The adults are larping again

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-100's of games launch on Steam every week -There aren't enough writers to cover them -Pubs/devs don't always respond to emails from excited writers -Editors can't always afford to pay for reviews/features Please don't rush to blame writers/sites when something niche isn't covered. We're trying.

I used to not understand why people listened to sad music when they were sad. But it’s jarring to be placed in an environment that contrives to make you feel something you don’t actually feel, and even being surrounded by horror can be a comfort when you feel a little horrified

Glad everyone is enjoying Seance of Blake Manor, and if you are I HIGHLY recommend Mindcop. Overall a much more compact experience and one of my favorites of that year

Announcing the line-up for ThinkyCon 2025! 🎉 Tune in for 3 days of amazing talks from the makers of your favorite puzzly games! thinkygames.com/even...

Obviously im mad cuz bad, but at the same time i have never been playing a game and thought, “you know what would hit the spot? A really bad slog of a level”

Im just saying it was perfectly fine without bilewater

Paradise Killer

I’m just imagining playing Pokemon Ruby on my Gameboy Advance, unaware that one day Pokemon would let you have a romper set and a balayage

You can balayage in pokemon???

OK so if I want to stay up to date on game releases I just need to beat Ghost of Yotie, Silksong, and Final Fantasy Tactics in the next 5 days before Pokemon comes out

I had no idea y’all were so into baseball

As always, disastrous games result from disastrous management. Hope they get what was promised to them, this letter paints a bleak picture

Hey! Just a reminder — don’t forget to be stressed about that thing :) Your day’s going alright so far, but that thing you’ve been dreading is juuuuust around the corner, and if you don’t anxiously fixate on it for a few hours, who will? Gotta stay on your toes! Don’t relax 😔 Hyperventilate 😊

“You’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music”

PAY FOR ART

Why do I even review games lmao

On my bs about side quests in open world games being like “i need to take a break from saving the world to find someone’s lucky underpants” and emma very quietly said, “every problem is a big problem to somebody.” Which… true! I stand corrected!

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

The game in which the premise is "the odds are real but gamers struggle to conceptualize or even believe them" has negative reviews from gamers who don't believe the odds are real (game: Unfair Flips)

big thank you to union chair spring mcparlin-jones for chatting to me about za/um becoming the FIRST RECOGNISED WORKPLACE UNION IN UK GAMES ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

Reviewed Consume Me! Not a huge fan of how it ends, but the concept and sheer personality here make it worth playing regardless. I had to review Baby Steps AND Hades 2 last week, so I'm really glad I found the time to play this game too.

I just bought a physical game for the first time in years… can someone catch me up on why I still need an 80 gig download

Someone explain to me why sites put links at the bottom of the page and then add endless scroll. This is a threat

My girlfriend bought me like four boxes of coffee filters bc i always forget to re-up. Cost less than a restaurant meal and has eliminated a minor frustration from my life for probably the next year. This is insane romantic tech, highly recommend

I wanted to leave the company i got laid off from in 2024! But i regret the fact that i didn’t get to make that decision. A company i don’t like got to decide things about my life right to the end. That sucks.

Tapping the sign that says “if you have six rounds of layoffs in one year you should not be allowed to run a business”

I love wikipedia, i donate to wikipedia, but why do their donation emails sound like they were written by an emotionally manipulative youth pastor

Oh and @rachelwatts.bsky.social is an aces editor, without question the reason I’ve been able to exist in games writing at all (like spiritually but also very literally!)

Exclamation points! There are so many good artists!!

All the Unwinnable columnists kill it, but special shoutout @emilyprice.bsky.social for the current issue’s piece on what cooking in games does! A great piece of games crit and also a mindbendingly good piece of cookbook crit!

Game Studies Study Buddies w/ @ckunzelman.bsky.social and @ztul.bsky.social straight up made me remember that I enjoy academics! Also described minmaxing as envisioning a “self as gun to then harm the world with” which I think about every day

The way @gameonysus.bsky.social talks about games is inspiring, on the vectors of both passion for the medium and a reverence for fun that is really valuable in the industry! Very regularly says stuff offhand that enters my lizard brain immediately

Sea of Crises by @brianphillips.bsky.social inspired me to be a writer! It’s my favorite written thing! grantland.com/features/sum...

Hello! I'm a pixel artist who makes Shadowgate-style games. I made the games, Infested, and Spectacle on itch(.)io. I also worked on #BeyondShadowgate (2024), the official sequel to the #NES cult classic, #Shadowgate, and I'm currently working on #TheUninvited2, the official sequel to #TheUninvited

Read this! Deftly captures that shimmering sense of the border between organic and technologic in game design. @daytenrose.bsky.social has a keen insight of the ways games are haunted and animated by the butterfly as a symbol.

"The butterfly is a border-thing, neither here nor there." Feature Excerpt: @daytenrose.bsky.social delves into the symbolism behind butterflies in videogames: unwinnable.com/2025/09/26/t...

Consume Me has 40 Steam reviews. Please tell me thousands of people are playing it on itch or something

When we say the games industry is broken, this is the shit we mean

BioShock 2 stocks have never been higher

that's my work!!! as the cover piece for unwinnable magazine!!! 💜 this can safely be called the most personal piece of my career, and i'm so incredibly proud of it! subscribe to unwinnable - not just to read my work, but also because they're the best magazine out there 💜

Step into a new identity. This month's issue of Unwinnable Monthly features @daytenrose.bsky.social on butterflies in games, @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social on Disco Elysium and the trans experience, and our regulars on the topics on their minds. Buy: buff.ly/7V3prT1 Subscribe: buff.ly/UexEQz3

2024: UFO 50 2023: Slay the Princess 2022: The Case of the Golden Idol 2021: Overboard! 2020: Hades 2019: Hypnospace Outlaw 2018: Obra Dinn 2017: What Remains of Edith Finch 2016: Super Hot 2015: Her Story

Infinity Castle review: a great hour-long movie packed into two and a half hours

The Thinky Games website turns 3 today! 🎉 thinkygames.com/

Yeesh, it’s really getting to me today

This guy’s eventually going to upload an AI trained on his emails to World of Warcraft and claim he’s achieved immortality.

next they're gonna make it illegal to call trump and vance the blowjob brothers

Games too big. Games way way too big