keep fighting

One last push for my blog about why guns, cops, and the torrid history of 'Bounty Hunters' are the reason the Metroid series doesn't have a clear direction anymore.

New (messy) blog from me on something that got lodged while I was playing Metroid Prime 4. Is Samus a cop? Or rather, is her cop-ness the reason Nintendo keep the Metroid series at a safe distance? killjoy.bearblog.dev/metroid-samu...

New (messy) blog from me on something that got lodged while I was playing Metroid Prime 4. Is Samus a cop? Or rather, is her cop-ness the reason Nintendo keep the Metroid series at a safe distance? killjoy.bearblog.dev/metroid-samu...

protestors have painted what appears to be a tunnel on the side of the mountain, causing ICE agents to run into the mountain at full speed. disgusting.

Had to actually do some writing today.

I've been commissioned to write a piece about games based on real places that changed peoples' perception of that place or had some kind of local impact - are you a dev who made a game like this? Or are you a player who has a story about a game that inspired you to visit somewhere? Let me know!

Hell yeah

"Despite only videogames being allowed, 6 people wrote in Magic: The Gathering, so we interpreted that as MTG Online." Magic players are all about rules until they aren't.

A final bump for my best of 2025! Really enjoying having a place to quickly put work out to share with my friends 😊

2025 was a terrible state of affairs and apparently it was just a lay-up for 2026... but the culture of games had a lot to offer. Wrote about Despelote, Silksong, Kojima, Slop, Stoicism, and Magic the Gathering in my year round-up. Enjoy! killjoy.bearblog.dev/killjoy-pres...

2025 was a terrible state of affairs and apparently it was just a lay-up for 2026... but the culture of games had a lot to offer. Wrote about Despelote, Silksong, Kojima, Slop, Stoicism, and Magic the Gathering in my year round-up. Enjoy! killjoy.bearblog.dev/killjoy-pres...

Good luck in 2026

There is no motivational, pseudo-science, LinkedIn-ass podcast that can fire me up the same ways as this combination of words and image.

Ancient Alien: Samus, chosen one, we discovered a path to world peace... the power to turn into a ball to unlock doors. Samus: ... Alien: you can do a boost dash too.

2025 was the year of the coin flip in games. I want 2026 to be the year of conkers. Just embracing the tradition of smashing objects against each other.

Sunday bump for this piece on Skate Story. Come for the crit, stay for me dunking on a prophet!

Sometimes you play a game that moves you so much you dust off your blog and get to work. Skate Story by @bysameng.com is one such game. I wrote about public spaces, permission and pain and how all of these things feed skating culture. Thanks for reading! killjoy.bearblog.dev/i-hate-skate...

Sometimes you play a game that moves you so much you dust off your blog and get to work. Skate Story by @bysameng.com is one such game. I wrote about public spaces, permission and pain and how all of these things feed skating culture. Thanks for reading! killjoy.bearblog.dev/i-hate-skate...

My SCORCHING Game Awards take is that this represents everything nauseating about corporate games. Exploiting beloved icons of visual art as marketing mascots is weak. You've got access to Herzog, a titan of cinema, and all you want him to do is stand around? You gotta dream bigger.

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I wrote a new article: it’s on the Fallout franchise, & it’s just been published in Games&Culture I’m currently trying to wrap my head around a bigger project on historical video game promotion and branding & this article is a slice (in progress) of that + it’s open access! doi.org/10.1177/1555...

lmao. We gotta decentralize game distribution STAT. My dream is to see gamemakers alongside illustrators and ceramicists at craft fairs and street markets selling their games.

lmao. We gotta decentralize game distribution STAT. My dream is to see gamemakers alongside illustrators and ceramicists at craft fairs and street markets selling their games.

once again the year in music has been dominated by this video of Takenobu Mitsuyoshi singing the Daytona USA theme www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9f...

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

Always go back to this episode of Reasonably Sound where the case is made for Booing and why it still has an important function. If civility and volume are going to be weaponised, a chorus of thumbs downs can be a deafening resistance. soundcloud.com/reasonably-s...

EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum". PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...

This is how you know you're cooking.

Hey this is on Monday and I think you should sign up and watch online. I'm going to talk about RuneScape for a while.

sometimes you hit your deadlines and sometimes they hit you

All that documentation, all that history. A "wealth", you say?! Based on MY research, these companies should probably give it over to some sort of cultural institution if they're not going to use it. IP holders? more like IP hoarders!!!

I've spoken about it a lot but I'll say it again: Florence's work on preserving Wurm Online using a 'walk-along' method is sooooo good. If you're near Manchester, you gotta go to this!

hell yeah

I wish I could source it but I read something once that called Fortnite plastic. Not in the sense that it's a toybox or a toy itself but rather it's the raw material that's used to produce an object. Fortnite isn't culture anymore than the hard plastic of an action figure is.

clipping are just the most inventive hip-hop group working today. I saw them live in 2014 at a now-dead festival in a crowd of about 100 people. I'd never seen a rapper flanked by two towers of synth modules before. It was game changing. youtu.be/h0-k7vW9Xek

I'm working hard on the ultimate answer to physical games - all content on cart/disc, tested by preservation groups, no FOMO with widely-available retail versions, careful curation, and very artistic collectible prestige EDITIONS every month. Please support our mission! ❤️ www.lostincult.co.uk

What surprises me most about the myriad leaks from Game Freak is that there isn't a shred of evidence to suggest that anyone in that company has even pitched a game where we date the pokemon. I simply don't believe it.

How it feels to read some takes on here.

If you're legitimately upset at a little snark directed at you from the snarky space game... maybe you shouldn't have spent 100 quid on the snark game.

Tired: we need more coverage of what kids are doing on Roblox Wired: we need to check in on the millennial theater nerds with roller coaster tycoon

Souper Saiyan.

Honoured to be asked to speak! It's going to be a great event so please register and come through

Can't wait to see the first Any% Sekiro speedrun on the Gboard. I love this thing.