Xbox backwards compatibility on PC feels like it should be a bigger deal, it's barely made the news. It's also crazy to me that they shipped a whole 360 emulator to make 4 OG Xbox titles run.

I made a Windows ARM64 build but does anyone actually have a WoA device?!

this year's very unfinished entry to So Bad It's Good Jam xcvg.itch.io/guildford

A Decade of Jank - Live in Fort Langley by XCVG

Available for Windows

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Obsidian being retasked to a Fallout game, probably with the sword of Damocles over their head, really feels like the monkey's paw curling after years of everyone (including yours truly) asking for a New Vegas successor

CommonCore R7 is here, with minor changes over R6 and targeting Unity 6.3 LTS github.com/XCVG/commonc...

Finally, the Shattered 3 postmortem (kinda) xcvg.itch.io/shattered3/d... tl;dr it was cancelled, I might get back to it, but still a lot of unknowns and it isn't coming any time soon

What's happening with Shattered 3?

Last year, I announced Shattered 3 was formally cancelled. Since then, I’ve occasionally made statements to the contrary. What’s going on? Is it still in the pipeline? The short answer is “maybe...

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It's been over a year since I declared Shattered 3 cancelled and I'm finally finishing up a devlog about it

I kinda want a github repo CD but also it kinda feels like a phishing scam. Could always just burn my own...

and TIL I learned about the #ShittyCameraChallenge I think some of my cameras do qualify...

TIL about "make a terrible comic day" (unfortunately it was 3 days ago)

@gamesewer.com was amazing, huge thanks to the organizers for putting that together and everyone who came out to check out the games

ngl this seems like a spectacular own goal on their part

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The official #RPGMaker forums are shutting down, so I made a blog post to ramble about it. itch.io/blog/1550872...

Slightly late to the party, but as promised, a special piece for Pride Month!

Happy Pride Month! I do have an art piece in the pipeline, but it wasn't quite ready in time for June 1

if there's a Nissan Rogue they should make that their naming convention Nissan Paladin. Nissan Warlock. Nissan... Bard?

it's not like I have a whole pile of other games to play or anything

I finally bought my first ttrpg book, and it is not D&D

a whole bunch of the demos I had lined up to play on Steam were removed after release/next fest which I sorta get but also is wild to me as someone who grew up on Q3DM17, Tobruk and Silent Cartographer my guys I am more likely to move on than buy your full-price game sight unseen

@gamesewer.com is coming back for 2026 and I'm hyped!

Surprise! By The Meridiem Gleam has been updated, with a ton of small fixes and minor improvements (including an option to swap the minigame controls to something more sane) xcvg.itch.io/daybreak

By The Meridiem Gleam by XCVG

Magical Girl Gina and friends fight around the world as part of a special task force

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Started playing 1348 Ex Voto, because let's be honest it's practically precision-targeted toward me. It is major eurojank, but so far more enjoyable than the quite brutal Steam reviews would suggest.

I'm pretty impressed with the Chessex "Nostalgia" set. It's obviously made of standard dice from their lineup- the colours are not close to their inspiration, and the d20 goes from 1-20- but it manages to include some nice nods to RPG dice history and it's only $5.

I'm kinda coming around to the idea of characters being the single most important part of a game for fan engagement and long-term mindshare

Been trying some demos and shorter games blog.xcvgsystems.com/trying-some-...

Not a full breakdown on why it didn't land for me, but a few thoughts on The Outer Worlds 2 blog.xcvgsystems.com/i-gave-up-on...

I gave up on The Outer Worlds 2. It just didn't click for me, even after eighteen hours and many second chances. Maybe I'll do a piece on this, maybe I won't.

Finished my piece on BG3 Act 3, in record time. Nothing groundbreaking, but a way of looking at it I haven't seen much before. blog.xcvgsystems.com/act-3-nearly... (apologies in advance for the hyperbolic clickbait title)