Screenshot of Sony's age verification. "Select the mobile number you want to use. A verification code will be sent to this number. Your mobile number will be used in accordance with our privacy policy" Underneath are two options. The selected option contains a censored number, the unselected option says "use a different mobile number". At the top of the page has an alert with a red triangle alert symbol and says "the connection to the server timed out" in red.

Has anyone else actually managed to use phone number for PlayStation's age verification?

A nymph in a pond with a lily pad, a duck with duckling, and a waterfall.

3. Naiad

I just turned this on for something play. Wasn't expecting this to hold me like it did. Such a cute and relaxing little puzzler.

Welfare helps people participate in society. It also moves money around the economy, keeping it healthy. They call it a “cost”.

AI cuts jobs, makes useless un-copyrightable content, raises the energy bills of anyone living near them, and makes no money. They call it an “investment”.

🙃

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Wait, there's a Practical Magic 2 coming out?

Let’s end tonight on a high note from Coldplay

Please make this mandatory in all critical workflows immediately.

Is Instagram broken for anyone else?

The 2026 Limit Break mentorship program has opened applications to participants from the UK and Irish games industry
We speak to its program manager Jonas Gawe about the challenges and successes of running a game industry mentorship scheme for marginalised and underrepresented people
bit.ly/4dIbnJF

LinkedIn mini sudoku puzzle played with numbers between 1 and 6. The boxes with 6 are replaced with 67.

Oh, fuck off!

Bithell Games Mailing List Sign up to receive future details on the next game from Bithell, Short Story Prologue and Alpha Testing

Okay. An important moment for us, if you’ll indulge me with a repost. It’s time to start the very first whisper of noise about our next game.

It’s a mailing list! But it’s a mailing list that I’m hoping will be a bit different than what you’re used to.

mailchi.mp/bithellgames...

Project Hail Mary is so good! I've missed sci-fi!

A Steam AI Generated Content Disclosure The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this: AI-generated voiceovers for ingame characters. This is a indie no-budget production. Sorry :-'(

I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this.

The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all!

Games don't need VO to be good!

By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!

Enjoy! I am on the verge of caving too

a resource-intensive feature that nobody asked for which solves no known problem AND is functionally not just useless, but actively makes the product worse?

SOLD! 100 BILLION TO OPENAI, NOW!!!

Getting cancelled sounds great, you get to profit from IP you have a union assured financial return from, while also having your lack of creative involvement touted as a selling point. You’re paid not to work on a thing.

Remind me again why digital only is a good idea

Cover art of Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Dark Ties. Left side of the picture has a red background with Kiryu facing left. The right side has a black background with Mine facing right.

2. Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Dark Ties

The hate for this game is way too much. Sure they've changed things and taken bits out, but it's still a good game. And Dark Ties destroyed me.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

A yellow Nintendo game boy with 3 pikachus. It is framed by 3 large sunflowers, pixel sparkles, and fluffy light blue clouds

Happy Pokémon 30th! This series is what got me into gaming and pushing me towards being an artist, so it will always have a large place in my heart🥹

#art #pokemon #illustration #pokemonart #pokemonfanart #Pokemon30 #ポケモン30周年

thinking of this anecdote about the first McDonald’s in Russia

Just reproducing the content of this post on the other site on bsky for consideration, this review that is featured on MetaCritic- x.com/andrew_east/...

Metacritic has sent a reminder email to all games site editors/publishers which is pretty strong, and great:

This is awful!

I just had a horrible thought.

What if this kind of age verification comes to video game storefronts?

Please, everyone, keep physical media going!

If we continue to let out-of-touch executives make out-of-touch decisions, this industry is going to look unrecognizable fast. Say what you will about Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond, and Xbox in recent years, but they were clued into the gaming community, even as Microsoft pushed the current against them.

There needs to be a chart of just how much money was spent by the major publishers chasing the live-service goose on cancelled games, and the leadership of those publishers should have to take paycuts equal to the money spent if they closed any of those studios.

Just saw an ad that started out "your kids won't remember their best day of screen time" and while I of course broadly agree with the sentiment that you should do activities with your children, don't tell me i don't remember beating zelda a link to the past