Yes, that’s me, with noise-cancelling headphones (trying to have a moment without processing spoken word)

Thanks for this 🥹 Happier new year ❤️

My 2025 in games? My day one copy of Death Stranding 2 is still shrink-wrapped. I randomly fell off Blippo+ twice. I had to abandon Returnal (my most played game at 23 hours). My work consumed me (in a very bad way) for most of the year. Here are the games I finished in 2025:

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is far from over. Today, the Israeli government announced that it would suspend the aid work of several humanitarian organizations that provide lifesaving aid to Palestinians in Gaza living through what Amnesty International and other groups labeled as a genocide.

Guess what you’ll find in the 24th window of the Playdate Advent Calendar! Spoiler: Not a new game 😇🫣

Started crying while riding a tram after having realized that days will get longer from now on again. Ok, I’m ready for this year to end.

Oh this is just awful. Rest in peace, mate. Thanks for everything. gameinformer.com/2025/12/22/v...

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”

First Outside Parties, now Diora! Looking fw to playing more over the holidays

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc. vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery! now I'm bedridden for recovery, which is at least a great improvement. I'm still broke though, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much! ko-fi.com/fooneturing

every time I see that stupid AI Christmas Coke ad it reminds me of the time we hired a Scottish crew to film the Lemmings statue in Dundee because it felt essential to telling our story. the audience knows when you've spent the time or money to make something. maybe not all of em. but the good ones!

that’s my nightmare

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

How amazing is this? VGHF - found a never-before-seen NES prototype - obtained the rights - finished the game using period-accurate tools - is releasing it physically through iam8bit as a charity fundraiser.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Parking Garage Rally Circuit. Strange Jigsaws. Skin Deep. Baby Steps. Herdling. Sword of the Sea. and Roger. Otto’s Galactic Groove. The End Of Gameplay. Despelote. Thirty Floors Of Loving. Mouthwashing. VVVVVV. 1000xRESIST. Eastward. Burn The Rope. Tactical Breach Wizards. Indika.

well

Please consider nominating Above the Rubble in #Playdate Community Awards 2025 (more about it in 🧵) It is available on itchio → mouflon-cloud.itch.io/above-the-ru... At the same time, please support Palestinian relief in any way you can. The suffering is far from over.

I wanna say that there were some issues (and also my own requests) I needed to resolve with Lost In Cult support and sometimes the wait time was unnerving, but in the end they were always awesome and went above and beyond to help me. Also, every single book from that team is gorgeous.

Please consider nominating Above the Rubble in #Playdate Community Awards 2025 (more about it in 🧵) It is available on itchio → mouflon-cloud.itch.io/above-the-ru... At the same time, please support Palestinian relief in any way you can. The suffering is far from over.

"it was made for gooball" 😅🥲 i love this trailer and i love Despelote

TODAY

It's Outside Parties day from @adamsimmersive.bsky.social on Playdate Unofficial: www.playdateunofficial.com/the-games/ou...

I set a timer to wake me up from a nap for twenty… hours Feels reasonable

People who are scared of learning code because of "math". You don't need to be able to figure out math. The code is a calculator. You may need to know how to ask it, but not know the answer. I embarrasingly can't remember the formulas for like all the basic shit school taught me.

My friend Adam has been recovering from long covid since 2020 and recently started posting ambient tracks on bandcamp fusiformgyrus.bandcamp.com/track/chitin... It’s a good listen and you can also support his recovery in a small way there

My friend Adam has been recovering from long covid since 2020 and recently started posting ambient tracks on bandcamp fusiformgyrus.bandcamp.com/track/chitin... It’s a good listen and you can also support his recovery in a small way there

Ah man, hitting that "overwhelmingly positive" on steam less than 2 weeks after launch feels pretty good

I keep seeing people trying to play down the payment processor situation, saying it's only the extreme NSFW accounts getting sacked. Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight? Also go support Nakufin.

For the love of everything, please don’t buy your kids shit that lets them talk to LLM or generative AI in general.

I want to say a massive thanks to @jeremybjayne.bsky.social for doing an outstanding job on the initial edit of the doc, and to @frankhowley.bsky.social for recording such solid gameplay. We actually adopted @brandon.insertcredit.com's style for credits and will use it going forward.

Nice work by @polygon.com with this feature on the multi-award winning Consume Me.

Ooh, those turntables again! Play Herdling in the next 9 days and then get this adorable plushie! www.makeship.com/products/cal...

My latest #Playdate project, helloyellow, is out now! It's a voice chat app using the Playdate's wi-fi networking capabilities. You can chat with your friends, share achievements, and more. 💬 Download it now at jonsimantov.itch.io/helloyellow!

Have you noticed noclip_2 quietly killing it over on YouTube? Congratulations to the @noclipvideo.bsky.social team for creating unique videos about smaller games! www.youtube.com/@Noclip2

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

NEW: Microsoft confirms to me that it won't publish its annual Diversity & Inclusion report, ending a decade-long run Company's top spokesperson tells Game File that MS has "evolved" past publishing one Prior reports tracked pay equity and company demographics www.gamefile.news/p/microsoft-...

remembering the good old times when the grammar checker wasn’t bound to submission of all my personal data for ai training (yup, i’m overdue to get away from gmail)

Hey all, it's been awhile since we provided an update. We want to let you all know that the final amount of $105,711.24 USD (after fees) was received by UNRWA USA. Thank you to everyone again for your support. And remember, the fight for Palestine's freedom continues.

Demonschool proves we need more small numbers in RPGs. Read more: retconmagazine.com/demonschool-...

My four favourite video game characters of 2025 so far

reminds me of "not merely to describe social reality, but to generate insights into the forces of domination operating within society in a way that can inform practical action and stimulate change" (this is from a dictionary entry on Critical Theory plato.stanford.edu/entries/crit...)

America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI' Remember that. Remember her.

Just received the new @apwot.bsky.social and it’s so beautiful! You can get the next one (and reprints, too) on its Kickstarter right now.

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways

I don't like how the word "nuanced" became synonymous with "finding a middle ground" between "extremes" it's possible to have a nuanced opinion, and yet also firmly stand within one of the extremes