Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷

I'm working hard on the ultimate answer to physical games - all content on cart/disc, tested by preservation groups, no FOMO with widely-available retail versions, careful curation, and very artistic collectible prestige EDITIONS every month. Please support our mission! ❤️ www.lostincult.co.uk

Look at how beautiful our next batch of physical games are. 😭 Proper shipping update over at @lostincult.co.uk now, but I get so caught up behind-the-scenes, and it's important I appreciate how bloody exceptional these are. Looking forward to them shipping soon. ❤️

I've been following Olexa's work on The Pyramid for a few years. This guy just straight up loves indie games. This is a real, free passion project that'll give tons of roguelikes even more longevity and ways of playing. Genius idea. ❤️

A Canadian politician is pushing for the government to help BioWare employees buy the studio. (Read more at PC Gamer)

Arkane Studios (Dishonored, Deathloop, Prey) will be shut down unless a buyer is found by November 13. (Read more at Gematsu)

Bluesky has been updated to support profile link buttons. (Read more on Bluesky's blog)

Despite online criticism, Marvel's Wolverine is the highest-earner for a Sony published title since Helldivers 2. (Read more at GamesIndustry)

If I didn't have to work, and be connected for work-y reasons, I genuinely think I'd abandon the internet at this point and just stick to my huge pile of offline games, music, films, and books.

Our first Blu-ray and VHS release looking sliiiiiick. Only made sense that Lost In Cult moved into other cult-y mediums!

A permanent Pokémon retail store is opening in London by 2029 - the first one outside of Asia. (Pokémon official news post)

The Nintendo DS survival-horror classic Dementium II - which is only available nowadays at a nutty resale price - has been ported and released on Steam. (Dementium II Steam store page)

This is not anyone's fault, but I think it's really, really sad that news story rumours go around about layoffs months in advance of companies telling their actual impacted staff. I'm sure reports are sourced, it's right to report it, but it's just awful, y'know?

Foxalot: Steal Together announced - an online co-op heist game where fox players rob a village of loot and evade angry humans and crows. Kinda reminds me of Fat Princess, a bit? (Wishlist Foxalot on Steam)

PixelJunk Monsters 3 - the latest upcoming sequel to the best tower defence games - has a new demo live on Steam. (PixelJunk Monsters 3 Steam page)

Faraway - the minimalist arcade-puzzler by the creator of Eliss and Annapurna - is coming to consoles and PC on November 5. One of those games that's hard to describe in snappy marketing terms but looks beauuutiful. (Annapurna store page)

Xbox is hiring for a Physical Games Supply Strategist, sparking speculation whether they intend to capitalise on Sony's anti-physical move with a Helix disc drive. (Read more at Windows Central)

Happy launch day to Tenerbis Somnia! ❤️ Very honoured and excited to be releasing its physical edition for consoles! Revealing the new coversheet art for the retail and EDITIONS versions. Still available to preorder! 👻 www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/teneb...

Valve is rolling out a Steam achievements rejig to keep your lists more organised. (Read more at Rock Paper Shotgun)

Lemonade Apocalypse - an incremental game where you optimise your lemonade business, become president, maybe fuel climate change and end the world - has a demo on Steam now for the Cooking Fest event. (Lemonade Apocalypse Steam page)

Control Resonant has sold 1 million copies, becoming Remedy's fastest-selling game ever.

PEAK is coming to consoles on October 22, with a physical version also on the way. (Read more at Day One)

Grand Theft Auto VI - new launch trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz1B...

GTA VI will be eligible for The Game Awards 2026, with the cutoff date the day after launch on Nov 20th. (Read more at Insider Gaming)

ROLLA - a Katamari-like, B-movie horror-arcade game about terrorising a city as a pulsing mass of flesh - has launched on Steam. (ROLLA Steam store page)

Xbox has announced Xbox Labs - a seemingly AI generative-focused studio/research lab, spawned in response to the slew of recent vibe-coded ports and emulation projects online. (Read more at Xbox Wire)

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - new overview trailer released, to sync with the press preview embargo lifting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v8e...

Universally beloved PlayStation classics like God of War 3 Remastered, the Uncharted collection, and Knack 2 have mysteriously disappeared from the US PS Store. (Read more at Push Square)

Roblox is coming back to Algeria, after the country banned it last year to protect children and minors. (Read more at Pocket Gamer Biz)

Ubisoft is shutting down Finnish studio RedLynx (Trials series), and cutting jobs at Ubisoft Singapore (Skull and Bones). (Read more at GamesIndustry)

The PlayStation 5 is getting a Midnight Black edition, exclusively in Japan. (Read more at TheGamer)

CULTIC is getting a big box PC physical release soon: lootboxgaming.us

PS1-inspired 3D platformer Valkyrie Saga is coming to the original Switch on October 15. (Read more at Noisy Pixel)

The ESA has asked the US government to flag "plug and play" and handheld retro devices with pre-installed pirated games on The Notorious Markets List. (Read more at VGC)

Casual games store Legacy Games is shutting down on December 31. Despite their motto "Yours to keep forever" that's still on the site, customers will not be able to download or install purchased games after February. (Read more at VGC)

The two modern slice-of-life Shin-chan games are getting Switch 2 ports, including a duo physical release, in March 2027. (Read more at Nintendo Life)

Epic Games has delayed an upcoming Star Wars & Marvel shooter in order to turn it into an AI-first production. The dev team have been told that all coding and art must come from AI generated workflows. (Read more at Bloomberg)

Finished Resident Evil Requiem this weekend. That was one of the most memorable first halves ever for the series, an example of how well they have perfected survival-horror flow, followed by perhaps the most forgettable, mid second half.

Microsoft's president says that AI is currently subject to less regulation that a washing machine or carton of milk. (Read more at PC Gamer)

Retro-style Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon figurines have been revealed by Youtooz. (Read more at GoNintendo)

Steam has once again beaten its concurrent player record, with 43 million players online on Sunday. (Read more at Polygon)

Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii is unfortunately all-in on generating games with AI, praising how people are no longer needed to make games. (Read more at Kotaku)

Online retailer Zavvi has gone bust. The company has fallen into immediate administration, and have confirmed that existing orders and pre-orders will not be fulfilled. (Read more at UK Anime Network)