Rarely been more hype. What a beautiful trailer.

Zuck Never Understood the Metaverse YouTube video by The Morbid Zoo

Made a little video about the metaverse, adapted from the part of my dissertation I had to write twice last week because the cat deleted it

youtu.be/aWRzvOiqc-s?...

designed for fans

Name a book, song, film, and TV program that changed your world.

1. Ender's Shadow, by Orson Scott Card
2. Helplessness Blues, by Fleet Foxes
3. Lilo and Stitch, by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
4. Critical Role

Definitely just all of the above. I understand unemployed people going as a stab at finding work, but most unemployed people probably can't risk that huge of a savings hit when they see half their unemployed colleagues posting about not finding work in a year or longer.

Yeah, I'm afraid this article just artfully described every extraction shooter ever made.

Astoundingly beautiful work of writing.

Spent a whole issue of @aiandgames.com last month ripping these surveys apart.

Everyone from AI providers to GDC like to pretend they represent the voice of the industry. All of them talk out their ass and over-inflate their worth.

www.aiandgames.com/p/separating...

You know, I'm so neurotic that the fact that Steam reviews require text makes me not do them because I don't always have time to write something real, and I do wish we didn't have to write something to mark Positive, but I suppose this is valid advice, and I can do that more.

I just watched 3 seasons of Industry in 2 weeks and now I'm caught up on the two new eps and, uh. What. The. Fuck? This show is crazy. Unbelievable how much it's changed and also how under the radar it's gone for having some of the best TV performances in the last 5 years.

Looking into why they break so often and actually seeing the components exposed in this video has me utterly baffled that making a spout exude thick, semi-frozen cream requires this much machinery. I would have assumed so much less.

Just moved and I have a box that's occupied 75% by cables sorted by category in re-used bags, and I had to label one "small ethernet cables" to remind that despite it having ethernet cables inside of it, they will never be of a length that I actually want. Also, the USB bag is horrifyingly swollen.

As a dev who's worked in AAA, the impact it has on the entire gaming market and console sales and how saturated of a point that is and how every lead/director/etc references that makes it impossible for me to not take seriously even though on no level do I or will I ever care about Grand Theft Auto.

This Is How You Get JARHEAD Sequels YouTube video by Folding Ideas

This is How You Get JARHEAD Sequels

youtu.be/i5m-RHS1fU0

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Defining What IS an Enemy Attack YouTube video by Signals and Light

📌 Post
🎮 I made videos about enemy combat in games.
📺 I'd like to make more videos about game dev and media one day, hopefully something in '26/'27.
☠️ I worked on the cancelled KotOR Remake and Perfect Dark.
⚔️ Now I do combat design on a new game that people actually already play in closed alpha!

I am tired of Earth. These people.

A drawing of a trucker with a mullet and a mustache, in front of a truckstop, saying "how boutchu take a picture? it'll last longer." and he is wearing a hat that says "I dug a tunnel straight down in to the center of the earth, and therein, found hell itself, set out to kill The Devil, but when I got there, sitting on that abyssal throne was my own shadow self, and had to confront that true evil is something that lives inside us all, not an external force upon us, and if i killed him in anger, I'd just be acting out that perverse will, and all I got was this lousy hat."

take a picture
(rerun)

I pay so much attention to this stuff, and some games are so unreal good at it. I'd say this is taken for granted, but also literally all of environment art as a field of expertise is taken for granted. The average player can barely tell the difference between masterwork and just okay.

Game-day crime rises up to 70% after sports betting goes legal Tensions always run high between sports fans of rival teams on game day. But a new study shows that the rise of legalized sports betting in the US is turning those tensions into something far darker.

Others: sPoRtS aRe JuSt AnOtHeR hObBy.

The Smug Sports-Hating Preteen Still Inside Me: Video games don't actually cause violence, but sports literally do.

Genuinely had a really enjoyable time watching this one.

Hype is Fantastic, Actually YouTube video by Door Monster

Fantastic narrative analysis (from a creator that admittedly doesn't usually even like anime). Also this is just also secretly explaining why The Stormlight Archive is so good (because it builds emotional themes and character arcs into this concept so perfectly).

'Best Plays of 2025' a list of games by everin | Backloggd A pretty good year in games I didnt struggle to fill this list and there are even a couple of 45s I chose not to include The notable missing item is Clair Obscur as frankly it meant very little to me ...

OK, I don't think I'm gonna play a new game that'll end up here in the next 12 days. Top 10 plays of 2025 for me on @backloggd.com.

1. Silksong
2. Doom: The Dark Ages
3. Dispatch
4. The Alters
5. Peak
6. Zenless Zone Zero
7. Sultan's Game
8. The Seance of Blake Manor
9. Hades II
10. Blue Prince

Why "Be Grateful" Is Actually Control | Silent Hill f Analysis YouTube video by Pickle Ditto

Absolutely impeccable narrative analysis. Have I played the game? No, I'm a baby with horror games and nothing aligned for me to watch a friend play. But this is SUPER good.

Vic Dimension 20 100 years Vic hell yes I love Vic.

The GenAI stuff is stupid, but also a lot of what's being said is silly. A game does not need to be more ambitious than Baldur's Gate 3. And a game more ambitious than Baldur's Gate 3 cannot be made in 4 years. Especially when moving to a new game engine. Baffling claims. See you in 2030s ,Swen.

The Last of Us Games Deserve Their Reputation YouTube video by Whitelight

Huh, I think this is the best criticism written about TLOU and TLOU2 I've ever seen? Such a good analysis of all aspects of what the games are doing and how those features synthesize with each other. Also, it says a lot that doesn't feel like regurgitating things I've already read scores of times.