Len Maessen
@lenmaessen.bsky.social
Hardware keyboards on phones supremacist | Gamejournalist voor oa NRC / redacteur streekomroep SRC.fm | she/her | bier en steak and sowing chaos by using NL and EN interchangeably
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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Just after CEOs praised Netflix's FIFA game, its developer has reportedly been shut down aftermath.site/netflix-delphi...
a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
Lots of arguments for Magneto, Ozymandias and Killmonger, but my money’s always on Darth Revan. I will also argue that Jareth the Goblin King was neither right nor wrong but behaving exactly the way that an ancient fey acts when some dipshit teenager invokes him to steal her brother.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 5d agoName a villain who was actually right.
The funniest part about the "Citizen Kane of games" discourse from 2013 is I'd argue it did actually have its equivalent moment that year, but it wasn't BioShock Infinite or The Last of Us, it was Papers, Please
J@joealouder.bsky.social · 4d agoRemembered the strand of gaming analysis that was 'when will it have its Citizen Kane moment' mostly written up by people who hadn't seen it or understood its importance
At some point Apple figured out the magic formula to making smart sff television and has just been lapping everybody else ever since
William Gibson@greatdismal.bsky.social · 2w ago
There are ways to trim your videogame development budget, and then there are *ways* to trim your videogame development budget.
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 agoThousands 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
this reminded me of the absolutely ridiculous and self-indulgent event wherein I attempted to procedurally generate a newspaper article about the player's colony in clockwork empires so I'm just going to post a huge chunk of it for you to amuse yourselves
Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · 2w agoyes! as someone who’s been working in procedural text before LLMs were a thing, I really wish people had a sense of the varieties of procgen writing that *aren’t* genAI output. there’s a ton of stuff we can do (including pre-LLM, ML style AI) that’s nothing like chatbot output directly in a game.
I understand why people find Leslie Knope and Lin-Manuel Miranda really embarrassing now but I really do think it's worth pushing through that and remembering that what they stood for was straightforwardly good and politically useful: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/some-notes...
A real one on Reddit put together a master list of all the PS3 games that are truly not available on any modern consoles once the store closes. They list prices, if they're on PC/Xbox, and they even list DLC for physical games that'll be permanently gone too. VERY good list to check!
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The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Hey, so, I was so angry today that, for once, I blogged it instead of posting about it. Games media, especially mainstream games media, cannot keep abdicating responsibility in how it talks about these things an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/video-game-s...
Video Game Studios Aren't Monoliths
I'm just going to come right out and say it this time - treating video game studios like some kind of fantasy football draft, in the wake of mass layoffs no less, is sickening. The last three years, ...
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Voor een artikel voor NEMO Kennislink zoek ik mensen die niet alleen naar gamestreamers kijken, maar ook actief zijn in hun community. Heb je tijd/zin om met me te praten over hoe dat is? Mail me op len.maessen@runbox.com !
Watching the Sony E3 2004 conference now, and FASCINATING to hear Kaz push the idea that Sony aspires to reach a 10-year hardware lifecycle. They might finally do it by accident!
For months I've been trying to explain to non-romance game devs how LADS and parts of its fanbase have been driving a broader backlash to queer romance games as this attitude spills out into the scene around it, and it's cathartic to see the roots of it finally get more directly reported on
i’m just ken@shepardcdr.bsky.social · 4w agoOh so fuck this game, actually.
Voor een artikel voor NEMO Kennislink zoek ik mensen die niet alleen naar gamestreamers kijken, maar ook actief zijn in hun community. Heb je tijd/zin om met me te praten over hoe dat is? Mail me op len.maessen@runbox.com !
Mr. John Oliver please look at RAM prices so that parents will text their gamer sons and daughters “hey did you hear about these RAM prices” and we can all respond “yeah”
Lmao sick, I just got laid off from GameSpot while on paid medical leave recovering from a gunshot wound.
Naming all the game studios behind Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remastered like I'm Yakko in front of a map
