Xbox news is as horrible as expected, but my biggest takeaway is them wanting to up user counts from a billion a year to a billion a day that's the kind of insanity that doesn't normally escape the slide deck we're just making up numbers, saying them aloud, and calling it Leadership (tm)

played and enjoyed the new addition of Samurai, Hanami! the game is as excellent as ever, but I question these power cards. they're wildly uneven in power, and one (pictured) doesn't even work as-is (there aren't 1 power player tiles in those types) happy with the game but will be ignoring those

animal plane game opinions! while it sacrifices some of the charm of the original, I would be lying if I said this wasn't the best playing Star Fox game we've had also Slippy has had such a glowup it's honestly incredible backloggd.com/u/Vysetron/r...

I'm officially allowed to have opinions about the Star Fox remake

my stuff's still packed for the move, which means my library is reduced to multipurpose doodads that work without consistent internet. PS1 it is! backloggd.com/u/Vysetron/r...

all I'll say about the sony news is that today is an excellent day to expand your rom sets

Happy to announce that www.warppoint.games now features a few more opinions about Game Boy games! Super jazzed about this project. I've already found some great writers and sites on WP, I bet you would too!

finally had time to bang out a playthrough of the new Star Fox, played the same route for comparison I'm a bit mixed on it? it plays great, and it makes several changes that I'd overall say are positive (Slippy rules now!), but it def lacks some charm and the performances are a bit too reserved

Donkey Kong '94 is one of the greatest games to ever be slotted into a Super Game Boy. My friends and I talked about it for an hour (post-edit!), and it's WGBZ's new #1. Even the most GB-skeptical should play this one. wackgameboy.zone/2026/06/25/d...

been playing old Star Foxes in prep for the new one (not Adventures, too long) and I've realized that if I do a ranked piece I'd be immediately accused of rage baiting related, god Star Fox Command is so damn good. the true Star Fox 3, a game with New Ideas, almost all of which work!

New short lil Game Boy piece! Come for the anti-Rare sacrilege, stay for more anti-Rare sacrilege. wackgameboy.zone/2026/06/18/d...

Not fully back in the writing swing (moving cross country is hard!), but I played the new Star Fox demo and had to return for a sanity check. backloggd.com/u/Vysetron/r...

3 Witches (@coreyyoung.com, @allplay.bsky.social) hearkens back to peak of the microgame era, packing a tightly-wound 2v1 trick taker into an entire 18 cards. Sabotaging a group project has rarely felt so vindicating. pixeldie.com/2026/06/10/3...

I love making stupid youtube videos about card games bc it means I get to make stuff like this

yet another independent games media site built around maintaining editorial control and having any standards whatsoever crumpled for a game their core audience likely doesn't care about, then immediately followed up with an AI slop book-sorting game despite all good sense cool and good, nice job

New zonepost! HAL Labs had a different funny little round guy a year before Kirby came along, and it had a gun! wackgameboy.zone/2026/05/25/t...

saw the new star wars adding it to The List

second thought - it's incredibly rich that BGG's content policy is being set and upheld by the guy who publicly posted about how jesus helped him recover from 20+ years of jacking off that's not a joke, that actually happened, you can still read it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/puz...

extremely normal day for the remaining BGG jannies tbh

if you're not down with a version of Katt that looks like she's only keeping her plane in the air thanks to two Monster Zeros and an unlabled pill bottle you've either never met a pilot or are a fairweather furry

playing Slay the Spire ascension 10 with the funny chair man, going on an absolute tear, getting to boss 2/2, dying to my nearly double digits of block cards refusing to be drawn 2 turns in a row

swap to the bean & cheese version, top with salsa so you don't die, and you've got the "no I can totally turn writing about games into a career" special

Some folks haven't had a chance to meet Wedge yet, which is just a shame. He loves the opportunity to talk - especially about himself. He'll be the primary point of view for a lot of the Loophole Logs comic, so get used to him. #ocsky #oc #webcomics #LoopholeLogs

look I'm not trying to raise hell at a site just trying to make it in this ecosystem, but when playing the clickmaxxing game is actively funneling money into Saudi Arabia's pockets I take issue surely there is game news to discuss that isn't Neo Geo?

sometimes Random Game Saturday taketh away sometimes it giveth pain

You heard about this "Mario" game? It's not bad! Bit heavy on the Chinese stereotypes and the flying sections are a weird inclusion but...huh? No, this definitely says "Mario" on it, see? Got the Nintendo seal and everything! Even has the iconic funny Moai guys! wackgameboy.zone/2026/04/25/s...

look I'm as happy as ever to see CMON in their death throes but this is a weird involuntary spasm even for them what year is it? who greenlit this? what couch cushions did they find another 2 mil under and how do I get a piece? I'll sell them a fucking jpeg, let's do business

spent a few hrs with Vampire Crawlers I have opinions about Vampire Crawlers

this took more effort than I anticipated. Thief had Art Direction until I remembered Baroque was technically '98, rest were pretty easy. Tekken 3 getting snubbed is a heartbreaker but Gauntlet is just perfect at what it does

ZPF seems like an excellent shmup mechanically but I'm pretty sure the thing that'll hook most of y'all is the elf twink shopkeeper who calls you "hon" if you buy hints

New post on da zone! Feed IT Souls (@gumpyfunction.bsky.social) is a small, angry game that balances platforming prowess with wholly warranted techbro bashing. Specifically THAT techbro. You know the one. wackgameboy.zone/2026/04/11/f...

Test page for framing, text bubbles here for the Loophole Logs. No backgrounds right now, just checking my framing.

New Game Boy game! It's Tennis! It's got Mario in it, but don't call it Mario Tennis or Camelot will add another vestigial gimmick to their next tennis game. wackgameboy.zone/2026/03/29/t...

I don't know exactly how to explain this but Illumination Fox just looks like a software engineer in a fursuit

kinda fucked up that we're all eventually gonna have to make the swap to an AMD card just to avoid Nvidia Enforced Yassification

replaying gen 1 pokemon for the first time in ages and I'm blown away at how well structured this is compared to other RPGs of its era it tutorializes but never wastes your time (far cry from modern pkmn!), characters are informative AND witty, it ramps up complexity perfectly, genuinely impressive

New Zonepost! Normally I live in constant fear of being sentenced to another 100 levels of box-pushery, but Catrap made the whole journey a joy, in large part thanks to an excellent undo feature and getting to sock the bejeezus out of its various Halloween monsters. wackgameboy.zone/2026/03/15/c...

marathon is a good game because sometimes you stumble into Worldbuilding

Just some samples while I'm working out lettering. I'm struggling a bit with the whole using Affinity to do letters as I'm much more used to hand-drawing my effects and letters - so enjoy some stuff that's been hand-lettered in the meantime. Pebs is a bit mad at Wedge. #loopholelogs #comics

I was initially surprised at just how much I'm enjoying Marathon, but I think it can be best summarized by "this is a game where you can play as the POV chase monster from Evil Dead 2"

New piece over at Pixel Die! Kyle subjected himself to the whims of the TikTok algo and played some games that were...actually good? Huh. Who'da thought. Vouch for Super Battle Golf btw, that game is a riot. pixeldie.com/2026/03/10/t...

output on the Wack Game Boy Zone has slowed for the following reasons: 1) a lot of those initial posts were already written! 2) I've got several completed games in the backlog but they deserve a bit more finesse to write up 3) I am becoming the foremost expert on portable Caesars Palace games

people assume my handle is because I liked skies of arcadia and sci-fi too much in the early internet days - and that's correct! - but there is another reason the fact that it took me this long to make videos on the internet is pretty funny, considering

everyone's favorite new pokemon starter being a bird that looks like it's in the middle of a difficult customer call is absolutely a recession indicator

yeah sorry board game bsky, I do not give half a shit about the nontroversy of the month do I sell review copies: no, they are donated or given away assuming I don't keep them do I care if someone makes fives of dollars from selling a secondhand board game post-review: also no

Our website just released one of the coolest things we've done yet: the start of our book-club-but-for-games, Roll for Discussion! The first episode is about Brave Fencer Musashi. After this, the next game will be chosen entirely at random from the participants' picks! pixeldie.com/2026/02/25/r...

SNK makes its debut on The Zone with Dexterity, a game that's kind of like Reversi if the board just occasionally exploded. wackgameboy.zone/2026/02/25/d...

Current game rotation

folks the reviews of the reviews are in

Exciting times: I got to preview a new Netrunner card for @netrunner.nullsignal.games! Most people would take this as an opportunity to talk about its strengths, create a puzzle, or do some sort of community engagement. I did not do those things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEe0...