Oct 25, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 16 segments
This week, Lotus and John (complete with the worst sinus infection you've ever heard, sorry) dove right into the biggest news stories of the week, including the closure of BioWare, 350 additional…
Why do I have to do it?
I don't want you to have to.
I just wanted to fuck around.
Question mark? The first dev that I know of that has done this and that was reported on was Alliance Arts, the developer of Drunken Goddess Reflux.
They basically announced pretty abruptly, I think the day before Next Fest started, that they were not going to be posting the demo.
And the main first portion of their announcement says that they're not doing so because something that's common among Japanese games is basically having content posting restrictions.
So you can live stream and you can blog about it and whatever.
But there is usually like, okay, you can go up to this plot point and then you have to stop.
they were concerned that they wouldn't be able to enforce that.
And it does seem like a story driven game.
And then they also said that they were worried about people potentially using AI or other tools
imitate the demo and then release the full game before they would be able to.
We'll talk about it, I guess.
They did cite Rock Paper Shotgun reporting on the story about Drunken Goddess Reflux when they emailed Rock Paper Shotgun telling them that they were going to do this, which is like a huge asterisk in this story for me.
Rock Paper Shotgun's article says, quote, Digital Moon cited our Drunken Goddess Reflux story when they mailed me about their decision to delay the demo earlier today.
Which is interesting.
Why do I have to do it?
I don't want you to have to.
I just wanted to fuck around.
Question mark? The first dev that I know of that has done this and that was reported on was Alliance Arts, the developer of Drunken Goddess Reflux.
They basically announced pretty abruptly, I think the day before Next Fest started, that they were not going to be posting the demo.
And the main first portion of their announcement says that they're not doing so because something that's common among Japanese games is basically having content posting restrictions.
So you can live stream and you can blog about it and whatever.
But there is usually like, okay, you can go up to this plot point and then you have to stop.
they were concerned that they wouldn't be able to enforce that.
And it does seem like a story driven game.
And then they also said that they were worried about people potentially using AI or other tools
imitate the demo and then release the full game before they would be able to.
We'll talk about it, I guess.
They did cite Rock Paper Shotgun reporting on the story about Drunken Goddess Reflux when they emailed Rock Paper Shotgun telling them that they were going to do this, which is like a huge asterisk in this story for me.
Rock Paper Shotgun's article says, quote, Digital Moon cited our Drunken Goddess Reflux story when they mailed me about their decision to delay the demo earlier today.
Which is interesting.
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