Oxenfree still the 👑 in this space

its weird trying to review a game while the discourse is what it is, but I did my best. this is a nostalgic video game that utterly fails at invoking nostalgia, but i still enjoyed it because skateboarding through malls is cool

less of a games media beef than a mild games media issue: it's very easy to report business stuff in video games in a way that serves nobody but some executives

my principal criticism of mixtape is that its use of silverhair is not even half as cool as the street fighter II anime's use of silverchair

"see the problem is that civilization vii's removal of worker units has robbed the player of a tangible link to the game world, and-"

the only good website takeover advertising i have ever seen is @australiainstitute.org.au buying up the front page of the guardian to run this

we must smash every computer we can find and go back to the old ways

had my first Riz bi Haleeb on fri night at a lebanese restaurant and cant stop thinking about it. rice pudding with fairy floss and pistachio? hell yes.

how i sleep when i only see other people talking about games discourse, not the discourse itself

real rough day in the office for the developers of “Good Pizza” once they found out what the third Apple Arcade May release was

We can’t afford to take any chances. It’s time to sink the hantavirus ship, and all other cruise ships. No survivors.

dudes rock

Celebrating the WNBA season opener by once again sharing my favorite sports graphic of all time.

consider: I am a full-time video games media professional, and it's looking like I will never buy a Nintendo Switch 2.

SCOOP: double fine is unionizing

POOP CRUISE 2

i say this in the pod, but this is not a great strategy! v broadly speaking, gen x nostalgia (eg, michael bay transformers) was a huge hit because gen x had money. millenials dont.

this is englands version of "guys with sunglasses taking selfies in their trucks for their profile pics"

almost impossible to describe to people outside academia or the ACT just how destructive her tenure was. if youd told me it was a liberal party inside job to destroy the university i wouldn't blink twice.

Firaxis is trying to listen to fans and roll Civ VII back into something that resembles Civ VI, in an effort to "fix" it. But that won't work, because it's listening to those fans that got them into this mess in the first place.

Who could have foreseen this

There’s a subtle difference between the way Hideo Kojima names characters and the way JK Rowling names characters and within that difference is where self-awareness lies

GET IN

my beautiful, wounded boy

taking my USB stick to kmart to get some photos printed

yeah wow i wonder if anyone would ever go watch a movie where that happened

oh HELLO

all star foxes look bad

this is like that "i didnt know just how dumb elon musk was until he started talking about a field i understand" tweet, but for me and EVs

wes anderson-looking motherfucker

which us president COULDN'T you beat in a fight?

strong recession indicator:

ceremonial move, every EB near me is just a harry potter socks outlet now anyway

my bachelor of arts + graduate diploma in history took five years to complete, and then three years to pay off. scott morrison should be hounded on the street for the rest of his miserable life.

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

you can keep it ww2 without getting boring. germany/japan winning, or west v soviets, are tired! france defeating germany in 1940 is one my favourite historical thought exercises, both politically (it rewrites the world order entirely!) and aesthetically (ghibli-ass tanks!)

me willing arsenal to win it all this year not because i like arsenal, but because i hate bayern, city and psg

i just got back from spending two weeks contributing to this, and what I saw was interesting: the quantity of visitors in most places wasn't the issue, it was the quality. By the end of the trip I wanted to smack phones out of people's hands.

sounds familiar!

australian byd owner:

this is one of the most european things i have ever seen (complimentary)

the reserve bank board should be in prison

simply insane behaviour from a man trying to complete a $50+ billion deal. He's either concussed or high as fuck, refuses to answer questions and at one point simply tells the interviewer to read GameStop's website instead of giving a response.