Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS! ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

“Our talented team with its own human hands and brains and souls decided that all this shitty art made by a computer was good enough to go in our game” is not a good defense of using AI tools to generate assets.

This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.

Randomly started a replay of Haiku the Robot. Turns out it’s the perfect thing to fill the void after Silksong. Super satisfying exploration, lots of fun secrets, and good, if not very difficult boss fights. Feels like Hollow Knight’s little bro (positive). store.steampowered.com/app/1231880/...

Man, I knew I should have picked up that cheap copy of Other M at the local retro game swap meet the other day.

what if I just got really into sumo wrestling

do games go to heaven when they die? i talked to @morgansung.bsky.social on close all tabs about dead and dying games www.kqed.org/news/1206377...

As someone with kids growing out of Nintendo stuff and getting more interested in raiding my Steam library, this thing has the potential to solve a lot of problems in my house.

as someone with two children who are talented at math and need (especially the younger one) a lot of help with social and emotional stuff this makes me want to scream please help your children learn to interact with the world, it will make their lives (and everyone else’s!) so much easier

BAD COMPANY Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"

RIP The Buttery. I didn’t visit you often, but your slingers were there for me when I needed them most.

Y'all, I know two hours is a big time commitment, but this panel I arranged and hosted last month is one of the most important things I've ever done for video game history. The launch of the NES is a crazier story than most people realize, and my guests were extremely generous with their memories.

"to claim the inheritance according to the terms of my eccentric uncle's will, we have to spend the night in a haunted house"

Everyone should play Mouthwashing. Then they should watch this video as soon as they’re done.

One of 2025's best releases, And Rodger, is a video game about God, love, and loss. It's powerful and moving. Here's my conversation with Yona, the designer behind And Roger, about why he decided to make a video game about making peace with saying goodbye. remapradio.com/articles/one...

He did it. He let the monkeys loose. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Ap...

someone finally did it. a game about rote bureaucracy and policing that is much more dystopian than papers please

move over, baby shoes never worn

Now is as good as time as any to become acquainted with an old friend of mine called ye olde giant folder of MP3s.

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

Death Parade’s opening is such an incredible trap and I’m happy to see it represented here.

The first LaserDisc upload today: a video art City Pop love letter to the American Southwest. A collaboration between two Japanese pop artists in the 1980s. Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator. archive.org/details/tats...

Trying to remember the last time I had a slinger and wondering if one would kill me at this age. There are worse things that can take a person out, though.

Imagine being in your honeymoon with your beautiful tetris wife, and when you finally consummate, you accidentally fill in a line and she disappears forever. Awful.

Come to the Satan’s Hollow machine in the basement of the 1984 Arcade in Springfield, MO if you want an ass whoopin’ (at Satan’s Hollow).

glad z-a is teaching the kids proper procedure when interacting with the cops

For those of you going to protest tomorrow (or in the future), lets talk tracking. I know you've heard people say "leave your phones at home" and I know none of you do, but also I want you to know thats not all you need to leave at home. 1/🧵

Playing Earthbound for the first time ever in 2025 is fascinating, actually. You're just a kid and the world's gone mad. All the adults are useless at best or trying to kill you at worst. Everyone talks like a crazy person. Everything's too expensive. Your next door neighbor wants to be a dictator.

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

@remapradio.bsky.social Hey y’all, if you get into the Next Fest stuff next week, throw Monumentum on your list. store.steampowered.com/app/3931170/...

I'm still on Facebook and every so often I'll share something like this. It's an unspoken message about potentially interacting with me, in the same way a poison dart frog's bright skin lets other animals know interacting with it will probably kill them.

My GOTY easily. I think it might also be my favorite game ever? Took a real journey with Silksong, and I don’t know that I’ve ever felt so satisfied in completing a video game.

I didn’t defeat Karmelita because I needed her heart. I did it because I knew I could do it.

As I was driving alone in the car to return some things to the local library, I suddenly exclaimed “Goddamn, I love the hell out of cheddar grits” for no reason other than I felt the need to say it out loud.

Three indie games, three different takes on a digital nightmare. While Proximate, Without a Dawn, and Dead Letter Dept. differ in their approaches, the takeaway is the same: our very perception of the world has been warped by systems outside our control. youtu.be/0zxQ9YAzy00

look at my TOOTH BOWLS

a fascinating writeup on the making of a set of widely distributed IDF propaganda videos, specifically identifying assets they used. there's something incredibly unsettling about the creative ethos here. stolen assets. no actual intelligence information at all. just hubris and pure fabrication.

Realism was always a crime but sadly it turns out that even semi-abstracted low-poly was an accessory. To actual war crimes

'Night and the City' by Chris Donlan remains one of the finest online articles on game urbanism ever. Somehow simultaneously personal, historical, and objective it is an excellent read, and a reminder that L.A. Noir remains truly unique. Find it here: www.eurogamer.net/night-and-th...

Your shadow-self is out there, somewhere, lurking. It wears your face but it is NOT you; do not become confused. You will need to identify where it hides and hunt it down. Use a sharp knife and carry salt with you at all times. The heart can be eaten, but at a price.

I think my favorite thing about Unfair Flips is the sound design. When the rising guitar notes that ring out with each consecutive heads flip end with the cold clatter of a tails flip against the table? It’s one of the best things in video games this year, no lie.

The bomb-caterpillar exploration puzzle platformer game “Öoo” is on sale now with 20% off!!! 🐛💥 It’s a short game you can finish in a single day, but packed with a dense, unforgettable experience. Also makes a perfect gift! 🎁 Check out the special bundles too 👇

It is WILD to see T-Swift use the same level of innuendo I use in my own relationship, and I kinda wanna give her a high five.

Oh, hey! I'm *writing* again! Let's talk about a man named named Ramza Beoulve. Let's talk about the "ease at which men are branded heretics..." Let's talk about revolution. www.eurogamer.net/the-revoluti...

SHE *five security agents jump on me* SHE WAKA-WAKA ON MFFF *they try to cover my mouth* TILL I'M NO LONGER E *they tase me*

its hard to imagine a more embarrassing unforced error for the Dems than the "ban TikTok" fiasco. Not only did they alienate youth voters, openly waffle on the First Amendment and let Trump claim to be the defender of "free speech," now they've literally handed the platform to Trump to control