@corndruid.bsky.social on Perfect Tides: Station to Station by @meredithgran.com: "When you examine the idea for even just a second, it’s pretty strange that we ever talk about 'the college experience' in the singular." www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/perf...

New on the site is our first interview for quite a while: @optional.bsky.social had a conversation with @gimblll.com about Sektori, arcade games, roguelikes, and that thumping soundtrack.

New on the site is our first interview for quite a while: @optional.bsky.social had a conversation with @gimblll.com about Sektori, arcade games, roguelikes, and that thumping soundtrack.

After editing this one, @optional.bsky.social couldn't resist playing it. His thoughts are now appended to the piece by way of the "Editor's Glasses" thing we do sometimes. Interpretation on interpretation!

Grateful to @dhnow.bsky.social for boosting this @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social piece on Amberspire's soundtrack!

New contributor Dídac Jiménez Torras on Koyamachou Watch Repair Shop! "The current times rely on black-boxed technology...when buying new proprietary tech is cheaper than fixing, digital restoration stores and communities tend to fade away." www.gamerswithglasses.com/impressions/...

@skycherry.bsky.social on Passenger x Princess: "Playing a game that confronts these difficult feelings is comforting, in a sense...The delivery might be raw and messy, but it’s also vulnerable and deeply honest." wrhttps://www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/passenger-x-princess-no-hope-must-die

New contributor Pranav Krishna Kumar on the narrative power of @mixtapegame.bsky.social's failstate-free moments: "Stacey’s resolve...is no longer just represented visually, but through her not allowing anything get in her path: especially you." www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/mix...

Happy Juneteenth! ✊🏾Today we want to celebrate some of the Black creators we're featuring in The #PowerofPride2026 Bundle, which you can buy for $60 to support their work! Take a gander at what you can get here and check out their stuff below. Game descriptions in thread ⤵

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-...

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

If you're in game studies and you're planning a lesson, where do you find games that are free, browser-based, and engaging enough to invite meaningful discussion? We've compiled a list of about two dozen games that fit the bill, along with suggested reading. www.gamerswithglasses.com/gwg-recommen...

The emotional qualities of And Roger come through in its scenes and gameplay. It's about caregiving, receiving care, and the difficulties of both. @optional.bsky.social shares his thoughts.

Are you ready to party like it's 2005? Guess who finally has an RSS feed! It's literally a link to the past. tinyurl.com/2c8se68p

The emotional qualities of And Roger come through in its scenes and gameplay. It's about caregiving, receiving care, and the difficulties of both. @optional.bsky.social shares his thoughts.

Are you ready to party like it's 2005? Guess who finally has an RSS feed! It's literally a link to the past. tinyurl.com/2c8se68p

"It is within this garish context, where a helpless humanity buttresses against unreasonable machines, that we can see hints of our future discourses, not only about the anxieties of artificial intelligence but also in a shift in what it means to play a game." 🔥🤯🔥 unwinnable.com/2026/06/04/w...

Look, if "Help! I've Been Cursed With a Bubble Butt" doesn't draw you in, we don't know what will. itch.io/b/3666/towns...

Are you ready to go on a journey? @mayorhere.bsky.social's review of Replaced gets to the heart of what it looks like for a game to ask genuine questions about posthumanism now, in spite of Big Tech's attempts to make us embrace a much paltrier vision of AI. www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/repl...

That feeling when a game delivers so well on the promises of its demo that you just have to celebrate it again once you play the whole thing. @skycherry.bsky.social returns to the megastructure of @regularstudio.bsky.social's MOTORSLICE. www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/moto...

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-...

Friends! The one and only @aeneas-nin.bsky.social, who has graced the pages of our very website with sundry pieces on games like Herald: Complete Edition and Legend of the Mystical Ninja (and a piece about Luigi with absolutely no subtext whatsoever) has published a book. A Boss Fight Book, no less!

We made the list! It's so lovely to be included among such remarkable company; we're honestly just happy to be here. Game crit is the best, and so are all of you 😊

"The writing is horny, snarky and a bit silly. It was made with love, and is outspoken and critical of capitalism like an undercover FBI operative at the local anarchist group meet."

Re-upping this. Show us what you've got?

New on the site from @aguaspoints.bsky.social: Dosa Divas has some good qualities, but it's too insubstantial to leave a satisfying impression.

Hi everyone! We have a resource that we're trying to put together, and we wanted to ask what you think, since it seems that a couple scholars and educators follow us 😊. What are some games that you have found to be really effective for teaching in the game studies classroom?

"learning to actually see the world around you" is the most appealing pitch for a game that I've heard all year.

We're back with an in-depth review of Scrabdackle by @mayorhere.bsky.social!

GwG Next Fest Correspondent @skycherry.bsky.social is back with a brand new bunch of games to keep an eye on! With thoughts on Hark the Ghoul, Alabaster Dawn, Acrolyte, and Cicadamata, good stuff is heading our way.

Not sure what was good at NextFest? All good, @skycherry.bsky.social has it covered.

GwG Next Fest Correspondent @skycherry.bsky.social is back with a brand new bunch of games to keep an eye on! With thoughts on Hark the Ghoul, Alabaster Dawn, Acrolyte, and Cicadamata, good stuff is heading our way.

I’ve managed to put out two pieces so far this year. One was about a jazz album and the process of listening (and it was in Unwinnable’s Exploits, go check it out!). This is the other, and it’s about the American imagination and videogames. They both reflect the kind of writing I want to see.

In 1974, Ursula K. LeGuin asked "why are Americans afraid of dragons?" In 2026, games and gamers are much too comfortable with dragons, but the dragons they're comfortable with have nothing left in them of the imagination LeGuin's dragons were made of. Well said, @optional.bsky.social

Here's what happens when you start with a year-end wrap-up, wind up making a better point about games, fantasy, science fiction, and imagination, and then free the piece from being a year-end wrap up. @optional.bsky.social on games and writing about games: www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/let...

What if, when every day feels as emotionally heavy as a year, there was still a game that left you feeling a little bit…hopeful? I just really liked Sword of the Sea. www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/swor...

Back in November 2020, @cphiliphaines.bsky.social wrote up this list of deckbuilders to play after Save the Spire. Considering @walshbr.bsky.social's recent piece on Death Howl and with StS2 out in early access, maybe it's due for an update. I bet the games on this list are still quality, tho.

Remember the Video Game History Foundation's Digital Library launch? Remember A Minecraft Movie? Taking a break from the frenetic move towards the next thing in gaming, @mayorhere.bsky.social offers a historian's perspective on last year's biggest moments. www.gamerswithglasses.com/gwg-recommen...

Deck builders are meant to elicit a sense of snowballing strength. What if one used its mechanics instead to explore loss and grief? @walshbr.bsky.social's debut on @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social is a banger.

hi! find some games, play some games.

I wrote for @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social on Death Howl, frustrating mechanics, and narratives of loss.

Welcome new contributor @walshbr.bsky.social! Check out his thoughts on Death Howl and how its rules and development build up its story.

Help CD keep the lights on! Their work is so important; if they hadn't graciously started featuring our work I genuinely don't know how we, and other small sites like us, would have ever found readers.

We loved @angelineera.bsky.social, a detailed, lovingly crafted world that trusts you to handle a story about trauma and identity without constant reassurance that it's all just a game. Review by @mayorhere.bsky.social www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/ange...

@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...

I also like Caroline's description of it as an "open world of text." While it's not a text game, considering the art, audio, interfaces, etc., it looks like it has a cool way of incorporating that approach.

That's right! And, thinking of the works that @aetataureate.bsky.social compares it to, I (Don) am going to take it as a personal recommendation to play this game.

i reviewed "TR-49" for @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social! "It's a strong entry in the 'database thriller' category, with creeping horror that I didn't understand until later in the game's events."

That's right! And, thinking of the works that @aetataureate.bsky.social compares it to, I (Don) am going to take it as a personal recommendation to play this game.

"Cairn compellingly explores themes of personal limitation and transcendence through its challenging mechanics...by focusing on perhaps the most internal form of freedom—the liberation that comes from overcoming personal limitations." @mayorhere.bsky.social www.gamerswithglasses.com/impressions/...