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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 3h

I'm putting together a collection

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Traversing the Canadian wilderness is super fun

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This post is one for the history books I think

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Me every time a video game has a drivable muscle car and a parking garage

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Blackwood has a -long- way to go, but I feel like they can make it work. The idea is there, they're patching the rough edges rapidly, but it still needs to deliver on their vision.

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That's what kept me busy at work lately! It was good to be able to work with consoles again, and I'm happy to see possibly the biggest project I've been a part on release on multiple platforms now. My physical PS5 copy can't arrive soon enough 😁

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Note to self: Road Truckers requires you to be much more careful than ETS2/ATS, I learnt it the hard way

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every game with cars is secretly a racing game, even Blackwood

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gonna tell my kids this was Far Cry 7

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just 7000€ to fund the baseline + playable prototype + reputable people behind the project, at this point it's a no-brainer to chip in

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A new game from the dev behind Speed Demons 2 and Instruments of Destruction!

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Finally figured out how to make it to the leaderboards at the gun range

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BLACKWOOD: Act 1 is an ambitious, smaller-scale game that fuses two gameplay loops: by day, you manage the DVD store; at night, you're an assassin. The result is a slightly janky but fun shooter with unusual pacing that shows a lot of promise. My review: silentsblog.com/2026/09/16/b...

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Discovering BLACKWOOD: Ambitious game on a smaller scale

A technical review of BLACKWOOD, including my gameplay impressions, settings breakdown, comparisons, benchmarks, and tests on the Steam Deck and Steam Machine.

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My initial impression was wrong: those do *not* seem to be low-effort re-releases, but proper modernizations of the original games keeping the style but upgrading the internals! The blog post calls out a DirectX 8 -> 11 migration, and more. Now I'm def curious. store.steampowered.com/news/app/360...

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GCR4 Geoff Crammond - DevLog 1: Graphics, Licensing, Community Vote - Steam News

A modern renderer, an expired license, and eleven teams that need new names. Yours, ideally.

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Life is good as Stuntman Ignition is now fully playable in RPCS3, and, unlike the X360 version, it's not capped to 30 FPS - so when emulated, it can reach stable 60 FPS! The game is BC on Xbox One, but it lacks FPS boost, so RPCS3 is the best way to play it.

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Inspirations from Mafia II's random sim/interactivity elements are very evident in BLACKWOOD I think

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: YOU CAN PET (and feed) THE CAT IN BLACKWOOD

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I took note of BLACKWOOD as soon as it was announced, and now I got to try it ahead of next week's release, taking notes on both tech (it's Unity!!!) and gameplay. When it comes to combat and gunplay, they understood the assignment: it scratches that Max Payne & John Wick itch.

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For the original 2016's PC ports, my dev PC had a late Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM and a GTX 550 Ti - so both games ran fine with this config. This minspec in comparison is... quite something. They are unlikely to be "real" min specs, they most likely only tried on a few PCs for now.

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Very curious to see what Blackwood turns out to be like. I certainly can see the vision behind it

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Blackwood is advertised as "Act 1" releasing September 16, and I was wondering if it means sequels, or if episodes are already planned. The store page now provides the answer: they are going for the Life is Strange-like model, where Act 2 and 3 are already set in stone, and will be free upgrades!

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Track Editor? OK, I'm intrigued and want to give it a spin, this'll likely finally make me try the CarX games www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WJJ...

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CarX Rally - Official Announcement Trailer

YouTube video by CarX Technologies

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Early Access version of Throttle Trace (out September 15th) changed quite a bit from the Next Fest demo, but I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I'm curious to see how in-depth the career mode is.

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just an educated guess, but looking at the lighting here, I suspect NASCAR 26 follows the 25's lead of using a Lumen-less and Nanite-less UE5, and they finally enabled motion blur everywhere; for some reason, cinematics are STILL out of focus, though?

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Another day, another game to keep tabs on. I think I don't have enough tabs www.youtube.com/watch?v=t46W...

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Poetry of Pace: Rally | Official Reveal Trailer

YouTube video by Ash Dev

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

August Status Update has been published on Patreon and GitHub Sponsors! Belated update this time - SP for GTA received a hotfix, and I've been working on more side content for Upstate Liberty. Available for all Patrons & Sponsors, starting from $1/month. www.patreon.com/CookiePLMons...

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Status Update - August 2026 | Silent

Hey! My apologies for a delay - August flew by almost too fast, and with a SilentPatch hotfix released right in the middle of the month, I a

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This month is shaping up to be extremely busy

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Troubleshooting issues with Flycast turned into an interesting exercise on framerate vs frame pacing. Both these clips are perfect 60FPS yet, they feel very distinct. This clip, using OpenGL, has spotless frame pacing. Every frame is unique, and the car advances steadily.

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The project *and the entire GitHub account* hosting this recomp are gone, that's an accurate indicator of a longevity of an average project like this

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This almost looked fake at first, and I couldn't replicate it on PC - the code simply adds the USJ reward to the player's balance. But then I checked the PS2 version, and there they set the balance to 0 if it's negative after the reward is given. youtu.be/mGTEIfdajzk

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Clearing my -$800,000 debt on accident in GTASA

YouTube video by HZA MANE

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Indie Games Corner received an update. Games that changed status through those last few months are now up-to-date again, and eight new games got added to the list! 2026 is very prolific for indie racers. silentsblog.com/the-indie-co...

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The Indie Games Corner

A curated list of 60+ indie games, mostly racing, including released, upcoming, and unannounced titles worth keeping an eye on.

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It looks great, but it's really strange that the game appears to have zero presence online otherwise - no socials, no store page, nothing on itch. So far it's impossible to verify this isn't simply a "trailer bait", which I hope it's not.

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Driving Rogue now has a Cookie Car

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

wtf lol, I'd be curious to try that

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

People keep saying that "recomps are not emulation", then why do you need to overclock the emulated CPU to achieve 60FPS? I thought it's mostly native and it's not emulating the entire console 😎

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big fan of the general recomp "devs" going "recomp means we can improve the games!" and "no more emulation!", and then you see those automated recomps that: 1. Emulate the PS1 CPU anyway and dump JIT'ted code on runtime (like emus) 3. Ship game patches instead of making in-source changes (like emus)

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

ngl I'm liking the improvements here, '26 releases right in the middle between two other releases I want to cover so I might have to skip it, but it doesn't look bad at all

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On the Steam Machine, Yakuza 3 Remastered runs maxed out in native 4K@60 - that's all I wanted from it tbh. I will definitely check the Dragon Engine games too and their performance will influence my decision whether to get Stranger Than Heaven on PC or PS5.

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The mysterious Cube has arrived

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yakuza 3 Restored brings back the hostesses from the Japanese PS3 version of the game and reintroduces a few features and a minigame cut from the Remastered version - might just be the most interesting way to replay the game after I beat it on the PS3 years ago.

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The reason this year's Gamescom hit me with FOMO is because I know I've been namedropped on different occasions 4+ times, so I likely lost multiple networking opportunities through my negligence 🥲

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The first few runs in Driving Rogue were harsh and skill checked me hard, but once you pick up the flow, it's cool - I landed deep into the Endless mode and it felt great. I think I see the appeal of roguelikes now, as this one isn't punishing enough to discourage me from trying

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