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𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐘 Win a free copy of 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘱𝘴: 𝘚𝘕𝘌𝘚 - 𝘝𝘰𝘭 2. To enter: 1️⃣ Follow 2️⃣ Repost We just gave away a copy of volume 3 and we are keeping the good times rolling with a free copy of volume 2. Winner to be announced March 2nd, 2026. retrogamebooks.com/products/vid... #retrogaming #giveaway

A simple and kind message today wishing me a happy holiday, from someone I probably haven't interacted with for close to 20 years back in my Gamespot community forum days. Lots of unexpected turns in two decades, but it's nice to reminisce about younger days simpler and happier.

@ramiismail.com loved listening to your @myperfectconsole.bsky.social. Also just happened to be reading @apwot.bsky.social 1st volume and was a delight to read your contribution (the anecdote about being stuck between Egyptian and Dutch culture on whether to clear your plate made me smile). Thanks!

Still the greatest endorsement of all time

@apwot.bsky.social reprint trilogy arrived yesterday. 'The Greatest Spaceship of All Time' is both tragic and hopeful, looking forward to reading more!

My evening. #chronotrigger #rez

Nice things: cool posts on cool things like games and MtG, has a Chrono Trigger avatar.

@papercastlegames.com loving the game! But any reports of issues losing save data?? Was up to beginning of Episode 5 yesterday (playing on Steam Deck), have loaded up my game today and my profile and save data aren't there 🥲 Cloud Save seems to be fine, it's as if I'm booting up for first time

#Silksong is great, probably going to be second behind Clair Obscur for my GOTY. Mostly finding the difficulty on the right side of the rewarding/punishing scale. That said, a certain repeat boss on the Wish board is wearing thin on me.

With so many beloved indies shaking up the gaming industry, our #RandomEncounter panelists become a Random Book Club to discuss 50 Indie Games that Changed the World from Bitmap Books! Do they agree with all the book's choices? Listen below 🎧 Listen: www.rpgfan.com/2025/09/08/r...

A tremendous loneliness comes over you. Everybody in the world is doing something without you.

@gamemakerstoolkit.com finally beat Legendary, on the last play after last refresh 😁 X3 if no other modifiers for the entire run. Game is cool 👍 Sitting on my Top 10 2025 so far. Embarrassed at how often I default to rude words (that I know aren't going to score 😂) when I'm running out of time!

Nearly seven months through 2025, current top 10, subject to change: 10. Word Play 9. Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog 8. Blade Chimera 7. Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza 6. The Roottrees Are Dead 5. Hades II 4. Many Nights a Whisper 3. Citizen Sleeper 2 2. DK Bananza 1. Clair Obscur

- Into the Breach - Chrono Trigger - Balatro - Top Spin 2 - Pro Evolution Soccer (one of the late Xbox or early 360 era ones that I played stacks of)

@pewpewbang.bsky.social have any of the crew played Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood from Deconstructeam? Great game which I think doesn't get talked about enough, so here goes: it had quite a unique 'merch' collaboration last year, similar to some of the ones discussed on this ep 🤫

@pewpewbang.bsky.social enjoyed the latest ep! I really like it when games have scalable challenge elements that are independent of the difficulty setting. Hades/Hades II (and literally all the other Supergiant Games), Tactical Breach Wizards are the ones that come to mind for me.

@spacecolonystudios.bsky.social finished my first play through today, really enjoyed! Also: an absolute delight to find out the game has a Welsh connection (very familiar with the area that presumably inspired Ensign Hansen Crwys' name 😁)

Seems like a great excuse to read my (very long) history of Chrono Trigger, the people who made it, and the people who played it. “Chrono Trigger is so many things. It’s whimsical and warm, tense, exhilarating, and thoughtful. It’s brisk and endlessly replayable. [It’s] timeless.”

@bloodgodpod.bsky.social @nadiaoxford.bsky.social @katbailey.bsky.social @seamoosi.bsky.social was waiting for this episode on the Suikoden remaster, I think that's convinced me to give it a go! Also very cool that there's a Boss Fight Book incoming 😁

First clear of the new boss (second attempt) added to #HadesII on the Warsong update. Lucked into a really good build. Nearly 100 hours since the early access release, still so enjoyable.

After an appeal from my publisher, Balatro has been reclassified by PEGI from 18+ to 12+ This is a good step from PEGI - bringing nuance to their ratings criteria that used to be 18+ or nothing. I hope this change will allow developers to create without being unfairly punished

@itsjensim.bsky.social really enjoyed reading your piece in volume one of @ongamesjournal.bsky.social

I’m on the ones and twos over here fucking shit up

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities: felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi... AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

@jeffgerstmann.com any thoughts on a "Best Use of Regional British Slang" #goty #videogames award this year? 3) #tacticalbreachwizards (Rion, generally written in "right geezer" style) 2) #metaphor (Del & Basil, Scouser) 1) #thankgoodnessyourehere (the whole game, Northern)

The freedom to pilfer, steal, and plunder creativity the UK is formally going to give to AI companies is absolutely staggering. If you're in the UK, take this stand right now. This is a fence that you can't put back up if it passes you, and it will kill the UK creative sector.

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Your mangled brain would like you to know there is a boxer called Contact Mike. YOU - Yeah? Any news on my wife's name? How about my mother? ENCYCLOPEDIA - Nope.

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Insanely good bundle at a ridiculous price. Looks like almost the entire Boss Fight collection? Including some of the early classics (Chrono Trigger, Metal Gear Solid,etc)

Our @humblebundle.com all-Boss Fight Bundle is live! Most of our ebooks for so cheap. #humblebundle #retrogaming #videogames #blackfriday #cybermonday www.humblebundle.com/books/books-...

A very hygge space in our accommodation. I want one!

10k series entered. Happy to have a plan to shape 2025 around, though the cost and precautionary "get up before 6AM to enter" doesn't feel amazing.

this is an xbox

@alexnavarro.bsky.social currently watching (and enjoying!) the Metaphor video. Not got to the end yet but I had same experience with Strohl's voice - I swore it was the same voice as whoever played Richter Belmont in the last Castlevania Netflix series, apparently not!

anyway, one more time i guess, even though someone will absolutely screenshot this and send me death threats for resharing it: www.ign.com/articles/how...

The sound effect for the exploding tree stumps in Hades II is fantastic. Best sound effect since the party tag "hand clap" from Chained Echoes. #hades #chainedechoes

I am Kate Middleton here is my photo I am driving a car down to the chemist’s to get a packet of crisps and then I am off to Piccadilly square for a right pisser of a time

@fingerspit.bsky.social random question but just wondering if by any chance the anime "Escaflowne" had any influence/inspiration on the design or story for Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood? Watching for the first time and really enjoying, and is making me think of the game.

Giving Thomas the Tank Engine a shot to see if my son likes it and I have no idea how crazy it looked. Just like static shots of trains with twisted facial expressions, smoke billowing out of a tunnel behind them while Ringo Starr talks about the complex feelings they're having.