next Silent Hill 2 stream @gameassistyt.bsky.social will be Thursday 6.30pm UK time btw! will be trying to finish the game (and see if i get the ending i wanted 🙏🏽)

ok you guys are getting me excited about silent hill f

Our three protagonists come into contact, and find themselves at crossroads. As Kara and Alice begin their final push to the Canadian border, the deviant hunter Conor confronts the possibility of becoming a deviant himself... youtu.be/bL4tlCnh710

Live now with Silent Hill 2 www.twitch.tv/gameassistyt/

come hang out while i stream one of my favorites 🤌🏽

In their investigation into deviants, Conor and Hank meet the creator of the first androids, who offers some BS philosophising on the nature of humanity (sound familiar?). Sara continues to take Markus down the militant path, and finds some catharsis in it. youtu.be/mTlTNdlShk0

While Conor investigates the fallout of Stratford Tower, Markus must decide between pacifist protest or militant revolution. Kara and Alice are running away from Detroit and the action, and all of this begs some questions about the gender politics of the game thus far. youtu.be/vKqaN0QuuYY

come hang out while i play Silent Hill 2 tonight!!!

Markus makes his speech from Stratford Tower and the player has the opportunity to... within certain parameters... articulate a series of political demands for the liberation of androids. Sara does their best to author an Android Manifesto within the limits set by David Cage... youtu.be/mIkJGFqOuMw

finally felt calm on the motorway today AND did an auto belay class even though i was terrified at first - i no longer know fear 😎

relating to Diane Nguyen is not for the faint of heart. remember how much people *hated* her? and for what 😭

of course BoJack himself isn't a role model but BoJack has become so positive to rewatch - almost 4 years into sobriety and as an abolitionist it's just a beautiful show about how it's hard, but possible, to be a little better every day, when you truly take responsibility for your own actions

Apologies in advance for a slightly choppy recording, because while Kara and Alice make some new friends, Markus engages in his first direct action, and the police (Conor and Hank) face off against lesbian sex worker androids. I know who I'm rooting for... youtu.be/Olbz0iQsLck

Going to stream some Alan Wake II at 1pm BST (in about 45 mins) over at @gameassistyt.bsky.social - come hang out! twitch.tv/gameassistyt

i really, really hate the dog man, but it's the horse man. the horse man is worse

NOOOOOOOOOOO

While Kara tries to find a place for the night for her and Alice, Markus casually rises from the dead like Android Jesus, and Conor finds that he won't be able to proceed with his case if he can't improve his relationship with Hank. youtu.be/hLHHrRiT_tw

Kara and Markus break free of their programming to defend themselves and the ones they love. Conor's "humanity" is perhaps found in confronting the moral quandary at the heart of being a cop: if you want to be a kind, caring person, you shouldn't be a cop at all. youtu.be/NEyYKq3yX_A

rewatching BoJack and it's hard to figure our whether i hate the horse man or the dog man more

had a lot of fun procrastinating by naming every episode of this LP with an android-related pun on a revolutionary text

In true Game Assist fashion, Sara spends an hour talking about David Cage, video game "auteurs", and the politics of technology before actually playing the game (which is Detroit: Become Human, by the way). youtu.be/qTuGZmy5fYc

Barbie Explorer box art clearly the inspo for Life is Strange and Control

come hang out with me tomorrow while i find out if i like AW2 more than i liked the first Alan Wake... if i don't the hype has a lot to answer for 😃

In this Tomb Raider- I mean, Barbie game, we don the hat of Coloniser Barbie. And unlike Secret Agent Barbie, there's little room for ambiguity here... This Barbie's A White Woman! youtu.be/lsL38mRfY3U

Tomorrow at 2pm BST, Sara is gonna kick off Alan Wake 2 🔦 twitch.tv/gameassistyt

after Control, i'll probably stream Alan Wake 2 to round off/catch up with the Remedy games - in the near future what else would you guys be interested in seeing me play & do political analysis on for @gameassistyt.bsky.social ?

These are the steps that we need to take as an industry to help end this genocide.

As we take Barbie all around the world on a mission to help her (girl)friend Teresa (again), we spend a few hours trying to figure whether or not Secret Agent Barbie is in fact copaganda. youtu.be/Qii_RRSeMS4

🇵🇸 Arkane Studios’ STJV section joins @bdsmovement.bsky.social and No Azure for Apartheid in asking Microsoft to terminate all contrats with the Israeli Occupation Forces that facilitate their genocidal policies. www.stjv.fr/en/2025/...

Hell 👏🏽 yes 👏🏽 Solidarity with STJV! ✊🏽

Live now with Control - Sara is aiming to finish the main story today if possible! www.twitch.tv/gameassistyt

Sara is going to aim to stream Control tomorrow at 1pm BST! twitch.tv/gameassistyt

Did you know the cinematic masterpiece Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper had a video game tie-in?! As soon as they discovered this back in 2023, Sara absolutely had to play it... youtu.be/rE3WBiZGEbk

Back in 2023, the summer of Barbie, Sara kicked off a new series where they played old school Girl Games, starting with Barbie Horse Adventures: Mystery Ride (otherwise known as the prototype for Red Dead Redemption). youtu.be/5Y7CMA7wE08

The final part of Alan Wake gets Sara REALLY excited about the prospect that the game might have been interrogating Alan's misogyny and his relationship with his wife this whole time... but does it deliver? youtu.be/FNmug7JJeJg

Dell is on the BDS list for complicity in genocide against Palestinians through providing servers, maintenance, and other services to the IOF, btw bdsmovement.net/no-tech-oppr...

Time's running out for Alan to save Alice, and the final moments of the game give us a lot of interesting metatextual reflection on the "Godlike" nature of authorship as creation. But we're going to wait until the DLC are over to pass a final verdict on Alan Wake. youtu.be/bRmagEbKExY

Alan treks through Bright Falls with a new... cop companion. Great. On the other side he finally meets the mysterious Lamp Lady, who is totally nothing to do with the Log Lady at all. Wild revelations await in the light... youtu.be/UfczY3kGJrI

The game takes a fascinating twist that raises discussions of the psychiatric-industrial complex, the transformation of art into "content", and the exploitation of artists as "producers" of content under late stage capitalism. Okay, Alan Wake! youtu.be/kUhbymFzp58

Kind of wild to see this launched as I was editing my talk on complicity in games. Will absolutely be pointing people here.

Sara finds herself rooting hard against Alan Wake, the man they're playing as in this video game. Many such cases. Begrudgingly, we continue the search for Alan's magical manuscript.

🎮🔥 Call for Games! 🔥🎮 I'm curating a show on GAMES AS PROTEST/ACTIVISM and looking for titles that explore resistance, civil disobedience, or political action. Made one? Know one? DM or comment! Lets make some interactive uproar ✊️ More to come soon!

give NGFG a follow if you want to get involved and/or keep up to date with organising efforts against the games industry's complicity in genocide and imperialism... 👀

The games industry is complicit in genocide and imperialism. It’s time to divest. If you're a game worker, journalist, streamer, or gamer, and feel like you want to get more involved, you can head to our website for more: nogamesforgenocide.com

We gain a little insight into Alan's relationship with his wife, Alice, and spoiler alert, this heterosexual relationship is pretty miserable. How will the game explore that as Alan searches for Alice? youtu.be/2b_-Ulw5eqI

Sara kicks off their playthrough of Twin Peaks- I mean, Life is Strange- I mean, Alan Wake! This playthrough considers the influence of David Lynch on this game, in preparation for a project we're working on behind the scenes... 😉 youtu.be/_HN79_p1r2c

Bloom and Rage comes to a close, and we find out why the girls didn't speak to each other for 27 years, and solve the mystery of what happened to Kat. This is the end of their story... or is it? youtu.be/oZFGzYKUBJk

Issues like this are also why Musk dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into political campaigns. Wanting to root out so-called "waste, fraud, and abuse" is just a pretense. He wants to root out any regulations that might force him to make his products safer (or face lawsuits or prison time).

Something I haven't seen discussed in investigations is that these issues (especially phantom braking) also occur in Teslas that don't have self-driving mode installed but where the driver is using cruise control (which uses the same underlying autopilot technology to adjust speed based on traffic).