#DERELIKT has a demo! 🪐 Still surreal seeing people play it after all this time ... anyway, give it a try, I hope you enjoy it! store.steampowered.com/app/5242870/...
Alex James Kane
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Hello! I played sax for the Pewter City cover on the Green Version disc, and I'm in some exquisite company If you love city pop and video game music and want to hear an album that was lovingly put together by human beings playing instruments together instead of AI, here's a golden opportunity
GameGrooves@gamegrooves.com · yesterdayBandCamp: fanlink.tv/viridian-cit... Art by @pokerusproject.bsky.social
Re-release of Wing Commander III coming out with video taken from the original tapes courtesy of a restoration project led by Jim Vessella who has been digitizing the EA video archive
Rewatched the 2011 Thing for the first time in ages, and I’d love to see a Shout or Arrow release that restores the original cut of the movie, before they chopped the script to shreds and replaced most of the creature effects. Not a bad movie by any stretch, but you can smell the execs in the room.
Make Us Whole: The History of Dead Space by @unabridgedgamer.bsky.social explores the vast reaches of the Dead Space universe ☠️ Copies of Make Us Whole, Perfect Organism and Itchy, Tasty are shipping now, no pre-ordering necessary (you lucky ducks) 🦆
I rewatched HALLOWEEN 6: THE CURSE OF MICHEAL MYERS and on Letterboxd posted the section of my Paul Rudd interview from a few months ago when I asked him about playing the character that finally beat Michael Myers once and for all
A ★★★ review of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Earlier this year I interviewed Paul Rudd and asked him about Halloween 6 and playing the character who beat Micheal Myers once and for all (in that timeline before the series was rebooted) In Hallow...
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ICYMI: A YouTuber and streamer's channel was permanently banned for a Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival gameplay video. https://t.co/XHjpl0vpo1
THE LONG DARK is one of Steam's Weekend Deals right now, and if you haven't already pulled the trigger I suspect you may want to because...well, let's just say it'll make sense next week. store.steampowered.com/app/305620/T...
I like this, because adaptations are their own separate thing by their very nature, however: Carrie should be fat maybe like one (1) time
I am furious, but I am sailing@stcaffeinated.bsky.social · 2d agohello??? police??????????
IllFonic should have made it so that when Loomis calls the cops in Halloween: The Game, you fail the speech check every time, no matter what. This has been... Armchair Game Design
My old friends at Rolling Stone ran an excerpt from Serling, where famous fans like JJ Abrams, Vince Gilligan, and Rian Johnson talk about The Twilight Zone's genius and its influence on their work:
How 'The Twilight Zone' Influenced Some of Modern TV's Greatest Creators
In an excerpt from 'Serling,' a new Rod Serling biography by Alan Sepinwall, J.J. Abrams, Vince Gilligan and more discuss the 'Twilight Zone' creator.
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My newest @shacknews.com long read is live! Embrace Chaos: The Origin of @deadbydaylight.com explores the earliest days of DBD's creation, what goes into its design, and looks ahead at the next 10 years. www.shacknews.com/article/1509...
Embrace Chaos: The Origin of Dead by Daylight
Journey back to the early 2010s with some of Dead by Daylight's earliest developers as they recount the making of the game.
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Let’s all take a moment to appreciate the absolute best way to exit a conversation ever.
❗Attention, union supporters ❗ We're asking Wizards and Hasbro to voluntarily recognize our union—and you can help! Sign our petition today and show our leadership that you want change in the gaming industry. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...
Today's newsletter is a love letter to the freak show that is the cast of Star Wars: Galactic Racer, a fascinating foil to the Glup Shitto ideal already explored this year in Zero Company
Here's to the Speed Freaks of 'Star Wars: Galactic Racer'
I feel the need for speed, and as many weirdo aliens as feasibly possible.
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In her statement on the ICE shooting in New York, AOC specifically calls out Target. The congresswoman demands that the mega-corporation stop allowing ICE to stage paramilitary raids from its parking lots. migrantinsider.com/p/aoc-to-tar...
AOC to Target: Stop Lending Your Bronx Parking Lots to ICE
After federal agents fired into a car with a 5-year-old in the back seat, Ocasio-Cortez names the retailer that lawmakers say gave ICE a place to wait.
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98,000 views on this bad boy, somehow
Alex James Kane@alexjkane.bsky.social · 3w agoMy love letter to the GOAT of horror games:
This is an all-timer piece that showcases the common complexities and patterns of organizing. Unionization isn't just "ok let's unionize" and there is so much nuance to the path to getting there. If you're remotely interested in workers rights in the games industry in any way you *must* read this.
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2d agoBack in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? https://kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-to-unionize-one-of-gamings-most-idealized-studios-2000742755
