Welcome to @nogamesforgenocide.com Celeste and Towerfall! If you’re an indie or a dev in the industry please please consider joining @allwillrise.bsky.social & @househouse.com & many others in boycotting Microsoft + Xbox over ongoing complicity in genocide 🔥 www.rockpapershotgun.com/celeste-and-...

Celeste and TowerFall have been removed from the Xbox store in a move to "support the BDS boycott" against Microsoft

This follows fellow indie dev House House announcing Big Walk will not be coming to Xbox.

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way of the sword was so bad that it may have unlocked my ability to enjoy nioh 2

sole castlevania belmont's curse sympathizer about to finish the game for the first time twitch.tv/ziadbruh

onimusha: way of the "repeat the same boss eight times"

like many of you, i've had a question on my mind this past weekend: do emulator features hurt the perception of classic games? and should we even care? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToM-...

made it 90 minutes into pokopia until i opened my quest log to about a hundred checklist tasks and i instantly turned off the game

Hey guys I'm hoping to raise $40 to help cover my bills after medical expenses from a 2-week flu and helping out family put me over budget this month Any amount is helps (and counts as an early birthday gift for me)! 🎂 PayPal: paypal.me/zkspin Reposts help too! ❤️ #MutualAid #HelpSky #MABoost

we must once again discuss the ethics of save states... also POKOPIA twitch.tv/ziadbruh

"Asia loves AI. You have to accept that."

Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 5d ago

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

i can’t explain it but astro bot was made more for video game journalists than for real humans

ETHAN KLEIN PACKWATCH... I MADE IT TO HIS BEL-AIR MANSION twitch.tv/ziadbruh

The fact that Tim, even when he was much younger, rebellious, and eager, could already not feel sadness for a beacon of game design & development innovation and creativity going under when he could back smugness with "economically realistic" explains so much of why Epic is where it is right now.

Sinnoware 🔶 232.778@sinnoware.bsky.social · last wk.

Tim Sweeny's comment on the closure of Looking Glass Studios.

what does it mean to critique games on their own terms? i had a big ol' conversation about it with the homie @speckobst.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcdM...

I don't care what the game was "trying to do" | A conversation with @SpeckObst

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i’m torn on how protective game design should be of certain experiences. i personally don’t care when a modern release allows credit-feeding cuz i know how to engage with it meaningfully. the implicit question here is which way of presenting the game will maximize the number of players who “get it”

Derek Yu@mossmouth.bsky.social · last wk.

Painful review of the Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle on Steam that really highlights how destructive the continue system was to people's perception of arcade games. The beat 'em ups mentioned play wildly different from one another if you're actually trying to survive on 1 credit.

king's field queen's domain they got me store.steampowered.com/app/1799840/...

this tinashe album gonna be the soundtrack for at least three more months

i’ve been very charitable toward belmont’s curse but the one thing that’s getting even my castlevania nerd rage boiling is having the walls of dracula’s castle plastered with the same painting of alucard over and over again. COME ON

the sunglasses bra is visionary shit

Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 2w ago

Tinashe announces ‘The Show Must Go On’ tour.

this is the reason these questions are asked. it doesn't matter how well el-sayed answers, the media get to write a headline with his name and the muslim brotherhood in it. heated, islamist, implications, criticize, disavow, dual loyalty, scary man bad

CNN@cnn.com · 2w ago

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political movement, during a heated exchange at a town hall. https://cnn.it/4s7r1TL

"No chat, the bombing of Raccoon City was not 'poggers'"

resident evil fans having looked forward to taking down umbrella their whole lives booting up RE4 for the first time

Saying "it's all contextual/it depends" about game design is opting out of having conversations out of laziness (arrogance?), rather than improving The Discourse in any way. If a rule breaks down when applied to specific contexts, those contexts should be presented & explored.

trying to finish symphony of the night in a single sitting... come hang out twitch.tv/ziadbruh

as someone who hated the remake's look on first blush, the new footage has me contending with an embarrassing question: is the zelda graphics cycle still in full effect? www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q8Y...

i liked the street fighter movie

still kinda shocked the vibe is so negative on belmont's curse, it's not reaching silksong's heights in terms of enemy behavior but it's prob the densest metroidlike i've played in a while, level design has lots of nice little elevation changes and obstacles and enemies perched in inconvenient spots

your favorite game director's opinion DOES NOT MATTER. stop trying to validate game design decisions externally and learn to love free will. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvOo...

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

today i wrestle with being a recovered RE2 glazer. tap in: youtu.be/psbl_4DrCCY?...

excited for the changes in the cyclops patch next month, but i should prob take that as a sign to take a break from tokon for a bit and get back on the TGM grind...