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Chris Kovach @chriskov.bsky.social · 4h

It's like they asked a LLM how to make it as bad as possible

Chris Kovach @chriskov.bsky.social · 16h

The demo for Absolum is VERY fun. store.steampowered.com/app/1904480/...

Fight as the outcast heroes of Talamh in a fierce battle to retake magic from Sun King Azra’s grasp in Absolum, an original roguelite beat ‘em up by Dotemu.

store.steampowered.com

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Jordan Middler @jordanmiddler.bsky.social · 1d

One of the top 5 games of the decade.

Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com · 1d

Alan Wake 2 is available on PlayStation Plus!

Premium, Extra, and Essential PS+ subscribers can access the game starting today. #AlanWake2

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Chris Kovach @chriskov.bsky.social · 2d

Chris Kovach @chriskov.bsky.social · 3d

Where's the Manbreaker?

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3d

Baby Steps is a pretty kind game because if you get to a part that really sucks it’s usually because you don’t have to do it and choosing to do it is like standing in front of a pitching machine aimed directly at your nads.

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Chris Kovach @chriskov.bsky.social · 4d

100%

Foone @foone.bsky.social · 4d

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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Chris Kovach @chriskov.bsky.social · 7d

Baby Steps is the Skate of walking simulators.

Chris Kovach @chriskov.bsky.social · 7d

100%

dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 7d

It's getting harder to imagine a world where EA and Ubisoft don't collapse and sell of significant amount of their IP in the next five years.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 7d

Eurogamer: Ubisoft and Tencent announce new subsidiary, Vantage Studios, to lead development for the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Six franchises

www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-and-...

Chris Kovach @chriskov.bsky.social · 8d

10/10 game

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Chris Kovach @chriskov.bsky.social · 8d

That’s absolutely fair. In some cases it can be more fun to watch someone else give it a go.

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Chris Kovach @chriskov.bsky.social · 8d

Damn, Baby Steps is so freaking good.

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Chris Kovach @chriskov.bsky.social · 8d

Yoooo! Congrats!!

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Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com · 8d

FBC: FIREBREAK FUTURE ROADMAP 💥 Voice chat, a new roguelike mode, a new Crisis Kit and more. Take a look at what's coming. #FBCFirebreak

FBC: Firebreak Future Roadmap 2025-2026.

November '25 Major Update "Rogue Protocol". Contains:
Endless Shift, an all-new roguelike mode.
Voice chat
CONTROL-themed Armor Sets
And More!

December: game balance improvements.

March '26 Major Update.
Contains:
New Crisis Kit
Crisis Kit synergy improvements
And a lot more!

Additional 2026 updates to be communicated later.

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rat posting from the lab @gizmouse.bsky.social · 9d

academy award contending tiktok

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Chris Kovach @chriskov.bsky.social · 9d

Can you make a full sad dad deck?

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 9d

I'd argue it's such a big number that it's not meant to be realistic for operating a company. They're just simply going to go under paying that debt off. It's not a question of if, but how soon.

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 9d

$20,000,000,000 of debt financing is a shockingly large number to have to service, while also transitioning from a public to private organization and all the implications that has on the people that work in it.

We've obviously never seen anything like this at this scale in the industry before.

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 9d

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 12d

So I just did the math it seems they're short a bit

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 12d

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market.

Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers.

How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.

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Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com · 14d

With our first Major Update coming to FBC: Firebreak very soon, we want to take a moment to go through the changes to the game’s economy and progression.

Read our latest blog post for the details: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2272540/view/530984095140809424?l=english

#FBCFirebreak

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15d

Selling this was only ever about limiting the ability to see Palestinians being murdered in real time. This has been laid bare, but it no longer matters, and they China will now transfer ownership to a series of purveyors of the American surveillance state, and war crimes will no longer be visible.

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 16d

According to the Whitehouse, TikTok's new U.S. entity would lease and "retrain" TikTok's fame algorithm from Chinese owner ByteDance under the terms of a yet-to-be-completed deal between the U.S. and China. www.axios.com/2025/09/22/t...