H.K // デビル零 #PlayMoreVF

I really should do a proper pinned post I'm Heidi, I've written about games, anime/manga, fan subcultures, and related topics for over 20 years! I am a freelance writer who can write about *any* of these topics! I also do great social copy and editing! (P.S. ask me anything about Virtua Fighter)

"These tools have made it very easy for bad actors to crowd out good information..." AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of an already contested part of games culture www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis...

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Videogames is the creative field where creatives are least recognised, most of the time their names are hidden away on the finished product. This is obviously deliberate on the industry's part but the audience enables it when they fail to care about the people who make this stuff.

I plan to upload the Digging for Isix parts as separate videos. Given the recent passing of Walter Koenig, I went ahead and started with Maximum Surge. This looks at an abandoned FMV project in which he played the villain. I got access to prototypes and BTS interviews. youtu.be/h7dJ_CFh_e0?...

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In a society where “engagement” is a literal performance metric for how “valuable” something is, it becomes increasingly important to cultivate conscious disengagement as an active behavioral choice. There are times to push back, but there are also times to withhold the fuel source of flames.

With a new reveal scheduled for this week, here’s a friendly reminder that I can write about anything Virtua Fighter related for you with the utmost of expertise~

Had a few people hitting me up about this so in case anyone hasn't heard yet, it has now been confirmed that the SNK guest character in the canceled Capcom All-Stars fighting game was going to be K'

companies on here will post anything. "Lion Rafale had hoes." No he didn't. That isn't true.

hey y'all I already don't enjoy the way shit is going just don't fucking make fake SNES prototypes with AI vibe code shit

three sources coming to the same conclusion :) :) :)

I am seeing a lot of “I didn’t know going for one credit clears was even a *thing*” in response to this, and folks, let me direct you to my wonderful partner @lordbbh.bsky.social and his archive of 750+ 1CC Twitch streams

This is profoundly stupid. Information like hitboxes and frame data for fighting games should be free (and ideally built into base games) Free the frame data Capcom

Excellent work, no notes. Hands do in fact, have 6 fingers.

I've been playing Jeffry in ranked and he's grown on me. I am the kind of person who can easily write a thousand words on a *single move*, so here is that

Game UI Database is back in the news! Huge thanks to @verticalslice.news and @kerrblimey.bsky.social for this article on the ongoing issues I've had with AI bots scraping the site, and my efforts to push back against them: www.verticalslice.news/there-will-d...

Japanese pronoun news dropped

Going to give my own takeaway on the demise of Bioware, which still makes me very sad. The TLDR: Bioware was not killed suddenly by a private equity acquisition. It was slowly strangled by idiots who didn't understand what made Bioware great - some at EA but also some inside of Bioware leadership

2016: “Games are bigger than Hollywood” 2026: “The only valuable games are the ones that can become Hollywood productions”

i agree with everything said here except that people should definitely get rid of the illusion that every convention event is made by and for the people catering to it lol the decision making that lead to this is exemplary of that truth

LinkedIn posts are starting to confirm the breath of today's layoffs at EA. Senior talent across multiple studios have been impacted, including a senior creative director at Maxis and veteran designers at Full Circle.

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Re: BioWare, unfortunately I think a lot of folks were just waiting for the other shoe to drop for years. Reading the Bloomberg piece, the next Mass Effect was in early development? Wasn’t it announced years ago?

The funniest/best possible outcome of the Uma concert situation is that they try for a North American tour stop again next year And by “North American” I mean “Canada.” Bring the horse girls to Toronto

Holy shit

on this point in particular: egs sales are so bad it's common for devs to share and compare out of disbelief, and often what you find is quite popular games are selling only in the double or triple digits of copies last i checked, my game had sold (drum roll please) five

A life lesson I’ve learned is that sometimes, if you don’t know what to say, it’s better to take the time you need to collect thoughts instead of saying something immediately

Japan was right about the number 4 all along

see also all the people who liked browsing steam next fest demos saying they don't know if they can take the amount of AI slop anymore. barely any of those slop games are going to sell any copies, but they're poisoning the well for the rest of us and ruining another avenue for discoverability

Surprise, I reviewed Final Fantasy Resonance for GameSpot! Please have a read! www.gamespot.com/reviews/fina...

Can't imagine working at Xbox right now knowing that there are not one, not two, but three already planned layoff waves through the holidays and into the new year. This is terrible management.

Surprise, I reviewed Final Fantasy Resonance for GameSpot! Please have a read! www.gamespot.com/reviews/fina...

Steam Next Fest started with ~50 hand-picked games that had missed their opportunity to demo at GDC bc of COVID. it scaled well for a while and was certainly more impactful than we anticipated at the time, but now the scale of AI slop is untenable. who is still being served by this? *8000* games?

interesting to note a slight wording difference between the cancellation announcement that was datamined from the game a few hours in advance and the actual one that went up ("the visas necessary to enter the US were denied" got changed to the more passive "we were unable to obtain...")

Popped into the other site to see bad YCSE takes and instead I see Former Capcom employee Atsushi Tomita casually mentioning that Street Fighter II V was originally supposed to be based on Virtua Fighter and Next Senki Ehrgeiz was supposed to be a Cyberbots anime lol

Finding it hard to focus on much this weekend. Hopefully I can get myself more together over the next week now that some stuff that was stressing me out is over with

maeda is one of the titans of the modern visual novels whether you like it or not. his music is also deeply influential. i cannot imagine a world without his offbeat humor, moving compositions, and sentimental writings on family, jesus.

i remember following his twitter back when he was undergoing surgery for a something fatal years ago. i thought it would be fine since he went back to working for visual arts… this is deeply heartbreaking. bsky.app/profile/visu...

Candidates need to run ads declaring “The US Government Won’t Let You See Your Precious Umas”

If game studios are shifting to the Hollywood model, game workers are going to have to shift more quickly to the union model in order to survive.

Noi - Dorohedoro 💪💀 #art #halloween #dorohedoro

I really don’t think people understand what R* is like to work for. There’s no “field” it’s a black box you exist in. There’s no games industry or meeting people from it. It’s just you & the other people who work at R*. You don’t realize but they’re pitted against each other constantly.

After a very long hiatus, I have finally uploaded a new YouTube video on the many NeoGeo Button Layouts!! If you think the rainbow layout is all there is to see, you'd be surprised! I also really wish Bluesky had a schedule feature!!! Video can be found below: youtu.be/DtjqPObWzUw #KOF #SNK #FGC