We have never 'owned' our games, our games just had no technological protection measures. (thread 👇, I'm so mad about the PS no physical decision and I need an IP rant)

It’s the final few days of my PRIDE MONTH fundraiser for @outfrontmn.bsky.social and I still have TONS of prizes to give away! Including the latest game from @aerialknight.com! 🏳️‍🌈 Just donate HERE: gofund.me/30f3f241f And then pick a prize HERE: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

They let me write a whole Ace Attorney quest for Hello Kitty Island Adventure 😈

Played last night and it skyrocketed to the top of the list of my favourite games played this year. Recommending to everyone!

As I mentioned on this week's @trangirlismo.bsky.social, I've written 1700 words about Nostalgia, the Evils of Microsoft, and how racing games are the perfect way to embrace automotive enthusiasm. It would mean a lot if you gave it a read, steal this game if you want to play it, and BDS forever.

For Pride Month, i wrote about Stop!! Hibari-kun, an accidentally trans-positive gag manga from the 1980s about a girl who serves sickening fish and her idiot boyfriend’s inability to chill out about it. @aftermath.site

Bundle Hosting Revamped 📦 🎉 We've taken what we've learned over the past 10 years of co-op bundles and redesigned our bundle creation tools to make it easier than ever to host bundles of all kinds of sizes. Check it out: itch.io/t/6475377/bu...

Sorry, maybe I shouldn't say this but ahahah. I am very angry. So I went to Xbox's Fan Fest event to attend a preview event. And it was the most flagrant display of wealth imaginable. Five stories filled with caterers and hundreds of smiling faces there to assure me of the brand's strength.

1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.

Since we can now have 10 images per post, let me recommend 10 recent indie games! All from the past 3 years, no big obvious hits. No AI or genocide support either! Names & descriptions on Alt Text.

After a year of censorship and legal attacks the queer community needs your help. The Queer Games Bundle ended but others have taken on that burden. The Pride Bundle funds 284 queer artists directly. Support people not corporations. 60$: itch.io/b/3682/ 10$: itch.io/b/3684/ #PowerofPride2026

A boycott of Ireland's games with Israel may have moved a small step closer, as a section of the FAi has backed calls to hold an EGM to discuss a boycott. But the Taoiseach has warned that any boycott may have “no impact at all” on Fifa or Israel. www.thejournal.ie/ireland-isra...

Hello, all! I am currently gauging interest for a potential Steam festival this fall for games from devs on the asexual spectrum and games that feature characters on the ace spectrum! Please fill out this form if you have a game that applies and would be interested! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Feels like Computers are over folks

They scream “only two genders exist!!” But every soul shines in its own irreplaceable color 🌈✨ No matter how loud the hate gets, Chiitan will keep waving this flag until everyone can sparkle as themselves🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.

Firing the people isn't good enough, these services needs to be structurally unavailable to genocidal Israel's government and any dual-use companies, and any military contractors. A win nevertheless. Let's keep making Israel a liability for any company. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

I have reviewed Mixtape. This is the Hater Zone. Don't be surprised to find Hater Opinions here. I've warned you.

The BDS movement salutes the three trade union federations – all affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) — in Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales — for organising an upcoming workplace day of action in solidarity with Palestine.

looks like Nintendo finally hired that man

Had the chance to attend Ardán in Ireland last year thanks to this!

Sorry for the delay. Here's the living memorial roundup for Paste Games. If your favorites didn't make the cut, feel free to add to the replies on this post, and we'll get them added as soon as possible. critical-distance.com/2026/05/04/r...

📢 CALLING ALL NONBINARY GAME DEVS! 📢 i'm helping run a steam sale event to showcase games made by nonbinary devs during the week of international nonbinary day! if you fit this description, fill out the form by may 18 👉 forms.gle/cx9AqFfPqzF9... please share & send to all your nb dev friends!!

yenpress.com/titles/97988... Love Bullet volume 2 is coming out in English in October!!! (If any outlets would be interested in a review to follow up on my one for volume 1, my rates are reasonable.) www.avclub.com/love-bullet-...

Paste Magazine was a tour de force in games criticism, and @garrettmartin.bsky.social is a legend. In the replies, share your favorite works from the Paste Magazine/AV Club/Endless Mode archives.

Really grateful for the oppurtinity the site gave me just a few months ago and beyond sad to see it go. Seeing Garrett and everyone give a place for games reporting and crit in this landscape was something of an oasis, but I guess it's dried up. Hope the team and fellow writers can find work soon.

Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

the thing that makes trans people's lives hard is not BEING trans. transness itself can be radiant and joyful; it's discovery; it's belonging. the thing that makes trans people's lives hard is other people. we could have made it SO EASY to be trans, to transition, to explore gender. we didn't.

Thread of some disorganized thoughts about making the artwork for LOVE ETERNAL..

You can wishlist the game here, if you want to help the devs out: store.steampowered.com/app/2288520/...

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

Once again: corporate-approved horny. Baldur's Gate and The Witcher and Cyberpunk will not be banned on Twitch, while less lascivious indie games are banned from sale. Horny is an increasingly relevant Cultural Trend, and culture must be consolidated into the hands of capital.

happy 25th birthday to the GOAT

Today is the 25th anniversary of the original Animal Crossing. Although I came to it late, the series has quickly become one of my favourites and will always have a place in my heart. Check out the article I wrote for @theavclubgames.bsky.social ahead of ACNH's 3.0 update on the series as a whole.

For the record:

Hello! I have built a new thing that I hope will be useful to people. It's a calendar of *new* games coming out over the next year. Every release schedule I see includes ports and Nintendo Switch 2 Editions and I hate it, so I made this. I hope you find it useful! releasecalendar.games

Please support our union’s work toward a fair contract by NOT crossing our digital picket line! That means not visiting @ProPublica.org today, April 8. (And please resume your support of @ProPublica.org all other days, we love the journalism we do!)

Had a great (and daunting, I won't lie) time hosting Insert Credit for this week. See what happens when I subject video game experts to my usual talking points (i.e the BDS boycott and eggs).

Today is the 15th anniversary of the Nintendo 3DS's release in North America. To celebrate the birthday, I thought I'd reshare the piece I wrote for @theavclubgames.bsky.social last year about one of the console's best features: StreetPass www.avclub.com/i-miss-ninte...

"Oh i dont have any budgets, that's why i used AI as placeholder voices, images and musics" ❌WRONG❌ Slay The Spire 2, the MOST anticipated roguelike deckbuilder of the year, uses these silly scribbles as placeholder arts, and they are 1000 times more charming than any slop those will ever produce.

www.avclub.com/nintendo-rom... My first freelance aritcle! Asking why Nintendo keeps calling its mascot couples just "friends". Was really happy to work with @garrettmartin.bsky.social on this for @theavclubgames.bsky.social!

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

The long and short of it is: we are looking to bump our Patreon support up by about $100/month to reach a point where we can become truly sustainable. If just 20 people signed up for our Circle tier ($5/mo), we would hit that goal in no time at all. www.patreon.com/c/critdistan...

I miss Polygon.

I hope that me workin my ass off teaching myself a buncha new artforms and puttin as much craft as I can into one videogame will make up for that one ai image I used in mysteries under lake ophelia. As small of a choice as it was at the time, I really do regret it a lot.

Image wants you to forget that multiple women have accused Jason Latour of sexual harassment and assault, and that he specifically used his position in the industry as leverage against them. Cool!

memories are short. reminder of this crushing statement from (one) woman: "I dropped my dream of being a comic artist shortly after and fell into a depression while I tried to figure out how I could have my future still be art related. I’ve hardly read a comic since.” www.tcj.com/the-2020-rep...

Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk is using her experience of being unlawfully arrested and detained by ICE to advocate for children facing human-made trauma, including children in ICE detention and living under conflict.

As millions worldwide break their fasts during Ramadan, escalate the boycott of companies implicated in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.

Here is a thing: There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To. (cont'd)