Eliot Lash

UK folks - reiterating that it's super important that you download Wikipedia for offline use like now-ish if you want to guarantee you can keep having that incredible resource!!

www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-t...

🍒 Whoa, what's this?!

UFO 50 is available right now on #NintendoSwitch!

#UFO50 #IndieWorld

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer.

As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free.

Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

Pie chart. Title reads "2025. Game engines used to create 9724 GMTK Game Jam Games" Unity has 41%. Godot has 39%. Other has 11%. Game Maker has 5%. Unreal has 4%.

These are the engines used to make 9,724 games for the GMTK Game Jam in 2025!

1️⃣ Unity - 41%
2️⃣ Godot - 39%
3️⃣ Other / No Engine - 11%
4️⃣ Game Maker - 5%
5️⃣ Unreal Engine - 4%

We are sharing this news with genuine sorrow. Julian LeFay, the Father of The Elder Scrolls, has passed away.

We would like to wish him peace, and for him to know he will not be forgotten.

Are you a trans or queer game dev with a demo or released game?
Fill out the form for a chance to have it demoed in the 10PM-1AM EST block of our stream!
tinyurl.com/bdfed63u
- Entries will be added to the "Wheel of Woke"
- A new game will be chosen every 20 minutes
- All entries will be published

Explanation: pastebin.com/KR52WQWp

Experimental post: Obscure/Ominous Messages Iceberg
I have compiled a collection of various text messages found in Mario games that appear bizarre or unsettling, using the iceberg chart format. Explanations for each entry are linked in the ALT text.

My buddy Riotmode is an amazing pixel artist/animator and has lots of other skills too. He could use some help making rent this week. His commissions are open!

Reminder: Atari didn't collapse in 1983-84 because their games were bad. It was because they had such unrealistic projections that even their top-selling titles were considered flops

Atari executives peddled the "people hated the games" story to deflect blame for their mismanagement

Screenshot of rainbow paint showing a squiggly line and dots in a gradient of colors

I made a gay little paint program that runs in the browser to cap off #PrideMonth! https://eliot-l.itch.io/rainbow-paint

#P5JS #CreativeCoding #JavaScript #BADGameJam

Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game Deus Ex is king of the immersive sims, and a first-person classic that changed PC games forever. We spoke to its developers about how it was made.

Deus Ex is 25! A quarter of a century of sticking with the prod. Read my oral history with @harvey1966.bsky.social, @johnromero.bsky.social and tons more developers crucial to its creation. And then replay Deus Ex, which still stands up wonderfully. www.rockpapershotgun.com/deus-ex-at-2...

TRADE MAGAZINE WEEK

are you ready

📰 It's TRADE MAGAZINE WEEK 📰

💥 NEARLY 400 video game industry trade magazines, full-text searchable by the public 💥

🎙️ NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto, Sid Meier, and more 🎙️

☠️ NOT for the FAINT-OF-HEART historian ☠️

🚨 ONLY at archive.gamehistory.org 🚨

an incredible sequel to this iconic fabino post

i quit polygon; today's my last day. back to being an intergalactic bounty hunter (full-time freelance writer)! you'll soon see my bylines elsewhere & ofc you can still hear my video game opinions on Triple Click weekly. if you've got room in your budget for me: maddymyerswrites at gmail dot com <3

Introducing the Craig Stitt papers | Video Game History Foundation Presenting our newest library collection from Sega and Insomniac artist Craig Stitt.

Introducing our newest collection: The Craig Stitt art and design papers!

Craig Stitt was an artist and designer for Sega and Insomniac, working on games like Sonic 2, Spyro the Dragon, and Ratchet & Clank.

Read more:

If it were not for Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard, Rand and I would have never begun making games and we would have never made Myst and Riven. He was a gentle soul and a brilliant human. We owe so much to him.

The Bomb Squad - Ep 1 - Chapter 1: The Girl part 1 Welcome to Boom Town! A city under constant threat from evil would-be terrorists, mysterious shadowy masterminds and exploding robots! Fortunately, a few select, specialized Bomb Squads have been form...

Guys! "The Bomb Squad" is now on webtoons! I've been re-adapting my all-action, all-ages comic so it works as a webcomic! The first 3 episodes are up and I will be updating it for future installments! #thebombsquad #indiecomics #indiesewing #webcomics #webtoons

www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/th...

Get Google to stop publishing the PERSONAL ADDRESSES of individual developers Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

I hope this gets some visibility so other Android developers can avoid this trap.

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Nice find. I would guess that it just means it needs some polish based on context here.

YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation We're Dumping 125 Mystery Prototype ROMs!

Coming up this Wednesday, June 4th at 1pm PDT - the VGHF acquired 125 prototype ROM chips - for the Famicom/NES and the MSX2, likely from Taito - and will be dumping & analyzing them live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nFA...

Sega joined with Michael Jackson for what seemed to be a fever dream made playable in Moonwalker. We take a deep dive into the making of the arcade version, with newly-translated information that gives us a more complete perspective on this one-of-a-kind video game.

www.sega-16.com/2025/05/behi...

Happy #PansexualVisibilityDay! I've identified as bi/ #pansexual for a while although I am coming to realize #omnisexual is more accurate. It's a bit difficult though because a lot of people don't understand what either label actually means! And #bisexual may be accurate as well although I don't […]

New #Chiptune and #VideoGameMusic tours announced!
https://anamanaguchi.com/ - US & Canada
https://www.bitbrigade.net/tour.html - US & Vancouver

#Anamanaguchi are chiptune legends who composed the soundtrack for #ScottPilgrim #videogame/anime etc
#BitBrigade does live #speedruns of #RetroGames […]

why not trap yourself in the pages tonight
kate-bagenzo.github.io/myst-cam/

You may want to do this, or alternatively, switch to macOS or Linux. 🙃

Lemmings: Advanced Manual / Guide book / Tairiku Shobō / 1991

So sorry, this situation looks awful from every angle :(

If you are interested in the #Doom #TypeScript type system port, check out this deep dive podcast interview with Dimitri, the creator!

If you missed it, definitely check out his video announcing the project, it's next-level!
youtu.be/0mCsluv5FXA

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen