Bobbins

Bobbins, 3 days ago to random

I’ve taken this extremely personally because RPS and Eurogamer basically ensured I didn’t just write a game and get lost in the milieu over and over again. Whether that’s writing about my stuff, writing for them, sitting on panels or having my work on show, they’ve been a consistent force for good.

I’m proud to have bylines on Gamer Network. I’m grateful to everyone who helped lift me up. I’m just one of many they helped raise and what IGN have done is a travesty.

Bobbins, 3 days ago to random

On IGN acquiring RPS, Eurogamer, etc…

Grim news. I’ve taken this extremely personally because RPS and Eurogamer basically ensured I didn’t just write a game and get lost in the milieu over and over again. Whether that’s writing about my stuff, writing for them, sitting on panels or having my work on show, they’ve been a consistent force for good. I’m proud to have bylines on Gamer Network.

https://punchingrobots.com/on-ign-acquiring-rps-eurogamer-etc/

Bobbins, 4 days ago to random

They made copy and paste pay to win. Amazing.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/21/24161778/windows-powertoys-advanced-ai-copy-paste

Bobbins, 4 days ago to random

My brain absolutely hates that thing game news sites are doing where they embed random videos of a completely different game midway through the article. It throws me for a loop every single time.

Bobbins, 5 days ago to random

If you finish up before you get to The Devil You Know, Humble’s BPRD bundle is an incredible amount of very good comics for about twenty quid.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/mike-mignolas-bprd-dark-horse-books

Mind, I need to stop wondering once a year whether Devil You Know is as bad as I remember it because it always is.

Bobbins, 10 days ago to random

I think Jon Blow complaining about not being able to find Braid on PSN without scrolling to the bottom of the list of new releases and having to be told to stop sorting by best selling and it goes to the top will give me strength for years to come.

Bobbins, 12 days ago to random

Super Destronaut: Landed X Loaded

It’s always a treat to get a new Super Destronaut game to play around with, they’re some of my fave new arcade games. They’re rarely difficult or especially punishing, preferring instead to focus on the simple pleasures of shooting chunky pixel enemies and watching them explode in a violent sea of colour. In other words, absolutely perfect for me, the person who likes nothing more than shooting chunky pixel enemies and watching them…

https://punchingrobots.com/super-destronaut-landed-x-loaded/

Bobbins, 15 days ago to random

OH YES

Bobbins, 16 days ago to random

Really enjoyed Rend & Tear With Tooth & Claw in the recent 2000ad issues. Dredd vs massive bear? Oh yes. Go on then.

Bobbins, 17 days ago to random

Your dad got kicked out of bee club for being honey on main again.

Bobbins, 18 days ago to random

Which of you buggers have a videogame related blog, channel or site I can link to from mine? Gimme those sweet, sweet URLs.

Bobbins, 19 days ago to random

Just bought the worldwide distribution rights to your dad.

Bobbins, 22 days ago to random

Sorry. I have no context for the quote but in this month's Edge there's a quote from a videogame dude saying they hate achievements and what they've done to games and I don't think I've paid even the vaguest attention to them in years.

Quite enjoyed the novelty when they were invariably challenging the player to try playing in an unusual way but they don't impact the way I play a game even slightly anymore. I don't know how normal this is but I'd guess at "very"

Bobbins, 24 days ago to random

Idea: Super Smash Bros but with old videogame characters who retain all the quirks from their original games.

Choose your fighter: the one with the collision box 3 times the size of the sprite, the one who dies if they fall more than their own height, the one with the fixed arc jump, the one that can't do diagonals, the one that rarely responds, the one with two frames of animation, the one with the colour clash, the one that's precisely the size of one UDG, the egg you just kick shit out of...

Bobbins, 24 days ago to random

Finally, Amazon get what the gamers need.

Bobbins, 24 days ago to random

Reading this and you know, I don't think I've played a single game that required me to do this in, I dunno, long enough that whenever the last one was it's a dim and distant memory.

https://kotaku.com/stellar-blade-final-fantasy-last-of-us-uncharted-1851446771

Bobbins, 27 days ago to random

Imagine, right. You're at a black mass. Everyone is doing well at all the chanting and stuff. The chicken's been offed, it's just about time for the devil to rock up. There's a poof of smoke in the summoning circle, the devil's busy today so he's sent Barney The Dinosaur instead.

Bobbins, 27 days ago to random

Who was the first person to paint themselves blue and hit a binlid and what were they thinking?

Bobbins, 28 days ago to random

This entire thread. https://mastodon.social/@Craigp/112346419907121031

Bobbins, 28 days ago to random

Starseed

Quick sketch for the morning whilst I'm thinking about Starseed. Who doesn't love dreadnaughts and lasers?

https://punchingrobots.com/starseed/

Bobbins, 29 days ago to random

I guess what this week has taught me with the run of "I have no idea any other music exists???" Taylor Swift articles is there's a whole bunch of people in music too who don't know what to do when a massively anticipated release turns out to be merely 'it's alright' and their takes go full bed shitting trying to work around it.

Videogames are not alone. Though that it's leaked into videogames news too is a pretty funny bonus.

Bobbins, 1 month ago to random

Of all the things the past ten years or so has brought me, a diminishing amount of subtlety and a complete lack of tolerance for bigots and cruelty has been the one forever caught between "gosh Rob, bit blunt mate" and "I wish I'd been this person from the off ,,, but was taught not to make a fuss"

But! The way it gives the kids a laugh is solid gold worth it too so there's also that.

Bobbins, 1 month ago to random

Sorry about the abhorrent subject matter as an example here but I reckon if time and health ever permits, DRM2 will be doodled like a mock old computer display. I've got such a soft spot for that painted to look like graphics thing.

Bobbins, 1 month ago to random

Console store policies are useless for 2024.

The big three's console policies aren't working and they're certainly not fit for purpose in 2024. Whilst it's easy for plenty of people to look at the weekly releases of games on consoles, see a bunch of just not very good things and pop on the amateur biz analysis hat and decide the problem here is there are too many games, not only is that very silly but it's also completely ignoring the systemic problems that currently…

https://punchingrobots.com/console-store-policies-are-useless-for-2024/

Bobbins, 1 month ago to random

Just for the record, I have no intention of proper business posting again any time soon. I just needed a brief window to get some shit off my chest.