Before today I never realised quite how many people appear to despise the Nintendo Direct narrator.
It was... A SURPRISING REVELATION!
(Sorry)
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Before today I never realised quite how many people appear to despise the Nintendo Direct narrator.
It was... A SURPRISING REVELATION!
(Sorry)
This story seems to have flown under the radar a bit. UK court gives go-ahead for £656m lawsuit against Valve over unfair Steam practices:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
By m'learned colleague @cressup.bsky.social
Sacked Rockstar employees waiting to find out if they qualify for a relief hearing that could see their roles reinstated
'We were sacked from Rockstar North for trying to unionise' www.bbc.com/news/article...
Thanks! Keeping a close eye on everything, for sure!
My report: Former Build a Rocket Boy devs speak about the studio’s culture, crunch and MindsEye’s disastrous launch
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dream scenario:
The Rock is nominated for an Oscar.
"And the winner is... Timothee Chalamet!"
*Rock rips off Tuxedo, ring entrance music plays...*
A screengrab shows a DuckDuckGo search page with the term "sonic the hedgehog" typed into the search box. To the left of the text input window, the search engine's standard logo of a cartoon duck appears wearing the blue spikes associated with the Sega character.
Random DuckDuckGo Easter Egg. Searching for Sonic the Hedgehog creates... an entirely new species of creature?!
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
Indeed. Bloodborne this weekend!!
Field research: My five-year-old played a round of knockout on his cousin’s Switch 2. Went out in 16th place. It was not pretty. BUT: He vowed to never play knockout mode for the rest of his life so… problem solved?
Hopefully this works!
Which programme were you on, @jasonkingsleyobe.bsky.social? I can try to dig out a link for you
The intensity of these messages is quite something. Makes the usual “SKONG!” demands look like one of those flowers that blooms once a decade…
SKON-… Err… Skong?
Cross-gen titles, big focus on social play, genuinely valuable upscales of previous gen bangers, “60fps? How about 120?”
This hasn’t blown my socks off yet games-wise but it’s smart
Some big 2005 Eyetoy energy about these new Switch 2 features so far and I’m not mad about it
Twitch 2
“Launches on the same day as Nintendo Switch 2”
An outrageous tease
Starting to think they should rename it ‘Not an April Fool’s Disclaimer Day’
Certainly not an unpopular opinion based on conversations I've had with people!
Hellblade II is nominated in 11 out of 14 categories at this year's Bafta Game Awards
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Finally finished Red Dead Redemption 2 last night. A glaring gap in my gaming history corrected.
(🙂)
Tom - 1 Backlog - 256
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Bear in mind this was a plan first floated last year so it is unlikely to be directly connected to the recent release of Bloom & Rage.
- 58 jobs cut - most through voluntary redundancies. Ten vacated roles have remained unfilled
- French teams focusing on 2 projects due by end of 2027
- Blames ‘deteriorating financial results’ in a ‘much more competitive and selective’ games industry
Can’t see that anyone’s picked this up yet. Don’t Nod says it’s reached an agreement with unions and staff on cutbacks first proposed last October.
www.dontnod-bourse.com/en/financial...
Thoughts and prayers to all of those discovering this for the first time…
Should keep you busy! Did a bit more digging on TV Champion and it appears the airdate was 21st October 1999. announcer-news.com/tvtokyo-tvch...
Haven't managed to turn up any footage on YouTube or NicoNico using my very rusty Japanese. But a crumb for the bread trail...
Did you spot this? note.com/imamura_1966...
Links to an official page but the Kanji gets corrupted on my phone’s browser
Access is patchy ATOW as I assume it's getting hammered with traffic, but very excited to get stuck into this when things have stabilised a bit
Argh, too kind. You make our job easy by being so passionate (and very humble when it came to the awards nomination, I should add!). Your enthusiasm is infectious!
Super-pleased that we got to cover this year’s @gaconf.bsky.social awards. Congrats to all the winners!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
