Big Walk does not sound like My Thing at all but this review is *such* a piece of writing, man. Feels like the old days where you'd happily read about a game you didn't care about because the work was so good. Exquisite www.eurogamer.net/big-walk-rev...

With upcoming PS Plus game Big Walk, Untilted Goose Game developer House House's co-op puzzle quest takes the hangout game to a new peak - here's our review

The Untitled Goose Game team returns with a funny, exciting and deeply rewarding multiplayer adventure. Our Big Walk review.

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Monkey Target is back in my life and all is right with the world. newsletter.hitpoints.co/389-stay-on-...

#389: Stay on target

I'm falling!

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To celebrate our one-year anniversary, we're running a sale! 🎉 From now until the middle of August, you can get 20% off new Annual Supporter subscriptions here: thisweekinvideogames.com/sign-up/ Help support the new wave of games media, get benefits and great reads, and feel cool 😎👍

This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · 3w ago

This Week in Videogames has reached its first full year of operation. Thank you to our paid subscribers for helping us sustain an independent, commercial-free, AI-free, and no-nonsense approach to games coverage for everyone. Here's a brief rundown of what we've managed to achieve in Year One:

Hi, we're a new video game oral histories site. Want to read the story of Shadow of the Colossus, as told by 11 people who worked on it? Or hear what Will Wright has to say about Spore in retrospect? Or see previously unreleased footage of Nintendo's Sound Fantasy? Check us out at designroom.site

Can I interest you in some cool objects? 🏁 One More Win, a Ridge Racer Type 4 fanzine 🔈 Capricorn Sun, an album of electronic music inspired by cult synth movie soundtracks 📖 Perfect Organism, my book about horror masterpiece Alien: Isolation Available now! 🔗 www.ultrabrilliant.xyz

the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app. here’s my unedited, nearly two-minute launch sequence. i was just searching for a bookshelf

GQ profiles take a lot of work and planning and coordination and Sam is genuinely up there as one of the best PRs I’ve ever worked with. Totally gets both sides of the game, preempts issues, and delivers accordingly. Basically, you should hire him.

Samuel Roberts@samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yesterday was sadly my last at Bethesda amid the current changes – cheers to all the journos and creators I worked with there, it was good while it lasted. Gonna do freelance for a bit as I figure out the next thing. Press can ping my old ZeniMax contractor email for an updated contact.

new game idea

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2w ago

foolproof 👍

We brought Poinpy back and it's totally free, as in real free, not 'mobile game free'. Please go and squash some fruit immediately.

Devolver Digital@devolverdigital.com · 2w ago

Crush fruit and feed the beast in POINPY! Back on mobile...FOR FREE! 🍎 🍋 🫐 🍊

Not sure about that. "It’s what we get for paying these corporations so much money to reduce our choices for us, just because they offered convenience in return." Woof!

Tont Coles@tontcoles.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have finally calmed down enough to write about ALL THE HORRIBLE SHIT corporate has been up to, with apologies to @hitpoints.bsky.social and @lukeplunkett.com, who both expressed the rage better than me. open.substack.com/pub/affectio...

This Week in Videogames has reached its first full year of operation. Thank you to our paid subscribers for helping us sustain an independent, commercial-free, AI-free, and no-nonsense approach to games coverage for everyone. Here's a brief rundown of what we've managed to achieve in Year One:

This Week in Videogames Marks Its First Anniversary

The award-winning independent games media outlet has reached its first full year of operation, sustained by the support of a reader-funded subscription model.

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Dang they really got a category for everything

had enough, wrote some stuff newsletter.hitpoints.co/385-fallout/

had enough, wrote some stuff newsletter.hitpoints.co/385-fallout/

New Edge day, featuring a new career high interview from me as I got to sit down with the legendary Hideki Kamiya for almost 3 hours to discuss his 30-year spanning career as a pioneer of game design. Give it a read, it’s… Viewtiful

Launching a new website about video games today. Meet @respec.net. A sibling to @rpgsite.net, a spiritual successor to VG247, & a brother from another mother to other 100% independent UK media brands like @videogameschronicle.com and @trueachievements.com. www.respec.net/feature/87-w...

Welcome to Respec: A word from the Editors | Respec

Welcome to our new little corner of the internet. Why a new video game website, and why now? Allow us to explain...

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new metaphor just dropped

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

Introducing Warp Point, a Web 1.0 gaming blog directory built for 2026

It's a webring! And a website!

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An early WIP look at OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast running with Path Tracing! Thanks to RTX Remix and talented modders Kim2091 and gabdeg in the Remix community 😃

When was the last time you were excited to bookmark an actual website? I honestly cannot remember. This is *incredibly* cool and Hit Points is delighted to be but one small part of it.

Wes Fenlon@wes.readonlymemo.com · last mo.

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

Thriller idea: man with world's second smallest penis has to stop him.

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

History repeats as T. Partey angers English in Boston www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

World Cup 2026: Djed Spence appears not to shake hands with Thomas Partey before England v Ghana

Footage circulating on social media appears to show England's Djed Spence not shaking hands with Ghana's Thomas Partey before their World Cup group match in Boston.

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Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

I do write about stuff that isn't Xbox. I think. Sometimes. Here's one on new chief of strategy Matthew Ball, whose early strategic moves seem to be, erm, well. Dunno. (also you can still get 55% off a paid sub to celebrate Hit Points' fifth birthday) newsletter.hitpoints.co/382-ball-poi...

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Me on another Xbox disaster 👇

This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · 2mo ago

"All I see is even more cultural vandalism from the game industry’s greatest specialists in it, and a hobby and an artform rendered less interesting, and more cruel, with every passing day." @hitpoints.bsky.social shares some thoughts on Xbox's forthcoming 'reset.'

Imagine owning Double Fine and even *considering* closing it. The history of Double Fine is the history of the games industry itself. This is a crime.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off. Lots still in flux as many studios remain unsure about what's happening. Here's the latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...