♫🎸『Hi-Fi RUSH』🎸♫ ⚡️PlayStation 5向け👉パッケージ版⚡️ 📀2026年7月16日発売決定‼️ 大変長らくお待たせいたしました‼️ 音楽とアクションがシンクロするリズムアクションゲーム『Hi-Fi RUSH』、発売決定です🎵 🌞通常版 ⭐DELUXE EDITION ✨🙋本日から予約開始🙋♀️✨ superdeluxegames.jp/collections/...
Mark MacDonald
@markmacdo.bsky.social
SVP Production & Biz Dev at Enhance, host of 84play. Former 8-4, 1UP, EGM. For talk about Japan, games, and Japanese games, come: follow Gaming Jesus.
Steam Next Fest is still going strong, and so is response to our new approach to physics in action games!! Try out Awaysis NOW!! store.steampowered.com/app/3334760/...
Awaysis on Steam
The ultimate dungeon brawler. A revolutionary, physics-fueled throwdown where you’ll jump, slide, and collide on your adventure to restore peace to the Awaysis - an ancient floating relic under attack...
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Without nicknames, we wouldn't need to listen to find out the meanings of @markmacdo.bsky.social "Empty Promises", @johntv.bsky.social "Body Cream", @tinabuttz.bsky.social "Nier Automatone Deaf", and @gabrieldeleon.bsky.social "Screwjob". I track these fun wordplays at www.vgmlife.com/8-4/roster
8-4 Play Episode Roster — VGM Life
A complete list of the participants of each 8-4 Play episode, their nicknames, and how they take out each episode.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
今月のプレゼンで紹介される作品です！ - Agehabachi / 垓交官YUKI - A-Blast! / Apollo - Kowloon's Curse / REM - MONOPHOBIA @ngamedev.bsky.social - DOOM SPIRAL / Forbidden Saucery
ICYMI during the holidays, these were my five favourite video games of 2025. Special props to Baby Steps and Lumines Arise for being utterly magnificent in their own unique (and harrowing, in the case of Baby Steps) ways.
Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 8mo agoChris Kerr's top 5 games of the year - 2025 Wrap-Up
Honored to see Lumines Arise nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design and Family Game of the Year in the 29th Annual #DICEAwards! 🙏🏻💜 Check out all the nominees here: https://www.interactive.org/awards/29th_dice_awards_finalists_93k3p1.asp lumines.game @official-aias.bsky.social
Once again, Öoo has been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Game Design at the D.I.C.E. Awards! Huge thanks to @official-aias.bsky.social for the honor, and to everyone who has supported the game. #DICEAwards
Honored to see Lumines Arise on The AV Club's list of the Best Games of 2025! 💜🌟 "...absolutely worth rising up to." 📖 https://www.avclub.com/best-games-2025-clair-obscur-silksong-despelote @avclub.com
Friend of the show and former EGM editor Che Chou joins us to ring in 2026 with another freeform Q&A ep fueled by bourbon and filled with New Year's resolutions, holiday memories, GOTY talk, and Cybermorph. HNY! 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...
Not surprised but deeply impressed nonetheless that Kyle kept up with this very cool thread that wrapped up yesterday.
Kyle Orland@kyleor.land · 2y agoGet to know my game taste in 365 games! For 2025, I'm going to post every day about a game that has been meaningful to me. Might not be the "best" games, or even my "favorites," but they're all ones that have stuck with me in one way or another, in rough ascending order of impact. Mega Daily 🧵
In Zelda 2, a woman appears in each town, beckoning Link into her home. They disappear inside and Link's health begins to refill. One reddit user recently asked if this scene was *intentionally* suggestive. While that seems very unlikely, I thought I'd look into it.
皆さん、こんにちは！ BitSummitへの応募締切は12月31日（応募料：2,750円）ですので、ぜひお忘れなく。 レイトエントリーは2026年1月16日まで受付（応募料：5,500円）しています。 詳細は bitsummit.org をご覧ください。
Hello everyone! Just want to remind you that the deadline for BitSummit submissions is December 31st (submission fee: ¥2750). Late entries are open until January 16, 2026 (¥5500). Looking forward to seeing your games! For more information visit bitsummit.org.
Gertie and her creature companion must venture into dungeons & lush forests on a quest to fulfill a coven’s oath. Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3041680/... Summon Hints from the Coven: wildflowerinteractive.substack.com
Not So Random, #RandomGameSaturday Today is the 24th anniversary of Rez, so here’s a bunch of versions of Rez.
The new episode of the MinnMax Show is now live on YouTube and podcast platforms! Guest host Kyle Bosman recruits @markmacdo.bsky.social and @pokachee.bsky.social to finally figure out what type of game Lumines is and what those little blocks are called. www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ts...
Lumines Arise is an almost perfect zen puzzle game
Lumines Arise is an almost perfect zen puzzle game
Headphones on.
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Lumines Arise is the kind of game that I won’t delete from my hard drive because I will always want the option to lose myself to the game periodically, which Arise is consistently excellent at. Our review: gameinformer.com/review/lumin...
🎉 Lumines Arise Available Now for PS5 and Steam 🚀 Light, sound and haptics unite your senses. Feel the good vibes. Puzzle differently. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2370000/Lumines_Arise PS5: store.playstation.com/concept/10011885 lumines.game #LuminesArise
Lumines Arise review: Enhance's Tetris Effect follow-up is another audio-visual delight, but it sacrifices some substance for its supreme style. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.videogameschronicle.com/review/lumin...
Lumines Arise review: Tetris Effect follow-up is an audio-visual delight | VGC
Enhance’s high-energy music puzzler sacrifices some substance for supreme style…
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Perfect excuse to #84bump right here
A Profound Waste of Time@apwot.bsky.social · 9mo ago🤖🌟 Issue 6 of APWOT is live on Kickstarter! 🌟🤖 Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation. Get in there! 💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫
Big congrats to @ancientgames.bsky.social @yuzokoshiro.bsky.social on today’s Japanese physical release of EARTHION!🚀✨🥳 Super proud of the @sdxgames.bsky.social versions we made, and especially stoked that we teamed up with 8BitDo (the best!) on this rad M30! ❤️ superdeluxegames.jp/collections/...
I do not post on social media, but I feel in the age of AI slop and digital only releases, something physical, beautiful and created with such care should be shouted from the rooftops. @apwot.bsky.social keep doing what your doing! www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...
A Profound Waste of Time: Issue 6
The beloved gaming mag returns, with Astro Bot's Nicolas Doucet, Danganronpa's Kazutaka Kodaka, Team Ninja's Fumihiko Yasuda and more!
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👁️ We blinked, and suddenly it's now SIX days until Lumines Arise launches. 🚀 『Lumines Arise』発売まであと6日！ いよいよ1週間を切りました！ #LuminesArise #ルミネス lumines.game
We're kicking off a series of music game oral histories with a look back at Rez Infinite -- and why it's been nine years without a follow-up.
After nine years, Rez Infinite remains gaming’s greatest tease
“If we're using the word ‘prologue,’ obviously something has to come after...”
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According to Wikipedia, today is the 20th anniversary of The 1UP Show. I choose to believe this is true. I miss this work. More, I miss my old coworkers. Still the best and most fun job I ever had. I’ll let Jane and Eric’s killer tune race through my mind today.
🚨🚨🚨 We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site. • We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon • Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n • See more: designroom.site
Design Room
Video game oral histories
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