Review: The Sounds of Emergency in Amberspire

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Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream rewrites the news by @platanoranger.bsky.social "None of it makes any sense, but that’s the appeal, and it certainly beats the shit out of doomscrolling the actual stupidity and cruelty that passes for news in real life." Read on: skyboxcritics.com/2026/06/23/t...

Excited to welcome back NPR contributing writer, Debug magazine columnist and New York Video Game Critics Circle Member, Luis Aguasvivas to LI Retro this August 7-9. Join @aguaspoints.bsky.social for an exciting retro deep dive this Summer at LI Retro! LIRetro.com

This week: 21 picks on Titanium Court, XCOM 2, and, hold on, [checks notes] ["...are you sure?"] [shuffles papers] Fuck's Quest II: critical-distance.com/2026/06/22/j...

As @walshbr.bsky.social writes, Amberspire's soundtrack represents climate catastrophe, not with sirens, but with meditative gentleness: "Death and disaster are at the core of Amberspire, but the game views them with a quiet reverence." www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/the-...

Bubsy remains the fourth-wall-breaking, pantsless chatterbox many people love to hate. But in Bubsy 4D, @aguaspoints.bsky.social has found a lot to love for its own sake.

The podcast of my latest gaming recommendations for Kappa (Radiotelevisione svizzera in lingua italiana, RSI) is now online: I talk about Find Your Words by @capybaragames.com, a videogame about non-verbal communication.

looking for a few more folks to talk to for a story i'm working on about tamagotchi. has tamagotchi influenced your games or art, even going beyond the creature care genre? hit me up here or [email protected] ✨

"if marathon offers anything to say about the human condition, i don't think it's to be found in the cutthroat attitude players adopt with one another ... yet i feel like i've grown to understand people more by playing it." @goosepimple.moe on Marathon, up now bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/05/20/w...

Saturday 13 June! 'Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games'. A conference on Eastern and Western approaches to the reception of the classical world in video games. For the zoom link to join online & programme, please go to: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...

If you follow this account, I can't recommend the newsletter enough. In-depth look at the techniques and creative decisions with stories straight from the animators' mouths. Like, why do his arms wave like that? Such a joy to read.

NPR is offering buyouts to journalists as it overhauls its newsroom, with the threat of layoffs to follow. Two recent gifts totaling $113 million are primarily dedicated to NPR's tech infrastructure. n.pr/4nHd2Cc

New by @exalclaw.com on The House of Hikmah by @lunacystudios.bsky.social! "How often do games give me the opportunity to relate to a person speaking in Arabic? How often do games consider Arabic as part of our relatable universe?" www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/the-...

Really good to work in editorial conversation with @exalclaw.com on this one. And thanks to @aguaspoints.bsky.social for setting us up with a great draft!

The children yearn for simulacra of manual labor

With Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, @zaumstudio.bsky.social found the pen put down at the end of history, and with it wrote a eulogy at its resumption. noescapevg.com/review-zero-...

we're having a good time with BAD INFLUENCE!! get on in here! twitch.tv/aqualounge_tv

This week: Nostalgia. And lots of other things, to be sure. But, like, a *lot* on nostalgia: critical-distance.com/2026/05/17/m...

Don't ask which seat, just get in cargo. The arrogance is off the charts.

@carolynmichelle.bsky.social one of my favorite reviews!

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 achieves its ideal form completely outside itself. The story becomes easiest to love once nobody is actually playing it anymore. WE ARE ALL BECOMING MORE THICK: jakesteinberg.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

Ravers, punishers, coworkers, circuits, club kids, djs.

Look! I'm sorry I started writing this a week ago and I promise it's coming at it from a different angle. Okay here's 3000 words on mixtape with no pictures so you know I'm serious and my birthday was over the weekend so be nice to me. carlitocalzone.neocities.org/posts/mixtape/

Qué locura de texto de @pontxolo.bsky.social podcastlevelup.es/mixtape-la-l... Sí a todo lo que dice. Creo que el juego es hiperconsciente de su carácter de artefacto, por eso el anacronismo con Mitch Murder o casi todas las secuencias de ensoñación. Es un recuerdo dentro de un recuerdo <3

The master, @nicanor.bsky.social, has spoken. carlitocalzone.neocities.org/posts/mixtape/

It's heartbreaking that games as a medium remain out of reach for people telling the stories worth telling most. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

The growth of #battery storage in evening peaks has been stunning, and in the last ew months has completely pushed out #gas generators in the Sunshine state.. https://reneweconomy.com.au/big-batteries-took-a-bite-out-of-gas-generators-evening-peak-party-then-they-ate-the-whole-dinner/

NEW ESSAY TIME @stevenstoermer.bsky.social on Battlefield 6 "[it] demures from naming names out of a dual desire. One, to present combat as an apolitical mirror image of the real world but that is vacuum-insulated from it. Two, to depict a fantasy of player agency" www.stopcar.ing/a-vivisectio...

Keep us paid, keep us sourcing and editing top tier writing from the best in games criticism. Here: www.patreon.com/bulletpoints

Congratulations to @christapsell.bsky.social!

Gaming culture company Lost in Cult is entering a new arena with a physical games publishing initiative called EDITIONS Interview by Luis Aguasvivas ➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/lost-in-cult-builds-a-little-art-gallery-of-gaming/

"In the New York Times Simulator the effects of your actions aren’t explicit...you have to make educated guesses about their outcomes." Luis Aguasvivas (@aguaspoints.bsky.social) interviews NYT Simulator creator Paolo Pedercini! www.gamerswithglasses.com/interviews/n...

Faculty in the Media | Ajay Singh Chaudhary in conversation with Luis Aguasvivas on the intersection of ecology, economics, and the videogame industry | For Unwinnable | buff.ly/Qzanqdo

UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene (The Unidentified Digital Object. A Guide to Videogames in the Anthropocene) is a unique contribution on the topic of videogames and climate change. Imagine @mitpress.bsky.social doing an English language release of this book 👀. One can only hope.

Marathon has been eating my brain and I was so happy to have the space to write something weird and ambitious about it

I reviewed @hypergames.no's Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth. To my surprise even though this game is set in winter, it is one of the warmest game I have played in a while. Highest recommendation from me.

- If you’re a publisher and would like to insert another coin, I’d love to publish a revised and updated English edition with a new title and a new structure. Get in touch. - If you’re among the people who still don’t own it but would like a copy, get in touch.

This review amazing. The book it is on Liza Minnelli's Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! is the most disturbing fun I have had so far this year.

@critdistance.bsky.social "...was founded to help centralize the reading and help put writers in conversation with one another." I must admit that at times I have been part of the problem.

In general we should try to shy away from analysis that concludes that one of the smallest social media platforms with the highest density of the most unloved people in the world has outsized influence on a country in which every branch of government & corporation is controlled by fascists.

@critdistance.bsky.social "...was founded to help centralize the reading and help put writers in conversation with one another." I must admit that at times I have been part of the problem.

The WGGB's Videogames Committee is looking to run online networking events for game writers, in addition to its in-person networking events Please fill in our short online survey, so we can take into account game writers' needs/preferences when planning these events www.surveymonkey.com/r/F6DWLKC

Ya tenemos llamada a comunicaciones para el #DIGRAES26. Envío de propuestas: forms.gle/EWkFZ3mwGKpy... ¡Os esperamos en Elche!