My latest book is about more than the making of Age of Empires. It's a story of brothers, camaraderie, innovation, and dreams—the cost of chasing them, the passion that drives them, and the joy when they come true. Available for preorder from @bossfightbooks.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gab...

Just prod the button below and you'll get whisked away to a random article on my site! SNES puzzle games, modern indies, NGPC RPGs, arcade classics... with hundreds of articles spanning 40+ formats, I'm sure you'll find something you'll love: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com?random

Sworcery turns 15 today, and we've got a big new feature looking back for the anniversary.

Scratch that Resident Evil itch! Itchy, Tasty by author Alex Aniel ( @cvxfreak.bsky.social ) and artist Jean deMers gets a delicious new version in collaboration with Lost In Cult 💀 Only 500 signed special edition hardcover books available! ⛱️⤵️

If you squint, you might remember that brief moment when it seemed like iOS games were going to change the industry for the better.

Portal writer Erik Wolpaw fought like hell to move Valve's headquarters to Duluth, Minnesota. He talks about living in Minnesota and its connection to writing Psychonauts and Portal on the new episode of The MinnMax Show. youtu.be/Zi0kGNknkPE

Wanna make a real quick thread of games crit because, though I haven't been posting much recently, I have been reading -- and everyone has been on fire 🔥🔥🔥 Starting with @leadergrev.bsky.social on Marathon as satire of debt and corpo culture. Exemplary piece -- www.readergrev.com/p/marathon-i...

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.

When the tutorial is the title.

New exp. for subscribers! Nintendo published a Konami ping pong game that was a couple of years old on the Famicom Disk System. Just filler? Maybe. But it's genuinely great. On Smash Ping Pong. Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/smash-...

I want to introduce you all to something myself and @jacksonwryan.com have been working on. A PRINT MAGAZINE about video games and video game culture. We know things have been bad for games writing recently. We're asking, "do you want to Continue?" www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

New story up on what happened to Ocean Software's Lobo fighting game, with a bunch of never-before-seen renders made for the game.

From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙

The planned box art is everything that's great about '90s CG.

Never tell me I don't give the people what they want.

Fly through of part of a Keeper level directly in the Unreal Engine editor. Part way through I turn on all of the game objects the player doesn't see -- it takes a lot to make games work.

Just got an email letting me know I’ll be laid off on Friday—my second time in 15 months. So here’s my regular reminder that I’m available for freelance video-game consulting, mock reviews, public relations, comms writing, feature writing, and so on.

An old Capcom promo video popped up on YouTube with, as Ryan Cravens mentions in the comments, "the only real video" of Bill Cravens, the guy who sold Street Fighter 1 in the U.S.

Some news - today I’m launching One More Catch, an independent publication covering Pokémon Go and the next generation of Pokémon games: @onemorecatch.site

Big news. I wrote a biography on Nobuo Uematsu and it drops this Fall, published by @viz.com. It is jam-packed with amazing revelations about the Final Fantasy composer that the public has never heard about, as shared by himself and those closest to him. This is the definitive chronicle on Uematsu.

Everyone: You really shouldn't spend more than a couple days on a story no one's going to read. Me: Right, yes. That's smart. I would never. But...

If memory serves, I think this followed an article Chris wrote for the short-lived fanzine Game Head, which the internet doesn't seem to remember but I'm 99% sure was real.

Happy 3rd Birthday, PsychOdyssey! The 33-episode documentary about the making of Psychonauts 2 dropped its first episode on this very day in 2023. If you haven't seen it, there's LOTS of good ways to do so! 🧵 ⬇️ youtu.be/kRlI72bsNRc

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.

"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.

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...