Omelas Failson

what zelda will look like in 2026

Honestly some of these games could even be good but the entire Geoff n Trailers format just makes them all look super lame on the whole

Huh they're using Fatboy Slim in Old Navy ads in 2026

johnny cab in total recall feels more apt. ugly dangerous crap designed to steal jobs and pretend to have conversations. at no moment do you consider johnny cab to be pondering concepts

They should put a Walter Schreifels cameo in that new Street Fighter movie where he breaks the fourth wall to say that actually Red Earth is his favorite non SF Capcom fighting game

"What if Bentley Bear was in an mid 00s electroclash outfit" might honestly be the best pitch you could make with a Crystal Castles movie

people are really just out here posting "i can't wait for [the game industry] to collapse so MY [preferred types of games] can rise from the ashes!" without realizing how idiotic and heartless they sound

microsoft is literally doing the exact opposite! they're getting rid of their acquired studios that make oddball smaller scale games and having the ones that remain pivot exclusively to working on big IP projects! they're never gonna let obsidian make something like pentiment again

saw someone say the AAA gaming layoffs are tragic but ultimately a good thing long term because an industry crash will supposedly mean the end of unsustainable high fidelity AAA games and things will have to scale down, and just. how stupid to you have to be to think this combination of thoughts

This is a company that doesn't make games any more, they make concepts of games. If the game never comes out you can never have failed, you can only have been failed. Fire another 500 people about it.

The thing about "new Obsidian Fallout game" is that they'll change their fucking minds again and cancel or pivot it.

Christ what a worm

after almost 16 years my time with id is done as layoffs ravage everyone across the companies. i'm going to be fine money wise, but if you have money to spare, donate it to the game worker hardship fund! uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun...

Stuntman 3??!?

"like, nani, scoob"

They should've put Geese into Mixtape for Maximum Discourse Area of Effect

I used to be able to tell my phone "navigate to Costco" and it would pull up directions. Now an AI voice tells me the address of the two nearest Costcos and advises me to use Waze or MapQuest to get there. If I open Google Maps and type Costco, I get an ad for Safeway.

"master yoda i swear to the jedi council stop doing that" "hmm teched that shit, i have"

The Quake 1 axe sound is just the Metal Hit sound from Korg M1, and the signature grenade bounce is in fact the same sound nearly 2 octaves lower.

The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.

I'm pretty sure the main reason my boomer parents didn't end up falling wholly into reactionary stuff is because they have city fear mongering immunity from spending the working professional years of their lives living in 70s NYC when it was Genuinely Hell On Earth

in talks with a24 about rebranding april 1st to be more about Elevated Pranks and Allegorical Humor

we seriously need a sequel to the "Half-Life Snacks" video. the people need to know what snacks are available at Valve's snack bar

Lawbreakers is the best failed hero shooter of the bunch straight up. I wouldn't call it some hidden masterpiece but at least it committed hard to crazy movement mechanics and the moment to moment gameplay felt incredibly good

A boom-or-bust game industry is partially to blame, but a company not preparing any runway to pay employees for at least six months outside of an infamously capricious Tencent has to take some of the blame here.

dude we HAVE to get a better bit than "title card font but the words are different"

the situation is awful and will produce awful outcomes, but this is worth remembering. whole thing is a house of cards built on debt, backed up by a lot of AI money. it’s all so tenuous, not sure how long these clowns can keep this all going...

regarding the recent news

video games were a short lived entertainment medium popular from ~1970 - ~2025