unused LOVE ETERNAL cover art, featuring a girl in red walking through a ruined castle while her doppelganger watches from the shadows

Thread of some disorganized thoughts about making the artwork for LOVE ETERNAL..

After All These Years, it’s Moon Child Moon Child languished in obscurity until the internet discovered the power to be his friend.

aftermath.site/moon-child-t...

Aftermath just did some reporting on it. It's an obscure Dutch platformer with an unreleased Amiiga version that has an amazing theme song.

The Quiet Things on Steam Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England. Inspired by the developer’s real diaries, this autobiographical narrative adventure invites you to uncover Alice’s story by piecing togethe...

You can wishlist the game here, if you want to help the devs out: store.steampowered.com/app/2288520/...

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

Once again: corporate-approved horny.

Baldur's Gate and The Witcher and Cyberpunk will not be banned on Twitch, while less lascivious indie games are banned from sale. Horny is an increasingly relevant Cultural Trend, and culture must be consolidated into the hands of capital.

A Japanese copy of Doubutsu no Mori (animal crossing) on the N64, and some guide books, on a pink blanket

happy 25th birthday to the GOAT

Today is the 25th anniversary of the original Animal Crossing. Although I came to it late, the series has quickly become one of my favourites and will always have a place in my heart.

Check out the article I wrote for @theavclubgames.bsky.social ahead of ACNH's 3.0 update on the series as a whole.

My Year as the Killjoy Notes on Walking Away

For the record:

Hello! I have built a new thing that I hope will be useful to people. It's a calendar of *new* games coming out over the next year. Every release schedule I see includes ports and Nintendo Switch 2 Editions and I hate it, so I made this. I hope you find it useful!

releasecalendar.games

That is the plan honestly.

This is how I find out my Frieren Fridays are already through...

Please support our union’s work toward a fair contract by NOT crossing our digital picket line! That means not visiting @ProPublica.org today, April 8.

(And please resume your support of @ProPublica.org all other days, we love the journalism we do!)

Had a great (and daunting, I won't lie) time hosting Insert Credit for this week. See what happens when I subject video game experts to my usual talking points (i.e the BDS boycott and eggs).

On the contrary, I'm glad you passed on it so I can purchase it (after an international flight)!

I miss Nintendo 3DS StreetPass, and games as physical community With the loneliness epidemic on the rise, the Nintendo 3DS StreetPass and its sense of in-person community is sorely missed.

Today is the 15th anniversary of the Nintendo 3DS's release in North America. To celebrate the birthday, I thought I'd reshare the piece I wrote for @theavclubgames.bsky.social last year about one of the console's best features: StreetPass
www.avclub.com/i-miss-ninte...

A placeholder artwork in Slay The Spire 2, depicting the Defect meeting a fellow construct, Flaw in the scrapyard.

A placeholder artwork in Slay The Spire 2, depicting the Silent showing the trophy of her hunt, a piece of the Corrupt Heart, to her sisters, each of which standing on their own preys.

A placeholder artwork in Slay The Spire 2, depicting the Regent brandishing and admiring his majesty's Sovereign Blade.

A placeholder artwork for a card named Gang Up in Slay The Spire 2, depicting the Ironclad, the Regent and the Necrobinder, beating the ever living hell out of Fogmog, an enemy in the game.

"Oh i dont have any budgets, that's why i used AI as placeholder voices, images and musics"
❌WRONG❌
Slay The Spire 2, the MOST anticipated roguelike deckbuilder of the year, uses these silly scribbles as placeholder arts, and they are 1000 times more charming than any slop those will ever produce.

Pew Pew Bang's hosts are all women. Good show.

It’s-a not you, it's-a me, Mario: Why Nintendo’s heroes and princesses aren’t going steady Sorry, Mario: Peach just wants to be friends. Like other would-be Nintendo romances, the two's relationship is officially platonic. Why?

www.avclub.com/nintendo-rom...

My first freelance aritcle! Asking why Nintendo keeps calling its mascot couples just "friends". Was really happy to work with @garrettmartin.bsky.social on this for
@theavclubgames.bsky.social!

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

Get more from Critical Distance on Patreon creating a community resource for game criticism

The long and short of it is: we are looking to bump our Patreon support up by about $100/month to reach a point where we can become truly sustainable. If just 20 people signed up for our Circle tier ($5/mo), we would hit that goal in no time at all.

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I miss Polygon.

I hope that me workin my ass off teaching myself a buncha new artforms and puttin as much craft as I can into one videogame will make up for that one ai image I used in mysteries under lake ophelia. As small of a choice as it was at the time, I really do regret it a lot.

Image wants you to forget that multiple women have accused Jason Latour of sexual harassment and assault, and that he specifically used his position in the industry as leverage against them. Cool!

memories are short. reminder of this crushing statement from (one) woman:

"I dropped my dream of being a comic artist shortly after and fell into a depression while I tried to figure out how I could have my future still be art related. I’ve hardly read a comic since.”

www.tcj.com/the-2020-rep...

After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to respond to trauma. We can all take part | Rümeysa Öztürk I was detained for co-writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts. My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression

Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk is using her experience of being unlawfully arrested and detained by ICE to advocate for children facing human-made trauma, including children in ICE detention and living under conflict.

Reloaded now and it showed up without me messing with anything, weirdly. Bought it now!

As millions worldwide break their fasts during Ramadan, escalate the boycott of companies implicated in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.

Description [ Leftovers ] is a yuri/CL comic about running into your ex but she's being possessed by a freaky alien (alien emoticon) (firework emoticon). ...

I was all ready to buy this but the page seems to be blank, except for the description? I checked in three different browsers to no avail. The $999+ bonus listing does work as it should, though.

Today was the rare exception, but I come away from most SoPs thinking this.

This is great to see! The Esper Quinn podcast network only grows.