Mark MacDonald

Not So Random, #RandomGameSaturday

Today is the 24th anniversary of Rez, so here’s a bunch of versions of Rez.

The new episode of the MinnMax Show is now live on YouTube and podcast platforms! Guest host Kyle Bosman recruits @markmacdo.bsky.social and @pokachee.bsky.social to finally figure out what type of game Lumines is and what those little blocks are called. www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ts...

Lumines Arise is an almost perfect zen puzzle game Headphones on.

Lumines Arise is an almost perfect zen puzzle game

Lumines Arise screenshot.

Lumines Arise screenshot.

Lumines Arise screenshot.

Lumines Arise screenshot.

Lumines Arise is the kind of game that I won’t delete from my hard drive because I will always want the option to lose myself to the game periodically, which Arise is consistently excellent at.

Our review: gameinformer.com/review/lumin...

🎉 Lumines Arise Available Now for PS5 and Steam 🚀

Light, sound and haptics unite your senses. Feel the good vibes. Puzzle differently.

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2370000/Lumines_Arise
PS5: store.playstation.com/concept/10011885

lumines.game #LuminesArise

Lumines Arise review: Tetris Effect follow-up is an audio-visual delight | VGC Enhance’s high-energy music puzzler sacrifices some substance for supreme style…

Lumines Arise review: Enhance's Tetris Effect follow-up is another audio-visual delight, but it sacrifices some substance for its supreme style.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

www.videogameschronicle.com/review/lumin...

Perfect excuse to #84bump right here

Big congrats to @ancientgames.bsky.social @yuzokoshiro.bsky.social on today’s Japanese physical release of EARTHION!🚀✨🥳 Super proud of the @sdxgames.bsky.social versions we made, and especially stoked that we teamed up with 8BitDo (the best!) on this rad M30! ❤️ superdeluxegames.jp/collections/...

A Profound Waste of Time: Issue 6 The beloved gaming mag returns, with Astro Bot's Nicolas Doucet, Danganronpa's Kazutaka Kodaka, Team Ninja's Fumihiko Yasuda and more!

I do not post on social media, but I feel in the age of AI slop and digital only releases, something physical, beautiful and created with such care should be shouted from the rooftops.
@apwot.bsky.social keep doing what your doing!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...

👁️ We blinked, and suddenly it's now SIX days until Lumines Arise launches. 🚀

『Lumines Arise』発売まであと6日！ いよいよ1週間を切りました！

#LuminesArise #ルミネス lumines.game

After nine years, Rez Infinite remains gaming’s greatest tease “If we're using the word ‘prologue,’ obviously something has to come after...”

We're kicking off a series of music game oral histories with a look back at Rez Infinite -- and why it's been nine years without a follow-up.

According to Wikipedia, today is the 20th anniversary of The 1UP Show. I choose to believe this is true.

I miss this work. More, I miss my old coworkers. Still the best and most fun job I ever had.

I’ll let Jane and Eric’s killer tune race through my mind today.

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

One thing a lot of my friends missed from other social media platforms was interacting with venerable Japanese game devs. To that end I've made a list of folks I know are here, focusing on devs whose games you will have heard of. Please share and tell me who I'm missing! go.bsky.app/5R1tEtT

Extremely rare b-roll footage of an Electronics Boutique in late 1994 or early 1995. Enjoy it!

I found this among 40TB of files from Digital Pictures' archive.

We could all use some good vibes right now. 🥰 How about this—The Lumines Arise Demo is back—for #SteamNextFest (and also back on PS5)!

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2370000/Lumines_Arise
PS5: store.playstation.com/concept/10011885

Play, wishlist, and pre-order now!

8-4 logo...in a box.

Somehow our little company turns 20 years old today. Time is weird! Thanks and <3 to everyone who has supported us over the years~

Tokyo

3 Years Later, Playdate Is Still Gaming's Best-Kept Secret With almost laughably low power, a monochrome screen, and unique controls, niche-micro console Playdate shouldn't make any sense in a world of modern gaming. Yet, it's near impossible not to love it.

With almost laughably low power, a monochrome screen, and unique controls, niche-micro console Playdate shouldn't make any sense in a world of modern gaming. Yet, it's near impossible not to love it. www.wired.com/story/three-...

In honor of the 40th anniversary, my anecdote from the EGM issue #200 cover feature “Top 200 Games of Their Time” on Super Mario Bros. — which, of course, ranked #1.

Shout out to Scott Dunn for turning me on to the crazy new game he played at Godfather’s Pizza in Brentwood

YouTube video by turfmasta Virtual Boy Controller on Nintendo Switch 2 Proof of Concept

Made a Virtual Boy to Switch 2 adapter after I saw the news this morning. I prefer to play VB games with the proper controller. So far it works great, but I'll have plenty of time to tune it before Nintendo drops the VB update.

youtu.be/e60283SywV8?...

Meanwhile, in Japan…

reminds me of this hardware shitpost I did for @markmacdo.bsky.social 7 years ago

YouTube video by Giant Bomb A Quick Look EX at the Lumines Arise Demo

What happens when you wanna take a quick look at a video game... With a little EXtra help?

That's right y'all, Quick Look EX is back as @danryckert.com and @grubb.wtf are joined by Enhance's own @markmacdo.bsky.social to check out the awesome new Lumines Arise demo!

youtu.be/BBqUG1gqVvg

Lumines Arise demo is out (game releases on Nov 11 - demo available only until Sept 3)

US PSN store.playstation.com/en-us/search...
Steam store.steampowered.com/app/3847360/...

also up for preorder on PSN ($35.99 on PS+)

Details: blog.playstation.com/2025/08/26/l...

Anybody who knows anybody that might be interested in Demonschool and might give it a little boost, please entice them to fill out this form! We put a lot into this game and we really want people to see it.

VGC on Patreon turns 1. Here's what we're doing to celebrate | Video Games Chronicle Get more from Video Games Chronicle on Patreon

To celebrate one year of the VGC Patreon, we’re gifting exclusive pins to everyone who joins, upgrades, or gifts in August! Our highest members will receive them automatically.

Support the future of independent games media and join our community.

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🍒 Whoa, what's this?!

UFO 50 is available right now on #NintendoSwitch!

#UFO50 #IndieWorld

If you’re just starting up UFO 50 since it’s on Switch now - please enjoy my favorite thing I’ve done in 18+ years of podcasting.

Release date! Release date! As announced this morning in ~Indie World Japan~ Demonschool is coming September 3rd! We have been working really hard on this. We hope you will enjoy it.