One great reason to kill the part of you that cringes: The ability to enjoy Cave Story: A Lyrical Walkthrough. A 21-track nerdcore concept album. A complete Cave Story walkthrough, Hell Temple included. It is shockingly good. Has the same spirit as Knuckles' tracks from Sonic Adventure 2.

One of the most overlooked 7/10 games that I've played in years; Screw Dive is a Lode Runner-ish puzzle-platformer where you have to remove screws from floating platforms so that they fall and eliminate the enemies standing on them. Only 7 Steam reviews too. store.steampowered.com/app/3204880/...

Apropos of nothing, some N64 favourites: Bangai-O F-Zero X Iggy's Reckin Balls ISS 2000 Jet Force Gemini Mischief Makers Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon Pilotwings 64 Quake II Ridge Racer 64 Sin and Punishment Snowboard Kids Top Gear Rally Wave Race 64 Wetrix Winback: Covert Operations

I'm having a really good time with Blaze of Storm, the new STG from Terarin Games. There's a big emphasis on scoring over difficulty (I 1CCd the Hard difficulty on my second go), especially from the genuinely addictive Caravan mode - and the high score tables are thriving.

EA putting beloved single-player focused studio, Bioware, on a live service game that failed disastrously in 2019 was not a lesson that Sony had learned from when they allocated a live service project to beloved single-player studio, Bluepoint, in 2021.

Show me a videogame with more style than Anthem #9 manages in 45 seconds. It's got the juice!

D'you ever get a stupid idea in your head and then you can't do anything else until you get it out? 🎣

Wishlist my buddy's game!

I find that I don't have a lot of time to play co-op games with some of my friend group these days but the Christmas to New Year period has given me the opportunity to play the *quite good* Gauntlet - Slayer Edition. A good co-op romp for an absolute pittance. store.steampowered.com/app/258970/G...

Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.

Fallout Season 2 starts tomorrow. In true insert credit fashion, we had to find out the answer to the big question on everyone's mind: What level was Lucy by the end of season 1? Thanks to the hard work of @iantothemax.bsky.social we now have the answer, just in time for her journey to New Vegas.

Infra-Man (1975) Hua Shan (director) Cracking into the next Shawscope volume with a long-time favorite. Shaw Brothers going with a tokusatsu style hero movie, starring Danny Lee. It's a heck of a good time! 📽 #SaturdayActionMovie #ShawBrothers #Shawscope #HongKongCinema #FilmSky

I'm by no means a presentationally fancy chef but this Pikachu* katsu curry turned out pretty good!** *Not made with a Pikachu ** A Pikachu that has seen some shit.

It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate

This is true and it's why it's important to support independent critics... like me!!! I just posted a 2500 word essay on Baby Steps and I've worked hard this year to talk about more new and independent games like it. I don't have any steady income right now, just $1 per month makes a difference:

Detective Instinct is NOW AVAILABLE in all regions (on 15% launch discount for the next two weeks)! Thank you all for supporting us. We did our best to craft a story we can be proud of, so we hope sincerely hope you enjoy it 🫡 Check it out on Steam or Nintendo Switch!

I love Chinese & Taiwanese Wuxia RPGs, not only for the cool martial arts setting but also for playing differently from Western & Japanese RPGs. I often get asked for recommendations. I had a big thread on Twitter, so here's a new one! Here's my favorites available in English (officially or not) 🧵

Ep. 415 - The Demonschool Episode Go back to hell! Insert Credit celebrates the release of Demonschool by analyzing trends in indie releases, the best grids in games, and of course, woke. insertcredit.com/show/415 Wishlist Demonschool! store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/... Releases Wednesday!

If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency

I've just watched The Tomb of Ligeia, and after reading a bit more about it, I've found this million degrees burn on the casting of Vincent Price as the lead saying that he looked like a necrophiliac.

Here's a brand new interview with our head boss onion Kimura in @pcgamer.com, on getting the courage to make a new RPG, and how #StrayChildren came together! www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/af...

I have bought a Switch 2. Setting it up and performing a system transfer from the Switch 1 was one of the most ludicrous and simultaneously most and least Nintendo processes imaginable. Also I had to log into my Nintendo account three times to buy something on the eshop. Absolutely baffling.

I'm really sad to see this place go. On my first night in Japan I sat at a BlazBlue: Central Fiction cabinet and beat a player sat on the other side. When he came around to congratulate me, his friends mercilessly ripped the shit out of him for losing to a gaijin. soranews24.com/2025/10/16/t...

A fascinating oral history with no ads. This feels like something too good for modern internet. Check it out!!

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc. vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

Outside these walls, the Children say, the grown-ups are monsters, and nowhere is safe. Discover our bittersweet fairy tale RPG #StrayChildren on October 30th, 2025, when it releases on Nintendo Switch and Steam! Wishlist it now: store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/...

Introducing @keitaiarchive.bsky.social, a website for Japanese feature phone game preservation resources. As keitai game preservation grows, we want our tools and preserved abandonware media to be as accessible as possible. Read on for more information! (1/6)

Summing up the eternal struggle with Baby Steps in one image.

🌎🌎🌎NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!💀💀💀 Introducing *Earth Must Die* from @danthat.bsky.social A dark comedy adventure game featuring the voices of Alex Horne, Joel Fry, Martha Howe-Douglas and more store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/... RTs extremely appreciated!!!! <3 <3

Another web game you shouldn't miss: 1x111 by @abagames.bsky.social A collection of inventive and delightful tiny games. Think UFO-50 mixed with Wario Ware. Full of surprises, and actually pretty addictive. #gaming #videogame abagames.itch.io/1x111

My first experience with the original Prince of Persia was the DOS version at a childhood friend's house. Not sure what terrified us more - the crunchy "falling on spikes" death sound blasting through speakers or the imposing time limit. Needless to say, as young kids we were rubbish at it.

Many few years back, I re-edited the live-action/cartoon hybrid ATTACK OF THE SUPERMONSTER and showed it once in theatres as part of the Children's Matinee series MEGA FUN MOVIE EXPLOSION we ran. This is the trailer I made for it, which humbly, I think still rules.

The Borderlands 4 inventory UI wouldn't be any more difficult to use if someone put their hands in front of my eyes every time I opened it.

Presented for the first time ever, a 12GB completely lossless VHS rip of 1987 Slasher Horror Anime HELL TARGET Timed & subtitled from my hacked VCR. This anime has NEVER been available in High Quality before today. Enjoy! archive.org/details/hell...

DoDonPachi DaiOuJou DX Reco.ver (大往生DX-ﾚｺver.-) was preserved by Yuuku! Only sold on December 30, 2007, this is a score competition variant of DoDonPachi DaiOuJou DX. Given how it was only available for one day, this may be one of the rarest i-mode games preserved so far.

This is how battles look like in 🛡️G l o o m G a t e⚔️ #indiegame #playdate #1bit #gamedev

Dragon Ruins II: Aftermath Steam page is live. store.steampowered.com/app/3819770/...

Odlaw being the global English name of the antagonist of Where's Waldo / Where's Wally is kinda disappointing when "Yllaw" in Welsh means, "The Hand", which if you think about it is the true antagonist of Wally's, whose only goal is to stay hidden.

Real good recommendation from the latest episode of @insertcredit.com to watch From Beijing With Love. My favourite thing about this scene is Stephen Chow's character offering a tiny plaster to cover a bullet wound. youtu.be/FIri4Mkyoio?...

I've been playing Urban Myth Dissolution Center; a real good mystery adventure game, and it has tonnes of red hot pixel animation throughout.

Nintendo really missed a trick by not calling the new DK game Donkey Kong Bananaza. Thank you.

If you enjoyed Chrono Trigger 30 years ago then spare a thought for anyone outside of North America and Japan who had to wait until 2009 for a small-screen version and 2011 for an official release that we could play on a television for one of the most widely and enduringly beloved videogames ever.

Fixed all lists: Lost Odyssey Deadly Premonition Nier Asura's Wrath Magna Carta 2 Bayonetta Raymans x2 VF5:FS USFIV KoFXIII Akai Katana Outrun Online Dust: AET After Burner Climax Blur Ninja Gaiden 2 Bangai-O Dante's Inferno Spelunky Nin2-Jump Stacking Bastion Borderlands 2 Portal 2

I was part of the team that helped pull this together and trust me, there's a bonkers amount of great stuff in the bundle. The fires may not be in the news anymore but their impacts continue. Donate a little and support communities to take real action to help each other.

This is finally launching tomorrow. What took so long? Gotta onboard the charity before you launch the campaign, and it took a while to find one that met the mission brief and was willing to sign up. But after making phonecalls every day for 3 weeks we did it! So be ready! Link coming tomorrow!

What I'm reading here is that Martin Scorcese really likes Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.

I've read it wrongfully being called dull, and it's very definitely not dull, but Warriors Abyss is a great example of the "I want shorter games with worse graphics..." meme, and I love it.

Presenting "Terry's Other Games"! A messy little collection of short games I've made over the past 20 years, out now on Steam and Itch! <3 Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2824580/... Itch: terrycavanagh.itch.io/terrys-other...