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HEAVYWEIGHT UNIVERSITY A mass distortion event at the local university JADE COVE UNIVERSITY Founded: 1898Location: Coastal academic enclaveReputation: Liberal arts, anthropology, comparative religion One of the founding …

A new Jade Cove Ghostbusters International game got made and played. This is version 1.3, a slightly tweaked version.
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Aaltomies I believe you are in league with the butcher

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Been runnin' this blog for fifteen years now. It has a little bit of everything, from reviews to retrospectives. Got lot of stuff about mecha with few specific topics, namely Muv-Luv and Virtual-On.

Here's for 15 more years.

Highguard low-ball Highguard is an interesting case study. It’s a game that developed within a safe bubble among a curated number of people, got a massive push at an awards gala, and then launched a generic, corporate-like PR campaign. Sure, let’s call the devs independent while ignoring the money they got from big investors, who put millions into the game. The culture…

Highguard low-ball

Highguard is an interesting case study. It’s a game that developed within a safe bubble among a curated number of people, got a massive push at an awards gala, and then launched a generic, corporate-like PR campaign. Sure, let’s call the devs independent while ignoring the money…

Jade Cove GBI "I've got Oration, I'll sing at the ghost!"

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Opened a secondary blog, where I'll post games I've made and GM'd for West End Games' Ghostbusters International RPG.

A Retrospective, an Unhinged Rant, and a Goodbye to Masters of the Universe I’ve grown old enough to see a lot of things I used to love either die out or get turned into a shadow of themselves. It comes with the territory of being a fan of something. Fans and creators, often the companies themselves, don’t really meet eye to eye on a lot of things. Even more rarely when there’s forty years of history and someone new comes into the scene thinking they can take the material and revitalize it by leaning on the cultural history of the thing rather than what the thing really was.

A Retrospective, an Unhinged Rant, and a Goodbye to Masters of the Universe

I’ve grown old enough to see a lot of things I used to love either die out or get turned into a shadow of themselves. It comes with the territory of being a fan of something. Fans and creators, often the companies…

Hires scans

Surviving the system: Who is Robocop? Let’s talk about Robocop, the character. Identity There are three views we can attribute to who, or what, Robocop is a person: Alex Murphy’s continuation. The psychological connections OCP Crime Prevention Unit 001 has are robust and causally appropriate, taking his self-naming at the end of the first movie self-evident and at face value. Robocop is a new entity. Murphy’s memories were not intended to be used to build a persona, but to serve as a knowledge databank how to police for the code running it and Directives how to behave.

Surviving the system: Who is Robocop?

Let’s talk about Robocop, the character. Identity There are three views we can attribute to who, or what, Robocop is a person: Alex Murphy’s continuation. The psychological connections OCP Crime Prevention Unit 001 has are robust and causally appropriate,…

Fingers crossed the US will capture Xi Jinping next and start freeing the people in China. Maduro should be only a start.

Video and computer games are going to get (even more) expensive Let's start this new year by checking where we are. Nintendo's stock has been dropping recently. The Switch 2 hasn't really been selling like it was anticipated. They bet on the wrong horse with the new console, changing their age-tested tactics of using mature and cheap technology rather than going for the horsepower under the hood. Everything is going up in price with tech, and will keep going up in price until it plateaus at some point in the future.

Video and computer games are going to get (even more) expensive

Let's start this new year by checking where we are. Nintendo's stock has been dropping recently. The Switch 2 hasn't really been selling like it was anticipated. They bet on the wrong horse with the new console, changing their…

Top 5 Games of 2025

This year, I feel I did play a healthy amount of games. Some new, more older games again. Finding myself playing games outside my comfort zone more often than not though, so that's a good direction. Expanding my horizons a bit, but also focusing on certain series that are…

I wish you all merry Christmas. May your stockings be filled with love and care.

Few friends play RPGs and like dragons, so making 'em Dragon Eyes dice bags because the Chibese ones are terrible.

Mega Man (12): Dual Override got me You know me, I see Capcom doing a new Mega Man title and I’m already there. So, we get a whole minute and a half trailer, most of which is fluff. A hall counting up to eleven and over, opening a sealed room where Capcom stashed the Blue Bomber in for their pony jar experiments. Then almost twenty seconds of beta footage with each scene having reference to past…

Mega Man (12): Dual Override got me

You know me, I see Capcom doing a new Mega Man title and I’m already there. So, we get a whole minute and a half trailer, most of which is fluff. A hall counting up to eleven and over, opening a sealed room where Capcom stashed the Blue Bomber in for their pony…

Trusting my gut instincts and how abandoning core elements of a game alienates core audience When a game a has troubled development cycle and stays in that dev hell for extended period, the end result is often a kind of polished turd. Either the dev team didn’t manage to overcome some obstacle, either in code or design, or something kept rebooting. Metroid Prime 4 is an early Switch game that got canned when Bandai Namco was developing it, but got a restart at Retro Studios, where very few who worked on the first games work anymore.

Trusting my gut instincts and how abandoning core elements of a game alienates core audience

When a game a has troubled development cycle and stays in that dev hell for extended period, the end result is often a kind of polished turd. Either the dev team didn’t manage to overcome some obstacle,…

Virtual-On Retrospective: Operation Moongate This post is first in a series of five. You can access all posts in Robot Related Section linked above, or move between sequential post at their beginning and end Virtual-On is one of Sega’s …

Cyber Troopers Virtual-On has its 30th anniversary. I'd celebrate it with a new entry, but I wrote rather emptying retrospective on the series a few years back already.
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The many games of The Most Successful With Rockstar and Grant Theft Auto 6 in the news for some unsavory reasons, I saw quite a lot of hubbubs about the success of the fifth game in the franchise and its comparative success compared to other games, and other forms entertainment. I’m slightly flabbergasted that someone would claim that GTA5 was the most successful form of entertainment, when people without much contact with the modern world knew about Michael Jackson.

The many games of The Most Successful

With Rockstar and Grant Theft Auto 6 in the news for some unsavory reasons, I saw quite a lot of hubbubs about the success of the fifth game in the franchise and its comparative success compared to other games, and other forms entertainment. I’m slightly…

Should've gone with SwanCrystal tbh.

It's that time of the year, the demon Pumpking awakes, and the lone farmer of long lineage stands between it and the world burning.

(Multiple) Coffee break doodle

The second Microsoft rant of the Month Satya Nadella says Xbox isn't competing with other game consoles. He says Xbox is competing with TikTok. This is Nadella effectively admitting Xbox has lost its primary market and must find something else to compare themselves to in order not to look so bad in the eyes of the market, or investors. People thought the Activision Blizzard buyout would’ve changed gaming in a way that Xbox would get all these exclusives, concentrating large swaths of games to one or two platforms, or something along those lines.

The second Microsoft rant of the Month

Satya Nadella says Xbox isn't competing with other game consoles. He says Xbox is competing with TikTok. This is Nadella effectively admitting Xbox has lost its primary market and must find something else to compare themselves to in order not to look so bad…

Yes, on top of furry shit, no matter how much you click Show Less.
Seems like that's what BS operators want to push to everyone, killing the platform even further.

Noticed someone had mentioned elsewhere that my blog "is full of info, and the guy running it has an unhealthy obsession with Iczer-One."

I'll take that as a compliment.

The NES turned 40 in the US, so remember all the good NES games you had in your life.
If you're reading this, you most likely still have 'em.

YouTube video by Feral Historian Sci-Fi, Satire, and the Post-WWII Mythos

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Feral Historian's on fire with this one. He's been on a roll as of late, banger after banger.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is Japan's Tom of Finland.

Just don't try to cancel people. That's all you ever needed to do.

Xbox is now a watered down brand Microsoft has a history with buying gaming companies, having exceedingly large expectations of them, and then proceeding to cull them for not meeting those expectations. They ultimately call the shots what Xbox as a department does. People were calling buying Activision Blizzard deal of the century, something that would forever change gaming. What we got was the same as usual, just with bigger dollars in the play.

Xbox is now a watered down brand

Microsoft has a history with buying gaming companies, having exceedingly large expectations of them, and then proceeding to cull them for not meeting those expectations. They ultimately call the shots what Xbox as a department does. People were calling buying…

I wonder if BS' algo is intentionally showing me gay, furry, and gay furry content to get me off the platform.
It's either that or the constant stream of politics, all of which I just have to tag unwanted content.
Maybe its the interaction with 'em at all.

I'm seeing folks post their artwork from this, so...

Last year, me and a WHOLE bunch of really talented people, worked super hard on making the best Darkstalkers tribute possible, and imo... we succeeded. Check it out here:

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Cover art by @sirknightbot.bsky.social l

Not even in those terms. We've seen better one-man developed platformers on DOS in its era.