Lawrence, but like, really scary

My Galactic Racer review is up on startmenu! This game rocks and you should go read all my words on it. Now watch this drive.

I think I'm having whatever the opposite of a midlife crisis is. The paths in front of me are bountiful and flourishing. I have infinite possibilities. I'm an animal with too much prey grazing around the watering hole. Life rules.

Girlfriend told me I should get a tattoo on my side beneath my arms and she's gonna be so mad when this is what gets etched into my flesh

Developing an emergent gameplay feature where NPCs can come back after you kill them and develop as characters that add to the narrative tapestry of your game. Adversaries, if you will. I think I'll call it The Rival System.

Everyone say "good job, Lawrence!" because I finally found my winter clothes that I put away months ago and couldn't find once it started getting cold in the mornings

Review incoming but Stupid Never Dies is getting on my nerves grrrrrr

There are too many games that I absolutely hate playing, but have some incredible character designs

I wish I was a corporate bigwig so I could just say made up sentences and get paid six figures to do so

okay, i rewatched and wrote about the cabin in the woods on flesh and fluids, complicity and consequence, and the catharsis of That One Scene it is illegal to say what i want to happen to fascists and/or those 'just doing their jobs' ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev/let-monsters...

BioWare shut down has been driving me bananas because every time I hop online it seems that people believe there can only be ONE bad thing that happened to cause this, and not multiple

Doubling down on this. Putting it on my business cards, even.

RIP Bioware

Casting a net of questionable size here, if you’re an ex-BioWare dev (or know of one who may not see this) working on something cool you’d like featured in a roundup at Kotaku, drop it below. Store page links helpful, and let me know what your role was at BW. Projects big and small welcome! RTs plz!

In 2016, we published potentially the largest single feature to ever appear in Game Informer magazine with a full oral history of the legendary studio, BioWare. We've made that feature available online following reports of the studio's impending closure. gameinformer.com/feature/2026...

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

Come the fuck on man

Vampire Hunter: Darkstalkers' Revenge / Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge - Donovan concept artwork.

hey, i guess we're good to say we're in this now? i wrote about trans genocide. and also tied it in with something else that made anyone who read the essay tell me it was a 'gut punch' (positive) pick up lock on 7 to read it and many, many other incredible essays

Working on condensing my backlog down to the things I either NEED to finish, or that have been on my mind for a while. So far, I've got: - The three games for my capstone - Red Dead Redemption 2 - A pokemon marathon across every region - Super Metroid - Dragon's Dogma - and 3 games for essays

Banger interview. I too wish Artemis would one day interview me about video games, and weed, and gooning (I can't gamble).

Every now and then I think about try to explore NSFW/erotic games to try and see what's going on over there and whether or not it's *just* porn, or if the sex actually means something serviceable. Then I look for games to choose from and 90% of them are gen-AI art.

Don't let billionaires convince you slop is the future. They're used to managing & directing, not making things themselves. Of course they can't see the difference. They don't understand your love for the craft. Keep making personal, beautiful games. You've got my support 💖

Spent $8 on a beer tonight and was very brave about it but oh my god are there seriously no good IPAs? Zero? None? Is this just a cursed beverage?

WNBA finals game 1 today and it's a shame how boring these jerseys are

Please do not take TGA’s rules seriously. Certainly not their deadlines. After all, they don’t.

LRT holy shit that's me wow

Check out the SWORL at junkfoodarcades.com

Went to the local place I go to weekly(not the place in the post I'm quoting) after skipping last week. Got hit with a "Hey! Feels like we haven't seen you in a while!" and some good fucking coffee. I've finally made it. I'm a regular. I'm never getting coffee anywhere else if I can control it.

if you’re a dev who’s been contacted by this guy on The Everything App, it is not me. it is a scammer. i don’t use X, don’t own sunglasses, and i’d kill myself before i appeared on a crypto podcast

Heard that Dan has more screentime than Ryu, Ken, or Chun-Li in the Street Fighter movie, so I'm just gonna skip this one

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

How we feel after a full afternoon playing the new #OcarinaofTime remake for #Switch2.

Worst coffee of my life but I will finish it to prove my strength and honor

I'm very curious what constitutes a good remake/remaster in people's eyes. A lotta times I feel like I hear that the charm of the OG is taken out in remakes, but I don't really know what that means.

First thing I see on this app today

The other Gamer in the office and I chatted about gaming, content creation, and other fun things that culminated in him saying that I should go ahead and make a video essay. The encouragement to do so has breached the real world. I fear this may be prophecy now.

Bought my supervisor coffee this morning and she's in a meeting until 12

i reviewed castlevania: belmont's curse for RPS! i didn't love it! look, it's okay. it's a fun action game. pressing buttons feels good. as soon as it starts pretending to be a metroidvania, it's a miss from a rose (sorry)

NEW: Epic Games has delayed its upcoming (not yet announced) Star Wars + Marvel shooter as it pivots to complete AI game development. "No more hand-written code," a director told staff. All art "generated with full AI workflows." Full scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

you can’t just boss baby SaGa like that in front of god and everyone, good grief