Alexander Davies

Show me a videogame with more style than Anthem #9 manages in 45 seconds. It's got the juice!

It's one of my favourites too and I was surprised, and delighted, that this even exists. I'm not aware of how well the original sold but clearly well enough for another one.

D'you ever get a stupid idea in your head and then you can't do anything else until you get it out? 🎣

I immediately had a flashback to this once happening to me in the middle of the night except it landed on a radiator from about three feet. I had no idea what it was until I went downstairs in the morning and saw the shadow box safe and sound on top of the unit.

I accidentally bought the English PAL version forgetting that I'd bought the French one years prior and now I have two versions, one that I don't need, and I don't speak French. Thankfully I haven't forgotten five times.

Shared among my networks too. I'm rooting for you!

Wishlist my buddy's game!

Save 85% on Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition on Steam The classic Gauntlet 4-player co-op action gameplay returns in a completely new experience! Battle the endless hordes of foes as you and your friends fight for treasure and glory via both local and on...

I find that I don't have a lot of time to play co-op games with some of my friend group these days but the Christmas to New Year period has given me the opportunity to play the *quite good* Gauntlet - Slayer Edition. A good co-op romp for an absolute pittance.

store.steampowered.com/app/258970/G...

Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.

What is Lucy's level by the end of Fallout (TV)? [Editor’s note: I commissioned this article from Ian Walker over a year ago upon learning he had pitched it to multiple outlets only to find nobody was buying. I then, due to various circumstances, sa...

Fallout Season 2 starts tomorrow. In true insert credit fashion, we had to find out the answer to the big question on everyone's mind: What level was Lucy by the end of season 1?

Thanks to the hard work of @iantothemax.bsky.social we now have the answer, just in time for her journey to New Vegas.

Poster for Infra-Man. The art shows the red-suited tokusatsu style hero and a bunch of foes.

Infra-Man (1975)
Hua Shan (director)

Cracking into the next Shawscope volume with a long-time favorite.
Shaw Brothers going with a tokusatsu style hero movie, starring Danny Lee.
It's a heck of a good time!
📽 #SaturdayActionMovie #ShawBrothers #Shawscope #HongKongCinema #FilmSky

This is one of my favourite films, not even just Shaw Bros. If I ever need something goofy to watch or I have friends visiting that want to watch something weird then is a strong contender every time.

Thank you!

A curry bowl with the rice shaped to look like a Pikachu.

I'm by no means a presentationally fancy chef but this Pikachu* katsu curry turned out pretty good!**

*Not made with a Pikachu
** A Pikachu that has seen some shit.

It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate

This is true and it's why it's important to support independent critics... like me!!! I just posted a 2500 word essay on Baby Steps and I've worked hard this year to talk about more new and independent games like it. I don't have any steady income right now, just $1 per month makes a difference:

Detective Instinct is NOW AVAILABLE in all regions (on 15% launch discount for the next two weeks)!

Thank you all for supporting us. We did our best to craft a story we can be proud of, so we hope sincerely hope you enjoy it 🫡

Check it out on Steam or Nintendo Switch!

Ho Tu Lo Shu

I love Chinese & Taiwanese Wuxia RPGs, not only for the cool martial arts setting but also for playing differently from Western & Japanese RPGs.

I often get asked for recommendations. I had a big thread on Twitter, so here's a new one!

Here's my favorites available in English (officially or not) 🧵

The first three paragraphs read like you'd pulled them straight from my brain. Glad it's not just me tbh!

I gave this a shake yesterday and had the exact same experience and frustrations with this; the narrow sections and dark area really soured my enjoyment. Which is a shame because the presentation and mechanics are so good.

The Demonschool Episode Go back to hell! Insert Credit celebrates the release of Demonschool by analyzing trends in indie releases, the best grids in games, and of course, woke.

Ep. 415 - The Demonschool Episode

Go back to hell! Insert Credit celebrates the release of Demonschool by analyzing trends in indie releases, the best grids in games, and of course, woke.

insertcredit.com/show/415

Wishlist Demonschool! store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/... Releases Wednesday!

If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency

An excerpt from Wikipedia from one of the writers of The Tomb of Ligeia that states, "Roger Corman was initially reluctant to use Vincent Price in the lead role, worrying he was too old for a character who was 25 to 30 years old; his preference was for Richard Chamberlain.[6] Towne later said the film "was a little dull. I think it would have been better if it had been with a man who didn't look like a necrophiliac to begin with... I love Vincent. He's very sweet. But, going in, you suspect that Vincent could bang cats, chickens, girls, dogs, everything. You just feel that necrophilia might be one of his Basic Things.".

I've just watched The Tomb of Ligeia, and after reading a bit more about it, I've found this million degrees burn on the casting of Vincent Price as the lead saying that he looked like a necrophiliac.

The Japanese dev inspired by Undertale's Toby Fox to make his first RPG in decades calls it 'a love letter to other people who love these odd games, like Toby and I do' The Undertale-inspired Stray Children, like Kimura's '90s RPG Moon, is part oddball story, part genre commentary.

Here's a brand new interview with our head boss onion Kimura in @pcgamer.com, on getting the courage to make a new RPG, and how #StrayChildren came together!

www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/af...

I have bought a Switch 2. Setting it up and performing a system transfer from the Switch 1 was one of the most ludicrous and simultaneously most and least Nintendo processes imaginable.

Also I had to log into my Nintendo account three times to buy something on the eshop.

Absolutely baffling.

Falling down from the heights of that infuriating spiral sand slope is what made me finally put the game to bed. I might be tempted to revisit the game but that's a moment that is skirting the line of unfairness.

Tokyo losing another iconic arcade with announced closure of 40-year-old Ikebukuro game center A once-adored location in Ikebukuro is down to its last few months.

I'm really sad to see this place go. On my first night in Japan I sat at a BlazBlue: Central Fiction cabinet and beat a player sat on the other side. When he came around to congratulate me, his friends mercilessly ripped the shit out of him for losing to a gaijin.

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Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

A fascinating oral history with no ads. This feels like something too good for modern internet. Check it out!!