DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES (Terrence Davies, 1988)

my favorite 2025 music releases

Thank you all for your patience! Without further ado, it's This Year In Videogame Blogging 2025, complete with a bonus This Week In Videogame Blogging, December 28, 2025! critical-distance.com/2026/01/01/t...

perhaps the most visually romantic film of the 2010's

favourite 2025 music releases (work in progress 'til i die??)

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Now that the Slipknot 25th Anniversary edition is out, I'd like to draw attention to the Slipknot Maggot Mix (2025) — a bootleg that uses demos, outtakes, live experiments, and studio notes to vitally *reimagine* the original instead of simply recontextualising it www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rSp...

The Journal of Games Criticism has published a new issue!! Come and read 6 great new open-access game studies articles! gamescriticism.org/issue-6-1/ #gamestudies

Less a redo of 'A Woman Under the Influence' (as people are saying), more 'Antichrist' by way of John Prine

Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics. I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.

this closeup, casually deforming space-time, in the swimmer (1968)

that geese album from this year is no good at all. like if matt bellamy and x ambassadors got together to make a krautrock album

watching the living dead at manchester morgue (1974), saw a sign reading "Climbers Hikers Served in Passage →," and thought about m john harrison's climbers (1989) letterboxd.com/sisterlisa66...

I'm immediately wondering what implications this will have for preserving play and the contemporary archaeology of video games And the genAI models that will be potentially trained on these upscaled videos

Hands in Susan Te Kahurangi King Untitled 1974-79; 1975-79. Her work both makes you want to draw, and wonder why anybody ever tried to draw since

Can't go wrong!

Insane sequence in The Spiral Staircase (1946) - we see Helen ascend the staircase, we realise it's a reflection, Helen sees her mirror image, in her reflection Helen remembers she cannot speak

Antigone, desire, and the stain of death in A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

far out

most listened to in september

fuzzy lo-fi images from Lav Diaz’s first film, Burger Boys, which seems to only exist in a vhs rip online

a new favorite

some writing on songs: ohia's the lioness (2000) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

Silent Hill 2 (2024), remakes, and bad infinity maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

CORPOREAL has been selected for the SXSW Sydney games showcase, taking place Oct 15-18. If you're in Sydney come try out the new demo and the many other featured games @sxswsydney.com

Notes on Cosmic Osmo (1989) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

Birthday+PhD present made by my friend Cindy. It's so precious it kills me ❤️

La ciénaga (2001)

thoughts on cronieboy's new one - conspiracy, grief, and the text that fails to 'overcome' letterboxd.com/sisterlisa66...

Incredibly proud to have this out with the Journal of Games Criticism - Black Sun in the Land of Shadow: DLCs and Textual Depletion in Shadow of the Erdtree (2024) gamescriticism.org/2025/04/15/c...

New article published at the Journal of Games Criticism: "Black Sun in the Land of Shadow: DLCs and Textual Depletion in Shadow of the Erdtree" by @maxcoombes.bsky.social.

Early iterations of artwork from NORCO, 2015 - 2019

Winifred Knights, The Marriage at Cana (1923)

see you sunday

fucking banger of a piece by @cannibality.bsky.social newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/19/d...

Sometimes the water disappears when swimming in FF VII Rebirth's camera mode www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbuQ...

Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out

WIN! - A Dinked Edition Copy of 'End of the Middle' by Richard Dawson We're going big for our first Bluesky competition! Simply like and share this post, and give us a follow to be entered. @dominorecordco.bsky.social @dinkededition.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2061...

Notes on masochism, Napster, and the embodied cognition of the ollie in Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (2004) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

so honoured to present this paper at digraa 2025. smiling in the last one at, i think, the joy of being asked for a more deliberate use of freudian terminology

Some good people are putting together a special issue on videogame theory at Media Theory Journal. CFP: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp-videogam... #gamestudies

green, living (1929)

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