If you like sci-fi visual novels about queer people moving on from the systems which have harmed them (and kissing each other), you should play Heatwave's story mode when it comes out in 3 days :) And there's a fighting game attached to it too I guess

watched all of Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 and I continue to stand by my point that he will be recognised as one of the most influential mangaka of his generation

outside of when i am working i've been too busy to be on here or keep up with the news, and lemme tell you, logging on and seeing the GTA delay/ union busting, square enix layoffs and saying they want AI to do QA, netease shutting another studio down... it's a lot!

Heatwave's last major update, will be available on NOVEMBER 12!!! It will also be releasing on steam then as well. Most notably, it will contain a ~100k word visual novel story mode, and 4 new "secret" characters, along with balance changes, and bug fixes. ❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/2980420/...

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 :)

100 Palestinian killed by Israel during the so-called ceasefire. It was never about the hostages, self defense of anything other than land grabbing by exterminating a populations. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Hi folks! Here's an update about what we're doing in 2026 and beyond. It's exciting stuff, and also, it's gonna be a lot of work! noescapevg.com/content-note...

Solidarity with labor or Palestinians wasn't gonna do it but maybe the reactionary lib jockeying to this will get us somewhere with treating this tech company appropriately.

this happened to all of us weekly columnists unfortunately! so you'll see less of me there but i'll try to make that monthly column real special <3

my contributor gig at endless mode is drastically changing in november, going from a weekly piece to a monthly one. as such, i’m available to take on more freelance work. i got experience with reporting, criticism, evergreen stuff, consulting, and anything in between. muckrack.com/diego-arguello

Come November I’ll have been unemployed for a year and now another freelance gig has dried up. Just a reminder that I am open to all freelance work (especially reviews) as well as mock review/consulting work. Also open to any other job opportunities outside of journalism. Contact info is in my bio

Missed your chance to back BLANKSWORD on Kickstarter? It's not too late! Late pledges can be made up to November 24th. Plentiful rewards are still available on our page: ⚔️Our Artbook ⚔️Design your own Item ⚔️Compose a battle theme ⚔️A 100% REAL chunk of BLANK's brain mailed to y- ok maybe not that one

I think more people who like cosy games should try to reframe their understanding of art as a whole to be a thing that can provide comfort even when the subject matters is not comfortable

friendly reminder that the BDS microsoft boycott is still happening

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abolish spaghetti

yeah @polygonbird.games' Birdcage rips

look if you email me about a project that uses AI you need to know that I immediately hate your fucking guts and think that your presence in my inbox is a plague, so, consider not doing that

Israel has killed nearly 100 Palestinians and wounded at least 230 since the 'ceasefire' went into effect on October 10.

chainsaw man

I'll give you a lil kiss on the forehead if you back blanksword

actually one other thing I want to say: as much as I wish there was more bandwidth to cover more indie games, I do not think even in that scenario we should just be writing up a quick article about a trailer as journalists because we are not PR

100 Meters is very easily comparable to Look Back. But I think it touches on something more universal—not just for athletes, but for anyone with the courage to pick themselves up from success and failure and try again. My review:

anyway, instead of discoursing anymore, I think we should all talk about Kasane Teto because I just think she's neat (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

Anyway... Check out @startmenu.bsky.social. www.startmenu.co.uk

Stop Caring covers indie games (sometimes) we have no pull in the industry but we're passionate writers with an equally passionate audience. Also, we hate fascists and pull no punches.

if I can offer some real advice to any devs looking to get their game covered: i think a currently unsaid thing at the moment is that a really unique visual style will pull people in quicker than anything else everyone's making roguelikes right now! why am I looking at yours specifically?

got no real addition to the indie game press conversation other than that it sucks, and I can't promise to cover anything, but I'm always looking for cool, weird, underground indies to cover on my news shifts at Rock Paper Shotgun!

this lesbian day, you will play this lesbian's video game. you will like it whether or not you are lesbian, but it helps. and you're going to play it anyway. store.steampowered.com/app/2739630/...

I'm taking the next couple weeks off of looking at or posting anything to the Internet so I can finish Escape Velocity. If you see me posting and that post isn't "book's done!" I want you to yell at me. I may repost this Ko-Fi link to help out with new bills from time to time.

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

I really hate posting this when most of us are going through a tough time, but I'm still unemployed (and looking for work), and could really do with help relating to life expenses. Any amount/just sharing would be a huge support, thank you so much. ko-fi.com/queerportent...

Hey if anyone has a beat on paid reviews, features, remote on-camera work, let me know. I'm out here trying man.

don’t worry everyone, Microsoft and Xbox Game Studios are still very much so on the Palestinian BDS boycott list, so you can continue not giving them your money.

someone seemingly stole my card details over the weekend and tried to spend £100 at a betting website over the weekend but the jokes on them because I'm always on that black mirror, there'll be no fraud while I'm scrolling tiktok infinitely

If you’re a Sims player, modder, or make videos/art/anything primarily around Sims, I’d like to chat about your feelings on EA’s private acquisition. My DMs are open here, can also be reached by email in bio or exal.04 on Signal

what if I forgot to link the kickstarter campaign in my post about the kickstarter campaign, wouldn't that be something www.kickstarter.com/projects/283...

Blanksword's Kickstarter is about to hit 50%! We're not at the halfway mark yet, so we still have good hopes to reach the finish line, but we need your help in doing so! Please consider backing us and spreading the word if you want to support a small marginalized team making a big game 🙏

I'm about 50% of the way to my goal of clearing up some looming bills! If you wanna help out peep the link: ko-fi.com/noescapevg/g...

Friday at last…

i hope people see this recent microsoft news as proof of BDS' effectiveness; especially in regard to raising publicity and encouraging action from microsoft employees and it inspires more people to join in keeping the pressure on these unrepentantly imperialist tech companies

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

The best time to boycott Xbox and Microsoft was when BDS called for it, the next best time is now. Focused, targeted boycotts work, this one is working, and all you got to do to support it is go play other games. Literally the least you could do in this moment in history

In which I try to model a games criticism I would like to exist and articulate why I think it is in decline.

there's lots of great discussions to be had about this piece from grace, but the thing I want to hone in on for prospective critics is that she is doing the work, and by that I mean she is reminding us all that criticism is a conversation

This is a very good thing, but do not hand it to Microsoft. They have stopped this one aspect of business with the IDF, but that is far from all of the business they do with the IDF. This does not necessarily take them off of the BDS list or mean that your boycott can end. Keep pushing.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"