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Save 50% on Babushka's Glitch Dungeon on Steam Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.

There's a round of GOTY discussion going around, and I realized that a lot of my favourite games this year have been absolute Sicko Picks.

So here's a few games I've loved so far in 2025, starting with a mild one: Babushka's Glitch Dungeon. A scrunkly lil' puzzle-metroidvania with so many fun verbs

Kayinworks - Hate I hate steam trading cards. I hate them so so much. With every fiber of my being. It's not healthy to hate a minor UI inconvenience as much as I do but I do. I loathe these wretched things. I hate the...

kayin.moe/cohost/steam... Guess I should repost a cohost classic

A grid with rails across it, upon which is a short one-carriage train whose engine resembles a skull. There are four graves, a zombie and a small boy waiting to be picked up.

"This isn’t just Cosmic Express returning with a cool, black cape."

I wrote about Spooky Express from the team at @draknek.bsky.social: www.electrondance.co...

I've been meaning to play this for yeeeears, I really should just get on it.

A photo of the inside of a book, zoomed in on the drop cap at the start of the chapter. It is a large letter I surrounded by leaves

A photo of the inside of a book, zoomed in on the drop cap at the start of the chapter. It is a large letter L surrounded by leaves and flowers

Drop cap letter designs that I did for Camilla Andrew’s Essence of the Equinox series ✨

precious bsky followers there is a halloween sale goin on the owch itch page right now... everything bundled for $4.20, you know the deal. the games are very good. this is 10S FOREVER (which is also on steam) and there are 5 other games in the bundle. i shalt post them below

itch.io/s/163491/a-v...

Announcing the line-up for ThinkyCon 2025! 🎉 Tune in for 3 days of amazing talks from the makers of your favorite puzzly games!
thinkygames.com/even...

"RetroSpectrum - Reloaded"

Digital collage made in Photoshop based on the glorious games of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 😍

#zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart

Save 10% on The Séance of Blake Manor on Steam The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurren...

So...The Séance of Blake Manor is my favorite game of 2025 so far.

A first person murder mystery with detailed investigation mechanics, superb writing, and atmosphere. Also the best game about Irish History I've ever played

Bravo @spookydoorway.bsky.social 👏

store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...

The Seance of Blake Manor is now live on Steam.
Check out our launch trailer!

💀 store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...

#indiegames

Evil Egg comes October 30.
Infinite Twin-Stick Chaos.
100% Free Game.
Wishlist on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/3651950/...
Join the discord to play the beta:
discord.gg/sQb5agEYzM

Not much doing moth-wise at the mo, so here's something for your amusement from a few years ago when I first got interested in trapping and realised many moth names were also good names for Heavy Metal bands, my other passion. 😀🤘 #TeamMoth

I cannot stop playing this preposterous game about falling down a mountain A week with Baby Steps has made me feel like I’m losing my grip. It this game stupid, or am I the stupid one for playing it?

Please, please validate all the time I have spent playing/thinking about Baby Steps by reading this article? Please??

"Instead of doing anything normal with my life for the past week, I have been on a horrible hiking holiday with the worst man in the world."

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

The box cover for Nevermind, which is a cover that leaves a fair bit to interpretation, with a male figure in ornate clothing in front of a glowing half-orb at the bottom of the screen, fist raised to his mouth, while behind them, shadowy figures gaze through a round window at him.

The cover for Anarchy, with a close-up painting of an inhuman eye and mottled skin around it, with what look like circuitry patterns flowing to or fromt it with a splashy text logo spelling ANARCHY above it,

Captain Fizz meets the Blaster-Trons, a cool scifiish cover with exotically armoured figures striding through a mustard dust cloud on an alien world, with a bulbous space craft or structure rising above it behind them. It looks like an early 70s pulp sci-fi cover.

Stryx's cover has a Robbie The Robot-esque bulbous legged retrofuturustic robot beind blasted above a skin tight body suited figure above which it looks. A distinctly Starfleet logo design is emblazoned on his back. It's all got a desaturated, yellowish green palette that evokes a Boris Vallejo vibe as the buy is quite muscular.

The wild box art of some of the lesser-known Psygnosis 'Psyclapse' label releases.

Roger Dean is the most famous artist for many of Psygnosis's covers, but there were also others who created cover art for them, such as Ian Craig, Peter Andrew Jones, and Melvyn Grant.

Dale Bissland ~ Texture & Light, Crail, 2022

On the edge My week in the NHS

New post just out:

"On the edge"

On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.

(Free to read)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...

🚨Small boat migrants getting “private health care” while the rest of us have to use the NHS?!🚨

That’s outrageous!

Or is it?

Might the reality be a little more mundane and a little less clickbait-worthy?

Let’s take a 👀

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landscape from Link: the faces of evil.

also this is genuinely one of the coolest looking environments in any zelda game

As far back as Windows 7 (maybe Vista but I never used it) I remember feeling like they'd 'redesigned' the entire OS only for me to frequently poke holes in the veneer to reveal more functional legacy menus from XP. I feel this is a prime example! 'Show more options' = old options. Just silly.

My favourite is hiding useful right click options under another 'Show more options' right click (which just restores the old W10 menu). It's just obnoxious.

Oh thanks, I missed him being on here!

Yeah I only realised recently! That's how I found Matt's review and Tap/FFC. I think from there I started bumping into more folk through other sites like yours, Jubert's blog and Arcadian Rhythms. You, @beamsplashx.wethoughtaboutgames.com and @badgercommander.bsky.social are the oldies I still know.

@ladyhai.bsky.social look at this! 😍 Beautiful work Bruno.

Detalhe de uma página de quadrinhos. Dois quadros mostrando três aventureiros descendo uma escadaria e entrando numa dungeon. Na frente um homem com uma capa preta estilo Batman, um elmo fechado estilo corvo com tubos de respiração como uma máscara de gás saindo das laterais; ele ergue um pingente com uma joia brilhante que ilumina o caminho. Atrás dele seguem dois irmãos: uma mulher portando uma espada e escudo e um homem levando um arco e flechas. A parede ao fundo mostra uma cena em relevo ilustrando uma batalha entre dois guerreiros alienígenas emunhando macuahuitl (armas astecas semelhantes a espadas de madeira com discos cortantes de obsidiana); esses dois guerreiros alienígenas lutam contra algo como um wyrvern com face tentacular.

Detail of one of the pages of the comic book I'm working on. ^^

GTA IV. It's my online origin story because I was so baffled by the praise being heaped on it that I sought any reviewer giving it some deserved stick. I found a small site and eventually ended up writing for it. Through that I met lots of cool people, including my good friend @electrondance.com.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

YouTube video by Joe Lynch Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

Boards of Canada's Olsen performed on a PDP-1. Holy shit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

4 panel comic P1: a cartoon me, sat at a table --with a blank sheet of paper and a pencil on its surface-- grimacing in pain as he clutches his right wrist. Thinking to himself, he says "AUGH! My drawing hand hurts! Don't think I'll be able to draw a comic toda--" P2: APPEAR! Suddenly, a larger and far more crudely drawn version of my cartoon self appears on the right. He has a big doofy grin onhis face. Original cartoon me, in shock, says "GASP! W-who --WHAT-- are you?" P3: Via an equally crudely drawn (and written) speech bubble and text, crude cartoon me says "I'm you when you stop giving a shite about drawing well" P4: Suddenly, original cartoon me gets transformed into a crudely drawn form. The other crude self finishes on "in my imperfection I am perfect in every way"