Luis Aguasvivas 🔜 A MAZE.

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Great article. Funny how the WWII centric games now feel benign by comparison. Though, the FPS as a genre was always compromised & problematic. An echo chamber of jingoism and war relishing. Killing Nazis was trojan horse.

Carlito Calzone 💤 The One Where I Crash Out Over Numbers

Where I urge you to stop posting steam concurrent charts because you're scaring the hoes. It's me. I'm the hoes.

It would be cool to see the most privileged people in my industry do the absolute minimum and reckon with games media’s laundering the war on terror but I don’t think they have the self awareness to see their culpability or the mutual respect to consider me a colleague anyways so

TIER rules! If you haven't read them please do yourself a favor and check them out. imo the best writing on games hands-down.

🟢Nuevo vídeo: os explico cómo se están usando los medios de videojuegos para arrastrar a los gamers a las apuestas y los casinos online mientras se sustituye a periodistas mediante IA.

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Finally got my copy of @debugmag.com where I make an appearance in @aguaspoints.bsky.social’s new(ish) column dedicated to making games in the Anthropocene.

The magazine is so good and the rest of the issue is packed with wonderful features and articles.

The cutest game I've ever played just slapped me in the face with a character death right at the start of its Steam Next Fest demo – and now I have to play more The Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth demo is painfully honest

moomin killed a squirrel right in front of me www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...

The woman who made Blippo+ weird YouTube video by flow state ~

While it took a village to make it weird 😜 I’m so grateful to get the opportunity to speak about the Telefantasy aspects of @blippo.plus + the backstory of my studio & collaborators youtu.be/zmvlXIzO9K8?...

Submissions are . ݁₊⊹OPEN⊹₊ ݁.

We can’t wait to get our hands on your wonderful games 💖

Submissions are open from today until May 1st, here’s the link:
glasgowindiegamesfest.org/links/

What are you waiting for? Submit your indie games .✦ ݁˖TODAY˖ ݁✦.

#GIGF26 #indiegames #glasgowgames

Never a bad time to show some support.

A while ago we shared that there were an amazing 🌴435 entries from🌴 78 different countries! 

You can find all the amazing submissions here🦩: 

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Video games need to do better than treating skin like skins Painting skin color as an inconsequential aspect of identity erases the unique ways Black bodies navigate the world

It’s @exalclaw.bsky.social on Mothership, at long last! Here Wallace dives into why it’s important to treat your Black characters as, well, Black characters.
www.mothership.blog/video-game-s...

I love King Hybris! Real shitty guy. Replaying through DQ VII this time around really drove home how much the game is like Arabian Nights or The Dog Pillow. An omnibus of tales and myths woven into a whole. Extremely funny yet full of humanity.

2025 Critical Distance Status Once again, it’s time to check in on the finances for Critical Distance.   Last year, I said the finances were on the brink of stability. We never actually achieved that stability: we are unli…

CD is 100 dollars or so short of sustainability. Incredibly valuable resource for anyone who cares about games, whether for research or just casual reading. Also like... look lmao, web's as fractured as it's ever been. Having the roundup gather a bunch of cool stuff you'd never see otherwise is good

autopilot + dragon quest vii reimagined - one more run This week, I read a lot of reviews/posts/ephemera on Dragon Quest VII Reimagined that likened it to an idle game. I’m not going to say that the comparison isn’t fair....

Just because something is easy doesn't mean your focus on it isn't rewarding. Here's me on why you shouldn't play Dragon Quest VII Reimagined on autopilot, like focusing on form even when the exercise isn't demanding.

Honestly, It's okay if they never release a new game again.

This is actually kind of cool.

Narrative game devs & marketers! I want to talk to you about marketing narrative games for a video. I've already set up a couple of chats, but would love to hear from a few more ppl.

If you're down to answer a few questions, on-cam or otherwise, DMs are open! So is my email exalclaw[at]gmail.com!

Videogiochi come elegie ecologiche: 40 anni di Zelda e 30 di Pokémon Due serie nate come avventure per bambini diventano, a distanza di decenni, una meditazione nostalgica su natura, progresso e memoria del Giappone moderno. In copertina e lungo il testo screenshot dal...

www.indiscreto.org/videogiochi-...

In late February we celebrate 40 years of The Legend of Zelda and 30 years of Pokémon. For L'Indiscreto, I wrote about these videogames as attempts to recover a lost rural Japan that perhaps never truly existed. (article in ITA)

Virtue and a Sledgehammer is a narrative experience.

Who would have thought that so much narrative could be delivered through a hammer?

Wishlist this narrative game:
store.steampowered.com/app/3743260/...

Not everything is Concord What do comparisons between titles like Marathon and Concord reveal about the state of video game discourse? We're not talking about the right thing anymore.

Wrote about what it means that Concord — a game that famously nobody played — has become one of the primary lenses through which video games are discussed today.

(Also some stuff toward the end about what's next for ReaderGrev...)
www.readergrev.com/p/marathon-n...

É a mesma coisa em praticamente todo o sul global... mas é sempre algo surprendente pra gringo de país rico

A história dos video games é contada por gente q não conhece isso, a gente não tá nela. Não tem lanhouse, locadora de jogo, modchip, MMO coreano, pirataria, etc... só vai ter se a gente botar

I met him once at an airport bar. He told me that he was the guy that made the music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, but was was never credited.

Thank you!

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Our current issue continues with @strida.bsky.social on Baby Steps (and Clavicular). Read it here: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/02/23/i...

Grappling with Gaming's Environmental Sustainability Issues "The global emissions of the games industry is 50 to 100 million tonnes of CO2. This equals the footprint of Sweden or Norway," said the SGA.

Between e-waste, rare materials, logistics, and now genAI, gaming's impact on the global climate is significant.

We speak to the Sustainable Games Alliance, Playing for the Planet, the Videogame History Foundation, and more to understand what's happening and what they're trying to change.

a stuffed animal is holding a cannon in front of a body of water ALT: a stuffed animal is holding a cannon in front of a body of water

Happy birthday! I got Mario Tennis because of you.