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Reminder that Microsoft is one of the biggest forces behind GenAI "adoption" on top of funding and wildly profiting from the continued genocide in Gaza, it seems like games media has forgotten this

Cancel your Game Pass, don't play MW or Minecraft, cancel your WoW sub.

Awesome coverage. So many amazing options I wish we had for BN but it's just nice to see how much care was put into this package.

Same! We went for our first time right after playing in 2023 and it's what made me look for places to stay around the neighbourhood. Whatever deal they made with the Sumida tourism board sure worked on me.

Logo for Movie Adventure series.

Web page for "そこに君がいた" (There You Were).

Way before Takanari Ishiyama created Paranormasight, he wrote and composed a few installments of the "Movie Adventure" series. These were small novel games released by Genki for feature phones around 2001-2003. One of the most intriguing entries Ishiyama wrote was "そこに君がいた" (There You Were). (1/3)

Li Kohran from Sakura Wars winking with a wrench in her hand.

A belated Li Kohran quickie for her birthday

#李紅蘭誕生祭2026 #李紅蘭生誕祭2026 #サクラ大戦 #art

This is a Japanese adventure game (Paranormasight).

This is a visual novel (Steins;Gate).

Visual novels and Japanese adventure games. The two genres often look very similar, how are you supposed to tell them apart? Simple: if you can use a cursor to examine stuff, it's an ADV. If not, it's a VN.

I'm half joking but it's honestly a pretty reliable way to identify which genre is which.

In a just world, Cosmo wouldn't have to pay for a drink until the end of time.

Real whiplash to be so excited for a premise only to see a bunch of soulless AI assets. I won’t be going anywhere near this unless that changes

- Third clan for each race
- BLU Battle Royale PvP
- Job specialization/sub-class/stat allocation
- Custom walk/run/etc. animations like PSO2NGS
- More sprawling maps w/ secret spots
- Fewer waymarkers
- More mystery mechanics
- Rare events to schedule my week around
- Sightseeing log EX
- much more

'If ABC agrees': Urgent motion proposes to save Vancouver Car Free Days | Urbanized In the wake of the revelation that Car Free Days would be cancelled in Vancouver this year, two councillors are hoping to save it.

“COPE warned that Ken Sim’s jacked-up permit fees are going to make community events more expensive - or stop them from happening at all. This is the impact of austerity."

Save Car Free Days!

@lucymaloney.bsky.social
@seanorr.bsky.social

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#vanpoli #CarFreeDays

I'm also opening myself up for freelancing contracts again on a VERY SHORT TERM BASIS.

If you have need of English Dub script adaptation, narrative design, voice direction, text editing.... Let's talk.

Companies like clickup buy venerable game sites and fill them with garbage to steal their SEO juice while it lasts. They're not just killing game journalism, they're filling the corpse with parasites.

Hobgoblin Beer advert altered with PS1/N64/Saturn logos to say "What's The Matter Realistic Graphics Boy Afraid you Might Taste Something?" Low Poly Games Embrace The Jank

I really, truly do understand how stupid I sound right now but like, man, I just don’t know what’s happening in a Mario game. Sonic games are often quite bad but at least I usually know why he’s doing a thing and who he’s doing it against.

Industrial, caged walls, grey flat walls, all become more red towards the bottom

Tiled wall, octahedron light source, several pillars

Mechanical parts hanging from the roof, the floor has many holes

Water draining into a hallway

Environments in Baroque (saturn)....

the list of professions that should be treated as social pariahs grows

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

I will not mince words: Segagaga is a deeply personal, human game about passionate developers making the best of a bad situation. This is not the first patch to employ MTPE as a shortcut, but it is particularly tone deaf to deploy in this climate for a game about the people who made Sega what it is.

I say this as a professional who came up from fan translation and has friends at Sega who will likely never get to work on this officially: when you fan translate ANYTHING that was previously untranslated, you have a deep, heavy responsibility in setting people's first and typically only impression.

Shinguuji Sakura and the rest of the Hanagumi of Teikoku Kagekitan/Imperial Combat Revue/Floral Assault Troupe from Sakura Taisen.

Shinguuji Sakura by herself, in uniform and pulling her katana out

Sakura Wars is having a 30th anniversary and I am nothing else if not a warmer of cold foods (blatant reposter if you wanna be boring) #サクラ大戦 #サクラ大戦30周年 #art #90sanime

it even comes with a Purplenum section ID decal!

Kotobukiya Elenor model kit from Phantasy Star Online

Screenshot of Lura the Racaseal from Phantasy Star Online Episode III

As much as I love Elenor… what if we give her a Lura from Episode III paint job…

IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT
the Japanese grocery on my street has started carrying it. I almost cried.

All the best and looking forward to more of you at RPG Site!

so as it turns out
AI has ruined preservation too
because guess what all of those servers need that's unaffordable now
that's right, storage!

You must leave corporate media behind. It is hostile to you and your lifestyle.

Oof, that does sound pretty stepped on…

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With news of more games media layoffs, this seems like a good time to share my Indie Games Media starter kit — it’s more important than ever that readers directly support their favourite publications and writers.

Today (2/26) is the 28th anniversary of the Sega Saturn title "Doukoku Soshite...". Featuring art by Mamoru Yokota, it's a suspenseful locked-room ADV w/a story that branches based on how traps are disarmed. The game has many endings & heroines can even die if you make mistakes.