Alex Van Aken
@itsvanaken.games
Award-winning senior video editor @GameInformer.com • Musician • 3D Artist • reality tv sicko Game documentaries: Patreon.com/ViewportVideo Photos + travel: Instagram.com/itsVanAken Inquiries: alex@gameinformer.com 📍Minneapolis 🧊🚫
Jesse's blog just made me tear up. Big Walk is a special game.
Jesse Vitelli@mamavitelli.bsky.social · yesterdayBlogged about my favorite Big Walk puzzle and how it distilled the game's thesis into a single 5-minute puzzle. Small spoilers for this puzzle!
PALS! we're back for another charity stream, and it is, uh, less than two weeks away! i want to hear from you, mutuals and pals, who want to join us - whether you've guested before, or would be on for the first time. we have open spots! come be on stream and help us raise $$ for Trans Lifeline!
Axe of the Blood God - An RPG Podcast@bloodgodpod.bsky.social · 3d ago🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 The Axe of the Blood God Charity Livestream benefitting Trans Lifeline returns August 15th/16th! We've raised over $50k in the past and with your help we can smash our records! More Nuzlocke, multiplayer mayhem, speedruns, prizes, and fun all for a good cause! Full schedule soon!
✨NEW VIDEO✨ Beast of Reincarnation is a game that rewards those who push past its poorly executed early hours, and reveals a much more earnest and fascinating experience beneath the surface. Its combat becomes more engaging, its characters more interesting, its world more unique. I liked it a lot!
Beast of Reincarnation Doesn’t Explain Itself
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Beast of Reincarnation occasionally brushes up against greatness, but a lot of it falls flat. My review: www.gamespot.com/reviews/beas...
Beast Of Reincarnation's Cinematic Focus Fails Its Flashy Action
Game Freak’s foray into the action-RPG genre lands with mixed results.
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The best part of Beast of Reincarnation is the next fight, courtesy of a satisfying combat system filled with experimentation and tense fun. If only the rest of the game matched it. Our Beast of Reincarnation review: gameinformer.com/review/beast...
now please enjoy my favorite screenshot, of @itsvanaken.games raising the knocked-out bird body of @mamavitelli.bsky.social up to the sea like a renaissance painting.
We can finally talk about Big Walk by House House? Yay! Finished it a week ago, late at night with dear friends after an exhausting week of caretaking IRL. It’s a delight from front to back and a must-play for puzzle fans or people with friends GG @seamoosi.bsky.social @mamavitelli.bsky.social
Kinda wild how the Final Fantasy MTG set only released last summer. It’s barely been a year… ::ghoulish gaze to nowhere::
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, the crew highlights the best indie games of 2026 so far. While it isn't an exhaustive list, you'll walk away with many new hidden gems to check out! Watch or listen on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.: gameinformer.com/video-podcas...
I had a chat with @harvey1966.bsky.social about growing up poor, dealing with the deaths of his parents, and how those things shaped his outlook on work and life. www.gaming.firezidechat.com/p/firezide-c...
Firezide Chat with Harvey Smith
A chat about deaths of his parents, growing up in poverty, and how those things shaped his outlook on life.
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We're moving into a very busy games season, so I want to get this out here yet again: Need help with reviews? Hit me up Need help at an event? Let's talk Have some previews you would like a hand with? I'm available. Contract or hire me for stuff OR I can at least point you to other great people
I’ve only got time for one TCG in my life so I’m trying to offload the bulk of my Pokémon collection. If you’re looking for any cards from 2015-2023 lmk :)
I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.
Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...
The newly independent Double Fine is laying off staff today, three weeks after Xbox divested the studio as part of its massive restructuring.
today marks my one-year anniversary at Game Informer! over the last 12 months i've moved states, traveled abroad, and worked video on 5 (soon 6) cover stories. wrote features and reviews, built an offsite podcast studio for SGF, and held my byline in my hands. it's all been excellent.
Blood Dungeon launches August 25th on Steam, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 1 + 2! Blooddungeon.com #boneup
Order of the Sinking Star is a complex puzzle game that updates and combines older puzzle games (with permission) Last year, the source games' developers criticized the lead dev of the new game How might those creators be credited in OotSS? It's been changing www.gamefile.news/p/a-complica...
A complicated game
Who gets credit for Order of the Sinking Star? Where should the names appear for the creators of its source material? And would you notice if a great game designer sat next to you?
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extremely normal guy voice: I cloned myself so I can become my own blood boy.
Back in October, Rockstar Games fired 34 employees for alleged gross misconduct. The severity of these firings could have spelled the end for a burgeoning union effort that was underway, but it didn't. In fact, the union is now *bigger* than it's ever been before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4z...
Rockstar Fired 34 People, but the Union Is Bigger than Ever
YouTube video by People Make Games
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