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Alexander Had

@alexanderhad1.bsky.social

I wrote From Ants to Zombies: Six Decades of Video Game Horror - out now @bitmapbooks.com 🐜 🧟‍♂️. Bylines at The AV Club, PC Gamer, Edge, RPS, The Verge, The Washington Post, Slant Magazine, Wireframe, others.

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Baxter@cosmicspooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

little psa: if you're ever looking for someone who knows how to write about Japanese media in particular (games, movies, anime, manga, books, you name it) I'm here and almost definitely interested! I'm also down for NOT Japanese stuff, but hey that's my calling card

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Here you can find a nice archive of all my non-Tsundoku Diving posts – be it in major publications or guesting on my friend's amazing blogs and podcasts. If you're someone interested in collabing or ...

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Alexander Had@alexanderhad1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

...which does remind me that I should be definitely resuming this thread (which is meant to provide a quick glimpse at every main entry in the book), as soon as I find a spare moment...

Alexander Had@alexanderhad1.bsky.social · 2y ago

Since the list is already available online (www.bitmapbooks.com/products/fro...), I'll be making a daily(-ish) thread covering every main entry in From Ants to Zombies with some of my unused screencaps. 1) The Wreck of the BSM Pandora: a 1981 Apple II boardgame adaptation inspired by you-know-what

Alexander Had@alexanderhad1.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Fantastic deck-builder that's (Shock! Horror!), not a roguelite. Oozing atmosphere, a touching story, and a finely tuned combat system based on deliberate card-crafting (rather than random rewards) and tactical positioning, not unlike Into the Breach. Arriving late but probably my GOTY for 2025.

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Alexander Had@alexanderhad1.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I mean, I can see the argument in burying a game because of its AI use but let's just say I'll be really, really curious to see how you handle your next review of something published by rabid union busters or unrepentant genocide enablers...

Alexander Had@alexanderhad1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Essential thread to understanding what's happening in the US (and, surely, a blueprint for the rest of the West to follow) as not simply the machinations of an unhinged would-be dictator but as the culmination of decades of across-the-spectrum systemic manouevring to bring us exactly to this point.

alec karakatsanis@equalityalec.bsky.social · 10mo ago

THREAD. In Trump's speech to an unprecedented gathering of generals, he announced that he was preparing to order them to use American "cities as training grounds for our military." I want to highlight a few other statements that are bone chilling and put them into context that U.S media obscures.

Alexander Had@alexanderhad1.bsky.social · 11mo ago

not sure what the odds are of me playing this scene from Soul Blazer for the 1st time & watching that Jon Stewart bit in the same day, but there certainly seems to be a theme emerging from my Saturday entertainment picks