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craiggrannell, to random
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IGN just ate Gamer Network. :/

The RPS editor’s been fired. Hard to see the voice of RPS and Eurogamer surviving, although fingers crossed both won’t just be mashed into IGN with a fork.

Funny how when I was a kid, I always dreamed of working on a games mag. Now, there are almost no paper mags left and the online ones are vanishing at speed.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/21/24161718/ign-gamer-network-acquisition

yesterzine,
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@craiggrannell The worst of all options. I’d already assumed Aoife and Luke were stealth redundancies at Eurogamer and Oxboxtra.

yesterzine,
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@craiggrannell And fewer competitors, which might be the key there.

yesterzine, to random
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I'm surprised this needs to be said but...

"If I have to give you an email address or phone number or worse, phone you to find out the price of your good or service I will never find out the price of your good or service".

yesterzine,
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@danieldurrans In this specific case it's a storage place where they only offer 1 size (crate) so it's absolutely a fixed price, they just won't tell me it.

OutofPrintArchive, to retrogaming
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Sega Force 3 - March 1992 (UK) has just been added to the magazine catalogue.

This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/segaforce.html

Enjoy! 😙






Back cover for Sega Force 3 - March 1992 (UK), featuring an advertisement for a mail order video game store.

yesterzine,
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@OutofPrintArchive Oof, not a classic month for History’s Greatest Console(tm) there.

yesterzine, to random
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“Email reaction digest”.

What fresh hell is this?

craiggrannell, to random
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Not much new in this piece, alas. Merely reinforces that a majority of Brits think Brexit was a mistake BUT that quite a few leave voters believe that because Brexit “hasn’t been done [properly]”, and that even remain voters have no appetite whatsoever to fight against the status quo. So the near future at least will likely be further decline and Labour picking at the edges of the Brexit deal for meagre wins that won’t annoy anyone too much.

From: @JoePajak
https://mstdn.science/@JoePajak/112434409625485278

yesterzine,
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@craiggrannell @JoePajak tbf, a majority of the eligible voters from 2016 who are still alive voted remain at the time.

danieldurrans, to random
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I am getting the lead balloon ready for when Emma finds out that the bike shop gave us the wrong charger for her new ebike.

At least she has enough range for the ride we are going today, but I predict a riot.

yesterzine,
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@danieldurrans What’s that coming over the hill?

OutofPrintArchive, to random
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Here's something I don't usually do...
But the past couple of days have not been well...great... let's just put it that way.

So when I saw this scumbag's mug appear again in my feed, despite the dozens of clicks of "do not recommend this garbage channel", it pissed me off even more.

Always looking to shit on anything and everything that's not PlayStation, trying to make money off people losing their jobs, and this dumb fuck doesn't even know Arkane's name...

I hope he chokes on a toenail.

yesterzine,
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@OutofPrintArchive You would hope getting the name of the studio wrong would stop people watching it but apparently not.

PixelBandits, to VideoGames
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Hey Bandits, what are you playing today? I've been thrashing Manor Lords, B-Movie, Ready or Not and the very original Command and Conquer.

A heady mix of medieval settlement building, alien abduction, tactical SWAT action and bad guy operations.

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yesterzine,
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@PixelBandits Got The Colonists in a current humble bundle. Think a manor lords like thing but 11 times cuter and also they’re all robots who can print more robots.

OutofPrintArchive, to random
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I just want to repost this as we lost something really special.

If you haven't played Prey or any of the Dishonoured games before, please give them a try.
They might take a little bit of adjusting before they really click with you as they have a very specific type of play style which doesn't immediately show its brilliance.
At least it didn't for me.

But they give you so much in return when you put in a bit of time.

The Untold History of Arkane by NoClip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4kdqwdbZZ8&pp=ygUGYXJrYW5l

yesterzine,
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@OutofPrintArchive Worth pointing out the Dishorned half of Arkane survives.

For now.

craiggrannell, to random
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Hampshire is very Tory on average, so this is no surprise. But also, I abhor politicising PCCs. So I did vote in this election, but I was extremely close to a spoil your ballot moment. https://mastodon.social/@ukelections@mastodonapp.uk/112382598785261458

yesterzine,
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@craiggrannell We only had a PCC election and I confess I did t bother since I checked the candidates and none were standing on an “abolish this position” platform.

danieldurrans, to random
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Doritos Extra Flamin Hot are actually quite hot.

yesterzine,
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@danieldurrans To save you some time the wotsits ones are even better but the max ones somehow don’t work at all.

yesterzine, to random
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I’ve lived here nine years, I’ve not had a TV licence since 2020.

janbeta, to random
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In other news, I just successfully (so far) repaired my toaster. Well, it seems the insides just needed a good cleaning and some contact cleaner on the switch & potentiometer. 😅 Hooray!

yesterzine,
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@janbeta I repaired mine last by finding the raisin that kept tripping the circuit breaker :D

danieldurrans, to random
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If you haven't done the bare minimum of having any online presence then why on earth should I vote for you in the local elections?

I am basically voting for the only two who aren't Tory, don't look like a serial killer, and have some sort of statement written on a website.

yesterzine,
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@danieldurrans We literally only have an election for the fictional job of “police commissioner”. I looked at the list and none of them want to abolish the position so I won’t bother doing the walk to choose between 5 white men who all want more police but will have exactly 0 power to achieve that.

vga256, to DaftPunk
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weird 2000s ephemera: an official rubik’s cube, branded with yahoo! logo tiles that all end up on the same face when solved

yesterzine,
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@vga256 I would overthink this be sure I wouldn’t be able to decide if all the logos should be the same way up.

danieldurrans, to random
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I think I might spend the day cycling down to Portishead while listening to Portishead.

There is a WWII anti-aircraft battery en-route and also some new pylons are going in as part of the Hinkley Point project.

yesterzine,
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@danieldurrans A good plan, unfortunately my nearest town is called “2 Unlimited”.

craiggrannell, to retrogaming
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Interesting that Evercade is doing a Thalamus cart. I’m not sure all the games have aged well, but they were big at the time. But it’s deeply weird it’s not ‘complete’ and omits the first three (out of 14) C64 titles from the label. Given that they’re all by the same author, I wonder if there were rights issues. If not, I’m not sure why anyone would intentionally select eg Summer Camp over Quedex. (Also means no Delta, which had that epic Hubbard music.)

https://youtu.be/d5pHROS_7j4?si=sEOwzIAvPh7gb29t

yesterzine,
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@craiggrannell The clue here may be “Thalamus Collection 1”

yesterzine,
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@craiggrannell Is monster world not a Thalamus game, maybe they want to make that the centrepiece.

Shit Amiga game does feel fairly evercade tbf. But since you mention that cruise for a corpse not being on the delphine one was equally baffling.

OutofPrintArchive, to random
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After a bit of a terrible couple of weeks thanks to certain co-workers from hell, at least today is starting of making me happy for a change.
Just bought 9 issues of N-Force and SNES Force, which should arrive in a week or two.

Best of all, these are from the legendary Mort in the scanning scene.
The person responsible for me getting started buying and scanning Club Nintendo and OSSM magazines over 20 years ago. Small world... 😄

yesterzine,
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@OutofPrintArchive My physical copy of The One that I covered in my first ever episode is the Mort scan copy :)

yesterzine, to random
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In 100 years, the grand national will have the same reputation as bullfighting. If we could speed that up by say, 150 years that’d be super.

yesterzine,
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I wasn’t even going to say anything but their boss saying it’s the same as f1 after they killed 2 horses yesterday before even getting to the main race…

Yeah fella, Lewis Hamilton has someone ride along to constantly whip him to make him participate in races he didn’t choose and doesn’t really know about.

OutofPrintArchive, to retrogaming
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It’s rare to hear straight from Sega of Japan like this, so tons of stories have twisted the narrative over the years in all kinds of ways.

But this is spot on from everything I’ve heard.

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/04/the-reason-sega-lost-the-32-bit-war-the-32x-says-yosuke-okunari

yesterzine,
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@OutofPrintArchive One of the weird things magazines have made me realise is, in the uk at least, the 32x was announced AFTER the Saturn which is just absolutely mad.

craiggrannell, (edited ) to retrogaming
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EDIT: Thanks for the suggestions! All written and filed for tomorrow.

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Any Amstrad CPC fans on here? What would be the five games you would HAVE to put on a list of the very best for the system? (I have my own ideas, but would love input from other people.)

yesterzine,
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@craiggrannell If you’re open to games from outside the commercial lifetime, The Batman Group’s port of Pinball Dreams is witchcraft.

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