big walk looks great

I am 51 hours into Sekiro. Here is my progress. Tomorrow it's time to git gud at the Guardian Ape.

Chat will you judge me if I fuck this light switch

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

To review Big Walk, a terrific multiplayer game all about testing your communication skills, my walkmates and I wrote a co-authored diary chronicling our playthrough from three perspectives. Hopefully it gets across what makes this thing so special. Our review. www.polygon.com/big-walk-rev...

2026’s best multiplayer game, properly reviewed by multiple players

This is Big Walk – it's big... but no simple walk

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In Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, green trampolines make Mario jump so high he goes offscreen for 6 seconds. By extracting his position values from the code, we can "zoom out" the stage and visualize his actual arc, which reveals just how absurdly high the jump is.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the literacy crisis is why people don’t laugh at my jokes on here.

I had a bad weekend, but video games made it better, and given that we're all going to eventually have a bad weekend too, I thought folks might want some tips

Kotaku@kotaku.com · last wk.

The Five Best Switch Games To Play While Prepping For Your Colonoscopy:

alright i am officially NOT allowed to spend more money on gaming hardware this year -- i finally got the email and had to

eat shit lady butterfly #sekiro

Flora 🍓🏳️‍⚧️@floramerigold.bsky.social · last wk.

been slowly grinding my way through the first *real* boss, lady butterfly. the wall of reaction-time i have hit is maddening, but i am committed to finishing my first souls game without invoking mods. i don't care how long this takes, i am going to hit the credits. mark my words.

been slowly grinding my way through the first *real* boss, lady butterfly. the wall of reaction-time i have hit is maddening, but i am committed to finishing my first souls game without invoking mods. i don't care how long this takes, i am going to hit the credits. mark my words.

Flora 🍓🏳️‍⚧️@floramerigold.bsky.social · 3w ago

the way i almost flipped a table before realizing i still had my resurrection left

Vague update: I've been working on an app disabled people can use to make games more accessible. Tonight the app solved an accessibility problem the dev told me they were too busy to look into. If this works, we'll be able to fix some accessibility client-side. So happy. I can't wait to publish this

finished Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden today -- I maintain that the VoC trilogy is one of the most criminally overlooked gaming concepts in recent IP memory. not saying it's perfect by any means, but all tap into that energy of FF7 Queen's Blood or Witcher 3 Gwent, etc.

Incredibly proud of our team at @epiloguegaming.bsky.social for hitting this milestone. #blessed 🙏

There are ways to trim your videogame development budget, and then there are *ways* to trim your videogame development budget.

🦘ACAFC🪃

"Assassin’s Creed was unusual: a game produced in the West in which we inhabit an (albeit Occidentalized) West Asian freedom fighter resisting a European invasion." @mlupetti.upandpunch.red on playing the first Assassin's Creed during the Gaza genocide and 25 years after 9/11:

Replaying the first Assassin's Creed Videogame During the Gaza Genocide - Unwinnable

Few Western games would have allowed us to play “the terrorist.”

unwinnable.com

woman so hot i became illiterate #VoiceofCards

I was told you couldn't do 3D on the Playdate, so I did it. Then I was told there was no way I could create exterior levels like those in Mirror's Edge, so I proved them wrong again.

🚨NEW EPISODE OUT NOW🚨 Join us and very special guest @katerblossom.bsky.social of @nosmallgames.bsky.social as we dive into this year's horror precision platformer LOVE ETERNAL! Listen here: leftbehindgame.club/211-love-ete...

I've been chatting with a bunch of video game contractors who have recently worked with major AAA companies about how the relentless budget cuts are affecting them (spoiler: badly)

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2w ago

Thousands of full-time video game industry workers have been laid off in the last several years as game companies scramble to cut costs. But there are even more cuts happening quietly to contract workers, wh... https://kotaku.com/amidst-mass-layoffs-contract-workers-devastated-video-games-2000718416

D&D has released an official statblock for Jimothy

Wow HELLO unabridged bookstore!!

Derek@astralcitymini.com · 2w ago

@jacobgeller.com Hello from Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago, IL!

HELLO NERDS! My new book, Pressure Washer, is out NOW! You can order it online for $10. Please consider ordering a copy if you would like to. If this sells well, I will publish my next book (on video games) through P&P as well. 🖤 Link: politics-prose.com/book/9781624...

Pressure Washer

Pressure Washer is a collection of breakup poetry—about the ups, downs, in, and outs of emotional grief and confusion that arise in the wake of unexpected loss. This selection of romantic reflections ...

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The audacity of these video game developers allowing bosses to heal themselves once after I’ve healed 300 times during a fight. How dare you.

been replaying a lot of hades 2 after watching the odyssey

well this is random: i apparently have *lost* playtime on the Witcher 3 since i wrote my steam review of it 😅

“People who are interested in games have too much of their identities bound up with their interest in games compared to almost anything else that I’ve encountered.” Ian Bogost talks about his approach to critiquing games AND how he has become more mindful of life's small pleasures.

Gaming’s Toughest Critic Wants You to Live a Happier Life

Plus: An excerpt from The Small Stuff audio book

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also if you want me on your podcast to gush, hit me up -- i need an excuse to gold-medal a few of these stages <3 ;)

Flora 🍓🏳️‍⚧️@floramerigold.bsky.social · 2w ago

i am going to be as obnoxious about DENSHATTACK! as i was about clair obscur last year. i am not overhyping this. go play it. pay the developers. be wow-ed. encounter the serendipitous intersection of cultural memes, authentic challenge, and sincere storytelling.