MekCat
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MekCat
@mekcat.bsky.social
Sharing opinions nobody asked about is my forte. If for some reason you like hearing them, check out my YouTube channel for weekly content.


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Video games have come to embrace open-ended design to encourage players to engage with their games for tens to hundreds of hours. Yet so many of these same games also go out of their way to push players toward rushing the main story. Why is that?

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The Ticking Clock Illusion
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January 19, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Sometimes prequels hit, and more often they miss. So what happens when you take the guys who made Kingdom Hearts and have them make a prequel to Final Fantasy 1?

You certainly get a memorable game, that's for sure.

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Stranger of Paradise is a Weird Game
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December 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Taking a look back at a game that set in motion a series that almost 40 years later is still going strong. It also begs the question of how well such an ancient style of game design philosophy holds up in the modern day?

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Final Fantasy: The Game That Launched a Franchise
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December 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Yo, what the good God damn fuck???
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The final party of the Final Fantasy VII Remake Trilogy is on the distant horizon, but a question still remains, which is how the fuck are they going to write themselves out of the hole they've put themselves in?

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The Aerith Dilemma
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November 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Despite being set over 5,000 miles away from the town itself, Silent Hill f manages to feel very at home with the series, and it has a story that'll have you playing through it again, and again, and again.

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MekCat Reviews: Silent Hill f
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November 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I miss the days when I’d see commercials for Nerf guns and Flaming Hot Cheetos.

Now all I see are ads for finance management and health insurance
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If you thought AI slop was bad already, imagine how horrifying the next Evil Within is going to be?

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Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company”  - AUTOMATON WEST
Following its decision to became an "AI first" game company, Krafton is soliciting voluntary resignations from its employees.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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videogames are *so* art they have attained the cultural position of being primarily an instrument of financial speculation for the already-wealthy
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
With Square Enix set to fully embrace generative AI, what does it mean for game developers who continue to barely make ends meet while fighting for relevancy in an increasingly competitive field?

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AI in Gaming and the Profit of Speculation
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November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s so weird watching a stock analyst shaking and trembling on live television over Chinese ChatGPT like they just dropped an atomic bomb on mainland US.
January 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM