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"We would rather eat rocks and drink gasoline than be split up" - Compulsion Games has officially completed its buyout from Xbox and now owns all its IP. Players who buy games like South of Midnight are now supporting the studio directly, its CEO says. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/we-woul...

if a white supremacist says anything you should assume every single word is a lie unless completely independently verified by an entirely unrelated source. if they say it is thursday you should ask an expert on days of the week. this should be the bare minimum standard in this media landscape

Every dollar billionaire JK Rowling makes is a dollar she will spend on destroying the lives of trans people - a scapegoating driven by Epstein-class billionaires to distract us from the ultra-rich draining our wealth, killing our planet, sabotaging social cohesion, and destroying dissent.

i have done what many said is impossible. i have made an order guide for playing the entire kingdom hearts series, for normal people. i hope this can be a helpful resource to at least one person out there:

2XKO Active Development Will End in December 2026 www.riotgames.com/en/news/2xko... -Servers will remain on beyond 2026, and 2XKO will be playable on all platforms -'We're unlocking all champs. We’re also bundling most cosmetic items, and refunding all money spent in 2XKO on or before August 20'

It's "the direct and indirect consequences of not getting screwed by rich people's brazen attempts to extract value from every single thing on Earth"

Good morning

one thing i do want to say is that the main roadblock to "getting into kingdom hearts" is not the series release structure or having to watch mobile game cutscenes. its this fucking platforming room you have to do three times over while mickey mouse clubhouse theme is blaring in your soul

Now that the US has kidnapped Maduro, stolen Venezuela's oil, looted its gold, and taken its uranium, there's no more coverage on poverty, human rights, the shift to a democratic system, the economy, the lifting of sanctions etc It's almost as if those aspects were only used to justify intervention

Sometimes it's hard to gauge how much a game will remain (and remain, and remain) important immediately after playing it. I'm confident now — 1000xRESIST remains.

Persona 3 The Movie (Sub) free to watch on Youtube (Aniplex USA) 1 - Spring of Birth www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcI... 2 - Midsummer Knight's Dream www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGqv... 3 - Falling Down www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2DF... 4 - Winter of Rebirth www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnFQ...

what the fuck is this

Dave Bautista Officially Set as Kratos in ‘God of War’ TV Series variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Not shocked. Not speaking to the quality of the game, but rather the prolonged dev time, slow/bizarre rollout, and weird marketing decisions. Also, saying earlier this year, "we fired all the core staff" doesn't exactly inspire players to pick up your game, does it? A failure of Riot management.

Excellent news. Hope they are able to continue making the games they want either solo, or with partners that respect them.

Holy shit this thing no money

Dave Bautista has been officially cast as Kratos in the live-action ‘GOD OF WAR’ series.

More precious friends that I would die for

Person who has played 100 games: The best game ever made is Super Mario Bros. 3 Person who has played 1000 games: The best game ever made is Super Mario World Person who has played 10,000 games: The best game ever made is Super Mario Bros. Special

We're not soothsayers here a lot of this shit is braindead obvious. You can't make back investment on a fighting game that takes ten years to make

Dave Bautista has officially been cast as Kratos in the 'God of War' live-action series 🪓

Seeing this yesterday, it's genuinely staggering how many man hours and how much money has been squandered chasing live-service. They effectively limited the output of some of their best studios in pursuit of something that ultimately failed. It's really bad all around.

of all the people to do this exact thing is is particularly crazymaking that riot games do it to themselves most of all

As much as I’d love this to be true, it’s fundamentally not how the stock market works. The stock market does not “react to customer retention” - it is very specifically focused on projected YoY growth. Existing customers are useless unless they can be converted into growth.

But you should as it's one of the best 💜

Bro I remember this image it's months old

how i look at mfs when they tell me they don't like spaghetti westerns

The art book for ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ reveals that generative AI was used in concept design of NYC for the film. (Source: thedirect.com/article/spid...)

fortnite is kingdom hearts for normal people

pondering the GTA VI “you have to get gas for your car!” thing. I think they’re gonna do RDR2 horse stuff but with a car. you’ll talk to your car, love it with all your heart until it explodes at the end saving your life somehow. it’ll look like a Firebird and be named something medium homophobic.

this is Eowyn!! I wasn't ready to take this picture, she got up immediately and started walking towards me for inspection and cuddles

Golden Axe | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (Sept 16) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sStb...

New poster for the ‘ONE PIECE’ remake. Releasing February 2027 on Netflix.

Rusty Venture would also write some weird, self-aggrandizing shit in an autobiography about having dated teenage Natalie Portman that she would later refute and call him out as a despicable creep.

adding missing alt text: A 3.5" floppy drive, with a printed label that reads "Works, but makes Sad Noises" (this is my photo, but it's been bouncing 'round the internet for years now)

So I maintain that over half of the accounts online that you see are not real people. Once in a while the bot breaks and you get stuff like this lmao

Well thats that then www.riotgames.com/en/news/2xko...

Happy birthday to the late Hayden Panettiere.

I'm watching a letsplay of Psychonauts, and it's amusing how it's a unique timeless classic of a video game. but it's a unique timeless classic from 2005, so of course you can grind on just about every single vertical surface in the game

Another Crab's Treasure: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is OUT NOW 🦀 our underwater soulslike has washed up to a new shore... and it's FREE to upgrade for players who own the switch 1 version‼️ time for crab.

lol

gumpy is now legally a Real Cat with microchip and all!

007 First Light has sold 4 million copies

Golden Axe has some inherent silliness in it, but it's minimal. So it's strange to go into this direction which is apparently all comedy. Before I clicked this, was hoping for more of a Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal vibe....and yeeeeeah, this ain't that.

Lunistice is $1.99 on Steam buff.ly/qZBiWUc

For as much as Valnet is fucking up everything, I want to match that energy with some thank god Kotaku is still Kotaku. Just sharp blogs about stuff that is actually worth thinking about.

My pitch? Reacher Who. It's Doctor Who but he's huge and violent. Don't steal this idea

I'm faster with Godot. I don't have a good explanation for Why, since all the usual But Unreal Has All The Tooling! etc. But. I spent half a decade dragging to get anything done with Unreal, and then I popped over to Godot and just stood up another project in like a week? It's less "noisy" for me?

To be fair I knew this was going to happen thats what I was talking about

August 20 2002, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 debuted on the N64 in the Americas(exclusively)! Not only was this the last official N64 game published, its release came 8 months after any other N64 game (Bomberman 64 Arcade) and almost a YEAR after the Gamecube and Playstation 1&2 versions were released!

That attitude made more sense when it would have been the only game with good netcode. If this had come out pre pandemic it'd be the fighting game forever. But it didn't.

Savages staff CDPR. Funny and biting, no-nonsense people (Eastern European). One of them called me "the vagina woman" loudly across the JW Marriott lobby after I broke the Witcher 3 realistic vagina story (yes). Chud gamers will not fare well against them.

Agammemnon bought his armor at the place where guys would get murdered out Chrysler 300 wraps in 2009

Also, while we can’t promise anything bc money, happy to share that we have had a plan in place to bring the game to physical discs since long before the events of ~this year~, and we still have every intention of doing so!

SimCity OST added to Nintendo Music music.nintendo.com/en-US/playli...

As an aside, this game has made $300 million in 4 months.

in the duskbloods network test. straight up “zorking it”. and by “it” haha, well. let’s justr say. My PvPvE.

Thanks for FOURTY THOUSAND wishlists on Layers Deep! There are only three of us makin this lil game and it's crazy to think that 40,000 people have interest in playing it. Thank you ❤️🧅.

To me, this is complaining that the singer in a band is only singing and not also playing bass, guitar, and drums. Submitting to the movement and music of others -- and getting into sync with that -- is what these games are great at. The others just happen to be a developer creating a wall of sound.

Been really enjoying Sinking City 2. Just really solid survival horror stuff. Great lore, scares, atmos, writing, etc. I do miss the dialog trees from the first game, and there's a distinct lack of music throughout, but overall it's a big step up in terms of control, performance and graphics!

Charles Melton is in talks to star as Kakashi in the live-action ‘NARUTO’ movie. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. (Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...)

Owen Cooper is being eyed to star in Ridley Scott's ‘TREASURE ISLAND’ alongside Hugh Jackman. (Source: collider.com/ridley-scott...)

Max Payne 3 is $5.99 on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/204100/M... TEARS · HEALTH www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_Y...

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 | Official Teaser #3 | Netflix (Oct 20th) www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyeH...

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Everything is coming up Hazel.

Get movin', get groovin' to tracks from SimCity on #NintendoMusic! 🎶 Tune in today: ninten.do/6017aMcOv

i'm obsessed with this whole line up. i keep looking at the roster and laughing to myself every few minutes. this rules. fuck yes.

What the fuck www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-t...

The Guardian: "The Duskbloods is released on 24 September" www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

Remember, you can't spell "teamwork" without "ork meat"

SNAP is a federal program, and the mayor of New York City has no control over its funding. So jot that down.

I just picked up my tux for the *checks notes* Undertale Symphony

remembering this and smiling fondly

Off to Chicago for the sold out Live Show! Ready to eat tavern style pizza, see Pokémon fossils (yes that's a thing), and find some Żurek. Can't wait to see you there!

Dave Bautista officially cast as Kratos in Sony and Amazon's live action 'GOD OF WAR' series ➡️ variety.com/2026/tv/news... #GodofWar

Near the homeland, last April Kono Orwo etc 200 Nikon n80 #filmphotography

you have surpassed even the fluff. i hereby assign you the designation of big fluff

My only contribution to the current games writing discourse Please learn to live with the discomfort of someone confident in not liking what you like That is a YOU problem YOU YOUUUUU

The floppy blonde fringe bishieness of Shin Kazama strikes again. Shin is very pretty tho. 💜 📖: Super Play October 1993

Renderware: one of those game engine logos you'd often see in early 2000s games intros, especially for the PS2 where it was a boon to those struggling with how that console did things with graphics. At its peak in 2003, Renderware claimed they held 70% of the market for external middleware.

they should let you fuck a bear man in GTA

i think it's bad that we don't have transparent info about seemingly anything anymore!

i got yelled at a little bit but mostly the response to the kh doc has been positive so thank you. sorry for also kicking off discourse with it but that’s unfortunately inevitable. us kh fans will argue about anything.

Ariana Grande slams Donald Trump’s team for using “we can’t be friends (wait for your love)” in a recent video: "Never use my music again. Also, your truth is false."

This for me is the root of why Godot is great and its audience is growing.. it’s like UT Engine, Unity 3… it’s good because nobody has broken it yet. We’ll see how it holds. I’m optimistic given some of the calls I’ve seen the community make.

New sesh of our first-time playthrough of Majora's Mask, N64 version. And we've got otherworldly encounters ahead of us! More than ever, Majora feels like a spiritual successor to Link's Awakening in how much oddball stuff it has fun playing around with.

$62m raised for charity, a sanctuary for marginalised gamers, and a platform for indies: Why @gamesdonequick.com is a beacon of hope for the gaming community www.eurogamer.net/games-done-q...

how i look to the person i'm Zooming with when i hit "Leave" and forget i have to hit another button to confirm

YES! only 2 conventionally hot people and a bunch of FREAKS YES

Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! - Switch 2 reveal (out Sept 14) www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2AR...

i spent three years learning to play the bass so my child could scare the bejeesus out of me mid-recording also baby trading sim has merch now theyetee.com/collections/...

Another place I have been regularly haunting for the past year. I meet bikers and dogs. Phoenix II Mamiya 645 Pro TL #filmphotography

The swish Commodore Amiga of 1990: the then-just launched Amiga 3000. The high-end creative and professional choice with a 68030 processor, chip and fast RAM, a scan-doubler for VGA monitors, and 68881 FPU. 📖: Joystick Magazine, June 1990.