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House House @househouse.com · 15/10/2026
An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox
Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)
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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Orks in Warhammer believe that painting a vehicle red makes it faster and through the inexplicable power of Orkish imagination this becomes true without any mechanical logic behind it. Char Aznable paints mobile suits red and they are described as 3x faster. Is Char Aznable a secret ork?
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sorrel @sorrelkj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
you gotta play norco so bad it's crazy
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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#RandomBoardGameSaturday blesses me with this very french copy of Martin Wallace's Ankh-Morpork. Played it a lot years ago then toiled relentlessly to find it again, its the kind of game that you feel you could get anybody to play and enjoy. Great art too.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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BearhAHHH!!t @fussybabybit.ch · 28/09/2026
You catch that big video essay last night?
coworkers deviously luring you over to the water cooler
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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026
Genuinely, this completely rules
-Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.
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Théo Dezalay @izual.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ma grande découverte du festival était Basilisk's Isles de @patopestostudio.bsky.social : un jeu d'enquête que l'on mène grâce à plusieurs fenêtres, pour afficher par exemple le feed d'une caméra afin de surveiller un endroit pendant qu'on explore ailleurs. store.steampowered.com/app/4216270/...
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Basilisk's Isles on Steam
Basilisk's Isles is an investigation game. Explore the beautiful painterly islands, talk with their colourful inhabitants, and use the different windows and tools at your disposal to unravel their str...
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RyougaSaotome @ryougasaotome.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
RIP Gerrit Graham Gonna be blasting Life At Last in your honor
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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hitoshi Iwaaki's manga will have 20 pages of somewhat bland characters talking with almost no facial expressions and then the most fucked thing you've seen in ages it's great
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boobs are progressive and feminist @bapaf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A desk job? Like... Like what that girl did in Code Geass?
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Oscar Lemaire @oscarlemaire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Important à garder à l'esprit. Y a pas de crise du jeu vidéo. L'industrie se porte bien. Y a une crise de l'emploi dans le jeu vidéo parce que les exécutifs et investisseurs font de la merde et que le système leur permet de foutre la merde pour que seuls les travailleurs subissent les conséquences.
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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think without Phantom Liberty, Cyberpunk's narrative design would have never clicked for me. Genuinely amazing in every way, the best of what massive budget can offer while remaining in any way human
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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Started watching Pushing Daisies for the first time in 15 years bc none of my friends saw it and it's as good as I remember, that's a good day
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🧚ANGELINE ERA!!👼🏼 Now Out! @angelineera.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Angeline Era is out soon on consoles, so it's GIVEAWAY TIME!!! We will be giving out 6 codes for Angeline Era. Simply REPOST to enter!! Or reply with your favorite candy bar to INCREASE YOUR CHANCES THREEFOLD!! (store links/more info below)
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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nominate and vote for the strip mahjong game for best art direction and best VR game at The Game Awards, you cowards. Make Geoff say "Super Real Mahjong" live on camera and test his resolve to be The Games Avatar. You clapped when Naughty Dog did it for five seconds and Illumination is 1/50 the size
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❄Will❄ @willeternal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nature is so beautiful
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 22/08/2026
A great writer on a great site! Congrats! She's one of the best things at RPS.
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Daiz @daiz.moe · 20/08/2026
This would be a better post if it was more introspection on the writer's personal dislike of a genre and less smarmy "genre bad because it's not REAL videogames". Attitude like that just makes me roll my eyes
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Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com · 11/08/2026
sometimes i forget that we really sat down and made house pole dancing real
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Three indie horror publishers faced sexual harassment claims – what comes next?
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Three indie horror publishers faced sexual harassment claims – what comes next?
'If no one protects indie developers or calls out bad behavior... who is going to save the indies?'
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 11/08/2026
I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam
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Rideshare "Stimulator" - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
YouTube video by PlayStation
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Rocky @viperwave.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It is 2011. Obama is president. The Fox News audience is aging. The demographic tide is moving in your direction. Do nothing. Literally nothing. An elevator door opens and Richard Dawkins steps inside.
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
do I really have to repost this part of A Pivot To Indie Won't Save Us once a month auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 06/08/2026
holy shit man this is weird
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 06/08/2026
when i told my 5-year-old son and his friends this news they were literally bouncing off the walls, screaming in excitement. his smartest friend stood up and shouted "we're finally getting contact points with our favorite Nintendo characters in a variety of approaches all over the wooorld!"
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Stalin would have been a perfectly acceptable forum member of the 2000s internet whereas Lenin would have been the most annoying poster possible.
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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Tsutomu Nihei becoming both more of a horny gremlin and more woke with every manga series is incredible actually
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
That's Livia Ferreira, you can find more about her work here: liviaf2.github.io
liviaf2.github.io
A little bit about me
Your Name’s academic portfolio
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anabel colazo @ufotomorrow.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
more ffxiii yes👁️‍🗨️
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Chiaki Mitama 🐾🌭 @terrible.moe · 27/07/2026
Look, I don't fucking play. And if people are still giving you shit in 2026, it's because they think they can still fuck with you. I earned those blacklistings, and the only people who call me back now are the ones who know how it works outside the kiddie pool.
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Daniel Fedor @dcfedor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12
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PhantasmSam @phantasmsam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Add NORCO to the list to complete the Literary Americana trilogy.
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scumhead @scumhead.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Ringwyrm is an immersive action horror game with survival elements. Explore a nonlinear interconnected world, meet a large cast of memorable characters, slay sickly monstrosities and avoid myriad diseases. Coming 2027.... wishlist below!
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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Heck yeah ! store.steampowered.com/app/4982940/...
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Ringwyrm is an immersive action horror game with survival elements. Explore a nonlinear interconnected world, meet a large cast of memorable characters, slay a huge cast of sickly monstrosities and av...
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Angelic Princess @angelicimouto.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Total woke cultural victory. We're bringing pronouns back. It is now illegal to be a white male. We're doing May Day parades just for HR ladies.
Nolan's Odyssey getting good reviews from critics and audiences per Rotten Tomatoes.
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広江礼威 @hiroerei.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
メチャクチャ言われてて草 まあ色々あるわな
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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Labyrinth of galleria might be some of the best writing in a Blobber I've ever seen. Especially considering the story it's telling.
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I don't like the western game industry pocalypse either but I think this is an article you only write if you haven't been paying any attention to the wildly increasing scale and scope of Chinese AAA over the last while
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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Caught up with fool night since the show got announced. Incredible thing
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 03/07/2026
Romero has stopped wishing Sandy well...
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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 01/07/2026
Low Kickstarter goals have skewed people's understanding of what it actually costs to make a game. No, maybe not every developer is going to be asking for a six figure salary, but generally you should consider NUMBER OF DEVS × AVERAGE SALARY × TIME IN DEVELOPMENT and realize how expensive games are.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 22/06/2026
New blog post (and sliding into email subscribers' inboxes too, I have not forgotten about you). About "that talk" at Narrascope; the application of choice mechanics in games; trying to rescue some context. azhdarchid.com/you-must-fre...
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YOU MUST FREE YOURSELF FROM THE TYRANNY OF "MEANINGFUL CHOICES"
Not really a response to a Narrascope talk so much as the talk is an alarm letting me know it's time to have this conversation again.
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Gauthier 'Gautoz' Andres // Origami-ami @gautoz.cool · 15/06/2026
Vogue la galère chez Don't Nod : un rapport des commissaires aux comptes alerte sur un épuisement total de la trésorerie du studio d'ici novembre. Tencent ne souhaite ni augmenter son capital, ni financer un projet, et les plans des boss ne rassurent pas. www.dontnod-bourse.com/fr/informati...
Aux actionnaires,
En notre qualité de Commissaires aux Comptes de la S.A. DON'T NOD ENTERTAINMENT (ci-après la
"Société"), nous vous présentons notre rapport établi en application de l'article L. 234-1 du Code de
commerce relatif à la procédure d'alerte.
Dans le cadre de l'exercice de notre mission, nous avons relevé les faits exposés ci-après que nous
avons considérés de nature à compromettre la continuité d'exploitation de votre Société et qui nous ont
conduit à mettre en œuvre la procédure d'alerte prévue par la loi.
Logo de Don't Nod
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
James Joyce is gonna read this and come back from the dead so he can publish Finnegan's Wake 2 out of sheer spite.
Threads post from "real_mstar_author"

hot take: we should be writing books with accessibility in mind.

shorter chucked paragraphs and more approachable prose should be industry standard
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