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Editor at NextPlay Australia I pretend to play games and then write about them anyway > faultrunner@outlook.com <

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Unpopular opinion, but a lot of this "doing it right" mentality is how we wind up with games all feeling the exact same.

Difficulty spikes, weird controls, ropey onboarding all of it critical to prevent games feeling like they're ground down and pumped out safe mush.

www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/s/...

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Owwkayy dayyuuuudddd

06.03.2026 09:59 πŸ‘ 6490 πŸ” 1889 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 11

Close enough. Welcome BDS friendly Viva PiΓ±ata successor

07.03.2026 01:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Which one of you added me in Hatch Dragons only to take the gift I sent and immediately delete me?

07.03.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just saw the most rancid 9games on this site

07.03.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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@hackintimseeley.bsky.social

06.03.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 7152 πŸ” 2669 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 13

I need a Steam Deck.

06.03.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Speaking of remakes

Imagine if they just remade Shrek 1:1 but the just updated the style

06.03.2026 22:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Beautiful

06.03.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On this editing pass I've decided "Nothing Ever Stops Existing" is the best thing I've written because it's the only essay that hasn't pissed me off while rereading it youtu.be/Wmi_6D6vwBQ?...

06.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 712 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

I did not research a topic for four days straight, only to stumble on a DarylTalksGame video on the same thing from over a year ago…

06.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kyle Sandilands picks up some burger rings, chips and a bottle of Coke He celebrated his 52nd birthday with a star-studded soirΓ©e at Sydney's Manning Bar on Saturday night.

Let's not forget the biggest Kyle story... www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

06.03.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I can’t simply post Brendan Keogh’s Putting Challenge 9 times over.

06.03.2026 12:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There has been a leak at Xbox head quarters. The new console XDK is internally referred to as β€œBig Arch” and is β€œan amazing product”

05.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Damn

06.03.2026 06:55 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question

05.03.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 1233 πŸ” 220 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

I ADORED Firefly at the time.

I could not want this less.

05.03.2026 22:47 πŸ‘ 146 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 2

It fucks a lil!

06.03.2026 05:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Starting a website called β€œDoes it Fuck”

No numbered scoring for games, just a rating of β€œthis fucks” and β€œthis doesn’t fuck”

05.03.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Geordi La Forge from Star Trek

Geordi La Forge from Star Trek

Pictured: Me visiting your Cloud Island

05.03.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of Pokemon Pokopia where a dialogue box says β€œLeon Kennedy… It seems you might have some sort of mysterious power”

A screenshot of Pokemon Pokopia where a dialogue box says β€œLeon Kennedy… It seems you might have some sort of mysterious power”

It’s called being hot as FUCK

05.03.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot from Pokemon Pokopia with the dialogue β€œWait… Why do I see Leon Kennedy?”

A screenshot from Pokemon Pokopia with the dialogue β€œWait… Why do I see Leon Kennedy?”

Back in Zigzagoon City

05.03.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I haven’t even played Slay the Spire 1

05.03.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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05.03.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need

05.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 1428 πŸ” 333 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 0

Following Slay the Spire 2 and Silksong both crashing the Steam store, there just might be an argument for big indies like this to have a preorder option.

05.03.2026 20:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
wario64.bsky.social
1st hour concurrent user counts on Steam:
Slay the Spire 2 - 81,396
Marathon - 81,152

wario64.bsky.social 1st hour concurrent user counts on Steam: Slay the Spire 2 - 81,396 Marathon - 81,152

Did everyone hear? Fortnite is dead

Here’s the proof!

05.03.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It actually kicks ass how much the people who run this site hate the people who use it. Just constant seething meltdowns over having to put up with a bunch of artists, furries, and trans people instead of crypto-hustlers and AI guys making Linkedin-tier posts. I'm glad they're miserable, frankly

05.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 5302 πŸ” 1669 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 25

First hour numbers are insane. We're judging an entire production down to a singular hour now? That's the most TikTok-brained thing I've ever heard. And I don't even have an attention span myself

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