Two Oh Nine Seven

Did a chance encounter with Demon’s Souls in Japan help bring FromSoftware’s games to the West?

In today's episode, Scottish journalist and Guardian Games Editor @mackeza.bsky.social talks about chronicling the video game industry, and her new book covering Nintendo.

Available now: bit.ly/3OMBODk

Twin Peaks opening title screen with the text changed to "Check it out! This TV show is just like Alan Wake!"

Catching up with your recent episodes. I honestly can't see me buying Mewgenics because I don't think I'd enjoy the gameplay style but this was such a great exploration of game dev as deliberate art. Haven't heard something as emotional as that during a video game podcast... Ever, really.

That Shadow of the Colossus remake is one of the best things on PS4 (yeah I know it was on PS2 but still). What's the point in buying these studios if you're just going to shut them all down

All dreams all meanings My dreams: Brian in a suit dancing with a bunch of garden gnomes in the dark

Edmund McMillen Wants You to Ask the Uncomfortable Questions A frank conversation about Mewgenics, troubled childhoods, and anxious parenthood

I asked Mewgenics' creator, Edmund McMillen, about all the touchy topics bubbling up in the game's discourse.

Why that title?
How has he changed since his early days of making provocative browser games like Dead Baby Dressup?
Why does he use real birth defects and disorders in his games?

Oh good we are back in the Unity is completely insane timeline again

One of the many totally random things that seem to be on itvX www.itv.com/watch/docume...

make local coop to play with wife

Tweet from David Hughes (@david8hughes): [in court] Me: Just wana say crime makes me mad Judge: same Me: I love the law Judge, nodding: fuck yes Me: really love wigs Judge, pointing to his head: dude you serious? Me: little hammers are fucking sick Judge, waving gavel: my guy!

this feels like home

I just think they're neat

Games?

$100 FPGA box that only plays PlayStation games.

Also, Mother 3.

ACTUALIZACIÓN 🔴 Al menos 21 personas han muerto en el accidente, según han informado fuentes de la investigación de la Guardia Civil. Además, hay un centenar de heridos.

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Did we go too far this time? Repairing a 1989 Commodore PC #restoration #tech #pc #retrotech YouTube video by The Retro Collective

Here’s a short of the process youtube.com/shorts/pX_u9...

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com

21 years ago Joe had a simple question

Lovely peice - I'm envious of your 40 hours. Took me 200 to 100 per cent it. :-/

Sort of wonder what the disappointment might have been like when this came out to receive the Saturn version and not have the Prodigy and Chemical Brothers on the soundtrack.

David Lynch sitting in a naturally lit room and wearing sunglasses: “I’m wearing dark glasses today, because I’m seeing the future and the future is looking very bright.”

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

Reminder that video game journalism cannot exist without functioning newsrooms that have the capacity to mentor and train new talent and the bandwidth to pursue long-form investigative pieces and break news—all while paying writers a living wage.

I had the honor to introduce my replacement on 9NEWS

It's easy to forget the amount of new content Flextech used to push out. Well quite easy to forget

Hey Jane Austen novel Pride and prejudice and knuckles

It was sort of pants

Slightly diminish a game

Mash Potato Bandicoot

I'm going on a BOOK TOUR next month with Super Nintendo! I'm launching it in Glasgow on Feb 12, then London, Brighton Edinburgh, St Andrews and Manchester. Tickets for everywhere are through this link: linktr.ee/super_nintendo

Because of my commitment to cover every western release in The PlayStation Encyclopedia, I’m currently having a fucking wild night in with Every Child Can Succeed