reviewed Titanium Court, AP Thomson's very good roguelite and fantastic anti-roguelite www.slantmagazine.com/games/titani...

when you publish your review of a game and then read THE review of the game

reviewed Titanium Court, AP Thomson's very good roguelite and fantastic anti-roguelite www.slantmagazine.com/games/titani...

if I were Australian I’d be so insufferably proud of Bluey

let paragraphs be long

pick an Xbox story, any Xbox story; pick a site, any site; and:

great time to be a writer — barely anyone can read, and the people who can read don't read

DOOM is not worth it DIABLO is not worth it BETHESDA STUFF is not worth it OBSIDIAN STUFF is not worth it NOTHING IS WORTH IT

the state of things (or of me) is that I can't spend five minutes on here without the curmudgeon meter spiking and forcing me to close out for my own sanity

I am not at all tuned into streamers, but have nonetheless been extremely loyal to FightinCowboy since this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRdH...

dad games < games about having a dad < dad games about having a dad (Sekiro)

do we dive back into Hades 2 or do we start over on the PS5

dealing 3 damage to something with 2 HP >>> dealing 150,000 damage to something with 100,000 HP

today in sentences designed to obliterate me:

I'm an Into the Breach guy now. cutest mechs you've ever seen

XIII is a top-tier Final Fantasy. it is better, not worse, for the fact that it took me years to appreciate it

for about a week, I have kept a tab up on my work computer with images of Fou-Lou as a reminder to figure out how to play Breath of Fire IV. it is not working as a reminder but very much working as an excitement stoker for Breath of Fire IV

For the record:

Sol Cesto launched in 1.0 today, and there's no better pitch for this one than...practically any screenshot of it

eager to refer to new Castlevania as a Metroidlike

Thrilled to kick off a stacked @bpmonthly.bsky.social issue on Marathon. I wrote about the resonance of Runners, live-service players, and SteamDB numbers. We're all just grist for the mill, troops summoned to deliver the aims of the corporation. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/04/09/s... 🐛🔫

becoming increasingly curmudgeonly because it’s every day now that I see a verb choice in a piece of writing that pisses me off

top JRPG bosses: 1. the biggest goblin 2. “no, master! not you!” 3. octopus 4. “we meet again, old friend” 5. god, preferably sitting on a throne

life is just seeing images like this right next to melted-brain ravings about nuclear war. it's just a speck to some people, no matter how close

ready to just go wherever this movie wants to take me

listen, I get why someone would use AI to enable a career writing about videogames. who could resist the near-zero pay, the true-zero cachet, and the disdain of your readers?

thinking about Live a Live, perhaps the game with the widest gulf between my expectations going in (low) and my experience with it (WOAH) www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGrP...

reviewed Grime II, which I'm pleased to report is all about dick www.slantmagazine.com/games/grime-...

reviewed Grime II, which I'm pleased to report is all about dick www.slantmagazine.com/games/grime-...

I feel this every time I open up a New Yorker and see 1-2 stories about AI. don't give it the time of day — it deserves nothing

growing pet peeve: "Disco Elysium meets D&D" re: Esoteric Ebb. Disco Elysium already met D&D!

the leadup to Saros is reminding me of how much I absolutely adored Returnal. one of those games I haven't touched in years, but still closely remember how it felt in my hands. (also, Blue Öyster Cult)

“there is no ethical consumption under capitalism“ increasingly means “I would like to not be judged for doing the least ethical consumption under capitalism”

what I love about Chris is his fearless conviction, even when he’s extremely wrong

I am neither an economist nor a sociologist, but I firmly believe that, at the age of 7, every child should be given a copy of Majora's Mask (the golden cartridge, logistics permitting) and an N64 to play it on. the controller should be purple and see-through

my family plotting to get me a Switch 2 for my birthday, ahead of almost inevitable price hikes and with Star Fox potentially around the corner

my desire to do yet another Elden Ring playthrough is on a steady, possibly eternal low boil — art like this crossing my feed is dangerous

why do people hyphenate ”no one” as “no-one”

a Soulslike is when you can slide down the ladder really fast

oof, slap this on a long-lost JRPG town

per John Rogers

"I am so good at business that I fired 1,000+ of the most talented people in the industry"

thinking about the Epic layoffs, and: why 1,000+ people? would 100 not have been enough? 500? 999? massive, life-changing numbers that can't possibly be logical. it's like the paradox of the heap — at what point is your pile of sand sufficiently profitable?

hm I wish I could put my finger on what other industry this reminds me of

$500K is...a whole lot of money

will say only that this, while immediately very good, is aging like fine wine with every passing day

new Bloodborne secret ending requirements discovered via Medea in the Argonautica