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Tomas Franzese @tomasfranzese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm very excited to share that I reviewed Minecraft Dungeons II for @gameinformer.com ! This is a very big deal for me. Game Informer was the gaming magazine I read growing up, and I've always wanted to be published there. gameinformer.com/review/minec...

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Minecraft Dungeons II Review: Built Better Than Before

Minecraft Dungeons II (Xbox Series X/S) Review – 7.25/10: Minecraft Dungeons II is a straightforward, entry-level action-RPG that proves this spin-off franchise can stand on its own and improve with s...

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a Day 1 purchase; only waiting for one more hour as I'd also like to pick up Well Dweller based on the glowing recommendation from @theindieinformer.bsky.social Wadjet Eye Games has not missed yet, either as a developer or publisher, and this looks like an awesome RPG to lead into October.

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Brandon @misterbinky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

LET’S FUCKING GOOOO!!!!!! www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Ar...

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The Next Chapter for Bungie

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hi everyone, during some routine testing, my company's fire broke loose and burned three communities to the ground. No one is responsible. Fire is a great technology for keeping warm and handling certain types of evidence, so its use must remain completely unregulated.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I can confirm this game was completely hidden from me in Steam unless I searched for "Nighthawks" in the Advanced Search. Really hope Steam can reassess this. I've added it to my Wishlist now, but if I hadn't happened to see this random post, I wouldn't have known it was coming out so soon.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I forgot to follow up, but I did get this game on my Steam wishlist a bit after this post. Mystery theme + eerie, off-kilter vibes + high quality FMV looks like *exactly* my jam. But I'll definitely want to play Joni Evers first -- might do them back to back!

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Steam is doing its Tuesday outage thing, at least here. So I'm reposting this so I'll remember to Wishlist it afterwards.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Really love seeing larger creators holding the line against games made through generative AI. Wanderbot has always been very clear about this, and uses his platform to share games made by people with a creative vision rather than reprocessed AI spew. Wanderbot's BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/wand...

A post on YouTube from the "Wanderbots" channel reads:

Hey everyone, I've taken down today's first video (NOT BLOOD DUNGEON) on suspicion of being heavily vibecoded- there's a chance it's legit, but after looking more at the talent tree I have serious doubts (lots of repeats with unique names + slightly changed #'s, for no reason.)

Edit: the developer did confirm that they were using AI as part of the development process, so the video will be staying down.

I have a pretty good eye for AI generated art assets, but things like UI & code are huge blindspots for me and I'm fully reliant on disclosures + developers being honest in those cases. I'll keep trying my best to avoid them all the same, but please don't be afraid to let me know if I accidentally let one through.

As for the AI boosters who will inevitably come crawling to defend slop; save us both the time and energy. It's awful tech made by awful people who stole from millions of people and I have zero interest in hearing arguments in favor of it.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Also, the name "9 to 5" was a widely accepted reference to a standard employment shift in the USA. When the movie was made in 1980, working five 8-hour shifts (9am to 5pm) was understood as making a livable wage which covered food, rent, healthcare, & common necessities. Yes, seriously.

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eric van allen @seamoosi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

it starts today! let's raise some cash for Trans Lifeline!!!

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Incredibly good advice for a lot of life, IMO.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is how you color in birds when you're at the end of the fiscal quarter and unless you can demonstrate a specific business need for every possible crayon, next quarter your department will get nothing but lime, alizarin, and sky. (Original footage credited to @lotuswinnielee.bsky.social)

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Brandon @misterbinky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Divided by Werewolves, the podcast I do with @misterbones.bsky.social turns ten years old today. We just posted our 250th episode. Hard to believe it’s been ten years (especially when you look at our download numbers HEYO) but it’s been a blast for all ten years.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In addition to being an excellent podcast, it's also refreshing to have a clean, descriptive header image. So many other thumbnails now looks like they were made by an AI trained exclusively to churn out Garbage Pail Kids.

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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

UPDATE: More 'Save Our Devs' rallies have been announced—including one at Obsidian Entertainment and another at Microsoft's campus in Redmond—in support of laid off Xbox workers.

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Michael Murphy | Freelance Gaming Critic and Journalist @mikemurf2.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Hello mateys! I had the pleasure of reviewing Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced for @smashpad.com! As a fan of the franchise, it’s a great way to experience one of its best, even if it has some flaws. Thank you to @danreb.bsky.social for entrusting the review to me. Hope y’all enjoy it!

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REVIEW – “Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced” is still a swashbuckling good time

When Ubisoft announced a remake in the form of Black Flag Resynced, I was curious whether it’d live up to the original’s legacy. Having only played up until the halfway point back in my teens, Resy…

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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 01/07/2026

Reminder that you can subscribe to Game Informer to get printed magazines sent to your mailbox with amazing covers! gameinformer.com/subscribe The physical magazine is not a rented license that can be revoked. Once you receive the printed issue, it can't be taken back. It’s yours forever.

The Borderlands 4 and Outer Worlds 2 issues of Game informer magazine.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

With today's news from Sony, it feels like a good time to confirm that this 2026 playthrough of a 2016 Pokemon game was accomplished by putting the physical game cartridge I own into the physical 3DS I own. I never had to worry if a digital storefront would still honor my purchase a decade later.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I'm fairly certain that in the entire history of console games being available digitally, starting with the 360, I've purchased fewer than 10 non-physical games. The specific reason I buy console games is to retain them on physical media. I go out of my way to get them on disc whenever possible.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Premieres tomorrow. When it started, I never expected the story would resonate as strongly as it does. Fantastic voice acting, music, writing, and production values all the way through, and I absolutely loved it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SugP...

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Summer 2026 Trailer

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

My favorite tidbit about Transformers: Beast Wars is that it developed such a strong emphasis on story & character development because the CGI animation of the era made splashy action sequences prohibitively expensive. So they had to come up with interesting things for the characters to talk about.

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Mitchy Halloween💀 @misterbones.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Very sad news out of Bungie today. I can’t thank the devs enough for Destiny, and my heart breaks for everyone affected. I can’t imagine life without this game, I imagine that feeling is exponentially stronger for those who created it.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Wildly underappreciated movie, and it only gets more impressive when you learn about how it was made. I'm a sucker for dinner party movies to begin with; this is one of the best!

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I don't know how much legendary hunting @misterbinky.bsky.social did in Pokemon Moon back when he played in 2016, but the repetition of navigating the ultra wormhole for a small chance to encounter one rare pokemon per voyage puts a real damper on it for me. Think I might be finished with this one.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is just like how I do my writing: in order to see if the topic is worthy of my time and attention, I just copy & paste someone else's work into my document. Then, if it looks good, I move it into my traditional pipeline of mixing in some synonyms. Fans deserve nothing less.

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Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Could you please post some pretty nature pics? Trying to find new things for her to look at every single day is, as silly as it sounds, a source of stress for me. I send her pics from my bird feeder and my daily walk with Della, but she gets confused if she sees too much of the same thing.

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JellyBunnz🔋 @jellybunnz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

COLORING BOOK COVER REVEAL! This book will be available for printable PDF download by Friday on my Kofi! It has 32 pages of fun, whimsical, story book like fantasy illustrations for you to color! Every page hand drawn by me! #humanartist #coloringbook #illustration

a stylized illustration of a unicorn in a forest, along with a small mouse friend and a little baby dragon. The Dragon has some gold coins, and the mouse some cheese. They appear ready to go on an adventure. The title says "Adventures Big and Small" at the top, and credits the artist JellyBunnz at the bottom.

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JellyBunnz🔋 @jellybunnz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I am happy to finally announce that my #coloringbook should be ready to be published for sale as a printable by the end of the month! The book will contain 32 coloring pages, all drawn by hand, by me, human-made art only. Its called "Adventures Big and Small" and I cant wait to post the cover!

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Pokemon Sun / Moon added some legitimately great QoL improvements, like replacing HM requirements with Ride Pokemon that can just be summoned as needed. I also like that gyms were replaced by distinct challenges with boss pokemon. But man... I just don't care for the story. And they talk *so* much.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Beyond wanting to play them both very much, it's amazing to have God of War and Control, each with new protagonists, but ➡️for some reason⬅️ the cadre of self-anointed Actual Gamers is only angry about one of them. Just gives away the whole grift in the laziest, most obvious way possible.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hardspace: Shipbreaker. I had really enjoyed the first run, finding a lot of relaxation in slicing apart old spaceships while the coworkers chat along in the background. And, without giving much away, there's an extra Achievement for hitting a major milestone all by yourself. Such a fun game!

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

If Brian Shea called me a small, sniveling loser, I would respond with, "Yeah? Well, um, that's just your-" and then reenacting Ron Silver's final moments in Time Cop. So here's hoping Stephen Miller sees his post.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Good news everyone: my fully functional warp engine is "95% done." Just need to sort out a couple line items re: antimatter containment and dilithium crystals, but otherwise we are good to go. 👍

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Every knew @misterbinky.bsky.social was going to be so much fun for Destiny content right from the closed alpha: a build so early, there was basically only permadeath: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG-v...

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Guardian Beaners Embraces Destiny

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Moral of the story: before you use AI to generate an inspirational speech and make people clap & cheer, have the prompt checked by a different AI to make sure it doesn't say "laugh & jeer." And then just deliver the speech to a chatroom of AI.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

That's so funny: I just asked generative AI to give me tricks of writing effective prompts then to write a book about how people can build AI into their work and then how to trick publishers hoping to chase chintzy trends into accepting "my" writing. But now I can just have it plagiarize this.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

If anyone had described the premise or general plot of HBO's Rooster to me, I never would have guessed how pleasant it is to watch. Everyone is dealing with some sort of major stress that should be miserable, but they're all so weirdly well-adjusted that it's fine, actually.

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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 30/04/2026

Does anyone know of / use a custom overlay maker for Win11? For instance, if I wanted to have an image of a keyboard / controller map that I could call up as an overlay to remind myself (for a complex non-traditional controller), is there an app that can help make / manage one?

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The cool thing about taking a massive amount of money from people is that, when they ask what happened to all of it, you can just say, "Well, I'm not really in a retrospective state of mind right now. I'm prepping up some exciting new promises to get people to give me more money."

An expensive lesson, for some

Today, Legacy is functionally unplayable; it doesn’t even appear on the list of games on Gala Games’ website. While the players who spent thousands of dollars on Legacy land plots still technically control the associated NFTs, those crypto tokens are practically worthless without an active game to monetize them.

(Gala Games COO Mark Skaggs said in an email that the company would not be able to offer comment on specific questions sent regarding this story. A 22Cans representative told Ars that “as we work on the coming updates to our current title… the studio would rather use that time to promote Masters of Albion rather than enter into any postmortem on previous titles.”)

From the start, Gala Games has been careful not to describe purchases of its tokens and NFTs as an investment.

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Michael Murphy | Freelance Gaming Critic and Journalist @mikemurf2.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Hello y'all! Excited to share that I reviewed Pragmata for GameWatcher! As an action and puzzle fan, this is a match made in heaven. Capcom and the team knocked it out of the park here and I loved every single minute with Hugh and Diana. This is a must-play for sure. Hope you enjoy it!

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Pragmata Review - an epic out-of-this-world showing from | GameWatcher

It goes without saying that Pragmata is a terrific game and one of 2026’s must-play titles. It fires on all cylinders and doesn’t let you go, even after the credits roll.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I truly think the decision to remove PvP in favor of focusing on single player and co-op will be a huge benefit. Beyond my personal taste: the tighter scope will make it easier to balance and remove a lot of community impact from cheaters. I'm very hopeful it turns out well!

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 31/03/2026

Support trans people and let them live their lives, please.

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Maple_qb 🥕🕹️ @mapleqb.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

if the game devs didn't want you to use the options, they wouldn't have included them. play that game on easy mode. summon that online helper. use that cheat code. the only thing that matters is if *YOU* are satisfied. don't base your enjoyment of a game off of the opinion of online strangers

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Tom O @vgtomo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I'd love to hear from people who used to work in games media (or any form of entertainment media) about what you did next. Would be a huge help to me and lots of others.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I've recently been playing Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown. Outside of some brief narration to kick off each chapter, there is no voice acting in the game. And I'm still enjoying it very much! If it used AI-generated voices to mimic actors, I would not have played it at all.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

As usual with Game Informer, this is an excellent review. It clearly presents Madsen's experience, using specific (but non-spoiler) examples illustrate how they affected the journey. This is so, so valuable in helping each reader assess whether this game will hit the right pace for them. Well done!

An excerpt from Hayes Madsen's review of Crimson Desert, as published by Game Informer.

It reads, "For example, early in the game, you take a quest to learn how to dye clothes, following an ally to the shop, and then learning that they moved the cauldron you need to the city. You go to the city and use the cauldron, but then have to travel all the way back to the shop to use the dye. A quest that could have quickly been over in a matter of minutes ended up taking me 15, and that’s not an isolated incident – as that kind of design is spread across the entire game."

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Brian is always so kind and optimistic, able to see the best in things. But I wonder if he's considering what DLSS 5 can bring to AA and indie games.

A picture of the pixel art adventure game Kathy Rain 2, in which a red haired woman is talking about something. DLSS 5 is off so she looks very pixelated, almost as if she were a character in a game with a carefully considered art style meant to evoke adventure games from the mid-1990's -- the same era as the setting for Kathy Rain 2.

A picture of the pixel art adventure game Kathy Rain 2, in which a red haired woman is talking about things that are very interesting, intelligent, and funny. DLSS 5 is on so she looks better than before that technology was introduced: she now has long, flowing red hair, perfect makeup, and no longer needs glasses since some testers reported that made her come across as "bookish." Her expression is more serene, as she no longer has anything to feel stressed or concerned about. DLSS 5 has made everything okay. It's fine.

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Auspicious Angel @auspiciousangel.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Literally laughed out loud at the description for this 95-minute Friday the 13th fan film 😆

An except from The Boneyard post reads, "In Vengeance to say it's overused would be an understatement. This movie has a cast of over 109 credited people and between Jason and Elias, there are almost 50 kills."

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