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The video games industry works by laying off employees. Any video games produced are only an incidental side-effect

Ummm... Anyone asked for a commercial remake of Moraff's dungeon crawlers? Because one is apparently coming. WHAT?! 😲 Trailer: youtu.be/tz7hKcmgEVI Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5139260/...

I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I honestly feel bad for the younger generation and how they are priced out of the hobbies. Expensive PC parts, expensive toys, expensive games and now expensive video game consoles. It's insanity, this isn't normal.

Today is a momentous day for video game history. Thanks to a generous donation from our community, we present, digitized for the first time... The Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko - Gex Secrets and Yo-Yo Tricks guide. archive.gamehistory.org/item/2516fe6...

3DO EARRINGS #MAGWest2026

It's official: emulating Windows 9x in a scaleable setting is, in fact, hell

I'm cooking

I don't know how people can get excited over new games that are online or have servers. Every. Last. One. is just a future news article saying they are shutting down in one year FUCK you and FUCK your purchases. Even if you played it every day? The plug eventually gets pulled.

craziest thing i’ve seen in a game store

as a video game archivist, all I can say is I'm looking forward to the PS6 being the first video game console were we've lost 100% of the games library!

You can tell this is an older car cause it still uses Micro USB…

been thinking a bit about people doing all sorts of upscaling on old games with prerendered backgrounds and it hit me that it would be kinda fun to use the extra resolution to make them look worse in interesting ways instead, like trying to make the it look like a scanned 90s game mag screenshot

I love when you can tell a level designer was at the end of their rope at one point

i guess he will

You have to get rid of the position of the president. This is a known failure case of presidential systems; eventually you get someone extremely stupid and/or dangerous in there, and it turns out that they have direct control over the military, and Congress doesn't have any real oversight.

That's right

Who the hell names their kid Exit?

Imagine setting up a booth at the Game Developers Conference and putting up a giant banner that looks like this. Look at this AI shit. I'd be so embarrassed I would change careers #GDC2026

How's your gaming backlog?

Currently helping an elderly family friend figure out if an email is a scam (which it obviously is) and hey, people who make mobile email apps, it's a dark pattern to not make the email address of the sender visible without needing to click on the little arrow thing. Just thought you should know.

I'm a game design genius

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

holy fuck

if I launched an AI startup it'd definitely be called Clever Hans and we'd have a horse mascot

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

This is one of my favorite primary sources in our library: a contemporary review of E.T. for Atari 2600 in the rare newsletter The Logical Gamer. Their review is basically "It's meh, but jeez Atari sure sank a lot into P&A for this game. This seems bad?" archive.gamehistory.org/item/f2f37ee...

WTF ... I thought I was used to these Tommy's Toys games ... this one is like chess except instead of a 8x8 board with 32 pieces, it has a 20x50 board with OVER 600 PIECES. Over a dozen types of pieces per side! In text mode! dosgames.com/game/tommys-... @pixelmusement.com Video on this? 😂

An underappreciated point which I think got forgotten from older discourse is that one of the primary reasons ice needs to be shut down and abolished is that they are indistinguishable from random vigilantes. And that is why now we must all act to protect people.

I love researching video game history

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Gee, I'm sure glad I managed to grab some RAM before the price hikes.

I want to make a video about this so bad, it's so cool: dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07... If six months go by and I still haven't made a video about this, someone make it so I can watch it lol

Abolish ICE

I have big plans for spinny CRT

in how many "law enforcement operations" are damn near 100 people killed?

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

GM.