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Video Game Workers Launch Industry-Wide Union with Communications Workers of America https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/video-game-workers-launch-industry-wide-union-communications-workers-america Finally. #GDC #GameDev

The GDC Developer's Concert is streaming right now! Following the success of 2024's inaugural GDC concert, composer Austin Wintory will return once again in 2025 with a whole new slate of both classics and deep cuts. Springing from the theme of "Connecting the World through Games," the music […]

I have no idea how I got this far in life without knowing but I was today years old when I learned that the Information Society song was a cover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulZQTrV8QlQ

Huh, some of the folks behind Arcade1Up are doing a home pin: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wonderlandamusements/wonderland-pinball To reduce costs, they are sizing everything down, and using a 22mm pinball versus the standard 27mm. This also means that many standard playfield […]

Pick up where you left off

Star Trek Enterprise Theme but the theme is coming from the Enterprise NX-01 "The Enterprise NX-01 only appears for seven seconds in the ST Enterprise show open, you say? Not on my watch it doesn't." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnQNdNSgiKc Okay this one wins. #StarTrek

Hell yeah the grocery store had Chubby Hubby, I haven't had that in years, thought that Ben n Jerry's flavor was gone forever.

Dance Dance Revolution arcade folks! Icedragon has released the snek board, a JAMMA to USB adapter allowing you to connect your 573 cabinet to a PC, featuring full lighting, fast polling, and CRT support: https://store.icedragon.io/product/snek-board/ If you prefer your dance games to be […]

The Rules of Acquisition https://ferengi.bible #StarTrek

Terror of MechaGodzilla's 40th Anniversary: The Making of Titans & Tragedies https://www.scified.com/news/terror-of-mechagodzillas-40th-anniversary-the-making-of-titans--tragedies From 2015, the article is still as informative this year, on the 50th anniversary. I'll always have a soft spot […]

I managed to completely miss the announcement of the Enhance Soundworks Collection preorder a couple months ago, but thankfully it's still available. https://enhance-experience.com/17472 The Enhance At 10 Boxed Set is also tempting, but whew that's a lot of money to drop on developer […]

In today's bird news, cockatoos show appetite for dips when eating bland food, find scientists: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/10/cockatoos-show-appetite-for-dips-when-eating-bland-food-find-scientists #birds

Can sound waves travel through Minovsky particles? Yeah sure, radio doesn't work, but if we're having a Gundam space battle, could we yell at each other? #Gundam

@merrysky Heya, looks like https://merrysky.net has been throwing server errors for a day or two, temp outage or bigger issue?

San Francisco vs. Pac-Man: When the city declared war on video games https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/video-game-arcade-hysteria-san-francisco-20054357.php #VideoGames #Arcade

While visiting family, finally had a chance to play War Room, Larry Harris' successor to Axis & Allies. The game is polished, the components solid and well-designed (tho a way to mark scenario boundaries on the map would be nice), and it's an immediate […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

It looks me a long time to finally discover Author & Punisher, but I am really digging his stuff, especially Incinerator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDPyZw31yZc #Music #Industrial

From Chris Crawford, A Gathering of Game Design Wizards: https://youtu.be/UQ6XCCuqRy0 Episode 1 (of 5 so far), "This is the first hour of a meeting in June 2024 of twelve of the brightest people who helped drive the video game industry throughout its history. For two days we chatted, gossiped […]

Back in the early 90s, I worked at a Marie Callender's that had a Shinobi cabinet in the lobby, and we'd eat leftover brownies and burn through the change in our tips after closing. I wonder if any muscle memory remains, can't wait to try this out on Neo-Geo hardware […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtXc68A_mWQ

Wow, D&D as a license continues to be hot! Stern just revealed Dungeons & Dragons The Tyrant's Eye pinball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LszrgZ_zxE The pinball-spitting dragon is the star gimmick, but the weekly dungeon layouts are brilliant! Excited to dig into how the progression […]

I was sick over Christmas break so I didnt get nearly as much done as I wanted to, but hey at least I finished the Artemis print for my dad.

After 84 years, I finally finished 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. For me, it was a slow burn that got better the further I progressed through the game. Story was enjoyable scifi anime, art was beautiful. RTS bits were fun but didn't get enough love: difficulty […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Is the magic of Frosty's hat that it resurrects whomever it is placed on, or does the hat contain Frosty's soul, allowing him to inhabit and possess the corpse upon which it rests?

Merry Christmas, ya'll #DogsOfMastodon #Christmas

Hey #TTRPG folks, what Mothership Month projects are you backing? Any recommendations? I'm in for Wages of Sin, but still reading through the rest of the lot to see what I want in on. https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/mothership-month/

Happy Caves of Qud 1.0 Day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nG-N_jtpZI

Head Like a Holy Night https://alexreed.bandcamp.com/album/head-like-a-holy-night Ahh, Christmas!

#DogsOfMastodon #Christmas

Twitch plays pachinko: https://www.twitch.tv/wibbix From wibbix, a vintage pachinko rigged up to a launch mechanism with point tracking. To play, enter a number from 0-100 in chat. This number represents how far to pull back the launch handle. 0 == low, 100 == max. #Streaming #Pachinko