When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Angeline Era is still on sale for launch! ☃️ As an additional bonus, there's a complete the set bundle with AE/Anodyne and AE/Anodyne 2, for additional 5% off! ❄️

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

New episode! @matthewseiji.com talks about his debut novel Process, as well as: • The abyssal nature of ambition • The weird relationship between big tech companies and the cities they inhabit-without-inhabiting • The fractal cults that emanate from the Cult of Steve Jobs etao.blog/2025/12/16/p...

all of our games... on sale!! a guide: - Danchi Days (pic) has a demo - dark & dreamy: Anodyne 1! - emotional & surreal: Anodyne 2! - atmospheric, story-heavy 2d platform: Even the ocean! - nature & 3d platforming, psychological story: sephonie! store.steampowered.com/publisher/an...

Eliza is 50% off. It’s a fully-voiced visual novel about an AI therapy app. It was released in 2019, years before the idea of AI became what it is now. How much did it get right? What did it get wrong? Play it for yourself (play the whole thing) and decide. store.steampowered.com/app/716500/E...

GET EVERY STRANGE SCAFFOLD GAME FOR LESS THAN $60 BUCKS IN THE STEAM WINTER SALE *13* DANG GAMES OF WILD VARIETY AND AMBITION--AND DISCOUNTS ON EVERYTHING ELSE WE DO GOING FORWARD MAYBE CHECK IT OUT BECAUSE THAT'S A WILD DEAL??? store.steampowered.com/bundle/35090...

recommended reading, how algorithmic visibility distributes power… laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google... “Somewhere along the way, the project stopped being about dinner & became about something slightly more unhinged: how digital platforms quietly redistribute economic survival across cities.”

despelote out now on nintendo switch in the americas! with a 35% discount! ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️ www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

Merriam-Webster continuing their unexpected streak of being the venerable legacy brand best adapted to the Internet

The Video Game History Foundation does incredible work, of which this is just one example, but let's also all agree that @philsalv.bsky.social is a goddamned national treasure

I learned a ton from this series. But fuck "it's in our blood somewhere." One thing that needs more emphasis, IMO, is that *absolutely no one* in power faced *any* consequences for the internment scheme. That's why (pretty entirely why) we're seeing similarly horrific things going on right now.

I’m very excited to share my latest article, “Premiers to Pixels: The Discourse of Cinema Envy in 1990s Videogame Magazines”, now published in the Hollywood and Games special issue of Convergence, edited by Helen Stuckey and Angela Ndalianis. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Game designer: After lots of hard work we’re proud to announce we’ve created the Wheel of Saṃsāra from the ancient Buddhist classic Don’t Get Trapped in the Wheel of Saṃsāra

The most powerful narrative device a game can deploy is "throw you back to the main menu but it's different"

Sad there was no HL3 announcement because I think it would have been the funniest thing imaginable that I missed it because I was protesting out front with my labor union

The Avvies are almost here! Come help us recognize the finest in greed, graft, and excellent compensation for terrible management!

Thanks Ana, this was a great convo! Funny looking back on this part hehe... 😈

I'm eating eating good today, thanks to @hilltopworks.bsky.social, @hantani.bsky.social, and @rd.7thbe.at. (@dcellgames.com's UNBEATABLE isn't in the cart, but only because I Kickstarted it). A FEAST.

We're moving shop tonight, so there might be a bit of downtime. The archives will be back shortly.

Releasing Monday, Dec. 8th! Been looking forward to this! Perhaps answers the exciting question of what a new action adventure game descended from Xanadu, Ys, Hydlide, etc., instead of Zelda feels like?

It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate

Even though it's freeware/pwyw so it's not technically on sale like my main paid projects are, you can learn some things about designing a turn-based RPG for 50% off of $0.00 I suppose lol

The thing is that I'm not joking though, @droqen.bsky.social.

It's annoying to lose useful, pre-hype-cycle features like automatic calendar events for flights--but I've noticed more and more mistakes in those lately, so I guess we've kind of already lost them anyway.

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

I dunno, it KINDA seems like a better world is possible.

Me, leaving New England for Orlando for a sec.

Leading any team primarily means Big Spreadsheet. All serious project management tools try, and usually fail, to compete with Big Spreadsheet.

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

The Gift of Sight is real: Post-Baby Steps I find myself looking at rusty ladders and thinking, incorrectly, "I could climb that with my feet."

My toxic trait is that if the Peter Thiel antichrist lectures properly leak, I will immediately listen to them in full.

I did some localization editing on this one!! Very excited for you to play this and experience tremendous suffering

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

Pappapisshu indeed.

Lots of welcome QoL stuff in the remaster, and it has some of Squeneix's least fugly remake fonts, but the upscaled graphics are a strict downgrade IMO.

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

Kaizen: A Factory Story is now available on the itch.io store! In addition to getting DRM-free builds of the game for Windows, Mac, and Linux, you also get a Steam key! astralogicalgames.itch.io/kaizen-a-fac...

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️ As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike. WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

The ImSim is alive, well, and full of cats.

I missed this when it came out, but @ftb1979.bsky.social made an amazing deep dive video into the Takeru Vending Machines: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1_J... These were ATM-like machines that would download & record games on disk in the 1980s/1990s. Really interesting piece of history!

Wake up, @swamphearted.bsky.social, new heresy just dropped.

My coin exploded after 1,231 flips. What does the reward system in my brain even do with that experience? Rewire your brain and join the Era of the Coin.

Fractal bonus content, with little difficulty spikes dancing around the room like points of light.

Yes, you as a lay person are perfectly capable of understanding the reasoning here, and yes, the reasoning here is as dumb as you think.

Bonus puzzle #9 - TOY CASH REGISTER "Get kids started early on understanding the transactional nature of modern life! This toy cash register includes a light-up display and a working cash drawer. It's all about the Yukichis (Benjamins)!" store.steampowered.com/app/2275490/...