Steven Bailey

Traditional slop waking up and wondering what the hell is going on.

A graph showing total games industry costs and profit between 2020 and 2024. Costs rise from 2020 to 2022 then level off. Margin drops from 18% in 2020 to 9% in 2022 then recovers to 14% in 2024. Source: Omdia.

Is the games industry profitable? Yes, and has been throughout the entire recent layoff wave. But profit margins did slide dramatically post-covid as costs shot up but revenue didn't keep pace. Margins have recovered since then, mostly thanks to reduced personnel costs.

don't stick your foot vaguely near the garbage disposal

#fiteclips #kof2001

Actually, it's pronounced 'Silent Hillf'

YouTube video by Tee Lopes Brief History of SHINOBI's Music * DJ SET *

Bang bang bang

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How To Play R-Type Final 3 Evolved: The Definitive Review Or any of the R-Types Final, as it goes

Because you should love it like I do, here's how to play #R-Type Final (and 2 and 3 and 3 Evolved):

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It really gets how to make hitting things feel good.

Itagaki's farewell post, which I will not be translating in full because I don't want to do it an injustice. It says it was posted by someone close to him.

Itagaki's final photo of himself, sitting in a restaurant, looking off into the distance.

Former Team Ninja boss Tomonobu Itagaki has passed away, as confirmed by his Facebook and personal friends. "Words of departure - my life's light is about to run out." www.facebook.com/tomonobu.ita...

Make the moon look like it is wearing a shirt & tie

Up there with Evil Dead, as a movie I bumped into while mooching through some late Saturday night telly during childhood, and getting my ass completely floored.

I could live with this.

The 8-Bit Experience - The Commodore Plus/4: The Definitive Review Riding behind the wave, 48KB down

The 8-bit machine that was sort of the Xbox Series X of its day, only with better corporate management: open.substack.com/pub/affectio...

*salute*

An unlockable perk from the game Kiborg. "Depression: Grants you a 10% chance to ignore any damage while your health is above 80%"

new variant just dropped

The Discreet Charm Of The Filler Game: The Definitive Review Actually another piece on R-Type Final 3 Evolved

It's time for another #R-Type Final 3 love-in. It's my filler game for October, as I genuinely think I can get all the ships before Outer Worlds 2 comes out.

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oh god, if I never see a screen making me choose one of three perks/upgrades ever again

oh, they're all so young

"This is another game that doesn't seem to try to b e realistic. You can pull off some great powerslides, but you need quite a bit o f practice to carry them out convincingly. The music's horrendous - I want some authentic-sounding engine noises, not trumpety jazz nonsense. Still, the first track is obviously based on the Tokyo suburbs, and the brilliant visuals really d o make you feel like you're there. The addition of a rear-view mirror is a nice touch, too." 4/5

Former Top Gear presenter Tiff Needell's review of Ridge Racer Type 4 in the May 1999 issue of Arcade magazine.

A record-breaking, 515-mile-long bolt of lightning has stretched from eastern Texas, almost to Kansas. What are you even doing with your life, you lazy piece of shit.

Burned into my impressionable young brain, this one.

"He's mad, he's bad, he's brought his dad!"

35 years ago, the highly influential Mean Machines launched. It was Britain's first dedicated monthly consoles magazine and became renown for its brutally honest reviews, top-class tips, and outrageous, close-to-the-knuckle humor. But then, if you read it, you'd know all this!

EA is about 3% of the global games market so it going private means a modest but meaningful reduction in the level of transparency in the industry overall.

"I shall destroy you with my intellect!"

Of all the things that Dynasty Warriors: Origins has updated about the series, I'm glad the hammy battle cries are not one of them.

New images of Acme’s £1bn Liverpool Street station plans as City publishes planning application Documents reveal team tested options including building over station's entire listed trainshed

They keep throwing them up and throwing up, but there's not much to go in 'em.

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A form of remembrance that's driven by forgetting.

All the things I'm supposed to love and want to revisit about the 80s/90s/00s are the things we were using to distract ourselves from the crappiness of living through such eras.

For sale: Baby's caboose.

Insane cast, *insane*. First we got Thank Goodness You're Here, and now this.

A gift to future generations, as a time capsule of British talent in the space year 2025.

EARTH MUST DIE

Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE

Please RETWEET and WISHLIST

Also: iirc, Mad Max was the last time people seemed to share console screenshots properly en masse. One post-apocayptic desert, but a hundred variations on painterly skies.