O'Blivion Broadcasting

Dread to think what it says about me that I'm already considering ✨Autobiographical Tangents✨ in essays

Thinking about switching to Linux purely out of One Drive related rage

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Got an email from Patreon saying i needed to post an update, lest my page go dark. Which is one way of letting me artfully segue into saying “I have a patreon.” I have since my first upload, in case people are able to support/make life easier, and it’s here: www.patreon.com/oblivionbroa...

Legacy of Gay-n | KRITIQAL Amidst the complex story spanning multiple time periods, interrogations on the nature of power, and musings on immortal morality, another theme emerges from the Legacy of Kain’s proximity to gothic an...

And here's my first ever properly pitched and published article, about Legacy of Kain, Gothic sensibilities and the inherent queerness of vampires.

#freelance #freelancegamescriticism #freelancegamescrit #gamescriticism #gamesjournalism #legacyofkain

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If you’re not watching OutOfCharacters, you’re behind

Get more from O'Blivion Broadcasting on Patreon Making videos on games, art, and strange feelings

Got an email from Patreon saying i needed to post an update, lest my page go dark. Which is one way of letting me artfully segue into saying “I have a patreon.” I have since my first upload, in case people are able to support/make life easier, and it’s here: www.patreon.com/oblivionbroa...

OBlivionCasting's review of Outer Wilds | Backloggd It feels sort of glib to say that "I loved Outer Wilds until I didn't. And then I did again." But that's sort of what happened. The strangeness and openness of the beginning, the way it rewards curios...

Outer Wilds (2019): A game about which I had Thoughts and Feelings: backloggd.com/u/OBlivionCa...

People that use terms like Roundhouse and Fierce to describe buttons in Street Fighter are cringe, this has been a PSA

A poster for the Emergency Mutual Aid stream. Featuring: Darkfry, Errant Signal, Talistheintrovert, Questing Refuge, Ashley Schofield, Kai After Kai, TSD Talks and more September 20th 16:00 BST, 11:00 ET, 08:00 PT, 01:00 AEST

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!

This Saturday September 20th I will be hosting a live playthrough of @sunsetvisitor.studio 1000xResist to raise money and help my friend @ashodin.com with an unexpected medical emergency.

Join me on this journey through the best game of 2024 and let's do some good together!

Got my first two definitely legit emails from a company insisting they can propel me to 1,000 subscribers. Can only assume this means I’ve Made It™️

Watch this before YouTube’s Restricted Mode makes it a pain in the ass

A still from Spec Ops: The Line. A soldier looks out at a city buried in sand

A still from Predator (1987), a point of view shot showing two soldiers in heat vision

A still from The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). The three witches, two of them reflected in a pool of water at the feet of a single witch

[insert grindhouse style ‘coming atttactions’ title card here]. Vibes for the next video

YouTube video by O'Blivion Broadcasting The Suburbs Are Scary

Upstairs, Margaret said abruptly, ‘I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,’ and when Brad said, ‘What starts to happen?’ she said hysterically, ‘People starting to come apart.’ youtu.be/dkUOV7wpsOk

Get more from O'Blivion Broadcasting on Patreon Making videos on games, art, and strange feelings

If you like this wanna support me directly (esp ahead of my birthday on Monday), you can do so here: patreon.com/oblivionbroa...

New video about suburban horror, trans-ness in I Saw the TV Glow, and David Lynch's romanticism. Trying some new stuff with structure and vibes that I think works pretty well. Including using a gif from @gothydellamorte.bsky.social as a kind of title card

YouTube video by O'Blivion Broadcasting The Suburbs Are Scary

Upstairs, Margaret said abruptly, ‘I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,’ and when Brad said, ‘What starts to happen?’ she said hysterically, ‘People starting to come apart.’ youtu.be/dkUOV7wpsOk

Thinking about one of my favourite shots in John Carpenter’s Halloween and how it’s probably just a little too gnarly for our YT overlords

OBlivionCasting's review of Carrion | Backloggd A fun little game to play in a few days in order to like, get back into the swing of gaming after not playing much over the start of the summer! The story is neat -- the end is smart and the flashback...

Carrion (2020): A curious thing that works best when its at its most minimal, abstract, and thematically lean. Enormously satisfying to control, even when exploration itself feels a little hollow: backloggd.com/u/OBlivionCa...

OBlivionCasting's review of Alan Wake II | Backloggd First thing I text my brother after finishing this is that AW2 could be an all-timer for me. Just so gonzo and wild, full of big swings that almost entirely pay off; the visual inventiveness and explo...

Alan Wake II (2025): Just adored the sheer level of ambition on display, narrative swings, and the moment to moment joy and surprise of watching these stories unfold: backloggd.com/u/OBlivionCa...

Making video essays about games, art, and strange feelings.

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Re-upping this because I thought it was, for want of a better word, okay

And thanks to the wonderful @gothydellamorte.bsky.social for making this enjoyably analog, liminal new face and banner for this, The Channel, and whatever else springs from this project!

Emerging from the ether with some new work hopefully coming out soon

Thanks to @pillarofgarbage.bsky.social for listening to an early cut of the voiceover and making sure I don't sound terrible; and to all the people over at @theessaylibrary.com I don't follow yet who gave feedback on the problems in the first iteration of this video!

YouTube video by O'Blivion Broadcasting Games about picking up the pieces

Here is a story to break your heart. Are you willing? youtu.be/h6OsYzWeDlI

OBlivionCasting's review of The Beginner's Guide | Backloggd Struggling to find the words for this one, mostly thinking about how those sequences of Canto talking to themselves through dialogue about creativity as an impulse, as a need, are resonant; between th...

The Beginner's Guide (2015): a litmus test; an unanswered question on why we make art; why we respond to it the way we do; and the existential dread of the well drying up: backloggd.com/u/OBlivionCa...

Beginning of a thread of rambling Backloggd responses to games that I play (inevitably just a couple of dashed off paragraphs here and there)