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A dinodog about to run into a puddle of murky water

A hybrid between dinosaur and dog

an english bullceratops

Dino Dogs VR was a game in development at Judobaby around 2017. A mad scientist by the name of Dr. Dogonovitch, has shaken up the world of Dog Football which he intends to dominate with his technology & creations. The game seemed to be "straightforward" dogs football, except you know with dinos.

As someone who lives in a shithole, I can confirm this correlation.

Relatable Corvid

After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death Interview: Storied designer talks lost RPG, a 3D Monkey Island, “Eat the Rich” philosophy.

A tough read when even a vet of the games industry can’t get funding.

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You are a professional games-you-haven’t-played opinion haver. I scan obscure British trade magazines for an audience I’m not sure exists. We are not the same.

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He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you've just ate
He knows full well he's normalizing
A mass surveillance state

The most irritating thing about today’s Bluesky main character was the realisation that someone much bigger than me is using the same name (starting before me but after I nameclashsearched and registered the domain) despite no apparent relevance in his output to any of the meanings it evokes. FFS.

The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff From indies like Blue Prince to big console exclusives like Donkey Kong Bananza, NPR staff members and contributors round up their favorite games of 2025.

I gotta say this is a pretty decent list (bolstered by the fact that it's huge, but still). You'll get a better picture of where games are this year browsing through this than anything (literally anything) that happens at The Game Awards.

biopic (adj.) having two eyes

your annual reminder that we do not post Retronauts podcasts on Spotify with good reason

There's even direct precedent in games for this happening! Games that made cuts to get a more favourable ESRB rating: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

This Christmas, remind all your friends and family members never to connect any Samsung device to the Internet.

Also how childish is it to be boiling down a piece of art to just an enumeration of things it depicts that you find objectionable. If we care about video games we have to eradicate this kind of reductive nonsense.

If you like the PlayStation, chronogaming, Japanese obscurities, or all three, you owe it to yourself to check this out. It’s terrific, and why I’m actively on the hunt for two somewhat obscure mahjong titles.

I caught the last half, and it’s great! Awesome to see so many friends and familiar faces interviewed.

Watching from the beginning right now!
Great work, @mylifeingaming.bsky.social and @gamesack.net
youtu.be/E010OPY1Tzw

Does anyone know who composed the Philips CD-i startup jingle?

How to quit Spotify This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.

So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

The controversial Horsez.

I don't see what the big deal is.

eulogized a video game-related animal for the second time this year, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice

"valve is within their rights" is the most cowardly possible "I just want to shut down conversation" response imaginable to this whole thing. You can justify literally anything with "they're within their rights". things that are harmful to games, to art, to society, may well be "within rights".

Already instinctively disliked him for using the same site name as me despite not covering emulation or preservation or anything that would make the phrase particularly relevant to his work

YouTube video by Archipel Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, the voice of SEGA (Daytona USA, Burning Rangers)

His rendition of the Burning Rangers theme in Archipel's documentary is my go-to cheer-up clip: youtu.be/hiWL6JDHpC0?...

YouTube video by nerdrevoltadovgs Takenobu Mitsuyosh - Daytona USA: Let's Go Away!!

once again the year in music has been dominated by this video of Takenobu Mitsuyoshi singing the Daytona USA theme www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9f...

We are OVER $25K ON DAY TWO, with just over $4k left to hit our minimum goal for 2026! You're all incredible, thanks for the support and the shares!

Finishing the meter isn't a guarantee though, so if you were thinking of giving but waiting, help us keep this momentum going! gamehistory.org/donate

I will *always* boost these, they're so damn good

YouTube video by Gretchen Leigh The PlayStation Experiment 1 | Chronogaming the PlayStation & 5th generation of video game consoles

Since it’s the 30th anniversary of the Japanese PlayStation launch, I’m going to plug the first episode of PlayStation Experiment again, which covers the Japanese launch in full!

Looks like it's gonna be great! Thank you, sincerely, for not going the Substack route.

I'm incredibly excited (and nervous) to announce my own newsletter. An Evening at the Inn is an RPG-focused bi-weekly newsletter with original reporting and writing from me, a curation of the best writing on RPGs, and more. an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/welcome-to-t...

Stage Clear: November 2025 'Tis the season! The season of cold wet days and seasonal affective disorder, that is; what did you think I…

The November roundup post is up on the blog: savestate.site/stage-clear-no...

Felt like I was hit hard by the SADs this month, so it was honestly kind of a surprise when I put it all together and realised I got a fair bit done nevertheless.