For one of my last pieces of the year, I wrote about @adamgryu.bsky.social 's Untitled Paper RPG for Stop Caring, and the value of unfinished games (I'm such a huge fan of the game)

Clair Obscur debacle aside, the other award that was retracted is also newsworthy: the physical release of Chanty, a game by Gortyn Code, was done by Modretro, the company founded by Palmer Luckey, a man passionate about restoring Western civilization

Retro Dodo also has an exclusive interview with radical zionist and white supremacist Palmer Luckey! What an exclusive!

4,000 words on the stage I haven't been able to stop playing for the last six years. Early dev screenshots, talk of tech challenges, five demo tracks embedded so you can hear the song's evolution. All the good stuff.

i think that if you are a member of the games media disgusted by this (and you should be) you have to really, genuinely ask yourself what the difference is between this and saying "Microsoft is on the BDS list but [game] is good in XYZ ways"

There are a few unfinished games in that 50 indie game recommendation thread I did earlier. Who among us hasn't played a demo of a game over and over, like it was the main release? This is a nice piece detailing the process of game dev.

For one of my last pieces of the year, I wrote about @adamgryu.bsky.social 's Untitled Paper RPG for Stop Caring, and the value of unfinished games (I'm such a huge fan of the game)

This is hilarious, please subscribe to Rascal for more potential thirsty posting by Caelyn

Deleted Saves is open for pitches for Issue #2 - Spring 2026! Send your ideas to deletedsaves at gmail dot com. We focus on critical analysis of games and are open to new and experienced writers alike! Pay is $275/piece.

I'm looking for concept artists or illustrators working in gamedev who would like to share thoughts or comments (anonymous or attributed) regarding the use of GenAI as a reference tool in their process. If that's you, DM or email me! Details in bio.

of all that's been said about Santa Ragione's HORSES, we haven't talked much about the people who made the game and all the human processes that brought it together. so i spoke with the developers on what went into making the game: their influences, their aspirations, and more.

People still don’t know if their loved ones are alive or not and a foreign fascist state is already exploiting this to silence critique of their own genocide. Truly vile.

I've sunk 90 hours in Clair Obscur and I'll do so for another 90 hours more

Putting Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Despelote in the same category is honestly wild

It's so cool to hand @crapstacular.bsky.social an idea, a fancy, a whim, and then they come back with a full-ass interview and smart copy. Anyway, I think this is an interesting trend within the RPG designer ecosystem. Transparency helps everyone!

Sohla el wayly writes about mistreatment by nyt editorial sohla.substack.com/p/sorry-abou...

Jason Carl departs White Wolf and parent company Paradox Interactive after just six months resurrecting the publisher of World of Darkness RPGs.

that’s craaaazy

I can't believe that I forgot that Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 was already released

The Horses thing is making me feel crazy in a very different way than other discourse. Games are treated very differently from film mainly because the very people who play games still see the medium as a T O Y

ICYMI i reviewed Horses

Always genuinely happy to contribute to Funland. This time, I wrote about yet another game (and GOTY contender) I've sunk way too many hours in - Keep Driving by @ycjygames.bsky.social

I'm a parrying skeptic, so I just had to reach out to a few folks (the devs behind Nine Sols, Ultrakill, Tails of Iron, Steel Carnelian) on how they design their parries, in Game Developer www.gamedeveloper.com/design/what-...

NPR has released their list of GOTYs which has so, so many indies you should check out. My pick this round? Repose by @atis1.bsky.social

I'm a parrying skeptic, so I just had to reach out to a few folks (the devs behind Nine Sols, Ultrakill, Tails of Iron, Steel Carnelian) on how they design their parries, in Game Developer www.gamedeveloper.com/design/what-...

Sorry to keep banging this drum, but I recently got kicked off my ACA insurance because my income is too low and now I’ve been charged $100 for a 15-minute med check-in appointment. I could really use a hand covering that (and the meds themselves…) please

Signed!

Like what @midfalutin.bsky.social just told me, this ban doesn't even make sense from Epic's POV, because at least Steam banned the game based on an old version. EGS just did it based on? Vibes? That Steam did it too?

Nick (@hkt3030.neocities.org) is always a nice presence online, and the world of retro gaming is so much poorer without him around.

Please go support the amazing team behind this game. No Players Online is one of my top favs of this year. Someone else said "if you like Pony Island and Home Safety Hotline, you'll love this" and it's so true! ⭐Stream: store.steampowered.com/app/2701800/...

Horses is a Very Bad Time and I highly recommend it. Here’s me on Valve and Epic deciding that a critique of how the powerful use conservative moralism to oppress others is too morally objectionable for their platforms www.inverse.com/gaming/horse...

Heya! Dec proves to be yet another slow month (work-wise), so I'm sharing a couple of indies that I would have loved to review this month but couldn't. Editors, let me know if you still have slots open for reviews this month. Otherwise, these are the upcoming games I'm eager to check out:

Heya! Dec proves to be yet another slow month (work-wise), so I'm sharing a couple of indies that I would have loved to review this month but couldn't. Editors, let me know if you still have slots open for reviews this month. Otherwise, these are the upcoming games I'm eager to check out:

Hey folks. It's the beginning of the month and Nic and I really in need of help getting our bills paid. We had my mom help us last month but between a mandatory visa run, rent and bills, we still need help now. We should be TEFL approved soon, but we need help between now & then.

I've just hit my third month at @rascal.news and am grateful and humbled to be part of this amazing crew. I've learned a lot here as the resident greenhorn, and I would love to share some pieces I've written for the site.

This Black Friday and Cyber Monday don’t buy into genocide. Avoid these brands enabling Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. https://loom.ly/TpPQsDY

Just piggybacking off @chasecarter.bsky.social 's excellent piece on themed crowdfunding months - if any designers or creators have any thoughts about this, particularly the close proximity of themed months and Topias next year on Backerkit, please hit me up! [email protected]

Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all. www.ign.com/articles/uns...

Here's a longer report for Rascal on DriveThruRPG's new shipping program for physical books, and how several folks in the tabletop industry see it as a bad deal for them altogether

Spoke to a number of devs about how, in the face of CEOs claiming gen-AI is the future, their declaration of being genAI free is making waves.

"Roll dice, grab a femur, survive. It’s a pestilent cycle that’s very reminiscent of doom metal, really: depraved, repetitive, transcendent." Great article and interview with Giuseppe of Morbidware about bringing MÖRK BORG, the tabletop game, into the video game format and what that entails.

Wrote about a videogame (!!!) for Rascal - a roguelike adaptation of the absolutely stellar, doom metal-infused Mork Borg TTRPG

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Workers with @kickstarterunited.org end their six-week strike victorious, enshrining 4-day work weeks and salary floors while also adding protections against gen AI replacing human labor.

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Just gonna reshare Chase's request - if you're a tabletop designer or a distributor, or even someone who is currently using DTRPG's Partner Shipping Program, please hit me up! [email protected] or just reply here. Other folks who responded to Chase - I'm getting to you! Give me a while.

Great to have some minis news from @crapstacular.bsky.social up on the site. It's been fun explaining our incredibly weird industry to them!

Going to chronicle the number of days I'll spend on climbing the Manbreaker in Baby Steps