Barry Hemans

Friend of mine once told me "masking as an autistic person actually leads to you meta gaming every interaction. You end up breaking down the optimal way to interact with people." When I asked him why that's a bad thing he went "because that's how you become a psychopath". He's really into Ham Radio.

Just saw a video that, out of nowhere, took a swing at IGN by posting the Cuphead tutorial fail clip. Problem is, that wasn't IGN. It was Venturebeat. Which really tells you a lot about the weird axe-grinding gamers do.

Just don't get a penguin to do your due diligence. Expert swimmers, atrocious fact-checkers

'007: First Light' has sold 4M copies.

"Don't use purple in the UI. Purple is not a military or immersive color" Will always take the cake for me. The phrase "Immersive color" still haunts me

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It occurs to me that Susanna Clarke‘s Piranesi is the ultimate Backrooms story.

It's gonna take me 50 hours to finish this Bond game when the environments look like this.

I was like "Rob do you have a review of 007 First Light lined up" and he was like "no actually" so anyway here's 3600 words on why this game rules. Like specifically the "why" of it. remapradio.com/articles/007...

The best games of 2026 so far

007 First Light really good 😭

Man. First level of bond is a masterclass. Simultaneously starts the story in a surprising place, tutorialises, reassures the hitman nerds like me that we’ll be doing a little non linearity, and makes me love the guy out the gate. Sold.

the best adaptational choice in first light is that their version of Q is a gentleman dandy in a cravat who teaches bond how to tie his ties and wear a tux. i love bond's gay dad

First Light knows exactly when to be funny, exactly when to be serious, exactly when to deliver the right character beats. It every bit lives up to the films in this manner, and it does so consistently for five, ten times as long. Our review: https://bit.ly/49oQRL0

'007: First Light' Reviews: Eurogamer 4/5 VGC 5/5 GameRant 8/10 Worth Playing 8.5/10 WindowsCentral 5/5 MP1st 8.5/10 ScreenRant 9/10 Wccftech 8.5/10 OC 90: opencritic.com/game/19224/0... MC PS5 88: www.metacritic.com/game/007-fir...

I’m only a few hours into 007: First Light (review code went out very late) but I *love* it so far. Delightful mashup of Hitman and Uncharted, with impressive storytelling chops. Been a minute since I’ve been this into a triple-A game. And I’ve never even seen a James Bond movie

Happy ‘preordered first light and didn’t realise they’d get it a day early’ day to all who celebrate. Cramming a work day in before we hit 3pm.

Death Stranding (2019)

demeter when her daughter goes missing

back once again with the event where you, local (to me) game developer can come and present what you're making, and we will all ask questions and play it with you this time on a THURSDAY AFTERNOON! so if you couldn't do the friday one 👀👀👀👀

So incredibly cool to be able to show off our amazing title sequence for First Light. Hope you're all looking forward to seeing more next month youtu.be/7cqG60pjDS0

Award-winning singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey and composer David Arnold come together for the title song in #007FirstLight. Watch the official lyric video for the original song "First Light". youtu.be/8Jyw2JIiMD8 Listen now on your platform of choice. lanadelrey.lnk.to/firstlight #007FirstLight

Lana Del Rey - First Light theme song youtu.be/_XCPoa_bp7Q

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

You know what day it is? That's right! It's Beast Breaker on Steam day! store.steampowered.com/app/4011790/...

Fond memories of the first enemies in Sunless Skies being a gray box with googly eyes and "enemy" written on it. Said placeholder ended up being used for pretty much every test. The parallax system? Started as a stack of googly eye boxes fading into the mist of the high wilderness.

this is basically half-life 1 if it was three hours long and everyone was scottish and pissed off

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Anyone got a link to that "Gaming Discourse Calendar" tweet/post with all the usual games arguments scheduled out? Some friends are starting to argue about games difficulty and want to check if they should be arguing about the definition of indie instead.

societies typically talk about human cognition as working similarly to whatever is seen as the latest and greatest technology. that’s why we currently describe the brain as a roguelike deckbuilding game about characters making their way up a spire

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SAVE THE DATE Have you ever wondered what it takes to bring Bond back to gaming? Mark your calendars and tune in for the live reveal of Beyond the Light Episode 2 where we will be deep diving into all things cast and characters. 📅March 4 ⏱️7AM PT / 10AM ET / 4PM CET 📍http://twitch.tv/007gameIOI

Please help Mythmatch with the Steam Next Fest algorithm! ⬇️ Download the Demo! 🎮 Play the Demo! ✅ Wishlist the Game! store.steampowered.com/app/2490290/... And if you've already played, please leave a review! Or maybe even boot it up for another go in Hephaestus's Forge!

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

Just noticed that Remnant 2 (complete with all the DLC, which integrates seamlessly) is at its lowest price yet. £10/$14. Also the first game going for half that. Hugely replayable Souls-ish shooters, even better in co-op. Also secretly the closest we've had to a Dark Tower game series.

ethical dilemmas with #eizouken 🔎

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

Sums up a lot of these chat bot systems in one email Our AI is accurate!* *AI may not be accurate Maybe I should be looking at alternatives to Trainline

brighton and south east game devs: we're having a show and tell on friday! bring your latest build and your notebook, share your work with other devs, eat pastries, profit????

VERMIS III PREORDER??? hollow-press.net/collections/...

🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright: - 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is) 🧵 1/2