-ai-c... gamingpromax.com/ubisoft-assa...

Ubisoft Update Original March release of Shadows had no gen-ai but it is holding gen-ai content now. AI Pipeline and Ghostwriter were confirmed used. kotaku.com/ubisoft-ai-w... news.ubisoft.com/en-us/articl...

I've finally reached the end of #GreedfallTDW and SPOILERS — I'm convinced Zerrin was meant to be the main antagonist of a dlc or even a third game. I don't buy for a second that she wasn't playing everyone. The new island discovered by the Nauts are a dead give away that the team had planned more

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Historians Theorize Declaration Of Independence Started As ‘Twilight’ Fan Fiction https://theonion.com/historians-theorize-declaration-of-independence-started-as-twilight-fan-fiction/

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Taylor Swift has trapped all of the NYPD underneath the sewers of Madison Square Garden and detonated all of the bridges leading out of Manhattan. The fire rises.

No. She's not prone to violent outbursts, she desperately wishes for peaceful resolutions, and she pays attention so she did notice *and* register the blood trickling from his ears. She assumed the guy was about to die. Got pissed when everyone disapproved & distrusted them all a little #daOCqotd

En France, le gouvernement s’apprête à donner un «permis de tuer» aux policiers. Le 7 juillet, l’Assemblée nationale doit voter une loi qui considèrerait légal TOUT TIR de policier ou gendarme. Ce serait une bascule historique. Voici en 5 points ce que cette loi changerait.👇

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

Sony last week: announces they're removing hundreds of purchased movies from users' accounts and offering no refunds, because fuck you that's why. Sony today: announces they're moving to an ALL digital format where you'll own nothing. Hey, gamers, why aren't you excited about this?!

This is Kiki. She is here to calm your mind and align your chakras. And yes, she does do weddings. 13/10 (TT: texaspommysquad)

Such a major pro-piracy stance from Sony is confusing, but I applaud its encouragement of emulation and support gradual struggle of gamedevs to retain control over their work through easier share and profit :) Good going ,Sony

I've never followed baseball in my life but it's so refreshing that someone is doing the right thing for once!!

Another thought on this - storage space (ie - SSDs) have increased so sharply in price that storing digital games is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive. Discs are DIRT CHEAP to produce - so even if you have to install them, you have a physical, cheap solution right there.

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... 2024: Arkane Austin 2024: Tango Gameworks (acq. Krafton) 2024: Alpha Dog Games 2025: The Initiative And now, likely: - Ninja Theory - Compulsion Games - Double Fine Productions - Undead Labs - Arkane Studios 🫠

... 2014: Microsoft Game Studios Japan 2014: Xbox Entertainment Studios 2016: Team Dakota 2016: Lionhead Studios 2016: Press Play 2016: BigPark 2016: Good Science Studio 2016: Leap Experience Pioneers 2016: Lift London 2016: Function Studios 2016: State of the Art ... (2/3)

For no particular reason, a list of game studios Microsoft has closed over the years 🧵 2006: Digital Anvil 2007: FASA Studios 2007: Hired Gun 2008: Carbonated Games 2009: Aces Game Studio 2009: Ensemble Studios 2011: Xbox Live Productions 2013: Microsoft Studios Victoria ... (1/3)

Please do it for my best friend Aabria she’s been having contractions for 5 weeks straight and keeps shouting “ONE MORE STRETCH GOAL” 😭

Sooo many I want to name but using this to recommend a less popular one: Que Horas Ela Volta?/The Second Mother (2015)