Is it time for Highguard 2 yet?

Sony's State of Play strategy

Watched The Master (2012) tonight

It's publication day for Writing Game Histories!! 🥳🎉 Please do recommend it for your library, but it's also out in paperback so not as hideously expensive as academic books can be: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g... @doktornick.bsky.social @doni.bsky.social @historygamesnet.bsky.social

HIDEOOOO NOOO REWATCH DRIVE HIDEEEOOO IT REALLY DOESNT HOLD UP

FWIW I largely disagree with that Bogost post BUT the man has been writing for decades now about the dangers of being too precious about videogames. We can all probably stand to be a little less precious about them. The guy is just practicing what he preaches to the Nth degree lol

Fabulous work. bsky.app/profile/aust...

I was curious about the work @gamersvoice.bsky.social were doing and their ties to @stopkillinggames.bsky.social so had a great chat about games preservation and rehabiliatating the image of the 'Gamer', especially when that term is so loaded killjoy.bearblog.dev/rehabiliatin...

Ryan does this every year and doesn't ask for a thing in return. The guy is a load-bearing part of the games industry.

How your email finds me today

Put together a little visual piece to accompany the new track! Footage from Organe Cinema Archive. youtu.be/ewAR8I_R9MQ?...

Put together a little visual piece to accompany the new track! Footage from Organe Cinema Archive. youtu.be/ewAR8I_R9MQ?...

I'm not a Destiny player but this is exactly the kind of thing that should be archaeologically sampled as a record of a hinge point in the game's lifecycle

Put a quick blog up about my new track. About making art for no one and trying to make music that is inimitable by GenAI. Also about a Charles Bukowski interview I like. killjoy.bearblog.dev/making-music...

Put a quick blog up about my new track. About making art for no one and trying to make music that is inimitable by GenAI. Also about a Charles Bukowski interview I like. killjoy.bearblog.dev/making-music...

New Music: I've just published a song I've been tinkering away with for a bit. It's part of an EP inspired by Ursula Le Guin's novels. It's about self doubt and performance. Details on the Bandcamp page and best enjoyed with headphones. machinesmachines.bandcamp.com/track/ancien...

mclusky mclusky mclusky youtu.be/GRYaJ_zpU_s

Magic: The Gathering writing has a short half-life. Historically-important articles are taken offline every year. This sucks. That's why I'm launching Library of Leng, an index of 32 years of Magic writing. 150k+ articles, 20+ sites, fully searchable. library-of-leng.com

Note: Glup Shitto died on the way back to his home planet

"Kill the CEO in your head" will never stop being relevant.

The latest from me, a report on Project Trident, which pivoted from a Shadow of the Colossus style game to incorporate Generative AI following a company-wide push to use the tech. Ultimately, it was cancelled anyway, as part of last year's layoffs and strategy shift at Amazon Game Studios.

The idea that the games market is "overrun" by anything is an odd notion anyway. If we're talking the games market-at-large, Mixtape is an ant on the horizon. Discourse-community-at-large, yeah I guess there's more of an argument to make.

This is from a Guardian article in 2003. Is this how people used to say MMORPG???!!

Heartbroken to find out that I find Titanium Court more clever than I do fun.

We've just launched the first edition of our brand new newsletter 'Saving in Progress'. Dedicated to keeping you informed about developments in games preservation from Europe and beyond, with a special focus on EFGAMP and its members. You can read and subscribe below 👇 mailchi.mp/0951235212a6...

I do think you should have your licence to gripe about clickbait-y headlines removed if you haven't spent an equal amount of energy reading/sharing/generally uplifting other pieces that weren't metaphorically waving and yelling at you.

PRE-RELEASE GTA 6 COVERAGE: The entire global economy rests on this revolutionary piece of art POST RELEASE GTA 6 COVERAGE: Here's where you can find the most early-game Orbs

After our Games Preservation online event on the 12th March we have made the full day of recordings available on YouTube. You can find the full playlist of recordings here:

My two favourite things: magic the gathering and worker protections. LET'S GOOOOO

The "Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches" lightning talks from @discoxford.bsky.social are now online! 📡You can hear me (quickly) talk about the Satellaview starting around 1:09:30. ⚡And great talks from @videogamehistorian.bsky.social, @jeanketterling.bsky.social, and more!

Underrated (and likely unintended) consequence of remake culture is that game historians get a chance to benchmark the cultural shifts around representation between release and remake

This PR strategy make a lot more sense when you realize that video game platform holders function like wrestlers. They operate on heel/face turns based on how the business is doing. Your console is making a ton of money? You can afford to go heel. Burned too much good will? Babyface pivot.

Huge shout out to the folks involved in FreeGoldsmiths! Putting up the good fight against misuse of students fees, redundancies, and regressive course cutting. 🤘🏻

Huge shout out to the folks involved in FreeGoldsmiths! Putting up the good fight against misuse of students fees, redundancies, and regressive course cutting. 🤘🏻

Wonderful that our series, Videogames In Focus, now has a spot on Bloomsbury's website! www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/vi...

I'm not fully convinced by the "Technofeudalism" model but it's really hard to dispute it when the Tech Lordships are constantly demanding additional tithes and sworn fealty to protect us from a threat they engineered.

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Hi I'm Jesus of Nazareth and this is the 'Camel Through The Eye of a Needle'. Welcome to Jackass!!

Oh man, they got me.

Hitting up my Catholic school group chat to see what class everyone wants to be in 2026 Crusades.

"They've come a long way since Pac-Man" should be a fineable offence.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

The Strokes still the best band to ever band youtu.be/GXVidwXrAzs

Weekend push for a nice, fun, wholesome Pokémon blog

I was on Slate's Hang up and Listen podcast to speak about Saudi Arabian sportswashing in the FGC. What's been happening, why it's happened, and what the future holds. You can listen to it below! open.spotify.com/episode/315Y...

New blog from me on my relationship with the Pokemon series. Digs into a weird experiment I did for the sake of documenting my personal games history. Heavily inspired by @videogamehistorian.bsky.social's work on oral histories and also shout out Trubbish. killjoy.bearblog.dev/a-personal-h...

New blog from me on my relationship with the Pokemon series. Digs into a weird experiment I did for the sake of documenting my personal games history. Heavily inspired by @videogamehistorian.bsky.social's work on oral histories and also shout out Trubbish. killjoy.bearblog.dev/a-personal-h...

Can't get over how well this single image condenses the experience of playing a Hideo Kojima game.

I also don't believe that Starfield is good now but I would prefer a discourse cycle where folks fight vehemently for games to be appreciated for their growth than one where people are incentivised to jeer as games are publicly executed.