doubtless you have already heard, but Bennett Foddy, Gabe Cuzzillo, and Maxi Boch's new game is out today and it's really good. store.steampowered.com/app/1281040/...

fighting game player talk like a normal person challenge

omg the talk/speaker lineup for Roguelike Celebration (@roguelike.club) 2025 looks sooo good: www.roguelike.club/event2025.html So obviously one of the most vital events in videogames right now, I really hope I can make the time to attend this year.

Harry hosted this excellent podcast where I got to be a guest speaker alongside Eddie Cai, the designer of StarVaders! We chat about various designs of randomness but specifically about card pools in deckbuilders and other card games. Both episodes are now out.

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page! Wishlist... Future? No Thanks! 👉 futurenothanks.com

A lot of people have asked if Roottrees is based on Rowntree’s from the UK, especially because their fruit pastilles have five flavours. It’s 100% a coincidence and Jeremy had never heard of it when writing the game. I found a bag in a local British shop this weekend so I had to try. Pretty good!

As a member of the Game AI Summit advisory board (which is now, maybe, sorta, defunct[?], I don't know) I've had meetings with GDC about their plans for 2026. I keep learning more from PR announcements than anything said in meetings, and I'm still none the wiser as to what this thing is.

A game on Steam called BlockBlasters which was available for over a month contained infostealer/crypto malware. The game has now been removed from Steam.

ENDLESS™ Legend 2 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3407390/ $39.99 Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race...

There's an older trailer for this game that's one of the funniest things I've ever seen. So stoked that they're working with Devolver. Feels like a match made in heaven! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m-_...

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

It's a really good time to get the Terri, Dose, Kitty, and JW Collection on Steam... I already own all these but maybe you don't! store.steampowered.com/bundle/16567...

Mars First Logistics 1.0 comes out on Friday! Here are some of my favourite builds from Steam Workshop:

astonished to say this but All Will Fall might be the first worker-sim game I've been able to enjoy in like a decade (not counting DF). really smart decisions re early game pacing + fun theming and ideas = I genuinely had a super good time with the demo store.steampowered.com/app/2706020/...

in case you've ever wondered why gamergate happened in the videogame industry, and not another subcultural space, here you go...

I'm incredibly ecstatic that we reached $100,000 for the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle. With just 2 days left to go, please RT and support the bundle, and let's push it as high as we can go!!! Thank you for the support!! Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who don’t care after all.

I wish I cared about uninteresting Ubisoft mapgames in the first place so that I could decide to ignore Ghost of Yotei. Same for bad prestige TV wannabes, so that I could decide to not get a PS5. Anyways, fucking cowards www.gamefile.news/p/sucker-pun...

Related: it’s probably beyond time that I/we start researching Discord alternatives. It’s gonna hurt when that platform becomes even more untenable and I just know there’s such a high chance of getting caught flat footed. Like, as a precedent, I hugely regret not investing time in Linux earlier.

I am very worried about the future of Bluesky but more importantly, the future of communication online more generally. But I do not trust anyone so gleefully dancing on the grave of “Social Media”. Being terminally offline, in this era of compromised news media, is an unjustifiable brain disease.

Again ✨ at Nintendo they don't fire ✨ people because ✨ they just don't hire them ✨

Great format, and 500CC rules It's a shame that I'm thinking "wow, talking to devs before everyone knows/played their game, pretty courageous!". It's what press should be about!!!

That's good though! Who cares how much consoles sell, it's their job, not ours. Getting rewarded for making exclusives is the opposite of what should happen.

Sokobos 2 just released on Steam! It's a block pushing puzzle game where: - Gods took your sanity away - You must push all the vases into your cart - BUT you can push the cart too It's 15% off during its launch! Play it here 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3422180/Sokobos_2/?utm_source=bskyrelease

Here's the September edition of Thinky Third Thursday, the monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught our eye: thinkythirdthursday.com/september-2025

Second half of the collab, featuring even more artists! Be sure to check out the first half above! @mossmouth.bsky.social @perryjon.bsky.social @phubans.bsky.social @fourbitfriday.bsky.social @strotchy.bsky.social and Ojiro Fumoto, thank you all for inspiring us with this amazing collection. 🛸

The UFO 50 Art Collab!! To celebrate the first anniversary of a game that means a lot to me (and many others), we brought together artists from the UFO 50 Discord to create this grand collage! #art #artcollab #ufo50 #ufo50artcollab v More of the collab in the replies below v

It's good, folks

Russia also locked down the social media that was popular among critics at the time: LiveJournal: and SixApart helped that along massively by selling it to Russian interests TikTok is, I think, the only major social media in the US not under the control of US oligarchs Just saying…

Cine2Nerdle a un nouveau mode !!! Pour l'instant j'ai fait 18, 20 et 19/20 (prendre plus d'indices enlève des points) et les gens sont nuls la moyenne ajd est de 12 ??? Cine2Nerdle #C3 Reviews: -1 Metrics: -0 Incorrect: -0 Final Score: 19/20 www.cinenerdle2.app

- Most excitingly, we can announce what we'll be doing next: A Year of Michael Brough (@smestorp.bsky.social) Premiering November 12 1 game a month for 12 months, starting with 868-HACK plus other non-Brough episodes in between We hope you'll join us!

- Starting this Friday 09/20, we'll be re-airing the entire Year of UFO 50, weekly, on its own standalone feed. A much more fun way to play along - just subscribe and let the episodes come to you! Perfect for Switch/new players, tell your friends! And watch this space for a link... and finally...

On this hallowed launch anniversary of UFO 50, we have some big news to share for those who missed our epic live finale last night! (VOD here, with an extra :30 of warmup: www.twitch.tv/videos/25690... - to be trimmed and posted as audio soon...) In order of escalating coolness, news in thread:

Easy Delivery Co. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3293010/ $9.74 Easy Delivery Co. is a relaxing driving game with strange secrets. Chill out, make deliveries and get to know the mysterious residents of this scenic mountain town, all while earning well below minimum wage.

a nice writeup about our year of ufo50! looks like the media information ecosystem is healthy after all. *puts hand to earpiece* wait a minute www.gamespot.com/articles/an-...

Watching Vinny stream the new busted Skate sent me back over a decade, video games are so back.

Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum is out in 1.0! store.steampowered.com/news/app/154...

j'ai l'impression que c'est la 4ème fois que ce jeu sort

Stop treating this like a real game, or even just talking about it RPS usually was right on the limit of decent coverage of those because they at least weren't neutral on all that BS, but here it just puts this project on the same level as the ones from actual DE devs... 🚯

wrote about quality of life game design stuff open.substack.com/pub/tylergla...

AND WE’RE LIVE twitch.tv/eggplantshow

10 years ago today, Nick Suttner coined everyone's favourite genre name: metroidbrainia (12:30) blog.playstation.com/2015/09/17/p...

Happy 5 years of Spelunky 2! Today at 6:15 EST with returning guests from Episode 1 @tictacfoe.bsky.social @madebygare.bsky.social and Hectique it's a new episode of Spelunky + Friends! Hope to see you there! twitch.tv/xanagear @mossmouth.bsky.social

It funny but the more interesting thing for me is that Sega is, afaik, the first publisher to say early unlock instead of co-opting "early access" to talk about playing the game a couple days early when you pay more / pre order So yeah, respect, and fuck every other publisher 😇

People who think that Kei/Midi (🤮) non-peer reviewed paper is interesting would have freaking loved phrenology. There's no such thing as "flawed but interesting to think about", when the data is flawed you just get BS results. Thinking anything that looks scientific is correct is very dangerous.

ShapeHero Factory https://store.steampowered.com/app/2389040/ $15.19 In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next...

The After School Afterlife demo is now live! Follow the steam link to try our narrative platformer inspired by Peranakan culture. Don't forget to wishlist the game and fill out the feedback form at the end! store.steampowered.com/app/1602550/... #indiedev #indiegame #GDoC2025

thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game