I recommend Unavowed with all my heart. It is one of my favorite games and just a bloody good example of what a excellent adventure game can be. Do yourself a favor, give Unavowed a peak.

This isn't a review of Silksong, since I physically can't play. Instead, this is a reflection of the Metroidvania genre, particularly exploring Silksong's failures and minor successes. Read my latest Access Designed on @ign.com here: www.ign.com/articles/hol...

If you don't have it yet you should pick it up now in case they try to do a shitter move and have the free/cheap editions pulled to juice the remaster's numbers later.

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

Norsk presse: Det er krise at folk ikke henter nyhetene sine fra redaktørstyrte nyheter. Også norsk presse: Charlie Kirk var en snill, kristen familiemann, som kjempet mot de onde transhordene for retten til å kunne beskytte familien sin mot invasjonen av ulovlige, kattespisende innvandrere.

"hvorfor sender NRK dette propagandistiske USA-arrangementet direkte, fullt av ufiltrert kristen-radikal ytterste høyre-nasjonalisme?" Vet du, det lurer jeg også på

This feels relevant and current... Why does this feel relevant and current? hmmm...

I'm not one for the action-packed zombie games like the Dying Light-series, but having seen the trailer for The Beast, I had malapropos idea; what about a theHunter Call of the Wild-type of game with zombies? Just bare-bones survival and living of the land in the zombie apocalypse.

Do you invert your controllers? Do you think about why? Well, someone did and published a research paper on just that. #gamestudies

This looks like a bloody good time.

The latest critique is posted on Critical Reflection, this time about Tom Clancy's The Division.

Milliardærene klarte ikke å kjøpe valget. Men de klarte å kjøpe sperregrensa, og det bør bekymre oss bare det.

For years I've had an idea for an artzine incubating in my mind, and now that the stars are alligned, that idea is coming to fruition. The Critical Reflection artzine is for those who believe games can be poetry and that they carry meaning.

One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.

Sometimes the deepest stories live in cardboard boxes. My latest critique explores how Unpacking becomes one of gaming’s most emotionally sophisticated narratives. No dialogue, no cutscenes, just the poetry of objects telling a life’s story Link in bio for full critique. #gamestudies #queergames

Thomas Grønvoll is on a killing spree! Check out his interesting reflecions on gaming and game culture posted while the rest of us were offline on the beach www.criticalreflection.no @northernpanda.net

For years I've had an idea for an artzine incubating in my mind, and now that the stars are alligned, that idea is coming to fruition. The Critical Reflection artzine is for those who believe games can be poetry and that they carry meaning.

Between AAA polish and indie grit lies the middle space — where b-games live. Too weird, too sincere, too flawed to fit the mold. Beautiful disasters that stumble toward brilliance. Not perfect, but vital. Not safe, but art. #BGames #GamesAsArt #MiddleSpace #gamestudies

The dangers of censorship are real, and we can never trust these institutions to have anything but financial gain as their no. 1 priority. We have seen the same kind of censorship from Steam itself; just look at the situation with Devotion (Red Candle Games, 2019). Defend art, defend games!

“There’s a highway beneath Kentucky where debt becomes geography. A forest in Pennsylvania where communities hunt their own children to keep their dreams alive.” New on Critical Reflection: how video games map the mythological America better than reality ever could. #GameStudies

It's not that I am opposed to e-sports, but I believe the unrelented focus on it in our society's discourse is harmful towards games and gamers. #gamestudies

It really can’t be emphasized enough: reposts help a LOT. They are genuine, REAL support. This isn’t Twitter, where links out, images, and self-promo get buried. Word-of-mouth matters here, it makes a genuine difference.

Nå skal kommunene stå enda friere til å ødelegge natur for å bygge boliger osv. Naturen har ingen verdi for de såkalt "ansvarlige" politikerne i Norge. www.nrk.no/nordland/had...

We're really just going through with all this, aren't we aftermath.site/summer-game-fe...

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

Dette er teit på ein veldig fascinerande måte. NRK *velger* å illustrere denne ytringa med eit bilete som inneheld puppar. MEN dei vil ikkje ha puppar på forsida, så dei lagar ein eigen beskjært versjon av biletet til å bruke der. MEN det er versjonen MED pupp dei vel å sende til facebook-algoritmen

Det var tilsvaret sitt. www.nrk.no/ytring/pride...

then let it die

Gammel mann roper mot en sky! www.gamer.no/artikler/ma-...

Bør dataspill være et eget kunstuttrykk i DKS? Absolutt ja, men det er en for (kultur) politisk het potet til at det vil skje. Jeg prøvde hardt i mine 7 år i Kulturtanken, men det var for mange negative krefter blant beslutningstakerne, både på etats og departementsnivå til at det skjedde.

Just what we needed; more exploitation of our artistic and cultural works. Agent Smith is sure to make me buy a specific brand of toilet paper... On the other hand, whatever company uses the transphobe´s IP will show themselves as a company to not make use of.

Ja Swan. Her ber du om å få sparken. Enten fordi du «taper» saken og alle ser at du ikke bør jobbe med barn. Eller fordi du «vinner» og alle går med på at du er seksualitet vi må holde unna barn. Dummheten ville vært artig om dette ikke var ekte farlig for oss alle.

Det har ikke blitt veldig mye lettere å snakke om spill med de som ikke spiller – hvorfor er det slik? Og hvorfor må vi "få noe igjen" for å spille for at det skal være verd tiden? Jeg har rantet. www.pressfire.no/artikkel/den...

Listhaug går bombastisk ut og forteller at om det blir borgerlig valgseier så skal hun ha kunnskapsminister posisjonen. Mon tro hvorfor?

«KrFU-leder Hadle Rasmus Bjuland vil innføre en verditest for alle statsborgerskapssøkere i Norge.» Jeg mistenker de verdiene kommer til å være jævli lik han og hans likesinnedes «verdier» mer enn norske verdier.

Normalize the games industry taking chances on newcomers 👏

There are so many important parts of our modern history that are gone, and the trend of remakes, remasters and reboots make it worse. Because the Ship of Theseus won’t be the same after you strap a jetboat engine on it and a pair of railguns. #gamestudies

Både for spill- og filmbransjen er det gigantiske kinesiske publikummet tiltrekkende. Men hva med farene ved å se til Kina?

That's very on-track with AI trend. A solution looking for a problem. It's yet another in a series of "reveals" that is bug-ridden and broken. Using unimaginable amounts of resources to make something that can be made without AI, but worse. What does this prove? Is this the flex AI bros think i is?

they finally did it. they invented a machine that can't run doom.

"Bedragersyndromets største ønske er å overbevise deg om at du ikke er verdt det. At man ikke duger. Da må man minne seg selv på at det å skape, det å være kreativ, er fette gøy."

I love the fact that my five year old daughter has embraced Northern Norwegian poetry and curses properly. «woah, that was fucking scary», «goddamned fucking seagull».

The industry loves nothing, devours everything, and will never care for anything but its own growth. If we want a better games industry, it has to be about people. It has to be caring for people, building up people, supporting people, protecting people, empowering people, connecting people.

Do NOT go to the US if you speak up for human rights, are Arab, or trans. The US is literally disappearing foreigners, full stop. They will go through the Arabs, the trans folks, and the protestors, and then start to disappear any other undesirables until all that's left is obedient pure fascists.

Det er ikke lov å være så dum at man ser det opptrinnet der og tror Trump fortsatt vil komme til unnsetning om et NATO-land trenger det. Rust opp, send penger til Ukraina, knytt oss nærmere Norden og EU. Det haster nå.

I get really irked when I see people post “indies will save us” or “the laid off devs should go indie” THERE IS NO MONEY publishers are cancelling contracts, angel investors/venture capital don’t want small returns. I think they mean hobbyists with a day job working doubletime & that is a rough ask

«Dessverre viser historia at kristne også tidlegare har late seg blende av denne typen sterke førarskikkelsar, seier Selbekk til NRK» Ulv i fåreklær, og fascister i fromhet.

I just realized Jack Burton is basically a podcaster driving a truck.