James Wood
@omgmorejames.bsky.social
Reviews Editor & Features: @ThisWeekInVideoGames.com Personal Blog: https://jameswould.pika.page/ Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/omgmorejames He/him 🏳️🌈
As a gay person who remembers the term Mutiplayer and the (very recent!) etymology of Friendslop, this post is maybe when we shut this all down.
Matt Caulder (They/He)@mattcaulder.com · 19h ago“I say it but not as a derogatory” is giving “I call stuff gay but not in a bad way”
Thrilled for Big Walk but I cannot do another round of this as peak game design
When @faultrunner.bsky.social asked me to write for the first Encritification, I was stoked. Then I missed the deadline. This is not a blog about being stoked. jameswould.pika.page/posts/on-che...
On Cheesing the TV - James Would
I’m not, by most agreed-upon terms, “cheesing” Persona 4 Golden. Technically, what I’m doing is drilling down into the game’s (blessedly robust) difficulty modifiers to ease the friction of its...
jameswould.pika.page
When @faultrunner.bsky.social asked me to write for the first Encritification, I was stoked. Then I missed the deadline. This is not a blog about being stoked. jameswould.pika.page/posts/on-che...
On Cheesing the TV - James Would
I’m not, by most agreed-upon terms, “cheesing” Persona 4 Golden. Technically, what I’m doing is drilling down into the game’s (blessedly robust) difficulty modifiers to ease the friction of its...
jameswould.pika.page
criticism discourse got me thinking about how many game critics have muffled totally reasonable, articulate critiques about tons of things around the game space because they don't want to be perceived as piling onto someone or something who might have been a harassment target of right wing gamers
I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
Retro Dodo@retrododo.bsky.social · 8mo agoThis is unlike anything we've seen before in all our years of handheld reviewing! #ModRetro #GameBoy
It took less time to buy and have a PS3 delivered to my place than it’s taken for that same PS3 to download and install inFAMOUS 2. Unfathomable levels of back happening here.
For seven years, I've had the privilege of reporting on accessibility and the disabled perspective. And now, during my seventh Disability Pride Month in this industry, I'm left wondering if this beat is coming to an end. Read my first @skyboxcritics.com piece here: skyboxcritics.com/2026/07/28/t...
The vanishing art of disability reporting
As the games industry contracts, disability reporting is facing an extinction-level crisis.
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starting to worry I might have to make my own decision on whether or not I enjoyed something
The material effectiveness of the BDS Xbox boycott shouldn't be a condition to be met to warrant reporting from outlets. We build trends from singular petulant reddit posts and report "insider" rumours without shame, the least anyone could do is *mention* an ongoing genocide.
Mitch Dyer@mitchyd.bsky.social · last wk.Interesting that almost all analysis of Xbox in freefall completely ignores an organized boycott intended to harm the company financially. Meanwhile, multiple news stories on the home page all month about PlayStation boycotts that haven't even happened yet.
Interesting that almost all analysis of Xbox in freefall completely ignores an organized boycott intended to harm the company financially. Meanwhile, multiple news stories on the home page all month about PlayStation boycotts that haven't even happened yet.
IGN@ign.com · last wk.Game Pass was supposed to be the all-you-can-play subscription service that put Xbox on top after a disastrous generation. Instead, it's a failure that's threatening to ruin the company. https://bit.ly/4pIIUau
In-depth feature article gets posted on r/Games: Wow, amazing! So many new people are going to discover our work! Article gets pulled for being partially paywalled halfway in: 😞 Anyway please support your favourite independent games media outlets as we push these boulders up a goddamn mountain
Edmond Tran@edmondtran.bsky.social · 4w agoSomething that often goes unsaid: We're against using genAI in our work, and we've also blocked AI crawlers from finding and stealing our work. Even Google. We're not traffic-driven, but in 2026 this has a big impact on how people find us. So, simply following us and sharing our work means a lot 🙏
Halo: Complicity Evolved reviews being a flashpoint is good and overdue
You’ve heard of dog whistles, now get ready for dog fog horns
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2w ago'Santa Monica Studio head of creative Cory Barlog has announced that the next Kratos-led God of War game is coming after God of War Laufey, and connects directly to her story.' www.ign.com/articles/nex...
hm yes let’s ignore BDS and review both the most perfunctory AND most microsoft thing possible, halo. Surely that will save games criticism.
sometimes i remember the only official way to play demons souls is that remake and start taking poison damage
