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Luis Xertu (Mexican, 1985) - Tree with Cats (2024)

it's time to go home #BigWalk

😺 “This is my brush now!” #lovecat #abyssinian IG: @ abycat_goldas_zula www.instagram.com/abycat__gold...

I don't dwell on games or my own writing too much but I do often thing about the end of Tears of the Kingdom even now. "There is a Hyrule where the Light Dragon sails eternally as a monument to the costs of fighting the Demon King." still wish they'd done it!

Max Murphy bought a PS5 thinking it'd distract him from his grief. Then he started playing God of War.

Unlocked! Belatedly, I look at Vampire Survivors, and lament that everything is gambling now, even when the only thing you're wasting is your time:

Also scheduling a boycott to not interfere with the release of Tokon or Wolverine is extremely funny. Gamers (and any adult whose identity is wrapped in consuming media) will never push themselves to actually sacrifice anything on a personal level.

The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.

Absolutely buckwild to see that last bit. Like, immediately gives up the ghost on the narrative that any of this is about a more focused direction for Xbox as a brand. Roblox and Fortnite, combined, don't even break 200 million users a day. 1 billion a day might as well be INFINITY PLAYERS

Also really really REALLY hope DoubleFine and Arkane can make it as midsize indies 🙏🙏

Konamic Golf (Konami) (Gameboy) (1991)

I'm actively sending out pitches on this but want to remind everyone that I am eagerly looking for a place to review Marvel's Wolverine this September.

A wonderful joke in @gameinformer.com back in 1998 (shoutout to the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social archive)

by popular request he’s turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread #KirbyFraming anthonymoser.github.io/writing/rhet...

It's May. We still have time to switch annual video game awards to an MTV Movie Awards structure. Best Villain Best Weapon Best Kiss Best Twist This isn't a permanent fix, but it will buy us time to devise an alternative to Best Action Game, Best Action-Adventure, Best Adventure, Best Action RPG

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES

This dude is intense and correct

Pope Leo has spoken.

checkitout! chatted with my good friend Hank green about all things business but more importantly homestar runner

Pauline when Donkey Kong sees a door covered in purple caution tape

Mario Kart World Rainbow Road sounds like this to me

Okay but for real: @samreich.bsky.social really should consider picking up the incredible Polygon video folks. Hard to think of a better match. Sam, if you do see this, feel free to ping me and I can connect you with great folks!

There weren't enough jobs for people before. There aren't enough jobs for people now. We are just going to lose dozens of dozens of people who thoughtfully cover, critique, and investigate the video game industry forever. It is a profound loss that will not be recovered.

Arco🏹is on sale during #SteamSpringSale and we are happy to be bundled with the great Balatro🃏 store.steampowered.com/bundle/50631...

5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:

Kirk Hamilton had this very practical reason for games writers to read widely and it came down to the simple fact that writing in games is burdened with so much work that art was secondary, also you are barraged by PR blasts and talking points. you need to remind yourself what words can do.

important: ✅ sports ✅ video games ✅ going online ✅ posting not important: 🚫 typos 🚫 proper punctuation 🚫 proper capitalization 🚫 whether or not god is real