huge respect for passing up an exciting project like this over principles.
it doesn't matter how awesome the game might be or how legendary the series is, no project is worth compromising on what you need to be secure.
Every time it comes up I just gotta remind people that it's extremely expensive to license filming in Shibuya, which the team making this game couldn't afford, so they filmed this game by stealing shots and running from the cops.
NO NO NO YOU DONโT
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
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๐NEW VIDEO DROPS AT 8PM PST๐
lol disregard my last post, I decided not being awake to moderate chat was a Bad Thing, so I moved up the premiere to 8pm, pst....like, 17 minutes from now.
gonna jump in the shower and be back.
I wrote about my #ADHD diagnosis (and mental health) and how it changed my relationship with gaming for the first time since I got diagnosed 4 years ago, for @mothership.blog
www.mothership.blog/after-my-adh...
Ditto.
An excellent Ditto
Now that it's out, I can finally share that I had the pleasure of working on the English localization of the wonderful Pokรฉmon Pokopia alongside a fantastic team!
I've been waiting a looong time to see what people think of this one, and we are unbelievably proud of how it turned out!! HAVE FUN!
New Interviews With Localizers is out!!! This month we talk to John Neal (@johnnylandmine.bsky.social) about how he became an in-house video game localizer then moved to freelance manga/game translation and editing.
#InterviewswithLoc
j-entranslations.com/john-neal-ma...
Traditional fan art in watercolor and colored pencil. Itโs an illustration showing the Pokรฉmon Ampharos, with a little Togepi in its arms, standing among bushes full of yellow flowers. A small house, trees and electrical poles can be seen in the background, with Mt. Fuji faintly hovering over them in the distance.
Traditional mixed media painting showing a forest scene. There's a stream in the middle, with a fallen tree trunk acting as a bridge over it, with Pikachu and Eevee running through it, and Charmander clinging to the trunk behind them. In front of them, Bulbasaur stands on a rock in the stream, with Squirtle splashing around in the water, the two enjoying themselves. Various bug Pokemon can be seen in the distance: Weedle, Kakuna and Caterpie on trees, and two Butterfree flying around.
Traditional illustration in watercolor and acrylic. It shows a little black cat sitting under a red torii gate, surrounded by trees. Itโs a bright and sunny day, with dappled lights and shadows falling everywhere.
Traditional drawing in mixed media of a white cat with a yellow straw hat sitting inside a blue cardboard box. Itโs surrounded with other boxes full of oranges.
Itโs my 30th birthday today! Iโm grateful for another year I get to make art!
I would love if you shared my work and little print/sticker store today. โบ๏ธ Thank you!
๐ธ vexnir-shop.com ๐ธ
A sketchy drawing of Misty and Ash from Pokemon wearing cottagecore style versions of their outfits, with Psyduck and Pikachu alongside them.
Happy 30th!!! โก๐ #art #Pokemon #Pokemon30
DOG!
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Hey folks! Board member Zach has written up a quick update re: how we are doing. Please check it out and share widely: critical-distance.com/2026/02/25/2...
bearpigman.bsky.social post that reads "I WAS WONDERING WHY ASSETS WERE FUCKING DISAPPEARING FROM VIDEOS AT MY JOB WHEN I WENT BACK TO MAKE CHANGES TO THEM A FEW MONTHS LATER, WINDOWS 11 WILL SOMETIMES JUST FUCKING DUMP FILES INTO THE RECYCLE BIN WITHOUT ASKING". Post has an image paired with a windows 11 settings screenshot of system > storage > storage sense. The features toggled on are Cleanup of temporary files and automatic user content cleanup, both of which take files from your storage and dump them periodically or when storage is running low. Post was deleted for people saying "lol use linux" and imploring you (yes, you reading this) to check *Your* settings to see if this is on too, because it might not be but who knows! win11 sucks now!!
for people wondering what the deleted post was, its this
go to windows settings now and turn this off this blows bunchunks
Today's work beats:
Octopath Traveler II
3rd Anniv. Music Special Live Stream
via: Square Enix Music
Start: Feb. 23th @ 7:00pm (PST)
Stop: Feb 25th @ ~4:00 AM (PST)
If you ever thought it was surprising that Nintendo named the Legend of Zelda series after the imperiled princess that only shows up at the end of the game... well, maybe they didn't.
If youโre verifying your identity with LinkedIn, you should be aware of the alarming number of companies your personal data โ PII, biometric data, and other sensitive data โ is being shared with many other companies and how theyโre using your face to train their AI
thelocalstack.eu/posts/linked...
The guide rules because itโs such early days for Nintendoโs American console operation. They just took the JP book and rewrote it, and where Japanese text appeared in screenshots they shrugged and put black tape over it
The Hyrule Fantasy - Zelda no Densetsu front box, featuring link and an island.
Zelda celebrates its 40th anniversary today and we still don't have complete credits for its box art. Minoru Maeda / ๅ็ฐๅฎ, an animator at Studio Junio (founded by the late Takao Kลzai, artist on Punch-Out!!), presumably drew Link, but it was probably another artist who drew the background.
If youโre worried about the future of games, remember that your $ holds enormous sway. Support companies who actually care about the art and craft of making games, who put people first and value their employees & audiences. Support indies especially. The future doesnโt belong to greedy corporations
PSA for Discord's new age verification!
If you get hit by it and refuse to give them any ID or face scans as you should, here's a way to just... bypass it.
Go to Settings - Family Centre and then just enter a date of birth that's 18+
It's really that simple. Give them nothing.
If you haven't had a chance to check out the "Pixels to Pages: The Story of Electronic Gaming Monthly" documentary from @gamesack.net and MLiG, take a break from Metroid Prime 4 and give it a watch here! youtu.be/E010OPY1Tzw
Big news. I wrote a biography on Nobuo Uematsu and it drops this Fall, published by @viz.com. It is jam-packed with amazing revelations about the Final Fantasy composer that the public has never heard about, as shared by himself and those closest to him. This is the definitive chronicle on Uematsu.
A scan of a page with the iconic green dragon and red sword icon and Wizardry logo, and a lot of hype text about the game much imported by Japanese CRPG fans finally getting a release in Japanese! Pretty much every Japanese micrcomputer is mentioned as platforms for the official JPN release.
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Just as we'd get excited for JRPGs to be localised in English, CRPG enthusiasts in Japan of the 80s would be the same about their favourite Western RPGs. Here in this cool ad from LOGiN's October '85 issue, the Japanese localisation of Wizardry (1981) is being heralded.
Yesss, this one is so good!
Listening to this absolutely brilliant interview with Oli Chance and Morgan Rushton from Shloc on game localization, voice recording, and the game industry in general.
gamemakersnotebook.libsyn.com/the-challeng...
