Kris Holt

So much cool stuff this week, including a demo for a deckbuilder riff on Suika Game but with doggos

Discovering new Super Mario Bros levels that have "secretly been accessible" for over 30 years, "legendary Mario scientists" find themselves in a psychedelic cyberpunk hellscape hiding on their childh... A new Minus World is upon us

Love that people are still finding very strange stuff in early Mario games www.gamesradar.com/games/super-...

Just imagine all the cool indie games you could buy for $30 per month

Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023 * The Santa Claus effect: how expanding tourism ate into Lapland’s green space Europe is losing green space that once harboured wildlife, captured carbon and supplied food at the rate of 600 football pitches a day, an investigation by the Guardian and partners has revealed. Analysis of satellite imagery across the UK and mainland Europe over a five-year period shows the speed and scale with which green land is turning grey, consumed by tarmac for roads, bricks and mortar for luxury golf courses and housing developments. Continue reading...

Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Gonna need the machine to say “let’s take a brief pause from gambling” once in a while just as a reminder for me to touch grass sometimes

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I both hope so and hope not

I need to get back to that as well! There are so many neat new games.

I haven’t touched Hades 2 since it left early access either. That’s going to ruin me too.

I regret to report I’m becoming a roguelite sicko.

When I’m not working and not playing CloverPit or [redacted], all I can think about is cool synergies between items and abilities.

It’s taking over my entire brain and I hate it. (I love it.)

This passage nearly broke me.

It was never actually going to happen, but that Musk vs. Zuck cage match would have been something

No shade to this person but this list would be so long it would take several tweets at least. If you play games other than recent AAA releases there are so many artistically "good" games that it's hard to even remember them all.

Depends on what you consider artistically good, but still.

'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC Reporter Joe Tidy was offered money if he would help cyber criminals access BBC systems.

'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC.
I recently got offered millions of pounds to give cyber criminals from the Medusa gang my BBC login. I played along to learn about how these 'insider threat' deals work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Such a pretty game for its time too. I never did get past The Riddler level, though

NY Times article: Trump Is Shutting Down the War on Cancer.

As an NIH-funded researcher, a woman currently in active treatment for breast cancer, and a human with a soul, I am f*cking furious these days.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Tumblr post from every-lemon Sep 8 so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff. they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed. I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Follow up tumblr post every-lemon Sep 9 it was a smash hit. a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud. he was home by 6:30am.

dudes rock

Keep it up everyone, if we just keep making games with women and pronouns we can eventually ensure that the chuds never get to enjoy a single new video game ever again

Taking a brief break from our regular tech coverage to share an important message: An Engadget reporter's sister is missing, and North Vancouver RCMP is asking for assistance in locating her.

a tweet by toby fox that says "I didn't try to learn Japanese for a long time because I thought it would be too hard. But now I love learning it and I use it every day. If there's anything you want to learn, don't be stopped by thinking it'll be too hard! Try it! Game-making, music, art, language, anything!"

what sucks about 10 video games coming out every week is that 8 of them are really good so no matter what you're missing out son something incredible

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

geez good thing we’re only using it for health insurance claims, legal arguments, mortgage rates, teaching students, predicting crime, mental health care, automating government services, fact checking, and pointing out other AI

Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.

Can’t wait to see those Xbox Ally prices

A perfect video game 💜

Flick Shot Rogues is the rare turn-based game that my brain is gelling with It's a bit like Subbuteo but with crabs, monkeys and lasers.

I wrote it up here! www.engadget.com/gaming/flick...