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new game idea
What did we get stuck in our rectums last year? defector.com/what-did-we-...
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? | Defector
This is the time of year to be grateful for not having things stuck in our asses, and to think of those less fortunate than us. So spare a thought for those Americans who misjudged the capacity of the...
defector.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
new game idea
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So very tired, but I couldn't let 2025 end without taking stock of Microsoft's embarrassing treatment of gaming, Windows, and indeed human beings while it chases the AI money train
Microsoft's year of shame
Can't make a few trillion dollars without ditching game developers, going googoo gaga for AI and supplying tech to the military, I suppose!
www.pcgamer.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
So very tired, but I couldn't let 2025 end without taking stock of Microsoft's embarrassing treatment of gaming, Windows, and indeed human beings while it chases the AI money train
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All the games are on sale, because it's winter!
store.steampowered.com/developer/Sa...
🔥 IMMORTALITY - $9.99
📹 TELLING LIES - $4.99
☕ HER STORY - $4.99
And you are obliged to 💫Wishlist our upcoming projects PROJECT C and PROJECT D whilst you're at it! #SteamSale #SteamWinterSale #Cheap #Art
store.steampowered.com/developer/Sa...
🔥 IMMORTALITY - $9.99
📹 TELLING LIES - $4.99
☕ HER STORY - $4.99
And you are obliged to 💫Wishlist our upcoming projects PROJECT C and PROJECT D whilst you're at it! #SteamSale #SteamWinterSale #Cheap #Art
December 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
All the games are on sale, because it's winter!
store.steampowered.com/developer/Sa...
🔥 IMMORTALITY - $9.99
📹 TELLING LIES - $4.99
☕ HER STORY - $4.99
And you are obliged to 💫Wishlist our upcoming projects PROJECT C and PROJECT D whilst you're at it! #SteamSale #SteamWinterSale #Cheap #Art
store.steampowered.com/developer/Sa...
🔥 IMMORTALITY - $9.99
📹 TELLING LIES - $4.99
☕ HER STORY - $4.99
And you are obliged to 💫Wishlist our upcoming projects PROJECT C and PROJECT D whilst you're at it! #SteamSale #SteamWinterSale #Cheap #Art
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Elden Ring is about having a beautiful dream that you're Welsh. Bloodborne is about waking up in England.
November 16, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Elden Ring is about having a beautiful dream that you're Welsh. Bloodborne is about waking up in England.
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If you wanna be one of the last 30 people to sign up for @readonlymemo.com before I do a giveaway to celebrate hitting 3,000 subscribers, now's the time 👀👀 readonlymemo.com#/portal/sign...
Read Only Memo
Videogame emulation news and exclusive interviews, from the aesthetics of razor sharp scanlines to the wild technical challenges of making yesterday's games run on tomorrow's hardware.
readonlymemo.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
If you wanna be one of the last 30 people to sign up for @readonlymemo.com before I do a giveaway to celebrate hitting 3,000 subscribers, now's the time 👀👀 readonlymemo.com#/portal/sign...
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Nice, I'm in the credits of the best game of the year. Maybe consider booking me as a mock reviewer on your game project in 2026!
December 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Nice, I'm in the credits of the best game of the year. Maybe consider booking me as a mock reviewer on your game project in 2026!
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Okay please let's not call him that
December 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Okay please let's not call him that
I’m doing my part!
December 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I’m doing my part!
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I wrote about Rob Reiner's shockingly good performance in The Wolf Of Wall Street in this, but it's striking how many different films and parts Defector staffers wanted to write about. He was a mensch, but he was also just everywhere in the culture for 50 years. defector.com/defectors-fa...
Defector's Favorite Rob Reiner Credits | Defector
When Rob Reiner was killed earlier this week along with his wife Michelle, the world of film lost one of its most beloved and respected figures, an artist who had done very good and extremely popular ...
defector.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I wrote about Rob Reiner's shockingly good performance in The Wolf Of Wall Street in this, but it's striking how many different films and parts Defector staffers wanted to write about. He was a mensch, but he was also just everywhere in the culture for 50 years. defector.com/defectors-fa...
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I need to start quoting Popeye more often in matters of principle
December 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I need to start quoting Popeye more often in matters of principle
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When you start Dark Souls
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
When you start Dark Souls
Good god but this is good.
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Good god but this is good.
Best indie game in the preshow. In 2025. Fucking hell.
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Best indie game in the preshow. In 2025. Fucking hell.
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Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry
jesus christ
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry
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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.
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
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.
There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.
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Take the Dwemer Bowls, Lydia. Yes all 79. What do you mean “then what,” then we sell them, then we go back for the cups. And one day you’ll be a Thane and you can have YOUR housecarl return every dwarven bowl to every dwarven ruin and I HOPE you never feel pressured to defend that activity
December 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Take the Dwemer Bowls, Lydia. Yes all 79. What do you mean “then what,” then we sell them, then we go back for the cups. And one day you’ll be a Thane and you can have YOUR housecarl return every dwarven bowl to every dwarven ruin and I HOPE you never feel pressured to defend that activity
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Which guest built the most popular console of 2025?
It's the semi-finals, with congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social vs. former Edge magazine editor @hitpoints.bsky.social, and folk musician @basiabulat.bsky.social facing down Charlie Rosen of the
@the8bitbigband.bsky.social
Vote here:
It's the semi-finals, with congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social vs. former Edge magazine editor @hitpoints.bsky.social, and folk musician @basiabulat.bsky.social facing down Charlie Rosen of the
@the8bitbigband.bsky.social
Vote here:
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November 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Which guest built the most popular console of 2025?
It's the semi-finals, with congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social vs. former Edge magazine editor @hitpoints.bsky.social, and folk musician @basiabulat.bsky.social facing down Charlie Rosen of the
@the8bitbigband.bsky.social
Vote here:
It's the semi-finals, with congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social vs. former Edge magazine editor @hitpoints.bsky.social, and folk musician @basiabulat.bsky.social facing down Charlie Rosen of the
@the8bitbigband.bsky.social
Vote here:
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today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
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A rare Pokémon appears: Mark Cerny, on the show, next week.
Just as Sonic the Hedgehog became a global icon, its creator, Yuji Naka, quit Sega.
In next week's episode, PlayStation 5 architect Mark Cerny reveals the story behind Sonic's leap to glory, and how Sonic 2 came to be developed in the U.S. under his leadership.
Available on Tuesday: bit.ly/43RMgx9
In next week's episode, PlayStation 5 architect Mark Cerny reveals the story behind Sonic's leap to glory, and how Sonic 2 came to be developed in the U.S. under his leadership.
Available on Tuesday: bit.ly/43RMgx9
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
A rare Pokémon appears: Mark Cerny, on the show, next week.
A thousand thanks to the consulting client earlier this year who insisted their game needed 64GB of RAM. (It really didn't.) Had no idea prices had gone this insane. Fuckin AI!
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A thousand thanks to the consulting client earlier this year who insisted their game needed 64GB of RAM. (It really didn't.) Had no idea prices had gone this insane. Fuckin AI!
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
So powerfully embarrassing I’m considering a career change
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
So powerfully embarrassing I’m considering a career change
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