Photo of a large hardback book: The Games That Weren't by Frank Gasking. Cover is black, with bold text, and an icon-style image in green of a stick figure dropping a computer floppy-disk into a trashcan.

World Book Day! Let me share some of my fave books I've read in the last year :)

Frank Gasking's "The Games That Weren't" - an amazing and beautifully made archive trove of various games from the dawn of gaming to fairly recently that were developed but never released. I love to graze this book!

Some of the preserved Namco i-mode ports include Dig Dug II, Grobda, Battle City, and the Tower of Babel.

Earlier this week, @yuvi.app preserved Mappy de Puzzle, as well as several other previously-lost #Namco i-mode ports from the early 2000s! Mappy de Puzzle was released exclusively for keitai in 2003. You guide a set of Meowkies through a maze. It's really charming!

Behold their lil FACES!!
In order: Freya, Frigg, and Fenrir
I know Frigg technically got named Sol but just between you and me... She can be Frigg hahaha.
Fenrir's face is so ROUMD

A third of the way through the Anachronox demo, the player encounters a hulking alien merchant. “My sorrow runs deep,” the merchant, whose name is Demonstrare, says. “I will only exist for the short duration of this demo. I do not exist in the full version. “Write the company. Tell them that you want me in the full version.” What Demonstrare, even with his curse of self-awareness, did not anticipate was that if anyone did ask Ion Storm to bring him over to “the full version,” it wouldn’t have mattered. The demo shipped on a disc stuck to the cover of a PC Gamer — where it shared space with now-forgotten

titles like Throne of Darkness and The Corporate Machine — four months after Anachronox itself had been released, and three months after Ion Storm’s parent company had shut down the studio. Demonstrare never made it to Anachronox. And while twenty-five years later the game can run on modern hardware, the demo does not. Demonstrare is gone. Recently, I asked Richard Gaubert, the writer of Anachronox, if the developers ever heard anything about Demonstrare. Gaubert didn’t even remember the character.

Here is a little bit of @duncanfyfe.net's afterword for "How Can We Bear to Throw Anything Away?"

GLAAD MEDIA AWARD WINNER: OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK Avengers Academy: Marvel’s Voices By Anthony Oliveira, Elsa Sjunneson, Carola Borelli, Bailie Rosenlund, Pablo Collar, Charles Stewart III, Alti Firmansyah, Minkyu Jung, KJ Díaz, Ruth Redmond, Dono Sánchez-Almara, Ariana Maher, Joe Caramagna (Marvel Infinity Comics)

I am so thankful for the gift of this recognition on behalf of myself and all of the crew on Avengers Academy. We strove week after week to make art worthy of our community – to deepen and enrich the world for queer, trans, and HIV+ representation and readership, to insist we belonged in these worlds of fiction and in the world that dreams them. We wanted both to illuminate queer stories told long ago and to trailblaze new paths forward. It was not always easy, but it was always worth it. I am so proud of this work, and so honoured to have it so celebrated. Thank you. Thank you to all the impossibly gifted collaborators on this project for all your brilliance, enthusiasm, and generosity: our regular artists Carola Borelli, Bailie Rosenlund, and Pablo Collar; our colorists KJ Diaz and Ruth Redmond; our letterists Ariana Maher and Joe Caramagna; as well as our numerous guest talents – who enriched this book week after week with their gifts and perspectives. Thanks too to our editors, Lindsey Cohick, Sidney Stubbs, Wil Moss, and founding editor and Sarah Brunstad who willed this book into life. Time and again this book redefined what could happen, how it could look and read, and above all who could be in a superhero comic, and I could not be prouder. And, with great admiration and profoundest appreciation, thank you to my community, for always lifting me up. Finding all of you has been the great gift of my life. This category is full of the fellow artists who showed me there was a place for us to create and to live in this world, and I live in the enduring blessing of their work. I said it when we ended, and I will say it here again: comics will mend your heart, if you let them. When I was a scared, lonely, closeted kid, the Marvel universe’s heroes were there for me when very little else was. That is a debt I can never pay back, but one I’ve tried with great travail to pay forward. I want to believe we have afforded a little of that same refuge to those who soug…

Amazed and honoured that AVENGERS ACADEMY has won the GLAAD Media Award for OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK!

This book pushed every boundary in this industry, and I am so grateful for the gift of these talented collaborators and this generous, uplifting community of readers. deadline.com/2026/03/glaa...

A lot of blaming voters, not enough blaming voter suppression

It's Morris, the tiny bug that lives on <strike>T-rex's</strike> Lt. Fuzz's nose!

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

An excellent Ditto

Now that it's out, I can finally share that I had the pleasure of working on the English localization of the wonderful Pokémon Pokopia alongside a fantastic team!

I've been waiting a looong time to see what people think of this one, and we are unbelievably proud of how it turned out!! HAVE FUN!

Ditto.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Hi folks-- We're receiving reports that some takedowns for Cookie's Bustle are still being made by Web Capio. It seems like their automated takedown systems may inadvertently still be running. We're looking into it.

In the meantime, creators are having success sending response emails like this one:

There's even an option to enable video intended for single-speed CD-ROM drives, which lowers the video quality even further!

ScummVM added support for DOS ports of lightgun shooters by American Laser Games! 💿💥🔫
- Crime Patrol
- Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars
- The Last Bounty Hunter
- Mad Dog McCree
- Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold
- Space Pirates
- Who Shot Johnny Rock?

humanoid crow knight, wearing a green robe and a breastplate and holding a long sword

corvid knight

The DizzyAGE engine was released 20 years ago on the 6th March.

As of today, 171 Fan Games were made using this engine and over 30 authors who brought their DizzyAGE creations to life!

🥳

🥚 yolkfolk.com/dizzyage-tur...

I can't handle their BABY FACES

Absolutely devastated to have to deliver this news.

I have loved working at BuzzFeed so much but I have to stand up for what I believe in.

Please DO NOT send hate to anyone!

If anything changes regarding this, I will let you know.

cat in a box

is it a mess or is it an…Enrichment?

A wide-eyed white and black cat.

A Life Where a Lint Ball Keeps Following You

📸 chimakiningen

Ohhh I missed bottle feeding babies even though it ruins my already horrible sleep schedule lolll.
Their third sibling, Sol, will be joining them today now that she's nice and stable!
I said she should be named Frigg but alas SOME people think that isn't a beautiful baby girl name lollll

The trial version of Star Devastator (スターデバステーター), a keitai-exclusive #Konami game, was preserved by @yuvi.app! Released in 2003, this was an ambitious 3D rail shooter that was only released for i-mode devices. This may have been one of the earliest 3D keitai games.

an edited screenshot of Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne, where Max (from Sam and Max) is dressed as a jack frost from SMT. he stands before the demi-fiend and says "When I die, I'm taking you with me."

remembering old dumb art i did. SMT: sam & max tensei.

Chrontendo Episode 6 (00:45:21)

Just making sure you unmuted this

Photo of a long-haired tuxedo tabby, lying on its side on the flat top of a concrete wall, basking in the sunshine. It looks towards the camera.

Sun warmed beauty. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

requiem for vanished birdsong