One of my absolute favorite games of 2026, Forbidden Solitaire, just released a meaty new DLC today! The main game effortlessly struck a balance between "this FEELS like a CD-ROM game from the mid-90's" and "this is really fun to pick up and play without the mid-90's jank". I grabbed it immediately!

Forbidden Solitaire: The Discarded on Steam

It's 2020. Robyn Cierra excavates hidden files within the remnants of a cursed 1995 CD-ROM. A bizarre graveyard of scrapped content lies entombed, deep within the code. You thought your sister was bey...

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I went to see 8-Bit Big Band with @purenell.bsky.social on Saturday and it was phenomenal. I recorded a few songs, including their new arrangement of Secret of the Forest from Chrono Trigger. It was of course AN ABSOLUTE STONE COLD JAM. I hope I can see them again someday!! youtu.be/zy4Cnq9laTM

8-Bit Big Band - Secret of the Forest - Miller Theater Philadelphia 10/24/26

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I just told my kids, “I don’t want to hear that either of you are ‘looksmaxxing’ when you should be ‘BOOKSmaxxing’ instead!” I’ll be riding that dad high for the rest of the week.

Pouring one out for game dev studio Twisted Pixel. Meta shuttered a bunch of their VR studios this week, TP included. @purenell.bsky.social and I agree that ‘Splosion Man was a wacky masterpiece, and TP retweeted a link to our episode about it…which was beyond cool. I hope they land on their feet!

P&M Play Games - Ep 4 - Ms Splosion Man XBLA (Sept 2013)

YouTube video by Pernell & Matt Play Games

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There’s a separate timeline out there where another me is a passionate video game history archivist. I’m so glad there’s people like the VGHF that hunt this stuff down and preserve it…

Video Game History Foundation@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · last yr.

The creators of Myst series (@cyan.com) saved hundreds of video tapes from the making of their iconic adventure game franchose. We helped preserve them. Here's what we found.

Stéphane Picq was the composer for probably my favorite DOS game, Cryo’s Dune. Last thing I saw him doing online was him excitedly pointing out a musical reference to his classic OST in the recent Dune Part 2. I never had the CD version, but damn did it sound good coming thru my SoundBlaster. RIP.

Dune, Lost Eden And MegaRace Composer Stéphane Picq Has Passed Away Aged 59

"He was one of those people who leave a mark"

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