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Using archaic mechanics like iframe dodges in 2025 was somewhat forgivable because Silksong was still new. But having that clunky shit in 2026? Really? Wow.

YouTube video by mino_dev RABBIT & STEEL: Extra Mode Trailer

Time to sleep, but one final gaming-related shoutout: That new free Rabbit & Steel expansion adds one more key element from Final Fantasy 14 that it was missing:

Impossibly hype vocal boss themes.

Game is half off until the 14th and VERY good.

nioh 2 is a linear high-difficulty action game with a lot of fucked up encounters and enemy placements and nioh 3 feels like it is instead one of those doom 1-era wads that's 90% incidental combat to break up backtracking for keys

Having finished Clair Obscur now, I'm curious of how others feel about the battle system? For me the rhythm game defense was a huge letdown. The tactical side lost meaning. Exactly zero times I needed to adjust my build if I failed, just try another time and you got it because you have the timing.

The Silksong steam forums last year was some of the most vile cesspools I've ever witnessed. It actually tested my commitment to supporting freedom of speech on the internet.

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#PlayHighguard

We've crafted the perfect horror movie viewing curve. To make sure u can handle it, we've made 50 versions of the movie- the early versions are completely mundane but they get more dark, disturbing, intense & eerie as u keep watching. Its gr8 cuz by the time u get to the last movie u wont be scared

Put some finishing touches & released my Elevator Action/Rolling Bird inspired game :
boghog.itch.io/caramel-acti...
You can play it in your browser

Though I'd recommend getting the desktop ver since the browser version is funky

this is genuinely incredible

I fail to understand how the world has turned so stupid.

games don't age, just the literal, physical hardware we play it on, and it's only the culture that chooses to treat older games as "obsolete" and "outdated", a thing we don't do with literally any other artistic medium

the point of a movie is not to be done watching it. the point of a song is not to be done listening to it. the gamers' obsession with completion as the only motivator to play a game has directly led to the medium's worst traits. "AI gaming ghost" is a reflection of the lack of willingness to engage

the temptation to let sisyphus earn points to spend on stickers for the rock is the death drive which will lead us all, and more importantly gaming, to ruin. it may have already done so.

Unironically tho gamers gotta take some of that energy about artists compromising on sexuality and direct it towards criticizing mechanical compromises & homogeneity. Right now you have massive herds of gamers calling for artistic compromises by demanding devs to remove tank controls and so on

feeling anxious about the state of the world? Play @gimblll.com’s SEKTORI. Your brain simply does not have the capacity to comprehend it and worry at the same time. You will feel better.

I said this before & I'll say it again - enemies aren't actually living beings, they are gameplay pieces. Whether or not they are good is determined SOLELY by how much they pressure the rest of the mechanics, not how well they perform aggression. Even "aggression" is just a metaphor

a chaotic whirl of colors

came in on a squeaker but my GOTY is SEKTORI (PS5, PC).

It's like watching an artist create a stunning portrait out of those shitty 4-crayons-and-a-paper-menu kits they give children to keep them quiet at restaurants. Dual stick shape-blasters should not be this intricate or thrilling!!!

a close up of a sonic the hedgehog in the dark ALT: a close up of a sonic the hedgehog in the dark

Toaster friendly indie arcade game devs looking at the horrendous computer part prices

Tags you've applied to this product: Arcade Puzzle

Let's start a campaign to add the tag "Arcade Puzzle" to games like Tetris, Lumines, Puyo Puyo, Petal Crash, etc on Steam. These games get lumped in with great but completely different genres of puzzle games like Portal and sadly sidelined. Steam users have the power to carve out this niche!

And if any of you think this is a unrealistic scenario and that it will never happen, listen to zoomer Youtube icon Pyrocynical here: youtube.com/clip/Ugkx6N-...

It's really funny, isn't it? Bro is almost, almost discovering the appeal of arcade games. We are this close.

Ninja Gaiden Black foreshadowed Playstation

I'm reminded of MH Wilds doubling down on making the first 20+ hours an implicit tutorial for newcomers even though Worlds and Rise sold so much and guaranteed Wilds would have an install base of at least seven million experienced players. Not every game can be an entrypoint in a series/genre!

It's hard to overstate how viscerally hateable the word content is.

A song for you, from the Jingle Cats.

The final boss made me gave up on the 1CC at least for a bit. I got MS1 so quickly (and deathless) that I got way too cocky, 2 is a beast.

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

Gamers have become conditioned to love every single erosion of integrity from the medium all while making excuses for it in their minds and to others. And their money conditioned devs. If you for a second think that these companies wont get away with it ur fooling yourself

The only thing that can be done is curating real games/devs like ur curating game replays to save the time of the small handful of ppl who wont be fully on board with this shit within a few years. Theyll find excuses and shift their attitudes, maybe "theyre transparent so its ok" whatever it takes.

The medium where mtx,gacha,live service,survivorlikes have become normalized and accepted. The medium where scale is worshipped like nothing else. The medium where important history is lost and tech upgrades are treated as artistic upgrades. The fans of this medium is for sure going to resist genAI

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.