James Bareham

A gritty, high-contrast red and black graphic for the "Post Games" podcast. The image features a woman dual-wielding handguns, surrounded by reaching zombie hands and distressed white typography.

I’ve been having a blast making art for Post Games, but this week’s episode was an unbridled opportunity to dial it up to 11: @plante.bsky.social’s interview with Resident Evil director, Paul W.S. Anderson. Listen to show on patreon.com/cw/PostGames

I mocked it up, and I was right: this gorgeous design looks so much more Porsche than Ferrari. A Jony Ive / LoveFrom ultra-limited edition Taycan would be sicker than a sick thing that’s really sick

Ferrari’s first EV will have an interior designed by Jony Ive Is this the real Apple car?

I’m a huge Jony Ive fan, but I’m sorry, this interior belongs in a Porsche or a Merc, not a Ferrari www.theverge.com/transportati...

Mistook this for an Onion headline

the wind chill is -28 F. That's it, that's the tweet

A History of Dragon Quest (and Why To Try It Now) How the creators of Dragon Quest spent decades building to this moment

I blogged about the decades-long push to make Dragon Quest a mega-hit in the US and Europe, from Nintendo giving away 500k copies of the original to the *multiple* remakes of Dragon Quest 7.

Plus: where to start.

YouTube video by David Bowie David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (Official Video) [4K]

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The Brilliance and the Badness of “The Sun Also Rises” Although Ernest Hemingway’s novel makes positive claims about what one should be—brave, admiring of nature and grace—its architecture is held up primarily by hatred.

OMG this art! www.newyorker.com/books/second...

Tesla discontinuing Model S and Model X to make room for robots So long!

JFC. Pitching that ‘now's the time to buy these cars because we’re going to stop making them to make robots’ is the most blatantly desperate marketing initiative I have ever heard www.theverge.com/transportati...

Sony announces its first turntables in years Options for new and existing vinyl fans.

The great vinylfication continues... www.theverge.com/news/865333/...

Board the Mothership. You're just in time. A couple weeks from now, on January 26, 2026, we'll be launching the full version of our new gaming website, Mothership, which aims to analyze games specifically through the...

less than a week left to get a lifetime 15% off your subscription price for mothership.blog! what is mothership.blog, you may very well be asking? well go to the URL and find out. if you follow me here, you will like it

Reading, Writing And Arithmetic by The Sundays on Apple Music Album · 1990 · 10 Songs

Listening to more albums in their entirety rather than just playlists. This afternoon's album: 'Reading, Writing and Arithmetic' by The Sundays (fun fact: I was friends with Harriet Wheeler at school. Last time we met in Bristol, she told me she was starting a band) music.apple.com/us/album/rea...

Adapting Life into a Video Game (Meredith Gran) Perfect Tides: Station to Station recaptures life in New York in 2003

This week, you'll finally be able to play the magnificent Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

But first, you should listen to this interview with the game's creator @meredithgran.com about the rise of memoir games, recreating the lost NYC of 2003, and, of course, Ecks vs. Sever.

Spoiler-free!

So sorry Ash

A staged group photo of actors on a theater set for "Sunset Boulevard." Faith Brown and the cast are captured in a single frame, holding dramatic positions under theatrical lighting.

Inspired by "The Mincefluencer" essay in the NYTimes, I’ve been diving down the rabbit hole of my theater photography days in London. I think this is my favorite: Sunset Boulevard starring Faith Brown. This is a single frame—no compositing; just the actors holding their positions for the camera.

So glad to see more ex-Polygon peeps building their own media brands. Huge congrats to @midimyers.com and @zoehhannah.com on the launch of Mothership

Why on Earth Have I Seen the Same Broadway Show 13 Times? An Investigation.

Confessions of a Mincefluencer. Absolutely superb essay by Taffy Brodesser-Akner in today's @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/m...

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

Mothership and a History of Women in Games Media A new gaming website?! In this economy?!

if you want MORE details about @zoehhannah.com's & my vision for @mothership.blog, listen to our guest appearance on our former boss (former polygon EIC) @plante.bsky.social's podcast Post Games. we talk about our history in the space & our dreams for its future postgame.substack.com/p/mothership...

Reading Klara and the Sun in the year of ubiquitous AI Kazuo Ishiguro’s robot doesn’t crave humanity or want to take your job; it just wants to be a good friend.

Reading all the news about robots and AI coming out of CES 2026 has me thinking more and more about the "post-employed" in 'Klara and the Sun.'

Kazuo Ishiguro nailed it: mbh4h.substack.com/p/klara-and-...

Boston Dynamics’ Tesla Bot rival Atlas will start building Hyundai cars in 2028 Is Atlas coming for our jobs?

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot is soon destined to be working alongside humans on the Hyundai production line.https://www.theverge.com/news/853973/hyundai-boston-dynamics-atlas-robot-factory-2028

Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer

The words “Klara and the Sun” overlaid on a complex, geometric depiction of the sun rendered in vibrant shades of orange, red, and purple.

And I finished the year with 'Klara and the Sun' by Kazuo Ishiguro, perhaps my favorite of all

The word 'NEUROMANCER' in glitchy green text on a black background, vertically stacked in four segments: NEU, ROM, AN, and CER.

Digital illustration of a glitchy, distorted screen displaying the words “DON’T PANIC” in vibrant pink and green text.

Digital illustration of a man’s face suspended in layered rectangles against a colorful cosmic background. The word 'FOUNDATION' is featured in an ornate, centered design.

Two copper-colored disks inscribed with the Russian text “Пикник на обочине” (Roadside Picnic) float over a surreal turquoise landscape. Below, a copper-colored sphere is centered within an intricate, symmetrical pattern.

I read a lot of sci-fi books this year (for me at least), and I also made my own book covers for each book I read and re-read: Neuromancer, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Foundation, and Roadside Picnic.

Also, a massive and profound thank you to @ohnorosco.bsky.social for editing this and all my essays in 2025 🙏

MBH4H 2025: Review of the Year The Year of Distraction was just that—in both good ways and bad.

This week is, in the words of Douglas Adams, “the long, dark tea-time of the soul” between Christmas and New Year, the perfect time to look back on the year that’s passing and ponder what’s in store for the year ahead mbh4h.substack.com/p/mbh4h-2025...

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Auberge by Chris Rea on Apple Music Album · 1991 · 12 Songs

Listening to more albums in their entirety rather than just playlists. This afternoon's album: 'Auberge' by Chris Rea, who sadly passed away yesterday. RIP music.apple.com/us/album/aub...