June 2026 has been a pretty, uh, depressing month for videogames - but in spite of the doom and gloom in the industry at large, smaller studios are still managing to put out great games that deserve your support - but which games of this month Should You Have Played? youtu.be/SgiTDE89g5I

For a year now, a battle has been raging across the world of videogames: Did Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 deserve to win all those awards? And is it an indie game? One question has an easy answer - the other? Well, let's just say it's a bit more complicated... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_zV...

Hey folks, my new video is live now! And if you were watching live, is secretly a TOP 13 video! I cheated. It's by far my biggest one yet, and I'm really proud of this one, so please do share it around and leave a comment on the vid if you don't mind, it really helps and I love to read 'em! 💜

youtu.be/MN0b3hZmx6o May 2026 has been a month full of matched sets of games, from unconventional deckbuilders to genre-bending survival games to way too many games about megastructures - but which ones should you have played? Find out here!

youtu.be/8mafwFHu6xc It's time for five more games that You Should Have Played, including minimalist de-makes of a classic genre, a boring hobby for the elderly turned into a great videogame, and a game so weird I can barely even describe how the hell you're supposed to play it!

youtu.be/Fuf_SpKCYVY There are some games out there which contain incredibly interesting ideas that just can't quite seem make them work - like one of Magic The Gathering's most infamous design failures and Mewgenics' Mage, but what causes this disconnect between potential and practicality?

youtu.be/I9wI1A0yw3A March 2026 was not a great one for the games industry, but we still got a bunch of great games out of it - here are some of the best games you should have played!

youtu.be/wUXuoijjY-Q February 2026 was full of great games, so here's a list of five of them you should have played... but that you probably didn't!

youtu.be/K5dnF1V3BlM Videogame demos used to be a major feature of the gaming landscape, but after several decades spent in cultural irrelevance, they're finally coming back - but why? What's caused the modern indie resurgence of a very retro format?

January 2026 was so packed with games I just had to start a new monthly series to capture them all! youtu.be/7kBkAZz5bYA

youtu.be/mKCIgzLvEXU 2025 was a very surprising year for videogames - so many great games came out that it can be hard to keep up! That's why I've made it my mission to showcase 20 games that you should have played from this year... that you probably didn't!

Sounds daft to say but I'm talking to a lot of people for whom YouTube is proving v difficult right now. If there's someone whose videos you like, boost them. Share their work around if you enjoy it. Support them on Patreon if you can. All helps a tremendous amount when the platform feels so hostile

Chance is a weird thing in games - there's a perception that as things get more random, games become less skillful and fun, but some of the most random games ever made are also some of the most beloved and memorable, what's the deal with that? youtu.be/_G6CCLW_OLk

Crazy that only four games got released this year

ARC Raiders is a game built around being as inconvenient and annoying as possible, but it wasn't always this way. Once upon a time, ARC Raiders was smoother, faster and a whole lot less fun - what changed? And how did Friction save ARC Raiders from itself? youtu.be/9iPGbbUhP40

youtu.be/WBHAZz79Ilg Silksong is one of the biggest and best games of the year, as everyone predicted it would be - but within it's perfect shell lie some hidden flaws that most people never noticed, and point to a fundamental issue with the way games are designed that most of us never notice...

Got married!

People love to say that certain gaming genres are dying all the time - but what happens to cause a genre to slip into the annals of history, and where do new genres come from to replace them? Also, why the hell do some dead genres come back to life!? youtu.be/2S9OPB5MN2o

There sure are a lot of games about climbing coming out right now, aren't there? But why are so many difficult, punishing games getting released all at the same time, and what does this say about where game design is headed? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdh7...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVJU... As it turns out, we've been getting difficulty wrong for years, and it took a weird sequel with bad minigames to reveal that difficulty isn't just one simple thing - it's actually six different equally complicated things all at once!

the absolute gall of a this douche wearing an fps maga hat announcing he made a battle royale 7 years too late is truly the stuff of legends

Our Peabody speech for 1000xRESIST. “This art form is barely unearthed. It’s too early to define it. Fund the indescribable.”

Seriously who's idea was it to add those 2000s-ass minigames into doom dark ages? I audibly groan every time it makes me do a stupid mech fight or a dumb dragon bit and FORGET about the turret segments. The core combat rules but I don't know what they were thinking with this other gimmicky bullshit

youtu.be/gZvfPpYD1Vg Blue Prince is a videogame filled to bursting with puzzles and riddles that are as challenging as they are satisfying to solve... or are they? What if Blue Prince was actually helping you more than it let on, and that it's this secret support that makes the game so compelling?

youtu.be/V4anoUua_Mo Progression Systems are everywhere in games, ESPECIALLY over the last few years! But, it seems like the more of them that are in a given title, the less good it feels to progress - what's up with that? And why is monster hunter, with it's awesome progression somehow immune?

youtu.be/3eCd3wGL4eE The phrase "It really makes you feel like" is one of the most overused and irritating things in videogame discourse and has been for years, but what if I told you that within the stupid memes and bland observations there was a grain of truth, and an entirely new kind of game?

Announcement! I'm doing a marathon charity livestream on Jan. 28 to benefit Trans Lifeline! The entertainment will be me trying to beat every mainline Mario in one go, adding on more as donation incentives. Now is the time to support our trans friends :) youtu.be/mdcwtgiMhbg

youtu.be/9Rsdhb0wdPc 2024 has been one hell of a year for games, but with all the massive titles releasing this year, even more have gone criminally underplayed! Luckily for you I'm here to tell you all about 20(24) games you should have played from this year!

Had to look at twitter for the first time in weeks to post the latest vid and wow it's a fucking ghost town over there (at least relative to the people I follow) - it's just the meme aggregator accounts and the menswear guy left fighting in the bombed out ruins of my timeline

The human brain is amazing, it's more adaptable, powerful and creative than any computer we could ever think to create - however, it's also broken and terrible and I want my money back. How do our terrible brains impact the way games need to be designed? youtu.be/BZoOIxqOv9U

New vid! I waded through the depths of AI Minecraft, which is a thing you can "play" (you shouldn't). It is not only the worst game I have ever played, it's a worrying look at a future tech CEOs are chasing at all costs. Let's talk Cronenberg, harsh noise and labour! youtu.be/Rm8D75j-cuc?...

youtu.be/bups0ZUQdvc Worldbuilding is one of the great joys of fiction, not only is it the secret to the success of some of pop culture's greatest stories, but it's the only part of storytelling that actively rewards our obsessive interest - so why are videogames so bad at it?

Alrighty, we have a pretty healthy mix of folks now! If you are looking for folks to liven up your feed and you like watching people deliver their essays on youtube, this is a pretty dynamite list :) go.bsky.app/NxFR77q

Hello bluesky friends, I'll try and post my videos here going forwards because twitter is awful and that'll give you one fewer reason to ever need to look at it