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...

I love being part of and continuing to write for Bullet Points. Keeps my dreams of what games criticism could be alive. Please support us on Patreon if you can: www.patreon.com/bulletpoints

On a new Gone Shootin,' @reidmccarter.bsky.social and @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social convene to talk about: the real Wacky Races winners, Yakety Yak remixes, Marathon strats, the Miyamoto psyop, and much more, all brought to you by the Kingdom of Bahrain. soundcloud.com/bullet-point...

On a new Gone Shootin,' @reidmccarter.bsky.social and @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social convene to talk about: the real Wacky Races winners, Yakety Yak remixes, Marathon strats, the Miyamoto psyop, and much more, all brought to you by the Kingdom of Bahrain. soundcloud.com/bullet-point...

lovely article from yussef, who understands that the loot is the trees not the forest…

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

"On the stage of the main screen, your chosen shell cycles through poses, preening before the one-way glass that separates it from you. You cannot stay here forever, held in the virtual arms of your remote handlers, who croon motivational lullabies into your sleeping mind."

This week on the site, @youmeyou.bsky.social on Marathon. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/04/15/d...

"Marathon isn’t just a game; it feels like bootcamp for a future that’s already here."

“I don't think Bungie has made a satire but something colder and starker, a reflection of this moment rather than a value judgement on it—a statement of being.“

Thrilled to kick off a stacked @bpmonthly.bsky.social issue on Marathon. I wrote about the resonance of Runners, live-service players, and SteamDB numbers. We're all just grist for the mill, troops summoned to deliver the aims of the corporation. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/04/09/s... 🐛🔫

Our April and May double issue kicks off today with @lewisgordon.bsky.social on Marathon. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/04/09/s...

marathon /// april & may 2026 /// @bpmonthly.bsky.social

We arrive finally at the Aug Lives Matter incident.

It's time to put Adam's mirror shaded sleep mask on and let him rest now that we've arrived at the final episode of our Deus Ex series. Join @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social and @reidmccarter.bsky.social for a trip to Prague as we talk over Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. www.patreon.com/posts/laputa...

I wrote about being fucking crazy (And a few other things)

New this week, @gracemachine.bsky.social on Pathologic 3. Read it right here: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/03/25/f...

I do not like the videogame Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

Our Splinter Cell podcast series, Small Nasty World, comes to a close with a final episode on Splinter Cell Blacklist with @youmeyou.bsky.social @reidmccarter.bsky.social and @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social. Go listen right here: www.patreon.com/posts/small-...

I wrote about Daniil Dankovsky, one of the guys of all time.

New on the site today, @julie.radiantarray.io on Pathologic 3. Read it here: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/03/18/a...

Another @strida.bsky.social / @bpmonthly.bsky.social frag comp:

There are parts of this episode which are some of my favourites of all time.

On a new Gone Shootin,' @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social, @youmeyou.bsky.social, and @reidmccarter.bsky.social discuss pressing topics like: tubular bells, Beatles versus Baha Men, Full Metal Ninja Turtles, our low rent GDC talk, and realistic space marines. soundcloud.com/bullet-point...

I don't really have an outlet for this so I just put it in a Google Doc, which you can find here. On Marathon: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Here is the current @bpmonthly.bsky.social Marathon lineup. Astrid left, Yussef right, me centre. If you see this trio out in the Dire Marsh, you'd better drop all your blue guns and start headin' for the exfil, baby.

I started up the current @bpmonthly.bsky.social issue with an article about Pathologic 3, dirt, blood, and spirituality: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/03/11/s...

We're starting up a new issue, beginning with @reidmccarter.bsky.social on Pathologic 3. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/03/11/s...

We spend a lot of time here talking about the DLC, especially how Adam has to get in and out of two separate but identical travel pods.