Starfield should be a reminder that imperfect games deserve a chance Bethesda's Starfield is far from a perfect game, but it proves that imperfect video games deserve to be given a chance.

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The scariest Paul Bettany yet!

Pick up this month's EDGE Magazine for my biggest feature ever. Have you ever wondered why studios are still using their own custom engines? I spoke to Remedy, IO, Larian, Saber and more about the purpose of custom engines and how they specifically help developers create the games they want to make

@slingles.bsky.social I liked your Starfield piece today!

Hand holding Playdate with Wheelsprung on screen and out of focus backdrop with Pac-Man sitting on Vectrex and pictures on wall.

I wouldn't expect anything less from Panic, but it's nice to see the Playdate officially block AI being used to make games. It defeats the whole ethos of the platform anyway, but signalling to the minority of devs who'd use it that it's not ok is *good*.

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Thank you so much, it meant a lot! Huge fan!

There is no way that monitor is being cleaned. Also, not particularly.

I’ve never felt jealousy like this before. It hurts me

Spent my entire evening yesterday playing Starfield. Free Lanes isn’t as game changing as the hype, but a great addition.

Took a quick trip to the Moon. There’s just no game like it.

Any time! Also, if you haven’t got in there yet, we can try and get you into the Pinwheel on Outpost where all the good loot is! (And then lose it all as we try to extract)

If you ever want to team up with me and another games journo friend of mine, hit me up. We’re terrible and lose everything but can’t stop playing

I’ve played around six hours and I’m loving it. Bounced off Arc Raiders hard because I found it stingy, but Marathon always has an incentive to keep me going

Please share the articles instead of screenshots so I won’t be eventually replaced by shit roboslop and I can keep writing my own slop

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PR veterans explain how Games Media’s silent mass layoffs are hurting game discoverability and your connection with developers UberStrategist PR veterans explain why the mass games media layoffs are a huge issue for the discoverability of new games.

“We’re being marketed to everywhere we go all the time. It used to be, you had to see a product 7 times before you were primed to buy it.[..], it’s now upwards of 15. So, I think, we need, as an industry, need to realise that we need to do a little more planning.”

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Wait until that Switch 2 port. The key request floodgates will open

After a whole year, I still get key requests for this game every single week. It's an undisputed banger!

There’s also the opposite problem where some who are already used to issues deem them as acceptable when they likely aren’t to most “modern” gamers.

For example, Halo: Combat Evolved’s one-shot hunters are silly and break the threat the enemy is supposed to pose, but some don’t think that’s a flaw

I don’t even know how to react to this. I’m so sorry, man. There are few game writers with as much passion as him

Just learned that @hkt3030.neocities.org has sadly passed away.

One of the best games writers in the UK. There are few writers in the business who can suck you straight into the page issue after issue. Nick was one of them.

The Sims designer says that the series’ diversity is “critical, especially at times like now” as the games must recognise “the fundamental truths of our humanity” to stay successful The Sims designer Charles London explains why diversity is important for the series as anything but would simply be lying to players.

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Army of Two: The 40th Day director says the co-op game is the “gayest game ever made”, even though EA wouldn’t let him make the protagonists kiss Army of Two: The 40th Day director Alex Hutchinson calls the beloved 2010 co-op game the "gayest game ever made".

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Another banger of an episode

The little elves that hide in your walls do filthy things to them

ClickOut will destroy everything. They got Techopedia completely deindexed for their bullshit

AFAIK it’s all google search focused SEO drivel for best gambling content etc. One of ClickOut’s managers is also all about AI. He previously spent years ruining Gfinity

Hey Dan, this was the second old boss. That was a BGFG issue when they updated the site. I complained about this back when I was there but they never cared to fix it

I left as soon as ClickOut acquired it. We found out management had been secretly publishing gambling articles pre-acquisition to test the waters. Fuck ClickOut and BGFG for selling it

It really hurts because I was trying to bring the site back with original reporting again. As someone who was inspired by the original crew to become a games journo, it was a huge effort

We got the site back on Discover, GNews, restated the pod. Then it was sold and stripped for parts.

So I took a deep breath and proposed myself as the artist. I sent a whole batch of pictures to everyone involved. I told them: I really want to do this.

And I’m glad to say they agreed to it!
I really hope you'll like the book.