Ralph Barbagallo
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Ralph Barbagallo
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Founder FLARB. DEMON’S TILT, XENOTILT, VR, AR, XR! #gamedevelopment #pinball #virtualreality #augmentedreality #mixedreality
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Absolute psychic damage for me seeing Xbox 360 on the cover of Retro Gamer. I was reviewing new games for the former when I was first writing for the latter.
Retro Gamer 279 celebrates 20 years of the Xbox 360! The magazine also includes a 2026 Mario calendar.

Also inside: Stormbringer, Pipe Mania, Mega Man X, Real Bout Fatal Fury 2, Brian Shea, Terminator games and much more.

Grab it in shops or buy it online: www.magazinesdirect.com/uk/retro-gam...
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Rumble in the Subway! Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun filtered through the Western arcades and then squeezed into a British home computer - one that manages to push an impressive number of ganger sprite (several more outside the close-up) about at once.

📺: Renegade, Ocean/Imagine, 1987 (ZX Spectrum)
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Holy shit, @unity.com Platform Toolkit www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/... This has been like my #1 requested Unity feature for a decade+. So awesome--like 95% of the bugs in my games are always related to dumb platform SDK issues with achievements etc.
Unity unveils toolkit to speed up multi-platform debuts
Unity senior VP of engine product Adam Smith says speeding up dev workflows will produce more games like Peak and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I am totally confused by this Unity x Unreal announcement.
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Finally!
Demonschool is $22.49 on Steam (10% off launch discount) buff.ly/x2gL25B
US eShop buff.ly/TxU2MtV
US PS+ buff.ly/7A5p8WI
XBL buff.ly/VJK36TI

Deck verified
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I spend way too much time thinking about The Outfoxies.
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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my favorite Mario side hustle; he should revisit this
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Yeah, "Trump crashes the dollar" has haunted me more than "Trump launches the nukes" for the past 10 months, because I think the former is more likely to occur and the destruction will be multi-generational, probably unrecoverable.
The end of dollar hegemony will transform U.S. debt from a fiscal drag into a high-yield fusion bomb.

For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.
one thing that I think we really don't think about is if Trump fucks up America's macro privileges or role in the international system and Americans are forced to end up dealing with a economic system that doesn't allow for the same old fiscal fixes as before
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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giving my date a sly wink as I wordlessly slide my bank card across the table toward the waiter
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We need a 4k remaster of Gunhed.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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I wrote again! Y'all kept recommending Xenotilt to me, so I finally relaunched it and gave it another look: journal.jennfrank.net/revisiting-x...
Revisiting Xenotilt
Thanks to my last post, multiple people recommended Xenotilt to me. I indeed purchased Xenotilt at launch and had already played 3.5 ho...
journal.jennfrank.net
November 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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On the back of the sensational Demon's Tilt, comes a new digital pinball experience with majestic style and incredible depth. This is XboxEra's review of XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION, tested on Xbox Series X!

https://xboxera.com/2025/11/05/xenotilt-hostile-pinball-action-review/
November 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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This freakin guy 🗿😮‍💨
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION is awesome, and a new patch is out that greatly improves performance on the #SteamDeck:

steamdeckhq.com/xenotilt-hos...
XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION Gets A Performance Boost For Steam Deck - Steam Deck HQ
XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION is awesome, and a new patch is out that greatly improves performance on the Steam Deck.
steamdeckhq.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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I stopped posting Japanese commercial screens like two weeks into running this account (something like that deserves its own account) but I really need y'all to see how hard the Japanese G.I. Joe logo goes.
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Now that Metroid Prime 4 is finally here (almost) it’s time for a new Metroid Pinball.
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Wow! Never seen this before. Looks like a Japanese clone of Ironman Stewart for SFC youtu.be/K8J_5uvxqaU?...
Battle Cross (SFC) Playthrough longplay video game
YouTube video by Media Pool
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Wait...WUT? VAMPIRE SURVIVORS VR?!! youtu.be/KDAAEYBvq3E?...
Vampire Survivors but it's in Virtual Reality | OUT NOW | Launch Trailer
YouTube video by poncle - Vampire Survivors
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I'm finally starting to feel better after a nasty cold. Now, I can't sleep, and it's 3.36 in the am. So what do I do? I'm _doubling_ my previous personal high score with that excellent pinball game, @xenotilt.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM