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Tomás Grau de Pablos

@tomgaar.bsky.social

Él. Crítico y profesor de Game Studies y estudios culturales japoneses. https://tomgaar.carrd.co/

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'The Complete List of PC Engine / Turbografx-16 Games Still Lost in Translation' a list of games by lockstepper | Backloggd This list aims to include every PC Engine known as the Turbografx16 in North America game thats yet to receive a fantranslation to English or other languages This includes all iterations the console r...

Not a new list, but I've updated 'The Complete List of PC Engine Games Fan-Translated / Lost in Translation' in Backloggd adding all CD-ROM² games and subsequent variants. Should've done it earlier, as the library went from ~100 games to over 350 titles!

A brief history of the PC Engine CD below:

16.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
a jazz club named "Club Gombe" with a chimpanzee band going nuts on stage and more chimps hooting and hollering at the tables. one empty table has a card on it reading "reserved for Jane Goodall"

a jazz club named "Club Gombe" with a chimpanzee band going nuts on stage and more chimps hooting and hollering at the tables. one empty table has a card on it reading "reserved for Jane Goodall"

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped

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RE: Hard Drive making a racist ass post mocking Itagaki dying it’s so crazy how there’s this major slice of games media and development that still hold onto the Adam Sessler/G4 era of outright disdain/blatant racism towards Japanese games and their devs and it’s wild

16.10.2025 19:34 — 👍 116    🔁 56    💬 8    📌 1

So sad to hear this. My guess is they'll keep doing this until they somehow convince themselves they've reached a peace agreement with the AI gods that live in their head.

16.10.2025 19:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Participa en el Crowdfunding "LOOP Año 5" en Verkami 2 nuevos números para el quinto año de LOOP, la premiada revista de videojuegos y editorial independiente. Temas: #Religión/Folclore y #¿?

Gracias por las 450 aportaciones que han permitido que el Verkami de @revistaloop.bsky.social se acerque al 86% a falta de poco menos de un mes para el cierre de la campaña de financiación.

¡En el equipo tenemos muchas ganas de encarar un nuevo año del proyecto! 💜🥹

www.verkami.com/projects/414...

16.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

There is going to be a reckoning about this, not only on the part of people who cynically profited from this trend, but on the part of those who were forced to share more than they wanted and were left out by their publishers when they got harassed for it

16.10.2025 15:07 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hello, Twitter refugees!

16.10.2025 14:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the best part of Tron: Ares was when he said "IT'S TRONNIN' TIME" and tronned all over those guys.

16.10.2025 14:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Menudo agobio presentar el trabajo de compañeres de investigación. Espero haber representado bien su labor! 🫠

16.10.2025 14:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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damn itagaki died thats wild. he was almost certainly evil but also ninja gaiden black is the greatest game ever made so. mixed bag i suppose. lets all remember him with how he promoted devils third like he was broadcasting terrorist messages from a cave

16.10.2025 07:55 — 👍 569    🔁 136    💬 4    📌 1
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Tomonobu Itagaki (creator of Ninja Gaiden 2004, Dead or Alive) has passed away according to his Facebook

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31st December, 1989 ( New Year's Eve ) and I was finalising the CES demo of NES Silver Surfer. It was an early build of the game featuring only 6 playable levels. This document describes a cheat-mode you can activate to make the Silver Surfer invincible! This was removed in the final release.

15.10.2025 18:22 — 👍 67    🔁 10    💬 5    📌 0

Hay algo muy gracioso en que Spy X Family dedique tanto esfuerzo en simular una falsa Berlín de los años 50 y que, a la hora de imaginarse el personal de la Academia Eden, lo llene del típico profe mal pagado de ínfula liberal.

15.10.2025 18:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

things getting a little tight on food & essentials, so throwing up the link again.

managed to get somewhere stable & most of my property replaced (ty to all help <3); currently just holding out on passport processing, and I'm finally out of this place...

www.paypal.com/paypalme/jes...

14.10.2025 20:30 — 👍 23    🔁 35    💬 0    📌 0
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Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

14.10.2025 14:03 — 👍 724    🔁 355    💬 11    📌 41
Three images showing photographers in a studio, standing around a black curtained area with a projector and a 'Windows' logo etched onto a glass pane. The lower image shows a version of the iconic blue windows background, with blue lasers outlining and passing through an angled Windows logos against a dark background.

Three images showing photographers in a studio, standing around a black curtained area with a projector and a 'Windows' logo etched onto a glass pane. The lower image shows a version of the iconic blue windows background, with blue lasers outlining and passing through an angled Windows logos against a dark background.

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

15.10.2025 10:54 — 👍 5576    🔁 1663    💬 51    📌 81

haven’t read that young republican politico piece yet. i think mostly because it doesn’t appear to contain any novel information for me. like yeah if you flip over a log you see lots of nasty worms?? shrug

15.10.2025 15:57 — 👍 239    🔁 21    💬 9    📌 2
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El legendario asesino Kamui Uehara ha despertado.

The Silver Case, el origen del universo de @sssuda51.bsky.social y @ghmofficial.bsky.social , llega por primera vez completamente en español.

Traducción fan sin ánimo de lucro.

Descárgalo ya: killthepast.es/the-silver-case

11.10.2025 20:22 — 👍 36    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 4
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GitHub - UZDoom/UZDoom: UZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities UZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities - UZDoom/UZDoom

Major evolution in the GZDoom community tonight - the regular contributors finally had enough of the project lead, who had been very hard to work with for a long time. He dug in and told them "If you don't like it, go and make your own fork."

UZDoom is now live here.
github.com/UZDoom/UZDoom

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The WinRAR librarian 📚

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Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.

14.10.2025 20:52 — 👍 549    🔁 140    💬 12    📌 2
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I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan.

From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.

Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...

This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.

14.10.2025 18:01 — 👍 1430    🔁 501    💬 49    📌 40

Hoy Cristina ha ido a su primera clase de doblaje y ha vuelto muy feliz ☺️☺️☺️

14.10.2025 22:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's Giving Enron On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

14.10.2025 19:37 — 👍 943    🔁 277    💬 38    📌 45

I liked Drew Struzan's artwork just fine, but boy if his style wasn't coopted for right wing paranoia-filled idealization of 80's and 90's nostalgia.

14.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

14.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 1812    🔁 406    💬 43    📌 27
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Design Room Video game oral histories

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

14.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 419    🔁 217    💬 12    📌 47

Hacer juegos indie es como estar en una banda. "Deberíamos empezar un podcast" es el equivalente moderno a "deberíamos montar una banda". Por lo tanto, hacer juegos indie es como empezar un podcast.

14.10.2025 07:52 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

The long-awaited "Season's Album 2" artbook by Mitsuru Adachi is coming in November (256 pages), to celebrate the mangaka's 55-year career.
And the first "Season's Album" artbook (2002) is also being reprinted.
Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...

14.10.2025 07:15 — 👍 159    🔁 28    💬 2    📌 1

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