I can't stop thinking about Despelote having improvised dialogue from divorced parents who have to role-play the past. What an incredible game. youtu.be/RhS732KU1kg

REVIEW: Relooted "Relooted turns a fantastic premise into a fun heist videogame." @nyamakop.co.za checkpointgaming.net/reviews/2026...

Many "important" games are boring. Few fun games are "important." Relooted is both -- and so much more.

A full review notes most of Yakuza 3’s queer content removed, including the iconic side quest where Kiryu helps a trans woman. Really sad, the series oddball gutter humanism for society’s outcasts & oppressed & himbo queerness was what made it special. www.videogameschronicle.com/review/yakuz...

I think about the two in the back at least once a day

two new lawsuit stories today:

Very excited to hear good things about it! I was worried this might not get much coverage, but it looked great, and I loved that it was really giving the heist game purpose (the one thing I felt most lacking from Monaco 2 and The Marvelous Miss Take).

Relooted, a game about freeing real African artifacts from Western museums and collections, interrogates history through sharply designed heists. Our review: www.avclub.com/relooted-gam...

Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club! You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

No ICE in Minnesota bundle is live! Get Gunhouse, Hyper Gunsport, and 1,400 other things for $10 or more. itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

This has already raised over $20,000 btw, people are fast!

go read @exalclaw.bsky.social on Relooted, a cool new heist game about reclaiming pilfered artifacts

Looking for a back-end web developer to help with some small issues I've been having with Solar Server nginx on a raspberry pi Paid work, probably just one or two days If you know anyone, please reach out to me!

Please share or donate. I'm appalled at the state of my country's immigration services and related governing bodies. These people should not be subjected to a failing and unsafe housing system, medical emergencies due in part to a self-inflicted doctors' shortage and malpractice, and discrimination.

This popped up during your scroll time because the algorithm pegged you as someone who likes D&D and stands against ICE, so what if you came to my D&D charity stream supporting ACLU tonight at 6 PT? 👉🏼👈🏼

so pleasantly surprised to learn this was coming out *tomorrow*. really bean looking forward to this one.

Thanks to @critdistance.bsky.social for featuring this piece! critical-distance.com/2026/02/08/f...

So @nyamakop.co.za shared a trivia fact about my least favorite of Trevor’s team nicknames, ‘Team A Looting [Continues]’. It’s actually a play on words on ‘Aluta Continua’, which was also a common refrain with anti-apartheid activists! It’s a very niche reference, happy they told me. It’s cool!

I'm so amped for this! I've been ready for it since I heard about it a month ago. I hope if it does well, we'll see an #Indigenous version happen - if not from @nyamakop.co.za, then from another. (Also, I'd love to write for a project like this!) #Coolgames #indigisky

Relooted is not only a neat puzzle game with grand heists and a charming cast, but also a challenge to who owns and tells African history. Plus, it's one of the few games to capture Africa's diversity well, pulling artifacts from all across the continent. My review: www.avclub.com/relooted-gam...

Relooted drops tomorrow!! 🏺

This game looks amazing.

Saiu agorinha minha primeira resenha de jogo AAA: Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties! Eu odiei! Vem ver por quê!! www.gameblast.com.br/2026/02/anal...

yakuza kiwami 3 is an insult to the game rgg has purported to remake, its players, the studio's previous quality output and, bewilderingly, women. oh, and the casting of an admitted sex pest. i'm somewhere between dejection and fury. my review for vgc: www.videogameschronicle.com/review/yakuz...

See you in 24 hours! 🎉 #indiegame

What a great premise for a game! Educational, culturally informed... amazing. This inspires a TTRPG campaign: relooting from previously plundered cultures. This is ripe for a Blades in the Dark campaign if I've ever seen one...

Technically poor and hurried, devoid of the original's charm, and full of filler content and baffling changes, Yakuza Kiwami 3 is a 20/100, a 2/10, a one-star game. It's a seismic miss that left me questioning my love for the series. My review: www.gamerguides.com/yakuza-kiwam...

Hope to see archaeologists engage with this game! 🏺

Relooted is not only a neat puzzle game with grand heists and a charming cast, but also a challenge to who owns and tells African history. Plus, it's one of the few games to capture Africa's diversity well, pulling artifacts from all across the continent. My review: www.avclub.com/relooted-gam...

Otro bundle masivo solidario en itch que vale la pena apoyar. No he mirado los juegos que tiene y seguramente muchos ya estén en mi biblioteca pero caerá fijo:

@jesthehuman.itch.io's No ICE In Minnesota charity bundle has gone live with over 1300 games available priced at $10 min. All proceeds benefit the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Jes also shared a few words with Exalclaw about the bundle and their goal for it: exalclaw.com/2026/02/09/w...

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

on benito, and america

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

@jesthehuman.itch.io's No ICE In Minnesota charity bundle has gone live with over 1300 games available priced at $10 min. All proceeds benefit the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Jes also shared a few words with Exalclaw about the bundle and their goal for it: exalclaw.com/2026/02/09/w...

You and I Are Polar Opposites should’ve been required watching for like half the ppl I knew as a teen

404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

icymi: I played (and finished!) Harvestella! It's a good messy video game that you can feel was really made by people noescapevg.com/harvestella-...

Seen a few ppl talk about bouncing off this which is understandable. It is ultimately still like other Bennett Foddy games in that you will bang your head against a wall until you eventually learn how to climb it, put a hole through it, or walk away and treat your concussion

As much as I agree that it’s obviously very important right now to put pressure on the admin to release the full Epstein files and prosecute all of the predators involved This org is anti-sex work, pro-Nordic model, and classifies consensual sex work as exploitation.

it’s dare’s birthday and she was just fired! help her pay for her bills so she can enjoy today!

If anyone has leads on a job, preferably in the non-profit sector or something similar, please send them my way.

Also, cackling at the way the Patreon page currently looks. Three images of space stations from a sci-fi game about surviving intergalactic capitalism and then just a big picture of some frog standing on a sandwich at an oil rig. Making stuff is funny

The latest addition of Observing Digital Space Debris is out! Titled 'False Sandwiches', today's poem is inspired by Big Hops and a frustrating interaction about, you guessed it, sandwiches: www.patreon.com/posts/observ...

some recs for Black history month! (and always!)

It’s incredibly frustrating to see people spread conspiracies that Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre “didn’t really kill herself.” It ignores her allegations of domestic abuse against her husband before she did, actually, die by suicide. It’s a way to minimize how pervasive abuse really is

Team Ninja’s latest adds a theme park version of open world exploration to its buffet of highly enjoyable hollowness.

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Also, cackling at the way the Patreon page currently looks. Three images of space stations from a sci-fi game about surviving intergalactic capitalism and then just a big picture of some frog standing on a sandwich at an oil rig. Making stuff is funny

The latest addition of Observing Digital Space Debris is out! Titled 'False Sandwiches', today's poem is inspired by Big Hops and a frustrating interaction about, you guessed it, sandwiches: www.patreon.com/posts/observ...