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games, puzzles, interactive stories & bad jokes.
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New episode of Gameservatory! Exploring player agency and volition through the Remedyverse. From Alan Wake to Control, to Alan Wake 2; join me as we take a dive into Remedy's design ethos and how it has refined across each successive title.

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The Final Author
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Drunk dial your reps
January 3, 2026 at 10:53 PM
New episode of Gameservatory! Exploring player agency and volition through the Remedyverse. From Alan Wake to Control, to Alan Wake 2; join me as we take a dive into Remedy's design ethos and how it has refined across each successive title.

youtu.be/Lb8-xv_yIeA?...
The Final Author
YouTube video by Gameservatory
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January 1, 2026 at 11:36 PM
One of these days I'll regale y'all with all the absolute shenanigans the last 24 hours have been, but for now- wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew
January 1, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Hitting every technical issue to publishing this video, y'all 🙃. Even if it's midnight, it's coming!
December 31, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Reached the "Is this real? Is this anything? What am I doing??" stage of polishing this video for tomorrow. It's not self-deprecation, more like no longer seeing a word for its meaning, but for its symbols. I'm so ready to be done, but looking forward to revisiting in a year & seeing what it became.
December 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
this holiday season has one more [ gift/offering/preoccupation ] to give...

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/ --a RESONANCE echoes from the depths -- /
YouTube video by Gameservatory
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December 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
@daryltalksgames.bsky.social showing how the sausage gets made creating videos: the pitfalls, anxieties, life lessons learned and the ghosts left behind (or not?). A heartwarming video about games, but not just games. Check it out!

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Videos you will never watch.
YouTube video by Daryl Talks Games
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December 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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hey, artist friends. go watch @leadhead.bsky.social's latest video.
friends who wish they were artists, go watch it too. it's perhaps more important and pertinent to you than anyone else. watch it, and then go out and make art. it's a revolutionary act.
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You Are An Artist
YouTube video by Leadhead
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December 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It has been zero days since there were no mistakes, only happy accidents.
December 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There's a sequence in my next video that I cut to save time (lol), but having watched it all the way thru, was sorely missing. So I dragged out my camera, keyed the footage, and staged the 3D scene in a midnight frenzy. I'm so glad I did; I think it's my favorite shot. Preview of the scene geo 👀:
December 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Yessssss. This makes me so happy to read.
I’ve probably shared this before, but one of the coolest moments I had in this game was when I was about to be burned by a dragon and had no cover.

So I froze its neck to the ground so it couldn’t turn its head. Then I circled around safely while flames harmlessly enveloped the area I was just in.
Our debut game, Eternal Strands is on sale again for the Steam Winter Sale. Explore a ruined magical city full of constructs, climb everything, including huge creatures, and combine magical abilities in physics-based combat. Fully voiced, light romances. Enjoy

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December 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning:
consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
December 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Last night's biggest surprise was Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, led by Casey Hudson, who directed KOTOR (and Anthem). Exciting news for lots of people... but Lucasfilm says the studio was founded this year, which means that 2030 is an *optimistic* guess. Maybe it'll be a PlayStation 7 game
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I think these awards felt especially boring because categories like Best RPG and Best Indie each honor overall quality among a subset rather than a specific craft. If a game is the best of the year, and it’s an RPG, obviously it is also the best RPG. Needs an overhaul to avoid pointless repetition
December 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Sometimes the pre-installed calculator app gets stuck updating on my win10 pc. Microsoft, what's going on bub? You alright?
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I know I missed the Bugonia discourse by a few months but Alicia Silverstone.
December 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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2025 marked our 10 year anniversary of starting the channel so to celebrate we're doing a special livestream with our friends over at @forcecenterpod.bsky.social (also celebrating 10 years!) TODAY December 8th at 12pm PT / 3pm ET!
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs.

There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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IT’S HAPPENING! The original theatrical version of Star Wars is coming to theaters in 2027: youtu.be/qfXvdFcvhNY?...
IT'S HAPPENING! The Star Wars THEATRICAL EDITION is Coming to Theaters!
YouTube video by Star Wars Explained
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December 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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This has been a great year for the engine, but there are still a lot of things we would love to do.

If each person visiting our website donated €5, we could hire 5 more developers to work on Godot full-time.

👉 fund.godotengine.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Oh hell yea. Bring back manageable file sizes industry wide 🤞

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HELLDIVERS™ 2 - HELLDIVERS 2 Tech Blog #2 - Steam News
File size reduction beta!
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December 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Great primer on the technology behind AI and why, in its current iteration, it is mind-numbingly criminal, socially irresponsible, and environmentally detrimental. Stick it in your brain through your head holes.

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What does it mean to be "AI Generated"?
YouTube video by Acerola
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November 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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The X-Files is genuinely a timelessly good show, because when not focusing on overarching conspiracy plot, they would really just focus on a single concept and quite crucially, it would cast an incredible actor to center the episode around who would be utterly god damn captivating to watch.
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
How it started; how it's going.

(I can't wait to get this video out 🫠)
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM