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Really enjoying the Winter Olympics but does anyone know when all the uphill events start?

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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Would be such a shame if people got angry about this being reposted so many times...

Had about 4 hours of meetings today and this was where I was mentally the whole time (nobody noticed)

Have you ever wanted to do a morning stretch so big that you just keep on stretching and stretching so that every joint in your aching body pops and you end up like an abused Slinky, hanging over both ends of the bed onto the floor just feeling yourself breathing?

Or just me?

I tried vibe coding for the first time this weekend and failed spectacularly. Which was actually kind of illuminating.
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Sometimes you just needs a clear-out or this stuff keeps rattling around in there, like a lost tooth in a hip flash

Team Rocket Will Return In Avengers: Doomsday

The Cyberdyne Systems T-100 Will Return In Avengers: Doomsday

Columbo Will Return In Avengers: Doomsday

That Boomerang You Just Threw Will Return In Avengers: Doomsday

... sorry, just getting some stuff out of my head 😛

Yes, but which year? If it's the year I got a prolapsed disc, then count me out.

A screenshot of a paragraph from the Hit Points newsletter that reads: Little remains of Meta’s VR-game acquisition spree, which began in 2020. Ready At Dawn was closed down in 2024, and Downpour Interactive followed last year. According to the in-the-know cats at UploadVR, Meta’s only remaining studios are Beat Games, maker of the colossally successful Beat Saber; BigBoxVR (me neither); whoever’s left at Camouflaj; and Ouro Interactive, which I’m not sure counts because it exclusively makes games for the Horizon Worlds legless-metaverse-thing. You do not need to put on a headset to see the writing on the wall, which is just as well because all the headsets are in cupboards or lofts or little storage boxes, and would need digging out and charging and who can be bothered with that? In a way, I suppose, that’s been VR gaming’s story all along.

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Oh and Cloudhead Games (Pistol Whip) shedding 70% of their staff

All big premium VR games, all big sellers, all shuffling off 🙁

All because Meta want to focus on wearables instead of next gen VR.

Zuck yells "PIVOT!!!" from his private jet and hundreds lose their jobs - it's literally the only way we know how to do this 🫠

Deadpool Studio And More Closed As Meta Chases AI Instead Of Gaming [Update] Twisted Pixel, Armature, and Sanzaru Games have been gutted according to laid off employees

Working in VR this is unsettling news: the studios that made Asgards Wrath, Deadpool VR and Resident Evil 4 VR have been shuttered, and job cuts at the Batman: Arkham Shadow studio.

Best of luck to all those affected 🙏

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I hit the button ✅😭🐸
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A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

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I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

11 of the best underrated indie games of 2025 - No Small Games What counts as an "underrated game" in the year that brought us Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hades II, Blue Prince and...

A couple of good indie games lists - I already bought some of them, but hadn't even heard of about half here! So many amazing titles and ideas that give me inspiration just reading about them ☺️ #indiegames

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From creepy folklore to a human with half a head, the best hidden gems of 2025 are worth your attention Year in Review 2025 | Discover the past year's overlooked indies for yourself

More from me on GR+✨ Here are five indie hidden gems from 2025 www.gamesradar.com/games/year-i...

A new blog post is up! This time it's me trying to remember what I'd accomplished over the last year work-wise - and the big one was I worked on a game that got published 😁

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#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #vrgames #prototypes

Why did they call it a bidet and not a sphinkler?

Is a foggy day like a sauna for birds?

Photo of a row of PC cd/dvd games in cases, including Deus Ex, Prince of Persia and the No-One Lives Forever series

While most of my PC game collection is now digital on Steam, I still have a few on CD/DVD, with some hard-to-get ones like NoLF 1+2.

My big boxes are in the loft, and includes the og System Shock and Starship Titanic!
#pcgames

Decided to write a bit more in 2026! Here's a look back at my thoughts on the games I played in 2025 - Indy, Blue Prince and Old Skies among others - and contains the phrase "a barrel of holiday chicken" so, there you go :D #indiegames #reviews #blog

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One of my New Years' Resolutions was to write more - so have yourself a merry little blog post about the games I played in 2025!

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I did it! 😀👍

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Hi, I'm a 20ft pine tree being felled that decided to go sideways instead

One of my New Years' Resolutions was to write more - so have yourself a merry little blog post about the games I played in 2025!

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cropped screenshot from Yakuza 2 (2006) for PS2 of kiryu and haruka at kazama's grave. a text box prompt reads: "recall the events of last year?" with options to select "yes" or "no" which is currently highlighted

Oooo, buy this one now, it's amazing!

In fact buy all their games 😆

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