Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe.bsky.social
Brazilian living in Tokyo. Editor of the CRPG Book, a free book on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games: https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/
Galera de games BR, alguém lembra de uma reportagem q saiu uns 10 anos atrás sobre o brasileiro q fez os mods de GTA Lite pra Android? Não consigo achar o artigo de jeito nenhum e tbm percebi q o cara limpou o canal e site dele, to tentando entender se deu ruim com a Rockstar ou se era lorota...
Na abertura da 81ª Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas, esse trecho do discurso do Presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mostrou a preocupação da influência dos EUA nas eleições e finalizou: ‘o Brasil não cabe no quintal de ninguém’
Ever wanted to learn about Wizardry’s Japanese reception throughout history? Read a conversation held between Robert Woodhead and Hitoshi Yasuda as they eat soba? Read stories set in the world of Wizardry? I present the Japanese Wizardry reader: ogrerun.com/the-japanese...
There's an expo about Suikoden / Water Margin in Tokyo, it's extremely interesting. I knew it was popular but wasn't ready for ~400 years of fandom — ppl drawing their favorite heroes, writing crossovers, gender-swap fanfic, porn, annotated editions, "Suikoden for kids", etc... All centuries ago!
Real talk, why half of the remaining games media is in Japan this week but no one can ever find a Japanese dev, consultant, journo or researcher to talk about Japan? Especially when we then get these experts who ignore the well-know fact that Japan has laws which make firing people extremely hard.
Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 3d agoWhy do Japanese studios suffer fewer layoffs? Because they have smaller teams and don't pay their execs $30m, says one expert. https://bit.ly/4rfqTRG
I feel the rest of the world (Americans included) have no idea of how aggressively the US is pushing to make Latin America into a giant colony. Every day we get news about political interference, increase in military presence, absurd trade demands, online propaganda, Venezuela being pillaged, etc
Gaming is too streamlined nowadays... back in my days even game magazines were hard to read lol
O melhor vídeo da campanha do Lula não é nenhum vídeo da campanha do Lula, é esse aqui 👇🏾
The Rhapsody of Zephy remaster is impressive... they added widescreen, full-voice acting and lots of QoL & cheat options like quest compass, more XP and auto-battle - all optional. Also, the remaster includes the original game! Excellent preservation work! Now to wait for the English translation...
Digimon Card Battler is kinda mid, but once again the UI is extremely cool and on point. Some of the artists also worked before on Digimon World 1, do they clearly knew what they were doing, but I'm surprised there was no overlap with Digimon World 3's artists later.
Exploring a node-based island in an RPG would fix me now. The week has been brutal, Silver week can't come soon enough :P
A lista de exigências do governo americano sobre as tarifas O negócio é vocês devem ser nossa colônia e pronto
He publicado el segundo volumen de «La otra historia del videojuego». Esta vez hablo de Samia Halaby, Trici Venola, Laura Mixon, Susan Kare, Jennifer Diane Reitz y Jennell Jaquays. Podéis leerlo online por aquí: isi-cano.itch.io/la-otra-hist...
La otra historia del videojuego: Volumen 2 by Isi Cano
Segunda parte de la verdadera historia del videojuego, la buena, la que interesa.
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Isi 🐲 🎓 ✨@isi-cano.itch.io · 4w ago«La otra historia del videojuego» es mi investigación sobre una cara menos visible del desarrollo retro. Llevo hablando sobre ella en eventos desde 2018 y he decido empezar a recopilarla en varios zines hecho en Decker. Ya tenéis disponible el primer volumen online: isi-cano.itch.io/la-otra-hist...
Zoya, a 2001 FPS developed in Syria, starring a warrior woman based on the 3rd century ruler Queen Zenobia. www.hardcoregaming101.net/zoya/
BTW, when researching places that rented TVs & consoles, I also came across stores in India that rented handhelds - all the way back to the Nintendo Game & Watch in the 1980s! radhikaiyengar.squarespace.com/work/videoga...
Babu: A custodian of gaming history — RADHIKA IYENGAR
Take a trip down memory lane and visit one of the oldest video game stores in India.
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Oh, I just found a treasure trove! :D Cruel Games, a game store/locadora de jogos/internet café that has been open since 1994 in Paraná, Brazil... and has photos of all those years! 30 years of people paying per hour to play games, do events, parties & tournaments, from the SNES to modern consoles
Once again @warlockracy.bsky.social delivers the good stuff: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xOf... One of the few people online who understand that even mediocre & obscure games can be part of a fascinating cultural, political & drama-filled context.
The Soviet Biologist Who Invented Russian Fantasy (and Hated Gamers)
YouTube video by Warlockracy
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In the latest VGHH podcast, Phil Salvador interviews Amy Thomas, legal expert and author of Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play, about the history and landscape of EULAs (end user license agreements) in games: https://gamehistory.org/episode-163-the-complexities-of-eulas/
It is often forgotten, but the origins of Bethesda Softworks were rooted in the European homecomputer demoscene, as Julian LeFay, director of Terminator and Daggerfall, grew up with the Amiga in Denmark trying to copy what his demoscene "rival" Sodan was doing.
There's so much cool stuff like this... In Czechoslovakia they were making games as diaries of political protests! If there's any dispute that games are a medium for art & self-expression, it's because most of that vanishes when you reduce the medium's history to a list of products & release dates.
Chairman George@superbunnyhop.bsky.social · 2w agoThe most fun thing to learn about this scene was the importance of Yugoslavian "New Wave" punk-rock for the computer fans. This music was included on the tapes of "Kontraband 2," an adventure game where players travel in time to visit Yugoslavia in the year 2000 😨 retrospec.sgn.net/users/tomcat...
Following up on this, does anyone have any media recommendations for learning about Yugoslavian history & Josip Broz Tito? Of course I'm hoping for sources that can be read quick & easily but lol. Lmao. Ha. That's not gonna happen, is it? This is fuckin' wild and hilarious and horrifying all at once
Chairman George@superbunnyhop.bsky.social · 2w agoI spent the day learning about "The Galaksija," a build-it-yourself 8-bit home computer from 1980's Yugoslavia that was made out of the cheapest, lightest and smallest parts possible to circumvent import bans. Is there any possible way hardcore enthusiasts could build their own PC parts nowadays?
Heads up, the remaster of 1998 Korean classic RPG The War of Genesis: The Rhapsody of Zephyr now has a Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/5099430/... Korean only for now, but the page says more languages will be added later.
The Rhapsody of Zephyr Remastered on Steam
28 years later, Cyrano’s tragic journey of revenge begins anew. The War of Genesis: The Rhapsody of Zephyr returns in a remastered edition with HD 16:9 widescreen, full voice acting, and quality-of-li...
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Speaking of mobile gaming history, here's someone in August 7th 2007 trying out an NES emulator on the iPhone: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVh4... The iPhone had come out in June 29th, barely a month earlier lol
iPhone NES Emulator
YouTube video by pablomarx
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When I talk about games outside the console & PC bubble people often ask for reading recommendations... But I never found a good source on mobile game history... like an overview from Fruit Ninja to Clash of Clans, Candy Crush, Puzzle & Dragons, Pokémon GO, FreeFire, Roblox, Genshin, TFT, etc :/
LOOP cumple un lustro, 10 números como 10 soles con +60 colaboradores a lo largo de cinco años. Y este número de #Comida ha quedado de rechupete con el equipo que tenemos ✨ Que ganas de que lo tengáis entre las manos porque la edición física ha quedado estupenda, de las más bonitas que hemos hecho
Revista LOOP 🧀 🥑 🍒 🥞 #Comida@revistaloop.bsky.social · 2w ago🍴Tenemos hambre de algo más porque en videojuegos, comer nunca es solo comer🍴 Mecenas y suscriptores, ¡a vuestros correos! Para el resto de comensales, LOOP #Comida está ya disponible en digital y abiertas las reservas de la edición física. 🧀 🥑 🍒 🥞 + aquí 🔗 loop.gamereport.es/catalogo/loo...
This is a great example of why you should disable Steam's dumb language filters. Most people are only seeing a random visual novel they never heard about with a couple of reviews. It has over 10,000 reviews. These filters do nothing except lock you in inside a bubble.
Jingtong 景桐@zogzhu.bsky.social · 2w agoSweet Home now has English, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese localizations! It is a queer visual novel about coming of age in a small Chinese town and has become a sensation since its release last August store.steampowered.com/app/3528450/...
"I miss AMVs" Good news! They're still around! There are 100-ish cons with AMV contests that get hundreds of entries, checking out their playlists is a good place to start bc you get curated, quality stuff. Last weekend there were 8 cons that had contests, here's a 🧵 with finalists playlists:
This is a great example of why you should disable Steam's dumb language filters. Most people are only seeing a random visual novel they never heard about with a couple of reviews. It has over 10,000 reviews. These filters do nothing except lock you in inside a bubble.
Jingtong 景桐@zogzhu.bsky.social · 2w agoSweet Home now has English, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese localizations! It is a queer visual novel about coming of age in a small Chinese town and has become a sensation since its release last August store.steampowered.com/app/3528450/...
