Titanium Court on Steam A surreal strategy game for clowns and criminals.

Titanium Court is definitely the best thing I've played all year, absolutely in love with it.

I would recommend going in as cold as possible though, because it's so wonderful to be surprised, confused, and delighted like this.

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I wish more games adopted the Duel Masters style of life system. Using cards as life points is genius.

left 4 dead and its sequel are full of some of the best small details and bits of environmental storytelling you can find in games. valve's jay pinkerton told me it's because the team opened up the writing process to the whole studio. as others have said about L4D's graffiti: AI could never

Happy holidays to those who celebrate.

Dosa Divas, a spicy narrative turn-based JRPG, launches on April 14 for PC, PS5, Xbox, Switch, and Switch 2. Demo is now available on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2950710/...

We didn't deserve this day.

Matt Johnson Plays Himself: a poster design featuring Matt Johnson, director, in the foreground, as he looks on at his three fictional movie roles: Matt Johnson in The Dirties, Matt Johnson in Operation Avalanche, and Matt Johnson in Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. Each one is backed by their respective movie credit. The cord from NTBTSTM winds through the entire composition, tying them all together.

Matt Johnson Plays Himself: a piece dedicated to Matt Johnson, director, and his troika of fictional Matt Johnsons from The Dirties (2013), Operation Avalanche (2016), and Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. #ntbts

Sketch of Abrams from Deadlock. He is in profile and simple flat colors with the impression of “light through slatted blinds” like you’d see in noir films

skegch of blue #deadlock

Photo of a bookmark featuring a silhouette of a skateboarder jumping over Jesus on the cross as a crowd cheers Text reads: WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. Matthew 19:26

The rare San Diego find.

I completely forgot how powerful creatine is. This shit is wild. I feel like I can benchpress a truck.

An image of a downward trending bar graph and characters from a shooter with question marks over their faces. One of them has no question mark, and instead has the face of Avril Lavigne. Also, the whole image is orange and on fire.

Game Infarcer: Online Shooter Announced, Launched, And Shut Down Over Duration Of Writing This Headline gameinformer.com/parody/2026/...

There's something really funny about the phrase "kangaroo strength."

Hey, everyone. I was unfortunately impacted by today’s RiF at my account. I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to contribute to the joke.

I’m now searching for my next joke. If anyone has any leads on upcoming jokes, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Thank you.

#opentojoke

Second this. Managed to get a copy for the SFPL and it already has five people on hold for it.

I AM HOLDING A LOVELY TRANS FLAG AND DECLARING THUS: HOORAY FOR MY NICE TRANS FRIENDS!!

Portal comic. Currently Wheatley is on the mainframe and GLaDOS is a potato. Wheatley: Look, for the record, I'm just saying that I THINK that within the next 2 years. AI will have replaced most major pollinators. GLaDOS: ...Just keep pretending to ignore him, he'll probably... The text on Chell's shirt: Agreed. We should ignore him. GLaDOS: Are... you? Doing that? On purpose? With your shirt? The shirt: No, I am the shirt. Please don't let the person wearing me know I can do this.

GLaDOS (to Chell): Hey, I need you to lift me up so I can get a good view of your upper torso. For... normal reasons. Chell complies. GLaDOS: Thanks. The shirt: You really know how to talk to the ladies! GLaDOS: Come on. The shirt: Anyways. Want to know my deal? I'm the ghost of Cave Johnson. Told the lab boys to make me immortal. Didn't say how. GLaDOS (shorting out in surprise): WHAT??? The shirt: Hahahaha. No I'm fucking with you.

GLaDOS (to Wheatley): Hey, you up there! Wheatley: Hah, are you finally gonna admit I'm right? GLaDOS: No, I need you to look at the human's shirt. And tell me what it says. Wheatley: ...That's a trick question innit. GLaDOS: No, I actually want to know. Wheatley: You're trying to make me stare at a woman's chest so I look sexist. GLaDOS: I'm asking you an actual question. Wheatley: I've never done it, ever. Don't even know what they have there. Never will, because I'm not sexist. Or maybe this is an advanced ploy to make it look like I can't read. I can, I mean I do, so much. Love books. Been reading the Odyssey. Not sure if you know that one, but I'm already on the part with his son... GLaDOS: That's the start of the book. Wheatley: SHUT UP!!!!! SHUT!!!! UP!!!! Chell looks down at her shirt to see the text says "get ketchup on me for twenty extra points".

Was an extremely dark piece. It left me feeling bitter, but in a good(?) way. Thanks for sharing.

Read the piece and enjoy the fact you're going through Dark Souls for the first time.

I'd love to hear more of your stories going through the game, or how you find your own place in Miyazaki's world.

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Heads up narrative game devs! Turtle Rock has a remote possible role in the California PST time zone

Please share with your narrative game dev friends

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Actually such a beautiful and provocative piece. Thank you

Sorta disliking the latest batch of Verus Wolves. Mostly because everything John is recommending are old video essay subjects he's already discussed.

It feels like more and more the show is advertising rather than two dudes discovering cool new things together.

Disco Elysium and Paradise Killer are two VASTLY different games in art & vibes, and yet they're both detective games with themes of surviving under fascism, inside the colonial, capitalist machine, watching ppl be chewed up and spit out by it, and SOMEHOW they are also both extremely fucking funny

I miss Nintendo 3DS StreetPass, and games as physical community With the loneliness epidemic on the rise, the Nintendo 3DS StreetPass and its sense of in-person community is sorely missed.

Today is the 15th anniversary of the Nintendo 3DS's release in North America. To celebrate the birthday, I thought I'd reshare the piece I wrote for @theavclubgames.bsky.social last year about one of the console's best features: StreetPass
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Made Wing Zero. Broke a couple parts but he's so goddamn fun to pose.

Probably my favorite build to date.

What would you make Isamaru's stats now, in 2026?

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

Gentle reminder that for all us writers and aficionados of literature grapple with the mysteries of language, this is the best thing anyone has ever written.

I like T'Lyn a normal amount

A text image of a small part of the transcript of a conversation between Ari Shapiro and David Simon (Creater of 'The Wire') on a segment on NPR during the wirter's strike of 2023: Shapiro: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had that tool to solve those thorny problems... Simon: What? Shapiro: ...Or saying... Simon: You imagine that? Shapiro: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. Simon: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. Shapiro: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into AI and say, give. me 10 ideas for how to transition this. Simon: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

And if you think this is just some BS meme image, you can listen to the man himself: www.npr.org/transcripts/...