Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷
@toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk
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Curated game news for game workers & gamers I run @LostInCult.co.uk's games label + Marketing Dir. • Indie Mixtape creator • Debug IGA winner • BAFTA full Member • ex Super Rare/Numskull/journo • indies + physicals ❤️🏳️‍🌈 [email protected]
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I am incredibly proud to announce EDITIONS - our better, different answer to physical games.

A preservation and design focused imprint that redefines what a physical game is.

All details at the link - shaking with pride right now. This is my life's work. ❤️
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I'm actually playing Silent Hill f in much more appropriately spoopy lighting, I promise
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oooh yes, that looks lovely, a lil bit Cave Story-esque, but only a tad and so clearly its own thing
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Chillin' with some Silent Hill f, finally!

Still stressing a bit about my difficulty option choice at the start - "Story" or "Hard" as your two options is a bit nuts. 🤔
Silent Hill f being played on a TV, with two multicoloured LED lights either side of the TV stand, and a coffee table in front of it with a lit candle on. In the foremost foreground, my leg is resting on a blue fabric legrest, with a laptop stand next to me with a Pepsi can on top. Several pictures hang on walls in the room, with a chair to the right lf the coffee table that has a Yu-Gi-Oh Blue-Eyes White Dragon jumper laid on top of it. A yellow locker cabinet is next to the right-side LED light, with a cabinet full of vinyl records to the right of that.
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Cosy late night read of The Best Life Adventure Games by @jupiterhadley.com ❤️

I was very honoured and lucky enough to have written the foreword - really enjoying reading through a lot of these entries. Pick up a copy if you're able!
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Cosy late night read of The Best Life Adventure Games by @jupiterhadley.com ❤️

I was very honoured and lucky enough to have written the foreword - really enjoying reading through a lot of these entries. Pick up a copy if you're able!
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Can't believe this new album from Greyhaven today. Already listened to it on repeat, like, 10 times.

Definitely an album of the year contender - I think we'll see it on a lot of year-end lists. Feels like this could be their equivalent Knocked Loose moment.
Album cover for "Keep it Quiet" from Greyhaven. The cover art features a child that appears to be wearing a helmet and dirty yellow overalls in the middle of a graveyard, with a hearse in the background, and the child's hands raised into the air
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A tiny, tiny pocket of the richest people will get even richer. Everyone else will suffer greatly. And that's worth it, apparently - Bezos says he sees the bubble bursting as potentially a good thing, because he has completed his transition to becoming Lex Luthor.
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This isn't to say AI is a fad and going to go away, like NFTs - it isn't.

But it is a bubble that will inevitably pop, leaving maybe just OpenAI, Google, Amazon etc winning and making money, while tens of thousands of businesses disappear over the AI mania, and the entire economy explodes. Yay.
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Love to have your job stolen by AI and then a recession caused by AI meaning you can't afford bills even if you had a job 👍
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The Bank of England has warned of a potential AI bubble pop, with economies lifted up by lofty expectations not expected to be met.

AI is not profitable, only benefits a tiny rich bubble, and we're burning the world for it - literally and figuratively.

(Read more: Futurism)
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If it's to be added to this press list, just DM me your email address and I'll add it on!
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Yes haha - all of Discord has been hacked, everyone's data is compromised. But new age verification rules means they have *more* personal data. Ireland also introduced a separate, similar law, so you probably had to verify your age on Discord too.
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I believe this is the first major data breach that has impacted new data acquired by the UK's verification laws.

UK journalists and politicians should be absolutely pouncing on this.
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Discord has suffered a major hack.

Specifically, the new age verification law in the UK means the group has access to user's IDs, ages, approximate location, selfies, and other personal information, with a plan to extort Discord.

(Read more: 404media)
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first of all, heck yeahhhh, wishlisted

second, I see someone remembers Skullpogo then!
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Yeahhh, it's the price of a Steam Deck on eBay, ooft!

For £90, I'd absolutely pick it up as a neat, interesting gimmick for playing games in a different way. For £265+ shipped... nooooo lol
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The Rubik's WOWCube - a Rubik's Cube with 24 LCD displays, that plays unique versions of games like Cut the Rope, 2048, and Space Invaders - has gone live for preorders.

(Read more: The Verge)
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The majority of gamers buy a maximum of two games a year, due to live service games.

Meanwhile, 1000s of indies compete for that limited attention, with the number of releases rising substantially each year.

Don't let anyone tell you getting an audience for your game is easy! 😂
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According to Circana, over 60% of gamers in the United States now buy two or fewer games per year as more shift focus to free-to-play titles like Fortnite.

For more from the report: bit.ly/3WqJJXw
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I don't think people get how hard this shit actually is. I know it looks like you just push a button and your game is on a disc, but alas, it is bureaucratic and complicated.

Excited by the positive reviews after disliking the original. Picking up the physical in December. 😘
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ah yes, sorry; yes, for context, the next day after that first short they released a version where thousands of Pikmin were visible. The first version they were invisible, because humans can't see Pikmin. The second one was not posted on their socials, just the app.
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Well, I mean, it straight up had thousands of Pikmin in it haha, so not so much "inspired by" as it was literally a new Pikmin animated short
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Nintendo has announced the recent Pikmin "Close to You" shorts were created by Nintendo Pictures, with more video content coming soon from the team.

Looks like those shorts were likely standalone proof-of-concepts, and not related to a game announcement.
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You're all good if you've been receiving the press releases fine already, yup!