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The Next Game from the Creator of Wordle Is Here Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle, has a new game that aims to introduce players to the joys and agonies of the cryptic crossword.

After he sold Wordle to the New York Times, Josh Wardle felt lost. He found refuge in an unlikely place: the cryptic crossword.

Now he wants to teach the world how to solve them.

For @newyorker I spoke to Wardle about his new project, Parseword, out today: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Bright red graphic with playful doodles in the background. Large white and black text reads: “Like fun? Yes.” “Like music? Yes also.” “Want to be on WNYC and Internet Archive? Yeah of course!!!” Arrows point between the phrases in a humorous flowchart style. At the bottom, bold hand-drawn black lettering says “Public Song Project.” Smaller curved text reads: “Wow that sounds great I hope there’s more information on the following slides.” WNYC and Internet Archive logos appear near the center.

The 2026 Public Song Project is here — and this year, we’re turning up the volume on the public domain.

For the first time, WNYC’s Public Song Project is partnering with the Internet Archive!

Here’s what you need to know ⤵️
www.wnyc.org/story/2026-p...

🧵 1️⃣/7️⃣

@wnyc.org

SAMURAI GUNN 2
⚔️ IS SO BACK ⚔️
Rebuilt from the ground up in our own engine, FASTER and DEADLIER than ever!
MORE to COME!
store.steampowered.com/app/1397790/...

Let’s make music on Game Boy with LSDJ (Little Sound DJ) 🎉🔉💃

#gameboy #chiptune #lsdj

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

Officially announcing my next game, and it's about:
...driving a 4x4 in a Furniture Store 🤣

(physics-based precision driving in a mini open world mega furniture store)

Please help spread the word and ☆WISHLIST ON STEAM☆
s.team/a/4135570

Bandcamp Bans AI Music AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated psych-rock band from last year with hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams? Remember bands gett...

Bandcamp bans AI music

On day 8 of our Administration, @governor.ny.gov and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.

Your 2025 Wrapped is here 🎁

Emails are currently being sent out or you can see your personal stats here: boxd.it/eew

What to Wear at Midnight and the Morning After (If You’re the First Lady of New York) A Swearing-In, Styled: Rama Duwaji, Zohran Mamdani, and What They Wore When Power Changed Hands

“Rama wore a vintage Balenciaga coat & archival earrings, rented during a single marathon day [in NYCs] best small, circular fashion businesses… I love that she’s added a new chapter to garments that have already lived many lives—and that the next wearers will get to share in this piece of history.”

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎

🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain.

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Introducing Alterspective - a game about perspective swapping.

Swap perspectives at any time and chain moves together to achieve impressive feats!

Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3868200/

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Jordan Minor’s Top 10 Games of 2025 | Giant Bomb Jordan Minor’s Top 10 Games of 2025 - A guest list for GiantBomb.com's 2025 Game of the Year Awards.

Merry Christmas! My gift to you? The ten best VIDEO GAMES OF THE YEAR for 2025! Check out my full list on @giantbomb.bsky.social giantbomb.com/articles/jor...

Okay, I'll make a thread of 50 indie games which I'll add to over the week, staring with.

1. Carimara

Play as a little goblin creature summoned by a witch to investigate what's haunting her cottage, it's a creepy bite-size mystery akin to the Frog Detective games, and has gorgeous visuals.

The IndieCade Creators Retreat Returns! YouTube video by IndieCade

There's still time to join the 2025 IndieCade Creators Retreat, December 11-12 in Downtown Los Angeles!
youtu.be/sYxZB8Qa-ps

RSVP: form.jotform.com/252455191857...
Learn more: www.indiecade.com/creators-ret...

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

‘Do Admit’ and ‘Spent’ Top PW’s 2025 Graphic Novel Critics Poll For the third consecutive year, it's a tie for the top spot on PW’s annual Graphic Novel Critics Poll, highlighting the breadth of this category.

‘Do Admit’ and ‘Spent’ Top PW’s 2025 Graphic Novel Critics Poll

WHAT A NIGHT! 🤩

#CFC | #UCL

When routine bites hard and ambitions are low

And resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow

And we're changing our ways, taking different roads

Then love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again

7DFPS 2025 - JOIN THE JAM - TELL A FRIEND
itch.io/jam/7dfps

#7dfps #gamedev #gamejam #itchio

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Save 10% on Q-UP on Steam Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...

Q-UP is out NOW on Steam!

1. flip a coin on the internet
2. 50% heads, 50% tails
3. flip another coin

it's $8.99
... but more importantly it's $7.99 if you already own Unfair Flips

s.team/a/3730790

NYU Game Center Presents No Quarter, An exhibition of new games by Jana Romanova, Julian Cordero, Nicole He & Remi Forcadell, Patrick LeMiewux & Stephanie Boluk. 7:00pm November 22nd, 2025, Brooklyn, New York

No Quarter is back!

On Saturday November 22nd No Quarter will be returning for its 2025 edition!

No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from outstanding artists working across games are debuted. Tickets here noquarter2025.eventbrite.com

A grey, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at NYU Game Center. When: Thursday, Nov. 6 from 5:30PM-7:00PM. Where: Room 233 at 370 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY 11201. https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/events/playtest-thursdays"

A red, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at Boshi's Place. When: Friday, Nov. 7 from 7:00PM-11:00PM. Where: 1002 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211. @boshisplace https://boshis.place"

A blue, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at Wonderville. When: Saturday, Nov. 8 from 3:00PM-8:00PM. Where: 1186 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11221. https://wonderville.nyc"

Excited to be working w/ @tigershungry.co.uk & the NYU crew to make an intramural, bsports tournament for NO QUARTER 2025!

To recruit teams @chouxsalad.bsky.social & I will show the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player NES controller, at

@nyugamecenter.bsky.social 11/6
@boshis.place 11/7
@wonderville.nyc 11/8

a dark tower with a glowing eye on top ALT: a dark tower with a glowing eye on top

BREAKING: The Eye of Sauron has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for Mayor of New York City!

If you needed another reason to buy this, the zombies say "traaains" instead of "braaains"

i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good

Yellow cover of David I backer's book "as public as possible"

I'm probably earnest-posting a little too hard, but it's not an exaggeration to say that, for me, @schooldaves.bsky.social book was as radicalizing on the otherwise wonky issues of school finance as Shock Doctrine was for clarifying disaster capitalism. This is the "abundance" we should be pursuing!

The Anointed One: A Requiem For D'Angelo | Passion of the Weiss Abe Beame eulogizes the inimitable genius of the soul icon who tragically passed away yesterday after a battle with cancer.

Dug this heartfelt tribute to D'Angelo by @abebeame.bsky.social. "With each project that parallel line between the sound of mainstream R&B & whatever TF D’Angelo is up to continued to diverge...but the songs were no less potent or beloved." HT @nitishpahwa.com | www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/14/d...

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

“The bugs ate books.”