rolling thread of stuff worth reading on videogames

https://www.polygon.com/reviews/24070454/banishers-ghosts-new-eden-review

Sounds like my kind of game, gotta keep an eye for this if it goes on sale

https://ff8isthe.best/2024/02/the-game-magazine-that-spent-two-years-taunting-a-final-fantasy-viii-hater/

hehe

lol that last pic, amazing

so petty lol

Yeah great pay off at the end there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqYKT3emSzA

Longform on the pipeline between journalism and development: https://aftermath.site/games-journalism-game-development-ign-kotaku

wasn't familiar with that site; seems good, but it also made me kind of sad to read this as someone who consumed so much games writing in the '00s that so much of it is lost

wow. booming post.

i just love that i'll be watching random videos about, like, the NES version of "strider" and whoever will make the video will just pop in and say "oh by the way also ronald reagan was the worst person to ever live"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1x21rIiOTg

i mean it's like you can't _not_ say it at this point, y'know?

Excellent advice: https://aftermath.site/assassins-creed-shadows-yasuke-racism

My favorite response from Japan regarding the whole Assassin’s Creed Yasuke situation pic.twitter.com/53AQSFtBVf

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