these past few days I've been thinking a lot about what makes the world of hollow knight work so well, and I think it's because it's got an enormous amount of *character*

it's very, flavorful, created with a clear direction in mind, and executed so holistically across art/vfx/design/sfx/VO/music

Special thanks to GOG for being so supportive of the project! HORSES preorders are now available on the store: www.gog.com/en/game/horses 🙏

A Metacritic user review of Outer Wilds that reads: "Overall, I hate Outer Wilds. It's a pretentious indie game that tries too hard to be different and forgets to be enjoyable."

Bizarre and wildly unhelpful that this summary is what comes up when you Google 'Outer Wilds reviews'. A scathing snippet from an extremely unrepresentative user review (the user average is even higher than the critical average) that doesn't even have the excuse of recency (it's from February 2022)

So powerfully embarrassing I’m considering a career change

Yes

Fuck em! 😆

Anyone looking at @newscientist.com should note you always get a discounted £99 price, it’s not specific to Black Friday, it’s a discount scam 🙃

Oof really shitty people feeding off lonliness is absolutely a thing - in communities they have no interest in as well. Just ban and gone is really the best option

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Please check out the brand-new Digital Foundry website at www.digitalfoundry.net! Some interesting features already from @samred.com and the team, along with forums and links to everything we do.

One thing I been working on this year is to put proper value on myself and my time/investment into things. It’s easy to say yes to everything but I’ve certainly felt taken for granted too many times. So do a bit less but overall feel more accomplished and appreciated.

Aftermath is *such* a damn miserable website, sort of the opposite of a space that loves the medium

Get the steam store link added to that post and the game profile! you can’t click through to the game itself currently which will stop you loads of wishlists

Yep next place I looked, mad it’s not there!

I’d put the Steam link on this post! Tried to clixk through to Wishlist but there’s no link

sad Pablo Escobar waiting meme

me when my mysterious desk drawer that was always vaguely smelling of cat poop no longer smelled of cat poop the moment I cleaned the microfiber cloth I use to wipe my glasses

Well shit

The funniest things I saw in movies as a 90s kid:

- Daniel Stern briefly becoming a skeleton whilst being horribly electrocuted in Home Alone 2.
- Dave Chapelle in Nutty Professor "women be shoppaaaaiiiiiiin"
- hey the line "it's only an eternity of servitude, this is LOVE" at the end of Aladdin

That first one kills me even now 😆

On Legendary as well it’s an insane intense horrific neat of attrition and survival and it *rocks*

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is truly a horror that has haunted me since the day I read it, oof.

Tuesday is going to be a good day

Some great horror book picks in here. Would also add Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium and Hye-Young Pyun's The Hole if you're after some more sinister reads!

Screenshot from Keeper which shows the be-legged lighthouse with bird companion atop their light gazing out from the cliff of a majestic apocalyptic and rocky landscape.

Rolled credits on Keeper! Absolutely jaw droppingly beautiful, endearing, serene, and exhilarating all in one. Has echos of Journey and Ueda games.

Play it on the biggest screen with the most earth shattering speakers you have.

Congrats @leepetty.bsky.social and the @doublefine.com team! 💡🦜

Nightmare hags and dodgy physics: the sublime and the ridiculous live happily together in Thief 3

A free Peel Perspective essay just dropped, on the magic and mangled physics of Thief: Deadly Shadows. www.patreon.com/posts/105026...

Wow, someone finally made a good 3D Sonic game

Imagine a beautiful woman texting you with this.

Haha yeah that’s the link to episode 7 - thankfully it completely goes away now (if you skip it)

S02e07 - the one I assumed Netflix tried to force a spinoff but it kills the flow of the entire season (for my money anyway) and it’s so much better if you ignore it

Recently re-watched it all and 1. It’s SO GOOD and 2. Yeah the cross of light hearted fun and horror is masterful.

Also skip the Chicago episode in s2 it makes that season sing

For the morning crowd: