I'm cancelling all of my art. I need time to relax and bounce on some dick. I'll post new art when I feel like it...

Happy new year everybody! Here's a first look at our new project! More information to come soon ✨ !!

Hace unos días di una charla en la Universidad de Valencia en la que tocaba varios aspectos geopolíticos de la transición energética. Creo que hay un par de ideas que sirven muy bien de resumen sobre dónde estamos ahora que cerramos 2025.

La única reacción sensata a lo que está pasando en Venezuela debería ser que, independientemente de lo que pienses sobre su régimen, resulta obvio que Chávez no lo llevó lo suficientemente lejos.

I seriously need help. I cannot survive right now. My job won’t start until the end of January, and I’m literally out of cash. Please, this is like my last cry for help.

𝑱𝒖𝒈𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒖𝒎 𝒚 𝒋𝒖𝒈𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒔: 𝒍𝒐𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒔 𝒅𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐𝒋𝒖𝒆𝒈𝒐𝒔 𝒚 𝒑𝒐𝒓 𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒖𝒃𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒅 𝒏𝒐 𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒅 En este texto hablaba de accesibilidad monetaria al videojuego en el contexto actual, y de cómo la capacidad económica determina cómo, cuándo y, sobre todo, a qué jugamos.

Kaori Tanaka (Soraya Saga), has announced that she will be retiring from writing video games due to family circumstances via her official blog. She did writing for Final Fantasy VI, Xenogears, & Xenosaga Episodes I & II. sorayasaga.blogspot.com/2025/12/reti...

if AI is a hardline no for you, as it is for many of us, you gotta start getting into truly independent shit or simply accept the slop. i don't think AI is "inevitable" but i do think the tech-adjacent games industry is currently and in the near future saturated with it

And now, Writing Game Histories (2026) with cover art (courtesy of @murthynikhil.bsky.social’s Syphilisation) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...

Please read this post.

and finally. the event everyone has been waiting for. the official GAME OF THE YEAR 2025:

Important to note from this statement is that Hiroyuki Yamaga told Gainax employees to pretend he was in the hospital in one of several attempts to avoid repaying the money Anno loaned to them

Most people resort to therapy. But you chose the brave option. 🔨 Virtue and a Sledgehammer 🔨 WISHLIST NOW!

Harmful Park was my first shmup 1CC What was yours?

Game Poems is coming soon! A free online 'magazine' featuring new short-form videogames in a playable format. Add your email to our Substack to be notified when issue 1 is available online: gamepoems.substack.com/subscribe

And this one of the main reasons video games are one of the tamest, less challenging mediums. Any attempt to draw outside the lines is cut short by the medium's own structures.

I feel like we don't talk enough about how Twilight Princess Ganondorf is just Emperor Beld from Record of Lodoss War. Nintendo, stop being cowards and give us an Ashram too! Where's my deluded, brooding black knight?

Ya es oficial, mi primer artículo por fin ha sido publicado en @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Quizás pueda ser demasiado sencillo y desde luego me falta mucha práctica al respecto, pero estoy contentísimo de haber dado un primer pasito por lo menos. Ojalá os guste tanto como a mí redactarlo!

Acabo de mandar mi primer artículo fuera de tareas universitarias que he escrito en mi vida, sobre videojuegos e historia. Estoy nervioso de cojones, porque no sé si a la @historygamesnet.bsky.social le gustará, pero ni que sea puedo aprender del proceso. Con suerte, en unas semanas sabré algo!

The full count as of today: YouTube suspended Twitch banned 3x Patreon suspended (temporary) Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi) Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?) Buy Me a Coffee suspended Vice reporting censored Pornhub censored 3x times Fansly censored 1x

Kazuki Motoyama / 本山一城, author of several manga adaptations of Super Mario, has passed away according to his sister. He was 69 years old. www.instagram.com/p/DPSXpYukhQd/ www.mariowiki.com/Kazuki_Motoy...

dragon quest 1 is in the air lately, so please enjoy this old blog exploring the development of one of my favorite relationships with a jrpg world map tunditur-unda.neocities.org/posts/2020-0...

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UPDATE: Got many great pitches already, most from Latin America & Eastern Europe (which makes sense given my history & previous work lol) I really want more stories from north of Africa, Middle-East & SEA. I'm reaching out to researchers & journos there, any suggestions & connections are welcome 🙏

It's so cool to have people all over the world reach out to share their stories! Look at this documentary about the birth of Hungarian game development (with English subtitles)- it tells how loopholes & smuggling allowed a studio to be founded in socialist Hungary and sell games to Western markets.

I can't keep calling this thing "the elf book" and if I don't talk about this I think my head will just explode any minute now. So, the elf book is called -EIRLITHRIAD SAGA-. eirlithriadsaga.com

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

LOOP is a Spanish game magazine with a similar vibe as APWOT, but they do offer digital editions for a fraction of the price: loop.gamereport.es (only to a few countries, but that's a different issue :P) BTW, they're crowdfunding a new issue, if you habla español: www.verkami.com/projects/414...

Prometimos novedades y somos gente de palabra. ⏰ ¡Tenemos reto! ⏰ Ayúdanos a alcanzar los 250 reposts y me gusta en todas las redes sociales, y desbloqueamos dos nuevas láminas para todos los mecenas que hayan aportado para la edición física del año 5 de LOOP. ¡Alabado sea el LOOP! 🔗 vkm.is/loop5

thegamingbrit's video on silent hill 2 remake got him a lot of shit but he was 100% right when he said that constantly remaking classic games by destroying them completely to make them "look modern" is the creative impulse that leads to replacing everything with ai slop. same thing different degrees

Sensacional la última jornada de @digraspain.bsky.social y poder conocer en persona a @tomgaar.bsky.social y a @adorian-kun.bsky.social. Con ganas de volver el año que viene con un congreso tan interesante como este, un enorme aplauso a la realización.

Este tío es literalmente el mítico pavo de JRPG que es "El mejor detective de todos los tiempos" pero nadie sabe quién es y cuando las cosas se ponen realmente jodidas aparece en el grupo de héroes y descubres que es un crío superdotado que mantiene su identidad en secreto para que le tomen en serio

I literally just was on a panel about game preservation in Chicago 45 minutes ago. The response is simple: not only is the characterization about games and preservation untrue, but it also dismisses the incredible work of film archivists.

tremendously admire his work and the way he talks abt an exploratory creative process BUT it is very sad to me how little that sort of thinking & working is possible. like u need to have an enormously successful career in a medium that isn't yet perfectly industrialized in order to get to this point

LOOP #5 está al 87%. Apoyad a esta gente, ya no por la excelente crítica cultural que hacen, sino para que no les dé un infarto. www.verkami.com/projects/414...

Gracias por las 450 aportaciones que han permitido que el Verkami de @revistaloop.bsky.social se acerque al 86% a falta de poco menos de un mes para el cierre de la campaña de financiación. ¡En el equipo tenemos muchas ganas de encarar un nuevo año del proyecto! 💜🥹 www.verkami.com/projects/414...

Hi, I'm Melora, the main source of scanned #Zelda art & out-of-print publications since The Internet. I was also the lead campaigner for Zelda manga & art/info books to exist outside of Japan. Join me as I try to create a gallery of every piece of licensed Zelda art via collecting & with your help!

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

What an expertly called shot

Turns out Shin Era Tensei runs on Eramaker, a Japanese engine for text-based RPGs/raising sims first released in 2005 and used for several other SLG (simulation game) eroges - like Touhou & Kanon fangames I love exploring these obscure games because you often end up finding these ultra-niche scenes

Was melting my poor gaijin brain playing ShinEraTenseiP in Japanese... then I found out it actually has an English translation lol wiki.eragames.rip/index.php/Er... It was foolish of me to assume a fanmade Shin Megami Tensei eroge dungeon-crawler would not have a translation.

very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games

an annoying problem the games industry has is that absolutely no one wants to give a quote about anything other than the game they are currently promoting.

like how metal gear solid 4 is about feeling like a relic who is nonetheless called upon to 'save' an accelerationist technology platform (the ps3) by exploiting all its features

Peow has announced during the Studio Proteus panel at AnimeNYC that they have licensed, in partnership with Zimmerit, Kow Yokoyama’s S.F.3.D Chronicles and S.F.3.D ORIGINAL reprint edition, both slated for a Winter 2026 release

La autoedición es el camino que hemos seguido durante 11 años como editorial. Y no es fácil: cada suscriptor cuenta para mantener a flote el proyecto y ofrecer condiciones justas al equipo (publicadas en nuestro manifiesto) loop.gamereport.es/manifiesto-l... Os necesitamos para seguir adelante.