This week: Let's get historical, from past to present to future: critical-distance.com/2026/07/19/j...

Maybe I'm salty from last night's loss but I finally got some words down on how I'm feeling about the state of the games community. New blog about the Ocarina of Time remake, Trash Culture, Platform Powers and us all needing to 'Grow Up' a bit. killjoy.bearblog.dev/its-time-to-...

Maybe I'm salty from last night's loss but I finally got some words down on how I'm feeling about the state of the games community. New blog about the Ocarina of Time remake, Trash Culture, Platform Powers and us all needing to 'Grow Up' a bit. killjoy.bearblog.dev/its-time-to-...

Dan Burn has arrived

Some great noises out of this 1986 ad for Metroid. youtu.be/ceoxI8QdcCY

The Titanic received at least six distinct messages over the ship's wireless from others in the region warning of heavy ice sheets and icebergs as it sailed towards disaster; but for various reasons they were ignored

A recent peer review described something I wrote as "intellectually compelling yet underdeveloped". Like, yeah, that's my whole brand.

What Vermin Supreme, Count Binface and Subcomandante Bagman (Zero Parades) tell us is that the easiest way to disrupt politics as usual is to become unusual (put some bullshit on/over your head)

So this happened and it was called The Fall.

You know what won't save Xbox? Gutting hundreds of years of combined institutional knowledge from these studios and expecting them to turn out interesting, sustainbly-made games that people want to play.

This is the key to adapting to platforms consolidating their power through choices like killing physical editions. Your relationship to games does not have to be governed by platform power. You are not part of their platform if you don't allow yourself to be.

dreamcast forever 🌀

The new Phoebe Bridgers music video having a RuneScape motif is really pandering to a specific demographic of people. Consider me pandered to.

Have we considered that the England team are just shy and can't score while we're watching?

Destiny’s lore has been routinely saved by preservationists. With support ending on Destiny 2, their work becomes even more crucial. We speak to some of those responsible for archiving years’ worth of Bungie storytelling, including MyNameIsByf and the people behind the Ishtar Collective.

The video games corporation is discontinuing their popular product, the video game

let's goooo

Check out my tutorial for EASILY surviving the climate crisis (Fortnite Gameplay 4K 60FPS)

FUCK

History repeats as T. Partey angers English in Boston www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

the punishment is a bit medieval but i appreciate the enthusiasm

Shout out to all the folks at this year's DiGRA. Was a pleasure sharing pints of Guinness and chats with you all. I was happy to FINALLY share some findings from my PhD project about videogame developers and the forms of governance that limit their mobility as workers dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...

most important text in 21st century british politics

At DIGRA 2026 in Maynooth excited to hear about everyone's research, mostly wondering when I can have my first Guinness.

Ocarina of Time is a game about growing up and all things you leave behind... Something to think about, eh!

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.