If we want good game genre names we need to rebuild a world where the people who drive the vocabulary of games aren't hordes of terminally online consumers. Crowdsourcing is how you get Boaty McBoatface, the game genre.

If you want to give me anxiety all day, ring my doorbell while I’m still in bed and then go away without leaving a note or package, leaving me worry about what was so important you wanted to talk to me about in person uninvited at the ungodly hour of 8:30 AM

Oh man. I liked Violent Night but I am not sure Violent Night 2 has the juice. It seems entirely too in on the joke. There was a sincerity in the original that propped up the gag, and that's missing here.

Violent Night 2 | Official Trailer

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🦨introducing Fox Stamps, a nonogram game that aims to be approachable to new players and long time fans alike! Solve puzzles and turn them into stamps for your collection! Demo coming Sept. 7th 2026, so please wishlist it below: store.steampowered.com/app/4802530/... #indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker

Generally not a great sign that nativist, nationalist, xenophobic fervor is happening globally and not just here.

The Japan Times@japantimes.co.jp · 23h ago

The income requirement the government introduced for those seeking permanent residency may be applied to applications submitted as early as April of this year, according to the officially unveiled revised guidelines. 👉 ebx.sh/IrfLKG

EA's annual Ebitda is around $1.5 billion, which should be enough to service the interest payments. But the publisher has told debt investors that it will cut $700 million in annual costs including $170 million in "organizational efficiencies," per Bloomberg. In other words: mass layoffs

EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest

"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · yesterday

EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...

As an adult I think Microsoft teaming up with Viacom to produce an IP-based version of 3D Movie Maker undermines its "tell your own stories!" premise As a child this was the one of the coolest pieces of software I ever touched.

videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social · last wk.

nickelodeon 3d movie maker, windows 95 (1996) archive.org/details/nick...

"Indie games" (itself an overly broad term at this point) aren't going to "save" games; there's a whole list of factors at play with what's going on, but man At this point independently produced games feel like about the only ethical option.

Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666

Electronic Arts Officially Sold For $55 Billion

With the closing of the market today comes the second-biggest acquisition in gaming history

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wow, i was not expecting to be blocked by @kenjennings.bsky.social over this. We’ve previously interacted in friendly ways, so i reached out in good faith & not trying to drag him. I was giving the benefit of the doubt that maybe his transphobic behavior was unintended. really disappointing.

SUPER FLUID HYPER FLOW! A new minimalist arcade game. Try to conquer the chaos! Play on gate.itch.io/super-fluid-...

Was Tyranny a victim of bad timing or was it a bit too honest about the subtext of its audiences’ fantasies? @duncanfyfe.net on a game that has remained topical, trenchant… and rather neglected. remapradio.com/articles/ten...

Ten Years of Tyranny

Sympathy for the Devil's little helper

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Well, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.

🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. Hooray!

lmao you hired bari weiss to run CBS News dude who are you trying to fool here

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh yeah, David Ellison is legit scared he's gonna lose. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

The Trix rabbit emerging from a realistic human skin suit is maybe the most insane thing I've ever come across while running this account. Just absolutely unhinged marketing.

this is legitimately the funniest "adult content" tag I have seen on this website blue sky is a serious company writing serious software

Ryan Markel@ryanmarkel.com · 2d ago

I have been working this evening at uninstalling a wire shelf the builder put in my extra bedroom (my office) closet when this house was built around 20 years ago. These mounting bits are SATANIC. There is no logical way to remove them without them taking chunks out of your drywall.

The 500 FINGER FILLET demo is OUT NOW!!! 500 STABS. 20 MINUTES TO ESCAPE. A horror roguelite about stabbing yourself in the hand 500 times to escape a deadly trap. Can you make it out with all your fingers? Or will you bleed out on the table? store.steampowered.com/app/4973880/...

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

Hellraiser II does not hold up as well as my 10 year old self remembers it

Hard to overstate just how bonkers the final couple levels of Denshattack! get

This video been a long time coming but with her inclusion of Marvel Tokon, its now or never. This is the first of hopefully many videos on Kamala Khan aka Ms.Marvel. youtu.be/kL0hQprVu20

A 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...

El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

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volumetric fog makes everything better 🤓 #GameDev

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 2d ago

screenshots of the environment i've been building for one of the levels... did fog cards, local fog, lots of moss and grass... and trees :D it's supposed to look spooky. still lots to do on it tho. lol nature is so much harder than human made spaces (like rooms or cities) #GameDev

Putting aside all the obvious ways this is bad, I do kind of want to ask: what exactly is being "simulated" here? Because by all accounts it looks like you're just doing a structured but still improvisational narrative generation with an AI, not executing a rules-based system to simulate something.

Steam Release Bot@steamreleasebot.bsky.social · 2d ago

POTUS Election Sim https://store.steampowered.com/app/4832480/ $8.99 The complete political career: win the primary, take the White House, govern all eight years. Sign treaties, issue executive orders, fight wars, even amend the Constitution. An on-device AI judges your decisions, written...

NEW VIDEO: In 2006 a Washington DC based think tank hired future lead designers of Civilization and XCOM to make a strategy game based on a documentary about nonviolent protest. 20 years later I'm here to tell you why. youtu.be/dmL7Ph4Us8o

A Force More Powerful: this game is political

YouTube video by Alien Bob

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I'm not in love with Moldrise's overall design (it's basically a Groundhog Day "one perfect run" scenario, or maybe a Choose Your Own Adventure book that you keep starting over until you make the right choices) but man, its character models are stunning