--The #BSGOTYs2026 nomination round: 2002-- Please nominate up to five games from 2002 to advance to the ranked ballot For what counts, see: bsky.app/profile/bata... You are not restricted to games included on the grid, here is a fuller list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...

Julianna 💎@batariangal.eurosky.social · 2w ago

I'm sticking with original release date only. I'd intended to switch to NA release date, but Backloggd/IGDB list by original and I think it's going to create more confusion if I switch.

HOT TAKE: the Star Wars franchise is better suited for video games than it is for films. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ Strategy Is Working Out Much Better for Video Games

Video games like ‘Star Wars Zero Company’ have been both critically and commercially successful

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@superantonio64.bsky.social, @davidpierce.xyz, @steviebonifield.bsky.social and @dompreston.com all have feelings about Googlebook OS. Here's a glimpse of where their heads are at with these new laptops.

A week with Googlebooks: four notes from our testing so far

So far the software vibes are a bit off.

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Our 1st original interview!: @willowstration.bsky.social and I got to chat with Jim Wornell. Jim was an Associate Producer for Ocarina of Time, and later, the graphic designer for many iconic logos and packages during the GameCube era. We discussed branding, art, crediting, logistics, and more!

Interview with Jim Wornell: Nintendo Producer and Graphic Designer

Jim worked for Nintendo of America from 1989 to 2006. He was an Associate Producer for Ocarina of Time, and as a graphic designer he played a pivotal role in helping to define Nintendo’s brand during ...

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Getting your steps in 'Final Fantasy VII' PlayStation

It might be basic with shallow repetitive combat, but I still enjoyed Wolverine more than I expected - mainly because the story between these two has so much heart and is so well performed. Still I wish it had been an X-Men game playing as multiple characters to give more variety.

Pragmata has sold over 2.5 million copies Source: Capcom @ TGS

To answer the question, yes, I have been casted to play Tupac Shakur. I hope you all are looking forward to it.

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Netflix and Sega are working on a movie based on Stranger Than Heaven: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/21383-stranger-than-heaven-movie-netflix-sega

Happy 25th to the Nintendo GameCube! Here are top 20 best-selling GameCube games in the US, ranked by unit sales. Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Mario Sunshine and Mario Kart: Double Dash!! lead the list. Source: Circana Retail Tracking Service

Happy 25th birthday to the Nintendo GameCube, the first games console I bought with my own money. I started saving up for it the month I bought this issue of Edge, nearly a year previously. What a cover!

Nintendo's most interesting system finale? Probably the Japan-only release of Dobutsu no Mori in April 2001. It was ported to the successor GameCube as Animal Crossing Only franchises to close out a Nintendo system multiple times? Zelda, Kirby and maybe Rhythm Heaven More notables in the piece

Capcom is on a generational run. But this is no renaissance: the company has never been greater. I reported on the secret of its success, from "Crapcom" in the early 2010s to its one-banger-after-another present, speaking to many of its most illustrious producers. www.theringer.com/2026/09/03/v...

How Capcom Cracked the Code of Game Development

The video game industry is in turmoil, but 2026 could be Capcom’s career year. How does the company behind ‘Resident Evil Requiem,’ ‘Pragmata,’ and ‘Onimusha: Way of the Sword’ keep pumping out hits?

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Now seems to be a good time to repost the time I asked Tetsuya Nomura why he added so many belts and zippers to his Kingdom Hearts designs.

Character design work by Yoichi Kotabe for Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974), dir. Isao Takahata, Zuiyo Eizo

Concept art by Yoshiyuki Momose for Only Yesterday (1991), dir. Isao Takahata, Studio Ghibli

In the UK, PS5 sales fell 50% in May. It only outsold Xbox Series S/X by 400 units (which saw a 12% rise, helped by console exclusive Forza Horizon 6). Switch 2 was easily No.1 (NielsenIQ). There will be more in today's The Game Business Show/Newsletter thegamebusiness.substack.com

The Game Business | Christopher Dring | Substack

Expert analysis, exclusive data, and in-depth interviews on the global video game industry — delivered by industry insider Christopher Dring. Click to read The Game Business, by Christopher Dring, a S...

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From Oscar winner Jordan Peele and Monkeypaw Productions comes HIM, a chilling journey into the inner sanctum of fame, idolatry and the pursuit of excellence at any cost.

HIM - Official Trailer

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Inside you there are two wolves (weekend viewing edition)

Contemplate the incredible vastness of space with this visualization of the size of our Milky Way galaxy. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

I love this man

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It’s Akira Kurosawa’s birthday. The older I get, the more I think about this quote: ‘I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.’

There is a unique tone to the early(ish) games made by Japanese developers that were inspired by American cinema.

It’s Jack Lemmon’s birthday. What a gravestone.

lmaoooo

In the earliest days of WWII, behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner proposed a novel guidance system for the newly developed ASM-N-2 'Bat' glide bomb. He proposed it be pigeon-powered. I'm not aware of any live tests, just mockups, so the only CW here is for implied unhappy endings for pigeons.

I could turn these off but they’re always such stupid suggestions that I can’t help but laugh every time it sends me one.

Tens of thousands of people have vanished in northern Mexico, many because of cartel violence. A specialized research institute — the first of its kind in the country — is taking on an almost impossible task: Finding their remains and sending them back home. nyti.ms/4aczzQw

In Mexican Desert, Digging for a ‘Miracle’: Bringing the Missing Back Home

Tens of thousands of people have vanished in northern Mexico, many because of cartel violence. An unlikely partnership offers families a form of closure.

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