How I draw the album covers in Wax Heads...

Just finished "Your Name Here". What in the glorious fuck did I just read? (complimentary)

Who the fuck lays off Matt Zoller Seitz

Honestly, one of the best reads of 2026. Still can't believe how good this is (and RIP Hoffman)

Cat’s out of the bag: I reviewed Resident Evil Requiem. What did I think? Maybe give that there link a click and see for yourself: www.startmenu.co.uk/home/review-...

Nice Lemons 🍋 #oilpainting #art

At last! It's been a while since I loved an online game so much, and you probably can already tell what game I picked as my GOTY

Unwinnable subscribers saw an excerpt of this last month, but here's the much, much longer convo I had with Autumn back in December about cultural criticism, my process, and a long, ongoing battle with alienation from my own taste and craft. A little rambly, apologies unwinnable.com/2026/02/11/a...

Mewgenics is the cat's meow (and I only played it for an hour). It's been ages since I played any of Edmund's games and didn't realize how I miss this flash-era vibe

"You don't have to tell me Pyramid Head's backstory" – Poppy Playtime's George Krstic on why less is more in horror. https://bit.ly/4aaxDbF

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

"If you watch an episode of Cheers, you might hear references to foreign filmmakers, to classical musicians, to Russian novelists. The level of assumed knowledge back then was far greater; now, TV is rarely adventurous in its allusions."

Reviewed the Sex Pistols album for CREEM (full review in current issue)

my mentor was a historian on war & revolution and when asked to share the single most important short piece of text he'd encountered in his life, he shared this. it's well worth the read. i carry it with me

I often think about Jonathan Cooper's posts about TLOU2, that the studio ran out of seasoned game animators because its reputation was so bad and thus had to hire film folks who had to be taught how to put games together.

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

The developers of PEAK explain pricing

I guess I have to watch Angel's Egg now (another brilliant video from @superjumpmagazine.com 🌟)

Can't believe it was nearly 2 years ago we first announced Wax Heads and put the demo out and ended up with this lovely preview in @edgemagazine.bsky.social from @schillingc.bsky.social that YES I framed in my office (don't worry I have like 5 other copies of it...)

what a entertaining piece, this!

Now that everyone is going back to work, it's a good time to remind you I still urgently want to be your next writer of things. Email [email protected] or DM me for my portfolio. Happy New Year!

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

In Blade Runner 2049 Joi's voice: 't was a year (with a lot of banger articles from SUPERJUMP)

Genuinely one of EOTY lists I've personally been looking forward to 👏 Played three out of 10 games (Nubby and Butcher's Creek) from the list (two of 'em) inspired by Artemis' amazing write-ups. Still, have a feeling It Takes War would be on the list if you've gotten around to playing it(!)

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Gotta get me one of these

the only way to write something good is to write something bad over and over again until it becomes good. outsourcing all the writing something bad parts to a machine means you didn't write the good thing on the other end (if it's even good)

Since I'm in the Baltics, we're pretty late with the whole Geese discourse. But seeing multiple Geese memes in the last few days (plus P.T.A. filming frontman's Carnagey Hall concert, for some reason), I went to my go-to music critic to find out what the deal is, and boy, it did not disappoint.

We had an Overwhelmingly Positive score on Steam, then these two reviews rolled in Why does Valve allow this?

love an End of The Year album ranking from Zach

Hi, for this week’s Pushing Buttons newsletter I talked to Dan Houser about the influence of Victorian literature on his games writing - especially Middlemarch on Red Dead Redemption 2 - it was a really interesting chat! www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

haló friends .ᐟ.ᐟ it's been a tough year for devs and I'm now looking for my next job, so if you know of any projects or teams in search of a concept artist/character designer/silly guy connoisseur, please keep me in mind ⋆.˚ you can see more of my concept work here: mattjohnsillustration.com

I think it's worth pointing out that very few video-game companies are as transparent as Shovel Knight maker Yacht Club Games, and I appreciate that the studio was so candid about their story and why their next game, Mina the Hollower, has taken so long www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Happy release day to @santaragione.com! Quickly, While They Still Have HORSES www.gog.com/en/game/horses

Totally forgot to share the piece that I wrote for GI.biz - but that's besides the point; The point is that folks at @santaragione.com make very fascinating games and that we should put money where our mouths are and buy Horses (which is bonkers in the best way possible) when it comes out! 🐴

new article from me is live I wrote about @knifedemonsoftware.bsky.social's Brush Burial: Gutter World, catharsis, power fantasies, and getting socially ostracized after being punched in the face.

Seriously, unlike anything you will play in a long long time - support @santaragione.com and buy Horses when it comes out ✊

Very good write-up @jickle.net 👏 And a very good interactive experience that any The Beginner's Guide fans should play

Support Stop Caring, people!

Had a good chat with Rob Davis about Ghost of Yotei and came away from it with a renewed ambition to find a way to watch Lady Snowblood www.superjumpmagazine.com/ghost-of-yot...

A very talented games writer is looking for work! 👇

turning BJ Blazkowicz into an introspective woke warrior poet is one of the best video game magic tricks of the last 15 years

Spoiler alert: it's MGS Delta (inside you can find like a mini-review of it!) and RDR2 (which I'm replaying - I know, I know... 🫠)

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

My @gibiz.bsky.social feature on Palestinian game devs is here! 🤯 (pssst, go check it out)

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Starting to realize that if you're a single guy in a big city and don't have a cute dog in 2025, your chances of a meet-cute drop by 75% 🫠 #catpersonproblems