Disco Elysium blowing up the way it did should be evidence that there’s no predicting the games market. Imagine trying to tell a money guy that game of the year was gonna be an Estonian visual novel by communists where you can pet the mailbox and say “I want to make fuck with you”

gritty has seized control of the federal government

The best videogames are the ones that let you collect orbs. I can’t get enough of them orbs yummy yummy yummy

Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

we need a hello kitty first person shooter

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social

we wouldn't need "fast travel" if our game studios invested in accessible and affordable public transport infrastructure. skyrim should have a tram network. assassin's creed should have several regular bus routes. give ghost of tsushima a metro

Word of the day….

Monarchy speedrun is already at “meddlesome priest,” pretty good time

Gritty continues to be a real one

Over the next however many days/weeks, as various elected officials scramble to "save" TikTok so they don't alienate 170 million people, please remember that almost every single one of them were involved in creating this situation in the first place.

Arsonist firefighters are not heroes.

i love the story about Elon lying about being good at a video game because it’s not the worst thing he’s done by a mile but it is maybe the most fundamentally pathetic

Pre-human cat people

Nyanderthals, if you will.

Good morning