🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ The History & Evolution of Massively Multiplayer Games We talk to @raphkoster.bsky.social about the history of group play, how MUDs became MMOs and the evolution of online worlds. WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHu7...

The History & Evolution of Massively Multiplayer Games (with Raph Koster) - /noclip

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Remember buying boxed games? @jeremybjayne.bsky.social felt the need to get physical recently. So he headed to his local store to pick up a game he'd never played before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i80z...

Buying a Physical Game to Remember How it Felt - Jeremy Jayne

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"Wang’s business is keen to rebuild the relationship between content creator and the person viewing the content, as well as communities, fandoms and other small groups that social media has, historically, united." Yes I am! Thanks @lilyford.bsky.social www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Bluesky’s Rose Wang Takes Aim at X and Facebook: “They’re Basically AI Companies at This Point”

The chief operating officer at Bluesky spoke at SXSW London with journalist Amit Katwala about the value of community-led connection — and where their rivals have gone wrong.

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I miss the days of weird little desktop software toys, so I made this video about The Simpsons Screen Saver collection from 1994. My favorite is "Homer Eats," where Homer walks around your desktop eating icons. Watch here: youtu.be/yhq2Bym5kTY (If you enjoy it, a like or a share goes a long way!)

The Simpsons After Dark Screen Saver Collection Was Peak '90s

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Been staring at this little advert for a while now. It really defines the Sega Saturn legacy. And what a legacy.

We dig into Capcom's infamous U.S.-made fighter, with a 5,000-word feature and never-before-seen development assets.

Final Fight Revenge: An oral history, 26 years later

Five team members look back at the origins and development challenges behind Capcom's first — and still only — internally-developed, U.S.-made fighting game.

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Our next big project is live! @lewisgordon.bsky.social spent the past few months tracking down nine people who worked on DICE's innovative 2008 parkour runner.

Mirror's Edge: An oral history

17 years on from its release, DICE's first-person parkour thriller is a cult classic. We spoke to nine people who worked on it about how the revelatory game came to be.

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Happy 25th Anniversary to Phantasy Star Online and its best boss

OpenAI strikes $38 billion AI training deal with Amazon

OpenAI strikes $38 billion AI training deal with Amazon

Pouring billions more into AI.

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This is one of the toughest things I've ever had to write. Hope you can make time for it. #Itagaki

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"I Told Him I Loved Him, Because I Do" - A Tribute To The Late Dead Or Alive Creator Tomonobu Itagaki.

Oh, I also did a tribute to my brother Itagaki for @theguardian.com. I didn't realize it was up. This is way shorter, but no less poignant, I think. I tried to do him justice. #Itagaki

‘A force of nature who took no prisoners’: a tribute to Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki

The driving force behind Team Ninja was a game development samurai who almost always won his battles

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Extremely rare b-roll footage of an Electronics Boutique in late 1994 or early 1995. Enjoy it! I found this among 40TB of files from Digital Pictures' archive.

It's past midnight on the east coast, which means it's officially Shadow of the Colossus' 20th anniversary. Come join the party.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

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My interview for @polygon.com with #Itagaki back in 2016, after the release of Devil’s Third. www.polygon.com/features/201...

The ups, downs and future of Tomonobu Itagaki's Devil's Third

Hear from the man in charge about the game’s eight-plus years of development.

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Was great talking about @designroom.bsky.social with the Aftermath folks!

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 11mo ago

A history of histories: aftermath.site/matt-leone-sha...

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

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I’ll have more to say on the topic of Itagaki-senpai’s passing soon. But I have been looking at my Team Ninja collection all morning. There’s a bunch still tucked away that I need to dig out. But whenever I ask a creator to sign something, it’s an acknowledgement of their hard work, and memories.

according to a notice on his Facebook page, Tomonobu Itagaki has passed away at the age of 58. No details were shared, but the statement expressed his misgivings about “failing to produce a new game for the fans” www.facebook.com/share/p/17am...

Today I lost someone who was truly like a brother to me. I am gutted to the core. I guess I can say so now that it's on his Facebook page. He even listed himself as my actual brother on Facebook. Anyone who knows me knows how close we were. RIP, senpai. You will always be a ninja.

The McDonald’s x Street Fighter collab in Japan is incredible. No notes. 🤌

🚨🚨🚨 We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site. • We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon • Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n • See more: designroom.site

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Getting off work? Finally have time to read a 10,000-word story? Or perhaps you live overseas... 👀

Design Room@designroom.site · 11mo ago

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Take a chronological journey through gaming’s least linear format: the action RPG with The History of Metroidvania: Decade One—1980-1990, coming next march. Details: bit.ly/3KBaRk9 Dives into the gaming trends of the early 1980s and how those beginnings shaped metroidvania genre. By Jeremy Parish

Remember how I kept talking about the Metroidvania book I had in the works, and then it kinda dropped off the radar? I didn't lose interest. I was just working with a Legit Major Publisher (Dark Horse!) on turning it into the pilot release for a Press Run team-up: www.gamespot.com/articles/exp...

Explore The Origins Of Metroidvania In This New Retro Gaming Book

This new book will explore the history of the enduring metroidvania genre in video games.

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HAPPY SILKSONG DAY! New, FREE EP: A Knight (for a Knight) knight.ocremix.org PLEASE TAG fellow Hollow Knight fans! @damonzmusic.bsky.social's 4-track tribute to @christopherlarkin.bsky.social's amazing score to the first game! Features his mom, cellist Christine Giguère + art by Annie Doyon! GET!

A Knight (for a Knight)

OC ReMix presents a free video game ReMix album, A Knight (for a Knight)

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Archival footage like this of a place that no longer exists is the kind of ref you should just let wash over you and watch it when it suddenly appears in your recommendation like this just did for me. A Space is not just how it looks but its how its used and the people that do so and their history.

Exploring Kowloon Walled City in an Afternoon – Vlog (1991) by Suenn Ho

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Des Walsh@deswalsh.bsky.social · last yr.

Another example of just training the algorithm to show you interesting things you never searched for and letting it be a massive part of how you get inspiration and finding reference. You lot like horizontal lifts found in yea favrile anime?

hand-drawn art in used game shops might be my favorite thing in the world

AWS enters into ‘strategic partnership’ with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain

AWS enters into 'strategic partnership' with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain | TechCrunch

Amazon says it'll work with Humain, the AI company recently launched by Saudi Arabia’s ruler, to invest '$5 billion-plus' in a strategic partnership.

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New season of @goodjobbrain.bsky.social! (Bear w/ me while I set up socials here) Ep 286: trivia about secrets — hidden rooms in landmarks quiz, mysterious 0s on your money, spy holes in Gibraltar, investigating an oatmeal’s secret surprise, & Pikachu’s printer scandal goodjobbrain.com/episodes/286