There's a lot to love about Kunitsu-Gami, but what drew me in is the use of practical fx across the entire game: miniatures for the setting, handmade costumes, real flames/explosions/fireworks in the battle effects, and they even recorded a significant portion of the music outdoors.
hell yeah, 'grats all
The way Lispector frames interior/personal rupture as a kind of cosmic event is awesome (because that's what they are!)
Maybe that's especially how these moments feel when you're young (and maybe that's also how they feel as you get older, just occurring a little less frequently).
Another Lispector down. How she wrote this in her early twenties is beyond me. Such wisdom, such depth, and yet you can almost feel her figuring out the world in the real time of writing it.
seeing an article on the MTA substation infrastructure on here reminded me that I don't think I've shared my photos of one of Verizon's basement substations we did some work in once (I took the photos with a low-light sensor—it was nearly pitch black in there)
Lmao what a loser
Hell yeah, hater mode activated 🕶️ - excited to read
I think of Neuromancer's intro: a sky the “colour of television, tuned to a dead channel" - so cold, so evocative. Replaced, by comparison, is a Coca Cola xmas ad.
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...
I struggled with Replaced: it's just too nostalgic — a kind of cosy, Thomas Kinkade-ified version of cyberpunk, though with a handful of sequences which genuinely rip.
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...
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RPS asked me to write about DLSS5, the "neural rendering" tech that Nvidia have been crowing about, that uses generative AI techniques to replace rendered graphics. I wrote about framerates, fakery, and how you seize control of an industry.
got a review dropping in the guardian this week -- be curious to know what you make of it.
a genuinely savage, totally earned kicker: "The Saudification was already here."
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"Marathon isn’t just a game; it feels like bootcamp for a future that’s already here."
Thanks, Samuel!
appreciate you Mohamed! 🙏🏻
Remember all those Street Fighter history stories I did awhile back? Here's a new one.
lmao ain't that the truth
stoner culture? that's ironic, because playing black and white while high and realizing the computer is very very softy whispering "DEAAATH" at irregular intervals is not at all a good time
it's such a magical part of the UK!
Delighted to have this wonderful long-form feature live on the site from @lewisgordon.bsky.social - a bit wistful, a bit worrying, very funny - on the direct lineage from the designing of B&W's creature to the creation of the world-spanning AI models of today.
Heavy stuff aside, there are some delightful Lionhead-era anecdotes here: Healey on marijuana-laced chilli con carnes; Molyneux on the ultimate inspiration for his career making 'god' games; Evans on the creature acting up in front of the mayor of Guildford.
www.eurogamer.net/black-and-wh...
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It was lovely to chat to Lewis for this piece - this ties threads between the history of game AI and the current state of the world today in a really cool way, while talking about a very special and unusual videogame.
From the linked piece: "Compared to the turn of the millenium, the world in 2026 is darker - and it is being reshaped by AI into something even faster, stranger, and more chaotic: slopaganda has infected political discourse; misinformation thrives; AI companies gobble up global RAM supplies; jobs are being replaced; autonomous lethal weapons explode human bodies into nothing. According to Geoffrey Hinton, the computer scientist (and a socialist) who is widely hailed as the godfather of AI, the spectre of a broader risk looms on the horizon. He believes that rather than human intelligence being replicated, it has actually been surpassed: here's the kicker, it may also be immortal. Hinton quit his job as a vice president at Google in 2023 to warn the world of his life's work's dangers: the evangelist of AI had turned into its prophet of doom."
Also, don't mistake my fondness for B&W as deference to AI: I lay out how fucked up some of its applications are (including Gemini's alleged role in the death of a 36-year-old man). Part of the feature is about being real about video games' place in this history.
www.eurogamer.net/black-and-wh...
A reported feature I've long wanted to write:
For @eurogamer.bsky.social, I draw a direct line from Black & White's creature AI to the world-transforming ambitions of Google DeepMind, with the inside scoop on Lionhead's starry-eyed, stoner culture of the time.
www.eurogamer.net/black-and-wh...
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thank you for reading, other Lewis! 🙏
For Critics' week @mobilegamerbiz.bsky.social, I wrote about likely one of the most wide-played yet little discussed mobile titles: NYT Games.
This live-service puzzle suite may be retentive in nature, yet I love how few demands it actually makes of me.
mobilegamer.biz/critics-week...
the book log continues with this slight but nonetheless spellbinding novel from tove jansson. she's so brilliant on the transitions of nature: summer to autumn; afternoon to evening; storm to calm. and i love how spiky the grandmother is.
It shouldn't need saying, but I'll say it anyway. I love Marathon. I love being a little serf worm in the cosmic wilderness. That's life, baby 😎
bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/04/09/s...
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