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A man lays asleep on a couch with a laptop screen on a coffee table displaying the title screen for Moon Colony Bidet Installation '97. HEADLINE: Xalavier Nelson Jr. Wakes Up From Bender With 5 New Games Published to Steam.

The Strange Scaffold founder and creative director published five new games to Steam following a weekend fueled by sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll.
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Marvel Cosmic Invasion Shows Why Beat 'Em Ups Are Perfect For Superheroes Beat 'em ups like Marvel Cosmic Invasion capture the spirit of superheroes better than open world games like Spider-Man and the Arkham series do.

Was tempted to write about the noise I made after seeing She-Hulk’s animations in Marvel Cosmic Invasion, ultimately wrote about why beat em ups are a great home for superheroes

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she binding my isaac til I rebirth

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado welcomes U.S. airstrikes on Venezuela

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my essay on The Evil Within, sex, and violence makes an appearance in this week's roundup, alongside incredible pieces by talented writers that you should also read

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Hopes, Dreams and Marzipan - Into The Spine Hiero de Lima explains why they chose to cosplay as Swansea from Mouthwashing, despite looking completely different.

"But that’s too easy, isn’t it? It’s so easy that I never considered crawling into his skin."

Hiero de Lima (@lesbiankakyoin.bsky.social) explains why they chose to cosplay as Swansea from Mouthwashing despite looking nothing alike.

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Haggag not only introduced me to a gem of a horror title, they floored me with how relevant the commentary of this IF game is for the current news cycle.

Whether you’re familiar with this title or not, Haggag’s close reading will leave you with new insights.

“The world is sick and ugly” The limitations of Interactive Fiction provide a unique avenue for horror. Text based games cannot replicate the kind of tension that many survival horror games thrive in. The possibilities for emerg...

For our IF issue, Mazen Haggag explores the tortured logics of Horse Master and how the game creates terror out of a lack of agency.

How Chainsaw Man – The Movie Draws On And Transforms Classic Myth The latest Chainsaw Man film provides plenty to chew on, but one under-discussed element is how it draws on classic myth.

My boob anime is deep, actually

Detention: Three flavors of political dread When adaptation gets it right.

One more spooky post!

Detention: Three flavors of political dread by @kingsigy.bsky.social

"It’s rich in historical context and a fantastic marriage of horror aesthetic with cultural specificity, as well as presenting a story that highlights the vulnerability and naivety of childhood."

Read on:

A hill I will die on is that unless you are being forced to as part of your job you should never rate art (or anything) on a scale. Stop giving stars on letterboxd, stop rating things on a scale of 1-10. You do not need to. Critical thought is for everyone

The Absurdity of Proving You're Not a Robot - Unwinnable When tasked with breaking up with your AI girlfriend, the chatbot repeatedly gaslights you.

"The state of modern technology is overwhelmingly miserable, and I’m Not a Robot works so well because it laughs with you about it."

@beewertheimer.com plays I’m Not a Robot, a game that puts you through an absurd CAPTCHA gauntlet:

Will You Go Down?: Silent Hill 2 and the Male Loneliness Epidemic Whether it's screens, AI, the "manosphere," or the dream world of Silent Hill 2, fantasy won't solve the "male loneliness epidemic."

happy halloween - this one is a bit more gnarly than usual

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WHO WILL WIN: LABOR SOLIDARITY AMONG OVERWORKED AND UNDERPAID PEOPLE ACROSS MEDIA AND GAME DEV vs. ONE FUNNY VIDEOJUEGO

Six Missing Children Have Haunted These Arcade Cabinets For Decades. Why? For 40 years the faces of missing children have haunted arcades from inside a miniature golf video game.

why are there missing children posters coded into Mini Golf and other Bally Sente arcade cabinets?

for @endlessmode.bsky.social, I tried to get to the bottom of it.

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Silent Hill f almost drove me insane with how much there is to talk about. EVERY detail led to a rabbit hole of research, but what I kept coming back to is how it's a game about the curses in our blood... curses both supernatural AND societal.

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this is gonna be the article I'll read with tomorrow's morning coffee, looking forward to it

Making my @rollingstone.com debut writing about Monolith's incredible F.E.A.R. and how the story's meaning has kind of gotten lost over the years.

Alma isn't F.E.A.R.'s villain. Armacham and the people that made her are. She's as much a victim as anyone else, a spirit of vengeance made, not born.

i like this one a lot, def my vibe

You enjoy all the killing! on Killzone 2

Videogames make killing fun.
Killzone 2 makes killing fun.
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I have a very strict “no liquids on the gaming desk” rule for this very reason!

I hope your rig is ok I know this pain well <3

The most unsettling horror game of the year is the Mouthwashing publisher's No, I'm Not A Human – Junji Ito meets Papers, Please with a monstrous twist Indie Spotlight | Mouthwashing and Buckshot Roulette publisher Critical Reflex has another crusty, narrative horror hit on its hands, and it's all I want to play this Halloween

halloween. wet leaves. the veil is thin. your skin is thin, your sanity... holding on with werewolf claws in one of the creepiest games of the year

don't trust the government.

don't trust the woman in bed...

please!!!

don't trust the GOVERNMENT!

PLEASE!

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Let's All Be Ghosts: Jaganrei "Haven't you had enough?" she cries. "You have no right to do things like this!"

THIS WEEK ON ANIWIRE...

I wrote about director Teruyoshi Ishii and writer Chiaki J. Konaka's 1988 horror film Psychic Vision: Jaganrei. Happy Halloween!

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American National Anthem BTFO

This is a fantastic read!