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gamedevkevin.bsky.social
Irish C/C++ programmer. He/him Games, Coding, Art Gaeilge agus fáilte! ☘
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"Hitman’s satire is at its sharpest when it shows the ideological childishness that seems to accompany unimaginable privilege." Joshua M. Henson sees echoes of our current elite in those featured in Hitman 2's final mission:

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a good game can turn into a great game if it sucks a little bit in an interesting way

submitted 41 days ago • 272 comments

Starting off our new issue on Stalker: Heart of Chornobyl with @reidmccarter.bsky.social writing about the subtle spirituality of the zone: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/01/13/a...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

increasingly feel like new gpus are released only so digital foundry can make more videos

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

I'm far from the first person to say this but a fundamental and increasing issue with games media and how we talk about games with Themes is an unavoidable lack of media literacy and/or engagement with forms of art that aren't video games (or nerd media, really).

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

Great review

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities: felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi... AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

submitted 53 days ago • 236 comments

On the last day of the year, there’s just time for my personal GOTY thread, four games that connected with me in 2024 👇

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

It's time to figure out what happened in videogames this year. Join @reidmccarter.bsky.social, @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social, @youmeyou.bsky.social, and special guest @ethangach.bsky.social for a discussion of our favorite & least favorite games of 2024. www.bulletpointspodcast.com/post/7703217...

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REPORT: Over the last eight months I've been trying to get to the bottom of why (despite being the ideal candidate) Ireland is not a video game development hub. The answer? A lack of government understanding surrounding the sector. For Shacknews: www.shacknews.com/article/1424...

submitted 69 days ago • 6 comments

i've seen too many tech talks/presos that suffer from a few totally fixable issues, and decided to write about it: gpfault.net/posts/gripes...

submitted 78 days ago • 9 comments

Happy birthday to the 2 best games ever made ♥

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, Willem, YES. www.vulture.com/article/will...

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This rocks 😄 youtu.be/oVOE2vAVGOI?...

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tried to articulate the failure of sh2make & what it says about the state of and culture around big-budget games ...

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

Our issue on Silent Hill 2, the original and remake, comes to a close with @strida.bsky.social on the 2024 version. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2024/11/20/t...

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

The Game Awards' power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings

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I’ve got a new episode of Game Data out! In it I talk with @perryjon.bsky.social all about his work on UFO50 and you actually go about cramming 50 games in 1! open.substack.com/pub/gamedata...

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

wrote about SH2 remake! It's a little broad, but I wanted to get into the brass tacks of how Remake's changes *work* thematically and why they are, for me, such a downgrade from the original.

submitted 114 days ago • 6 comments

We have a new issue starting up today whose articles will move from the original Silent Hill 2 to its remake. First up is @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social on the nature of that remake in light of the source material's reputation. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2024/10/10/a...

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This talk is a good watch. I think the most interesting tidbit is this idea of having design pillars for an engine, great advice youtu.be/4sc3cm9Kdys?...

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This should be extremely unsurprising news to anyone who does programming for a living.

submitted 144 days ago • 5 comments