Yousif Kassab

12 Sega Saturn Games That Need to Be Re-Released A good way to honor the Sega Saturn's 30th anniversary? Re-release these games, already.

Alright, I started out this @pastemagazine.bsky.social piece with Panzer Dragoon Saga so that no one would go scrolling past a bunch of other games they should read about to go find it. Now that that's out of the way... have some Saturn games I wish the world would give you again.

Cool ass art I did for an old zine de nuit, featuring loran cehan in a field with guin taking a bite out of the moon. The white doll is behind them with a huge full moon glowing. Lots of sparks of color going around

turn a gundam
🌘 #art #gundam

Reflections on my Almost Five Years of Final Fantasy This article will mention story elements of various Final Fantasy games, with major spoilers for Final Fantasy X and XV. Today marks five years since I published my first article about Final Fantas…

NEW BLOG POST: Today marks five years since I started my project to play through a substantial amount of Final Fantasy games.

I wrote about how I felt taking that on:

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First image from "Sunny" animated feature by @michaelarias.net ("Tekkonkinkreet").
Based on the manga by Taiyo Matsumoto (again).
Produced by GKIDS.
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Cosmo Champs 3: Pope Lobotomy Beam — Abnormal Mapping The second season has us running headlong into filler as we meet some guys who truly do not matter and a backstory that certainly is going to get rewritten. Nobody even dies for their bros in these ep...

A new Cosmo Champs! We run into a full on filler arc as the anime pulls the classic blunder of running out of manga to adapt, but we do have a giant evil pope and his giant evil henchmen so we manage to have fun. Also, the most forgettable mentor ever. www.abnormalmapping.com/cosmo/2025/2...

Games Archives Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

I hear you want non-corporately owned games writing that doesn’t just focus on whatever the current best-sellers are www.pastemagazine.com/games

Repertory Screenings 112: My Dinner with Andre — Abnormal Mapping We’re a week late but we’re rolling along with our schedule so expect the next episode next week! This week we sat down to dinner and talked about our varied reactions to My Dinner with Andre, and dec...

A new Repertory Screenings! We watched My Dinner with Andre and found ourselves pondering the truth of all human interaction, dinner etiquette, whether we're Wallys or Andres, and more! www.abnormalmapping.com/trashpect-ra...

Bruh lolol

YouTube video by siegarettes BattlerGC Pro Review~a hall effect Gamecube controller for the modern age

NEW VIDEO:

I review the Retrofighters BATTLERGC Pro, a modern Gamecube controller!

with Hall Effect Sticks, a tactile dpad and a dual stage trigger with mouse clicks, can it improve on that classic controller feel?

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This Sonic render from Sega Superstars Tennis still haunts me

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl Is a Beautiful, Thoroughly Miserable, and Entirely Worthy Successor S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl may be a mess, but The Zone is a raw, deliberately unpleasant place that you won't forget.

Okay my review of STALKER 2 is live!

Go read it. I'm finally going to sleep.

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also been playing a lot of Lorelei and the Laser Eyes and Twin Cobra but didn’t have time to fit those into the column this week.

This weekend we are recording the next Abnormal Mapping on Shenmue 2! We’ll be joined by special guest @dialacina.bsky.social as we return to Ryo’s quest for vengeance! Send us questions about this or any other games to abnormalmappingpodcast@gmail.com

The person who came up with this idea is a genius.

Yeah I only really know their first three albums, but those songs are all solid picks. Edit the Sad Parts is a certified banger.

Modest Mouse

+005: Tetris Forever is marketing disguised as a documentary CANON FIRE is made possible by the generous contributions of readers like you. Support more writing like this on Patreon. Thank you! The latest in Digital Eclipse’s game/documentary hybrids, Tetris...

THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA IS BURNING!

In today's entry of CANON FIRE I talk about TETRIS FOREVER!

It's a game that presents as a documentary, but revises history with massive absences to instead valorize the company that sells Tetris.

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so many people posting their poems on Instagram stories right now too as if we haven’t suffered enough

christmas cat

Your Uncle's Beach House 82: Delicious in Dungeon — Abnormal Mapping It's time for the final Beach House of 2023, and we read Delicious in Dungeon! The whole thing! It's a great manga and we had a good time discussing it even if our job is pretty difficult because th...

For the last Beach House of the year we read a manga that just finished and has been on my to-do list for literal years. Today we talk about the truly wonderful Delicious in Dungeon!

Save 50% on The Anacrusis on Steam Battle for survival against endless alien hordes with your friends! From the lead for Left 4 Dead and L4D2, The Anacrusis is a 1-8 player first-person shooter. Experience intense 4 player co-op action...

The game I work on, The Anacrusis, is on sale for $10 this weekend. It’s a co-op game (kind of like Left 4 Dead) about fighting off an alien invasion in a retro-future 60s spaceship. It’s great with 1-8 players, has versus where you play as the aliens, and even has mod support!Check it out!

Em Muddles Through FFT 6 - Beating the Death Clock | Patreon Official Post from Abnormal Mapping

More Final Fantasy Tactics! We try some things, they don't work, and then I learn nothing when I get into the same problem again but trying the same idea works this time. This game's pretty good!

Past meets present: Kirby's Super Star Stacker A Japanese exclusive for decades, the Super Famicon puzzle game is finally legally available in North America.

Complain about a game not being released as an import title when it's already available on the Nintendo Switch's Japanese version of their subscription classic game service, and a year or so later, you will be rewarded. Anyway you should play Kirby no Kirakira Kizzu, aka Kirby's Super Star Stacker

Podcast schedule for the week. Deranged I made this and went 'oh light week' used to be a light week was just GGP lmao really starting to get in the groove of FFT tho, imo.

Your Uncle's Beach House 77: Valvrave The Liberator — Abnormal Mapping I'm joined by Luc today for the return of Bad Mecha Anime Hour. I (Jackson) will be doing some bonus extra free episodes without Em during the writers strike, while they are doing the FFT let's play...

bonus episode of your uncle's beach house is here! me and @lucilfer.bsky.social watched Valvrave The Liberator. and been changed by the experience. like on the show

Abnormal Mapping 149: Mega Man Legends — Abnormal Mapping We’re back with one of the obvious classics of all time, a game neither of us had played before this month but came like a lighting strike into our lives with its charm and brevity and interesting...

New Abnormal Mapping! We played Mega Man Legends, a game neither of us had played before, and were immediately taken with its bright world and characters, and it’s surprising dungeon delving adventure loop!

Venba and Papers, Please Flex the Same Emotional Muscle Venba and Papers, Please (which came out 10 years ago this month) might seem very different, but the two games share a common cause.

Venba x Papers, Please

on first glance you might not be "??"

But after playing both games, the haunting feeling, the impact, the progression, it's there, and this article just nails it on the dot.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/games/venba/venba-and-papers-please-flex-the-same-emotional-muscle

Venba and Papers, Please Flex the Same Emotional Muscle Venba and Papers, Please (which came out 10 years ago this month) might seem very different, but the two games share a common cause.

Back at Paste this week writing about two very special games that made me think about my family. Give it a read!

Venba and Papers, Please Flex the Same Emotional Muscle Venba and Papers, Please (which came out 10 years ago this month) might seem very different, but the two games share a common cause.

"Be it your own flesh and blood,
or a passing stranger you’ll never see again.
How different could you really be?"
Thank you for this wonderful piece
@yousifkassab.bsky.social 💜