this is a good GSSB ep and I'm not just saying that because every single aspect of it is laser targeted toward my thinking and interests! well okay maybe it's a little because of that. but the fact that it IS that and ALSO i think it's doing a great job? a good reading experience

The end of the month is here, and with it a new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES! Lindsay Brandon Hunter's PLAYING REAL: MIMESIS, MEDIA, AND MISCHIEF covers questions of media technologies, performance, and authenticity from Hamlet to The Bachelor to ARGs: rangedtouch.com/2024/04/30/69-…

this Lyotard quote goes hard as hell

ARTISTS, you can only use ONE art picture to convince people to follow you. Which art piece you using?

If you're enjoying the new FALLOUT tv show, or someone you know is, I suggest you check out our YouTube show TOO MUCH FUTURE, which puzzles out the games in order in a longform media criticism way. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Shelved By Genre has completed THE OTHER WIND, the final book of Earthsea. It's about the fantasy genre, about the nature of life and death, and about calling all your friends together to push over a stone wall, though maybe 'all' gets an asterisk. rangedtouch.com/2024/04/26/the…

sorry, catching up on the discourse: in 2011 we learned that a review score is a direct connection to the primal experience of roiling matter that lives within the sun ('sol') and which sends psychic waves of enjoyment to select objective game reviewers. hope this history helps.

Ticklevarr and Balthazar have reached the halfway point of Baldur's Gate 3, and while they deal with a bunch of kooky undead jerks, it may also be.... A GOOFY EPISODE???? To find out you'll have to watch the latest MAGES & MURDERDADS: youtube.com/watch?v=ZIPgo4…

a movie poster can be anything. it can be a composited photo. it could be a surprise picture taken by the devil. could be anything.

Respectfully gonna disagree with Gene’s thesis. Having played the game in full Korean I didn’t find a lot of elements in the game I’d call “Korean.” SB is born more from 90s sci-fi anime and Kim Hyung Tae’s personal preferences than what I’d define as Korean culture.

Papa Neeson's adventure through the wastes remains unmatched in the category of emergent gameplay experiences

my man has a curio or two for sure twitter.com/juda1313/statu…

If you're enjoying the new FALLOUT tv show, or someone you know is, I suggest you check out our YouTube show TOO MUCH FUTURE, which puzzles out the games in order in a longform media criticism way. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

never going to forget the weird hype machine that assembled around this company and the massive L they’re taking. what about that “game preservation library” embracer assembled? which nightmare person gets to take that home or part it out?

I work at the foundry level from Tony Hawk 3. Rune Glifberg knocks me into a big vat every day but it’s a union gig so it’s cool

who doesn’t remember Charlie Brown’s famous line

Attention Virtual Boy Fans! I co-wrote a Platform Studies book called Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy with Dr. Jose Zagal for MIT Press, and it's coming out May 14th

You can pre-order it now on Amazon if you're wild about stereoscopic red consoles:
amazon.com/Seeing-Red-Nin…

in honour of it being 200 years since Byron’s death, here’s my passage about how he died (from the book i’m working on)