Adam Rosenberg's Net-Force

For context (a thread!): I left media in 2022 after more than 18 years in freelance/staff newsroom roles, working primarily as a critic, feature writer, business analyst, editor, and reporter. Heaviest focus areas included games, consumer tech, film/TV, geek culture, and web culture.

Y'all, Dressmaker works with a USB foot pedal! It is SO on. This is the best thing to happen for immersive gaming experiences since the Ace Combat VR mod.

Wanted spooky good times last night so I took a trip to Event Horizon. Happy to report it's still some of the best cosmic horror ever put on film.

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making games so you can hopefully afford to make more games is literally a different industry from grinding up people so number goes up and it is harmful to pretend otherwise regardless of whether or not we share a platform or a binary format

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

I loved chatting with Jacob at Game-a-Palooza earlier this month. This preview provides additional insight into our design philosophy and gives you a new peek behind the curtain about our use of full motion video!

Both included games have been discounted to as low as $2.49 on Steam.

I really want to finish ALL of the side missions and DLC for Power Wash Simulator before I jump fully into PWS2 but I might have to take a mulligan with this Warhammer stuff.

Yessssss. How timely, I just watched this for the first time a few days ago. Kickass home invasion thriller with fun twists and more comedy than you'd probably expect going in.

Yes, it turns out you CAN improve one of the all-time greatest Mario games

Heyyyyyyyyy this rules!

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

The kiddo, who is now FULLY into his know-it-all era, just started explaining to me what a red mushroom does in Super Mario Bros

Holy shit, this is incredible. Let this be a lesson to all the clowns working so hard to suppress voting all around the world: You're going to fail. Miserably. There are more of us who care about this planet and the people living on it than there are ghouls like you. Get fucked, fascists.

You can always tell how fucked up things have gotten in a given episode of Star Trek Voyager by how many flyaways Janeway has

Holy shit, this is incredible. Let this be a lesson to all the clowns working so hard to suppress voting all around the world: You're going to fail. Miserably. There are more of us who care about this planet and the people living on it than there are ghouls like you. Get fucked, fascists.

Who else is going to put "Penguin Colony" on their Hugo Awards ballot for Best Game next year? Anti-colonial take on The Mountains of Madness that's basically Penguins vs. Nazi Cthulhu. It does seem like a lot of people I know would be into this.

My 6 y/o just unwittingly hit a trigger when he well, actually'ed me

I'm try to be a pretty live and let live kinda guy but aren't we going a little far with pumpkin spice *popcorn*?

The number of "lol look at this crazy balloon you can use to escape" videos I'm seeing about Call of Duty's DMZ mode tells me that we're living in a world where people no longer know or care about Metal Gear and I'm just not sure how I feel about that.

Monster Hunter Wilds really is a great game but it's also true that it took me 35 hours of playing with this weapon before I felt I could fully extract an education from this 33-minute Gunlance tutorial video. (That criticism is directed at the game and not at Arekkz' great work.)

I'd rather call a meeting that should've been an email than make a post that should've been a text

Yesterday, @amandafarough.ca captured this EPIC moment of Fierce Lucy clashing with one of her favorite toys, which we definitely don't refer to around the house as a dildo

Once again, friends who visited my house were dry herb vape converts when they left

We've got 90min+ waits locally for early voting around here so I'll be going tomorrow when more people will be busy at work.

There is no greater indication that capital punishment still has a role to play in modern society than the continued existence of Elon Musk

A classic is reborn!

Film in haiku: Elizabeth Holmes Nathan Fielder found her out Billy Evans too

Thinking about skipping movie-watching tonight and just enjoying the rest of Billiam's show

I didn't do anything to her, she was just lying down like this

@cozylivesgames.bsky.social Hello! I am absolutely LOVING Dressmaker and I have a question: Have you tested running it with a USB foot pedal mapped to the space bar? I'm thinking about grabbing one for an even more authentic sewing experience. Thank you! Congrats on the great launch!

When there aren't any other real players on the track racing games are just going in circles to me. (I do enjoy Forza's "Drivatars" for laughs but the Horizon games have other strengths, too.) Point being, I like the narrative ambition of Galactic Racer but it hasn't otherwise clicked.

It’s so iconic that we don’t think about it now, but consider Michael Crichton’s brilliance at naming the location in his book “Jurassic Park.” It could’ve been Dino Land or Fossiltopia or any number of things, but he chose something that has impeccable brain feel.

I forgot to re-up this for the morning crowd. What a cool and unique game.

I love you, Merriam-Webster

Have you checked this out @samitsarkar.bsky.social???

Warrior. Cats. (complimentary)