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🤖🌟 Issue 6 of APWOT is live on Kickstarter! 🌟🤖 Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation. Get in there! 💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫

I got to talk to Miles Jacobson about Football Manager 26's new match engine, adding women's football to the game, and the lamentable decline of my fave football position in life and FM: the trequartista. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/f...

Making my @rollingstone.com debut writing about Monolith's incredible F.E.A.R. and how the story's meaning has kind of gotten lost over the years. Alma isn't F.E.A.R.'s villain. Armacham and the people that made her are. She's as much a victim as anyone else, a spirit of vengeance made, not born.

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So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

very excited to share this story about an emerging video game genre: games that live on bottom of your desktop screen. my first story in the NYT, featuring @mistermorrisgames.bsky.social, @toadzillart.itch.io, and more! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

The devs behind Ninja Gaiden 4, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, AC: Shadows and a few ninjutsu practitioners told me how history, acrobatics and ingenuity made one of history's most elusive figures become a gaming icon. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/year...

The devs behind Ninja Gaiden 4, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, AC: Shadows and a few ninjutsu practitioners told me how history, acrobatics and ingenuity made one of history's most elusive figures become a gaming icon. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/year...

Absolute whopper of a long-form feature from cool word guy @dominguezf.bsky.social, who simply wanted to talk to anyone and everyone about ninjas GET IN

I reviewed Bounty Star for @ign.com. It is the most personal review I've written in a long time (maybe ever) and I'm very proud of it. It would mean a lot to me if you read it. Full disclosure: I talk about being suicidal for two years in the opening because I had to. This one hit me pretty hard.

SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average. This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything. Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

oh this is up sooner than I thought! I wrote about this year’s superhero adaptations, stories most interested in superhumans saving themselves slate.com/culture/2025...

This was wonderful. A really personal piece that shares decades of understanding about who Itagaki was underneath the spiky public persona.

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New Review! Ninja Gaiden 4's combat is absolutely incredible, like we're talking peak of the genre good. The things around that combat are... not so great. It was a tough game to put a score on. Here it is: www.ign.com/articles/nin...

“My life was a series of battles. And I kept on winning.”: Skybox remembers Tomonobu Itagaki by @edgarallanbro.bsky.social feat. several Skybox contributors "Tomonobu Itagaki was a rock star. Maybe our last one." Read on:

“It's not just a petting zoo.” I spoke to Jurassic World Evolution 3's director about making a theme park management sim with teeth (and plenty of baby dinosaurs). store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/j...

“It's not just a petting zoo.” I spoke to Jurassic World Evolution 3's director about making a theme park management sim with teeth (and plenty of baby dinosaurs). store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/j...

Fallout: New Vegas is 15 now, so I wrote a few words about how it stood apart from other entries and why it holds up so well for @space.com: www.space.com/entertainmen...

from me -- a profile of Jafar Panahi, a filmmaker whose work has perfectly met our age of surveillance and interrogation and asks the imperative question of: Who are we, and what comes next? IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT = masterpiece, imo.

Suikoden III, when I played it in 2008. It felt lethargically slow and drawn out compared to its phenomenally well-paced predecessors, and singlehandedly killed any interest in continuing the series.

🚨🚨🚨 We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site. • We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon • Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n • See more: designroom.site

We had a truly great chat with @dominguezf.bsky.social about Beneath, inspirations and horror in general. Check it out below 👇 store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/b...

When Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 releases, it returns players to a world first explored more than 20 years ago in the cult classic original. A lot has happened in the canon and real-world history of the World of Darkness during those decades. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/i...

Let's do this. thisweekinvideogames.com @thisweekinvideogames.com

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

In 2014 I wrote for @newyorker.com about @kurtjmac.bsky.social, a YouTuber who began walking in Minecraft and never stopped. His quest was to reach the Far Lands, a place at the limits of the algorithmic world, where the landscape breaks apart. On Saturday, after fourteen years, he arrived:

spoke to @afterclimate.com.au about the sustainable games standard, a means of tracking emissions now publicly available for use by the entire games industry. a lot of thought went into this thing

Silent Hill f contentious soulslike gameplay continues the series' longstanding debate: Can combat be so bad it's good? www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...

I chatted to the @camel101.com brothers behind F.E.A.R.ful horror-FPS Beneath. Find out about its claustrophobic, deep-sea firefights and a lifelong obsession with creeping dread. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/b...

Love the comparison between VG remakes and the classics. The Iliad was constantly changed in performance, sometimes to flatter regional audiences or simply avoid giving mortal offence. So I'm not sure, given the chance, ancient Greek poets would've been above The Last of Us-style re-remakes!

Another big one for @space.com involving astrophysicists: I talked to EVE Frontier's Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson and Guðlaugur Jóhannesson about galaxy merger models, black holes, and the thin line between science and fun. Read here: www.space.com/entertainmen...

In Ambrosia Sky, two things are inevitable: death and fungus. @joelburgess.bsky.social and @kaittremblay.bsky.social told me how their upcoming sci-fi clean 'em up gives death the attention and dignity it deserves. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/a...

This interview was a really lovely experience! I talk a little bit about my philosophy on designing interactivity in narrative moments and the relationship of interactivity to responsibility, and how I see Dalia navigating what her responsibility is to those around her, both living and deceased

If you think I can talk your ear off about mycelium, just avoid getting me started on ska! (thanks for the writeup on Ambrosia Sky, @dominguezf.bsky.social) store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/a...

In Ambrosia Sky, two things are inevitable: death and fungus. @joelburgess.bsky.social and @kaittremblay.bsky.social told me how their upcoming sci-fi clean 'em up gives death the attention and dignity it deserves. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/a...

In Cronos: The New Dawn, martial law struggled to maintain its grip on a society falling apart. For many, this would be speculative fiction. For Jacek Zięba and Wojciech Piejko, this was a trip into not-so-distant history. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/c...

In Cronos: The New Dawn, martial law struggled to maintain its grip on a society falling apart. For many, this would be speculative fiction. For Jacek Zięba and Wojciech Piejko, this was a trip into not-so-distant history. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/c...

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Are you a game developer who, when faced with the prospect of making layoffs, found another way forward for their studio instead? If so, I'd love to speak to you for GamesIndustry.Biz. We're working on an article with the working title, 'You don't always have to make people redundant'. Get in touch!

Good luck to them. The best Sekiro animation already exists, and will take some beating. youtu.be/-zcOUnXd-HQ?...

i’m back on the new york times with a piece about off, its influence on a myriad of surrealist rpgs — including chats with the folks behind oneshot and in stars and time — and what it meant for its designer to revisit the work of his pessimist 21 year old self www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/a...

This was excellent - really captured that turning point where live updates made print guides increasingly irrelevant, and an interesting period where magazine guides writers were scouring GameFAQs for cheat codes from the new authoritative source.

Fashionably late to the party (like Chase Lowry): here's my Dead Take interview with @abubakarsalim.bsky.social We discussed the hair-raising performances @surgentstudios.bsky.social got by putting talented actors like Neil Newbon and Ben Starr front-and-centre! store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/d...

It's a big day today on Eurogamer. We're making some changes to give you more of the deep, original coverage you love, a new place to get involved as a community, and the same level of comprehensive news reporting as ever. You can read more here: www.eurogamer.net/eurogamer-is...

This is a great discussion with @friede.bsky.social and @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social about RPG history, and particularly the online element of it. You need to be supporting @rascal.news with your dollars -- nowhere else on the internet is publishing stuff like this. www.rascal.news/we-cant-let-...

For the evening crowd: I’m launching a new oral histories site called designroom.bsky.social. Won’t be much there for another month or so, but follow now to get in early!

This interview was really funny, because I was mostly there to be quiet and take notes on what my colleagues said, but then Francisco asked about animal animation in games and I just HAD TO jump in and briefly derail the conversation 😂 bsky.app/profile/domi...

I talked about the delights and difficulties of recreating the animal kingdom with @okomotive.ch. With Herdling's packs of distinctive yak-like calicorns, they're giving animal animation the rare focus it deserves. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/h...