Well, I didn’t really *mean* to play through the whole thing today but here we are. Happy *GULP* 25th birthday to the GBA. 🍻 #SuperMarioAdvance

Gaming needs more Octavia Butlers, writers who can imagine a story whose resolution does not require violence.

Gaming needs way more Margaret Wise Browns and fewer Philip K. Dicks

I guess I should have been watching basketball today huh

I don't know how this sorcery works. But it's the promise of the 3D Classics line-up across more than, you know, 5 games.

Music- and book-lovers of the world: What are your favorite 33 1/3 books? I liked Dangerous and Low I disliked Tusk and Sound of Silver I love the idea of these slim volumes but they are so hard to pull off.

100% yes BUT I think some don’t even think they engage w/ games when they do? Like, my 70-something mom dismisses games as a worthy subject or as something she cares about… yet has played Wordle/Connections every day for years and played Tetris on Game Boy when I was growing up.

This is like finally seeing a photo of your favorite radio broadcaster. Not at all what I expected! His book may be the most important "internet-to-IRL" conversion since that movie about the snail

This is one of those "don't have to read it first--sharing it now" articles: @jennatar.bsky.social on the "uncreative frictionlessness" of A.I.

FUNDED! LFG!!! Thanks, all here on Bluesky ❤️. kck.st/4aRriDn

Seldom have I seen a headline go as unnecessarily hard as this one. (This is a compliment.)

Maybe I’m susceptible to CEO-speak but I appreciated Zelnick’s optimism and responses in this interview with @dringo.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/thegameb...

If Marathon was a single-player campaign I'd play it. But I know that's not what it is. No biggie. Still love the visuals tho www.instagram.com/p/DVmW-2pkuH...

I'm going back and forth between critiquing my students' essays and reading articles about AI (no correlation whatsoever). This by @kait.bsky.social is both funny in a LOL way and also funny in a "laugh to keep from crying" kind of way. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

An hour to go and @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social + Alanis has pulled ahead! Will the upset hold? marchxness.com#/2ndround-mo...

Read the hilarious @kait.bsky.social on the Grammarly kerfuffle. Stay for the amazing kicker. God damn.

Just tried some links from my OLDE BLOGSPOT blog circa 2007-2010 & nearly every clip + friendsite link is demolished. Opium Magazine goes to something in another language. Big Jewel goes to a weird gambling app site, also in another language. Only ones left standing: McSweeneys + Monkeybicycle

Probably my most-wanted game right now is a compilation of all the @whatthegames.bsky.social titles for Switch 2. Thank you for your consideration.

Why are we constantly being told to care about the five million Americans watching Sheriff Country or whatever, and not the fifty million that play Mario Kart.

Where are my #Canadians at? We’ve got about 2 hours to pull a victory for Crash Test Dummies in the @marchxness.bsky.social competition.

You can play this game right now on the NSO Famicom app. And Mathew’s right—it’s a smash.

This is the Mario book you don’t yet own but should.

Psyched to learn @jordanwminor.bsky.social is writing a Mario Galaxy book to add to the growing Mario takeover of @bossfightbooks.com. Our duology is now a trifecta. Let's keep it going.

Wishing you a Happy MAR10 Day w/ this 2015 segment on @nhpr.org's Word of Mouth where I talk to a very non-gaming population about whether his popularity is nostalgia or careful brand management, the then-new game Super Mario Maker & why today Mario might live in Queens www.nhpr.org/word-of-mout...

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Join me in trying to push Crash Test Dummies past the Mariah-behemoth and into Round Two

Watched this in my lead-up to Oscars, filling in some Best Pic gaps. Really glad I did. Felt good to sit alone in a dark room, my wife asleep in our bed upstairs, and just be immersed in unstated emotion. And you'll be really glad you read this piece.

I just spent 5 minutes on LinkedIn. Slap my wrist. Harder. HARDER.

YES.

I've reached the point where I forget who I've interviewed or written about. Stumbled upon a piece from 2014 where @smestorp.bsky.social told me some ideas for potential Touch ID-based games. A neat little time capsule of a mobile game future that never was. www.killscreen.com/leading-deve...

Anyone else get an email from Google saying, "You're now using Gemini!" when in fact you do not want to be using Gemini? Please help me stop using Gemini.

I’m at a pinball bar outside of Baltimore and the only Williams table is broken. :( Then I spot this. Always forget he programmed games like Taxi before becoming Mister Mortal Kombat. Legend. (Python, too.)

I'm leaving tomorrow to go to a writers conference and it seems at once both silly and absolutely essential to go focus on words-on-a-page at a time like this See y'all at #awp2026

To celebrate yesterday's 9-year anniversary of the Switch's launch, I share the post I wrote on that day, which definitely did not have the stench of me firmly holding onto the previous generation as it exhaled its last dying breaths www.avclub.com/8-things-you...

How was this not in the NA Indie World Showcase...?? Been wanting to get Öoo-ey for awhile. Hopping on a plane in two days. Perfect timing.

Sade and Tom Waits making the argument that, sometimes, we live in a meritocracy

TIL what "bonesmashing" is and I'm pretty upset about it

Give me a 3DS Classic Edition that just contains the full 3D version of Wender’s film Pina

This guy gets it

I have one more class to grade before my Mid-Term Grading is finished. How shall I celebrate, people of the internet? All suggestions welcome.

Fluidity 3, let’s go!

The pun in "Browt" JUST dawned on me. Pokemon localization team still undefeated.

If you ever swung by Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum in Farmington MI, you know it was a special place. They had to close last year after decades in business (the lease went to a chain grocery store) but have found a new location & are hoping to re-open soon. www.gofundme.com/f/help-marvi...

happy 14th anniversary to all who observe

Holding all 3DS anniversary content for the North American release date. Please be advised.

Switch Sports clawing its way back to the Top Ten in sales (in Japan) gives me hope for a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition or, better yet, a brand-new entry. It's done shockingly well for what many assumed was an outdated concept. One of my favs of the whole generation. www.famitsu.com/article/2026...

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

Please let's get back to a world where strangers are asked to look through secret holes to see the latest game technology in action.

"Brian Merrygold" is no "Bobson Dugnutt, that's for damn sure

I know the "Microsoft is sunsetting Xbox" line got the headlines, but for my money the most important part of the Q+A w/ @seamus.bsky.social by @deantak.bsky.social is this, about the impossibility of videogames (and why they remain so compelling) gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...