NPR's excellent Games We Love list is out now. A list of stuff you ACTUALLY might not have heard about, pulled from our staff's eclectic interests. two indie horror favorites made the list from me: Butcher's Creek and Eclipsium. www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...

I did not love Metroid Prime 4, and think many of its ideas are antithetical to what makes the series appealing. It is full of baffling design decisions that ruin what is -- somewhere -- a good game. www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-02/m...

love seeing stories I've been thinking about since i was 12 come to fruition. On NPR - how the music of Katamari is linked to the genre of Shibuya Kei, and what it all means: www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...

reviewed Silent Hill F, whose tilt towards action is fundamental to depicting Hinako's eruption of rage. she is a bonafide star in this stellar, sinister, but not especially scary return for the venerable horror series. words over @theverge.com www.theverge.com/games/782012...

Silent Hill f is one of the best horror games ever. My review for NPR: www.npr.org/2025/09/22/g...

I don’t think the saying “we’re so back”applies more than with Silent Hill f, an intoxicating survival horror game that weaves a brilliant fragmented story, has phenomenal atmosphere, and some genuine surprises. Genuinely one of my favorite horror games of all time www.inverse.com/gaming/silen...

Aside from being a horrifying idea, it is grimly hilarious that they are doing this to a movie about a family that is undone by new technology. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Hugely thankful to @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social for coverage of our Games for Palestine charity bundle in @aftermath.site - a site I'm a huge fan of. This is a really comprehensive overview of the organizations involved, including @unrwa.org and of the work to get this off the ground <3

Notes from SGF: Resident Evil was underwhelming, Pragmata ripped, and a whole bunch of indies impressed. More at NPR: www.npr.org/2025/06/14/g...

Here's the other: Two weeks ago, over Zoom, I spoke with Quarter Up founder Mike Willette about Invincible VS, the new 3V3 tag fighter. Yesterday, before the final day of SGF, I went to Skybound's Beverly Hills office to play it for an hour. Holy shit, y'all. www.gamespot.com/articles/inv...

The theme for tonight seems to be sequels to 7/10 games that have a loyal following of reddit guys who get wildly defensive about liking it.

At SGF with NPR! In addition to a beefy radio story we’re doing for All Things Considered about VR, going to post some more incremental impressions and updates here, as I play through the dozens of game appointments I have this weekend…

NPR let me go long on my post-GDC dispatch, which gets at the many tensions around layoffs, generative AI, and inflated budgets that the industry is grappling with right now. You should listen if only for Keita Takahashi's very blunt assessment of AI. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I love the new episode of The MinnMax Show, it captures the excitement, confusion, and hot takes only available at the big unveiling of a new console. Any help sharing The MinnMax Show is appreciated! youtu.be/zqUsDdnxqKM

90 dollar physical cartridges is actually evil. I loved collecting Switch physicals and now that's a legitimately difficult purchase to justify

A game I played at GDC and was v much endeared by is now out! There were like 5 bug games at Day of the Devs and they all ripped

It's all happening here: store.steampowered.com/app/1985740/...

i typed this faster than i can think techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/t...

Sakurai should end every direct till the end of time

Vanilla Wind Waker vs the remaster is the most bizarre Nintendo decision I’ve seen in a long time. Purely from a Nintendo centric financial standpoint

The partner showcase isn’t that meaningful to me but this is definitely big for the many, many people I know who are only plugged into the Nintendo infrastructure.

The biggest twist of the direct is the upgrade pack lmao. Like a knife to the heart

Metroid Prime 4 mouse controls is actually cracked

Showing upgraded jamboree instead of Tears of the Kingdom is top tier Nintendo trolling

Nintendo answering the burning questions

Was afraid replaying Bioshock 1 was going to be a case of “revisiting your formative adolescent media and being disappointed” and that is very much not the case. Also kind of a shock to see how scripted those first few hours are (to its benefit!)

At GDC 2025, we attended a presentation from Atlus' Lead Battle Planner Kenichi Goto going over the potential of turn-based battle systems through the lens of Metaphor: ReFantazio: www.rpgsite.net/feature/1706...

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, indie studios showed off ambitious games made by small development teams.

Saw countless great games at GDC, but wrote about a few favorites for NPR and talked to their dev teams: www.npr.org/2025/03/28/n...

We're only able to attend GDC because of the MinnMax community's support, so it's only fair to take you all with us. We hope you enjoy our big whirlwind travelogue of GDC 2025 with @sarahpodz.bsky.social, @haleyfax.bsky.social, @yozetty.bsky.social, and @gameonysus.bsky.social! youtu.be/QKNbMiq1Sh4

i reviewed Look Outside, a gross, thrilling survival horror game with RPG maker vibes from a developer who once worked on Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden - it's utterly unhinged and one of my favorite games so far this year check this thing out; it rules www.shacknews.com/article/1435...

tonight on @npr.org , a dispatch from @officialgdc.bsky.social! We interview some of the biggest winners at last night's IGF awards and talk about the state of indies.

Exciting news - NPR's All Things Considered will be at GDC this year! Eager to connect with other games journalists as part of our ongoing mission to transmit great video game stories across the national airwaves 📻 Please DM me if you wanna say hi and connect!

Got some heavy hitters on @npr.org to talk about Avowed, and the history of narrative choice in video games: www.npr.org/2025/02/24/n... ft @johnromero.bsky.social, Brandon Sanderson, and Andy Bickerton

Every decision you make in Avowed is terrible: aftermath.site/avowed-decisio...

ConcernedApe says he could always keep updating Stardew - even in another “fifty years or so.” More in NPR’s interview: www.npr.org/2025/01/24/g...

Does anyone know of any cultural criticism / non-fiction writing groups? Or looking to start one with me 👀 Working on a longer term project about a specific video game and looking for others who might be doing the same.

Curious about video games? AARP has you covered.

If you only have 5 dollars in your bank account right now, Celeste is one of the best games of all time. Make the right choice.

Eight years in - Stardew is as good as ever. @jsummers.bsky.social interviewed Eric Barone about one of her favorite games, its surprise success, and it’s future — which could be updated for another “fifty years or so.” www.npr.org/2024/12/19/n...

Modern life is full of contradictions. For example life is nothing but endless suffering but I can emulate Pokémon on my iPhone

Forget 100 hour open-world games. Some of 2024’s best were under three hours long. I spoke to the devs behind Mouthwashing, Arctic Eggs, and more about the creative decisions that guide compact games. www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/2024-...

A lot of people are about to discover that Danny Boyle shot this iconic film on the digital equivalent of two tin cans connected by string

Oh hey, I wrote a thing for @gamedeveloper.bsky.social about the rise of newspaper and daily games, a space that I find way too interesting for my own good www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-r...

no better feeling than revisiting media you liked as a youth and realizing you’ve always had impeccable taste and judgement

I got to talk about video games for a dang HOUR on live radio today! What an honor to do it alongside @shannonliao.bsky.social and @duckvalentine.bsky.social, who I've been reading for years the1a.org/segments/gam...

Union job alert!

As EA is making more of its accessibility patents public, @stevesaylor.social joined NPR to tell us more about the state of video game accessibility in 2024:

How do you evolve a franchise already as perfectly refined as Monument Valley? By drawing inspiration from exploding art installations and "destructive" fashion editorials. For @theverge.com, I visited @ustwogames.bsky.social to learn about the making of MV3. www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24...

Your reaction to many developers saying something like, "yeah this entire genre hasn't really innovated for a decade now, so I decided to do something about it" might be rolling your eyes, but when Sakurai said it, we got Meteos.