Mark MacDonald

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

今月のプレゼンで紹介される作品です！

- Agehabachi / 垓交官YUKI
- A-Blast! / Apollo
- Kowloon's Curse / REM
- MONOPHOBIA @ngamedev.bsky.social
- DOOM SPIRAL / Forbidden Saucery

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

Sometimes you just have to let @lopatto.bsky.social say it out loud www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

🙏🏽❤️😘

ICYMI during the holidays, these were my five favourite video games of 2025.

Special props to Baby Steps and Lumines Arise for being utterly magnificent in their own unique (and harrowing, in the case of Baby Steps) ways.

Honored to see Lumines Arise nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design and Family Game of the Year in the 29th Annual #DICEAwards! 🙏🏻💜

Check out all the nominees here: https://www.interactive.org/awards/29th_dice_awards_finalists_93k3p1.asp

lumines.game @official-aias.bsky.social

Wooooo おめでとうございます🎊

Once again,
Öoo has been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Game Design at the D.I.C.E. Awards!
Huge thanks to @official-aias.bsky.social for the honor, and to everyone who has supported the game.
#DICEAwards

Honored to see Lumines Arise on The AV Club's list of the Best Games of 2025! 💜🌟

"...absolutely worth rising up to."

📖 https://www.avclub.com/best-games-2025-clair-obscur-silksong-despelote @avclub.com

Friend of the show and former EGM editor Che Chou joins us to ring in 2026 with another freeform Q&A ep fueled by bourbon and filled with New Year's resolutions, holiday memories, GOTY talk, and Cybermorph. HNY! 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...

Not surprised but deeply impressed nonetheless that Kyle kept up with this very cool thread that wrapped up yesterday.

In Zelda 2, a woman appears in each town, beckoning Link into her home. They disappear inside and Link's health begins to refill.

One reddit user recently asked if this scene was *intentionally* suggestive. While that seems very unlikely, I thought I'd look into it.

YouTube video by Funny Or Die Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy with Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly (as David Bowie & Bing Crosby)

Ah no, was Bing Crosby youtu.be/EJBFD-Wvc7U?...

皆さん、こんにちは！
BitSummitへの応募締切は12月31日（応募料：2,750円）ですので、ぜひお忘れなく。
レイトエントリーは2026年1月16日まで受付（応募料：5,500円）しています。
詳細は bitsummit.org をご覧ください。

Hello everyone! Just want to remind you that the deadline for BitSummit submissions is December 31st (submission fee: ¥2750). Late entries are open until January 16, 2026 (¥5500). Looking forward to seeing your games! For more information visit bitsummit.org.

Gertie and her creature companion must venture into dungeons & lush forests on a quest to fulfill a coven’s oath.

Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3041680/...

Summon Hints from the Coven: wildflowerinteractive.substack.com

👀🫣

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

🚨🚨🚨

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