"Making games for work and making games for fun. In a sense, it was heaven" - Yoshio Nishimura talks to us about Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle, how he joined the industry, moving from Capcom to Vanillaware, working with Hitoshi Sakimoto, and much more: www.rpgsite.net/interview/20...

HELL YEAH VERITAS TALES TIME

最高の第一話をありがとう #攻殻機動隊 #TheGhostintheshell

Since GitS (and especially the og style) is back on the menu....I once rambled about how the ps1 game is like the best thing ever made probably

Speaking of SAC, 2nd GIG’s op is still excellent www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjLZ...

There are so many incredible things about the intro to the PC-98/Win version of "YU-NO" but one of my favorite details is that a piece of the Elf logo in the beginning gets superimposed into the scene on the base of a lamp!

My latest interview for @anitrendz.com is up, where I had a chance to speak with manga artist Battan at this year's TCAF, where I chatted about some of her past and upcoming works and what makes her characters so compelling. READ: 👇 anitrendz.net/news/2026/07...

王子とパ・ド・ドゥを

the classic.....

Learn about the making of Taito's 3D fighting game Psychic Force 2012 in this lengthy interview from 1999! The team discusses the origins of the series and their unique approach to character design and lore. shmuplations.com/psychicforce...

Let us reiterate: Iron Wok Jan is unhinged and I'm happy for it.

my new game "two kinds of people" is out now. a story about at least two people. please proceed carefully. made for #toxicyurivnjam. 10k words. lacunova.itch.io/tkop

Greeting, gamers! We're here to interrupt your feed with some positive news. Work on UZDoom 5.0 is wrapping up. We will begin rolling out Release Candidates really, REALLY soon (sooner than you may think!)... Watch this space, 'cuz 5.0's gonna be one heck of an update!

Unfortunately, HR made our office manager take this down almost immediately. They said because it's in a common area, it had to be removed. We've used common areas for many things as a team, including fan works, but HR seems to believe that a Celebration of Service is inappropriate.

I wonder who is working on the new gundam……

you shouldn't joke this is a serious topic

Ib is so simple yet profound in surprising subtleties… Deeply lovely game I really enjoyed unpacking.

Kicking off our issue on Otome with an essay from Ludzu on sublimated eroticism, violence and realism, and anti-romance.

John Tarachine's The Credits Roll into the Sea Volume 1 is now available for purchase in print and digital format

you should also read this piece by @mcastimovies.bsky.social, which reflects something I’ve heard from stop motion filmmakers themselves about how their medium feels like the antithesis to AI - which provoked the realisation for me that the craft focus of Annecy’s WIP is the same thing writ large:

one last bit about Annecy Festival, talking about my favourite section of the festival, the Work in Progress strand

Underappreciated deep cut of the day: that time RE-ANIMATOR was turned into a manga. deepcuts.blog/2025/03/12/z...

figure this is a comics/manga story too...

Timeline cleanse! I wrote a funny little piece about slimes in videogames that went up recently

ever since its announcement, the new gits anime has been advertising itself as a "faithful adaptation." part of me was thinking, "but if toh enjoe's involved, maybe it'll be gits by way of toh enjoe?" but no, looking at the manga, it does seem to be following it closely (w/ exceptions)

Good morning, everyone! It's currently 7am where I live. I hope everybody slept well, because I didn't Why, you ask? Because I was writing about Shadowverse since 3am. Come read my latest post in a multi-part series where I talk about Shadowverse. welcomelabrynth.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/a...

btween cyberpunk edgerunners 2 and the new gits, retrofuture os'es are in now, huh

Interviewed Science SARU'S Mokochan and Shuhei Handa about The Ghost in the Shell.

THE ACKROOMS

if you like mechanical deep dives, you'll enjoy my piece on the Mega Man Zero series imagine if DMC had that combat depth, but no style system to surface it, and everyone only compared it to the Resident Evil series that's how people talk about this series canonfire.net/post/6775935...

Quick, while everyone in the English speaking world is into Belgium - Go Get You Some Classic Belgian Comics! Spirou, Lucky Luke, Thorgal, Les motherfuckin Schtroumpfs! Give yourself the gift of decades of beautiful work by masters that have almost nothing to do with the tradition you grew up on.

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Thank you @decassette.bsky.social !!! and Congrats!! We're very surprised today but AGOS has been nominated for BOOK OF THE YEAR. It's the first time one of our books has been nominated for one of these awards so we will celebrate a little bit

Yoji Shinkawa x The Ghost In The Shell (last frame of Episode 1)

From the opening of "The Ghost In The Shell". >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhza...

"Do you like caco?" For scrmbl, I wrote about the classic 2016 Doom community megawad Japanese Community Project (JPCP)

"Do you like caco?" For scrmbl, I wrote about the classic 2016 Doom community megawad Japanese Community Project (JPCP)

Mahoutsukai no Yoru anime announces November 20 premiere

The books are shelved as he left them, using Eco’s “good neighbor” policy, and this is said to have helped him make unexpected connections. It also seems to me to hint at connections he made or hoped to make in work he may have left finished, a map to ideas he was still having. A profound honor.

“There was a tendency to emotionally corner mangaka.” Cells at Work! creator’s allegations prompt numerous fellow artists to speak out about mistreatment by editors Other mangaka report unpaid royalties and disregard for health concerns by publishers automaton-media.com/en/news/cell...

This week on Unpacking the Shelf, my friend Alex and I dive into Levitz and Giffen's run on Legion of Superheroes, starting with the Great Darkness Saga! Once upon a time in the 80s, this was one of DC's most popular comics on the stands...does it still hold up?

In an effort to get 1 billion listeners to Blood God we've brought on the amazing Kelsey Lewin (@kelslewin.bsky.social) to discuss what the end of physical PlayStation games REALLY means for consumers, developers, and historians AD-FREE: www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod/... free: pod.link/969659784/ep...

and we're seeking volunteer submissions! is there an unknown indie or retro rpg you love that never got the credit it deserved? tell us what makes it special and we'll shove it in front of as many eyeballs as we can! read out our contributor guide + reach out! vextro.itch.io/darkworld/de...

RPG Dark World is a monthly micro-review bulletin surfacing the hidden achievements of the RPGs the games industry can't get rich off of. Zero-budget indies! Untranslated doujin games! RPG Maker jam games! The cutting edge of RPGs is the blade of darkness! Read issue #1 --> vextro.itch.io/darkworld

does anyone have suggestions for how to play ace combat? the last time I tried, I flew the plane around and around in circles until the timer ran out

My piece on Sakura Wars and Midnight Suns is featured this week!

I wrote this

it's the last morgan monday of the year... #otDevil

Martian Successor Nadesico, Stellvia and 5 other series will be available for free on Youtube in honor of director Tatsuo Sato, who passed away in April. I always wanted to watch these two anime!