Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

What struck me most from the conversations I had with multiple Palestinian devs for the unpublished piece how they spoke about how Palestine was portrayed in media, and how we so rarely get depictions of it as a place where people just like you and I have just...lived lives. Whole, beautiful lives.

One last time sharing this one. IMO Tevis is one of the most interesting voices in games crit, a thoughtful, stimulating critic whose work is always worthwhile, whether you agree or disagree with their conclusions. Highly recommend listening to their critique of DS2, and their Binding of Isaac rave.

Live now!

mechsploitation is just forcefem that understands that "girl" is a weapon

Okay I will say that seeing someone refer to that one line in Eurogamer's Zero Parades review as "journalistic malpractice" is extremely funny. Words have meaning. Also funny how it basically just proves the line's point.

I apologize to all the professionals in the videogame industry that have to see me flip-flop between shitposts and earnest contemplations on grief

Also icymi, new poem out inspired by the working girl chainsaw parkour game

Odysseus: Pull the ship over. I hear ladies singing about a meal deal with fries and a drink

(bravely) i think there is room for nuance

Anyway, I can tell this is gonna be an exhausting day on this site, gonna try to stay off my Mario Karting, Wildfrosting, and doing game design.

I’m really not sure what makes za/um different from any other game studio that is basically an entirely different team with each release. perhaps this sort of rank hypocrisy stings bc folks hoped for better? But idk man. the whole thing is sullied when you put it on sale with everything else.

I really don't think there is a clear answer and a lot of if you want to examine Zero Parades will come down to personal choice and morality, but I will say if you're not at least acknowledging this then you're not painting the whole story www.gamesindustry.biz/after-layoff...

we're getting a rental car while ours is in the shop, and this is the most chaotic shit I've ever seen. this lady just said they need a car that can handle carrying "1000-1200 pounds of coins". what the fuck do you mean by that. what are you doing

Zero Parades? This really is Mamdani’s New York

*me when i’m an editor telling someone to cut 2K words of good writing because it doesn’t fit the essay* “haha, yes! you’ll thank me for this later.” *me when an editor tells me to cut 2K words of good writing because it doesn’t fit the essay* “what the fuck? i’ll never forgive you for this.”

Drill Dozer rips, love to see Drill Dozer discussion

Ok, embargo's up! I have no idea when my review will be out, but until that time, please understand: ZERO PARADES fucking rules.

With Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, @zaumstudio.bsky.social found the pen put down at the end of history, and with it wrote a eulogy at its resumption. noescapevg.com/review-zero-...

The two types of Pokemon trainer

i think another meaningful part of why my art moves toward the somber, moody, and violent is that i've got a lot of that shit inside me and it needs *somewhere* to go so i can try to continue to be a nice person

*Looks at you over my drink, both of us already knowing *

every day i thank god for lena raine

Guy with visible stink lines: the birth rate,

Evil man

In my personal canon the waterwraith is one of the sickest monster designs ever. Look at this freak.

Dude it took Samsung 8.5 whole ass versions to figure out "more than one timer"

Do you wanna see what my CD player set up looks like? Do you wanna know my car's name? All of this and more...

Tasty stuff youtu.be/Bvj-ar3L8dY?...

Found a bug where you can deflect multiple projectiles at once. Tempted to keep it in... #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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Absolutely devastating review of Aubrey’s “Iceman” by @mike-eagle.bsky.social

funniest possible thing for a guy who writes penis music to start doing

So glad folks enjoyed this episode! It is so important to me that Side Story can be a show about all kinds of games and play, not just A Show About Videogames. Really want to make more episodes like this.

Fish watched his favorite movie from his teenage years and realized that neither he nor the movie were all that good.

yall think gambit from the x-men ever accidentally threw his drivers license during a fight and then had to wait like 3 hours at the DMV the next day

when i don't know a fuckin thing about anything

the left doesn't want you to know this but you don't need to pick the leaves off of cilantro stems. you can just cut the whole thing up and put it in a dish. the stems also taste like cilantro and are edible. eat the stems

This is my main feeling on Nine Sols. Doesn't matter to me how grisly your opening is, the actual act of play felt really rough, especially since the movement/exploration and the combat feel like two distinct entities.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

i still don’t know what to do about it and goddamn has it ever gotten worse over the last few years. it got so bad so fast.

I mean, BDS is already all caps...

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

I am realizing that I am thinking about the World Cup much more than I thought