Et on commence comme prévu le fil des musiques des jeux de mon année 2025, avec Ghost of Yōtei. J'ai beaucoup aimé le côté western de cette ost, mixé avec le shamisen traditionnel japonais dont joue Atsu youtu.be/Ap-IwIrDoSE?...

It's almost 1 month after Angeline Era! Wrote some new thoughts on its popularity (relative to our past work), its music, and its story. (Plus misc. other stuff!) melodicambient.substack.com/p/almost-1-m...

Welcome to 2026 - New Year, New Voices! We'll be announcing the winners of our amazing New Voices puzzle grant next week: $15k each for 5 under-represented teams in puzzle development. If you'd like to participate in next year's grant, drop us a line! grants.draknek.org

Avec un jour de retard, je vous livre aussi mon bilan jeux vidéo 2025, sous forme d'une avalanche de récompenses conçues sur mesure pour chacun des jeux qui m'ont marqué cette année billetsdiscrets.fr/2026/01/02/r...

To be clear, these weren’t ticket sales because Netflix set up the contracts of the actors so they wouldn’t have to pay them for theater screenings. We can tiptoe around the wording however you want, but this was the studio continuing to profit off a bunch of former child stars with predatory terms.

🚨 GAMES OF THE YEAR 🚨 Another list for the pile 🫡 jakesteinberg.substack.com/p/jakes-game...

2026 has the potential to be an even better year for detective games than last year, which had at least 46 releases! I made a thread here for upcoming games I am aware of. If I have played the Demo or Playtested it, I will describe the games a bit, as well as when they state their release dates.

Starting the year with a small glimpse of underwater & swimming gameplay! What kind of hidden places might be hidding under the ocean? The game is ABYSS X ZERO by the way! Still a work in progress! Wishlist to support us: store.steampowered.com/app/2872300/... #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly

Big, big fan of the exhaustive inspiration listings that @jakefriend.bsky.social included in Scrabdackle's About page. Show me another game that devotes more than 100 words to explaining why Wario Land II is the GOAT.

happy new year everybody :) youtu.be/yGqoJVjycVw

Bon les tops des jeux de l'année c'est bien mais vous en avez tous fait un alors je tente autre chose Donc voilà un thread de mes pépites VGM de l'année. On commence avec l'OST de Deliver At All Costs. Un album Swing/Pop/Jazz années 50/60 absolument délicieux

I've been having a lot of fun with Scriddle, this specific one is 1 of 3 I couldn't make any progress on. Yesterday's one I knew the rules but it was a pretty tricky one, so yeah not surprised some of them have stumped me

Look, I'm not that into achievement, but I definitely respect RetroAchievement actually waiting for the year to be over before sending their "year in review". Also I like those highlights:

In Super Mario Sunshine, there is a scene of Shadow Mario turning into bubbles and entering a portal. However, zooming out the camera reveals he actually goes through the portal, upwards, into the air, past the boundaries of the skybox and into the dark void beyond, indefinitely.

Join us for our second year of GOTY festivities in episode 45 of the Draknek & Friends Official Podcast! draknek.org/podcast Syrenne and Alan are once again joined by Mairi and Joseph for this look at many of our favourite games from the last year.

You know what, let's start a thread of games completed in 2026. We'll see how long it lasts before I forget about it 🤠 If you're really curious you can always stalk me on here: backloggd.com/u/Fachewache... So far I still remember to update that one at least.

Hey, it's my day of the Confounding Calendar fachewachewa.itch.io/13-sticky-no...

And part 2 for games of this year, including Descent of King Hesper, Gentoo Rescue, Lingo 2, and more: aspeon.neocities.org/blog/2025-go...

for the life of me… how is: “cringe game. made by a liar…” and bringing up my r*pist an acceptable review for a game that a moderator cleared?? i tried to flag it again but it won’t let me. steam reviews that are personal attacks, and not at all about the game, are ok? how? #GameDev #Steam

20/20 yeeeeesssss cinenerdle2.app/puzzles/critical/C107

Punishing small devs for people's lack of media literacy, the absence of decent journalism, and a random obsession with Geoff just doesn't make sense imo The pushback against that twisted version of auteur theory is just anti-art. You can't believe art exist while also acting like there's no author

Again, I will repeat this, because the more I write this the more I realize this is the most important take away. One person making a game is normal and boring. It should be treated as such, in both directions.

Auteur theory and its criticisms can map well to SOME games, but it is not a theory designed for the medium. One person making a game is so normal it's boring. We have issues over-celebrating solo devs, but acting like it's not a real, valid way to make things isn't accurately describing the medium

Honestly, why? Why take away a title that's common in music and other arts. You can have a solo expo in fine arts, you can make a solo record, or perform as a solo musician. There are stage technicians, session musicians or whatnot involved too. But in gaming, you're basically branded a cheat?

Here is my thread of all the Detective games I am aware of that came out in 2025. It’s organized in mostly alphabetical order, and contains both detective themed and detecting mechanic games. You can find them on Steam unless I note on the game

It's Thinky Awards season! The fine folks at @thinkygames.com invited me to be a juror again, so here's my brief impressions of all the nominees I played. There are a few days left in the Steam winter sale and many of these are discounted, so check them out! A 🧵 david.reviews/articles/thi...

Le Cine2Nerdle Critical du jour, j'ai pas encore le film mais cette review dit vrai :'D

Isle Delfino is once again using taxpayer funds to build a larger-than-life Pachinko machine, and residents are not happy. paletteswap.site/dif...

Hey, it's my day of the Confounding Calendar fachewachewa.itch.io/13-sticky-no...

NEW VIDEO: I searched long and hard within myself to come up with a list of 2025's best in show, and what resulted was eight games, titles that gave me something more than simply a good time. In this video I explore why these stood above anything else in 2025

Oh, that explains a lot then. Same Alex, same. (from www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyil..., which doesn't like the original videos used :/)

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I really hate how games media handles anything out of China: www.thegamer.com/clair-obscur... We're getting a gorgeous remake of one of their best RPGs ever, but the clown does zero research about it and just goes "I'm getting a lot of Boss Baby vibes from this..."

I made another one of these browser puzzlers: hempuli.itch.io/covelink

The world needs more Mosa-Lina-likes! If you agree, check out this game! 👀

I really hope people keep hiring me to write music for games. 🥲

does anyone know if it makes GOG less problematic, or more?

2025 was a big year for me in gamedev! Rose and I normally make a jam game or two a year, but this year I also happened to stumble into a really nice community of narrative deduction game fans and got inspired to dive even deeper. 🧵 This is a Jamwitch 2025 recap thread! jamwitch.itch.io

I started Babushka's Glitch Dungeon today and yeah it fricking rules!!! Another Thinky Awards game I started today is Strange Antiquities, idk if it was in the first game too, but I like the small treasure hunts with the map. I wish it had more weird escape room style stuff in the shop though.

I'm starting to write more reviews of smaller titles on Steam. 1. Reviews are very helpful for developers and players alike. 2. It's a nice way to cap off a fun time with a game. So not only do I recommend Babushka's Glitch Dungeon, but I also recommend writing reviews of indie games you enjoyed!

Kinda crazy how good Bonfire Peaks is

This was unavoidable with the rise of metaprogression focused roguelikes after Rogue Legacy and especially Hades, but it's pretty disappointing hearing more and more people say they feel those games are wasting their time, while also including the games that don't rely on metaprogression 😔

After years of games people going "auteur theory is bad because workers of something", guess it's time to re-invent it? 🙃 www.eurogamer.net/games-of-202...

I'm part of the problem because I didn't pay enough attention to Baby Steps earlier this year and now I'm mad at how little baby steps content is out there

In Yoshi's "Loves Me...?" minigame in Super Mario 64 DS, there is a 1 in 4,294,967,296 chance to get 32 consecutive "Loves Me Not" results in a row. While this is astronomically unlikely to have ever happened, a player receiving those results would likely become very distressed.

Merci @dehell.ketchup-mayo.fr pour ces streams du meilleur jeu Mario

hello. here are some games that came out this year, this year of 2025, that are cool to check out. or don't check them out, i dunno it's your decision, i can't make it for you

This is such a cursed game to discover because it is fantastic but no one will believe you. It's like finding an awesome restaurant that serves 10/10 sandwiches and soup but the soup is BLACK and the sandwich TALKS to you and you're like "no no it tastes amazing, just squeeze it so it can't scream"

The OST for The Lemurian Phoenix, The Rise of the Golden Idol's second DLC, has dropped on YouTube. Was such a pleasure working with @kylemisko.bsky.social for this. He absolutely nailed every track (Ori's Cave, Part I is my fave!). Hope we'll work together again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcR6...

My current obsession and explanation for everything wrong with gaming is that the only culture around games is consumerism