I wrote about historical fiction and romantic visions of the past in this year's videogames. Read it below!

thrilled to have this piece from @reidmccarter.bsky.social on kotaku today interrogating how 2025's spate of historical fiction blockbusters all try to convincingly recreate the past, and what it means when games offer up their own visions of history. kotaku.com/ghost-yotei-...

We did it: Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is now playable in French, Japanese, & Simplified Chinese! PLUS it's on sale on every platform too 🥳 ⭐ Steam: bit.ly/CS2Steam ⭐ Nintendo Switch: bit.ly/CS2NOA ⭐ PlayStation 5: bit.ly/CS2PlayStation ⭐ Xbox Series X|S: bit.ly/CS2Xbox

I also speak with the creators of The Mortuary Assistant, Amnesia, Crow Country, Distraint, Sniper Killer and DreadXP about the state of modern horror games, and bring you the complete, 13-year-long story of Routine.

- Simon Parkin reports on the Microsoft boycott - Reid McCarter interviews MachineGames maestro Jerk Gustafsson - Paul Weedon profiles Snapshot, founded by XCOM creator Julian Gollop - I have an essay on Resident Evil. I also speak with Red Barrels about making The Outlast Trials

I have been fighting with Silent Hill f since I finished it a few weeks ago. The latest issue of @bulletpointsvg.bsky.social continues here: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/10/29/i... If you have the time and inclination to read and share this, I'll be grateful. Small preview attached.

The new episode in our Splinter Cell podcast series, Small Nasty World, is on Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, and it's up now. www.patreon.com/posts/small-...

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New on the site today, @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social on Silent Hill f: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/10/29/i...

READER BEWARE: FUNLAND NO. 04 IS ALIVE!!! Spill BLOOD with KEVIN KILSTROM ahead of @nightdivestudios.bsky.social's REFRESHED SUPPLY. Go into the BEAK OF MADNESS with @veselekov.bsky.social. Can you SURVIVE @puppetcombo.bsky.social's movie debut? Cover by Plastiboo! funland.itch.io/funland-zine...

Citizen Sleeper 2 received the "Code the Rights - Best Game 2025" award from Amnesty International earlier today, at the CEEGA Awards in Poznań 🥳 It recognizes "games that address human rights topics in an innovative way" and it's a really cool initiative: www.amnesty.org.pl/code-the-rig...

"While common to video games this blinkered sort of moral questioning is hardly convincing—and it points toward The Outer Worlds 2’s generally compromised approach to interactive drama. There is, basically, no sense of conviction to any topic the game addresses." @reidmccarter.bsky.social's review:

"The Outer Worlds 2’s limp sense of humor prevents its story from becoming oppressively grim, but it also keeps its portrayals of corporate servitude and the terror of authoritarian rule at arm’s length..." Read @reidmccarter.bsky.social's review of The Outer Worlds 2 on Kotaku.

I reviewed The Outer Worlds 2, a game I did not like much at all.

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Our new Silent Hill f issue has begun! First off is @reidmccarter.bsky.social on how the game explores being trapped by tradition: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/10/15/a...

I started off the current @bulletpointsvg.bsky.social issue with an article on Silent Hill f, which you can read below. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/10/15/a...

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@edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social, @youmeyou.bsky.social, and @reidmccarter.bsky.social are finishing up our look at the first Deus Ex by talking about the Hong Kong level, multiple endings, and those accents. www.patreon.com/posts/laputa...

Hades II demeans the mystery and grandeur of myth through its shallow writing and unserious tone, writes @gracemachine.bsky.social. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

"...not a mismatch between how the player acts in gameplay versus the character presented through narrative, but a total absence of the character depicted in the story." @strida.bsky.social has our last essay on Mafia: The Old Country. Please read and share bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/10/10/s...

Read @reidmccarter.bsky.social's review. "The point of the game, whether in its single-player campaign or multiplayer mode, is to make you feel like you’re an agent of small change within the overwhelming chaos of a warzone."

I reviewed Battlefield 6 for Kotaku

very happy to have this review of battlefield 6 from @reidmccarter.bsky.social up on kotaku today: kotaku.com/battlefield-...

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New this week on the site, @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social writes about Mafia: The Old Country and videogame design coherence. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/10/02/y...

Bloober has made a great game. You can listen to this episode right now.

I reviewed Silent Hill f in this month's Edge, which is out now!

New episode in our Splinter Cell series, Small Nasty World, is up now. @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social, @reidmccarter.bsky.social, and @youmeyou.bsky.social on Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. www.patreon.com/posts/small-...

Ayyy lmao. If you're a Bullet Points subscriber, we have a new episode of Small Nasty World, our podcast series about Splinter Cell. This one is on Pandora Tomorrow. If you're not a subscriber, $5 a month and it's yours, as well as all the other exclusive episodes. www.patreon.com/posts/small-...

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I like the auto generated chapter titles for @bulletpointsvg.bsky.social on Spotify

I'm Canadian and I went to high school with Wolverine. Decent guy. The claws were the main thing you'd remember about him, mostly.

We haven't remastered it, but you can listen to the first part of our Deus Ex series through the @bulletpointsvg.bsky.social Patreon here. www.patreon.com/posts/laputa...

It won't be long now before we finally answer the age old question of what's better, cats or dogs, through the one true scientific method: objective game review criteria.

@youmeyou.bsky.social, @reidmccarter.bsky.social, and @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social host another Gone Shootin'. Topics include: fuel considerations for mech owners, Commonwealth facts, sex shops, Antigua and Barbuda, an objective gameplay rating for cats and dogs. open.spotify.com/episode/7dnb...

One more time.

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New this week on the site: @aguaspoints.bsky.social on Mafia: The Old Country. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/09/17/n...

i've the seen the future, baby. it's murder(ing guys with the GEP gun)

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embargo? no thanks, i don't eat snails.

I've been swamped and forgot to post that I reviewed Metal Gear Solid Delta in this issue

Great piece by @youmeyou.bsky.social on Mafia: The Old Country & "the magical space of a well-executed game world." Every environment — lemon grove, market, or mansion — is an "audio-visual cacophony," possessing something of the texture of life itself. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/09/10/a...