From our first issue of Dear Mother: "I think you've inadvertently hit on a gaming culture weak point, which is that both longtime gamers and newcomers often feel like they need to play a certain list of games in order to call themselves gamers." www.mothership.blog/dear-mother-2/

new writer on mothership.blog today!! beatrix kondo analyzes the dating sim critique that is Doki Doki Literature Club, and whether the game's critique is obvious enough for people who just see it as a horror game and not much more www.mothership.blog/monster-was-...

i guested on one of my favorite podcasts, which is called I Hate Bill Maher. this required me to watch an episode of Real Time. it was terrible. the podcast is good though

it's illegal to be queer in nigeria, but queer people still exist there (as they do everywhere). nigerian reporter ebenezer mowete spoke to queer local gamers about how they do and don't express their identities when they play --> www.mothership.blog/queer-nigeri...

i guested on one of my favorite podcasts, which is called I Hate Bill Maher. this required me to watch an episode of Real Time. it was terrible. the podcast is good though

I adore this kind of critical work. Please check out Mothership if you have a moment - the folks over there are knocking it out of the park.

new writer on mothership.blog today!! beatrix kondo analyzes the dating sim critique that is Doki Doki Literature Club, and whether the game's critique is obvious enough for people who just see it as a horror game and not much more www.mothership.blog/monster-was-...

Obviously small news outlets need money to get going, and the ones we have now can't replace newspapers, but they also cost a lot less once you take out all the inflated exec and "star" salaries, expensive real estate, dumb tech brained gambits, and, most importantly, infinite profit motive!

happy black history month, we are opening up invites to this again!!!

this is also the biggest challenge on the indie publisher side. it's why i've repeatedly emphasized to people that the most expensive part of mothership.blog is paying lawyers as well as for legal liability insurance to protect our future reporting

once again the only solution is to pay journalists directly (mothership.blog)

there are definitely very annoying aspects to this website but i have to be honest, a lot of people’s complaints can easily be solved by following people who post good instead of post bad

It was so nice having another talk with @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social about Perfect Tides! You can see our first chat after PT1 came out here: www.polygon.com/23009993/per...

i wrote about perfect tides: station to station and interviewed @meredithgran.com for @mothership.blog. one of the best games i've played in a while! www.mothership.blog/perfect-tide...

i'm soooo excited about this!!! answers will come from me, maddy, or one of our contributors -- whoever is best suited to answer your question!

it has been many many years since i wrote a personal essay but i wrote one for today

ICE Out of Minneapolis! You all are amazing, and we're just getting started.... Watch here - www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow Donate here - bit.ly/iceoutminnea...

I’ve launched a Citation Needed membership drive to celebrate publishing my 100th recap issue! Citation Needed critically covers cryptocurrency, the crypto industry, and its influence on policy. Paid subscriptions support much more than just the newsletter — here’s what goes into this work:

i talked to the lead designer for Seance of Blake Manor, one of my favorite mystery games of last year. it's not as brain-destroying as something like Blue Prince and that's very much by design. you can walk away and come back to it, for example www.mothership.blog/seance-of-bl...

i love our discord, it is truly an amazing paid subscriber perk!! (check out mothership.blog if you wanna know what we're talking about)

>goes on maternity leave >comes back >"wow this is shit, actually" funkin amazingly real interview. (worth reading if you haven't played, no real spoilers.)

remember when "DEI" and "woke" were more commonly referred to as "SJW"? i actually had to rack my brain to try to think back on that one. before that it was "feminazi" i think, although there's overlap on all of these

"You don't want to punish people for exploring and stuff, but you do want them to know that there isn't like — it's not a case of, just go around and click on everything, and eventually the game will kind of solve it for you." New from @midimyers.com! www.mothership.blog/seance-of-bl...

sad about this one. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

i talked to the lead designer for Seance of Blake Manor, one of my favorite mystery games of last year. it's not as brain-destroying as something like Blue Prince and that's very much by design. you can walk away and come back to it, for example www.mothership.blog/seance-of-bl...

"The choices that matter the most, says Dragon Age, are the ones about who you love and how you do it." Love this quote from this piece by @susanapolo.bsky.social 💙 this hits so many aspects of resonance I feel with the Dragon Age series, too, while also sharing some deeply personal perspective.

My first piece for @mothership.blog! www.mothership.blog/dragon-age-g... I pitched this back when Veilguard was coming out but we ran out of time and Maddy's been hounding me for it ever since. I'm very excited to have it up and on MADDY's NEW SITE which you should sub to

We just subscribed! So should you!!!!

every single person who has subscribed to mothership.blog is a hero in my heart & will be remembered forever as such, even if eventually they have to cancel or w/e, bc each of them has contributed to our freelance budget and made it possible for us to commission more stories AND keep our lights on

opening the @mothership.blog paper to see which great writer will appear today! new @susanapolo.bsky.social alert!

Susana and I have been having parts of this conversation for a decade and I'm so excited to see it written down.

i'm a simple man; when i see @susanapolo.bsky.social has written about dragon age, i share it

the one and only @susanapolo.bsky.social wrote about dragon age and the way it handles player choice and it's SO GOOD y'all it's SO GOOD www.mothership.blog/dragon-age-g...

you ever just feel like you're a thousand years old but like in a good way? that's how i try to be. an ancient video game crone. i was there in the oldene tymes

i was very surprised by what these modders told me about why they do what they do and how their followers have responded to their work. you should subscribe to us so we can keep doing cool stories like this! i really enjoyed reporting this one out

at mothership today we have a story about activist burnout... take care of yourselves (and maybe play some Spirit Swap) www.mothership.blog/soft-not-wea...

Let's goooo!!

i wrote about mothership.blog for @theguardian.com today by the way. thanks so much to @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell more people about mothership and what we are doing with the site <3 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

Subscribing to a newspaper and/or visiting websites and subscribing to podcasts with podcast apps is a big help in the world rn

i wanted to check out Highguard but the last time i tried to play a game with anti-cheat that requires me to change my bios settings, it made my motherboard stop talking to my GPU properly and i had to flash the bios and it was really annoying. i can't believe this anti-cheat protocol is now normal

thank you everyone for being so kind about my new website mothership.blog 😭 @zoehhannah.com and i invented our dream jobs and now we get to have them because of all of your support. please share it with anyone who you think would enjoy reading it

I think, based on my own work on fatness, and the work of others related to character creation etc., that it's the very unreality of virtual bodies -- their untethered-ness from physical reality -- that makes people with marginalized bodies want them to reflect an embodied reality all the more.

i am genuinely so obsessed with these girlypop gundams though www.mothership.blog/gunpla-is-fo...

Great close reading of character, theme, and mechanics. Reminded me of the kinds of stuff one used to see at Catapult, which, you know, makes sense.

Motherhship launched with stories by @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social @nicoleclark.bsky.social @applecider.bsky.social @midimyers.com @zoehhannah.com @megannicolett.bsky.social is in NYTimes Carson Lund's on @petevolk.bsky.social @austeng.bsky.social's podcast Love to see Polygon alumni thriving!

queen!!!!!!!! (both hornet AND @nicoleclark.bsky.social)

What does Gundam have to do with nail art? Find out in @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social 's first Mothership feature. www.mothership.blog/gunpla-is-fo...

i was very surprised by what these modders told me about why they do what they do and how their followers have responded to their work. you should subscribe to us so we can keep doing cool stories like this! i really enjoyed reporting this one out

Was a little busy this morning watching the new Mothership Discord get filled with new subscribers, but my first piece for Mothership went up at launch - not a fun one to write, but an important one that I am glad Mothership supports. CW: IPV/abuse www.mothership.blog/if-your-roma...

the first article i saw on @mothership.blog made me grin like an idiot happy launch day! we are so, so fucking back www.mothership.blog/gunpla-is-fo...