reading another silent hill tank controls blah blah friction article and it occurred to me that I can't think of any analysis that's discussed why katamari controls are relatively "intuitive" and tank controls aren't

fucked up a very nice tap death run bcs I visibly lurched laughing at mina kimes saying that trevor lawrence "looks like a horse who made a wish to become a human"

I think I'm making these again, so I want to re-share my first batch of micro-shmup sketches from a few months ago. the project is focused around exploring shmup ideas outside genre 'canon' in a very light and non-committal context. give them a spin, maybe. virtual-butterfly.itch.io/the-mermaid-...

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been liking fairyland story and flicky a lot in the post-maze game mold but in practice for a 1cc it's very obviously trending towards "create a static route for each level against the deterministic AI" which is not really pulling me in lol

New blog post time! This week's game is Knife Edge: Nose Gunner, an often overlooked N64 rail shooter that looks bland at first glance, but is actually very distinct within the console's library. It's atmospherically compelling, mechanically competent, and it even has 4-player co-op! #blog #gaming

Knife Edge: Nose Gunner

Knife Edge: Nose Gunner is exactly the kind of game I love to cover on this blog. You can tell because it’s one of the longest posts I’ve made in quite some time! It’s been sitting here all t…

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We've been posting it over a couple of weeks, but the full article series on Bloody Roar, the 3D anthro fighting game, is now complete! www.hardcoregaming101.net/series/blood...

alright, new #HamWrites post. this time i try to explain the appeal of Sim games and why there's so, so many of them on Steam now.

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any tgm you can play is the best game you'll ever play, and the second game, The Absolute, is perhaps their peak. check out my review in the link below

Hiiii everyone. Polished out a small article on a lil indie game I played a bunch of earlier this year: Annalynn! Compiling & Critiquing a bunch of feelings about my process of learning how to play it, and also sharing some cute clips that may interest ppl ^^ lakespirit.love/posts/2026-0...

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movement has stalled on this, so just reminding people that i still actively need help by the end of the month. i appreciate everything so far, and it all really helps, so thank you. ko-fi.com/squigglydot/...

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re: cheesing article, one of the scariest things you can do when writing about games is compare them to other mediums with this implicit credibility gap, because thinking laterally about the parallels can be difficult (and perhaps reveal a lack of experience)

where are people on elevator action > elevator action returns? latter is way too setpiece-driven imo

Hey, Some personal news and updates about this whole Knoebel thing! I plan to offer you the monthly games list and the weekly news recap as a newsletter, today I will just share them as normal blog post. Pls read the Thread: [1/4]

the new physical disc loading for mister worked out of the box with my setup, which is incredible. then finally tried the SNAC psx stuff to hopefully transfer my authentic psx setup and no dice... memory cards don't seem to work at all

i guess it's finally that time: I made a neocities page! I've got all of my favorite Backloggd reviews of mine archived on there, plus a cute lil about page. I had a lot of fun designing it and making it look nice (hopefully it looks fine on your browser/monitor!) scenicsystems.neocities.org

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LURRUNA is OUT NOW!!! ($9.99 USD) Play as Dafne in an explosive remix of arcade and Classicvania mechanics! Itch (includes Steam key) - pd-cgt.itch.io/lurruna Steam - store.steampowered.com/app/4315900/...

hi. it's once again faea gaming time: this month I've got lots of interesting, mostly relatively-unknown games, an awful lot to dig into about pretty much all of them, and some words towards the future. I feel I'm getting my spark back, and I hope it shows. faearie.neocities.org/posts/journa...

faea gaming: July '26

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treasure was staffed by complete demons on artistic, programming, and design levels, all with one major flaw: they were all console apologists

got my phd 🥳

found some lost media between my couch cushions

defense tomorrow and then I think I'll treat myself by dropping my TAP article afterwards...

New blog post time! This week's game is Ballistix, which is kinda like evocative fantasy ice hockey but if the Shadow of the Beast team made it and put in a whole lotta balls instead of a puck. It's also the only game that shares box art with both a novel and a Judas Priest album! #blog #gaming

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In places outside of its ideal environment- European homes where two people could play competitively- the box art ensures that Ballistix will always find a moment to pop into the conversation whene…

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I'm not on this one but I gave it a listen and loved the energy. if you're looking to hear people with real god hard experience talk frankly about vanquish, this is the place

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Episode 2 of Regen is up- this time we're talking Vanquish: www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Lp...

Episode 2 of Regen is up- this time we're talking Vanquish: www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Lp...

Regen #002 - Vanquish

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the mechanics-heads are getting to shine this week... celia and I both got articles featured in this week's critical distance! go give it a look!

Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games?@critdistance.bsky.social · last wk.

This week: Blades, Parades, Plays, Arcades: critical-distance.com/2026/07/26/j...

For those concerned, I can say a friend of mine did work on this for a long while now (name withheld by request), so I'm confident in personally saying it's legitimate. Also if you were eyeing this and have not played the Kill the Past games before, *please* play The Silver Case first.

Patchbay Works@patchbayworks.bsky.social · last wk.

Welcome to paradise! Patchbay Works presents an English patch for the PS2 version of Grasshopper Manufacture's 'Flower, Sun and Rain'. romhackplaza.org/translations...

timing literally couldn't be any better lol I can finish tsc and then go right into this

gabriel@heatten.bsky.social · last wk.

EU TO QUASE CHORANDO COM ISSO PORRA TRADUÇÃO DE FLOWER, SUN AND RAIN DE PS2 DEPOIS DE LITERAIS 25 ANOS CARALHO romhackplaza.org/translations...

I kept joking that our upcoming regen episode on klonoa was gonna be the first negative klonoa podcast but it looks like we're unironically trending towards all disliking klonoa 2

the AI connotation that's being attached to recomps now is funny bcs it's always been machine-run translation (just done in a more environmentally conscious way). but it needed this push I suppose to get people comfortable asking if they're actually broadly useful for preservation

I was just laughing at a parody account posting that he signed with the 76ers on Monday... what happened...

Ian Rapoport@rapsheet.bsky.social · 2w ago

Per Shams Charania, LeBron James is signing with the Philadelphia 76ers.