Jerica Webber
@jericawebber.com
no mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
so much more to this game than its quirky premise and excellent title www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
There Are No Ghosts at the Grand – stripping back the physical and metaphorical layers of a haunted hotel
Renovate rooms, investigate the supernatural and watch people burst into song in this surreal British ghost story
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I was so psyched to get to edit this one, first time working with Joshua since our Wild Wild Tech days! Great review too, he's a pro. Sorry to Splatoon Raiders but I'm glad to know not to bother with this one 🤷🏻♀️
Joshua Rivera@jmrivera.bsky.social · 2w agoI was not as into Splatoon Raiders as others seem to be. It just feels like a lesser version of Splatoon www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
heard a podcast mention the "looter shooter" and cannot help but imagine a world in which all video game genres must rhyme what kind of game is this? oh it's a "boring warring" game, a "survivor thriver", a "nation simulation"
I knew I'd love The Séance of Blake Manor but I managed to hold off on starting it until I could play it with my Irish friend (who also loves a spooky mystery) and it was so worth it – she's sharing so much historical context AND she's better than me at the puzzles www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF8s...
The Séance of Blake Manor | Release Trailer
YouTube video by Raw Fury
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hopefully I've got enough grey hairs by now that I wouldn't get called a teen like when we touched retro stuff on The Gadget Show
Alex Darby // darbotron 🛹@darbotron.bsky.social · 3mo agohahaha! maybe we should get together with @jericawebber.com and start a TV show like this but retro tech & old games? We could do it in the grounds of Compton Verney or maybe in the Pump Rooms? & do history segments of cool stuff people bring
I got to talk to some wonderful people for this 💜
Stardew Valley at 10: the anticapitalist game that cures burnout and inspires queer art
Since 2016, the cosy, inclusive, non-heteronormative escapism of the beloved farming sim has inspired a community of devoted fans, and helped it shift 50m units
theguardian.com
took me far too long to realise the American podcasters were talking about Cairn and not in fact a new video game called "Karen"
It's my birthday tomorrow! If you want to celebrate me by getting up at 4:30am to listen to my new documentary on the BBC World Service, I can't exactly stop you
BBC World Service - In the Studio, New climbing video game
Prizewinning climbing video game
bbc.co.uk
something I am learning about live radio is: you always always have more to say than you ever have time to get to. if you didn't, it wouldn't be a good idea for a programme. this is probably also true more broadly of "all the interesting things one wants to do in life"
Is anyone keeping a list of all the new audience-supported video game journalism publications? I have been off Doing Other Things for a couple of years and it feels like I came back from uni to find my folks had moved house
hmm listening to a load of established games journos interviewing each other about their new worker-owned podcasts isn't helping me feel better about the idea of trying to re-enter games journalism, weird
no I haven't played Hollow Knight, I'm busy with Clues by Sam
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
Immersive Arts funding application deadline: 29 September £5-£50k available for (UK-based) artists at different stages immersivearts.uk
Home-English - Immersive Arts
A brand new funding and support programme for UK-based artists, designed to help them develop their art by using immersive technologies.
immersivearts.uk
This was inevitable. Waypoint 2.0's ordeal is the story of games media in 2025: aftermath.site/vice-waypoint-...
I've half-joked before that people will get no work from me over 30 degrees, but my phone and laptop genuinely refusing to function in these temperatures might force the issue
glad that Woman's Hour is remembering games exist again, glad that pals are involved, but this framing was eye-rolling enough even before the last three years of mass layoffs in the video games industry www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Call for a voice actor! We’re looking to cast a female actress for our next game. Vocal age 25-35, Northern England accent, preferably Mancunian, incl. Pakistani and Indian Mancunian accents. That’s you? Then send a sample to info@inklestudios.com, marked “casting call”. Paid gig, ofc <3 RTs!
a cat is holding a microphone in its mouth and singing into it .
ALT: a cat is holding a microphone in its mouth and singing into it .
media.tenor.com
there's a lot about my life rn that my younger self would be delighted to know, but no small part of that is being paid to write about The Sims
the Switch 2 arrived last week and instead I've played 23 hours of Date Everything on the Steam Deck
I will admit to having breezed past Date Everything during Steam Next Fest, assuming it was jumping on some kind of bandwagon (Boyfriend Dungeon? Hatoful Boyfriend? I'm not really sure), but the latest ep of Triple Click has convinced me to take a closer look: maximumfun.org/episodes/tri...
Date Everything! (with Ray Chase) | Maximum Fun
TC brings on special guest Ray Chase (Final Fantasy XV, Play Nice) to talk about his experiences as a voice actor and his new game, Date Everything!
maximumfun.org
I mentioned The Grannies on The Arts Hour (in a discussion about Grand Theft Hamlet: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...) but I think the name of it got edited out??? So I'm glad other big institutions are doing the right thing!
Marie Foulston@tigershungry.co.uk · last yr.Over the past few months we've been finalising something delightful & very unexpected. With agreements now signed & files shared we can officially say that our machinima doc The Grannies has been officially acquired by the BFI (British Film Institute) & is now part of their permanent archive. 🤠
As expected, this is great. I think what will stick with me most from the first ep is: having the resources (time, academic training to read the scientific literature, money to access it!) to make an informed decision about these things is a privilege. Thank goodness for people like Andy and Pete!
Pete Etchells@peteetchells.bsky.social · last yr.Screen Sense: Parenting in a Digital World, the new podcast from @shuhbillskee.bsky.social and I - first episode is now live. We hope you enjoy it. open.substack.com/pub/screense...
I am lazy and need suggestions for a streamlined read-it-later solution I got a Kobo e-reader in April, and that had Pocket integration! ...and then the next month Mozilla announced they were shutting down the whole service
I've scrolled through the whole(?) list of Steam Next Fest demos - there's a LOT of games on there but ignoring the sex and horror helped me narrow it down
Next Fest June 2025 - LIVE NOW
Steam Next Fest is a week-long celebration featuring hundreds of FREE playable demos as well as developer livestreams and chats. Players try out upcoming games on Steam pre-release, developers gather ...
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I've come to really appreciate distinctive video game titles. "There Are No Ghosts at the Grand"? Good stuff.
Keith Stuart@keefstuart.bsky.social · last yr.Hi I did a list of my fave games from the quite frankly exhausting (and I wasn’t even *there*) SGF weekend www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j...
the other night I legit dreamed that I was explaining to some people I looked up to where the hell I've Been Lately, so I wrote about it, possibly a waste of several hours but people are talking about game journalism so
Jordan Erica Webber—"Game journalism": a case study
I recently dreamed that I was explaining to some professional inspirations (I’ll spare myself the mortification of naming them) why I haven’t Done Much lately. Conveniently, I’d already done a thoroug...
jordanwebber.com
A while ago, in a blissful moment of procrastination I dared ask "Why did Van Gogh become the poster child for immersive experiences in the 2010s?" Well, in order to answer this question we first need to go back 50 million years to when France was underwater www.goodafternoon.uk/news/immersi...
Immersive Quarries. — Good Afternoon
The 50 million year long story about why the world was inundated with indistinguishable Immersive Van Gogh exhibitions in the 2010s.
goodafternoon.uk