Namco's exercise bike-powered flying contraption is almost 30 years old, so we tracked down the game's director to look back.

Thing I learned working on this story: Prop Cycle's soundtrack came with instructions for a dice-based card game.

Exhibit #15 of how you can tell I run @designroom.site.

Friday

Now up on Patreon early, the labor of love that is a new long form and in depth video on the classic beat em up that is Final Fight! Mechanics, history, interviews...it's all here! www.patreon.com/posts/final-...

Why you should try Post Games: - An NPR-quality weekly podcast on video games - Hosted by a 19-year games media veteran - Rare interviews with the most interesting people in gaming, from philosophers to CEOs, sex game designers to Dunkey - And scripts, editing, and music that respect your time!

"It's like trying to make three games within the budget for one. Realistically, it's not possible."

it felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...

Remember all those Street Fighter history stories I did awhile back? Here's a new one.

Remember all those Street Fighter history stories I did awhile back? Here's a new one.

A reported feature I've long wanted to write: For @eurogamer.bsky.social, I draw a direct line from Black & White's creature AI to the world-transforming ambitions of Google DeepMind, with the inside scoop on Lionhead's starry-eyed, stoner culture of the time. www.eurogamer.net/black-and-wh... 🐵⛪

Monday

Ahead of LA Noire's 15th anniversary, I spoke with Tim Rogers @108.bsky.social! Tim opens the hood of the game and explains how everything works. Plus, we get into the behind-the-scenes history of its dev. And Tim shares how he adapted the game into a TV-length experimental video essay/playthrough

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.

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