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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 · 05/10/2026

The last one like this officially, tho

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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He might be the best to ever do it

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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

Yes do show me 10 pages of a serpent slowly swallowing a human head in silence man we'll go back to playing scrabble next

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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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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It feels really generous but not indulgent, which seems so rare in this kind of nostalgia driven movies

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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The wide shots always including at least two people getting eaten by dinosaurs is a great running gag

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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Dan houser dealing with his alcohol problem by sending max payne to brazil

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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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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The only thing that ever scratched the itch Eternal left is Ultrakill i think

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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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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

He's the one who wrote that god-awful Pathologic 2 review for Rock, Paper, Shotgun everyone has been clowning on for the last seven years

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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Caldwell has a history of writing really smarmy, barely curious articles on interesting and worthwhile topics, he's like Yathzee Croshaw without the excuse of having to write a weekly show with no time for introspection.

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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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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

youtu.be

Rideshare "Stimulator" - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games

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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 · 05/08/2026

Astonishingly, i've yet to see what Oates has to say about it

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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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Finnegan's Cake @finneganscake.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm hoping this the same project henry cavill's attached to so not only is he complicated family man, he also has the chuddiest monologues ever written and there's the worst choir track to swell like butter under the venusian sun accompanying it

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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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