iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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F_T_B @ftb1979.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Found by Jumpman at Gaming Alexandria after multiple people including myself have looked for it - The long lost American Xevious arcade commercial! Found in a Phillies vs Mets game, of all things.

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Draco @killerdraco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For all the talks about Video Game preservation, I feel like mobile games often get left out of the conversation. Once their service ends, most are just gone. A few get lucky enough to get an offline version, and fewer still get remade into console games, but the rest become lost media. (1/2)

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If this is anything more than just "we threw in Claude Code integration & a chatbot to appease investors", then Capcom is completely washed at this point. They did reject the idea of assets generated completely by AI, but it's hard to trust the wishy-washy wording even without the iffy translation.

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John Andersen @johnandersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I spotted a black & white photograph of what appears to be a SEGA factory that may date back to 1979, workers are assembling cocktail cabinets. The interior matches photos on the 1979 SEGA/Sovoda flyer from France. It's via a 1991 Mega Drive feature discussing 1979: archive.org/details/mega...

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Exclusively They only want their games on systems where the profits go to kill kids directly I've tagged them about it multiple times, it seems like their entire business model now....so no response Don't support @argonautgames.com

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Dean Jones @djcube.co.uk · 02/10/2026

I think it's a massive shame for @argonautgames.com to return only for them to announce that they're happy to support blowing up children.

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brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online · 02/10/2026

they also made a limited edition version out of their attack drone metal and featuring anduril branding, making the connection as explicit as possible.

ModRetro's limited edition Game Boy clone made out of the same dark metal used to produce attack drones through Palmer Luckey's other company, Anduril.

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also, he used to straight up advertise the connection on his website Maybe he still does 🤷

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just in case you didn't know ModRetro fucking sucks and "Automated War Initiative" is a disgusting title Also, War Crime Enthusiast Palmer Luckey is incredibly thin skinned and will chase you around various social media platforms if you talk sauce about him and his shitty M64. Worth it.

FB comment:

Palmer Luckey: Mike Fink the M64 is $230 not $320 and it is far more powerful than the Mister. We developed our own core and open sourceed all the hardware and software

And Aduril helps kill Russians, not children

Me: Palmer Free Luckey that's without the controller, not included, which is $90

And also fuck you

We still clown on you with memes
Palmer Luckey and is shit handheld emulator, along with other fascists that don't care about human life, like Elon Musk and JD Vance

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 02/10/2026

this is who owns ModRetro btw

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PandaMonium @pandamonium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today, I decided to dump all my thoughts about A.I. infecting the retro and Saturn scene into one cohesive article. In short, I am certifiably sick of this.

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Ivan Nemet @nemetoons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This isn't even the worst thing Bird said in regards to John Misconduct:

Brad Bird defending John Lasseter's history of being a sex pest to Cartoon Brew.

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JeffMovieGhost #BlockTheMerger @jeffmovieman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Are y'all sure you wanna gas up Ray Gunn if Brad Bird is gonna tapdance around working with sexual predator John Lasseter? Are you? 🤨

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Sega Dreamcast Info @segadreamcastinfo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rewrite of an old article! Agartha Dreamcast, developed by No Cliché under Frédérick Raynal, was canceled after SEGA ended support for the console. Prototypes and developer testimonies now provide rare insight into its development: www.sega-dreamcast-info.com/en/agartha-dreamcast-prototype-release

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 24/09/2026

Wrote about my feelings on Sora with an AR-15. I lament the decline of publishers Giving A Shit about brand image, and how this crossover is a quiet admission that KH's crossover magic no longer holds the lustre it once did in our post-MCU, Fortnite world: www.respec.net/feature/224-...

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I don't care how big Fortnite is. Sora with a gun is wrong | Respec

Is nothing sacred any more?

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ateam @dreamcastforever.com · 21/09/2026

(1/3) People have been asking me about this redesigned GDEMU clone (Dreamcast ODE). So I bit the bullet, bought one, and tested it. Firstly, all of the "faster speeds" stuff is pure marketing bullshit. Timing is handled by GDEMU firmware, and it's delicate. You don't want to arbitrarily increase.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️‍🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough". If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming

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RareAlone @rarealone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@pandamonium.bsky.social You know what would be a great April Fools episode? A full review & retrospective of Pandamonium. And I mean the actual obscure and partially lost 1982 cartoon that your theme's a remix of. Featuring interviews with whoever of the cartoon's cast and crew are still alive.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We need to start aggressively shunning anyone even remotely associated with private equity firms bc they are RUINING EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE AND I AM TIRED

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Rob @samuraipizzarob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes! YES!!! "No, our original character would never do that" has given way to "how big is the cheque?" and it fucking sucks.

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 16/09/2026

I dunno if this comes across as prudish but seeing Sora with a fuckin gun in Fortnite just makes me pine for the days when companies were more obsessive about brand safety & messaging. That character with a gun feels wrong; like it should only exist in a fan mod, not an official product.

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ourlostarcade.bsky.social @ourlostarcade.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Why do we call it an "arcade"? This question takes us back to the earliest days of coin-op amusement, the origin of recorded entertainment, and the tumultuous days of technology Trusts. Introducing: The First Arcade (maybe).

A postcard featuring The Arcade building in Cleveland, Ohio, circa 1901. The lower left shows the Ohio Phonograph Company office on the second floor. This is possibly the first location for coin-operated amusements situated inside of an "arcade" style building, potentially giving birth to the term "arcade" as a space for coin-operated machines.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016800199/

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Jack Yarwood @jackgyarwood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thanks to the help of Gail Tilden & @sjmtaelus.bsky.social, I was recently able to ask the artist/writer Benimaru Itoh some questions about the creation of Nintendo Power’s Star Fox comics

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Melanie Swalwell @melswal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm thrilled to share news about an online #mediaarts exhibition I've curated with Helen Stuckey, "Revisiting Australian CD-ROM Art of the 1990s". With the support of @aarnet.edu.au and the #EAASI platform, it is now possible to access ten key Australian interactive artworks of the 1990s, online.

Screenshot of Megan Heyward's "I Am A Singer" CD-ROM artwork, emulated in EAASI. It shows a portrait of the main character, a woman who has amnesia.

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Sonneveld @sonneveld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I just finished a patch for Tlon: A Misty Story: sonneveld.dev/tlon/ It's a 1999 point and click adventure game that's notorious for being incompletable due to a bug. There are save game hacks but this is a proper fix with correct exits and everything. Try it out and let me know how you go!

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TLÖN: A Misty Story Fix

A fix for the 1999 point and click adventure game TLÖN: A Misty Story.

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DecodeVen @decodeven.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just wanna add to this in case people do want a source. (Shoulda started with that Ven, well done) Here's a some images that Level-5 uses to describe their usage of AI in game development. For a more in depth description, see the article below. decasimcentral.wordpress.com/2023/12/12/l...

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DecodeVen @decodeven.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I need to remind everyone, especially after their presentation today. Level-5 has been very openly using Generative AI in their game development and are proud of it. This includes their newly announced titles such as New World of Steam, Yo-Kai Watch 2 and Curious Village Remake.

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Jon Cartwright @jon.gvg.io · 11/09/2026

What a colossal loss. I questioned the existence of the non VR version but it was clearly a desperation move to stay in business. Moss is one of the best uses of VR ever and they deserved so much more

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Bloxxy System | use #tags @bloxxel64colonthree.xyz · 11/09/2026

I will reiterate, do not buy GTA six do not support rockstar in any other way, fight for the rights of your local game developers #gamedev #workersrights

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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

www.gamekult.com/actualite/mi...

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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fun Fact: Link is called Link because the original LOZ was supposed to be a time travel game and Link was the "link" Also, the Triforce was supposed to be microchips. Yes, really

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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One issue with the internet defaulting to a single language and gaming focusing so much on the US experience is that we forget other countries also interview devs Here's a French interview where Myamoto confirms that Link is inspired by Peter Pan www.gamekult.com/actualite/mi...

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 11/09/2026

Looking at the news. PlayStation is killing physical media, gaslighting people in court, cutting ties with Hideo Kojima, and reviews for Wolverine are underwhelming. If Sony keeps going, they will do a better promotion for a #PSBlackout than any journalist or creator ever could.

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RareAlone @rarealone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some more proof of how scummy Metroid Ravenous' developer, MercurySteam, and its founder/leader, Enric Alvarez, really are (quote repost is part of a Bluesky thread; please read the whole thing): bsky.app/profile/chat...

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│ » 𝙆𝙧𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 » │ @dragon.gal · 09/09/2026

I always point to this article, but there are testimonies from back to Lords of Shadows days (from Spanish forums, can't find it rn but it would show on searches) telling how the cofounder Enric Álvarez is a POS As a Spaniard I'm ashamed this has to be one of our representatives in the industry

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Empleados de MercurySteam hablan sobre las condiciones de trabajo del estudio - AnaitGames

Trabajadores de MercurySteam, que acaba de estrenar Metroid Dread, se quejan de la manera en que trabaja el estudio madrileño.

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RareAlone @rarealone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

UPDATE: Confirmation that MS is, indeed, fucking developing Ravenous: bsky.app/profile/euro...

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 10/09/2026

Friendly reminder: Reasonable consumers indeed know they won't own an intellectual property by buying a COPY of a product. Reasonable consumers also stand up against corpos rebranding "buying/purchasing" into "licensing" to take away rightful ownership through semantics.

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Liam @jazzyfuture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The message included with this proto dump is rad

Today, I’m releasing the SNES proof-of-concept alpha of Project Dream, the proto-type that would go on to become Banjo-Kazooie.

I’ve held on to this for years, it was fun to have something that only a handful of people had, and as I am several people removed from how it got out of Rare to begin with, I didn’t want to risk that it could somehow get someone else in trouble, (so how I got it is a story I don’t plan to share.) I will just say that I got it from someone who got it from someone, who got it from somewhere.

But with the current state of the industry and Microsoft's current heartless gutting and mismanagement of Rare and other companies it controls, plus with how long it's been, I feel it's more important to make sure this is properly preserved, and the ROM dissected by people with far more knowledge on how to do such things.

I hope by releasing this, that it also inspires other people to release what they have as well. I know the Twelve Tales Conker 64 prototype is out there somewhere, but sadly, this is the only thing that I have.

There is little joy left in the industry, as it relentlessly marches towards AI, layoffs, l anti-preservation and ownership tactics, and, in Microsoft’s case, the support and approval of literal genocide in Gaza.

Let’s get the last beautiful things hiding on our hard drives out there for everyone. That's all we have left.

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RareAlone @rarealone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

To those inappropriately and alarming hyped for the newly revealed Metroid title:

Top Panel: The grouchy, unhelpful, unsympathetic and outright mean bus driver from The Simpsons episode "Lost Our Lisa" (Season 9, Episode 24) – scoffingly saying, "Don't make me tap the sign."

Bottom Panel: An edit of a frame/stillshot from said Simpson episode of said bus driver pointing at/tapping a sign that (usually) reads "DO NOT TALK TO DRIVER" – the sign edited to instead display an article detailing the abusive and hostile working conditions of MercurySteam, from the site "Game Developer" (formerly known as Gamasutra), during the production of that company and Nintendo's Metroid Dread:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/report-metroid-dread-developer-mercurysteamworks-accused-of-retaliation-and-forced-crunch

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RareAlone @rarealone.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@pandamonium.bsky.social I think I might've found the potential source of that 1995 E3 Tom Kalinske excerpt regarding Saturn's early launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBYx... The original source is very likely a CD-based magazine called "Interactive Entertainment Magazine".

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Tom Kalinske CEO Sega of America Sega Saturn Release 1995

YouTube video by Mr^Burns - Obscure Games & Software Tester

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Josh @geekcritique.org · 05/09/2026

I read something about assistive AI vs. generative AI, and how the former is (generally) okay as long as you know what you're doing, and the latter is FUCKING US ALL IN THE ASS and stealing our creativity, and while I do agree, the problem is how intertwined companies INSIST they must be.

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Play History @playhistory.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And if you still think the Brookhaven tennis game is the first real-time game, let me introduce you to MIDSAC pool. www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/20... Oh, but there's no video of it, so it's worthless on the internet.

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Josh @geekcritique.org · 04/09/2026

It's fun seeing so many folks who spent the last 7-8 years insisting that the GameCube era was "peak Nintendo, back when they had SOUL" now complaining about "Wii U Revisionism" and thinking they can MAKE these "kids" understand that no actually it sucked why don't you remember it right???

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First Time Meme: Man with Noose

ALT: First Time Meme: Man with Noose

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Jamie D @uk-resistant.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The key phrase point in this article is that it's talking AAA, who put themselves in this position. The solutions are there to recover but they are incompatible with infinite growth. www.polygon.com/video-game-i...

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‘Worst Crash We’ve Seen Since the 1980s,’ Warns Epic Games CEO

A panel of experts said the game industry is currently in the worse state it's been in 40 years.

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