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Can Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished? (Gift Article)

The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go.

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For silly team building shite at work today, I dug out the stuff I wrote for @pcgamer.com on work experience way back when! Ahh, memories of Bath! www.pcgamer.com/author/chris...

it must be so difficult to act with a character who you can’t even see. thankfully, Foghorn is just that talented

I feel seen

Twonks@twonks.bsky.social · 4w ago

Awkward

Great piece www.lbc.co.uk/article/midd...

Who gets to be a victim? The tragedy in Middlesbrough exposes the politics of selective outrage | LBC

It’s been three days since seven people died in a horrific car crash in Middlesbrough - two of them serving police officers.

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It's a myth

The Duskbloods: Steam Release information found in-game www.resetera.com/threads/16...

Savage.

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Indie publisher Devolver Digital is looking to once again become a private company later this year www.gamesindustry.biz/devolver-dig...

Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

One thing I never did was a post-mortem of Sir. Perhaps this is as good a time and place as any to talk about some of that. It started in 2010 when Channel 4 had some money to spend on making educational games. For some reason they asked me. ->thread

Jim Rossignol@rossignol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In surprising computer game news: Sir, You Are Being Hunted finally made it to console, just fourteen years after release on PC. It's out now on Switch, PS5, and Xbox. (And Steam and GoG, of course.)

This would be so great!

Hazel Southwell@hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

you could do a really heartwarming Muppet F1 movie. Kermit's in charge of a struggling team, just trying to keep the factory lights on with janitor Frank the dog warning him about bailiffs while Gonzo and Rizzo try to convince him to let them do unconventional aerodynamic testing.

For IGN: “Sharma echoes Elon Musk, whose typical approach is to yank wires out of the machine, and discover afterwards whether any of them were essential.” www.ign.com/articles/xbo...

By Scrapping Studios and Doubling Down on Decades-Old Franchises, Xbox Is Dismantling Its Future To Rebuild a Past It Can Never Recapture

Xbox's big reset has scrapped studios building original ideas in favour of doubling down on legacy IP - but how will it find its next big franchise if it only focuses on the old?

ign.com

German broadcast. Nailed it

Now I'm definitely supporting the Argies 😂

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 2mo ago

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says Scotland and Wales fans should come together to support England against Argentina tomorrow "I would very much encourage unity"

Shout out to FIFA for coming through in a big spot. This is what all those bribes are for.

In a world where Halo can get "remade" or "remastered" what feels like a dozen times, why can't a classic Medal of Honour be remastered? And released on disc, of course. Heck, let Arkane make an immersive sim where you play a French resistance fighter!

ok this one got me

Technically, they’re Remains now.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

I wrote about SpaceX. SpaceX the rocket company, SpaceX the suspicious financial instrument for Musk to create value out of thin air. SpaceX the meme. SpaceX as the 7-headed hydra at the end of capitalism. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Myth of SpaceX

The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.

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We all know physical special effects are far more impressive than doing it in CGI, so a big hand here to the Russian oil industry for this sequence for the next Independence Day remake

I *really* hope this works

You know what? People who don’t like kissing don’t have to watch romances. Sober realists aren’t forced to sit through SFF. Grouches can eschew comedy and squeamish people are welcome not to watch horror films. Just let things exist for their target audience.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo ago

Horror’s Hollywood takeover is an exciting moment – but won’t someone think of the squeamish?

Well colour me shocked that when people’s basic needs are met they commit fewer crimes.

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 4mo ago

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

As @dannypalmer.bsky.social has mentioned a few times, the lack of major sport organisations having a presence here is such a disappointment. I want to see some clips of Monaco practice, and don't want to rely on Sky Sports on Twitter 😢

Dunno who this lad is, but he can join the list of great Kane's

Genel Jumalon 🍉 Fan X Salt Lake@geneljumalon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

🥱 Why does Batman not kill the Joker 🥱🥱 Why does Batman not give his money to charity 🤯🤯🤯 :

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

This headline confused the shit out of me until I realised it was a Dutch website.

nieuws.nl@nieuwsnl.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sigourney Weaver over Grogu: “Geen poppenspelers”