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Axe of the Blood God - An RPG Podcast @bloodgodpod.bsky.social · 43m

I'd tell you to check out our episode all about our favourite ghosts in RPGs but it looks like that sad, pale, Victorian child right behind you needs something...

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Thomas Nickel @tapirfortuna.bsky.social · 1h

The PlayStation-version of Konami's Tokimeki Memorial was released 30 years ago today - and one can certainly argue that it was this version, that made the game a real phenomenon. It's a shame Konami still hasn't offered a localized Version of this highly influential classic.

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Victor von Hunter @victorehunter.bsky.social · 1h

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 1d

"pixelart game, mixed resolutions"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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台羽正 @tadashidaiba.bsky.social · 19h

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Victor von Hunter @victorehunter.bsky.social · 19h

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshot of the iOS version of the Final Fantasy IV 3D Remake. Cecil the dark knight has been turned to a frog. He thinks to himself “Can this mountain truly wash away my bloodstained past?”

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Victor von Hunter @victorehunter.bsky.social · 1d

pretty funny that my pursuit of voice acting is partly a response to my career in theatre, where my work is ephemeral and trapped in an unrepeatable time and place, only to have my single biggest voice role and my proudest achievement be for a game that was delisted and wiped from existence 🤷‍♂️

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Victor von Hunter @victorehunter.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely not. This will be a bad video game.
But there’s no way I can resist the siren song of a final fantasy go especially one set in trendy urban spaces and if the roster gives me my under-appreciated favs.

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Victor von Hunter @victorehunter.bsky.social · 1d

the only thing that could get me to give disney a cent is my love for tron so its nice to know i dont need to bother

dead domain 🐐🏳️‍⚧️ @domaindead.bsky.social · 2d

TRON Ares is one of the most unsurprising, blatant pieces of corporate propaganda I've ever seen, and what started as a review turned into something of an essay on why the franchise meant so much to me, and why I'm not surprised.

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TRON Ares: Killing Art For Propaganda

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dead domain 🐐🏳️‍⚧️ @domaindead.bsky.social · 2d

TRON Ares is one of the most unsurprising, blatant pieces of corporate propaganda I've ever seen, and what started as a review turned into something of an essay on why the franchise meant so much to me, and why I'm not surprised.

Premiere soon:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=slkq...

TRON Ares: Killing Art For Propaganda

YouTube video by Dead Domain

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Victor von Hunter @victorehunter.bsky.social · 1d

If this is a pokemon go it has the potential to destroy me

Nova Crystallis @novacrystallis.com · 1d

Square Enix teases 'a new Dissidia Final Fantasy title' for iOS/Android. More information to be revealed October 14, 2025: novacrystallis.com/2025/10/squa...

Square Enix teases a new Dissidia Final Fantasy title for iOS/Android - Nova Crystallis

This evening, Square Enix has teased an announcement for “a new Dissidia Final Fantasy” title for iOS and Android devices. Described as a “Team Boss Battle Arena” type of game, more information will b...

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Schera Wyss 💀 FERAL BLOOD DOLL @scherawyss.bsky.social · 2d

Hot gamedev take, but I hate maps filled w markers and bullshit that ruins all the discovery. It puts the player on autopilot. Let me mark important stuff myself!!

Schera Wyss 💀 FERAL BLOOD DOLL @scherawyss.bsky.social · 2d

Every RPG should let you write notes directly on the map

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Victor von Hunter @victorehunter.bsky.social · 2d

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 2d

The Assassin’s Creed series was a canary in the coal mine for our modern, engagement-obsessed world. @ckunzelman.bsky.social explains:

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Victor von Hunter @victorehunter.bsky.social · 2d

I’m enjoying it so far! And I’m just jealous cuz *I* want to do an entire FF series playthrough and podcast about it

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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 2d

I don't associate SQEX with this level of reverance. I associate them with Dragon Quest remasters that fast-forward the Epic Journey and term that a value-add

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Louisa @laranoa.bsky.social · 2d

Tbh if you make a co-op game that doesn't have local co-op you shouldn't be allowed to call it a co-op game. Thats live service

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Daywalker Ratt @hoodrattanak.bsky.social · 3d

duolingo announced an anime but i hope yall don’t forget how the CEO shoved his head up AIs butthole and fired a bunch of human translators and language experts. don’t let that stupid streak hold you hostage

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merritt @merrittk.com · 4d

i wrote an instruction manual for a fictional CD-i game where you play as an executive at a company that produces RC cars in the 90s 1900hotdog.com/2025/10/nerd...

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 3d

another Microsoft employee has quit in protest today, sending an email to thousands of colleagues. Protesters are also on campus and have unfurled two banners, criticizing Microsoft's contracts with the Israeli government www.theverge.com/news/797948/...

Another Microsoft employee quits in protest.

The No Azure for Apartheid group are at Microsoft’s campus again today, protesting against the company’s continued contracts with the Israeli government after it blocked some cloud and AI services. Sc...

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Victor von Hunter @victorehunter.bsky.social · 3d

I'm loving this journey

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 4d

A peek at GAME FREAK (Yep, *that* Game Freak!) tips 'zine issue 22 from 1985 where the solution to arcade Time Gal is lovingly and painstakingly illustrated and written out scene-by scene. 💜

A scan of the photocopied zine with an illustration of protag Reikas sat coly with legs crossed and a marker pen held in one hand, with cheeky doodles drawn over the game's villain's face and a piece of paper. "Time Stop!"

A snap of one of the pages, with painstakingly drawn recreations of hte various scenes of the QTE based animated footage gameplay with directional inputs for each of them.

Another snap of inked illustrations of Reika in one scene and line artworks in the other. Directional inputs can be seen below.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 4d

An old photoshopped image I previously posted to Cohost of a fake YouTube video titled, "2 Hours of Shiori Fujisaki Rejections to Fall Asleep to." The thumbnail depicts Tokimeki Memorial's own Shiori Fujisaki standing at the school gates at the end of the day, rejecting your character's offer to walk home together. As icing on the cake, the fake user icon is a picture of Tokimeki Memorial's crazed science girl Yuina, as depicted in the puzzle game spinoff Taisen Puzzle-dama.

It's one of the dumbest posts I ever ran on there and I'm still proud of it and completely forget I'd ever made it until browsing through my pictures folder just now instead of finishing this translation assignment I'm supposed to deliver.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 4d

As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 4d

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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