Freelance Friday is here again!
This week, @geeky.bsky.social returns to Rogue to advocate for Oaken Tower, which is currently "just" a demo.
www.rogue.site/editorials/o...
What an incredible start to this F1 race
Loving Marathon so far
The first streaming service to sort out a license agreement with record companies to allow streamers to stream music will immediately get me to sign up.
It feels like there's a lot of money being left on the table by those companies now because there's no sensible way to do it
Super excited to head back into Marathon later.
With that, Resi 9, Esoteric Ebb, Slay the Spire 2 and more coming in the next few weeks, it's a crazy good time for people who like games!
#gaming
Isn't it weird how we, as a community/society, switched from saying:
"I like/don't like that"
to:
"that's good/bad"
-as if we're the authority on quality and personal taste doesn't matter?
Really enjoying Marathon, the pve is actually interesting and keeps you on your toes and I've had some of the best PvP fights I've ever had in an extraction shooter.
We're joined by @geeky.bsky.social this week to talk about the recent practice of hate campaigning for games long before they release.
www.rogue.site/editorials/h...
Really excited to have @geeky.bsky.social on Rogue this week!
I'm looking for other creators planning on playing #Marathon when it launches for the server slam
Hit me up with your links or give me recommendations!
I didn't like Arc Raiders, Splitgate, Valorant, but at no point did I post anything hoping they'd be shut down or fail.
I want more developers succeeding and being able to make the games they want to make!
It's wild that Hytale, a game that is transparently a Minecraft copy that's trying to go in a slightly different direction, gets so much good will, while HighGuard, a game that is clearly trying to be a new kind of FPS, is treated like it doesn't deserve to be released.
Support creativity!
I'm really looking forward to trying HighGuard when I get back from my trip in a week and a bit, but I'm genuinely worried they'll shut it down before then.
The way the gaming community has rallied around crying out for it's failure is insane to me.
Don't we want indie studios making new games?
Just watching Twin Peaks for the first time, and this coupled with finding out about the Peacemaker intro is making me a little less fond of Alan Wake 2.
I thought it was crazy creative and now I'm seeing it was just full of references to things I hadn't seen, that border on just stealing bits.
I left Twitter because of the bots and terrible takes and self promotion and needless arguments.
Spent a week on Threads and it's increasingly the same.
Maybe a good idea to keep my circle of who I follow pretty small on here. I just want to have somewhere to vent and read interesting things.
My email and twitter DMs are just full of constant bot/AI spam now. How the hell do people get messages from real strangers anymore, I'm assuming everything is spam if I don't know the sender.
I miss the time when games were about adventures and experiences instead of making progress.
Excited for a new @destinythegame.bungie.net raid today - it's always a fun thing to explore!
Ok I love the #MarioKartWorld photo mode
Oh man the stick drift on those 26 year old controllers is going to be tough
So many great games at the moment, Nightreign, F125, Clair Obscure, Monster Train 2, AND there's a new console tomorrow, a new Mario Kart, a Dune MMO AND Keigh3 - another great time to be a gamer
Just broke my Camera Mount because I'd over-tightened a joint and when I went to move it, it snapped something in the base instead.
FML
I'm so confused by the ending of #AssassinsCreedShadows - I thought I was doing a side mission then the credits just rolled.
I feel like that could have been an amazing ten hour game, but the narrative completely lacked structure or direction for a 50 hour game
I'm so happy Serif Affinity just added an object select tool, it was literally the only thing that always tempted me back towards Photoshop.
Kakistocracy is a new word for me!
Watching Conclave and it weirdly fits in neatly with the Fast and the Furious series.
What a cinematic universe!
Elon Musk could pay to rebuild Los Angeles after the worst fire it's ever suffered, and he would still be by far the richest man that has ever lived.
He won't though.
Eat the rich
Playing GTA V again is reigniting my love of gaming.
And making me question why I spent so long playing COD when I wasn't enjoying it.
So how on earth do I preorder an #nvidia 5090 in the UK?
Never bought a GPU at launch
