image showing a watercolor looking art of Raichu from Pokรฉmon, and the original sprite from Pokรฉmon Blue (Japanese) for comparison.
Don't be Rai-in' to me.
14.02.2026 14:12 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@shepardcdr.bsky.social
writer @kotaku.com | the ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ one @normandyfm.bsky.social | he/him | nyc | kshepard@kotaku.com ears still ringing, arms still swinging
image showing a watercolor looking art of Raichu from Pokรฉmon, and the original sprite from Pokรฉmon Blue (Japanese) for comparison.
Don't be Rai-in' to me.
14.02.2026 14:12 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0people who wait for a machine to free up at the gym by standing next to it and watching the person using it should be banned from the premises imo
14.02.2026 19:01 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0iphone telling me to turn my volume down
first of all, eat shit
14.02.2026 18:53 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0i really donโt know what iโm supposed to do with the knowledge that some people are just fucking evil and apathetic to the suffering of others.
14.02.2026 18:34 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0may have just scolded the lady next to me on this flight for leaving her trash in the seat right before we deplaned. โi donโt think you should leave your trash.โ โwho cares what you thinkโ [observes she has a copy of the new york times in her hands]
13.02.2026 19:38 โ ๐ 7638 ๐ 386 ๐ฌ 272 ๐ 59weird day but at least it was a weird day while in new york city and not bumfuck nowhere!!!
13.02.2026 22:50 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0pikachu, raichu, pichu statues
good morning to the raichu family statues at pokepark kanto only
27.01.2026 14:20 โ ๐ 34 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0yes lol it's bleak. i'm done now though, i'm too sexy to be playing with my food like this.
13.02.2026 17:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If game developers stopped taking to Twitter every time they got laid off, it would stop. We don't care. We don't care about the people who make our clothes, our cell phones, our food, our cars. I don't know when it became normal for game devs to think they matter to the public so much. And yet time after time they prove they are incapable of just heading to Indeed silently like the rest of us. Your industry sucks just as bad as the rest of them. Suck it up. They keep shoving them in our faces at these game shows and then we're supposed to pretend we give a damn. It would be cooler if they didn't lose their jobs so much. But if they do, I don't understand why we the public are supposed to care more than any other industry out there.
christ these motherfuckers are miserable
13.02.2026 02:16 โ ๐ 240 ๐ 24 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 4The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!
New Yorkers wonโt let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.
God of War trilogy remake is the game you make when 12 live service projects didn't work out
12.02.2026 23:13 โ ๐ 559 ๐ 143 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 6will they keep the qte sex scenes in the god of war remake, tho?
12.02.2026 23:27 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0actually it's about ethics in games journalism but said wokely
12.02.2026 21:36 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The live service game death spiral is a bleak one.
It's difficult to avoid and all but impossible to escape. Here's what the heads of Specter Divide (remember that) said about the dead game stench back in 2024.
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very thankful to be hiring โ threading the 3 positions we've currently got open! RTs always appreciated~
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12.02.2026 00:37 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0need the industry to stop betting on live service games if they can't sustain the livelihood of people who work on them.
11.02.2026 23:14 โ ๐ 58 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0that's better
11.02.2026 19:35 โ ๐ 1155 ๐ 219 ๐ฌ 16 ๐ 1so fast
11.02.2026 18:22 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Lily
Lily
Lily
Herdier tattoo
There are days when the only reason I get up in the morning is so someone on this godforsaken planet remembers you. Three years later, I promise I always will.
11.02.2026 16:58 โ ๐ 33 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0I got to review Reanimal for Kotaku and, despite loving LNM I & II, I found Reanimal pretty boring. I think their demphasis of puzzles was a mistake because nothing takes its place. The result is a spooky walking sim with no pulse and way too many "crash bandicoot" style escape sequences.
11.02.2026 16:16 โ ๐ 72 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 1fucked up thing is i canโt even buy it yet smh
11.02.2026 02:01 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0hey blizzard are you trying to kill me?
10.02.2026 21:18 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0queueing up as my mains when everyone else is playing and learning the new characters like a hydrogen bomb descending upon a coughing baby
10.02.2026 19:37 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0what i said
ok why did i get emotional opening up the play menu and it having soldier already as my default hero? is this a play time thing or is it starting on him for everyone?
10.02.2026 19:19 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0and there's a queue now? all these fairweather fans coming in smh. blizzard i never left let me in first i should have some kind of vip membership
10.02.2026 19:05 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0overwatch main menu
overwatch 2 is officially overwatch again
10.02.2026 19:04 โ ๐ 31 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1ayo
10.02.2026 19:03 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0