Dan Roemer

It should be abundantly clear by now that. If you work in AAA and you don’t unionise you will lose your job while the CEO gets a 38M bonus.

Between this and rumored $1,200-$1,800 next-gen consoles, I'm really beginning to believe we're heading towards an industry crash. We're pricing out younger generations entirely and for those still remaining we're gonna flood the release cycle with pure slop. What will be left?

Everyone should do this. Ask your favorite devs to do this. See how they respond.

Penguin Colony is now available store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/...

My 9 games.

Gonna attempt to get into the Witcher series in the coming months ahead.

MINDSEY3 could have saved the industry...

Brian Altano being laid off from IGN is so wild to me. He's like THE PERSON that first pops into my head when I even think of IGN personalities throughout the 15+ years I've been keeping tabs on IGN stuff in general. Baffling move from whatever idiotic bean counters over there are behind it.

Sony saw "phys-" and didn't bother to read the rest of the word, they just knew they needed out ASAP.

First thing I'm gonna do in GTA VI is look for the backyard wrestling and then go fishing.

Warlock, Metro 2039, No Law, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, and Witcher 3 in current year were the highlights of this year's Gamescom-thing for me. Honorable mention to Ontos and Blood of Dawnwalker. Solid year ahead. Looking forward to voting for my favorite on Everybody Votes on my Nintendo Wii!

"Let's just watch a trailer." -Geoff Keighley

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Digital Foundry developing their own open source capture software with lossless quality is really exciting for dweebs like me in the small bubble of folks who still capture gameplay for work reasons lmao (less exciting are the prices of storage lately for said lossless quality footage).

Big Walk lets me kick things that belong to others, so that makes it pretty good!

Update: The Wii disc drive is making a weird buzzing sound. Bleak. I would have expected the Wii to outlive both a dozen times over lmao.

GameSpot folks deserve so much better than Fandom's executive leadership. GameSpot could have grown bigger than IGN if it hadn't been constantly tossed between owners who'd lose interest before the ink on the acquisition paperwork dried. A victim of a decade of utter negligence.

Wishing all the GameSpot folks affected today the best. I've been watching GS off and on since the On The Spot days and it's been so painful to watch the website I've spent more than half my life browsing and following get absolutely gutted by a shitty wiki brand.

Oh, so they're also completely blinded with stupid levels of unobtainable ROI and numbers, wonderful lmao. Dead brand by the 2030s.

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

there are loads of reasons why the death of physical is bad news, but I think there are downstream effects that the industry is already suffering from today - that are only going to get worse youtu.be/jGtv_lyaNww

The single biggest story in video games this month, prompting widespread concern across the community, and the ESA has no comment. Thank you @duckvalentine.bsky.social for holding them accountable for their total failure on this issue

The console market is screwed. I started shooting this video months ago, but things kept getting worse. Big thank you to @matpiscatella.bsky.social and @jakesteinberg.substack.com for chatting with me. youtu.be/4FatSqS3VYY?...

We've launched a "As Seen on Newgrounds" bundle - a collection of Steam games by developers from Newgrounds. There's a lot of games in here - take a look! store.steampowered.com/bundle/66445...

Our port of #Sonic Mania to the Sega #Dreamcast is nearing completion! Here's 2 minutes of footage captured directly from my physical DC! Stand by for the Blue Blur's epic return home to a #Sega console! @sonicfreak94.bsky.social #retrogaming #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

I went to the countryside and did a little game jam last weekend. Finally got around to make a proper game out of all the oscilloscope stuff I got figured out years ago. This is snek, two player versus, one button per player. Eat the other players tail to win.

hello my fellow podcasters, Audacity is running a survey and as you'd expect, there are AI questions on there! Very leading questions, at that! Tell them you do not need AI baked into this useful recording/editing software! thank you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

They shouldn’t feel stupid, they should feel afraid of getting their fucking faces smashed in for wearing a wire.

Never mind the art and livelihoods smashed to bits; the new regime lets them say 'fuck' in a showcase it must be absolutely blissful to be so thick & morally free

Ubisoft EMBARGOED news to outlets about the layoffs and studio closures, FYI. Employees were told this morning. And then many reached out to us. Companies trying to embargo layoffs and closures might be the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in my 16 years.

Damn, Ubisoft Winnipeg always felt like this far off dream of the video game industry having some sorta presence where I grew up and just like that the space is way smaller. I believe there's only 2 notable studios here now in Winnipeg in Complex Games and Zenfri. Absolute shame on Ubisoft's part.

If you want to see what it's like to play Big Walk, we've got the video for you ⬇️⬇️⬇️

There's something awakening beneath the ice... The Penguin Colony demo is out now on Steam! Pick it up to descend into Antarctic cosmic horror, and don’t miss the Story-Rich Showcase and Frosty Games Fest for brand new info from developer @veselekov.bsky.social. 🐧 Demo: bit.ly/PenguinColonySteam

The gang is all here.

focus, dead mom. ok so i'm dead. but i can still climb that ledge.

Why doom scroll on my phone when I can doom scroll on my Wii! (The Wii modding/homebrew community rules).

GameSpot's On The Spot (March 29, 2007) post-credits scene that I stumbled into while rewatching and thought was too good not to share. Featuring @jeffgerstmann.com and the late great Ryan Davis! You can watch the full episode here: archive.org/details/on-t...

Rockstar were fucking COOKING all the way back in 2010 when it comes to needle drops youtu.be/TuS71J8aROo

Star Fox on 3DS was 3D... This Star Fox? ...He's (un)REAL! (woah...)

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

ohno