"none of us really want to do it. ...This grinding, relentless popularity contest."

Mirror's Edge + Max Payne? Sign me up!

I agree. I went in with low expectations having mixed feelings about the first one, and enjoyed it a lot more. They toned down a lot of the weird choices that bugged me about the first film (cringe needle drops, splitting up the bros., Lumalee) while keeping most of the stuff that worked.

The Best Game Animation of 2025 YouTube video by New Frame Plus

I know ALL of the best video game animation released in 2025, and now you can too
#animation #gamedev

Haven't seen the new one yet, but this is what I found frustrating about the last one. Even compared to other animated kids movies, the writing is painfully shallow and boils down to amusing quips and visual set pieces. I don't get it. Even DK Bananza has deeper character development going on.

Chuck Norris didn't die, he just started NG+ to fight more powerful opponents.

Just not in the way we expected.

It wouldn't surprise me if this just results in people stealing the $300k robot dogs.

This is really cool -- somehow someone was able to make a Tekken8 stats site, with detailed match data, leaderboards, and a season 2 recap. With S2 coming to an end effectively tonight / tomorrow, here's mine:

Not sure what to make of this really, except I wish bluesky aspired to be more than just a twitter replacement. Mastodon felt more progressive, but not enough people migrated because the onboarding was too complicated.

The Beat 'em Up Is in Arrested Development YouTube video by Second Wind

Not sure I fully agree with this, but it's interesting nonetheless.
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This is a very important quote from the interview that I hope every single company hoping to capitalize on the gaming industry reads and internalizes. Games are a unique market, and you can't just apply strategies from other industries and find success. This has been proven time and time again.

It stood out to me at the time, as a modder, because it was such a simple but clever solution, compared to trying to carefully time dialogue with animations, fsm triggers, and camera cuts, etc.

Iirc, the way they did these in Max2 was to have both character's lines start at the same time, with gaps in the wav file for when the other character was speaking. If an npc gets hit, killed, or the player walks away, the audio is stopped on both characters (and maybe another line is played).

Same thing happened with Roll7 two years ago. They released two awesome games then T2 just shut them down - I guess for a tax write off? 😒

If you're curious and can do magic eyes, you can get the 3d effect (and a migraine) without the peripheral. The screen is tiny, but you can make it bigger by pressing x in the ipd settings (hold r-stick in game). I found an ipd -15 and 1.3x was 'ok'. To quit, dock it and then press the home button.

SILENT HILL Transmission (EN) with subtitles | February 12, 2026 | KONAMI YouTube video by SILENT HILL (Official)

The newest Silent Hill game being based on a costal town in Fife is perfect.👌 I remember when I was studying at uni, the haar would come in and St. Andrews would literally resemble the games for a few hours - it was eerie. Really cool that things are coming full circle.

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Congrats!!

Post a banger that isn't in English

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UGGGUHHGHHH

The juxtaposition of the VO hyping up how much of a badass Leon is against gameplay footage of him comically missing all of his shots was probably my favourite part of this direct.

So many weird and wonderful and cool looking indie games being made these days. 😮

Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence YouTube video by People Make Games

We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court:

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Hi, on your listening report, click on the 'Album grid' button, and you'll get options to customise and download the image. Hope this helps.🙂

Your 2025 wasn't quiet, here's the proof. #Playback25 is OUT NOW ▶︎ https://t.co/7B3LDbxzRh

Thanks Mikhail, that's really awesome to hear. 😎 It's a shame we couldn't quite finish it though. If I can figure out how to get it working correctly in windows 11 I might look into releasing some of the old levels we had made one day.

THIS IS THE BEST BEAT EM UP GAME I PLAYED IN YEARS!! YouTube video by Justin Wong

NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO

Absolum is like the best beat em up game I played in freaking years!! Def get this game if you got the itch

Check it out: youtu.be/z2eXjCqjyGo

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Yep, they definitely grew up playing Goldeneye and PD.