2-3 games worth reviewing have released every day this week on Steam alone. The videogame space is overflowing with good art and nobody is being paid for the time to review even a fraction of it.
Jon Bolding
@jonbolds.bsky.social
Chalcolithic Liche, Forbes 10 over 10,000. Games writer, on and about. Appears pcgamer, IGN, etc. Panel Three Moves Ahead. freelancer, hire me.
The cognitive disconnect between coders, who benefit from what LLMs do, and everyone else, who does not benefit from them, is becoming a huge gulf.
I have one answer.
Oh my god the TSR logo but it’s Da Share Zone sent me
U DONT KNOW ME - dashare.zone ADMIN
I got my author’s copies of @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social version of THE DUNGEON BOOK, out August 11th…
Can y'all stop releasing new games until I'm done with this run through modded Battletech 2018? thanks in advance
They have discovered a planet. A wombat-like animal lives there and creeps under the valleys. Would you like to doze there?
You know what, I completely believe this given what my inbox is like. I can get fifty or sixty emails a day.
There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
So the World of Warcraft D&D release looks very interesting for one big reason: It’s focusing hard on playable content. It’s giving you stat blocks and maps and dungeons to really use. 5.X edition has widely failed to have this approach to settings so far. I’m optimistic for once.
Yeah it’s perfectly designed by committee to have something to piss everyone off
I am also glad I am not the person who has to run point on the feedback from said open playtest period, as I feel like this beta is designed to make you mad regardless of which of the previous five editions was your favorite.
Excited to see what they do with the uhhhh—I’ll put this loosely—outdated racial stuff in dark sun
Highlight of Konflikt 47 last night was this lone British officer hurling an AT grenade at the Axis walker as it charged him. He died from it but the grenade damaged the walker’s steering so it couldn’t then turn to crush all his friends.
For NPR, I said you should play Titanium Court www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...
The best games of 2026 so far, picked by NPR's staff
Titans like Resident Evil Requiem and Crimson Desert dominated in the first half of the gaming year, with early-access sequels like Slay the Spire 2 and Subnautica 2 not far behind.
npr.org
You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
Werner Herzog: The Trees Are in Misery
ALT: Werner Herzog: The Trees Are in Misery
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Here's a fun article past me wrote. An old PC Gamer mag piece on colony sim design that got republished on the site, with thoughts from Tarn Adams, Tynan Sylvester and @simoroth.bsky.social! www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...
The challenges of developing the colony sim, from Dungeon Keeper to Dwarf Fortress and beyond
PC Gamer interviews the genre's founding fathers.
pcgamer.com
[MAD PROPHET] We’re going to kill god. Yeah, god’s a whale, fucking deal with it.
disco elysium dialog style game about being ahab in moby dick with all moby dick dialog
did anyone ever make a good tool for checking your twitter follows and comparing it to bsky? I feel like every week or two I remember someone that I liked from other sites and have to try and find them on here
dozens of untextured polygons depicting ass and boobs
Some sad news regarding today’s release: