We've reached Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" year... can't say as I'm surprised.

One of the best to ever do it

My latest newsletter is about the spiked 60 Minutes story and the reactionary psychology of Bari Weiss.

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Funland rules. Comes from an alternate universe where videogames stayed weird and esoteric and counter-culture. Get yourself an issue.

FOR THOSE ON THE NICE LIST: FUNLAND NO 06 IS UNWRAPPED Why @ethanredd.bsky.social spent Christmas busy as an elf! @ricesnot.bsky.social starts a holiday tradition for the shitpost era! @molleindustria.org vs tomorrow's Scrooge! Cover by @kostiukwilliams.bsky.social funland.itch.io/funland-zine...

Gather the family around the fire and settle in for Bullet Points' annual look at our favourite and least favourite games of the year, with @youmeyou.bsky.social @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social @strida.bsky.social @reidmccarter.bsky.social & special guest, @ethangach.bsky.social tinyurl.com/y5n9mabc

Here are my top ten favourite games from 2025 paired with the photography of Willy Spiller, the Swiss chronicler of Koch-era New York City.

Subscribe to Unwinnable before the end of the year and get all the 2025 issues free! That's twelve issues of Unwinnable Monthly AND twelve issues of Exploits for five clams. Feed your brain over the holidays! unwinnable.com/subscribe/ (@unwinnable.com)

In Ruins. An unlikely game from me, I grapple with what all is there to say about war games during war. On Battlefield 6, destructible environments, and gardening:

This week Willa and Robin run through all the announcements at The Game Awards, including: Tomb Raider for the straights, DILF Leon, and Control with a man. Boooooo. Also, more Old Skies talk because it's just that good! shows.acast.com/6393ec46b89a...

Delighted to see this piece up! Massive thank you to all the women who shared their experience with me for this 🖤 www.gamesindustry.biz/a-decade-on-...

I’m planning a column about women and games next year. I want to discuss how stories about women are told/received in games, and how does womens’ criticism exist- where/what is it? If you are a woman game writer/dev/critic and would like to share your thoughts, dm or email [email protected] !

It's beyond depressing to see Fortnite continuing to glibly extricate images tied (for better or worse) to blackness and dissociate them from their context. Now w the Kim K champagne pose that's an homage to Jean-Paul Goude’s "Carolina Beaumont." Same as it ever was: www.vice.com/en/article/f...

forgive me father for I have blogged simulacrum.pika.page/posts/but-th...

Love After Lockup

The BDS movement is partnering with @nogamesforgenocide.com. Together we can help end Microsoft’s technological support of Israel illegal apartheid regime and genocide in Gaza. Sign the pledge to boycott Microsoft’s Xbox. Read more: loom.ly/1FQEDiA

Spent some time pontificating on Battlefield 6 and the Modern Military Shooter's relationship to real world violence. Inspired by @platanoranger.bsky.social's excellent piece: www.avclub.com/ive-turned-o...

Spent some time pontificating on Battlefield 6 and the Modern Military Shooter's relationship to real world violence. Inspired by @platanoranger.bsky.social's excellent piece: www.avclub.com/ive-turned-o...

Here's my top ten list of videogames I've played this year: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/a...

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As of today it has been a year since I launched IT EATS PLANETS! Since launch I have released 60+ colour pages, which feels pretty good for something I'm unable to do full time. Huge thank you to every reader, commenter, sharer and supporter. I care deeply about my work and cherish every response ❤️

This piece is just wonderful. One of those "I didn't know you could do crit like this!"

please, tv writers, i beg you stop making the penultimate episode a flashback that answers all my questions about how we got here i don't care! i already AM here. these are not questions i want answered! i don't care about these flashback people! i don't want to care about these flashback people!

New on the site, @strida.bsky.social writes about Silent Hill f. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/11/10/m...

i don't have much to say other than that this article is really, really good and i suggest everyone give it a read in terms of how to view, what to keep in mind when engaging w/ interactive historical fiction, and our participation in a glorified past that exists w/in unique contexts.

just leaving this text from an oooold blog post of mine here re: TGAs ditching the future class

I wrote about historical fiction and romantic visions of the past in this year's videogames. Read it below!

The opening game-within-a-frame-within-a-frame shot of Despelote... WOW. indie games stay showing AAA how you *actually* bring cinematic language into games.

Direct Relief has a perfect score on Charity Navigator. If you can donate to help the hurricane victims, please do.

If Xbox can get away with not answering questions right now, I’d hope most of games media is reevaluating who the quid pro quo of access for coverage really is for

Doing something for free or cheap (and not getting review copies) means the time you spend on it either you have to believe in it creatively so much and make it your Project, or you gotta rush it. And if you choose the first one, so much rides on it being Seen and Discussed

READER BEWARE: FUNLAND NO. 04 IS ALIVE!!! Spill BLOOD with KEVIN KILSTROM ahead of @nightdivestudios.bsky.social's REFRESHED SUPPLY. Go into the BEAK OF MADNESS with @veselekov.bsky.social. Can you SURVIVE @puppetcombo.bsky.social's movie debut? Cover by Plastiboo! funland.itch.io/funland-zine...

I do agree that the market for "professional" game's writing is basically non-existent, but there are plenty of blog posts getting posted every week on sites like @critdistance.bsky.social to basically no attention. social media as a way to discourse and share work has become a dead end, imo.

FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA. MARRY BOOKS. KILL AI.

Picturing a million Rishi's from Industry screaming into their phones about how they're gonna bend that fund over a table and make it beg for daddy.

I reviewed The Outer Worlds 2, a game I did not like much at all.

one of my favorite styles of animation, i love the eerie the way it floats between realism and dream like blurriness. amazing.

GG fest? Really? 🙄

Women don't like the vehicle.

New from me - A review of Battlefield 6 for the Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/a...

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

Pretty hard not to see the validity of @platanoranger.bsky.social's argument:

New blog post up. It's about a few things—chiefly, the impulse to jettison literary criticism as if it were ballast. www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

@edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social, @youmeyou.bsky.social, and @reidmccarter.bsky.social are finishing up our look at the first Deus Ex by talking about the Hong Kong level, multiple endings, and those accents. www.patreon.com/posts/laputa...

The final article in our Mafia: The Old Country issue, from @strida.bsky.social is up now. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/10/10/s...

Continuing to wonder if Mafia 3 is going to be the closest we'll ever get to a AAA game from an unapologetically black perspective.

Pre orders on this close October 18th. My contribution is a 10,000-word essay book on suicide bombers, psychosis and nightmares.

CHICAGO! If you've ever wanted to learn mold making, my partner will be teaching a class THIS WEEKEND at the Insect Asylum! You can learn how to create and cast 3D molds from animal bones, including using neon pigments and glitter! Oct. 11, 1-4pm at the INSECT ASYLUM. Links and info below: