two weeks late buuuut - an incomplete list of games that had me in a "i can't get up to pee bc i have to keep playing" chokehold at some point in 2025 (and yes i have adhd ty): wheel world winter burrow little rocket lab ball x pit !!!! seance of blake manor !!!!!!! ale abbey leaf it alone (cont'd)

I'm seeing so many awesome pitches in the Mothership email! Please don't fret if you don't hear back right away. It's a big big week, keep 'em coming and we'll get back to you as soon as we can <3

yeah, this will never get old.

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

I neeeeed more of you to play Little Rocket Lab so we can talk about it

If you have complimented Mothership’s website design or color palette I just want you to know you are making me personally extremely happy and validated so thank youuuu (besides our logo which an indie artist did 💅🏼)

Women have been a crucial part of games media from the very beginning. Learn some history! postgame.substack.com/p/mothership...

played my first game of Illimat this weekend and holy crapoly i love this game so much!!!!!! it's the aesthetics of tarot with a dash of balatro and the familiarity of catan

...and use alt-text 😋

To all the new folks arriving from Twitter I have two words of advice... Indie games

Just like that... 🪄 we are thrilled to already be able to say we've smashed one of our earliest goals: 500 paid subs!! We're so grateful, and so excited for you all to read our launch stories on the 26th. Whether you're a paid or free subscriber, we thank you deeply for your support!

your very existence is troubling, enraging, and distracting as hell for some of the shittiest people on earth so no, i’m afraid you may not kill yourself rn

Experiencing personal success while ICE is also murdering and kidnapping with impunity if not outright support…it’s really weird. I know that indie media is in service of a freer more just society but experiencing such hope and defeat at once is strange and fractured and tough in its own way

LIKE...WHAT?????!!!!!

It's time to board the Mothership. www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...

Thanks for writing us up for Kotaku, @ethangach.bsky.social! Learn more about why our founders decided to go indie: kotaku.com/mothership-i...

Want to learn more about Mothership and its founders? Check out our conversation with @plante.bsky.social on Post Games! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Fantastic conversation here. Congratulations, @mothership.blog!

This is such a thoughtful piece from @ethangach.bsky.social about what @midimyers.com and I went through after Polygon’s sale and why we decided to found @mothership.blog. Thanks for everything Ethan!! ✨ kotaku.com/mothership-i...

thank you @ethangach.bsky.social for writing about the new website i'm cofounding with @zoehhannah.com! you can get some insight into our post-polygon journey towards creating @mothership.blog here: kotaku.com/mothership-i...

Congrats @midimyers.com and @zoehhannah.com on the reveal of their new publication, mothership.blog!

support mothership! ive got a couple pieces on the works and hopefully more in-depth, investigative pieces to come!

just picked up a year subscription for less than the price of a console game. hell fucking yeah.

i'm going to go play some actual video games, and breathe, and sit in gratitude. thank you to everyone who has subscribed, paid or free, to @mothership.blog today. you are literally making our dreams come true, and also your dreams because apparently A LOT OF US wanted this. <3

Congrats @midimyers.com and @zoehhannah.com!! Everyone else, make with the subscribing 👀

Absolutely thrilled to support Mothership and I hope you will, too! I'm also deeply honored to be producing a story for them! PLEASE support independent journalism!!

Let’s fucking goooooooooooo indie journo and games journo for ever!!!!!!!

LFGO!

thx bestie <3

A queer and women-owned independent video game publication from @midimyers.com and @zoehhannah.com? Throw infinite bands at this. www.mothership.blog/board-the-mo...

working at polygon rocked but i didn't know until after i left that it mostly rocked because i gained friends/colleagues/mentors who will be with me for the rest of my career. neither @plante.bsky.social nor @charstring.com can get rid of us yet and i feel so lucky for that.

VERY excited to be writing a piece on Dragon Age and the emotional value of restricting player agency that's been percolating in the back of my head for a decade plus — and for the debut of a VERY COOL BLOG!!!

Clawing at the doors waiting for this to fully launch so I can start reading. Vital work coming from some of the best to ever do it.

IT HAS BEEN SO FUCKING HARD KEEPING THIS A SECRET AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I am so proud to help announce a new video game website! In the year 2026! @midimyers.com and @zoehhannah.com join Post Games to talk about mothership.blog. Plus, they share a history of women in games media! You'll love this one! And so will your friends!

Maddy is one of the best to ever do it and I’m happy this is happening.

YES LET'S GO I am so pumped for this and it is going to rule so much

nico is not only one of our launch story writers, but ALSO will be our discord moderator. she's an icon and a queen and incredibly generous with her knowledge. OUR COMMUNITY IS GONNA ROCK

excited for mothership!!! a new publication from maddy and zoe, colleagues of mine at polygon. thrilled to be writing for the launch, and more after that. independent journalism forever

if you want MORE details about @zoehhannah.com's & my vision for @mothership.blog, listen to our guest appearance on our former boss (former polygon EIC) @plante.bsky.social's podcast Post Games. we talk about our history in the space & our dreams for its future postgame.substack.com/p/mothership...

we'll launch mothership.blog in its final form on jan. 26, featuring stories by amazing writers like @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social, @nicoleclark.bsky.social, @susanapolo.bsky.social, @supercrip1994.bsky.social, & @applecider.bsky.social. you can subscribe early for a LIFETIME 15% OFF discount!!

I'm launching a new gaming website! Sometime after everything happened last year I convinced my former boss @midimyers.com to come on this journey with me, and I could not be more grateful. I'm so proud to make something I love, something I stand by, something I OWN. Learn more at the link below :')

I am verklempt. More elegant words later, but for now: OMG OMG OMG MOTHERSHIP IS BORN!!!!

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

why is time sometimes faster

Thank you Eugene Goodman for saving Democracy during the Capitol insurrection #January6th

2026 is confirmed going to be better than 2025 because i am self-employed and have no plans to fire myself, lay myself off, or make my job unbearable to the point of making myself quit

a great book to read to get angry and active www.thriftbooks.com/w/freedom-is...

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.