I wanted to test out Titanfall 2 on Steam Deck and ended up replaying the whole campaign. Love to stumble into an inexplicable "building an entire neighborhood" factory

Game workers rally against Microsoft layoffs: 'Corporate greed is destroying our games and our livelihoods’ aftermath.site/zenimax-save-o...

remember that 2D God of War game?

My bosses at @pcmag.com asked me to write something for Pokémon Go's 10th anniversary and honestly the memories came pouring out www.pcmag.com/news/pokemon...

Denshattack! The ultimate Dreamcast game OR Subway Surfers as made by PlatinumGames

From its explosive 2016 debut to today's massive live events, these are the experiences that have made Pokémon Go unlike any other game I've ever played.

the sheer amount of gamers genuinely believe the massive layoffs over the last few years are very cool and justified and karmic revenge on western AAA devs for making slop is crazy dude. this is simply not an audience worth sacrificing so much of yourself to please

My bosses at @pcmag.com asked me to write something for Pokémon Go's 10th anniversary and honestly the memories came pouring out www.pcmag.com/news/pokemon...

A digital-only gaming landscape shouldn't give publishers unlimited control over what we actually own. Physical media may die, but our rights should live forever.

Not that I wouldn't love an OLED screen but making a more expensive Switch 2 before a cheaper one seems wild

For the record, I absolutely support the fight to keep physical media around as long as possible, but at this point for me the real battleground going forward is increased digital media rights. My latest for @pcmag.com www.pcmag.com/opinions/im-...

This 💯 I wish the debate between physical and digital media formats was only about space and convenience but ultimately it’s about long-term ownership and accessibility.

For the record, I absolutely support the fight to keep physical media around as long as possible, but at this point for me the real battleground going forward is increased digital media rights. My latest for @pcmag.com www.pcmag.com/opinions/im-...

Iñárritu make a single movie that doesn’t look completely insufferable challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]

Blowing my mind that my first book released three whole years ago. If you read VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR, thank you, but also, what did you like about it?

I’ve heard it described as a field you can still kind of pitch your tent because of how still “new” the medium is, but never has anyone I’ve respected ever referred to it as an untamed wild jungle. “Pilgrim in the Microworld” and the proceedings of “Gametronics ‘77” would like a word otherwise.

I promise you are not the first person, or the smartest person, who has ever thought critically about a video game. This space isn't some uncivilized continent.

Plante's point here is great, it really ties into this idea on humility toward games writing I wrote a really angry outline about, an idea I may still do something with

I’m actually reading through it now for the first time! I really like how it showcases the evolution of gaming throughout the decades, plus the illustrations are so fun and colorful!

It's great. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

I think about this a lot. It’s hard to see any field comprehensively at micro & macro. Which is why historically, folks work together. Better, almost all the time, to ask “who is looking at/doing XYZ?” rather than declaring that no one is. Odds are, there’s folks without resources or platform.

It's a great book to look through with people in other generations. It's fun to see what other people remember growing up playing, it got people to share a lot of fun stories of their childhood gaming!

Plante's point here is great, it really ties into this idea on humility toward games writing I wrote a really angry outline about, an idea I may still do something with

Games media publications big and small have been working overtime to show the full scale of fuckery happening at Microsoft. I get that shit sucks. And the media can always do better. But this “nobody is as smart and bold as me and my Bluesky pals” posturing is so tired and unhelpful

Blowing my mind that my first book released three whole years ago. If you read VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR, thank you, but also, what did you like about it?

www.pcmag.com/news/the-gor... FINAL SGF PREVIEW

the news has been up for less than an hour, if your immediate gut response is to try and find a "silver lining" to this many people losing their livelihoods, i think it's fine not to post that publicly

An important update from Compulsion Games.

Next Minions movie should just lean hard into this whole Hitler thing. Imagine BJ Blazkowicz’s somber inner monologue about “banana”

Starting to psyche myself out a little so just gonna pose the question here first. I've realized a lot of my frustrations, recent and years-old, about games discourse come back to my thoughts on the role of humility in art criticism. But is that an essay anyone would even be interested in at all???

Happy Fourth of July! https://linktr.ee/jordanwminor

From ex-presidents in power armor to thinly veiled stand-ins for real-world suits, I rank 12 of the most unhinged public servants in video games, just in time for America's 250th birthday bash.

I hate that I may have tricked myself into writing my most pretentious video game essay yet, but I gotta do it 😩😩😩

Donkey May Kong

I have sandblasted my brain perfectly smooth watching and rewatching this Minions singing competition, genuinely beautiful stuff youtube.com/shorts/GhDVP...

MFW Tyler Perry just announced a third "Why Did I Get Married?" movie, the franchise I wrote my thesis on for my Tyler Perry class at film school

microsoft still hasn't officially informed video game unions of impending layoffs, and many of them remain mired in contract negotiations that microsoft has stalled for years. but that doesn't mean unions don't have options

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

calling now that sony cutting discs in 2028 will somehow domino into america electing aoc as its first gamer president that year

Anyway, the larger conversation to be had here is around digital rights and what a license should enable. This needs to be a larger consumer rights issue going forward to push for new rules that allow for clear rules around refunds and end of life access etc.

My actual thoughts on physical vs digital games are pretty all over the place, I find a lot of the arguments pretty annoying for a lot of reasons (maybe that's an essay), but straight up getting rid of physical games as a choice totally sucks