Two short speculative stories about coping and related struggles. “Dragons” by Teresa Milbrodt (published this year) has a hard-to-quit video game: “I’ve thought about getting glasses,” the dragon said as we sat on rocks with mugs in our hands and the …
Flash Friday: Gamesnacks.com
Gamesnacks.com has over 140 simple games you can play in browser with no ads or crap. I’ve played most of them. These are the games I keep coming back to again and again. Many are … based on other existing games.
Basketball Masters – Bubble Tower -…
Aspirational rhetorical loquaciousness
“Like any good dumpster behind a GameStop, Cyberpunk 2077 features and glorifies molecules of the entire history of videogames. It contains at least a little bit of everything good and bad about the best, big modern games. Reviewing it allows me to rev…
no oompa loompas in sight
ConcernedApe, creator of Stardew Valley, has released the name of his new game: Haunted Chocolatier (article) and some early gameplay footage (direct to youtube). ConcernedApe and Stardew Valley previously on metafilter:
Stardew Valley 1.5
⚘ “Create. M…
Always have Tetris on your phone
Tetris is not just a fun diversion, but also has remarkable trauma-fighting properties. Playing Tetris within 24 hours of a traumatic event has been found to significantly reduce the likelihood of intrusive memories, and the game has also been used as …
It’s more dangerous than ever to go alone.
They call it the Indiepocalypse – the oversaturation of indie, outsider and hobbyist video games that results in poor sales for the vast majority of them. Strategies have been suggested, such as those from gamedev Jason Rohrer, but Andrew aka PIZZAPRAN…
Stay with me here, ok?
“Every year or two I remember what’s probably the most scarily/stunningly impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen. Every time, I think I must be mistaken, then I read the thing, and I just shake my head in disbelief. It’s been twenty years. Let me te…
The Pinball Wizard of Illinois
“McLean, Illinois, has a population of 750 people and 100 pinball machines.” The tiny Illinois town, 15 miles outside Bloomington-Normal, is experiencing a downtown revival after a pinball collector opened not one but two pinball arcades. He has also r…
BEEFTANK FOREVER
In the newest Fumble Dimension, Jon and Kofie pull the man, the myth, the legend – Clarence BEEFTANK – out of retirement to see if they can create an eternal play in Madden.
Porno Hustlers Of The Atari Age
While doing research for Video Dames, a video documentary series on female protagonists in video games, Kotaku writer Kate Willaert found an article that would lead her into a rabbit hole of excess and outrageousness – resulting in her creating a histo…