Luca Pavone

RIP Rebecca Heineman (1963-2025), video game industry legend, Interplay cofounder, creator of Bard’s Tale 3 (1988) & Dragon Wars (1989), programmer on dozens of games and ports (Wolfenstein 3D, Another World), and first champion of a national US video game tournament - on SPACE INVADERS in 1980.

YouTube video by chwoolsey Shpongle - And the Day Turned to Night

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Jl...

that moment 11 minutes and 30 seconds into the track. fuck

Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures

dialing in the boxing glove gun ragdoll strength- it's both a mobility tool and a (potentially) non-lethal weapon

A spread from Blades '68, showing the Militants crew type. Molotov cocktail, raised fist, riot police, a revolutionary in a beret and sunglasses, someone with a megaphone.

A spread from Blades '68, showing the Hit Squad crew type. Silenced pistol, playing card, silhouette in crosshairs, suited figure putting on gloves, cigarette in ashtray

A spread from Blades '68, showing the Dealers crew type. Lava lamp, LSD tabs, marble bust and stacks of cash, figure opening glowing briefcase, someone opening jacket to show watches.

A spread from Blades '68, showing the Utopians crew type. Raised hand with eye in palm, goblet and candle, glowing floating silhouette, dot matrix print out, robed figures holding hands in circle, albino goat eye, and someone pushing a button on an ESP testing machine.

Blades '68:
Crews

hi, i do graphics, writing, and layout for role-playing games. sometimes other things, too. i like bright colors, sharp edges, and challenging myself. let's work together.
gwencie.carrd.co

Reminder that you fuckers squandered the legacy of Unix and a free, end to end internet for fridges with Wifi

Aftermath is good

EVERY TOOL A WEAPON. EVERY WEAPON A PROMISE. EVERY PROMISE KEPT.

Screenshot of an article from the Australian Financial Review. Headline reads: House prices jump in first home buyer suburbs as deposit scheme kicks in

Surprising absolutely no-one.

Everything Alex Jones feared would come to pass has been brought to fruition by his own party.

He's so partisan that he won't admit that it was Trump and his cronies who have deployed everything he claimed to oppose.

Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia

My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

I am becomingly increasingly convinced that having too much money causes measurable mental decay.

No wonder these people are all-in on AI. It's the easiest sell in the universe. "Thinking is for the plebs! Use our machine to do all the hard stuff for you!"

Screenshot of Doom. The automap is open, but you can still see the game world behind it. The status bar is also transparent. To the left of the status bar are icons displaying the current state of powerups, and to the right is the current completion stats and level time.

If you're playing BTSX or a small handful of other mapsets, different status bar gfx will automatically load.

SevHUD supports Freedoom.

SevHUD also supports Adventures of Square. This screenshot shows off the HP bar, available in all games (but disabled by default).

I have created a transparent status bar replacement for UZDoom. Even the automap is transparent! It works with Doom, Freedoom, Chex Quest, and Adventures of Square.
If you are playing a supported Doom mapset, different status bar gfx will automatically load, like for BTSX.
github.com/SeventhSenti...

You are not unclean. You are not a vessel for sin. You are not the creation of others. You create yourself.

Cyber Nights is finally on idgames! #doom #doom2

www.doomworld.com/idgames/leve...

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

this is the most lore doom has ever needed

‘We were effectively props’: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’ Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...

Re-upping this for no reason!

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

It really needs to be pointed out how every one of these embarrassing statements is made by a c-suite executive and not an artist or even art department lead

I decided to put my Doom playing prowess to other uses and start writing reviews about wads I think about after I'm done playing them. You should go play them too!
www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

"slot-machines or slop-machines" is the saddest/truest things I've read today.

Johnny Knoxville, his new wife, John Waters, and a dog standing in front of a floral arch.

Instead of the Nuzzi shit, let's focus on the fact that apparently Johnny Knoxville got married this past weekend, the wedding was officiated by John Waters, and a dog was involved

Giving consent-challenged techbros the keys to the modern economy is going to kill us all, isn’t it?

We should be calling out the huge blindspots to international games in English games media, but we should also not ignore the fact that with video games we are already pretty damn global, especially compared to, say, the Oscars.

This is not all the way there but it's a decent start!

Cover of The Mercenary's Guide to the Rare Coin Market, by David Hall, which depicts three coin collecting nerds surrounded by bullion and covered with guns yet failing to look cool or intimidating at all. The woman, who is dressed a bit like an outmoded idea of a librarian, has a shoulder holster strapped over her suit jacket and positioned wrong.

Reminder that the perfect book cover already exists.

polishing up the #librequake shotgun textures. original work by the equal parts talented and lovely @adaya.bsky.social

200x200px texture, #quake 1 palette, 206 triangles/229 vertices

The transition to UZDoom is going along quite swimmingly. #Doom #Modding

Pope Leo absolutely cooking