Kal El

you named it, I've Gamed it! /XB1~Kal El 001/ ps4~Kal-El--00. Also seen and read a metric butt ton of anime and comics!

[RRR@ロボゲー開発中 @_VersionThree_]

ロボゲー「CodePhantom」の新しい制作動画だ！
今回は戦闘関係のあれこれを実装しました

【メカアクション】戦闘モード、起動【CodePhantom】
YouTube： https://t.co/5i7lAqDCUr
ニコニコ： https://t.co/ap7LaRNemx

#Unity #ゲーム制作 #CodePhantom #indiedev

[Joe Madureira @JoeMadx]

🤔💭

[Graslu00 @Graslu00]

A surprise recompilation of GoldenEye XBLA dropped just a few hours ago!

You can play the Community Edition on it for all the fixes over the years. Online support, high framerates, filters, and possibly more to come.

[PlayStation Nostalgia @PlayStalgiaX]

Rival Schools: United by Fate (1998)

[Kal El @ElricRepps]

@earlygamegg holy shit that inbred alcohol fetal disease looking thing is def 55 years old, not 36.

[LAS91214 @las91214]

#BIRD_BINARY
NEW OP

[Popverse @PopverseSays]

A Batman commission by Joshua Middleton.

[GamER MD @GamER_MD_Actual]

RIP to one of the greats! Taken WAY too soon. 💔💔💔😭😭😭

[Popverse @PopverseSays]

A Daniel Warren Johnson Transformers pin-up done for Skybound's pitch for the license to Hasbro.

[lilmovieperp @lilmovieperp]

fun choreography. the squib work and timing is stellar here.

[RYAN OTTLEY @RyanOttley]

It’s confusing to me that in comics, the writer is given the most credit in a similar way a director gets the most credit of a film.

When really, the comic artist is the one retelling the story in their own vision, much like a director retells the writers story in their own vision for a film.

A writer in film or comics does not write the visuals. The comic artist and director tell the story visually. Knowing this would change the perception of what a comic artist does.

A director can make or break a good screenplay. A comic artist can make or break a good comic script.

I guess I explained it.

Sorry Chris, I didn’t follow your rules exactly. 😆

[米田仁士 Hitoshi Yoneda @Brise_Marine]

These are also paintings I drew. I'm still alive and drawing. ✍🏻😁🎨
私はまだ生きていて、絵を描いてます。

[SPG (COMMISSIONS OPEN) @ArtworkSPG]

Ryu vs Gouki - Shin Shoryuken
#StreetFighter #Streetfighter６

[Paolo Rivera @PaoloMRivera]

Here's my contribution for @heroinitiative's Giant-Size X-Men 100 Project! Auction information and gallery available here: https://t.co/L2zJ4Ueoq3

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: Why Cartoon Network went from 100 million homes to off the air

Back in 2011, Cartoon Network was in more than 100 million homes. It was one of the most sought-after places to work in entertainment and routinely outperformed competitors like Nickelodeon and Disney Channel. For an entire generation, it was the home of some of the most beloved animated shows ever made.

But by 2024, its audience had collapsed. Daily viewership had fallen to just 74,000 people, and the network as most people knew it effectively disappeared from the air.

And while it’s easy to blame the internet, Netflix, or YouTube for Cartoon Network’s downfall, the truth is much more complicated. The seeds of its decline were planted years before streaming ever took over.

This is the rise and fall of Cartoon Network.

[Capcom USA @CapcomUSA_]

It's thanks to all of you that Capcom could deliver iconic characters, groundbreaking gameplay, and memorable experiences over the past 43 years. Thank you for your continued support!

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A GUY AT GOOGLE DEEPMIND MADE AN ISOMETRIC PIXEL-ART MAP OF NEW YORK CITY AND PUT IT ON THE OPEN WEB FOR FREE

it's called https://t.co/8fAASvEmXT

you open the tab and the city is just sitting there in classic SimCity 2000 isometric pixel art. you scroll. and it keeps going. and going.

i zoomed in on midtown and i could read the H&M signage in times square. in red. as actual pixel-art letters on the side of a building.

i could see the crystalline spire of the Bank of America Tower poking out of a clump of skyscrapers. individual rooftop HVAC units. tiny green roof gardens. the little driveway loops in front of the hotels.

he estimates the map needs roughly 40,000 tiles. nothing is a placeholder.

the guy who made it is Andy Coenen, a senior staff engineer at Google DeepMind. he is not a pixel artist. by his own admission he is "a former electronic musician."

what he actually did is kind of insane:

> pulled NYC's geometry from the Google Maps 3D tiles API

> fine-tuned an open-source image model (Qwen-Image-Edit) on ~40 hand-paired examples of "satellite tile → pixel art tile"

> spun up 50 parallel instances on rented GPUs and generated tens of thousands of tiles in a few hours

> the fine-tune cost him 12 bucks

his own stated mission for the project, verbatim, is one sentence: "what's possible now that was impossible before?"

apparently the answer is "one engineer can pixel-art most of a metropolis for the price of a sandwich."

and the wildest part to me is he didn't sell it. no signup. no paywall. no NFT. you open the URL and the city is yours to wander.

the post landed at 1,325 points on Hacker News and topped bestofshowhn's 2026 list.

we live in a timeline where a senior engineer at one of the largest AI labs on earth spent his nights pixel-arting Manhattan for fun and then gave it away.

the internet is healing.

[SEGA City @sega_city]

Dragoon
'Panzer Dragoon'
SEGA Saturn

[Gangster Cinema Central @GangsterCinema]

The iconic moment in Hard Boiled, when Chow Yun-fat slides down the banister dual-wielding pistols, was completely improvised on set. John Woo said he shot his action scenes without a script. When it came to shootouts, he “never had a specific idea or a story for a scene.”

Instead, he would walk around the location and put himself in Chow Yun-fat’s position, acting out the scene: “If I am the hero, if I am in the same kind of situation, what will I do?”

That’s how the staircase shootout came together. Woo imagined the character trapped on the second floor, under fire, and asked himself what he would do next.

Then he saw the banister.

“So I got to run down the second floor. But at the same time, I was stuck by a bunch of people. So, what should I do? Oh, and then I will figure out I can slide down by the banister, and slide and shoot at the same time to get those bad guys.”

Quotes come from the commentary track on the Hard Boiled DVD.