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🕹️ It's been 20 years, but I'm finally getting back into game development! I'll be sharing plenty about my projects and learnings along the way. Check the article below for info about where I'm starting from, my first little project, and what I'd like to achieve. ⬇️ #gamedev

Football has successfully redefined “shove” to be “any slight contact between two players”. #CHEAVL #CFC

We’d be title challengers if we had two decent CBs and could turn up consistently every week. #NEWCHE #CFC

Entertaining match marred only by our own awful first half performance and one of the most inconsistent refereeing displays in recent memory. #NEWCHE #CFC

This is the manager Man City want to replace Pep, btw. #NEWCHE #CFC

Chelsea doing their best to crank my blood pressure back up right after it dropped for the Christmas holidays. We’ve not turned up at all. #NEWCHE #CFC

Some teams rely on the inconsistency of Premier League referees. That foul on Sanchez blocked a Chelsea counter attack but it wasn’t booked because it was so far up the pitch. #NEWCHE #CFC

Go back in time 15 years and tell someone we’d see a Fallout Online fishing update before TES 6 or Fallout 5. They wouldn’t believe you. #XboxShowcase

These showcases have all been so disappointing. It’s like every game studio has completely lost touch with what players want. #XboxShowcase

Need to see more on Friday before I’m convinced, but the trailer for the IO Interactive 007 game looked more Bond than most recent Bond films. If it can back up the cinematics with gameplay as solid as Hitman’s, I’m in.

@liminal_warmth I feel like it understands me better when I talk to it like it’s Gen Z.

i'm out here being the worst art director in the world with chatgpt by telling it to give its art "more vibes like this" and to "make things pop"

Still waiting on the Oblivion Remastered update that will make it possible to play without constantly tinkering with settings and fighting the frame rate…

The user of “players” as a metric, rather than sales of a game, is such a deceitful trend. It means absolutely nothing.

It’s always sad to see somebody ask a question on Reddit that they *must* already know the answer to, just because they need the attention.

Just read an article that posited that the success of indie games risked a dangerous “deprofessionalisation” of the video games industry. All the things they argued were bad basically just sounded like removing the bloat that makes games expensive and bland. 🤔

@TheImmortal007 @VidsBanned It’s literally like listening to GTA NPCs.

@VidsBanned He owed money on 1 truck.. now he owes on 12 🤯

Bro just lost his entire earnings in a 30 second drive 🤯

“…and it’s NOT what you think!” You don’t know what I’m thinking.

I leave Twitch playing in the background quite a lot while I’m doing other things, so there are certain games that I’m more familiar with by sound than by sight.

It’s 2025 and half the songs on my phone are from Radio Broker.

It’s possible to enjoy Assassin’s Creed Shadows and criticise predatory microtransactions in a single-player game. You don’t have to be completely for or against every game.

I feel like my interest in InZoi revolves around a curiosity to see what it does differently to The Sims, but I’m also put off by the absence of the personality and quirkiness that The Sims is famous for.