El Goddamn Dorado, our podcast on the Uncharted series, is back, with @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social and @reidmccarter.bsky.social talking about Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. www.patreon.com/bulletpoints...

No one writes about Bond like Ed

This week on the site, @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social on 007 First Light and James Bond. "He takes the pain that we’ve created as a country and gives it back to us as visceral, spectacular pleasure." bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/07/03/h...

zero parades: for dead spies /// july 2026 /// @bpmonthly.bsky.social

YOUR DEFINITIVE BUY OR HOLD GUIDE ON THE STEAM SUMMER SALE

Hey, look, it's a new Gone Shootin' episode, with @reidmccarter.bsky.social and @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social talking about Ed's history as a movie soldier, buying advice for Reid's Steam wishlist, Grand Theft Auto VI jokes, and a bunch of other stuff. Go listen: soundcloud.com/bullet-point...

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.

"Are you playing like a spy or playing like James fucking Bond?"

"Rather than spaces designed with endless potential for planning, these are spaces with endless potential for improvisation."

New this week on the site: @thewillarowe.bsky.social on 007 First Light. "Failure is not the end, it is an opportunity." bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/06/24/e...

I had forgotten just how good Uncharted 2 is, until you get to the monastery at least.

About ten minutes of this episode are spent discussing the implications of Cyril Sneer from The Raccoons being a tapir before we discover that he's in fact an aardvark. Also, a discussion on best videogame box art.

It's a two podcast Tuesday, because we've also got a new Gone Shootin' up. This time, @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social and @reidmccarter.bsky.social discuss: a cartoon we remember, the country of Belize, playing videogames during 9/11, and King Charles XCX. soundcloud.com/bullet-point...

El Goddamn Dorado, our podcast series on the Uncharted games, is back, with @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social and @reidmccarter.bsky.social talking about Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Listen here: www.patreon.com/bulletpoints...

For @bpmonthly.bsky.social new issue, I wrote about 007 First Light and what kind of character Bond can be now, in 2026. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/06/17/n...

The new issue of Bullet Points starts today: 007: First Light. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/06/17/n... And if you like what we do and want to help keep it going, our Patreon page is here: www.patreon.com/c/bulletpoin...

Our 007 First Light issue starts w/@reidmccarter.bsky.social. "If the audience might ask what place Bond, the smirking Brit, the humane servant of empire, brought to you by zero-caffeine Coca Cola and Land Rover, has in modern culture, the game has an answer." bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/06/17/n...

'Here we go...' Bullet Points subscribers, we got a new podcast series for you. El Goddamn Dorado is a game-by-game analysis and retrospective of the Uncharted series, and episode one is available today.

this was a long time coming! go listen please

It's time for a new podcast series about the Uncharted games. Join @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social and @reidmccarter.bsky.social for the first episode of El Goddamn Dorado, covering 2007's Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. www.patreon.com/posts/el-god...

"Bond: Bond. James Bond."

007 first light /// june 2026 /// @bpmonthly.bsky.social

New Patreon podcast series starting up tomorrow. We'll continue it unto the end until it be thoroughly finished. Promise.

This is the light-hearted free branch of the Bullet Points podcast. The entree. If you want the harder stuff, sign up to our Patreon at bulletpointsmonthly.com Or help us out by rating the show on Spotify and sharing it around. The money goes to paying our contributors. Help us do another 10 years.

New Gone Shootin' up now. @reidmccarter.bsky.social and @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social are talking about Belgium, JCVD, incredibly accurate Bond villain memories, Canadian Bond casting, the joy of small spaces, having lots of limbs, and more. soundcloud.com/bullet-point...

"Marathon looks at the ills of today and instead of providing flaccid critique asks you to indulge in play of it, asks if you feel lucky yet." Our Marathon issue comes to a close with an article by Charlotte Lindsay. Read here: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/05/27/h...

On a new Gone Shootin' @reidmccarter.bsky.social and @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social discuss: some Canada stuff, drunk babies, videogame grenades, the pasta mafia, Patreon dreams, turkey twizzlers, and Belarus. Go listen: soundcloud.com/bullet-point...

If we can double the amount Bullet Points gets on Patreon, there will be full, live playthroughs of the entire Quantic Dream catalogue. We'll also do one of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and settle a debate that has long threatened to tear the site asunder (Reid thinks it's good, I don't)

hello bluesky! bullet points just published my piece about marathon, zone fiction, yuri of absence, and being a hopeless romantic -- essentially a tribute to one of the closest and most important friendships in my life. it would mean a lot to me if you read it 🤤 (sorry in advance for the length)

"if marathon offers anything to say about the human condition, i don't think it's to be found in the cutthroat attitude players adopt with one another ... yet i feel like i've grown to understand people more by playing it." @goosepimple.moe on Marathon, up now bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/05/20/w...

"If I merely doze off then death is the one that grabs me, drags me to her abyss beyond the world; go to sleep quickly and soundly where she can't reach me. Silently, so she can't find me." Pierre Guyotat in Idiocy

Marathon has been eating my brain and I was so happy to have the space to write something weird and ambitious about it

"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...

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

Another new podcast from us today. @youmeyou.bsky.social and @reidmccarter.bsky.social talk about Pragmata, a game neither of us much liked. soundcloud.com/bullet-point...

We're starting off a new podcast series on One Piece called Record of East Blue. Join Joshua Calixto, @strida.bsky.social, and @reidmccarter.bsky.social for the first episode, which covers the first volume. the-superculture-review.simplecast.com/episodes/rec...

This is like the 50th episode where we've talked about ending Bullet Points

On a new episode of Gone Shootin,' @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social and @reidmccarter.bsky.social discuss: constructing an iron curtain in Barbados, that new Starfox game, an HP Lovecraft overview, nipple DLC, the new Resident Evil movie, and too many Reddit comments. soundcloud.com/bullet-point...

Me on Marathon, Destiny and Bungie’s inversion of their own formula

"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

Do you have a question for the @bpmonthly.bsky.social podcast? Let me know.

"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...

this is for the fomo bloggers, the steamdb pocketwatchers, the wish-it-was-single-player goofys…

On a new Gone Shootin,' @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social and @reidmccarter.bsky.social cover: a quick summary of the Twilight movies, being a vampire, repurposing the Sea Org, the Bullet Points cruise experience, and more. Listen here: soundcloud.com/bullet-point...

On a new Gone Shootin,' @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social and @reidmccarter.bsky.social cover: a quick summary of the Twilight movies, being a vampire, repurposing the Sea Org, the Bullet Points cruise experience, and more. Listen here: soundcloud.com/bullet-point...

i wrote about marathon!

"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...

"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...