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DC Live! Strider, Part 2 Livestream at 8 ET Tonight I spend Superbowl Sunday playing and hopefully finishing Strider. Why worry about touchdowns when there's Space Soviets to stop?

Tonight I spend Superbowl Sunday playing and hopefully finishing Strider. Why worry about touchdowns when there's Space Soviets to stop?

Cognition Dissemination: YOU Should Be Steamed – Damage Control Blog The Steam Machine’s delay means a worst-case scenario for the hardware will come to pass, and it’s just the beginning.

ICYMI I wrote about why Valve's delay of the Steam Machine (and assorted hardware) is a very bad sign for the near future of computer and gaming hardware for a @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social post. www.dcgameblog.com/2026/02/cogn...

Twitch Twitch is the world

Full disclosure: I've never monstered a hunter before. I've never even huntered a stories. I vaguely know what a mizutsune is and I think I fought a wraffleos in FFXIV and maybe Smash? But that's it. So this is entirely new to me.
www.twitch.tv/xyzzysqrl/

Cognition Dissemination: YOU Should Be Steamed – Damage Control Blog The Steam Machine’s delay means a worst-case scenario for the hardware will come to pass, and it’s just the beginning.

I posted on @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social about how the delay of upcoming Steam hardware this week, including the Steam Machine, is bad news for the future of Valve's hardware and the immediate future of gaming hardware. www.dcgameblog.com/2026/02/cogn...

Cognition Dissemination: YOU Should Be Steamed The Steam Machine’s delay means a worst-case scenario for the hardware will come to pass, and it’s just the beginning.

The Steam Machine’s delay means a worst-case scenario for the hardware will come to pass, and it’s just the beginning.

Damage Control Blog's weekly streaming schedule from February 7th to the 13th. Saturday, February 7th - No Livestream. Sunday, February 8th - Strider at 8:00PM ET/7:00PM CT

The weekend is here! What are your plans?

We hope to finish Strider on Sunday.

Offline we'll be continuing with Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles and Soul Nomad & the World Eaters. One of us will be watching Hidden Figures, and another the Superbowl.

#Weekend #Twitch #VideoGames

A Sketch of Jackson Hyde - Aqualad/AquaMan #DC #Aquaman #Aqualad #sketch #FoxoArt

Did this after I got out of the gym for some practice since I had a graphic novel on-hand.

One of my fav comic characters that I don't see as often!
#sketch #FoxoArt

Cognition Dissemination: The Switch 2 Partners to the (Light) Rescue – Damage Control Blog Nintendo could have used a few more “Partners” here, though.

ICYMI I wrote about how the newest Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase was a solid presentation of upcoming third-party games for the Switch console family, though hardly spectacular, for a @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social post. www.dcgameblog.com/2026/02/cogn...

Angela's playthrough of Neva comes to an end with a battle against the final boss. We had to splice this together from three 1-minute long Twitch clips. The full battle is in the linked video. Neva: The Final Boss #indiegame #gaming #letsplay #shorts

Neva's final boss fight is quite satisfying. Then that creeping realization the game might go full circle sets in. (There are no actual spoilers from the end of the game in this clip.)

youtube.com/shorts/b...

#VideoGames #IndieGames #Neva #Shorts

I mentioned before how Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicle's story is more resonant now than when the original Final Fantasy Tactics released (or even the PSP game), but that only becomes more apparent later in the game. It's also fun and challenging, of course, with tricky battles.

Cognition Dissemination: The Switch 2 Partners to the (Light) Rescue – Damage Control Blog Nintendo could have used a few more “Partners” here, though.

I posted on @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social about the newest Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase, which was *fine* as a showcase for displaying how solid the Switch 2 (and Switch) third-party support is, though light on surprises. www.dcgameblog.com/2026/02/cogn...

Cognition Dissemination: The Switch 2 Partners to the (Light) Rescue Nintendo could have used a few more “Partners” here, though.

Nintendo could have used a few more “Partners” here, though.

Damage Control Blog's weekly streaming schedule from February 7th to the 13th. Saturday, February 7th - No Livestream. Sunday, February 8th - Strider at 8:00PM ET/7:00PM CT

The weekend is here! What are your plans?

We hope to finish Strider on Sunday.

Offline we'll be continuing with Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles and Soul Nomad & the World Eaters. One of us will be watching Hidden Figures, and another the Superbowl.

#Weekend #Twitch #VideoGames

Quarantine Control #305: Never the Fallout – Damage Control Blog Always look at the root cause of... well, stuff.

ICYMI I wrote about Neva for Quarantine Control on Damage Control Blog Geoff B wrote about season 2 of Fallout. CWTyger took a break for the week after writing Wednesday's Lufia II retrospective. Check us out!

Quarantine Control #305: Never the Fallout – Damage Control Blog Always look at the root cause of... well, stuff.

ICYMI The Quarantine Control series on @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social reached the 305th entry. @silverhuskey.bsky.social wrote about her Neva playthrough, CWTyger took a rest, and I wrote about season 2 of the Fallout series. www.dcgameblog.com/2026/02/quar...

Angela brings back Slow Burn Saturdays for the new year with more SteamWorld Heist II. The parley does not go well, as the crew is caught between Lord Admiral Piston's Royal Navy, and Tempest Morgan's Rattlers. Some how the crew survive. It's then a trip further north to see what the Rattlers are up DC Live! SteamWorld Heist II, Part 4 - 1

Part 4-1 of our SteamWorld Heist II livestream is now on YouTube. The massive battle between Lord Admiral Piston and Tempest Morgan and their forces at the parley is difficult. We then set off after Morgan and her Rattlers.

youtu.be/H04VxBIB9Ws

#VideoGames #IndieGames #SteamWorld #RPG

Quarantine Control #305: Never the Fallout Always look at the root cause of... well, stuff.

Always look at the root cause of... well, stuff.

An Imperfect Classic

100% of the funds from this will be applied to the $ we're saving up for my family to relocate away from domestic violence 🔼

Hey streamers & future content creators, are any of you interested in an almost-new ELGATO 15-key stream deck? It's in pristine condition with its box, stand & hand manual.

I was thinking of asking $100 (new it's about $130)

Another highly questionable decision from Twitch's leadership. And this is among the pile of questionable decisions we've seen in the last year or so. It's only February, so there's plenty of time for this company to make more questionable decisions in 2026.

aribuns - Twitch BLIND FIRST PLAYTHROUGH OF EXPEDITION 33: PART 5

BLIND FIRST PLAYTHROUGH OF EXPEDITION 33: PART 5 www.twitch.tv/aribuns

A toony light blue tiger with white stripes hugging and licking a tan smiling shibe with her tongue out, sitting together in a pastel color background of grass and cherry blossom trees.

An early Valentines comm for @semiceri.bsky.social!

Tifa ~

👀👁‍🗨

The wild thing is that this has been the standard practice of literally every facet of the online anime media. Outside of one or two large outlets like ANN and Crunchyroll, literally every anime/manga publication in North America is either journalist-run or worker-owned, and has been since 2006.

Enjoy it when you do!

Aahh it's been so long since I've played this. Definitely gotta get around to it one day

An Imperfect Classic

Examples of Damage Control in Gaming: They Dispatched the Wrong Dispatch – Damage Control Blog Just when people were starting to say Nintendo doesn’t do censorship anymore, though this isn’t the first recent example.

ICYMI I wrote about how peculiar and hypocritical it is for Dispatch to be censored on the Switch systems, even though most of the game is preserved, for a @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social post. www.dcgameblog.com/2026/02/exam...

After some platforming difficulties, and some distractions by the Twitch chat, Angela brings Neva to an end. It has been an incredible game, with a very cool, very straightforward story. The platforming is tougher than the fights, but the final boss fight was quite fun. Thank you to everyone who wat DC Live! Neva, Part 3 (Final)

The final part of our Neva livestream is now on YouTube. We make it past the most difficult platforming section of the game. After that, we have a few more mini-bosses to fight before the final boss. We earned that ending!

youtu.be/GO3rynkcChk

#VideoGames #IndieGames #Neva