You know what, this is probably the better way. As ever. Someone else will hopefully suss out the details

I mean, at this point I'm pretty much just telling you to follow Autumn, but you should tbh so 🤷‍♂️

Where does this leave Kraven: The Hunter?

A part of the cover highlighting "Girl's Heaven"

Take me there

Save me, Carbuncle race queen

Speech is so incredibly free and a lot of people love using that resource as if it's going to get depleted

Hell fucking yeah 🙏

Sooo yeah, I said what I said 🙂

"I never think about it" - we know dude

texture on the Misriah casing that reads “KILL FOR MOMMY…”

good morning this is a real texture in Marathon

Oh

Sadly, we don't have cool laundromat arcades. Which is why in this essay, I will be talking about Arcade Paradise:

There is simply no conceivable way I could have chosen anything else as the most important piece of writing on games this year. Autumn’s writing, despite first being published in April, has remained relevant right up until this very moment, and sadly will likely continue to long after. The split between the vocal opinions of games journalists, both freelance and staff, and the silence of the larger, corporate-owned sites they may write for, is still noticeable. News, reviews, previews, guides, and general hype covering the products of Xbox continue to be published relentlessly in complete ignorance of the boycott, stained by blood. Some writers, gratefully, choose (and are permitted) to at the very least include references and links to the BDS boycott itself and Palestinian relief campaigns within coverage of Xbox as an olive branch — an implicit “look, I’ve gotta do my job, but I do care.” As Autumn writes, “Writers, staff and freelance alike, must also pay rent.” We may be limited by our financial and career positions. We may occasionally be in positions that necessitate mention of Xbox products — to be addended with said references and links, yes, but it still feels…wrong. No writer has communicated all this context, nuance, and necessary introspection quite like Autumn has here. “Games journalists and critics are writers of and within empire. Therefore we must make the conditions for revolution inevitable, and we must see the liberation of the Palestinian people within our lifetime. There are many of you who know games are political and feel at a loss for what to do right now in ways greater than interpreting bulleted lists of correct behaviors, who cannot imagine that writing about games could at all align with moving the world towards justice. [...] But then I remember what others’ words have done for me already. [...] Our writing must also do the work to shape how others understand the world. We can move with compassion and with interest when we write about…

apropos of nothing at all, thinking again about what i wrote for the startmenu awards late last year on @autumn-wright.com's essay (aftermath.site/microsoft-bd...) and games media as a whole

Evie telling Pikachu and Brian "I do not vibe with this universe"

I have a few 3DS downloads from them as well, which are of equal varying quality. Same trajectory for eastasiasoft anywho, since they went from indie titles like JRPGs and STGs and now mainline showing hole. Whatever keeps the books in the right color 🙏

Intro for Acid, a 1999 PlayStation title. Despite the trippy sci-fi visuals alluding to more, it's actually just a futuristic golf game. You shoot an energy blob out of a cannon and try to get to a target

Made by Taki Corp, which is actually an advertising company 🤷‍♂️

#gaming #retro #PS1 🎮

The new Neo Geo is the topic du jour and I can only assume that it's being discussed there in the same way people try to justify buying Hogwarts Legacy. I could be wrong. I'm usually not 🤷‍♂️

I would never say "no" porn games, but fewer here than in Japan, for a multitude of cultural differences

For instance, Softporn Adventure had a graphical overhaul there first:

bsky.app/profile/puke...

I'm not clicking a Time Extension article. You can't make me do it. I'm sure I already know what's in there, but you're always free to give me a summation

As always, I have coincidentally just said what I needed to say in my pinned post

A lot of people find poop relatable

but that suuuuuucks

Coverage is already pretty charitable, in the same sense that smearing poop on the walls technically counts as writing

Fortuitous timing. This is cool as heck, thanks!

If you're into Japanese otome games, you may want to check out this blog all about them called Otome Lycoris: otome-lycoris.com

The author said on Mastodon that she doesn't use other social media and would appreciate sharing the link out, so I'm helping 'em out.

#videogames #VN #otome #visualnovel

Here's a lower barrier entry to the hentai stuff I sometimes talk about. I mean, if you don't want to just search for the hentai tag in my posts, which will probably show you much more explicit filth

I do usually label adult content, so you should be good if you moderate those

Some of the closest we've gotten to feeling like the old internet again 🙏

Beer Simulator ‐ iBeer Review — Software-Assisted Pretend Video games express themselves through light and sound, but there is another oft-neglected element of the gaming experience: body movement. Moving my fingers across a controller is so rote as to be i

Bullet Points always brings a gut punch to games, but this one that draws a parallel between Marathon and the real world is some of the best I've read about the game:

bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/04/09/s...

In contrast, a 2008 beer app as a familiar ludic tool! gamesline.net/beer-simulat...

Shadow Labyrinth Won't Be Consumed Everything has always been there

A lot of Pac-Man talk this week. This one that uses it to address how we see the recontextualization is really good. It has Pac-Man poetry!

www.superjumpmagazine.com/shadow-labyr...

I'm flabbergasted how I got in there so damn fast, but what a nice surprise

And I've read a lot of the things in here already, for once. Even more cool stuff that I hadn't seen before. Banger week

Thank you for letting me know. That actually helps 🙏

I hope this club has drinks

The constant typos is how you can be sure that I post these before I get out of bed and make some coffee

Morning, Bluesky. Thanks for all the follows overnight. I certainly hope you scrolled through my profile to find out I'm insane and also periodically post about hentai and other explicit material. The vibes are different ever day

Here's a Japanese TV commercial for cans of tea with Michael J. Fox