1. 📰 Swen Vincke says the price of RAM and SSDs means Larian will be doing lots of optimisation in Divinity’s early access ‘that we didn’t necessarily want to do at that point in time’ (direct link) (👍61 👎0)

from Computer RPG Games ([email protected])

Swen Vincke says the price of RAM and SSDs means Larian will be doing lots of optimisation in Divinity’s early access ‘that we didn’t necessarily want to do at that point in time’

RAM prices have been, uh—bad. That’s per an interview with TheGamer, wherein Larian CEO Swen Vincke told the site that it’s facing issues with “the price of RAM and the price of SSDs and fuck, man. It means that most likely, we already need to do a lot of optimization work in early access that we didn’t necessarily want to do at that point in time.” AI servers buying up HBM means less DRAM in the market for our RAM kits, which causes prices to rise." Either way, Larian’s feeling the burn from a hardware pricing perspective like the rest of us. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

2. 📰 OpenTTD 15 is now out and ready for you to play! (direct link) (👍30 👎0)

from Tycoon Games ([email protected])

OpenTTD 15.0

New Year, New You, New OpenTTD! OpenTTD 15 is now out and ready for you to play! New features include:Companies in multiplayer no longer have passwords, invite specific players using buttons in the Online Players list insteadIsland maps can be surrounded by infinite water instead of voidRivers can end in wetlands if unable to reach seaBridges can be placed over stations and road stopsRoads can now have waypointsHouses can be placed manuallyIndustries and towns have graphs of their cargo historyImprovements to menus, including a new main menu and a combined game options and settings windowMany more features, changes, and fixesFor a full breakdown of new features, check out this video by Master Hellish. We’ll be gathering any bugs for a future 15.1 release, so if you find any, please report them here. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

3. 📰 Final Fantasy VII Remake director doesn’t want to helm a remake of Final Fantasy VI (direct link) (👍26 👎0)

from JRPG ([email protected])

Final Fantasy VII Remake director doesn’t want to helm a remake of Final Fantasy VI

HQWe don’t know when exactly the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy will end, as the final chapter is still in-development. With many fans asking for a Final Fantasy VI Remake next, the director revealed that he has no intention of leading such a project. “I have received a lot of voices from fans to make a Final Fantasy VI Remake. So rather than myself heading another remake project, I would rather see maybe a new creator come in and put myself in the support section to sort of cheer them on rather than being the one to head a new remake project.” If Square Enix was to remake another Final Fantasy game, which would you like to see? 🖊️️🤖

Posted by commander

4. 🖼️ Age of Empires right now (direct link) (👍25 👎0)

from Real Time Strategy ([email protected])

AoE3DE players arguing over Denmark as a civ after teasing. AoE4 players agree Vikings should be called Denmark/Danes.

Translation (not needed as original is English): (No translation needed - original text is in English)

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Posted by Zagorath

5. 📰 Schedule 1 developer TVGS is ‘an actual game studio’ now, with an office, desks, and a new guy named Rob: ‘By the end of the year, there will likely be 4 people working on Schedule 1’ (direct link) (👍25 👎0)

from Life Simulation Games ([email protected])

Schedule 1 developer TVGS is ‘an actual game studio’ now, with an office, desks, and a new guy named Rob: ‘By the end of the year, there will likely be 4 people working on Schedule 1’

Now, 10 months later, Schedule 1 creator Tyler says TVGS—the name is an acronym for Tyler’s Video Game Studio—has finally become “an actual game studio.” “We’ve got an office in Sydney, and a new developer, Rob, who has just started,” Tyler wrote on Steam. By the end of the year, there will likely be 4 people working on Schedule 1. And yes, there are pics—it’s a lot of space for four people, much less two, but it looks pretty nice. “This will be the final round of major refactoring and will leave the game in a strong position for future development,” Tyler wrote. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

6. 📰 92-year-old grandma wins Tekken 8 tournament trophy in Japanese senior citizen esports league - AUTOMATON WEST (direct link) (👍22 👎0)

from Fighting Game Community ([email protected])

92-year-old grandma wins Tekken 8 tournament trophy in Japanese senior citizen esports league

Japanese esports association Care recently held its 12th biannual tournament, featuring the hit game Tekken 8, which was livestreamed on the association’s official YouTube channel. As Game*Spark reports, what’s so peculiar about this tournament is that all of its participants are senior citizens. This tournament saw 92-year-old Hisako Sakai taking the winning trophy. The most recent tournament, held this November, saw 8 grandmas and grandpas clash in one-on-one Tekken 8 showdowns, with the oldest participant being 95-years old. Related articles:Japanese senior citizen VTuber agency behind 86-year-old virtual idol to launch a “rent-a-grandmother” business87-year-old grandma VTuber formally apologizes for “lying” about her age. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by kid2908

7. 💬 What JRPGs have you played 2025? (direct link) (👍19 👎0)

from World of JRPGs ([email protected])

How was your gaming year 2025, what were your favorites games you played this year? We don’t need to be to strict, talking about non jrpg games is fine as well, so don’t think to much about if a game is a jrpg or not.

Posted by tamlyn

8. 💬 What were your favorite AGDQ 2026 runs? (direct link) (👍16 👎0)

from Speedrun video games ([email protected])

I really loved the DK64randomizer.com run, big randomizer and Spike Vegeta fan.

The 70 star 70 person relay in SM64 was absolutely bonkers.

Awful block always provides something that I love, in this case That’s a Cow. I’ll be picking that up for sure

Posted by frank

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💬 Zork 1, 2 and 3 have been open-sourced by Microsoft (direct link), posted in Interactive Fiction (👍9 👎0)

Good news for Zork fans!

This detailed blogpost by Andrew Plotkin gives a good rundown of where things now stand: https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork-is-open-source

Posted by b72

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