These new icons make me feel really nostalgic and I don't know why. 🤔 Anyway, this is such a cool concept! 💙

No, I 100% agree that computer RPGs these days have too much handholding. I, too, yearn for the days of being able to spend hours crafting my perfect build from hundreds of available options, only to discover that it mathematically cannot survive the mandatory rat fight portion of the first dungeon.

I'd do what I'm doing now, but without The Fear.

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

This Black Friday weekend, consider supporting Video Games as Literature by purchasing an item on our wishlist or tipping on Ko-Fi. Every little bit helps to educate people on literature and culture through our shared enjoyment of video games. 💚🎮 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

For anyone who wants to be deputized (heck, sheriffed -- no hierarchy here) to go do important new #gamingthepast work in education. Get cracking on reviving parser-games for history. Use Graham Nelson's fantastic Inform 7 parser-based text games & start making & having kids make history games. 1/

if you've never heard the end credits song for Aliens Infestation on the Nintendo DS I beg you to stop and listen right now it's important

Lists From the Past: The Library of Congress's "Game Canon" www.videogamecanon.com/adventurelog...

First generations of home videogaming systems and their games have become difficult to find. Thankfully, libraries, institutions, and archivists have stepped in to archive and preserve this essential element of gaming and pop culture history. Read more: https://bit.ly/4afRZSj

The Steam Award nominations are underway! I really thought Wanderstop would be my game of the year but then Tiny Bookshop showed up. But there were so many good games that came out this year it was hard to choose! 💚

Stream done! Here are your nominees for the Came and Went Game Awards 2025. You can vote here: jiikae.com/cameandwent The rankings will be revealed on December 10 ✨

What does the ECO series have in common with pears and plums? They all grow back stronger every spring 🍐✨ THANK YOU SO MUCH for supporting ECO24! Don't forget to grab your copy of the first in the ECO series, and watch your bookshelf grow year after year 🌱📚💚 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

BTW you don't need to already be an expert in something to start building community for it. I've been exposed to SO MUCH more horse knowledge since starting TMQ and its communities than ever before. It really only takes an interest and a small but consistent effort.

was trying to explain what makes Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams so good to a friend and I feel like saying "full physics jigsaw pieces" always undersells it you can even move the pieces to anywhere else in the house and complete the puzzle on the floor or in the kitchen sink if you wanted

Riddle me this: if movies based on games are all terrible, why was the greatest movie ever made based on a game? 🧐

#ScifiMonth2025 Day 21: One of the best time travel methods I've met was used in two different pieces of media; James Hogan's Thrice Upon A Time and Mage's Steins;Gate. Sending a message to change events, sometimes dramatically. #scifibooks #scifimonth #BookSky💙📚

Hands On With Accessibility in Kirby Air Riders - Access-Ability www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HTW...

I feel so called out by this video. 😭 I've played, like, 3? games on this list? The worst part is that I own most of them but they've been languishing in my backlog. youtu.be/efsYuNDNc1M?...

God I love Tim Curry.

Ambrosia Sky is a first person space-cleanup/ImSim about death and memory. We talk to @softrains.bsky.social about its creative inspirations and give our impressions of the game's recently released first act. WATCH HERE: youtu.be/vCZbqe8r8uY

I'm thinking I probably won't watch @thegameawards.com this year. The whole thing with them removing the Future Class award from the lineup and from their website has made me sick to my stomach. 🤢

Why aren't there a ton of great Christmas games? We made Cthulhu Saves Christmas to fill in the gap, but I'm a little surprised that there's still barely any great Christmas games. There's countless Christmas movies!

November is #SciFiMonth so the Literary Game Club is playing Cosmic Star Heroine, an indie RPG by @zeboydgames.bsky.social! Want to join us in playing and discussing this game? Just comment or send me a message and I'll send you an invite! @scifimonth.bsky.social

"It shines the brightest in its visual design, with rich environments and vibes. It kept me invested in Lily’s story by revealing just enough through its intriguing and beautiful cut scenes." Read @katerblossom.bsky.social's impressions of As I Began to Dream: nosmallgames.com/2025/11/as-i...

‘We were effectively props’: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’ www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

Bandai Namco's strategy for Tales remasters misses the point

You mean purging all data relating to a group of developers from marginalized and underrepresented communities doesn’t make your website load faster?

Me calling every affected author I know to remind them to file a claim.

Drawing the D.

Go take a listen 🎵

The people of Hateno Village are all, "Woe is us, we're just a poor little village. Good thing we at least have this textile industry to keep us afloat." Meanwhile Link hops down their well once a day and mines emeralds from the caves under the village. And he doesn't tell anyone about it.

Happy N7 Day to those who celebrate! Here's an article on disability representation in the Mass Effect series. #N7Day #SciFiMonth www.videogamesaslit.com/2016/11/disa...

I went ahead and started a list on my blog that I can share when people ask for recommendations of magic kid books that aren't HP. myforestlibrary.com/2025/11/06/b...

If I were to say "my favorite fishing method is electrocution" you guys would have me arrested. But if I said "my favorite fishing method *in The Legend of Zelda* is electrocution" you'd be fine with it. 😂 Video games are weird.

i owe so many video game designers an apology

some old rune factory stuff

i'm so overjoyed that, as of tomorrow, 1000xRESIST will gain new audiences. it's one of the best games i've ever played and will ever play. it's the honor of a lifetime to work on this game's future. i hope all of you who haven't played it yet fall in love with it as rapidly as i did 💙

We have the (extremely dated) technology.

Many full time creatives have “invisible safety nets” like bread-winning partners, trust funds, external support, etc. No shame on anyone, but it creates a false vision of success. The cost of going to cons alone on top of hoping to eat as a freelancer are untenable, IMO.

Also in keeping with today's #SciFiMonth prompt ("Previously, on SciFi Month"): can you believe I've been participating in SciFi Month since 2014?! It's hard to believe we've been doing this for over a decade! Here's a history of my SciFi Month blog posts: www.videogamesaslit.com/search/label...

November has started - suit up, hop aboard and blast off with us for a month of sharing our love for all things SF! #ScifiMonth2025

Actually, #SciFiMonth has prevented me from completely giving up on the Sci Fi genre. I was so bored by most "classic" scifi that I almost felt the genre was dead to me. 🧵

Another cool Halloween release - the fan-run Dragon's Dogma Online now has all of the content up to the start of Season 3 (the last Capcom ran) and a further-improved translation. Downloads/info/etc on the community DDO Discord server here. Only big thing left for them to restore: Bitterblack Isle

I'm planning 🤞 to read The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum and Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki. In terms of video games, I've already started playing Slime Rancher 2, and I'll be playing Outer Wilds with the Literary Game Club. #SciFiMonth #SciFiMonth2025

Happy #ScifiMonth when we share our love of a favourite genre. It’s a casual cruise across galaxies and timelines this year, and we can’t wait to see where your travels take you! As always we have daily prompts and Friday Fives plus a picture bingo and a read along of Ancillary Justice 🚀

For 20 years, the legacy of #ShadowOfTheColossus lives on, echoing through countless games (including our own!). Thank you, Team Ico, for inspiring monster-climbing greatness in so many developers' hearts. 💛 We can't wait to see what's next with PROJECT: ROBOT! 💛

I am blown away by this amazing TotK Hestu costume! 😍 www.reddit.com/r/TOTK/s/I7X...

Happy 58th birthday to video game composer Yoko Shimomura! Career Highlights: - Mario & Luigi series - Kingdom Hearts series - Super Mario RPG - Street Fighter II - Super Smash Bros. - Radiant Historia + A lot more!

First book I completed in 2025 was A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. I loved this one...a book that is short and sweet and strays from the usual cynicism found in the science fiction genre. Read more here: prismaticponderings.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/a...

We also go through many arguments that can be used as counters to typical false frames forced upon us, such as: 1. the powerful nonsense that we as experts know nothing (Section 3.1 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 3/n