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i really like the phrasing of design as a type of 'problem solving'!
but i think when you are looking towards other successful games a metric, you are learning more about their own specific problems, and sharing genre isnt enough to indicate that you share the same problems.

stop adding dodgerolls

07.03.2026 06:48 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

i think if your challenges working on a game is 'why is my X mechanic less satisfying than game Y', rather than try to unpack game Y for their 'solutions' you should try to ask why exactly you are making that mechanic, is it needed, etc. does solution Y actually apply to *your* problem?

07.03.2026 06:48 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

this is how multiplayer games treat your data while demanding you install kernel level secureboot rootkits to ‘prevent cheating’ lol

05.03.2026 18:30 👍 1516 🔁 636 💬 10 📌 3

most of these takes aren't very nuanced

05.03.2026 18:21 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Friday Late: Player/Performer - Special event at V&A South Kensington · V&A Friday 27 March 18.30 – 22.00

I was invited to guest curate a V&A late!

Please come along to Player/Performer at V&A South Kensington on 27th March for a night of games and performances.

We have karaoke, LARP, drag, card games, videogames, robots and MORE

Totally free and no tickets needed

www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...

05.03.2026 16:32 👍 12 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

I like that game a lot but yeah it's definitely one for the sales

05.03.2026 02:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

[chugging tetraethyl lead] in a few years you'll all be doing this

04.03.2026 15:29 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

More info:

03.03.2026 17:57 👍 6292 🔁 3166 💬 81 📌 308

here’s my little design rule: if you can’t explain why you need to define what games are then you probably shouldn’t try to define what games are. unfortunately this applies to every definition of games ever. we call this cook’s loophole.

03.03.2026 14:50 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

it's real, it's a program called fsn (File System Navigator) developed for IRIX by SGI preterhuman.net/software/fil...

27.02.2026 23:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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what the hell did I just read

26.02.2026 18:01 👍 405 🔁 133 💬 13 📌 1

yoshi p voice nightmare

27.02.2026 17:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

sometimes, perhaps more often than most people think, the answer really is Just Write The Code Dude

27.02.2026 17:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

strongly advise against doing this uncritically because you will absolutely accrue technical debt in areas you didn't even know existed if you're not careful. "if it works well" is a load-bearing qualifier

27.02.2026 17:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I'm glad someone put this together. SIXTEEN studios at risk with the Nacon insolvency.

26.02.2026 13:00 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0

it's just obstinacy at this point. they got annoyed with people asking and decided to never do it

25.02.2026 19:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

albert pyun understands the medium like no other director

25.02.2026 14:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

man's fighting a console war thirty years late. let it go dogg

24.02.2026 18:04 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

game devs need to forget how fun it is to pick one of three things

21.02.2026 17:57 👍 58 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
21.02.2026 14:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

is that a fact about the medium or a fact about the VC/self-styled analyst who chose to make the comparison?

21.02.2026 14:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

fell for it again award

21.02.2026 07:29 👍 1616 🔁 255 💬 14 📌 3
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here is my new video about the xbox kinect. i think this is going to put xbox on the map.
youtu.be/AGSRMeHYKOE

21.02.2026 00:16 👍 351 🔁 28 💬 15 📌 4
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regarding the recent news

20.02.2026 20:53 👍 3762 🔁 1655 💬 6 📌 16
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My New Favorite Way to Play Video Games Is Something You’ve Never Heard Of Kids and adults are equally likely to enjoy the Nex Playground video game console, which doesn’t require you to learn to use a controller.

yeah it's basically a kinect in a little cube with an android-based OS, aimed at kids/families, I guess probably doesn't cost much to manufacture and they have people paying a subscription to get games for it

20.02.2026 21:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

there's that nex playground thing tbf, that sold a lot of units

20.02.2026 21:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

ex-box

20.02.2026 20:26 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
fuck off ai music fuck off ai music

fuckoffaimusic.com

20.02.2026 19:07 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission - IGN Publisher Finji says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the platform without permission and pushing those ads to its users without Finji's knowledge, including at least one ...

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something.

www.ign.com/articles/tun...

20.02.2026 13:03 👍 3144 🔁 1325 💬 50 📌 134

Liber Profundorum
HAMMER OF DEUILLS
De Natura Abyssi
Unaussprechliche Nahmen
The Forms of the Adversary
The Light Is With Us
Let's Exorcise!

20.02.2026 11:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0