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Trades between Game Boy Advance and Switch Pokémon games will soon be possible with a homebrew adaptor on sale in December:

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Trades between Game Boy Advance and Switch Pokémon games will soon be possible with an adaptor

The RetroSync Wireless Adapter goes on sale in December.

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Claudia: lesbian space merc @lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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m @mjjii.com · 30/09/2026

from the zine

Fierce Pigeon Interview

I caught up with the pigeon who's taking Spunkton by storm for being "fierce" (stylish and confident).

What does a typical day look like for you?
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Is there anything you're really interested in lately?
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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'll be giving a talk on "Archaeological Game Design" tommorow as part of the DADIU Days mini festival at The National Film School of Denmark and the Royal Danish Academy! Check out the full programme here: www.dadiudays.dk

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thrilled to see this latest special issue of Eludamos out now! Pop open some champagne and read about Party Studies in Game Studies, guest edited and introduced by Leland Masek and @jaakkostenros.bsky.social!

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Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Getting the official zine ready for PAX. We are doing true indie zine print here just fluro paper and a laser printer

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Data Sparrow @data-sparrow.itch.io · 29/09/2026

While we're at it, might as well announce it properly! PENGUIN COLONY: THE FIELD NOTES is a 40-page companion zine to @origamedigital.bsky.social's Penguin Colony, set nine years before the events of the game and featuring actually handwritten notes for Maximum Immersion. OUT 16/10 or SOONER!

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Stefan Große Halbuer @plasticpen.art · 29/09/2026

October's Tarot artwork: The Tower! And coming along with it in my mailing club next month: a very chicken sticker sheet!

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The schedule's out - I'm speaking at the Roguelike Celebration again this year! My talk is titled "The City, The Street, The Lens" and it's about street photography, collisions in time and space and how to think about procedural generation differently. More here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

A photo of a truck by the side of the road in Tokyo. The driver's leg is sticking out of the window resting on the side of the trailer. The title of the talk is written on the truck. It will happen on October 18th, online. Tickets are roguelike.club

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Ellie Dawn 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥺😏💜 @awkward.gay · 29/09/2026

The pay me in shoiks

The famous "they pay me in woims" Nancy comic but edited.
First panel is Nancy talking to teams femme Sluggo with shoulder length hair with a bow in, and wearing a she/her badge: "I hear you're working at the Ikea". The bait shop has been edited to have 2 IKEA logos on it.
Second panel: Nancy asking "Do they pay you well?"
Third panel: Sluggo saying "They pay me in Shoiks" and holding up 2 different sized blåhaj shark plushies

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just had a visceral reaction to seeing one of these in a game. I really need to study Townfall material culture

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A somewhat maximalist, very collage-heavy experiment piece this month, using a lot of my photography and some old Slovenian art

Digital collage and painting on vertical canvas
Theme: Fantasy / Dark fantasy / Experimental
Character: My OC Lubi (he/him, transmasc) and a skeleton
#Artsky #QueerArt #TransArt #DarkFantasy #SwordAndSorcery

This piece is almost entirely composed of photographs I took. It features a central long corridor that disappears into the darkness, every side of it a different texture. The left and right walls are photos of old walls, the ceiling is wood, and the floor is an enlarged photo of a gingerbread cookie I bought in a Polish shop in Ljubljana once, overlaid with an assortment of Turkish delight from Lidl. I've had these two photos for like 3 years and I'm so happy to finally put them to use lmao

In the front, slightly left stands a knight, who was traced with a lasso tool over a relief sculpture from Celje. He's wearing a dark armour with very colourful accents on skirt and flag, and his head is a fire. On his knee guards, one can spot a unicorn and a stag beetle in trans flag colours.

In the upper right corner, a dragon's head is sticking out of a wall, the fire it breathes joining in with the knight's fire hair. For this head I used a photo from an ornament on one of the 'healing springs' near my hometown. It's coloured in somewhat garish colours that reoccur across the picture, magenta, aqua, green and blue, and notably three of its fangs depict the white, pink and blue or the trans flag.

Lastly, underneath the head stands a skeleton, cut from the famous Danse Macabre fresco from the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje. The skeleton is orange with green shadows, and splashes of magenta on some parts of its body.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The snails They destroyed their cage Yes YES The snails are out

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Getting more and more into anti-entropy games and this one is haunted too

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is such a sorry & infuriating tale. Via @davidpetts1.bsky.social from another place. www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...

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Verbante @verbante.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨 MURDER TETRIS 🚨🚨🚨 my entry for #fallingblockjam is complete! if you are excited like our detective you can play it here: verbante.itch.io/murder-tetris #pico8 #gamedev

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i do think it’s funny that your games stand to have a longer life span if you make them in “dead” technologies, rather than using modern tools. like DOS games, Flash, gameboy, snes… all have emulation and continue on indefinitely. the lates UE games likely won’t.

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jesperish @jesperish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I guess having a character input a prompt for something is a very convenient deus ex machina for a writer. Even fictionally it's creatively redundant and boring

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Mare Pan @paarsec.com · 27/09/2026

When I was a young kid reading 1984 I struggled understanding how people could be made to believe literal slogans like "war is peace" or "freedom is slavery", and then I grew up to witness pieces of shit like this guy literally say "evil is good, actually" with a straight face

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Grace Reed @deergrace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m not sure who said it first, but I’ve been thinking about this line all week

A block print of a silhouetted cliff with the text WHAT IF THE BOULDER LOVED SISYPHUS?

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Realising that ironically, despite being incredibly small, some of my zines kind of have this cursed font aesthetic

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When the work party way outperforms your expectations

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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So long my baby so long my honey so long my age of bronze

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Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I saw this screenshot going around, found this detail charming, looked more into the game (I've never played a Silent Hill) & decided to buy it. Btw these are the "unimportant" background assets AI idiots think AI should be used for

Screenshot of a Twitter post by Val / @shegoingtogloat - it's a Silent Hill screenshot showing a close up of a cork board. On it, a paper says "Welcome to Shorefront Family Clinic" in a classic wiggly 3D font style. The tweet text is: Is this a Silent Hill asset made using PowerPoint lol"

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lexa @lexa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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julia 🪻 @romanhyacinths.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

looking for five (paid!) voice actors for my next #indiegame project, a short, underwater sci-fi visual novel inspired by games like Subnautica and In Other Waters! if you're a VA or know someone who is, more info is here: www.castingcall.club/projects/how...

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"… A year later, their footage was found." Michael Stock digs up the practically ancient 20th century website for THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT to see whether this "dead media" continues to haunt. Read his new essay in New Rvw Film & TV Studies @tandfresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1740...

On the left, a screenshot of the online article "Ephemeral archives of the vanishing present: the hauntological and the Uncanny in The Blair Witch Project website" in plain text.

On the right, the homepage of the original website for THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT in black with the film's signature stick figure icon and some thumbnail photos.

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey! Did you know we have an upcoming Steam event called BIRDS OF PLAY celebrating 140 bird games? October 10th to 16th on good old Steam! No link until it's live, but in the meantime you can find details and assets here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Promo image for Birds of Play event containing title, dates October 10th to 16th, and a range of cute birds!

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wrote an essay about how 40k is bursting with British class pessimism, like "the avg human is a trivial lepton in the background of a story about more powerful men & thats all you'll ever be" Then someone pointed out 40k was created by Northern Brits during the Thatcher era & it was like ah. Yep.

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This November we’re hosting a free interactive discussion event as part of Cardiff Univeristy’s @beinghumanfest.bsky.social! Come for history&games, stay for @chriskempshall.bsky.social & @hollynielsen.bsky.social saying excellent things! (I will be there too..) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fact-versu...

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Fact versus Fiction in the Gaming World

A free interactive discussion panel to explore and imagine historical video games

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Feel this in my bones. I resent the idea that I'm supposed to spend my time working out how to "prompt engineer" an LLM to do something when I could be spending that time learning or practising a skill instead.

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Elias Daler @eliasdaler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Many people were impressed by the mirror effect, so let me ruin it for you. Shenmue used the same trick too. 😄

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My piece "Websites From Another World" is now published in @chiselmag.bsky.social! Absolutely floored by the gorgeous art for it by Renaud Vigourt! I talked to @playthroughline.com, @stanwixbuster.co.uk + Kitty Ess about the alt reality internets they've conjured www.chiselmag.com/p/websites-f...

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Websites From Another World

When the real web gets boring, artists build stranger ones

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joannes @playthroughline.com · 23/09/2026

Extremely flattered to have Neurocracy featured in this wonderful @chiselmag.bsky.social article about games that emulate the internet! Thanks to @florencesn.bsky.social for thinking of me ❤️

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Websites From Another World

When the real web gets boring, artists build stranger ones

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Sabur @sabur.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Wanted to test out an old LCD in the electronics scrap. Not perfect, but I’m quite impressed with what you can do with custom character sets.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...

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Alexis Christensen @amchristensen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

👀 this sounds great! Will be taking a look for myself and for possible use next fall in my video games & antiquity class.

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I just released a new keepsake game- Bleed Map! You play alongside a video game of your choice, creating a map of the digital space. At the same time, you'll be prompted to record emotions and thoughts from your everyday life that bleed into the experience. florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/bleed-map

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Bleed Map by Florence Smith Nicholls

A keepsake game for materialising digital play

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Jenny Cromwell / Papyrus Stories @jennycromwell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I did this keepsake game activity in August at a workshop by Florence and @mtrc.bsky.social. Thoroughly recommend the activity. BUT a word of advice: if doing it in a group, think carefully about choosing to map a horror game. Jump scares were had. By all of us.

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