Chris Plante

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Angeline Era vs Videogames - Unwinnable In Angeline Era, discursive difficulty leads to meaningful experiences.

Angeline Era is like a dream: random, transcendent, frustrating. That feeling made it one of my favorite games of 2025. My review: unwinnable.com/2026/01/29/a...

The Thrill of Climbing From the Comfort of Your Couch

I'm back in the NYT with a piece on my favourite micro-genre: climbing games.

I especially love their suggestion that anyone, even vertigo sufferers, can be a climber, converting the environment before them into a symbolic system of self-expression.

⛰️

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/a...

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Let's goooo!!

to make one (1) space warlord baby trading simulator, you must first teach an entire team of game developers how the economic concept of a Market Short works

THE GAME COMES OUT TOMORROW!!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...

opening the @mothership.blog paper to see which great writer will appear today! new @susanapolo.bsky.social alert!

I've read exactly two things published by this newly launched website so far and it's safe to say I'm a big fan. (The other one is their top games of the decade so far, which is full of bangers and gems.)

The Score by C. Thi Nguyen: 9780593655658 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books “Mind-expanding . . . The Score is so exuberant and readable that the depth and seriousness of its insights almost sneak up on you.” —Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “Brilliant...

Here you go!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735252...

Have you read The Score? If note, I think you will realllllly like it

Kill the CEO in your head High-profile failures in the video game industry have changed how we talk about games for the worse

As the Highguard critical convo makes way for whatever's next, this @leadergrev.bsky.social piece is worth (re)reading.

had a crazy fun time writing about why skeletons regenerate in games for av club!

re:frame re:frame is an animation newsletter covering all aspects of animation no matter how small or tangentially related. We aim to be playfully serious and seriously playful, writing about the medium from e...

anyway if you worked on any of the cartoon cartoons that are finally releasing (or ones that seemingly won't be releasing) would love to talk to you for re:frame

hit me up at reframenewsletter@gmail.com

Skate Story developer interview We speak with Sam Eng about how he shaped glass and pain into one of the standout indie titles of 2025.

Sorry — we forgot to post this earlier! Alice sat down with @bysameng.com to talk about the incredible Skate Story.

www.rogue.site/editorials/s...

yes!!! so many incredible pubs! And some that have been kicking around for many years now like @warpdoor.com @unwinnable.com and @critdistance.bsky.social

Keza's book Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked The Power of Play

One week until my book about Nintendo is out in the US - the cover is just awesome, I'm so pleased with it ✨

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753986...

Yes! When can I subscribe?

Obviously I don’t work at Kotaku BUT if you’re someone who has freelanced over at GameSpot/worked with me in any capacity and are thinking about applying for the ✨multiple Kotaku listings✨ just shared, I’m always around to look over resumes or chat about how games media interviews generally work! ☺️

Spirit Swap developer Alex Abou Karam on marketing a game in times of war "It was really hard [...] to be so focused on making a game about queer, trans, POC joy in the midst of so much abject intentional suffering."

A new @mothership.blog story on the lunch break is a nice treat!

I wrote this! Go read it :).

@warpdoor.com !! they're the best!!

We created a Starter Pack so you can follow all of our contributors at once! If you see a name in here that isn't on the site yet, stay tuned... their stories will be going live in the coming days! go.bsky.app/GUEXLYQ

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Virtual Boy Works Hardcover Book – Limited Run Games After Nintendo achieved world-shaking success with its Game Boy handheld system, a next-generation follow-up seemed inevitable. Yet few could have predicted the form it would take—or how poorly it wou...

Anyway, this is still the world's best, most comprehensive guide to the stuff you can newly play on NSO today:

limitedrungames.com/collections/...

Or you can fall back on the video version if that's your jam:

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

(If nothing else, check out The Mansion of Innsmouth)

A new website about PC games, from me, @brendyc.bsky.social and @jonhicks.com.

Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like @jank.cool.

I used to do this job back in the day and while it was stressful sometimes, it was also a blast to have so much freedom to cover whatever I wanted alongside big news and events.

Oh and hey, you don't have to live in NYC for this!

We are hiring!

My advice to any applicants is to use the cover letter not to talk about the past but about what you will do in the future and how that will contribute to the site and serve our readers.

This is some phenomenal journalism here. It's not intended to enrage or induce anxiety to procure clicks, it paints a clear and honest picture of a moment of history eloquently and empathetically. Some truly powerful stuff

How Aussie horror game Winnie's Hole was brought to life | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games Winnie's Hole, a newly-released horror game adapting the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise, was born of a desire to create a monster.

ahead of the launch of winnie's hole i chatted to @sboxle.bsky.social about the game and how it all came together 🐻