A lot going on here.

Old game magazine photo of the day.

Hi, we're a new video game oral history site. Some highlights so far: Mirror's Edge: bit.ly/mirrorsedgeoralhistory Sayonara Wild Hearts: bit.ly/sayonarawildhearts Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/shadowotcolossus Sound Fantasy: bit.ly/49xPfha Rez Infinite: bit.ly/4pKj0BB Find us at designroom.site.

Announcing Localization Lore, a new series dedicated to learning more about the history of video game localization! 🎉Featuring new interviews personally conducted by me, this first entry is on Ys 1 and the people behind its first three English translations. lizbushouse.com/localization...

Update for anyone visiting San Francisco: We now have a Space Channel 5 fondue.

The vibe difference between how my Harmonix family talks about the Beatles in this excerpt and how the other company talks about the process is the reason Harmonix was chosen to make the game. No one else could have done it. Greatest music game of all time imo.

"Directing The Beatles: Rock Band is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life."

guess what... i made a website www.mothership.blog

Our next big project is live! @lewisgordon.bsky.social spent the past few months tracking down nine people who worked on DICE's innovative 2008 parkour runner.

the dream team rides again - excited to have an excerpt from my book on @mattleone.bsky.social's wonderful new site, @designroom.bsky.social. Loved writing this chapter on The Beatles, and especially learning more about the GOAT Yoko Ono.

People tell me I don’t push the paid-subscriber exclusive stuff enough, so here’s some of that. It’s good!

Everybody should be reading @designroom.bsky.social Excellent oral history of Mirror’s Edge just posted

People tell me I don’t push the paid-subscriber exclusive stuff enough, so here’s some of that. It’s good!

Reporting and writing this story consumed me at the tail end of 2025. I'll post my favourite details tomorrow but, for now, enjoy!! Thanks to @mattleone.bsky.social for having me, all the interview subjects for talking to me, and @kim-hu.com for the incredible accompanying illustration.

I drew this, go read it!

Big new story coming next week! You'd already know what it is if you subscribed to our newsletter, though... www.designroom.site#/portal/signup

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

Read (and hear!) how “Begin Again” from Sayonara Wild Hearts came to be. www.designroom.site/how-simogo-b... By @designroom.bsky.social

Happy new year! We've got big plans for 2026, but this seems like as good a time as any to poll the room: What games do you want to see oral histories on in 2026?

another year, another 20+ translated Japanese game developer interviews published by @shmuplations.bsky.social at shmuplations.com —the final updates for the year just went up, so allow me to run down what's been translated over the course of 2025, from most to least recent: (thread)

Our music game series is now done, so let's recap it with original art by @wendyleftmealone.bsky.social.

Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...

Holiday gift idea! Get someone a one-year Design Room subscription. Just go here, tip $70, and put their name, email, and the date you want it to start in the notes. www.designroom.site#/portal/supp...

Buried in this article are FIVE DIFFERENT WIP versions of Begin Again. Unbelievably cool.

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.

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.

The final story in our music series is live!

Introducing our 15th Anniversary Art Book: 'Print Screen. Celebrating 15 Years of Video Game Art' • A beautiful coffee table book featuring more than 150 iconic video game artworks, with essays and interviews from industry luminaries and artists!

And yes, that's an illustration from @wendyleftmealone.bsky.social that we haven't run on the site yet, showing the last story in our music series (coming soon!).

Become the Black Bird in this dark-fantasy shooting game with an operatic twist! Discover the tale of a young girl who dies a pitiful death and is reborn as the calamitous Black Bird — now 50% OFF for your PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5! store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...

⏰ THIS IS IT! FINAL 48 HOURS TO BACK THE APWOT 6 KICKSTARTER! 🤖✨ Link below! 👇

AIM FOR THE STARS: FUNLAND NO. 5 HAS LANDED @oniongames.bsky.social's YOSHIRO KIMURA on life on Earth. @lukewasthefish.bsky.social on life on alien worlds (or at least SLC). @kaittremblay.bsky.social on death in the cosmos. Cover by @alexanderlaird.bsky.social funland.itch.io/funland-zine...

Check out @designroom.bsky.social if you’re into video game history and behind the scenes interviews!

New episode! How do you create an oral history feature about a game like Final Fantasy VII or Street Fighter 2? Former Polygon editor @mattleone.bsky.social joins us to discuss this, and his new site, @designroom.bsky.social. Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/0dAo...

Next up in our music game series: a big profile of Sound Fantasy and Electroplankton creator Toshio Iwai, based on a three-hour call with @radishgames.com.

A game starring a flying "sound warrior" that started life as a video game stage show with three people playing simultaneously, all synced to the same soundtrack? It could only be Otocky. www.designroom.site/toshio-iwai-...

Fun fact: This story came about because I noticed Iwai had done an art installation 30 years ago for the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco. The museum's staff was able to connect us, and this is the result.

Fun fact: This story came about because I noticed Iwai had done an art installation 30 years ago for the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco. The museum's staff was able to connect us, and this is the result.

Issue 5 is out now! 🦄 🎉 Featuring our incredible collaboration with Vanillaware for our Unicorn Overlord cover, interviews with some of the medium's most iconic creatives, and beautiful essays with original art from cover to cover. Let's walk through the latest issue: 👇🧵

Happy Lumines day!

Despite the ravages of age and an internet steeped in misinformation, your eyes – in this one case – do not deceive you: Website different. It’s taken an immense amount of time and effort, but welcome to Aftermath version 2.0: aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...

$1 gets you... •25 incredible interviews with the most fascinating people in video games •5 deep dives on storytelling, reviews, and media •1 oral history of Street Fighter: The Movie •Video episodes •Weekly bonus segments •And a community of over 1,000 passionate gamers www.patreon.com/c/PostGames

We're kicking off a series of music game oral histories with a look back at Rez Infinite -- and why it's been nine years without a follow-up.

New @apwot.bsky.social is live!

Hear about the NES US launch 40 years ago from the people that made it happen: Gail Tilden, Bruce Lowry and Lance Barr with @frankcifaldi.bsky.social from the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social moderating! Panel recording at youtu.be/f2WDfsiLiRA #prge #prge2025 #retrogaming #VGHF

Fun fact: I originally wanted to run this story the day @designroom.bsky.social launched because I thought it was going to be Rez Infinite's 10th anniversary. Turned out I was a year off, but then I figured, might as well do it anyway.

With Shadow of the Colossus behind us, our next project kicks off Monday: a music game series running throughout November.

i just signed up as a subscriber for @mattleone.bsky.social and co's new hotness! The FF7 and Street Fighter Oral Histories were critical pitstops on my journey to get into game dev, and I am excited to support an independent outlet helping chart the history of our artform from the words of artists!

The Last Guardian executive producer Yasuhide Kobayashi didn't want to move the game from PS3 to PS4.

Delighted to announce Heartbeats, Dreams and Laser Eyes: 15 Years of Simogo, and equally thrilled to be working with @hollynielsen.bsky.social, @nadiaoxford.bsky.social, @illogicaljoker.bsky.social and Christian Donlan, who will be contributing essays to the book. Preorder at the link below!