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· Sep 11
PC Gamer Vol. 4, Issue 3 - Diablo [S1E13]
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GOOOOOOOOD FUNFACTOR EVENING!
@pcgamer.com’s March 1997 review of Diablo 1, and their accompanying year-end game awards, garner some of our highest marks yet.
Check out the slide-enhanced version of our latest episode is right here: youtu.be/RECEW8uvsSU?...
@pcgamer.com’s March 1997 review of Diablo 1, and their accompanying year-end game awards, garner some of our highest marks yet.
Check out the slide-enhanced version of our latest episode is right here: youtu.be/RECEW8uvsSU?...
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I was listening to an episode of @funfactorpod.com (which is really great, btw you guys should have me on) where they're talking about Edge magazine issue 16 and they had an interesting convo regarding this letter sent into Edge and their reply. I'm screenshotting / transcribing below:
November 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I was listening to an episode of @funfactorpod.com (which is really great, btw you guys should have me on) where they're talking about Edge magazine issue 16 and they had an interesting convo regarding this letter sent into Edge and their reply. I'm screenshotting / transcribing below:
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You’re last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
You’re last saved meme is your moral philosophy
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-100's of games launch on Steam every week
-There aren't enough writers to cover them
-Pubs/devs don't always respond to emails from excited writers
-Editors can't always afford to pay for reviews/features
Please don't rush to blame writers/sites when something niche isn't covered. We're trying.
-There aren't enough writers to cover them
-Pubs/devs don't always respond to emails from excited writers
-Editors can't always afford to pay for reviews/features
Please don't rush to blame writers/sites when something niche isn't covered. We're trying.
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
-100's of games launch on Steam every week
-There aren't enough writers to cover them
-Pubs/devs don't always respond to emails from excited writers
-Editors can't always afford to pay for reviews/features
Please don't rush to blame writers/sites when something niche isn't covered. We're trying.
-There aren't enough writers to cover them
-Pubs/devs don't always respond to emails from excited writers
-Editors can't always afford to pay for reviews/features
Please don't rush to blame writers/sites when something niche isn't covered. We're trying.
We’re a podcast about old gaming mags, and yup
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We’re a podcast about old gaming mags, and yup
Ride this wave this Friday morning!!
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Ride this wave this Friday morning!!
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minutes after halting trading on all your shares and postponing your earnings report, on a thursday afternoon, is a heck of a time to send out a marketing email titled “did someone say black friday??” advertising sales “up to 90% off”
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
minutes after halting trading on all your shares and postponing your earnings report, on a thursday afternoon, is a heck of a time to send out a marketing email titled “did someone say black friday??” advertising sales “up to 90% off”
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This thread provides actual knowledge for things that I had a vague gut feeling about -- and many things that never would have occurred to me -- about the more affordable Japanese PS5. But Japanese Gen Z playing 3DS more than PS5 illustrates how much of an uphill battle *Sony* faces at home.
It brought a younger audience who hadn’t looked at a PlayStation in over a decade back, but there lies the problem
It’s been true for a few years but was reaffirmed in the industry report this year, but young people do not care for PlayStation. At all
Gen Z (now almost 30), plays 3DS more than PS5
It’s been true for a few years but was reaffirmed in the industry report this year, but young people do not care for PlayStation. At all
Gen Z (now almost 30), plays 3DS more than PS5
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This thread provides actual knowledge for things that I had a vague gut feeling about -- and many things that never would have occurred to me -- about the more affordable Japanese PS5. But Japanese Gen Z playing 3DS more than PS5 illustrates how much of an uphill battle *Sony* faces at home.
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1802: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine
2025: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine
2025: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
1802: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine
2025: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine
2025: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine
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The console wars are back, baby!!
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The console wars are back, baby!!
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Super Mario World has an extremely eclectic art style whereby many enemies are drawn in completely different ways. Development files reveal Mario went through many stylistic changes; it is possible that all the enemies were made to fit Mario, but at different points in time.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Super Mario World has an extremely eclectic art style whereby many enemies are drawn in completely different ways. Development files reveal Mario went through many stylistic changes; it is possible that all the enemies were made to fit Mario, but at different points in time.
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More of you should be regularly talking about @funfactorpod.com, honestly.
I need video games people to talk about more than the same three things every week
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
More of you should be regularly talking about @funfactorpod.com, honestly.
!! let’s gooooooooo
We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
The art of GamePro | VGHF Library Highlights
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November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
!! let’s gooooooooo
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We got a labor movement before GTA6
Following firings and Grand Theft Auto VI delay, union plans to keep pressure on Rockstar
aftermath.site/grand-theft-au...
aftermath.site/grand-theft-au...
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We got a labor movement before GTA6
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sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.
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Fwiw, I actually asked Yoshinori Kitase about this in an interview two years ago and he laughed and literally just said "Tell me why you want that."
Seeing Square Enix continue to make gacha Dissidia games when they could just make Dissidia Final Fantasy Warriors...... man
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Fwiw, I actually asked Yoshinori Kitase about this in an interview two years ago and he laughed and literally just said "Tell me why you want that."
“Website different” takes SO much time and effort.
Despite the ravages of age and an internet steeped in misinformation, your eyes – in this one case – do not deceive you: Website different. It’s taken an immense amount of time and effort, but welcome to Aftermath version 2.0:
aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...
aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Website different” takes SO much time and effort.
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This is what Sid Meier sounds like, right?
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is what Sid Meier sounds like, right?
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Hot CRT action.
Thought I would join the CRT gang with pictures of my favourite Final Fantasy.
Still working around the proper settings with my phone camera, taken with a Galaxy S25 on a Toshiba 28N33F.
Still working around the proper settings with my phone camera, taken with a Galaxy S25 on a Toshiba 28N33F.
November 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Hot CRT action.
This is what Sid Meier sounds like, right?
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is what Sid Meier sounds like, right?
Hey, everyone: Your FunFactor Fuesday and/or GOOD FUNFACTOR MORNING are sliiiiiiightly delayed, but coming very soon!
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Hey, everyone: Your FunFactor Fuesday and/or GOOD FUNFACTOR MORNING are sliiiiiiightly delayed, but coming very soon!
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life is imitating video games, all our society’s most notorious criminals are now also somehow our most severe hotties
October 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
life is imitating video games, all our society’s most notorious criminals are now also somehow our most severe hotties
shooters shoot
Would @square-enix-games.com like to sponsor @funfactorpod.com and send us free games and early access to FF7 Remake 3? DM me if interested.
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
shooters shoot
multiple editors at worker-owned outlets posting pitch guides this week, we absolutely love to see it
hi all, the awaited day has come: I'm looking for freelance writers to pitch Inverse Gaming for end-of-year coverage! namely, I'm looking for someone to contribute our best of RPGs this year list ($350), and pitch us on some year-end lookback essays ($500+). please pitch me: [email protected]
October 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
multiple editors at worker-owned outlets posting pitch guides this week, we absolutely love to see it
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying when he said Schala Zeal and her younger brother Janus (late Magus) have purple hair, yet when pressed he admits that Chrono Cross canonically stated members of the Zeal royal family have blonde hair which they dye purple.
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood the differences between が and は, yet when pressed he said they both served as topic markers while failing to see the nuance between subject and topic marker, as well as contextual clarity provided by postposition particles.
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying when he said Schala Zeal and her younger brother Janus (late Magus) have purple hair, yet when pressed he admits that Chrono Cross canonically stated members of the Zeal royal family have blonde hair which they dye purple.
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This is a harder pattern but you can get through it if you hug the right and just weave up and down as the balls spread out. Good to save a bomb for this one if you can.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is a harder pattern but you can get through it if you hug the right and just weave up and down as the balls spread out. Good to save a bomb for this one if you can.