Closest thing you'll see from me maybe ever to a personal essay about a video game vgbees.com/im-great-at-...

This was such a special video to make, and I really appreciate the Consume Me team being so generous with their time and ARTIFACTS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfaM...

i see game of the year (or ANY ART of the year) as a deeply personal endeavor, and the more it becomes commercialized or legitimized the further it moves from being a tool for introspection

✨NEW EPISODE✨ This week in the Aether: Kirby Air Ride gets the James Cameron treatment. Brendon finished Dragon Quest 1 again. Pokemon Lazarus came from a wormhole (complimentary). Dispatch has Stephen and Brendon split. Listen + Tell a Friend: intothecast.online 💕

good take squad

My latest #Playdate project, helloyellow, is out now! It's a voice chat app using the Playdate's wi-fi networking capabilities. You can chat with your friends, share achievements, and more. 💬 Download it now at jonsimantov.itch.io/helloyellow!

Probably one of the coolest looking console UIs. The idea of letting you pin purely cosmetic decorations to your menu is so smart.

This is cool - someone is running Demonschool on their AYN Thor (presumably a legal copy using Game Hub) & they're using the second screen as a combat magnifier! @brandon.insertcredit.com www.reddit.com/r/AynThor/co...

the interesting thing about this piece is that the computer they’re testing on costs ~$3200 MSRP, and while performance is likely better than the steam machine… it’s not like EARTH SHATTERINGLY better.

if you'd told me that sektori is a remaster of "the best dreamcast game nobody played" i would believe you (complimentary)

maybe i am going insane

Wrote another headline with @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/business/828...

My Ball x Pit base is an eye sore. Constructing it hasn't felt great either. But, I'd argue that the way Ball x Pit makes you build New Ballbylon is great for developing the flexible mindset that creates communities. Read about it in my latest @unwinnable.com: unwinnable.com/2025/11/24/t...

i'm in new jersey. i'm eating italian food. i'm at the combination in new jersey eating italian food.

i severely underestimated what it would be like to scrub through 80 hours of livestream footage to find the five seconds of dialogue i'm looking for over and over and over again for this silksong video lmao

Hidden cameras. Surveillance networks. Paranoid delusions. My new video is about the feeling that you're being watched. youtu.be/gStjfje6Mq4

Spiderman

lyft seems to be doing some kind of wicked promotion that turns all of the cars into brooms and maybe it's just me but they honestly look like little turds complete with stinky green lines

percia’s about to kill han solo

four extremely good characters from this year

demonschool extremely a game written by people who are "on line", but in a way that's genuinely charming more often than not.

i just unironically said "what are we gonna do with all of these leftover lemons i didn't use" out loud

wonderful piece. i really resonate with how overwhelming the emotional core of dragon quest 2's remake in particular can be. i find myself bowled over constantly playing this thing, which is all the more shocking given the original game's reputation as "the worst one."

i've been having a really bad day today. but i also crossed something off my to-do list that's been there since september which is a small balm i really, really needed.

this morning i am once again thinking about whatever @gardens.dev is cooking up

my favorite thing about the chair company (especially knowing it just got renewed for a second season) is that they could very easily keep it going forever, never explain anything, and that could be the bit if they wanted it to be

I spent lots of time chatting with the Nazi bot on Nazi dot com and giving ad revenue to the world’s richest Nazi in order to create these screenshots that you’ll hate. Enjoy

watched a youtube video about ~cinema~ that i'd recommend if you also frequently find yourself sitting in theaters asking "why doesn't this look like a movie"

We don't know. What we do know is the wiring diagram works. We built it, virtually, in @godotengine.org. We fed it scans of the books we found. And the books are very, very strange. The "game" that resulted is also strange. We're hoping people can make sense of it for us.

Here's a good example of someone who got what we were going for while framing it in a way I wouldn't have considered ("how similar is it to persona 5 royal?"). I think that's neat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAK6...

dragon quest 1 complete 🥲

this piece rocks

Silksong’s fascination with religion is obvious from the beginning. But only in examining the game’s conclusion(s) does its perspective become clear — this is a story about the apocalyptic finish line, a story about the end of stories. And it is also about what comes after. youtu.be/Rp-gPD_-RM4

Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS! ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

demonschool is out now! i like it a lot!

The coolest thing about not being locked up in the 90s style review cycle is.....not everything needs a grade/number or 1 to 1 comparison to another game. We can just talk about games and what we like about them For example, this wonderful talk about Demonschool!

my latest review is out now!!! 💜 i absolutely adore demonschool and i feel very lucky for this review to be my first byline with rock paper shotgun, which has been a dream for a while please give it a read!!! 💜

Great video. Great game. Perfect final two seconds of a YouTube.

Steam doesn't get enough credit as the only storefront that's useful to game journos and writers. There's your game summary, your updates, your videos, your developer information, and your image gallery with high-res .jpgs. Not WEBP. Not AVIF, whatever the fuck that is. Just .jpgs.

He's so right about the fishing

💀 new video! 💀

the comparison between demonschool and persona makes a lot of sense on a high level, but you don't need to scratch too deep to find it has a completely different design ethos when it comes to crafting a life-sim rpg. youtu.be/wAK6T7vm6ss

i'm just gonna say it: i think the game awards have lost the plot this year with these nominations

Felt compelled to write about what malice, block towers, and the parakeets mean ahead of its rerelease. Had to make it into a blog. Hope people still read it. Reading The Boy and The Heron: autumnwright.bearblog.dev/reading-the-...

My book campaign ends in TWO HOURS so I'm going live on Twitch to see how far I can make it in Silksong before we close it down. www.twitch.tv/jacobgeller

do you have a favorite controller for pc games? i tend to just always default to using 8bitdo controllers but is there something else out there i should be considering these days?

can’t wait for my aunts and uncles to ask me about this at thanksgiving

Been having a blast with Pokemon Lazarus since its release yesterday. Shout out to @bb.wavelengths.online for bringing attention to it!

My favorite iOS 18 feature that Apple kept for iOS 26 is when you type a search query into your browser and literally nothing happens until you clear the field and try your search again.