I can’t stop thinking about Better Than Dead. I love when a game convinces you to embrace its esoteric systems with the strength of its overall aesthetic.

hello it’s me with a mildly sprained ankle screaming from the rooftops, ZERO PARADES IS THE TITS!!! THIS GAME HAS THE JUICE!

With Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, @zaumstudio.bsky.social found the pen put down at the end of history, and with it wrote a eulogy at its resumption. noescapevg.com/review-zero-...

So? In high school we made windows fuckin look like this

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

"The breakdown of the society in which we were born and raised has, in fact, already happened. It has happened and continues to happen... "Meanwhile, in the here and now, we are waiting continuously for the other shoe to drop..." www.late-review.com/p/fear-of-br...

The best time to boycott Xbox and Microsoft was when BDS called for it, the next best time is now. Focused, targeted boycotts work, this one is working, and all you got to do to support it is go play other games. Literally the least you could do in this moment in history

Kind of bowled over by how deep Predator Badlands ended up being. Like ok, let's look at how the whole previous franchise -and action movies in general- celebrate toxic masculinity, and how that ideology, of closing off yourself to your emotions, is eminently exploitable by capitalism.

The best reviewed game of the year is on the BDS list bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...

Have you checked out our utterly stacked month on the computer videogame Marathon yet? Still two more articles to go, but plenty to chew on already. WE EATIN: bulletpointsmonthly.com

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

oh the latest entry in my column THE WORK is up, in which the movie MICHAEL made me think of stories told to resist cultural shifts towards equity, and how anyone can use these tools to whatever ends they wish aftermath.site/the-michael-...

new pod. Pure worker owned union made farm to table safe sex socialist bean to cup curated free range comics podcasting

"The Runner is from an empire, of a kind, but of no nation in particular. Home is nowhere." @gracemachine.bsky.social on Marathon, up now. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/05/13/o...

Here’s the thing: I wanna read good writing; be floored by good analysis; have my mind expanded by different POVs. i don’t care if a game is “good” I wanna hear you convincingly argue what you think it is doing.

I didn't write about the game because I don't want to play it, but I did write about discourse, social media, blogging, and nostalgia pcvulpes.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/e...

couldn't really tell you why seeing that made me want to draw this. Don't rightly know, myself

The FINAL word on Pragmata. Sorry folks, jury's in. The Dad? Sad.

If I make like $12 more on this I will be able to purchase mixtape and fight all of you

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Hasan is 100% right. www.youtube.com/shorts/BtNPi...

"Is a building a product? A wall? A window? Marathon thinks so, and will brand them as such, like someone with a newly acquired label-maker. You get the sense that each blade of grass, if inspected close enough, might reveal a barcode." @jumpovertheage.com on Marathon, up now. tinyurl.com/374txyf7

Titanium Court is steeped in theatrical language, pulling from the medium to help establish the rules of it's absurdist world. And while the game successfully replicates these theatrical frameworks, it misses the most important part: The Point ko-fi.com/post/The-Pla...

A eulogy for Paste Games

The best thing I wrote for Paste was probably this essay on Dishonored 2's elevators. There were few sites then and fewer now that allowed a critic to so freely explore and extrapolate on niche subject matter; which imo, is a necessary baseline for healthy crit. www.avclub.com/dishonored-2...

Incredible send-up. Paste will be missed.

"Marathon makes me think of the Michael Mann film Thief, where the eponymous hero, Frank, is coerced into working for the mob boss, Leo." @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social on Marathon, up on the site now. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/04/29/c...

Have some time today and will be updating my Games Writing Resource document: will thread some of the stuff I have added. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

some days playing marathon feels like the machine zone, (credit @strida.bsky.social) some days it feels like getting robbed on the way from your car to the casino entrance.

“If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.” Ancillary Justice, Anne Leckie

Here's a little more Marathon writing by me. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/04/29/c...

a good games writing resource should probably consider the writing itself, glad Steven has done this work

it felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...

I get so, so many ideas when I’m on vacation only for them to wither upon the vine of the work week.

"The zone is a final bubble of self. It is possibility, and it is inevitability. When you play Marathon, you are in the zone." New this week, @strida.bsky.social on Marathon. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/04/22/a...

In my first of three writings on Cairn I explore how you puppeteer Aava's limbs and keep her nourished, but she always remains a character with her own agency separate from the player's, even when you may try to choose for her. breakingarrows.ghost.io/player-as-pu...

🕵️‍♂️ Stealth has a dark side - in #ON3mag @youmeyou.bsky.social examines the psychosexual tension of #SplinterCell, where hiding in shadows comes with intimacy and risk on.games/on3

Gonna say it once more in case the point is lost on some, can y’all please just fucking hire some black women and femmes? I promise you your pub’s coverage will benefit from it

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fwiw i do think there is a need to explore fatherhood in games, (and motherhood too please, for fucks sake). but you simply do not have to hand it to pragmata for doing the bare minimum. fatherhood is complicated right? pragmata is (bad) fiction. anyway bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/07/08/t...

Reviewed the very bad sad dad game www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/a...

hey guys - i'm in a pretty dire housing situation right now. i have to move at the end of the month (lease expires) but prior plans w/ people completely fell apart & i'm back to square one. i'm looking for a room in Brooklyn, trans friendly, 1100 a month max, not a temporary sublet. plz let me know.

Latest episode of the greatest videogame podcast ever produced.

Reviewed the very bad sad dad game www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/a...

new piece on me, on Marathon and the death drive. with music from caroline polacheck as a treat.

new piece on me, on Marathon and the death drive. with music from caroline polacheck as a treat.

For the record:

um, RAYE’s “THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE“ is AWESOME? mods??