A quick post to announce that Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games is part of @warppoint.games, a new (but old-school) webring services linking together people who are blogging about gaming in 2026. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/warp-po...

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.

"Bestbuy.com woud like to access your location" Why. It's not like I'm in a Best Buy

New post! This week I’m investigating the first entry in one of the most significant series of Japanese detective games, Saburo Jinguji (aka Jake Hunter). We’re looking into absurdist crimes, corpses as symbols, and the profound abstractions that are maps. Wowee!! Give it a read!

Also the fact you can just remove the "2" from this URL and get the Concord closure sure is something. Can't even be empathetically original in your subject about ruining people's lives: sonyinteractive.com/en/news/blog...

To commemorate the 39th anniversary of Ys today, I released six English localizations! ⚔️🎂 Play the PC-88, PC-98, Sharp X1, MSX2, FM-7, or FM77AV versions and “Enter the era of kindness” in English. Repo: github.com/GhaleonX/Ys #Ys #PC88 #MSX2 #pc98 #RetroGaming #Falcom

Among my dad's files I found a fax I apparently sent around the end of 1996

Got a new Pasokon Retro feature on @pcgamer.com, celebrating Relic's worldwide Steam release today! Enjoy! www.pcgamer.com/games/advent...

I'm back on @backpagepod.bsky.social! A draft dedicated to first-person games, which I'm rather partial to, as becomes quickly apparent. You probably won't guess the first ever FPS I played, though. open.spotify.com/episode/621x...

This is a dude Golgo 13 would ice in the first 47 seconds of an episode before the opening credits

You know a thrift store is legit when you open a cassette drawer and find tapes hand-labeled PASSION and Sunday in the Park with George Sondheim - Original cast recording

12500+ words, covering Capcom's seven-part Japanese Dreamcast RPG series Eldorado Gate from beginning to end! I love doing this work - I hope you love reading it too! kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/eldorado-gat...

How did they say "quirk chungus" in the original greek

check this shit out 😼

BIG KNOB

MSFT on January 1, 2026: "Run it back"

Thinking about this conversation again for no particular reason

Dick Van Dyke: "Hould me pint"

Who else out there is spending their Sunday checking out phr0zen's Windows 98 Zelda theme, featuring a gobsmacking 800x600 pixel screenshot of Ocarina of Time thanks to UltraHLE? Everybody, right?

I'm on the radio in Canada tonight, talking about The Science!

In my restless dreams, I see that town

Had maybe a little existential crisis after playing Tomb Raider, and thinking about how Legacy of Atlantis is remaking the idea of Tomb Raider and not the weirder, darker game itself

@brandon.insertcredit.com @frankcifaldi.bsky.social Thanks for the shout-out in the latest @insertcredit.com, I’m honored 🥹

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In 2002 someone accidentally wrote "Kingdom of Hearts" on a Final Fantasy message board and they've been getting grinked for it ever since

After many years of development, the Kowloon's Gate English Patch is now available.

Anything happen today

New translation! I’ve made subtitles for Kazuo Kuroki’s mesmerizing documentary short, The Solar Thread! Come enjoy this nightmare of nylon factories becoming terrifying God Machines and marvel at how this PR movie DIDN’T result in Kuroki getting merc'd by corpo hitmen Watch it! Now!!

Hi. Today is my birthday. In lieu of wrapped gifts, I'm asking you to have a look at Mario 101, my project about weird Mario history. And if you have already looked and think it does not suck, please share this link somewhere.

A friend was just cleaning out a closet and found a 32GB DDR5 kit he forgot about. Crazy. Other people are out here breaking One Wish Willows to get that much RAM

Every minute you spend in a hotel lobby in LA is a minute you're not spending seeking out the best tacos you've ever had. When you die you either go to heaven or hell based on how much of your life you devoted to tacos, so, take the hint

blessed to write a little bit about my current goty 868-Back and what makes it so special (aka constantly rewriting how you consider its space)!!

Inside me there are two wolves: The World is Not Enough Recompiled and Battletanx: Global Assault Recompiled I am very ill

just checked the election results. fuck!! can't believe it

Is it too early for a "Nick Bilton retire bitch"

Could not care less about the story in Luna Abyss but in terms of brutalist megastructure hellscapes it's like a top 5 game of all time?

Repaired my dad's old camera (with a clutch assist from @stevelin.bsky.social) and got some film! Time to take some embarrassingly shit photos

I have an incredibly simple 8 word solution for this problem: "Fuck it, we're bringing back the Nintendo DS"

Hello here's a ridiculously massive feature about the nightmare development of Unreal 2. It's got twists. It's got turns. It's got possibly the craziest business deal in video game history. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/th...

Criminal: Someone owns the domain drift.tokyo and they haven't put a dope ass website on it

Whenever I read this warning from United I'm like 'solid life advice tbh'

5 bucks is basically 20 bucks, but 80 bucks is basically $1,999.99

@muratcorlu.com more movement around what I was recently bugging you about on Mastodon 😂 I wanna see Ghost catch up! bsky.app/profile/offp... Also WP activitypub.blog/2026/05/20/a...

Butlerian Jihad tonite? 👀 Butlerian Jihad tonight queen??

Not for nothing, I also AM writing longform style on things I'm really liking about Paralives. I begged for life sims to get back in touch with their strategy roots and I really like where Paralives' head is at on that front.

The extra 2026 indignity of trying to name something and it already being taken by some AI garbage

Why was PS1 adventure Kowloon's Gate a nightmare to hack? Why could machine translation never come close to giving this game the English localization it deserves? Here's @hilltopworks.bsky.social and @cargodin.bsky.social going deep on a very special game and fan translation.

Just a normal night in the digital Root chatroom