exec after years of bad decisions: the industry has shifted,

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Surely we can’t forget the veritable masterpiece/fever dream that was 1994’s Cyberia.

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It really says something that an official in Israel, where they deny the genocide in Gaza, can use the phrase "Look like Gaza" in this way. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

This live stream is giving me life.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

#Gamingin2026 12. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Insomniac, 2023) The quintessential spectacle game—a blast to play, incredibly well-polished, and full of wonderful Moments™ that never really coalesce into a meaningful whole.

I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth

For all the flak that em dashes are getting, the most consistent AI giveaway these days is "it's not just ____; it's ____."

I think what's struck so many people about the White House CoD meme--or at least what struck me--is how, unlike Pokemon or Halo, there's way this one, in a fucked-up way, makes "sense," which says as much about games as it does about the 12-year-olds in our government.

Chotiner: It just seems to me that if you're so adamant about Chrono Trigger being "perfect and not in need of a remake," you would be more critical of the Final Fantasy VII Remake project writ large. Me: You're putting words in my mouth. That's not what I said. That's not what I said.

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

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It's insane to me how we've gotten to the point where people are laughing about this, like a lot of people's work was all for naught, and this ain't like an activision or something where they're gonna be just fine. Idk man, the people wishing for stuff to fail is a really bad trend to me

#Gamingin2026 11. A Little to the Left (Max Inferno, 2022) A Little to the Left is a cozy game that’s secretly not a cozy game.

This is flat out one of the most bizarre and disheartening situations I've seen in modern games. Initial questions about marketing aside, not even lasting three months before a total shut down is such a clear indictment of the current state of our industry. Dire stuff!

February’s over, and I survived this bitterly cold month alternating between cute puzzle games and soul-draining horror. Enjoy a review round-up of everything I played this month, and let me know if this inspires you to try something new!

Somehow never gets old

every time i write while also being tired, i should get a medal, which means i should get a medal every time i write. which makes sense actually

Something that brings me great joy is that Franz practiced law so he, too, was Kafka Esq.

#Gamingin2026 10. Silent Hill 2 Remake (Bloober Team, 2024) Here's where I confess that I've never played a Silent Hill. Despite loving my fair share of horror games, Silent Hill has always been a large gap in my knowledge of the genre.

Thrilled to finally receive this gorgeous vinyl collection. Hekki grace, @veryokvinyl.com & @sunsetvisitor.studio.

Your opposition to war can just be that war is evil. it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.

I am not sure I can put into words how much the past twenty four months has radicalized me against democrats

"Pre-emptive strike" is and always has been propaganda speak for "we started another war"

Favorite album cover? Gonna go with Repave by Volcano Choir. Something about the way the waves read as rocks has always captured me.

After playing through my first Silent Hill this past week, and now seeing all of the positivity toward RE Requiem, I'm feeling an itch to dive headfirst into some more survival horror.

#Gamingin2026 9. Botany Manor (Balloon Studios, 2024) A couple weeks ago, I picked up Botany Manor as one of EGS's weekly freebies. I launched it just to see what the opening minutes felt like, and 4 hours later, I'd unintentionally finished it one sitting.

#Gamingin2026 8. Beyond Good & Evil (Ubisoft Montpellier, 2003) It's hard for me to be impartial about Beyond Good & Evil, as it's one of those games that swept me away and sparked my imagination from a young age.

I love the hater pope

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

Another reminder (not that we needed one) that you can do everything "right" and still be sacrificed on the altar of capital, due to the fleeting whims of a c-suite addicted to the allure of a line that forever goes up.

#Gamingin2026 7. Proverbs (Divide the Plunder, 2024) Are you into Dutch Renaissance oil paintings, Flemish idioms, AND picross-minesweeper hybrids? Then have I got a wildly specific recommendation for you!

The videogame version of Letterboxd is literally called ‘backloggd’! We don’t need more games 😱 The tools are good, it’s the economy that needs ‘democratizing’

Love Is Blind is so fun because approximately once a year we get to watch two people think that it’s serendipitous and destiny if they both love one of the most played tracks to ever exist

Anyone remember season 2 of Master of None? Cause this is pretty much just that.

#Gamingin2026 6. Dispatch (AdHoc Studio, 2025) A fun, lighthearted, human take on the superhero genre that feels surprisingly fresh despite treading familiar ground. Great characters, unique approaches to team-building and synergy, and a genuinely funny script.

GoW Trilogy Remake trailer was giving Elder Scrolls VI trailer, and that makes me nervous. We ain't seeing that anytime soon.

Pretty great State of Play! - Control Resonant continues to look incredible. - Glad that MGS4 is finally free of the PS3. - I skipped Spider-Man 2 when it came out, so I'm happy I can finally get around to it through PS Plus.

Finally!

I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race

Dispatch adapts the style and ethos of television as a narrative form and transplants it into the body of a video game, a design choice that’s its greatest strength—and perhaps its greatest issue. New post on my substack.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.