Great episode!

"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting!" Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting!

May it never come out.

@neal.fun wtf is this? 94%!?! How is this even possible? I love I'm Not a Robot!

Good Morning New York! Join us 1/17 + 1/18 at GG Fest and the 15th New York Game Awards! Don't miss the Supergiant: Unplugged concert, your favorite games of 2025, and more to come! Get your tickets now! www.eventbrite.com/e/15th-ny-ga...

Great Day!

@phoenixsimms.bsky.social reflects on why there was an increasing emphasis in the 2010s on IF storytelling via interfaces like desktops and apps.

Thursday in Brooklyn

The editor of this article is trying to do a hit job. Contradictions inside the actual article, yet the headline is self-assured. "As a whole, physical video games may still be less carbon intensive than their digital counterparts – but their ultimate impact should not be underestimated."

UPDATE: Got many great pitches already, most from Latin America & Eastern Europe (which makes sense given my history & previous work lol) I really want more stories from north of Africa, Middle-East & SEA. I'm reaching out to researchers & journos there, any suggestions & connections are welcome 🙏

Fun fact: I originally wanted to run this story the day @designroom.bsky.social launched because I thought it was going to be Rez Infinite's 10th anniversary. Turned out I was a year off, but then I figured, might as well do it anyway.

Wander in Wonder🌱 Jamás pensé que un juego podría relajarme tantísimo🫠🫠 Un conejito busca el camino a casa a través del bosque. Las plantas te guían el camino. El arte es tradicional y los colores y los distintos sonidos de cada planta lo hacen precioso!! store.steampowered.com/app/3939180/...

I'm expecting to have room for a guest blog or two this month, if anyone's out there with something in the games crit space that needs for publishing. No specific requirements, but if you know what I like you know what I like. $100 flat rate, as much or as little as you think serves the piece.

10 games to get to know me. | 10 juegos para conocerme mejor. | 10 jogos para me conhecer. | 10 jeux pour apprendre à me connaître. |

I was saying this about Metaphor a lot a year ago. Folks need to stop and play some Saltsea Chronicles.

Because this subject has become Discourse and I don't want people to misunderstand: there are a lot of very well-written video games. They just generally don't tend to be the ones getting gassed up as being well-written in the mainstream spaces. Always exceptions, though.

10 games to get to know me. | 10 juegos para conocerme mejor. | 10 jogos para me conhecer. | 10 jeux pour apprendre à me connaître. |

My friend @aguaspoints.bsky.social presents Shadow the Hedgehog in "The Doom that Came to Starbucks" I'll be here all week. Tip your servers and tell @bsky.app to stop messing with our feeds and notifications.

@neal.fun wtf is this? 94%!?! How is this even possible? I love I'm Not a Robot!

my first article for unwinnable is about @neal.fun 's i'm not a robot!

@panic.com's Playdate is awesome and my favorite console of the 9th generation! I started 2025 singing it's praises for @unwinnable.com.

@panic.com's Playdate is awesome and my favorite console of the 9th generation! I started 2025 singing it's praises for @unwinnable.com.

It has always been important to me that our library is this totally open, free, democratic resource for studying video game history, and we've got a good process. We acquire material, catalog it, digitize it, upload it, promote it, repeat. Our staff size is 2, our overhead low, and our impact huge.

From here on out AI stands for automated illusion. "Large language models—ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama series, Anthropic’s Claude, and others— ...promise intelligence but often deliver automation in disguise." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

For the better part of the year, I have corresponded with SoftEdge studio founder and director Koichi Mori. As if that rare privilege wasn't enough, I was rewarded this week with one from a handful of existing copies of his self-published CD-ROM, TRIPITAKA 玄奘三蔵求法の旅. (1/3)

It's still Halloween on Italian communist newspaper Il manifesto and I wrote about @fixgritt.bsky.social's Exquisite Cadavre and @bilgetbd.itch.io's Pager.

Toronto lost cause of Drake.

Maybe, just maybe, you were onto something.

Wrote a thing. More importantly donate what you can to help my country if you can. supportjamaica.gov.jm

Yes, I witness Shadow in real life. Have you?

Yes, I witness Shadow in real life. Have you?

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

Un sneak peek de @mathewtheprecursor.bsky.social a lo que nos aguarda en este año 5 de LOOP si se hace realidad 🔮

For @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social, I wrote about an antihero & Sonic series🦔. "Ludic experiences... before & after play might be where the true beauty of gaming resides... Games live more potently in the before and after. Few digital games are better case studies of this than the Sonic series."

Now is your chance to own the best (read: only) book about the world's first portable fishing RPG.

For @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social, I wrote about an antihero & Sonic series🦔. "Ludic experiences... before & after play might be where the true beauty of gaming resides... Games live more potently in the before and after. Few digital games are better case studies of this than the Sonic series."

There is something truly remarkable about Generative AI. Several years in this revolution, half of the US GDP dumped to make these tools free, and i can't think of a single generated artifact, text, image, sound, video that had a significant cultural impact.

The theological implications are staggering.

Let's stop lying to yourselves. Video games have not & never will come a long way from Pac-Man! Graphics are an illusion. The mirage in the desert. Once you reach it, you are still thirsty.

One of the four games to be featured at the Nov 22 No Quarter game exhibition at NYU Game Center. "despelote, is a slice-of-life adventure about childhood and the magical grip soccer held over the people of Quito in 2001." #NYMakesGames

Let's stop lying to yourselves. Video games have not & never will come a long way from Pac-Man! Graphics are an illusion. The mirage in the desert. Once you reach it, you are still thirsty.

Criticism is forever in crisis. The problem is seldom that there is no good criticism. It's that the places where it flourishes are destroyed or are unknown to the general public. Social media is not a panacea to this. Over a decade of us posting articles like mad and look at the wreckage.

Hi folks! Here's an update about what we're doing in 2026 and beyond. It's exciting stuff, and also, it's gonna be a lot of work! noescapevg.com/content-note...

Criticism is forever in crisis. The problem is seldom that there is no good criticism. It's that the places where it flourishes are destroyed or are unknown to the general public. Social media is not a panacea to this. Over a decade of us posting articles like mad and look at the wreckage.

I do agree that the market for "professional" game's writing is basically non-existent, but there are plenty of blog posts getting posted every week on sites like @critdistance.bsky.social to basically no attention. social media as a way to discourse and share work has become a dead end, imo.

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