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does levels ๐ธ a highland song ๐ธ tron: catalyst ๐ธ she/they ๐ธ avi by @aurahack
Joined July 2012
pinned tweet, places i live online that aren't here. ๐ธweb site: ๐ธtiny blog: ๐ธblue: ๐ธold games:
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i think as a society we need to accept that Jack Black is a Chris Pratt now.
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It is my firm belief that these are the greatest two sentences ever written
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Corporate brainrot is removing your game from sale from nearly 200 countries instead of admitting your account system is unnecessary.
Helldivers 2 has been pulled from sale in 177 countries as its PSN linking requirement rolls out.
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There are too many people I'm like. we're not close enough to dm or know where to find each other off platform but I'd feel the emptiness of not getting to passively follow their lives when Twitter dies. That's gonna suck.
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some absolutely disgusting lighting going on in that bug game
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the Titanfall 2 Northstar client has a custom mode where BT yeets you into the map at the start of every round and it absolutely owns
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I was looking through a (shockingly dense) potential map for this and came across an honest-to-god working bathroom mirror in this charmingly dismal stand-up / jazz club
new stream series where I take people on walking tours of ancient Source maps.
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Who are the developers/publishers looking at the overwhelming negative reaction to other NFT projects in games going "maybe OURS will be the one that lands".
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it's cool that we have an entire executive class of people who are immune to the consequences of their poorly considered whims or terrible foresight but can immediately decimate the livelihoods of people engaging in real, tangible labour.
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15 seconds into this clip yer man says "nobody cared about elden ring's graphics but it's elden ring, graphics aren't important" like elden ring wasn't an absolute triumph of visual splendour.
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Why the fuck did Epic buy Bandcamp. Why is it gutting it now. Why is it never enough to just have a good website that does one good thing.
BREAKING: Epic Games lays off roughly 50% of Bandcamp amidst its sale to Songtradr. The Fortnite maker purchased the music platform just last year but is now spinning it off amid massive cost cutting.
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The problem with video games is nobody knows how they're made.
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absolutely shook that the UK's "we're not racist" report includes lines like "sometimes it's just these people's own fault that they're inferior"
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Imagine coming for the queers in a mech community.
BattleTech community closes ranks to support the creators of an LGBTQ fanzine
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dinnae fash yerself, here's a wee Horizon cosplay. #ApexLegends .#ApexLegendsCosplay.@PlayApex @ElleNewlands
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The Finals has an utterly inscrutable vibe. Its sole defining aesthetic is "the idea of esports", but in moments it almost channels Mirror's Edge's vibrant urban architecture. It's put tremendous effort into physics and environmental destruction, but cheaps out with AI voices.
The Finals is such a weird game because so much of it feels like a cynical cash grab but it also feels like something from an EA sizzle reel 8 years ago and the destructible physics are fantastic.
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Peter Molyneux reckons AI will "be a real game changer" in the future of games, and it'll "allow anyone" to make an entire title with a single prompt.
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"A team of 3 on a dime" with expensive camera equipment, costuming, studio space, an existing pipeline for distributing online video to an audience, and artwork stolen from a full anime production house for stable diffusion "referencing".
Before/after of Corridor's latest AI video is wild. They shot video on greenscreen, made virtual sets in Unreal, then reskinned it to anime by finetuning Stable Diffusion. Net result? 120 VFX shots done by a team of 3 on a dime. Bravo! This is a milestone in creative technology๐งต
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we finally living in a world where "how to disable police robots without getting your bones crushed" advice is showing up on the feed.
PSA: if you or someone nearby are being brutalized by a police Spot robot and can get a hand or something underneath, grab this handle and yank it forward. This releases the battery, instantly disabling the robot. Keep your hands away from joints, Spot WILL crush your fingers.
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the SBMM discourse is so nakedly driven by people who need to farm easier games to fuel the Content Mill and falls apart immediately the second you consider what it's like for the newer players getting stomped on.
call of duty streamers getting mad about SBMM is inarguably the funniest gaming discourse. beautiful content every time. grown men furious that as they get stronger they must fight stronger opponents. listen to yourselves man. what would goku think.
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bro how is your takeaway from this "we need to double down on live service.". you spent *eight years* on Concord and it died on drop.
sony is shutting down firewalk studios, the developer of concord. the game launched a couple months ago and was taken offline two weeks later following poor sales. at the time, firewalk said it would "explore options" to reach players. now here we are.
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It is March 2017, and you're reading a thread on BOTW weapon durability. It is June 2021, and you're reading a thread on BOTW weapon durability. It is January 2023, and you're reading a thread on BOTW weapon durability.
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this is what games should look like
Water Hazard is objectively the best part of HL2 do not try to fight me.
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you can put Jet Set Radio Future music on top of Rollerdrome and nobody is legally allowed to stop you.
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Starfield adoring fan isn't real and cannot harm me. Starfield adoring fan isn't real and cannot harm me. Starfield adoring fan isn't real and cannot harm m--
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You could never let yourself dream of having your game popping off in the way Helldivers popped off. Incredible levels of foot-shooting going on here.
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I have a gnawing concern that there might be more intuituve ways to work within 3D space than text entry.
3D designers are going to love this. This is ChatGPT for Unity. & Itโs available for everyone to try๐.
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We really gotta stop acting like videogames popped out of the ground yesterday
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When I tell people AI chuds are the same people who said NFTs and The Metaverse were "inevitable", "the future", I mean it. It's the same grift with different names.
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Man, I remember when I worked at the Dundee studio that handles Minecraft's console versions, and every time Notch Did A Tweet the most unsettling silence hit the room.
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Wake me up .(Wake me up inside).Can't wake up.(Mambo numer five).
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at this point how do you see an acquisition as anything other than an active threat.
Bloomberg: Take-Two Interactive plans to shut down Intercept Games (Kerbal Space Program 2) and Roll7 (Rollerdrome, OlliOlli World) as part of a mass layoff
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on mastodon people are lecturing about the importance of "boosting" posts so the spiderweb of instances can find each other. on cohost there's a css WinAmp player with a sailor moon skin.
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Seen a few places describe Cyperbunk as "eurojank" now, and I'm simply not sure that label of "high ambitions, low budget" applies to a company with Keanu Reeves money.
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@Dracosfire7 oh no yeah like I cannot imagine it's great to be a dev on this game and watching all your work get kneecapped by publisher overreach.
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when I'm president of Apex I'm annihilating this building from the game.
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Game characters are not, and *should not*, attempt to be fully dynamic all-knowing facsimiles of people. They are better for being deliberate, for every line being carefully chosen by a real human writer.
if the NPC actually could talk with you about anything, maybe then you'd finally realise that you play games bc they're limited and contained and not at all like real life.
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And here was me worried Halo Infinite wasn't going to be -great-
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Why do these people so hate the idea that a story could be authored, that art is a deliberate act.
pre-written NPC dialogue in games is gonna seem so quaint in like 6 months.
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Apex really had a character look the camera dead in the eye and say "i'm transgender".
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Very funny to see that he did actually get banned from matchmaking for talking about Deadlock. But people are already talking about Deadlock. They let you freely invite any and all of your friends. There are no guards against leaking beyond a "please don't talk about this" pop-up.
We played Valveโs secret new shooter: Deadlock. Itโs like Overwatch, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 all baked into a pie
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When we say AI grifters are exactly the same people as nft/blockchain/crypto grifters.
Developers in generative AI are eying how the tech could help items transfer between games.
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I adore BG3 but it winning awards set aside for indie games would be criminal, even if it *technically* counts.
Casual reminder that Baldurโs Gate 3 is very much an independent game.
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Rollerdrome was so fucking good man.
you can put Jet Set Radio Future music on top of Rollerdrome and nobody is legally allowed to stop you.
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posting "they gotta bring this guy back" in 2019 and looking into 2024 with pure horror.
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QRT'ing "trans rights are human rights" is cool and all, but you know what's even cooler?. Giving us meaningful employment.
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While this does show more "polished" play, I'm so here for them showing Skate this early, in these greyboxed prototype clips. Keep demystifying game dev thanks.
we're ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ working on it, but it's time for you to see what we've been up to. become a skate. insider and sign-up for playtesting at ๐น
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i would simply play games that don't fund and promote transphobes but that's just me.
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I dunno, I'm not trying to be a buzzkill but this came in the post a few days ago and it feels very telling that not a single woman appears in a list of "the voices that defined 30 years of PC Gamer.".
Celebrate 30 years of PC Gamer magazine with us in our latest magazine issue. Look back on three glorious decades of being your trusted source for all things PC gaming. โจ OUT TODAY โจ
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Please remember that this doesn't stop with Kotick, and it doesn't stop with Activision.
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This makes Infinite Seinfeld so much funnier, knowing the creators are treating it as 100% earnest.
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Nobody's confused. I have never seen a community *less* confused. Everyone perfectly understands the shit you're trying to pull, this is an unprecedented moment of everyone at every scale of game development telling you this dogshit policy needed to be rolled back a week ago.
We have heard you. We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy we announced on Tuesday caused. We are listening, talking to our team members, community, customers, and partners, and will be making changes to the policy. We will share an update in a couple of.
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So, big news time. Today is my last day at @pcgamer - and, for the foreseeable, my last day in games media! After 5 years of writing about games, it's time to start making them again. After a wee break, I'll be helping @inkleStudios.as a level designer on @AHighlandSong !!
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Influence on my career:. โ ใใ. โใ . โใ . โใ. โ ใใ. โ ๏ผฟ .Me Tweets A Degree.
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can't believe the trans apex character shoots gender fluid from her wrists.
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a game where you're Columbo solving a Hitman player's last murder.
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A chap once told me about the king of kings, Ozymandias, who dared travellers to look on his works, ye mighty, and despair! Well I reckon ol' Ozzy's vast and trunkless legs would be quaking in their boots if he got a look at tonight's steely competitors
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"yellow paint in games is bad" coward take. you should be making games about the brave lesbians risking life and love to survey cliffsides and mark safe passages with yellow paint.
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omg babe you're so brave ๐ญ consume that media babe, art is dead, money isn't real ๐ง โก you GO girl the ethical concerns of oppressed groups don't mean SHIT ๐ฉ facing the social consequences of consumer actions that harm marginalised people is CRINGE ๐.
Don't like J. K. Rowling? Then don't play Hogwarts Legacy. But to act like you're better than people who want to play a Harry Potter game? Literally go fuck yourself.
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So I assume you have some real positive depictions of trans and genderqueer people in your game to counter this , right?. Right?. (From: )
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In light of the twitter news, I will be moving future content to the only social media space worth a damn.
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This has been getting dunked in in some circles all day, but I feel the thing about this clip is less the visual fidelity being remarkable and more just. We don't often see the graphics developments we've made used to render deeply mundane, normal, real world spaces.
oh my god amsterdam looks *incredibly* realistic in the new call of duty โ almost canโt believe this is a video game
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If I were an industry that constantly brags about how it's making more money than film and bigger than ever, I simply wouldn't routinely lay off thousands of people.
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hey remember when waypoint had a successful subscription-based model with several podcasts, a streaming schedule and website editorial and Vice gutted them anyway?.
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STRAFTAT rules so much man. Feels like a game you'd find snuck onto the school library computers. Real "obscure flash game exclusively played by French teenagers" vibes
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Hi! I'm currently looking to speak to queer game developers in the wake of last weekend's oft-hostile reception to Boyfriend Dungeon, and the friction queer works face from their own audiences. My DMs are open, or you can email me at natalie[dot]clayton[at]futurenet[dot]com.
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making a lady who develops custom MIDI soundfonts for obscure PC shooters from 1995 out of her girlfriend's truck.
Made a lady who'll let you pet her massive dogs in exchange for helping out with the gardening
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We really don't talk enough about how good the writing in Sable is
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Is your target audience going to see a nuanced depiction of an all-consuming culture that hypersexualises queer bodies for profit?. Or are they gonna chortle at the chick with a dick.
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"Science dinnae sleep, and neither do we. right N.E.W.T?". Took a wee trip out to World's Edge (which, it turns out, is just a few miles east of Dunfermline) for a cheeky little shoot in the Horizon suit!. ๐ธ: @alasdairw .#ApexLegends .#HorizonApexLegends
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"These selfish protesters take up thousands of hours of police resource.". Home Secretary @SuellaBraverman on why the Public Order Bill is essential โฌ๏ธ
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Said as much at the Edinburgh one but it's wild how every pro-trans protest is a roaring, diverse crowd, while terfs can barely muster a half-dozen miserable middle-class English columnists. We're winning.
This isn't even the whole protest! There are *so so many* people here! It's incredible and the roar of the crowd can be heard throughout the entire city centre.
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