Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham!

More amazing journalism from Chris. @verticalslice.news is off to an unbelievably strong start.

Hey @amandafarough.ca, Mat dropped new sick beats. I think this tune feels veeeeeeeery right.

🫩 don’t make me tap the sign.

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is delightful. (Yes, I’m late.)

We've had people tell us that playing this game inspired them to reconnect with their family. I hope you'll take this opportunity to bring some heartfelt narrative into your spooky season!

NEW DLC OUT NOW! Forbidden Solitaire: The Discarded DLC is out now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5238350/... We hope that you enjoy it :-) Please share, thanks!

Between Tim Sweeney being an absolute AI chud and the harassment of our beloved @kenney.nl, we've decided to cancel our previously announced Epic Games Store release for Shape Sender Deluxe 🚮

Fastest purchase ever.

And Nadella? Amy Hood? Are they going to keep on with the horrible, AI-psychosis strategy?

As we move toward the end of the year, I have room in my schedule to take on one more contract (on the smaller side). Building out your go-to-market plan? Firming up your studio ops processes? Need someone to augment your existing platform strategy and ensure you launch smoothly? Let's talk!

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I loved chatting with Jacob at Game-a-Palooza earlier this month. This preview provides additional insight into our design philosophy and gives you a new peek behind the curtain about our use of full motion video!

Fun fact, he was asked under oath if he'd have just taken a special deal for epic, and immediately said yes. There was never any thought of benefitting the rest of the industry at the time, when he was forced to be honest about it

Sweeney also claimed that his vanity war against Apple and Google (which appears to have ultimately led to mass layoffs at Epic) was for the good of the industry. It’s a thin cover that we all see through.

FFVIII was one of the first that made me see how awesome stories could be in games & started my love for RPGs. I remember playing the demo on one of the PS1 demo disks back in the day and wanted it so bad. It was my first FF & the first game I ever beat by myself. The opening will forever be ICONIC!

Coming in to answer the question from @futterish.fsquared.biz about what made a non-dev excited about games. Interactive art I've always been huge on interactive art and I was starting to really age into cognitive awareness when the PS1 released with an explosion of emphasis on meaningful stories.

I know that the development that exists behind trailers is often invisible outside the studio. And even with that in mind and not knowing what the dev story is on this project… this one hurts.

They should have outsourced it to us. It would have cost $500k and there would be a poop button.

Time to trot this one out 14 years later...

Even if the cost is HALF this, exclusivity on console games simply does not make sense right now. It sure as hell won't make sense with adoption shot in the kneecaps by hardware that costs $1200 - $1800. There simply aren't enough customers that have interest in each game to cover the spread.

Bringing this one back today, Dragon Age ilu

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

I have no more words. I feel such a deep loss today.

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

what exactly DOES happen to materials from a major studio that’s closed? where do physical hard drives, documents, etc go? who maintains all this pointless secrecy? if you know or have stories, get in touch: nathan@aftermath.site, nathangrayson.666 (signal), aftermathdotsite@proton.me (proton mail)

However hard you think it might be to keep pushing and doing your best while the industry you love so intensely crumbles around you, it’s a trillion times harder. (And this isn’t just isolated to game dev)

BioWare statement

No matter what the reality looked like before today, no matter what we all knew would likely happen, nothing can prepare fans for losing a studio like BioWare. My heart is with every single person who ever contributed to a BioWare game and with those of us who love so many of those treasures.