Massive counter point to anyone claiming that AI will help the video game market by lowering development time and cost. Add to this the already gargantuan challenge of discovery, the assumingly soon massive increase in the number of games being released daily, and matured demand... it's... bad!

@startmenu.bsky.social explores some disturbingly familiar job-application processes in Thank You For Your Application. www.startmenu.co.uk/home/review-...

@skyboxcritics.com talks about why old games are still great, and gives some fantastic recommendations for how to play them. I approve! skyboxcritics.com/2026/07/06/p...

I tried to buy an air mattress at Costco but I was informed the price had gone up. Angry, I asked why. “That’s just the way inflation works,” I was told.

Not my 1st Persona game, but it was the game that launched my undying love of the franchise.

This week: 23 picks on disc-ourse, ARGs, Warframe, and much more: critical-distance.com/2026/07/13/j...

RIP, Sam Neill.

100% yes!

It's essential horror history over on my Ko-fi today! This piece is on Atari 2600 classic Haunted House, a brilliantly minimalistic and incredibly scary game: ko-fi.com/post/Haunted...

love is stored in the mozzarella

Had fun yesterday checking out some new anime from Crunkyroll's latest season. Jaadugar: a Witch in Mongolia, The Cat and the Dragon, and Victoria of Many Faces. I'll be continuing with all of them!

I am so excited to share the preview for KRALDUM, my solo mudlarking RPG coming this autumn to Gamefound for RPG Party 2026. lots, lots more to come, but you can read a bit about the project here and click follow to see how it develops. I'd appreciate it grandly! gamefound.com/en/projects/...

ICYMI, I reviewed Pokemon Legends Arceus yesterday, and holy crap was this game ever fantastic!

Dying for a totally amazing RPG that's also super funny? This week I'm so excited to publish my review for Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands (from @deathbulge.bsky.social & @fivehouses.bsky.social)! #Review #GameReview #Switch #Deathbulge #BattleoftheBands #RPG witchsreviewcorner.com/2026/07/08/d...

Want to know what I thought after finally playing Pokemon Legends Arceus? Oh, you know you do! (TL;DR - game's freaking awesome, and I loved nearly every moment of it!) quadnines.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/e... #gamereview #videogamereview #pokemon #pokemonlegendsarceus

Don't buy the remake to Assassin's Creed: Black Flag. The game just came out and how does the team get rewarded? With layoffs. Why should we reward Ubisoft with our hard earned money?? Boycott this shit! insider-gaming.com/assassins-cr...

Good morning! I got to see a baby moose yesterday! How's your week going?

I’ve been wanting to revisit the 1998 psychological horror adventure Sanitarium for a long time. After over 3 months of working on it, it's finally finished! Sincerely hope you have a good time with it. 🫶 youtu.be/msRVh8d6q7U

Here's my latest feature for @pcgamer.com! You're gonna ~love~ Granblue Fantasy: Relink: Endless Ragnarok! :D www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/th...

To the beat! 🥁

Regurgitative AI continues to be so accepted and beloved that companies feel a need to quietly violate everyone’s consent with it. What a popular, ethical, exciting lake of poison it is!

Of all my "lost" reviews, none are requested more than Undertale. It's my delight to state that it's been recovered, restored, and remastered for rereading! Determination wins! Read here: www.thejimquisition.com/post/underta...

If you were only proficient at asking someone to do both your thinking and your work for you, I sure as shit wouldn’t consider you talented. AI Guys do even less than that, and we’ve got companies *surprised* that they’ve hired a vapid waste of space.

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

Today I'm reviewing @futurlab.co.uk's Powerwash Simulator 2! (@powerwashsimulator.co.uk) Not as narratively compelling as the first one, but the mechanics have been refined, and the game was great overall! More, please! quadnines.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/s... #gamereview #videogamereview

well that's rockstar, uber and nvidia on the fuck no list source www.bbc.com/news/technol...

"I, Some Person who played a game for half an hour just now, don't see why Reviewer, who cleared the whole game before release day and spent a week+ living and breathing it, had a problem with [issue]! Seems fine so far!" Don't. Don't do this.

According to PSN Profiles, I have 1,657 trophies. And a 21.91% completion percentage. Ouch. Let's see if I can get that to 25% by the end of the year! I have a lot of games I've started but then stopped for one reason or another. I want to work on at least seeing the credits roll on more games.

Today I'm reviewing @futurlab.co.uk's Powerwash Simulator 2! (@powerwashsimulator.co.uk) Not as narratively compelling as the first one, but the mechanics have been refined, and the game was great overall! More, please! quadnines.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/s... #gamereview #videogamereview

"I adore seeing a game so willing to make choices just because they’re beautiful." Brand new post! Everyone can now read about Onimusha 3's cinematic spectacle over here - have a great weekend! kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/07/04/o...

New review! 394 - The Last of Us: Left Behind (2014, PS4, @naughtydog.com / Sony) This week, Ellie delves into The Last of Us's tragic expansion, Left Behind. #videogames #videogamereview #tlou

✅ Therapist-approved therapy techniques ✅ Top-tier voice acting with stars of Hades and Matthew Mercer ✅ Sexy vampire jokes 🤯 5% of the cost of one therapy session during the Steam Summer sale Therapy isn't scary in game form, I promise! store.steampowered.com/app/2481020/...

One day, a game you paid for will disappear. Not lost. Not broken. Just gone. The license expires. The download vanishes. Access gets revoked. They’ll call it progress. But when ownership becomes permission… we’re just renting ghosts.

Had the odd comment mentioning “sentimentality” in the Sony piece and listen: sentimentality is the point. Part of this is just about the fact we’re losing one of the final touchpoints of another world. It’s right to want to rage against that.

Getting back into the swing of reviewing stuff openly, here's my very positive review of the adorable nonogram/picross game, Squeakross (@alblune.bsky.social )! quadnines.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/b... #gamereview #videogamereview #indiegame

Unravelling the Secrets of Beacon Pines, a charming storybook adventure from Fellow Traveller. treatyourgeek.co.uk/beacon-pines... By Frantzen #beaconpines #gamereview #indiegames #treatyourgeek

Go play Vampire Therapist. If you like visual novels, stories of personal growth, asking uncomfortable but important questions about why you think the way you do, JS Bach, or just poking fun at Americans' discomfort around sex, you'll dig it. One of my favorite surprise finds in recent years.

Getting back into the swing of reviewing stuff openly, here's my very positive review of the adorable nonogram/picross game, Squeakross (@alblune.bsky.social )! quadnines.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/b... #gamereview #videogamereview #indiegame

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

Hi, everyone. I'm back. quadnines.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/n...

Btw, Silksong's script stands at about 90.000 words total. A pro TL would need about 2 months to translate that much, and that's with an additional editor pass.

DoDonPachi DaiOuJou DX Reco.ver (大往生DX-ﾚｺver.-) was preserved by Yuuku! Only sold on December 30, 2007, this is a score competition variant of DoDonPachi DaiOuJou DX. Given how it was only available for one day, this may be one of the rarest i-mode games preserved so far.

The demo for #DigimonStoryTimeStranger is LIVE for consoles today 😍 It’s been live for PC (Steam) Downloading this morning and will play posting some thoughts as I play. ❤️😎

30 years ago gaming changed forever 🤍

How the hell did they even get this patent approved when it applies to HUNDREDS OF GAMES going back decades? Is there no prior art protection clause in the US?

@chiltonm.bsky.social's article examining the cosy vs capitalism playoff in Promise Mascot Agency (and indeed, cosy games as a genre) sure prompted some interesting reflections about why I like cosy/life-sim games so much. Well worth reading! unwinnable.com/2025/09/05/m...

Said it a bunch and I'll say it again—that Thomas isn't like Folding Ideas big is a true failing of the platform. Super compelling concept realised brilliantly here. Get it watched, you won't regret it.

He hasn't changed in eight years. shawnstruck.blogspot.com/2017/04/loca...

Linda explainer! -Linda Linda Linda is a 2005 movie about a group of girls covering songs by punk band The Blue Hearts. -Linda³ is an RPG for the PC Engine CD about attempting to recreate Noah's Ark on the planet of Neo Kenya. -The two are not directly related! Hope this clears things up!

This week: 23 reads on Silksong (discourse), King's Field (-likes), and political economy (no catch): critical-distance.com/2025/09/09/s...