I have released a demo for a small game I'm making videowitch.itch.io/tennis-witches

Caught in the rain in The Frasier Companion (PC, 1995)

it's now been more than a year since I last made a video. I've been kinda down on the idea of ever doing anything else on YouTube to be honest. I still have things I'd like to rant about for an extended period--game maker, MSX, Wines of the World--but ig we'll see if they end up bein videos or blogs

I bought it. I also downloaded the updated Gold Edition, which has a slightly different user interface. Honestly it's so charming that I kinda wanna get some wine now...

Wines of the World, Gold Edition (PC, 1997)

I'm spending far too much time on the Giantess Wiki lately

I'm kinda getting obsessed with multimedia CDs. Some of what I'm looking at is in my existing wheelhouse--digital magazines, electronic literature, etc--but I'm also trying really really hard not to buy "Wines of the World" right now. I don't even drink wine!

this how you insert a break into your exposition

Actually speaking of the "kids these days" stuff I don't really have much patience for handwringing over zoomer “brainrot” humour because I grew up with "We Drink Ritalin" (actual title!) and other animutations on albinoblacksheep. We weren't an erudite generation

It's defo not the only reason fewer people are reading books, but talking about reading as though it's like eating your veggies probably isn't helping.

Our indie Roguelike RPG where you play an Angel that rebuilds his brain back from scratch is over 50% funded on Kickstarter, with 2 weeks left to go. We need ⚔️ YOUR HELP ⚔️ to cross the finish line! (Kickstarter, Steam Demo & Discord links in first comment 🔽)

People talk about how you have to play and beat Nier Automata multiple times to get the full story but you don't. That's a formalism. The game has distinct chapters and uses the "ending credits" as chapter breaks. The game you're thinking of is Nier Replicant. That's the sicko shit.

Reading Roman de Silence (Sarah Roche-Mahdi translation) and I love how it opens with a lengthy tirade about how much the poet hates rich people.

Gaming history blazing hot take: if recreating the experience of playing old games via CRT shaders is important, it's equally important to recreate crappy old emulators so you can experience what it was like to play these games for the first time on a low-env 90s PC.

⚔️TIME ⚔️ TO ⚔️ RECLAIM ⚔️ YOUR ⚔️ BRAIN⚔️ Blanksword's Steam Demo & Kickstarter Campaign just launched as of RIGHT NOW! Play the Demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/... Preorder the game on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/283... Join the Discord: discord.gg/ftmCfsupyv

Total adoration for Nigel Dobbyn's work on the Knuckles stories, too. For as much as I love the IDW art, these two might still be my favourite Sonic artists.

the evolution of language is fun 💙📚

needed some melancholic fantasy music to get me in the writing mood and, as ever, sonic the hedgehog provides.

Shredding some sick slopes this SNOW SATURDAY in Final Fantasy VII: Snowboarding, a mobile phone game exclusive to Japanese phones based on the snowboarding minigame from FF7. It's pretty cool!! But I'm also pretty bad at it, sorry. (Final Fantasy VII: Snowboarding, Mobile, 2008)

playing with my friends in despelote :) best game of the year btw (2025, PC)

Up on my site now: a lil' feature on Absolute Entertainment's Space Shuttle Project, a neat edutainment(ish) space sim(ish) game for NES. Enjoy, y'all, and as ever, reposts appreciated. 💜

Journalist is a game where you do research, interview people, and make use of publicly accessible official records, all in order to write stories for a newspaper in a small Swedish town: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/j...

With great trepidation, Simon creeps towards the gates of Dracula's castle in Super Castlevania 4 (Super Nintendo, 1991)

ICYMI, this week's post was on Alien 8. Read about: - Knight Lore and "the most animated character in home computing software" - Why one reviewer thought Alien 8 might be "a resounding first raspberry for Ultimate" - Why Ultimate/Rare left home computers behind www.superchartisland.com/alien-8

New video! From 1998 to 2011, "KS" created a series of maps and mods for Quake and Half-Life that embrace an unlikely fusion of first person shooter with surreal art, film, architecture, and, naturally, anime girls. youtu.be/M8Dr2CxUeME

if i ever had to have something amputated, i'd ask the doctors if i could take it home to eat with my friends

you know, it's hard to have hope that the Online Safety Act will be repealed when we're still subject to Section 63 banning "extreme pornography," which explicitly includes fictional works featuring consenting adults and even *screenshots of none-porn film taken with the intention to titilate*

We never get around to posting any western RPGs, well this snow saturday we finally did it. Here we have the western RPG Wild Arms which features falling snow in the outside areas of Mount Zenom. Wild Arms (Playstation, 1996)

In our magazine: Palestinian artist and writer @deltahead.bsky.social is frustrated by how American fiction depicts their people. They take us from Adam Sandler to James Cameron and beyond in this visual essay ...

Insert Coin is a book about the history of arcade games in Sweden, including the moral panic during the 80s that basically killed off large-scale arcades in the country for several decades: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/i...

Started Lufia II last night and, man, what a good game. I really love the combo of Zelda-esque puzzle dungeons and more typical console RPG combat and world exploration. On-map enemies that move when you move and don't appear too frequently is great for keeping encounter fatigue at bay, too.

man my blog's been on fire the last few years. I love the crit I'm writing, and I think the dev commentary and other resources are all cool too. I may not have parlayed "good small games" going viral into alt games stardom but I have made a bunch of really good posts 😌 farawaytimes.blogspot.com

they cannot be serious.

enjoying some amiga-published fiction while whittling way the hours at work. "storydisks" or "litpacks" like this are one of my favourite parts of the Amiga PD scene, and retro computers in general. such an interesting world to explore.

a video abouT more slice of life games, and how They made me reflecT on the beauTy of moving forwards

seeing this in da cinema in 15 minutes, very excited

Just in time for Pride, my custom Tekno x Amy standee from @meguart.bsky.social arrived. Thank you so much!! And for the extras, too 💚💝🏳️‍🌈

people can be weirdly judgemental about completely normal discord servers. idk man maybe they're not actually a bunch of cringe zoomers or pretentious elitists or w/e in there. maybe you just don't like the vibe for reasons you don't need to be an asshole about

I originally found this last year, but I'm gonna post it every year because it's rad as hell- an 1890s illustrator apparently misunderstanding descriptions of the bipedal dinosaur Laelaps being Kangaroo-like as meaning it was completely mammalian, and making an awesome spec evo monster. #paleoart

Blood and Guts in High School (Kathy Acker) is so fuckin good. I think the point at which I really knew I loved it was when the teenaged protagonist vividly described the unwashed cock and hole of her former lover, President Carter. Lots of really interesting experiments with form, too.

’My son Philip K Dick is a famous writer of science-fiction novels & short stories’. Stumbled by chance upon a 1969 letter from Philip K. Dick’s dad in The Ligonier (Pennsylvania) Echo. I’m so used to hearing about J. Edgar Dick from other people’s perspective. But these are his own words. (1)

i've never really shared any of the fiction i've written, but recent events have made me wanna fill my site with some kathy acker shit. gonna throw a party when starmer dies just like i did for thatcher. fucking pig.

I made a homey, hand-drawn hexcrawl adventure for Cairn 2e. Check it out : ) girlsatcomputers.itch.io/floodplains-...

went to an experimental fiction film fest today. standout movie was Madrermana (dir Leandro E. Cerdá). a terrifying looney tunes-ass woman invades the home of a father and son and insists on doing the housework. lots of fun wordplay and effects. persistently funny and anxiety-inducing. loved it.

Did you know artists have been producing games and "game-like" experiences for exhibition in museums and art galleries since the 80s? Funded by arts grants, charities, and local governments, they exist entirely outside the conventional games industry while utilising its technology in novel ways

Forest collage! Photo by @etherealserah.bsky.social

Extremely excited to dive into this later Working link:

maria rocks and deserves to, like, live. these goblin bunker streams are always a fuckin *event* too. there's still plenty of time to join and donate!

Just played through Despelote in full. Incredible game. Easy GOTY and one of the best games ever made

Watching Utena with my GF and I feel like people talk about this series a lot without ever mentioning that it's really really fucking funny