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a woman in a black dress is holding a cup of coffee and smiling in goth . ALT: a woman in a black dress is holding a cup of coffee and smiling in goth .

*Opens email*

"Goth Week aims to address barriers to sector growth..."

Huh?

Oh!

"Growth week..."

"When I say that we're ready to take a stand on the right values, I don't mean that we won't make mistakes..."

Love this. Maybe people need a shorter game rn

@inkle.co has done it again. Whether you'll like TR-49 probably depends on your tolerance for persevering with puzzles, but there's no question it's good. There's a lot packed into a deceptively simple-looking thing.

how he sees through those curtains is anyone's guess!

Slightly obsessed with Rust COO Alistair McFarlane offering to buy the game. I wonder what he'd do with it if it ever came to pass

A 16-year-old baby is born! Miracles do happen. After three years under the Netflix umbrella, Spry Fox is once again a fully independent studio. As a studio, we’ve managed to somehow survive countless industry upheavals and release a whole lot o…

Something positive: Spry Fox is spinning out of Netflix. We are independent (once again!) and preparing to launch Spirit Crossing.

We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news.
spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...

Congratulations to our Narrative Award Nominees! 📚

@meredithgran.com
@arteinteractive.bsky.social @wednesdays-game.bsky.social @thepixelhunt.bsky.social
@ho-games-studio.bsky.social @jeremyxho.bsky.social
@rocketadrift.bsky.social

🏆#IndieCade Awards Ceremony on Steam & YouTube Sat 1/17 11AM PT!

Am I Nima on Steam Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.

Am I Nima's demo was BREATHTAKING!!! you're Nima (or are you?) and you need to convince your mom that you really are her daughter. the gameplay is... word associations?!? keep an eye out for this one and wishlist it please please please plea

store.steampowered.com/app/3224600/...

Here's the thing, see. There are two types of narrative game. There's RPG and there's adventure game. That's it. Only the names are all wrong. RPG isn't RPG. It's second-person. You do this? Great. Now you do that. Adventure is the other kind. Third-person. You there! Do this! Now, do that! End of.

Can GOG also bring multiplayer games back from the dead?

Late Jan is a perfect time for this. Something to lift our spirits

December 29th!

Leaving CD Projekt Red has its upsides. One is publishing games.

Crunch is bad. Crunch ruins lives. Crunch kills. Don't ask for it. Don't do it. It's bad.

I can't believe I still have to say this after all these years.

I did not expect to hear the former exec producer of Anthem outline a pitch for making it a single-player game, but here we are.

Also, local servers!

Anthem has never been more exciting?

Playing Anthem while it awaited termination was a strange experience

You look a little chilly in this picture. That or you actually have big green hands

Diablo 4 is better than it’s ever been The Paladin class and Season 11 tweaks leave the game in great shape for 2026

Enjoyed this by Oli. I get the feeling it's long past cool to like Diablo 4, but is it better than people give it credit for?

www.polygon.com/diablo-4-pal...

YouTube video by Tenderfoot TV Wisecrack [ Episode 1: Knock, Knock ]

I've just finished listening to the Wisecrack podcast from last autumn and it is stunning. Couldn't wait to wash-up to listen to it. Get it in your ears! Contains some dark material so be prepared www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXyf...

*excellent* gif choice!

Love that!

I find it hard to believe but I also want to believe

Challenge accepted!

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Me writing alt text. Oh the things I've nestled in there

Few quotes are as sought after for an actor - for anyone, perhaps - as this: "For the first time in my career, I find myself at a crossroads where I actually have a choice about what comes next."

It's great that @lilchopshopgal.bsky.social sought Maxence out to talk about this. I imagine there are many other such situations where a mo-cap performer has remained invisible. But such is the Clair Obscur effect that it's changed his life - and rightfully so - regardless.

A fellow Culinarian! That's the only helpful thing I had to say. I'm not even sure if it's helpful

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Nothing wakes you up in the morning like a shot of Sektori