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Oh dang, nice. Hytale - that ambitious Minecraft-like that Riot cancelled - is back in production, independent style. They've been rehiring the team and apparently have up to ten years of funding.
Early access release date coming soon.
Nice to hear some good news, at least.
Early access release date coming soon.
Nice to hear some good news, at least.
HYTALE IS SAVED!
hytale.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Oh dang, nice. Hytale - that ambitious Minecraft-like that Riot cancelled - is back in production, independent style. They've been rehiring the team and apparently have up to ten years of funding.
Early access release date coming soon.
Nice to hear some good news, at least.
Early access release date coming soon.
Nice to hear some good news, at least.
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Becky Heineman was to video games what Wendy Carlos was to music. The revolutionary that didn't need to make headlines or rush to any spotlight, but a quiet unstoppable force that inspired the young world of electronic games to be wonderful in a way only she had the guts to do.
We already miss you
We already miss you
November 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Becky Heineman was to video games what Wendy Carlos was to music. The revolutionary that didn't need to make headlines or rush to any spotlight, but a quiet unstoppable force that inspired the young world of electronic games to be wonderful in a way only she had the guts to do.
We already miss you
We already miss you
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this is what I would always think about when I was living in LA and politely smiling while somebody told me they had paid $400 to have a guy use hot glass to suck all their toxins out or whatever
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
this is what I would always think about when I was living in LA and politely smiling while somebody told me they had paid $400 to have a guy use hot glass to suck all their toxins out or whatever
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why can't resident evil crawl
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
why can't resident evil crawl
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Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …
pathikablog.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
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Never forget the all-time greatest placeholder asset, from Doom 64
November 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Never forget the all-time greatest placeholder asset, from Doom 64
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in the early 2000s Rebecca took the time to chat over IRC with a teenaged and gender-confused Me on the practicalities of transition - in a time where being out as trans online was something that could get you socially ostracized. I owe her a lot for that and only hope I can pay it forward.
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
in the early 2000s Rebecca took the time to chat over IRC with a teenaged and gender-confused Me on the practicalities of transition - in a time where being out as trans online was something that could get you socially ostracized. I owe her a lot for that and only hope I can pay it forward.
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Get ready for.... The ANGELINE ERA RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT!!
We'll be premiering it live, Nov. 17, 9 AM Pacific.
See you soon, Bumpslashers! ⚔️
youtu.be/VU9i_DK2kc4?...
We'll be premiering it live, Nov. 17, 9 AM Pacific.
See you soon, Bumpslashers! ⚔️
youtu.be/VU9i_DK2kc4?...
Angeline Era Release Date Announcement
YouTube video by ANALGESIC PRODUCTIONS
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Get ready for.... The ANGELINE ERA RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT!!
We'll be premiering it live, Nov. 17, 9 AM Pacific.
See you soon, Bumpslashers! ⚔️
youtu.be/VU9i_DK2kc4?...
We'll be premiering it live, Nov. 17, 9 AM Pacific.
See you soon, Bumpslashers! ⚔️
youtu.be/VU9i_DK2kc4?...
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Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
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If you're mad about the boring Game Awards nominees, consider: You could be buying and playing many of the games on this list right now
It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year!
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
IGF Games I Want To Talk About 2026 – AURAMBLES
auratriolo.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If you're mad about the boring Game Awards nominees, consider: You could be buying and playing many of the games on this list right now
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I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.
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many people don't know this - for various reasons involving archival integrity, IP gray area, and library status, internet archive hosts all of its shit in-house. and it's a big house!!!
Inside the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine as they save one trillion web pages and prepare themselves for the future: "Libraries have always been under attack, now more than during my lifetime, but let's go and live up to the moment." www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business
The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
many people don't know this - for various reasons involving archival integrity, IP gray area, and library status, internet archive hosts all of its shit in-house. and it's a big house!!!
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losing my mind over youtube's suggested reply for this comment
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
losing my mind over youtube's suggested reply for this comment
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when you put on some music while working but the music is so good it is distracting
November 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
when you put on some music while working but the music is so good it is distracting
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"CEO of peepee poopoo says..."
No that's ok. I don't think we need to hear what CEOs have to say anymore. It's been repeatedly shown they don't have anything smart to say due to being a class of person almost entirely disconnected from reality as it exists. That's quite enough of that.
No that's ok. I don't think we need to hear what CEOs have to say anymore. It's been repeatedly shown they don't have anything smart to say due to being a class of person almost entirely disconnected from reality as it exists. That's quite enough of that.
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"CEO of peepee poopoo says..."
No that's ok. I don't think we need to hear what CEOs have to say anymore. It's been repeatedly shown they don't have anything smart to say due to being a class of person almost entirely disconnected from reality as it exists. That's quite enough of that.
No that's ok. I don't think we need to hear what CEOs have to say anymore. It's been repeatedly shown they don't have anything smart to say due to being a class of person almost entirely disconnected from reality as it exists. That's quite enough of that.
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genuinely it's important to embrace this wholeheartedly, don't drag yourself down by some arbitrary need to "be honest" about media you like, there is no quota for "objective" "criticisms" you have to fill
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
genuinely it's important to embrace this wholeheartedly, don't drag yourself down by some arbitrary need to "be honest" about media you like, there is no quota for "objective" "criticisms" you have to fill
may an orca sink your yacht mr newell
A reminder that for every billion dollars made on PC gaming, Newell pockets $300m.
He keeps out of the public eye better than some billionaires, but he is still a libertarian billionaire, and billionaires should not exist.
He keeps out of the public eye better than some billionaires, but he is still a libertarian billionaire, and billionaires should not exist.
Gabe Newell Just Bought a New $500 Million Yacht With a Basketball Court and '15 Gaming Stations'
insider-gaming.com/gabe-newell-...
insider-gaming.com/gabe-newell-...
November 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
may an orca sink your yacht mr newell
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expedition 33 is going to win every single category at the geoff keighley game awards, but dont let that fool you, its not actually that bad
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
expedition 33 is going to win every single category at the geoff keighley game awards, but dont let that fool you, its not actually that bad
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i am beginning to believe that, like many video game publishers, krafton is run by extremely lucky morons
kotaku.com/subnautica-2...
kotaku.com/subnautica-2...
![The new filing also claims that Krafton felt it had overpaid for Unknown Worlds and wanted to avoid following through on the original contractually obligated payouts at all costs, even going so far as to ask an AI chatbot for help. "[Maria Park] told Kim that 'it seems to be highly likely that the earn-out will still be paid if the sales goal is achieved regardless of the dismissal with cause," the new filing reads. "Kim turned to artificial intelligence to help him brainstorm ways to avoid paying the earnout. ChatGPT likewise advised that it would be 'difficult to cancel the earn-out." The cofounders claim Krafton refused to "produce the ChatGPT conversations and, when pressed, confirmed that they no longer exist."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zgvsjugwr2sxzjwripyhx52q/bafkreie5rufph4renttu7pkkioafotyahrqd7qrsi54ydts4ghqasa4poq@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
i am beginning to believe that, like many video game publishers, krafton is run by extremely lucky morons
kotaku.com/subnautica-2...
kotaku.com/subnautica-2...
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nothing important in games has ever come from the corporate world + as corporations continue to devour it the medium grows smaller
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
nothing important in games has ever come from the corporate world + as corporations continue to devour it the medium grows smaller
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I think it's beyond emblematic of games as a medium that the corporate 'games for change' shit was largely just an effort to manufacture the same air of prestige and social impact that films have, and that the actual devs involved were treated like shit by some territorial namedropping asshole
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I think it's beyond emblematic of games as a medium that the corporate 'games for change' shit was largely just an effort to manufacture the same air of prestige and social impact that films have, and that the actual devs involved were treated like shit by some territorial namedropping asshole