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A blog and wiki for baseball video games from around the globe. Blog posts cover both new and old games, with a deep interest in making foreign titles accessible and preserving information on forgotten, older titles.

A worker-owned, reader-supported news site covering video games, the internet, and the cultures that surround them.

A blog established in 2006 that is dedicated to the coin-operated/pay-to-play video game & pinball industry. New game announcements, new location announcements, interest articles on the industry, etc. Written from the human point of view (no AI) of both players and arcade operators.

A games criticism blog by Nick Capozzoli

A professional Japanese-to-English localization editor (and former game journalist) candidly appraises the text, audio, and design of video games. What ideas do they reflect? What feelings do they evoke? What lessons do they teach? And why will Geoff Keighley never in his wildest dreams bag an icon like Miss Piggy?

Articles on early video game history through the lens of the Atari Video Computer System's library, in chronological release order.

Spreading the nostalgic vibe of everything retro from the 80s, 90s & 00s, plus a sprinkle of contemporary pop culture.

Autumn Wright is blogging from the end of the world. Follow them for criticism on videogames, animation, manga, and whatever other art and entertainment they find moving, plus the occasional jaunt through nature, theory, and the personal.

Bruno Dias publishes essays about video game narrative design, criticism, and theory—with occasional detours; this is a personal blog, after all.

Lean game critique and essays on formalism and methods of representation. Primarily mechanical breakdowns, although there's occasional narrative, thematic, or aesthetic analysis as well. Extra attention is given to action-puzzle titles, unusual arcade releases, and other games from the '90s and '00s. As informative as possible in 1000 words or less (most of the time)!

Game Development Blog primarily containing technical essays of game systems and techniques as well as progress updates for a solo-built game using a custom C++ engine

Game development, Japanese digs, Perservation, and related ongoing. By the developer of YOYOZO (only 39 KB and listed alongside Mario & Zelda as one of the "Best Games of 2023")

I've worked in the games industry for over 15 years and have posts about game development and narrative design stretching back to 2013. My blog is a general-purpose blog, but the RSS feed provided here contains all the games-specific posts only. These include postmortems, recommendations, posts about development best practices, and more.

Wherein I play and blog about every adventure game ever made in (nearly) chronological order.

I publish mainly videogame criticism whether about individual games or the culture surrounding them, centering largely on games media.

Bullet Points Monthly features long-form articles and podcasts that look to place games in a wider cultural context, examining their relationship to our greater world much in the same manner as other forms of art and entertainment.

Exploring multimedia games and software of the 90s and beyond.

The world's biggest, longest-running, and most anarchic zine about visual novels, interactive fiction, and narrative games.

Springboard is a weekly newsletter that covers Gaming, Tech, and Mental Health. Starting in 2024, there have been exclusive interviews with developers, from gaming to emulators, as well as insights into the making of Daryl's published books, including the upcoming release, 'The Making of Tomb Raider: 1997-2000'.

Exploring how games tell stories through structure, theme, and mechanics. Hundreds of essays from Assassin's Creed to QUBE and XCOM (and some stuff that's not games too).