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Alex Säfström
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I like cool art, and cool video games, and cool computers
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ryansimmons.bsky.social
Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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ambinate.bsky.social
why bother getting up in the morning anymore
news headline notification: "Google ends Dreamcast support - Google ended support for the Sega Dreamcast's 25-year-old web browser"
December 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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jojowiki.com
Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 1 airs on March 19, 2026! A new trailer plus Pocoloco and Sand Man's voice actors revealed.
jojo-news.com/2025/12/19/s...
Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Anime - New Trailer, Release Date, and More Cast Revealed
Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 1 airs on March 19, 2026! A new trailer plus Pocoloco and Sand Man's voice actors revealed.
jojo-news.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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catsharkchaireth.bsky.social
#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI
December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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lizardguy64.bsky.social
Hey you! Stop playing Fortnite!
News article snippet from May 30th 2025, written by Alice Linehan, that states "J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fun anti-trans organisation". Then a picture, then more text reading "J.K. Rowling is using her wealt to finance an organisation dedicated to removing trans rights. the Harry Potter Author has an" next line is cut out, but you get the picture.
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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bai.dev
So if you're going to be doomscrolling today, at least make it a journey through decades of community creativity that helped shaped gaming as we know it.

Maybe something you made is in here?

doomscroll.cx
DoomScroll — Browse, Preview, and Play Thousands of User-Made Doom WADs
Endlessly scroll through decades of user-made Doom maps. Preview and play WADs instantly in your browser.
doomscroll.cx
December 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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annacairistiona.bsky.social
I first played RE4 in 2023 and instantly fell in love with Leon's character. But apparently, when the OG came out, some fans blamed the EN translation for changing his character. In this month's blog, I set out to uncover if this was truly the case.

annacairistiona.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/d...
Did Resident Evil 4’s English Translation Really Butcher Leon’s Character?
A huge part of the original Resident Evil 4’s charm lies in its dialogue. Its script is chock-full of corny one-liners and cheesy comebacks, courtesy of its wisecracking protagonist, Leon S. Kenned…
annacairistiona.wordpress.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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silversoul164.bsky.social
huge day for worms
paranoodle.bsky.social paranoodle・play dirtbag mahjong! @paranoodle.bsky.social · 26d
some really good black friday deals today
a screenshot of a firefox tab labeled "save 10% on dirt"
December 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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splashygirl.bsky.social
#jjba
December 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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doodley.org
my shittiest take i've held for a while is that the game awards encapsulate everything holding back games from being respected as an art form
it's massively over-commercialized and prioritizes trailers far too much over the actual awards. products are emphasized over the actual people who make them
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 14d
It now reportedly costs over $1M to buy a 3-minute trailer at #TheGameAwards

Many nominated studios only get offered two tickets to attend

(via Kotaku)
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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dcellgames.com
🅉🄴🅁🄾 🄼🄾🄼🄴🄽🅃

"it's out. the road getting to this point really resembles what the game itself ended up becoming. if you give it a go, i love you for it."

- @rj.dcellgames.com , director / writer / music + sound lead / etc
beat. thank you
December 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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wario64.bsky.social
Katsuhiro Harada to leave Bandai Namco at end of the year
I’d like to share that I’ll be leaving Bandai Namco at the end of 2025. With the TEKKEN series reaching its 30th anniversary—an important milestone for a project I’ve devoted much of my life to—I felt this was the most fitting moment to bring one chapter to a close. My roots lie in the days when I supported small local tournaments in Japanese arcades and in small halls and community centers overseas. I still remember carrying arcade cabinets by myself, encouraging people to “Please try TEKKEN,” and directly facing the players right in front of me. The conversations and atmosphere we shared in those places became the core of who I am as a developer and game creator. Even as the times changed, those experiences have remained at the center of my identity. And even after the tournament scene grew much larger, many of you continued to treat me like an old friend—challenging me at venues, inviting me out for drinks at bars. Those memories are also deeply precious to me. In recent years, I experienced the loss of several close friends in my personal life, and in my professional life I witnessed the retirement or passing of many senior colleagues whom I deeply respect. Those accumulated events made me reflect on the “time I have left as a creator.” During that period, I sought advice from Ken Kutaragi—whom I respect as though he were another father—and received invaluable encouragement and guidance. His words quietly supported me in making this decision. Over the past four to five years, I’ve gradually handed over all of my responsibilities, as well as the stories and worldbuilding I oversaw, to the team, bringing me to the present day. Looking back, I was fortunate to work on an extraordinary variety of projects—VR titles (such as Summer Lesson), Pokkén Tournament, the SoulCalibur series, and many others, both inside and outside the company. Each project was full of new discoveries and learning, and every one of them became an irreplaceable experience for me. To everyone who has supported me, to communities around the world, and to all the colleagues who have walked alongside me for so many years, I offer my deepest gratitude. I’ll share more about my next steps at a later date. Thank you very much for everything. 【Postscript】 Although I will be leaving the company at the end of 2025, Bandai Namco has asked me to appear at the TWT Finals at the end of January 2026, so I expect to attend as a guest. For 30 years I kept saying, “I’ll do it someday,” and never once performed as a DJ at a tournament event. So instead, I will be releasing—for the first and last time—a 60-minute TEKKEN DJ-style nonstop mix (DJ mix), personally edited by myself, together with this announcement. Listening to it brings back many memories. Thank you again, sincerely, for all these years. ‘TEKKEN: A 30-Year Journey – Harada’s Final Mix’ by Katsuhiro Harada 1 is on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/pEYofA4yXOwyC7lj0O December 8, 2025 - The Final Day of TEKKEN’s 30th Anniversary - Katsuhiro Harada
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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theverge.com
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Another blow to PC gaming.
www.theverge.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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katrinal10n.bsky.social
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.

tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.

🧵⬇️
littlekuriboh.bsky.social LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 26d
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them

A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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debjitduttaart.bsky.social
What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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celechii.itch.io
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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colton-armstrong.bsky.social
I keep seeing people trying to play down the payment processor situation, saying it's only the extreme NSFW accounts getting sacked.

Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?

Also go support Nakufin.
nakufin.bsky.social Blu! Gone for a week! @nakufin.bsky.social · 26d
I'm devastated, if I don't find an alternative that works with argentinians I'm contemplating the worst, I can't do regular jobs, art was my job for around 15 years
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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traindetective.bsky.social
Detective Instinct is NOW AVAILABLE in all regions (on 15% launch discount for the next two weeks)!

Thank you all for supporting us. We did our best to craft a story we can be proud of, so we hope sincerely hope you enjoy it 🫡

Check it out on Steam or Nintendo Switch!
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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pipopixie.bsky.social
ever since i was a little girl i've always wanted to exceed the damage cap of 9999 with my Critical Attacks...
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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daiz.moe
After publishing this article, I've heard from many that CR seems to be using AI to produce dub CCs. Now, thanks to a slip-up CR had with episode 6 dub of The Banished Court Magician, we can say that with 100% certainty: Crunchyroll is using the AI service Ollang.com for its dub closed captions!
Screenshot from ollang.com: "The localization platform for your global expansion - Effortlessly localize your text, video, and audio content at scale with flexible agentic AI workflows."
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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parametricavocado.bsky.social
Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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gaymingmag.bsky.social
"I code so others can dream."

Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.

Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM