BaconMob🌱

if you can't find a way to make works that are artistically compelling, challenging, and advance the form in some way feel meaningful - then that's your failure, and the larger market's failure. but it's not the failure of people making the games. i wish more people understood that.

MOLE MANIAAAAAAAAA

That impact truly can't be understated. As Canadians, we forever live under the U.S.' shadow. But BioWare showed we were more than that. Their progressive values. Their innovative storytelling. Their endless creativity. That impacted the entire world, but it especially meant so much for Canada.

One thing that's so tragic about this is how little this means to the greater Canadian consciousness. Many love BioWare but most are unaware of it. They put out the greatest piece of blockbuster media in Canadian history in the Mass Effect trilogy. Most of the country never heard of it.

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

Why do we keep on doing this? Praising a 'small core team' for a game with 1100+ people in the credits is incredibly misleading. This PR narrative hurts, hides the massive shadow workforce of outsourced developers and testers, and sets impossible standards for actual indie teams.

Absolutely repugnant behavior.

I got to walk through the brand-new 1,500-square-foot Nintendo Store-Within-a-Store, opening in downtown Toronto this weekend. Here's what I learned and saw. www.iphoneincanada.ca/2026/10/16/n...

Umurangi Generation captured the collective angst of successive generations inheriting a broken world prepared for them like a shit sandwich. Here's my story for Remap about the developer's follow-up, Penguin Colony https://remapradio.com/articles/penguin-colony-wants-the-world-to-open-its-eyes/

looking at ocarina of time remake footage it's kinda funny that i, as someone who has historically never understood the mainstream annoyance at navi, am looking at these little text quips they gave her and reflexively rolling my eyes and going "oh come on shut the fuck up"

Nidhogg 1 is a Daily Deal on @steampowered.com right now. Grab it for 65% off and try out the new update with improved (rollback) netcode, controller support, and more! store.steampowered.com/news/app/944...

I shit you not, every single day I read about retro video games and discover the names of 5 more video games I've never heard of that the mere description threatens to rip my fucking face off. I'm set for life. If the AAA industry wants to burn to the ground, I couldn't possibly give less of a shit.

the stupid thing was: the consumer games press DID have unethical marketing mouthpiece relationships with the industry. the e3 / spike tv / actiblizz / doritogate conglomerate and the payola-dominated masculine corporate culture had a stranglehold on what got made and how it could be discussed --

Trump is grossly abusing his power to raid the home of Rep. Omar. He has repeatedly attacked her, Somali Americans, and Minnesotans. @Ilhan has done nothing to justify a pre-dawn raid ahead of the election. I stand with my sister always. Quoting The Associated Press

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

E.T. screaming at Elliot in the forest for sure I was afraid E.T. was at my bedroom window for months

I wrote a little piece about the ongoing battle for the soul of software as a craft, where we've been, and where I hope we're going

explains why nobody is buying one

This week we have a charming Final Fantasy VI roundtable interview from 1994, conducted one month before release. The team discusses the making of the ominous opening sequence, world design, and their favorite characters! shmuplations.com/ff6rt/

9 Games that shaped me #My9Games

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

Two blocks from my house. Insane

mmygod

these teams have long running institutional knowledge of the franchises they work on and don’t make every new installment with a team of underpaid juniors being bossed around by clueless suits

saved the most important tiktok to me before they killed it

Random: The Curious Case Of Pixar Vs. Nintendo, And The Uniracers' Lawsuit That May Have Never Happened (Repost)

September 14, 2008 While 3 is objectively a better game overall, Rock Band 2 was the peak memorable moments with friends and family.

Nintendo's message to Switch 1 owners this fall is very different than it was a year ago. 2025: If you have an original Switch, we have versions of the new Metroid and Pokémon for you, but you can't play the new Kirby and Zelda spin-offs 2026: If you have an original Switch, no new 1st party games

Zelda: Ocarina of Time artwork www.flickr.com/photos/histo...

Reminder that “Toyota Forklift Playing Cards by Nintendo” is a real sequence of words, you’re welcome.

In Retrospect "Focus M" was the Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story of AAA video games. There's just some shit you can't do with a straight face any more for at least 10 years.

Issues with the art style aside, I am deeply disappointed that they are barely changing the gameplay in the OoT remake. That is my real issue with it. Adding nothing but a jump button, camera control and QoL features is just boring IMO

Probably not adding much to the discourse with this take but, that OoT remake sure is ugly

People keep asking us if they should buy Future? No Thanks! or pre-order GTA VI so we made a quick guide:

Happy Labor Day from CWA!

Nintendo announcing a new game that I can buy on the Switch 1

Saying that YouTubers who obbsessively pour over every frame of a trailer and wildly speculate are a more credible source than *actual journalists* tells me all I need to know.

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

It keeps happening. This is why we need to support game devs unionizing!

Male…female…what’s the difference?

rockstar has boasted that all of GTA VI's NPCs are handmade and that human beings put thought into every random room and location—a breath of fresh air in an AI-obsessed industry. but we can't just ignore its long history of mistreating the humans responsible

I think one of the reasons I prefer the GTA 3 era of the series is that it has a unique, stylized look. The more realistic the games have gotten, the less interesting they've been. GTA VI looks visually impressive, but sterile. A lot of money thrown at a lot of incredibly safe decisions.

I'm sure it's gonna sell like hot cakes and review well. I can't wait to play it myself, and will probably love it. But it's been 13 years, and AAA is still upresing game design ideas from a bygone era. This problem is broader than GTA. Personally I think it's the silent killer of our industry.