How could they take this from us

Perfection 👌

We love that when people create art from something we talk about on Now to Play! Thanks to the.real.big.poo on Instagram for this gem of a comic strip. @fincampbell.bsky.social really doesn't like Diglett! Find out why here youtu.be/zvdSZ7Zkx8s

We're not sure what caused this Diglett slander from @fincampbell.bsky.social but do you agree? Is Diglett in your party? Check out our podcast Now to Play on YT and podcasting services!

Hey do you like Pokemon? We got you! Our new podcast Now to Play is here with @fincampbell.bsky.social and @itsjonbox.couchcapades.com going thru their first nuzlocke in gen 1. Check it out here nowtoplay.captivate.fm/listen or here youtu.be/WbSRd_ase_op

We're doing some awesome stuff! youtu.be/8Qo0or6IhX4

Hey Spuddie Buddies, are you ready to celebrate 10 Years of CouchCapades with us??? 10 Year Anniversary Live on Sat at 1pm CDT We'll be live to celebrate 10 years of content! Come hang out with us for as long as you'd like as we reflect on where we've been and look ahead at what's to come!

In 2022 Kyle Bosman made a concept album with his streaming community for the first time. I made a video detailing the story of that album, stretching across 2 years and a dozen streams. Watch it here: youtu.be/sa-jn7jJpFo

Me and my canon Pokémon team

BREAKING: PlayStation has canceled two more live-service games, from subsidiaries Bend and Bluepoint, Bloomberg has learned. Fans have long wondered what Bluepoint has been working on for the last couple of years. I can report it was a live-service God of War game. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Starting to think Silksong might not be coming out this year...

A S T R O B O T

GAME OF THE YEAR. NOT ONE DOUBT. PURE BOTTLED JOY. WHAT DID YOU SAY YOUR NAME WAS??? ASTRO BOT!!!!!

the first ever TGA Gamechanger awarded to Amir Satvat, for leading effort to aid laid-off developers find new work

MY KING

It's my two favourite things of all time collaborating. No biggie 😬

The Pokémon Company International and Aardman (Chicken Run) have announced a special project for 2027. www.aardman.com/latest-news/...

Time to cry again 🦋

"Sheep sign deal with to allow wolves to use their wool as clothing"

Ufouria 2 was a lovely little treat this year

Incredible achievement

TEAM ROCKET GRUNT WANTS TO BATTLE! 🔁 REPOST THIS 🔁 ~~ OR ELSE ~~ 😈 BE PREPARED TO HAND OVER YOUR RARE POKÉMON 😈 #Pokémon #TeamRocket #HappyHalloween

How do you do fellow trainers? 9064132565566058

New 4 hour Prince of Persia documentary by Youtube creator Nick930 and sponsored by Ubisoft

John Romero (Daikatana) has added further worker benefits as his studio celebrates its 10th Anniversary. New benefits are menopause leave, clothing allowance, and matched donations. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/romero-...

VERY happy to announce that the US Top 20 Best-Selling Video Games of the Year, 2000 through 2023 chart is now live! Source: Circana Retail Tracking Service. (And hey, if this gets enough traffic, I may be able to convince the mothership to post the monthly rankings too - so click away!)

A staggering report about class in the UK games industry - just 13% are "from lower socioeconomic backgrounds", making it "roughly a third less inclusive than the wider country". This is compared to 29% in film/TV, 32% in design/fashion, and 22% in music. More from @georgeosborn.bsky.social here:

We get a lot of questions about this!!! Hopefully this helps clear up how one of us judges reviews for Outersloth. @fortebass.bsky.social I would say it's about 75% accurate to how I look at pitches, but with some fun differences. (If I have time I will do a corresponding post in the future!)

Hello Bluesky! We're thrilled to introduce ourselves as ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories. We develop, edit, & publish ad-free, open access game history research for a range of audiences. We're anti-paywall, anti-gatekeeping, reader funded. Read, Like, Subscribe. romchip.org

If you donate to my Patreon at any level, you receive a monthly newsletter that includes links to the monthly playlists when they go live. (It also helps me continue to survive, because things have gotten scary again, though I rarely talk about how scary.) www.patreon.com/acriticalhit

You ever discover a game that you want to play because the studio that made it closed down 🥲 I'm not familiar with Thunderhorse but reading about their closure and seeing the trailer for 'Flynn: Son of Crimson' and it looks right up my alley. I always feel a weird guilt when this happens.

Today's featured Wikipedia article is "The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes", which released 3 years ago today.

"This secrecy does not appear to break any laws." KUSK Law partner Don McGowan, former general counsel at Bungie and chief legal officer at The Pokémon Company, told Game Developer that there's nothing illegal about keeping these purchases a secret, but that it is "f***ing weird."

Banishing my friends to the past until they solve a Tetris puzzle is the superpower I never knew I wanted

Not even an exciting answer but GTA VI. I'm excited to play it honestly but also there's an entire games industry who's fate will be decided by how it performs. I shiver with anticipation

If you are in the EU, it might be a good moment to consider signing onto "Stop Killing Games", an consumer initiative to ensure the continued functionality and playability of games you purchase through digital platforms. eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

CONFIRMED: Mario & Luigi Brothership was co-developed by Acquire (Octopath Traveler, Tenchu, Way of the Samurai)

Some great insights on state of Cloud:

Massively Multiplayer Minecraft? 🤔

I appreciate that the character creator in Everybody's Golf went way too hard and I can just play as a little green goblin if I want to.

Hi Bluesky, I'm the director of research and insights at Niko Partners, a market research and consultancy firm that covers the video game market in Asia & MENA. I share insights on the video games industry, as well as thoughts on tech, politics, history, science and public transit.

I’d forgotten what it’s like to scroll a social media feed that’s positive and happy rather than clogged with ads, rage bait and bots

It's post a random game in your collection Saturday (which I'm so glad has caught on). Today I present Wonder Boy Asha in Monster World - A remake of the 1994 Genesis game 'Monster World IV' I just love the art here. The box even included a code for the original game.

PC Gamer have published their 2024 edition of the Top 100 PC Games list

Welcome to all the new BlueSky people. I thought I should share this list I made for Video Game chat. I made it for myself at first but also hoping other people find it useful.

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"It's a $250 billion global business but the actual number of players doesn't grow at the same pace. So we're getting more money from the same people. You need to get more people playing games." Absolutely, but the pandemic showed us the upper limit of player count in many developed markets.

As someone who listens to stuff at 1.5x speed, I would absolutely love more games to include the option to speed up certain elements of their experience. I love taking a knee and slow burns as well though. Again options.