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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Okay, Steam Sale time! Who'd like some recommendations? Let's get the ball rolling with one of my favourite games of 2025, The Séance of Blake Manor! A positively genius detective game steeped in Irish history and mythology with a striking comicbook artstyle and authentic turnip jack 'o lanterns. 🎃

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The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurren...

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George J. Horvath @landofobscusion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As much as people love to cite this as "(One of) The Worst RPG Ever Made"... it really isn't. It's not "good", but it's mainly problem is that it's way too overindulgent in comparison to how simplistic it is. Playing the game is honestly simple... but it wants you to play 10,000+ floors of it.

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evil and fucked up lady jacky ૮꒰˵•ﻌ•˵꒱ა ˖⁺｡˚⋆˙★ @iminlikewithyou.cool · 01/10/2026

HQ upload of the song/video de la soul and double did for parappa the rapper 2 just landed lfg youtu.be/g-M9erQo0P0

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Say ''I Gotta Believe!'' - De la Soul feat. DOUBLE Music Video

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Ju Li Khaw @juleshortstuff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My counterpoint to "if you cared about your work, you would crunch" is if you cared about the quality of your game and your workers, you would give them appropriate time to craft it.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When translators say they hate doing MTPE because it's faster to just do it from scratch and results in better material, we're not exaggerating. If I was a proofreader and a translator handed me this, I would immediately tell the PM to fire them. No translation is genuinely better than an MT in loc.

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Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.com · 01/10/2026

(PCDD) Denshattack! $11.69 (DRM: Steam) via Fanatical. #ad ow.ly/TeaV50ZTCqc Game Pass via Xbox. ow.ly/SIku50ZTCqb

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

THE CLANS HEIR IS A TRANS WOMAN (2013) is like Steven Seagal decided to Write/Direct/Star in a love letter to his trans friends, but it looks and feels like every action movie he's made... except Hitoshi Ozawa is way way way way cooler than Seagal.

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Sean Seanson @seanseanson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Recomps/Decomps aren’t really in my field of interest but this is one of the good ones and it’s for one of the best October games around.

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm a simple man: I see Battle Mania, I RT it and if I don't see Battle Mania, I post about it

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FantasyAnime @fantasyanime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy Anniversary to Final Fantasy Legend on Game Boy Classic! 🎂🥳🎉 The first portable RPG in North America! Select your party members. Explore four worlds and conquer the mysterious tower.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lemme tell y’all something: Helen Folasade Adu knew we would need this.

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Sade - When Am I Going To Make A Living - Official - 1984

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Emm Kaede🐶🍁 @emmkaede.moe · 28/09/2026

So turns out 2ship was not even made by the Harbour Masters, but by a third party, but the project had a hostile takeover by HM and they apparently banned the original devs from the HM server for opposing how HM was handling everything and AI. These people are genuinely awful jesus fucking christ.

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Majora'S Mask Skull Kid

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Time Extension @timeextension.com · 29/09/2026

Street Fighter III: Third Strike Mod Finally Restores Missing 2nd Impact / New Gen Stages (Repost)

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Street Fighter III: Third Strike Mod Finally Restores Missing 2nd Impact / New Gen Stages

Woah, I got the picture!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you’re not sure about trying Ace Combat 8, listen to this and then put the game in your shopping cart once you finish running through a wall.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 25/09/2026

My only gripe with FlyKnight was that it was a little short. Now there's a whole remixed second loop with new enemies and weapons and stuff. And it's still £5.

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Iron Pineapple @ironpineapple.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

big news for FlyKnight fans (me) but yeah new update, and it seems like one of the rare examples of a meaningfully different NG+/hard mode, excited to check it out store.steampowered.com/app/3108510/...

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Explore, fight, loot and fish! Solo or in co-op mode in this Old School First Person Dungeon Crawler. Earn your knighthood as you oppose the evil witch Lunamoth and stop her curse which prevents every...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is so good to see @reportermatt.bsky.social, who was in like 80% of my classes in college, become the most influential reporter in Massachusetts. He just loves the place, and you can tell in everything he does. A truly wonderful man making the whole state better.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE (Steam) preorder is $60.17 on Gamebillet buff.ly/UXqBJxJ $60.89 Fanatical buff.ly/2PnATuj PS5/XSX $69.99: Amazon amzn.to/3Q3yZP8 Best Buy (w/ $10 gift card) buff.ly/tGGCMTX #ad out next week. preorder includes Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026

tucker carlson is a foppish frozen TV dinner empire heir, a virulent bigot, and a grotesque opportunist/propagandist. it's embarrassing that NPR editors think he needs more attention for his phony-ass pivot away from a nightmare he helped build

NPR headline for tucker carlson interview: "Tucker Carlson has reconsidered Trump. And quite a bit else."

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 25/09/2026

I've had dozens of "writing" playlists over the years but this is the one song that's on all of them

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DISCO★PRINCE

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

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Command Zoe🔜PAX Unplugged @commandzoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wow its so crazy how this only seems to happen to trans people and not the side wishing LITERAL GENOCIDE on us. #freethebugs is back ig. Let my friend out of mod jail. This is so ridiculous.

a discord screenshot of bugs showing they got suspended again

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

in a week that saw microsoft give activision the reins to halo and bungie pivot back to destiny, one thing has become abundantly clear: the people in charge do not have a long-term, overriding plan. they’re just reacting. the result, when times are bad, is chaos

"Things are still very chaotic," a current id Software employee who was granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly told Aftermath. "While there has been an attempt to communicate to the studios, it is still entirely in bullshit corporate speak. I still don't believe they have a clear vision for the future. The only concrete thing they have communicated is they want higher profits, and they want it now. Aggressive goals are being set that would have been unrealistic even before the layoffs. ... To say the workers within Xbox have a dim view of the future is putting it mildly. We keep thinking morale can't sink lower but the obvious incompetence of Xbox management somehow keeps driving it down worse."
This mirrors shifts in strategy that have come to dominate the still-new Sharma era, including others outlined Tuesday. Rare is joining Activision, Turn 10 and Playground are fusing, and—most gallingly, considering their history—Obsidian is being folded into Bethesda to work on Fallout instead of its own original series. As with the previous round of layoffs, details betray Microsoft's haphazard approach: A Halo developer got promoted and laid off in the same week. Gears of War: E-Day's story director is out of a job days after celebrating that the game had gone gold. Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, now without a buyer after a brief glimmer of hope, is once again on the chopping block.
All of this betrays a simplistic mindset that does not accurately reflect the reality of game development: People are disposable, studios are interchangeable, and series can be traded like sports teams. Nothing matters more than franchises and their money-printing prowess. Unless, evidently, you are Hideo Kojima, in which case Microsoft suddenly has money to burn.

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pseudo-ersatz @pseudo-ersatz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What has surprised me is that: 1. Texas gov tried to prevent this man’s extradition… 2. the neighbors rose up and forced ICE to retreat, even leave equipment and records behind… 3. We actually will get to prosecute him (state charges, so no Trump pardon)… 4. Most never heard about this incident!

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The phrase “continuing our reset” strains the metaphor, the whole point of a reset is you press a button and it happens. But Microsoft may be thinking about it like Windows 11 where you have to install a bunch of shitty updates and it restarts like 3 times.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/09/2026

You can see exactly how much it's being spent on digital ads here. adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com?adv=meta%3A3...

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2026 anti-trans ad tracker

Anti-trans political ads in the 2026 US midterms on Meta and Google, flagged nightly by a classifier.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have been turning this quote over and over in my head and still can't quite wrap my head around the idea

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Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I just learned about Ollie King, the spiritual successor to Top Skater developed by the Jet Set Radio team. Has anyone played this?

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 20/09/2026

This game got memed on something fierce by people not realizing that a joke was, actually intentionally a joke. But it's not only a great take on the Nioh formula, but a shockingly good Final Fantasy game in general. As with most Nioh-likes the DLC adds a huge amount. It evolved a lot after release

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kelsey lewin @kelslewin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just feel like we as a society aren’t talking enough about how much Onimusha fucking rules

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Velstrak Ja @velstrak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

MGS4 paints a very stupid world where everyone willingly gave up their free will to the very clearly evil illuminati ai system cus it makes them more productive & gives a tactical advantage in combat. and it is fully accurate to the world we live in now, cus reality is very very stupid.

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Solid Snake Smoking in Metal Gear Solid 4 Mgs4

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Real talk, why half of the remaining games media is in Japan this week but no one can ever find a Japanese dev, consultant, journo or researcher to talk about Japan? Especially when we then get these experts who ignore the well-know fact that Japan has laws which make firing people extremely hard.

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