Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷

@toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk

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Curated game news for game workers & gamers I run @LostInCult.co.uk's games label • Indie Mixtape creator • Debug IGA winner • BAFTA full Member • ex Super Rare/Numskull/journo • indies + physicals ❤️🏳️‍🌈 ryan@lostincult.co.uk

Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC

Rediscover a selection of iconic original XBOX games, now on PC and handheld.

Blinkx: The Time Sweeper, Fuzion Frenzy, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, and Conker: Live & Reloaded

Requires Windows 11. Specific features vary by game; download required (xbox.com/game-compatibility). Game purchase or Game Pass subscription may be required. Select markets only.

A screenshot of a Twitter post from the account CharlieIntel, which reads the following:

Many leaders within Xbox Games Studios reportedly believe Game Pass has 'destroyed the values of their games'

'There are a lot of people ... in studio leadership within Xbox who absolutely detest Game Pass. They think it has taken away from the value of all games; think it's been a detriment to the games industry."

[Source: Jason Schreier]

Promo shot of a Nintendo Switch 1 console and Red-Blue Joy-Con with grip on a red background

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A picture of 12 vinyl albums face-up on a wooden table, next to an unrelated gorilla ornament holding a bottle of wine. The albums pictured are listed in the post text.

A screenshot from a Twitter post by user RegisKillbin, which reads the following:

Steam just made a change that's really gonna hurt future indie games.

The Popular Upcoming page used to list games chronologically by release time. As long as you had enough wishlists to make the cut (~6k to 7k), you'd get some time at the top of the list for people to discover your game.

Now it's listed algorithmically, with far more large games from major companies and publishers on the list, even those releasing two weeks away. The lowest wishlist count on there right now is 80k, when before it would've been 10 indie games as low as 6k wishlists.

Feeling very lucky our game's early access release barely made it out before this changed. It was worth probably 1k wishlists for us, and we had some really unfortunate timing/positioning too. It can be worth thousands of wishlists and sales for smaller games.

Steam is more heavily prioritizing larger games, with the budget and time to grow to enormous wishlist totals, or the rare indie viral hit.

The small to mid-sized games just lost a way to find players. Steam players lost a tool to discover cool smaller games.

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Mina the Hollower key art image

A shot of the box arts for the game on PS4, PS5, Switch 1, and Switch 2