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Xbox, Switch gamer. Gaming chat, discussion, etc. Banner: now playing (usually). https://wrysanity.com

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wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 22h ago

Feels like a trend in Sony first party. Similar complaints for the last GoW and Horizon being obnoxiously hand-holdy iirc. Too much money on the table to take risks, suits and focus groups making final calls instead of designers/directors.

jill nye the science dyke@gizmouse.bsky.social · 2d ago

what gets me so bad about this bit, besides the fact that it is a big fuckin cave entrance, is that there is a TARGET in the cave entrance that wouldve felt a bit more natural as a hint to the player that theres something there but they still decided to go with the gps trail!!!!!!!

Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 23h ago

I would like to live in a world where every AAA Western video game didn't assume you were a fucking moron

jill nye the science dyke@gizmouse.bsky.social · 2d ago

this bit from skill up's review of wolverine knocked me on my ass, it feels like something that wouldve come out of one of those focus m parody videos but its in a real triple A game

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 22h ago

PlayStation fans are really going through it this week it seems.

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 2d ago

Everyone: "Must have been it budget constraints, no PC release, no physical discs, creative control, something like that?" Chris: "A bikini is the only explanation"

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 2d ago

I wonder how much the Wolverine IP is floating the average score because fairly respected critics don't think much of this game, but still seeing plenty of 9s and 10s.

daryl "bury me with my golden arm" b 🏳️‍⚧️@hypercubexl.bsky.social · 3d ago

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3d ago

Poetic to get this news on the day Star Fox Adventures was in the news. Shades of Nintendo splitting with Rare and Rare joining Xbox

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 3d ago

PlayStation just broke up with Hideo Kojima and Xbox swooped in to sign Physint, the Metal Gear Solid creator's new stealth action game. PlayStation: "Our relationship r... https://kotaku.com/xbox-swoops-in-to-save-kojimas-stealth-action-game-physint-after-playstation-tried-to-cancel-it-2000732992

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 3d ago

What on earth.

DayOne@playday.one · 3d ago

In a stunning turn of events, PlayStation has dropped Hideo Kojima's Physint, only for Xbox to immediately announce that it will be publishing the title. https://playday.one/2026/09/10/xbox-is-now-publishing-hideo-kojimas-physint/

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 3d ago

From ex-Coldwood devs who made the wonderful Unravel games! 👇

Knoebel@knoebel.bsky.social · 3d ago

'Hela: of Mice & Magic' launches December 1st on Xbox Series, Game Pass, PS5, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC. youtu.be/QSr_ewgyAzo

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 3d ago

Play Ball x Pit!

Knoebel@knoebel.bsky.social · 3d ago

PlayStation Plus Premium/Extra September 2026: - RuneScape: Dragonwilds - WWE 2K26 - Ball x Pit - Date Everything! - Slitterhead - Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound - Dungeons of Hinterberg - Sniper Elite: Resistance Classic: - Mega Man X Command Mission - Metro Redux blog.playstation.com/2026/09/09/p...

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 4d ago

Hoo boy this is a shit show. Must have a linked credit card to even view R18+ games in Australia, so like Cyberpunk for example. No, debit cards don't work. No you can't verify and then remove the card, it must remain active. 🫪

Lachlan Williams@lawksland.bsky.social · 4d ago

Holy shit this fucking sucks.

Steam store blocking me from accessing CoD BLOPS 3.

Valve is required by the Age-Restricted Material App Distribution Services Code to verify that you are 18 or older before accessing mature content. If you wish to do so, please add a valid Australian credit card to your account and afterwards update the Mature Content Preferences.

Klobrille @klobrille.bsky.social · 4d ago

Xbox disc-to-digital entitlement now supports Ubisoft games (Xbox Insiders). Even more publisher support coming in the next weeks. windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/...

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 4d ago

Hello! I think Immortals Fenyx Rising is better than Breath of the Wild, and I don't think it's particularly close. 🤙

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 4d ago

Not with Mat on this one. It's a good program regardless of whether some companies decide not to participate, just like Play Anywhere.

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 5d ago

Too many games releasing on Steam? Wait until you hear about the whole of human creativity

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 6d ago

Just a reminder that The Game Awards doesn't do a feature award presentation for **Art Direction** - they speed run it the same way they do Best Esport Coach. In a Video Games awards show. Seriously.

daire@daraaraa.bsky.social · 6d ago

The focus of this article seems to center Metacritic scores and The Game Awards nominations as the primary metric for a game's cultural value and I'm sorry but if that's how you feel then I think you might not actually like video games that much.

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · last wk.

The USA was the *only* country to vote no on the UN resolution to move away from the Mercator because they deemed the change "superfluous".

Bluesky @bsky.app · last wk.

Thread numbering is out of beta! Threaded posts are now automatically numbered, to help you follow along. Check out the automatic numbering on this thread to see it in action.

Bluesky@bsky.app · last wk.

v1.132 is live! Starter Packs are one of the best ways to find new people to follow—but how do you find the Starter Packs? As of today, look for them right in the main search box. You'll see the results under the Starter Packs tab.

Screenshot of the Bluesky app showing someone searching for Starter Packs whose names include the keyword "art." We see results that include "Bluesky for Art History," "Design and Art Folk," and "Coven Café Art Club."

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · last wk.

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy #xbox

Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · last wk.

'Thank You Bus Driver!' from Double Fine announced for PC. www.doublefine.com/games/thank-... youtu.be/ijqbq9nfUX4

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · last wk.

"I'm less likely to use cloud gaming now" Did you use it before? "No." ^^^ The 96% of users this literally doesn't affect.

Ross Varner @rossvarner.bsky.social · last wk.

33 Immortals is 40% off on Steam right now. This game is only $9. That’s an insane price for an incredible game. I play this game almost every day.

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · last wk.

😆

Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social · last wk.

Also vibe coding your own website because a review hurt your feefees is really funny.

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · last wk.

Absolute fucking HAMMER on the Clippers by the NBA. And well deserved. No first round picks till 2034, dear lord.

From the nba community on Reddit: [Charania]: BREAKING: The NBA has ruled on the Los Angeles Clippers in for salary cap circumvention investigations on Kawhi Leonard after yearlong probe -- stripping ...

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wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 2w ago

Absolute and total clown show. A sawdust-brained cult. Much like internet trolls, you can't win them over or dunk on them: they're stupid on purpose.

YouGov America@today.yougov.com · 2w ago

NEW Economist/YouGov Aug 28-31: Canada 38% of Republicans view Canada as unfriendly or an enemy of the U.S., by far the highest level in the past decade yougov.com/en-us/articl...

A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "A growing share of Republicans
view Canada as unfriendly or an enemy of the U.S.."

The chart's sub-headline is: "Do you consider the following to be an ally or an enemy of the United States? Canada (% who say "unfriendly" or "enemy")."

The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "ally," "friendly," and "not sure" are not shown."

Xbox Wire @wire.xbox.com · 2w ago

The Designed for XBOX Cozy Collection brings comfort and playful style to every adventure. Explore the full collection and make your setup feel a little more magical ✨ news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

Settle In and Get Comfortable with the Designed for XBOX Cozy Collection

Made for side quests, little adventures, and everything in between, the Designed for XBOX Cozy Collection is available now, bringing warmth and whimsy to every journey. Step into a tiny, pixelated woo...

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wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 2w ago

Just such an insufferable way to "report" what's actually happening here... Zero respect for their readers.

IGN@ign.com · 2w ago

Psychonauts and Costume Quest maker Double Fine has launched its new game development Kickstarter project after cutting ties with Xbox, and says it'll make Brütal Legend 2 if it raises an impossible-sounding $100 million. https://bit.ly/4gK2wXK

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 2w ago

oof what a mess

Knoebel@knoebel.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bit Reactor (Star WarsZeroCompany) "has furloughed most of its employees and terminated contractor" weeks before the launch of its first game. According to Game Files sources, 80% of the studio is affected. www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...

LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 2w ago

Very cool thing about the Xbox Disc to Digital program: If you have an older Xbox One console with a disc drive (launch, S, X), you can register supported Xbox One or Series X discs on that, and then play them on either a Series S or Series X (including the ones without a disc drive).

wrysanity @wrysanity.com · 2w ago

Sony have talked about this multiple times now in earnings call: The console market is maxxed out, they're shifting focus to grow revenue from their existing users.

Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social · 2w ago

Every once in a while companies put folks in charge of video game platforms that want to emphasize "entertainment" because idk maybe they don't like video games who knows. Takes a minute for them to learn (again) that people buy and engage with video game platforms to play video games. Shrug.