Page of handwritten scribbled up enemies for MORKBORG

One day of playing Hunt: Showdown and I'm working on MÖRKBÖRG enemies.
I'm such a wuss but also so drawn into some horror elements in media.

I just bought 2 (???) extraction shooters to play single player a day before encountering this article, so I'd better take a look. ✍️

This looks very interesting and has a demo out. I saw it described as turn based resident evil 👀
store.steampowered.com/app/2537470/...

those emails sure are finding me

Apparently, some joker leaked the Titanium Court release date‼️

Don't be alarmed, we have our top maintenance worker on the case. In the meantime, please avoid the leak and avert your eyes ⚠️

🏰 bit.ly/TC-Steam

Developed by @tributarygames.bsky.social . Published by @pantaloon.io who I have to admit, everything they are involved in seems so damn intriguing and unique! ARGs, newsletters, publishing interesting games, their own
'game club' with a low price⭐

Save 30% on Occlude on Steam Occlude is a ritual disguised as Solitaire; a cosmic-horror card game where the rules are obscured and reality is at stake. Play through cryptic challenges to reveal forbidden lore in this singleplaye...

A couple of hours in Occlude, and what a game idea. A solitaire spin-off, where the rules of the game are hidden, to be discovered by the player each time. Occultism, conspiracies, hidden secrets, narrative weaving itself with the medium and the way we play games. Great great great so far.

Go subscribe to @unwinnable.com and read the latest issue. Also buy and play Suzerain by @torporgames.com . What more could you want out of a Sunday?

How do you write about games? "I always end up just saying some variation of 'It's very interesting and fun!'"

"You've gotta dive into what the piece of media is saying to you, what you're saying back to it, and what you want to take from that experience and tell to your audience." - new Dear Mother advice from @zoehhannah.com! buff.ly/LGON2iG

In Esoteric Ebb, men talk to men about manhood, and that's a good thing It does not shy away from the things many of us are always thinking about when we interact with others, like, “Who are you voting for?” and “What does being a man mean to you?”

Mothership is a website worth supporting and Esoteric Ebb sounds like a prime wishlist candidate.

📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!

www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope

100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max...

ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!

A horse rider with spear and an incredibly badass conical goblin helmet

A woman in some kind of blank faced habit with the top of her head on fire, she looks like she’s manipulated genetic lines for 10,000 years to make sure you were born and you turned out to be a soft as shit dickhead

A load of couriers all wearing face mask sat around a yurt at the feet of a dude in a gold suit sat on a throne with his own face a pitiless void

A dude on a horse, the horse has fucking antlers and somehow that’s not the gnarliest thing here, again his helmeted head reveals a terrifying Stygian abyss where his face should be

Seen a couple of clips the past week from some 1995 Kyrgyzstan documentary The Universe of Manas and had to check out the whole thing. Just absolutely fucking unreal levels of drip here

youtu.be/jgJZCaOI5KE?...

Well that's one way to earn a wishlist.

Two multiplayer devs cut a big chunk of staff WEEKS after launch and what the fuck are we even doing? The games industry continues to crumble under its own massive weight as two big teams get cut days after their games launched

I wholeheartedly agree with the title here.

The monster was right How Doki Doki Literature Club exposes dating sims as systems that punish female autonomy

"DDLC requires players to recognize they're complicit in a system that treats girls as content for consumption."
A thought provoking article on @mothership.blog. I've had similar thoughts to the closing lines here. When trusting the player, is there a chance they'll actually misconstrue it all?

Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | https://www.instagram.com/neyestanimana

Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | www.instagram.com/neyestanimana

QRP with your skull art

Another great pick for bandcamp Friday!

untrue, by ̶s̶i̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ 7 track album

It's bandcamp Friday, why not buy something cool and support some musicians? Something like this greek band I just discovered, with album tags such as: rock, art rock, death jazz, electric, mediterranean (!)
sister-gr.bandcamp.com/album/untrue

Stating once again the quite brilliance of this cute puzzler. I'm thinking about studying it like platformer devs do for Mario levels. It has a free demo, do try it out.

Article by @susanapolo.bsky.social on the newly launched
@mothership.blog which you should check out and support!

Dragon Age games lack agency, and that's the whole point All that matters is who you love, and how you do it

"But what the makers of Dragon Age have done,[...], is to simply tell stories that are about the pain of constrained choice — making the mechanical lack of quote-unquote "meaningful" choices into fuel for the franchise's biggest gut punches. "

Öoo on Steam A Bomb Caterpillar's Big Adventure! "Öoo" is a charming yet mysterious exploration puzzle platformer where you discover creative ways to use bombs!

Öoo is a brilliant, deceptively simple, charming puzzle game. It made me smile 5 times in the first 30 minutes. Play it.
store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...

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Drinking blood teaches animal languages.

Who knew Mass Effect 2 was a good game, then?
I might be (looks at calendar) 16 years late, but it's a good game.

Skin Deep was this year's reminder that it's a privilege to recognise a developer's handwriting Skin Deep was one of the great games of 2025 - here's why.

A great piece on a game I'm very much interested in playing. Folks growing alongside their skills, their styles and preferences, resulting in more uniquely personal games that are decidedly theirs is something I hope this industry (bleh this word) and audience can foster.

Going from The Division 1 to 2 is like eating too much candy and washing it down with an energy drink. Everything is faster, more colorful and wow it's making me not excited.