This week: We open and close with Zero Parades: critical-distance.com/2026/05/25/m...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Oi... rest in peace to all the soldiers that died in her service I dive in her cervix

Disco Elysium (2019)

I am assailed by bugs and arachnids

Blood Meridian is an astounding work of unending brutality, lays bare the colonial violence informed by a culture of terror that was the "Wild West." An anti-western. Good shit. Cormac McCarthy's best work.

On Thursday evening Valnet issued new contracts to writers at TheGamer instituting a minimum article viewership threshold for payment. Most writers already have pay tied to article performance, but this new system would mean that if a piece didn't get X number of clicks you wouldn't be paid for it.

decades of journalistic/writing experience and still a mouthpiece for corporations? pathetic!

I've hit my absolute limit with everything so I'm just gonna go on "vacation mode" early. I will be slow to respond on bsky, discord, and email. If we are working on something related to Stop Caring, please don't hesitate to reach out while I am on vacation, I will be more prompt with that.

In 2024, the Set Yourself on Fire demo impressed me with its writing and visual composition, and immediately became smth to pay attention to. Now having played the full thing, Im glad I kept it on my radar. On how SYOF captures stagnation while telling a love story: exalclaw.com/set-yourself...

co-signed

"What is the point of independent publications if they employ the same white men to sell cool cover art and write the same industry boosterism? If the outlets with the most subscribers advocate for slop or the sites with the most progressive headlines excuse themselves from culpability?"

It's late, I'll reshare this in the morning, but here's my Zero Parades review. A game that I found utterly engrossing in nearly every way, and hit me on a personal level more than I expected: but crucially, in some ways, can't be untangled from where it's come from www.rpgsite.net/review/20391...

something’s in the air: on my way to work this morning, this guy got on the bus. He started watching porn, kinda silently, but you could hear sexual moans if you focused. I think he thought it was coming off his earbuds, but that’s still some devilish shit to do in public.

How do you kill something that cannot die? For our final article on Chase Sequences, @thesaintoftous.bsky.social analyses the Ubermorph chase encounter in Dead Space 2 - drawing parallels between this scene and protagonist Isaac's struggles with survivor's guilt. www.eteogames.com/stalked-by-s...

really cool article & also it mentions Dead Horses (yippee🐱)!

Fantastic read

the first time I did shrooms in Chicago, maybe 12-13 years ago, my friend drove me to the lake. We sat by the shore quietly for a long time. i finally turned over to them and with a puzzled look I asked: "Why'd you take me to the ocean?"

I've gotta make like $200 before next week for rent thanks to some bullshit so if you haven't yet, check out my latest zine: noescapevg.itch.io/no-escape-20...

Marathon is my favorite game around right now and this article gets it just right.

hello bluesky! bullet points just published my piece about marathon, zone fiction, yuri of absence, and being a hopeless romantic -- essentially a tribute to one of the closest and most important friendships in my life. it would mean a lot to me if you read it 🤤 (sorry in advance for the length)

thank fuck for being able to do duos instead of crew fill in s2 bc all i wanna do is just keep running with the weird gun girls

Gamer's Girlfriend Paints Clitoris Yellow as Last Resort ggtribune.com/2026/05/20/g...

banger after banger after banger on Bullet Points lately

really loved this whole piece. rt if u too have read the interview

You in your 30s mf time to play xcom

Marathon is the Iliad, the aesthetics are the humanity

Wow Do yourself a favour and read this

don't miss Pao on Marathon

im only halfway through this, but can safely say this is the best essay anyone has ever written about Marathon, and Pao Yumol has us all beat in the "videogame critic" department

"if marathon offers anything to say about the human condition, i don't think it's to be found in the cutthroat attitude players adopt with one another ... yet i feel like i've grown to understand people more by playing it." @goosepimple.moe on Marathon, up now bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/05/20/w...

i would like more bylines but for like evil reasons

i reviewed zero parades and the occasional drunk cig kotaku.com/zero-parades...

Glanton approaches the judge and asks him his full name The judge smiles and says Holden Yea Holden what? Holden deez nuts

Started a new job last week, so naturally I thought of Final Fantasy Tactics. How do I build in a new job while maintaining the hours I put into running?

With Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter having released last month, @lesbiankakyoin.bsky.social interviews project lead Selina Kibara on fandom, fascism, and audience expectations. www.startmenu.co.uk/home/intervi...

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...

The Judge Holden Fan Club

A haunting, deeply personal piece on trans love and coming out from @madisyn-writes.bsky.social: www.mothership.blog/slay-the-pri...

I have a lot of things to say today about No Parades / the whole ZA/UM sitiation, but I have decided to: a) wait until I play the game myself b) Blog About It If It Comes To It

how your email finds me

no truce with the furies. here’s my review of zero parades

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

Well @chiltonm.bsky.social wrote a Zero Parades review so powerful it knocked out all of our publishers' websites for a couple hours, but you can finally read it. Just use your MIND to pretend all the images are loading properly

hi sorry i disappeared for a week i was suicidally depressed i had 2 job interviews one last week and one today and turns out they both were scams cause thats all that ever happens anymore kinda at the end of my rope pls consider sharing & donating if you have the means gofund.me/affc42cad

Yesterday, a lot of trans ppl (myself included) were getting ready for an afternoon in the park. Snacks, drink, music, companionship. But the universe decided to take one of us, so a day out in the park with my friends turned into a parade of grief and condolence messages.

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-...