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Hottest gaming news - I was once given a Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars t-shirt. I also wrote about how I liked the game. I also met the creator of Tetris once, and liked him, then latest wrote about how I like Tetris. IS ANY OF THIS ETHICAL!?

Steam's AI disclosures are akin to "forcing developers to list their voting history", says man who must hate seeing eggs virtue signal that they're free-range. https://bit.ly/4yHFEyK

Netflix recently used this exact technique in the Aileen Wournos documentary and let me tell you they add NOTHING to the story and make the movie unwatchable

amazing to me that “genius” artists are unable to stay away from the reputation killing machine

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

🐧 A retelling of a Lovecraft classic through a fresh new lens PENGUIN COLONY has a lot to say about our history. @veselekov.bsky.social joins Lightmap on this surprising new game that might leave you thinking hard about your place in the world. INTERVIEW www.sifter.com.au/post/penguin...

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

JD Vance's speech in Kansas is interrupted by a protester. Vance responds by saying "all the Democrats are selling is a fat load of bullshit"

Ask she could have just no mt animated the photos there is absolutely no way that a.i. animated photos are better for a documentary then I wt photos

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Brazilian man cries as he describes how Flavio Bolsonaro's acceptance of bribery led to a delay in rolling out vaccines in Brazil. His grandmother and great-aunt he says, died as a result of Bolsonaro paydayreport.com/a-brazilian-...

Skydance launches employee Voluntary Buyout Program following merger

Note: Danielle and I did not know that both of us were contributing to this piece but when she mentions trying to fall on her sword for a colleague, well. That was me.

Have you ever been made into a Magic card?

Tunic is brilliant because it captures the feeling of playing Zelda for the first time. As in you can't read and have no idea what you're doing.

When losing a job means losing a career: what comes next for laid off games journalists? aftermath.site/aftermath-game...

Just released my turn based golf with roguelike elements game for pico8. You can play it here: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=160...

Halloween mega sale on @itch.io right now! 👻 (I made this game 2020, time flies!) itch.io/s/210709/hal... #pico8 #pixelart #indiedev

When I see titles like this for a beloved creative mind's last project I feel like there is a god and they are a mean-spirited hack writer

This quote is crazy because like, if it's so important to you that every little thing is perfectly positioned -- and I'm super sympathetic to that POV -- then **why not just learn how to position things yourself**!? It can't be that hard: if the person you're paying to do it can do it, so can you.

Since 2004, this community has helped make Firefox and the open internet possible. Our “Come Back to Firefox” campaign reunites a few early internet icons to remind people what made the internet special, and why it’s worth protecting.

on a similar note after GTA6 comes out i have an idea to write a post-"the last videogame" manifesto where i talk about this in more detail (i guess similar in parallel thought to @maxkriegervg.bsky.social's "post-gaming" stuff). so look for that.

Horror as rogue AI smashes through paywall to grab voter data: ‘Would be a federal crime’ www.rawstory.com/claude-elect...

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new from me on the Limited Run Games Blog, remembering Eric Bauza limitedrungames.com/blogs/news/r...

Me talking about videogames (snore) but the edits and b-roll from @douibyorthst.bsky.social (ROAR)

People say this was forward thinking, which it was, but anime's own popularity is the reason this didn't last. As I recall, licensing stuff like Eva became so expensive they simply couldn't do it anymore. This really was almost entirely community funded.

Trump on high gas prices: I don't give a damn. We're making a freaking fortune.

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Trump says if Republicans lose the election it is voters’ fault

Owlboy's 10th anniversary livestream kicks off this Sunday! Oh yeah, and we're dropping an update-patch for the game on the same day! #owlboy #indiedev #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJGq...

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Shout out to this thing you can do in games with a fixed jump arc

Simple trick/notion to make a turning head animation for absolute noobs, without having to redraw the entire head

Ah, this era of gaming mags. Jamie Kennedy:

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

Wake up, sleepyheads! It’s time for a new episode of #LetsTalkAboutSnacks! And never forget how the old jingle goes, 🎵Let’s all go to the Aldi, and get things really cheap!🎵 @rawrglicious.bsky.social @conradzimmerman.bsky.social And Linda is also here. www.patreon.com/LetsTalkAbou...

FIRST LOOK 🚨: Suicide Island Volume 1 releases on December 8th! Pre-order: https://bit.ly/4vblixq Sei is transported to the mysterious, remote Suicide Island after a failed suicide attempt—where he must live out the rest of his days or figure out how to die! By Kouji Mori #DHManga