Steven Santana
@number8axel.bsky.social
“Hey man I noticed you picked yoshi. Do you mind letting me have him or else.” -@pjayevans https://breakingarrows.ghost.io/
GameSpy Debriefings and Comedy Button were 100% my crutch to lean on during the most suicidal portion of my life. I've always had a lot of affection for Max and Brian even if I didn't follow them as closely as I used to. Much love @maxscoville.bsky.social @brianaltano.bsky.social
You used to be able to see a full list of who was working at IGN but sometime in late 2024 it began to only display the top section and that has not been updated since at least October 2025 (When Dan retired) corp.ign.com/content-team
IGN Entertainment
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Headcanon for Control is Jesse and Dylan are big Tom DeLonge fans due to conspiracies but especially for writing Aliens Exist which lets them shout their hometown Ordinary as part of the lyrics.
As part of the new E3 collections in our digital archive, we received a donation of over 1600 digital photos from E3 2009. Get an unprecedented look at the event, inside and out
Library Highlight: Exploring E3 2009 through 1600 photos | Video Game History Foundation
A spotlight on a photo gallery from our new E3 collections, documenting every corner of 2009's biggest gaming event.
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Going to start posting this every time I catch myself coming close to wading into video game discourse.
Our episode this week sees us talking about Coyote vs. Acme, but first a Disney live action/animation hybrid that company wants you to forget, and another hybrid film that really hates cross-dimensional sex. miseenscreen.libsyn.com/episode-58-c...
Mise en Screen: Episode 58: Coyote vs. Acme
Coyote vs. Acme is a 2026 live action and animated hybrid comedy film based on a 1990 New Yorker article of the same name by Ian Frazier. Directed by Dave Green and screenplay by Samy Burch, this film...
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Some things in Vegas should never be cleaned up. Double Down Saloon has been named Best Dive Bar in the #LVWBestofVegas awards. Punk rock, cult movies, tattooed walls and general depravity — congratulations to a true Vegas original! lasvegasweekly.com/news/2026/au...
Best Dive Bar: Double Down Saloon
This infamous dive hasn’t ascended; it’s only dug itself deeper. And we love that.
lasvegasweekly.com
This Week: Big Walk, checkpoint racers, and the hardest anybody has ever worked in a game for a pinch of salt: critical-distance.com/2026/08/30/a...
August 30th
Welcome back readers. There’s just one day left to get your entry in for our Friendslop Jam! Stay tuned for the issue compiling the submissions. Even with all of that participation (we love t…
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Thanks for the inclusion in this week's The Sunday Papers @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social! www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-p...
Remakes should be more like local theater. Instead, they’re boring. substack.com/@sadboybarre...
The Point of a Remake
Is Final Fantasy VII Remake secretly The Taming of the Shrew?
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Issue #3 of Deleted Saves continues with a piece by @stevenstoermer.bsky.social finding longing, hope, and meaning in Disco Elysium's music. www.deletedsaves.com/sick-with-lo...
Sick with Longing in Revachol
Two tracks in particular are key to unlocking the emotional beats of Harry’s story, and especially move me: “Instrument of Surrender” and “Detective Arriving on the Scene.”
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[INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS] There's something at stake in this movie: the right of freaks to be freaks—which is much more appealing than the right of "normal" people to be normal. (1978)
Double feature this week with @benverschoor.bsky.social. We've got Travolta's star vehicle and mafia propaganda film Gotti before moving on to the expectedly divisive Camp Miasma and the Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony starring the ever-hot Antonio Banderas. miseenscreen.libsyn.com/episode-57-t...
Mise en Screen: Episode 57: Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma and Tony
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a 2026 horror metatext written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun. Hannah Einbinder plays Kris, a trans horror director developing a legacy sequel for the mothball...
miseenscreen.libsyn.com
if you are wondering why this "boycott" demands mainstream coverage while even specialist publications cannot cover similar actions, here is an excerpt of The Message I think about All The Time
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 3w agoA wave of PlayStation gamers are staging a boycott over Sony’s move away from physical games, arguing that the shift threatens game preservation, competition and true ownership.
Hey, you should look at Cicadamata, it's cool as heck! youtu.be/Mhv9jyBABSQ
Cicadamata": What If Jumping Flash Had A Shotgun?
Cicadamata is out now on Steam and it absolutely rips, great look, cool soundtrack, good mobility options. It'll make you say "robbit mon dieu!" SIGN UP FOR FREE ON PATREON:…
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Fuck it, I blogged it.
Nobody puts Aerith in a refrigerator
An argument that the "women in refrigerators" trope doesn't apply to Final Fantasy 7's Aerith Gainsborough, and why the distinction matters
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Will Borger@edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 4w agoI desperately need people to use the term "fridging" correctly and not as a stand-in for "something bad happened to a female character in a piece of media," which isn't what it refers to
This week in The Stacks, Hannah Sparwasser Soroka (@hannah-historian.bsky.social) looks at how Pentiment and Astrologaster stand apart by forcing their players into confrontation with the alterity of history. thestacks.ca/posts/2026-0...
Pentiment and Astrologaster: Playing with the Past
History is the story; history is the game.
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My first Polygon review. Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy is a serviceable Uncharted-like elevated by some incredible performances. But with action replacing stealth, and no rats in sight, it isn't much of a Plague Tale game at all www.polygon.com/resonance-a-...
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy Feels More Like a Tomb Raider Game
What is an angel without wings or a Plague Tale game without rats?
polygon.com
GTA4 done. pretty good map coverage really. the DLCs add 22 and 25 missions roughly, but GTA5 is looming so i probably don't have the will to cover them (or the Stories games) - it is tempting because they intersect with the main story here and there. the original story barely touches the airport
Max (VGCartography)@vgcartography.bsky.social · 3mo agoyou're thinking "those flowcharts really only work if you also painstakingly draw the route of every single mission for every game individually so I can visually understand what you mean" - but i am already anticipating your needs.
The writing is the reward! breakingarrows.ghost.io/the-writing-...
The Writing is the Reward
Numbers going up in videogames is boring. It is pervasive and a hamster wheel. Receiving text in games is what makes them worth playing due to their potential to move me and speak to me in ways number...
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for Unwinnable, on Pentiment and The Name of The Rose: "With Andreas, there is no innocence, because in a game a lack of understanding is not exonerating: it is instead a mechanical barrier to the feeling of fair participation, a damning of the player to their ignorance."
Where in the World Is William of Baskerville? - Unwinnable
Obsidian set themselves an interesting task in translating a story that's legendary for being dense and obscure into an interactive medium.
unwinnable.com
"I just don’t have a fear of life. I love life, so why should I fear somethin’ I love? And why should I not reach out to the things that I know I can touch? I’m strong-willed." In honor of Dolly Parton, a look back at her Playboy interview from 1978:
The Playboy Interview With Dolly Parton
The Playboy Interview with Dolly Parton dives into a discussion of marriage, music, and being a country music sex symbol.
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