ICYMI: "I can exist in between gender identities and alter my form whenever I like – there’s no limitation or gating to the times I can customize." @jhensliterature.bsky.social on the gender euphoria of the Saints Row series' character system:

trans rights bitches

"I can exist in between gender identities and alter my form whenever I like – there’s no limitation or gating to the times I can customize." @jhensliterature.bsky.social on the gender euphoria of the Saints Row series' character system:

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It's still so crazy (in a good way) to me that these games I worked on 25 years ago are still finding new audiences today. Warms my heart, and I'm super glad that the @nightdivestudios.bsky.social folks made the SS1 & SS2 remasters.

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"While I’ve long considered System Shock 2 to be an important part of my own personal list of bests and favorites, I’d never actually played all that much of it." @robsteinone.bsky.social finally gets to play a game that's influenced all of his favorites:

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ICYMI: "They phased in and out of sync, just the right amount to remain human while playing music that disregards our usual natural affinities." @rubeck.bsky.social sees Beau Navire play live after over a decade apart:

"With so many heroes, villains, and play options available, you would have to play Marvel United a whole lot more than, like, twice to ever see it all." @orringrey.com digs into Marvel United's expansions:

"They phased in and out of sync, just the right amount to remain human while playing music that disregards our usual natural affinities." @rubeck.bsky.social sees Beau Navire play live after over a decade apart:

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I insisted on the title for this. My eulogy for And Just Like That… Come for the post-mortem, stay for my wish list of episodes that will never be.

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"Because this is a show at least in part about aging, this made aging feel timid and apologetic as well." @nochshorn.bsky.social points out the inherent exhaustion in And Just Like That…:

ICYMI: "Art has a funny way of making us take a hard look in the mirror, and 'bad' art can sometimes be the best at this." @josephstanichar.bsky.social tells the story of how A Fold Apart helped him get out of an unhealthy relationship:

"Art has a funny way of making us take a hard look in the mirror, and 'bad' art can sometimes be the best at this." @josephstanichar.bsky.social tells the story of how A Fold Apart helped him get out of an unhealthy relationship:

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Great article!

Good piece!

I got my first games-related byline in 5 years through @unwinnable.com! unwinnable.com/2025/09/15/a...

I'm so glad someone else had the same thoughts about D:BH that I have had in the last month or so, and I really need to write a proper essay about it myself. The crux of it is that while games do have to sometimes have black and white choices - to push that into material so nuanced is irresponsible.

Your life will be richer if you take 10 minutes to read this and chuckle!

ICYMI: "[I] don’t need a Nintendo Switch 2 because I have…The Dadtendo." @mattmarrone.bsky.social pits the Nintendo Switch 2 against the Dadtendo, AKA his Anbernic RG40XXH:

"[I] don’t need a Nintendo Switch 2 because I have…The Dadtendo." @mattmarrone.bsky.social pits the Nintendo Switch 2 against the Dadtendo, AKA his Anbernic RG40XXH:

This is a fantastic piece!

i think this article cuts to the heart of why i feel so uncomfortable around the idea of "cozy" or "wholesome" games. there's a whole ideological apparatus that surrounds them, as with any genre. they aren't escaping anything. :(

I forgot to ask this morning, if you’ve read some or all of this, tell me if you and your friends have done a couch reading of a non-voice acted game! And if you did, how was it?? Any favourite memories?

Writing this one made me realize I don’t think a lot of typical features of Wholesome or Cozy games are made for individuals like me. I don’t really associate fishing, buying & managing property and being a vendor cozy, for instance.

ICYMI: "A hand reaches out across time to deliver me a missing battery lid I thought I lost." A thoughtful design feature in the Nikon F80 has @lawoftd.bsky.social thinking about the loss of human-centric design in today's products:

ICYMI: "[T]his preoccupation with individual agency over interdependent, communal agency is pervasive in a popular genre of games that often claims to center the latter: Wholesome or Cozy games." @phoenixsimms.bsky.social muses on communal care in videogames:

"A hand reaches out across time to deliver me a missing battery lid I thought I lost." A thoughtful design feature in the Nikon F80 has @lawoftd.bsky.social thinking about the loss of human-centric design in today's products:

"[T]his preoccupation with individual agency over interdependent, communal agency is pervasive in a popular genre of games that often claims to center the latter: Wholesome or Cozy games." @phoenixsimms.bsky.social muses on communal care in videogames:

My first bit of writing since getting laid off… is about a camera battery cover? Shout out to @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social and @rubeck.bsky.social for giving this piece a home! unwinnable.com/2025/09/11/t...

I will forever be grateful for this particular column leading to the sentence "Which is to say, they’re kinda doing to Jesus what Uber did to taxis."

ICYMI: "If this story sounds at all familiar? Well, that’s because they essentially remixed The New Testament." @unabridgedgamer.bsky.social explains how the movie Legion reinvents the story of Jesus:

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"If this story sounds at all familiar? Well, that’s because they essentially remixed The New Testament." @unabridgedgamer.bsky.social explains how the movie Legion reinvents the story of Jesus:

ICYMI: "It’s like the fine folks at Spike Chunsoft have the mission statement of making Moma Kumakura more indefensible and uninteresting a character with every new game." @lesbiankakyoin.bsky.social laments the writing behind Moma Kumakura in the latest AI: The Somnium Files game:

ICYMI: "[T]heir journey as mediocre Orpheuses into the underworld is not necessarily to bring Eurydice back out with them, but to make themselves feel better through having made the effort." Emma Kostopolus explores the trope of guilty male partners in horror games: