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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'.

My thoughts on gaming and games I'm playing, old and new, as I play them. I lean toward action games and am particularly interested in single-credit clearing arcade games. Posts sometimes include videos of my 1CCs.

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).

Deemon's the name and I don't know what's the game. Welcome to this lil' cove, a space to mostly write and critique anything videogame related from a more personal place, or at least one that attempts to meet each work eye-to-eye, with the occasional ramblings about the medium at large to boot.

A blog about game dev experiments, DOOM maps, and showcases of cool games by others.

Thoughts on gaming, gamedev, and the internet by Kyle Labriola.

Future blogger fun time video games action. Distant Arcade is a gaming blog where we discuss video games from the past, present, and future with a focus on just writing about whatever’s on our mind.

DOS Game Club is a monthly online discussion and roundtable podcast. Like a book club, we pick a DOS game each month, discuss it on our forums with the community and invite 2-3 people to our podcast about it.

Ephemeral Enigmas is all about giving offbeat, obscure, and forgotten games another look. The goal is to provide the deepest and most entertaining analysis I can muster for games that rarely get a fair shake while also providing my personal spin on things. Just about anything goes on this blog, so if you like learning about a very wide range of games (and don't mind lengthy rambles), you'll want to check in every week!

Equip Story is a weekly newsletter about how making games can be as fun as playing games, written by narrative designer Geoffrey Golden.

Established 2009, an independent video game magazine by Mathew Kumar. exp. covers both retro, critiquing games from a modern lens but with the context of history, and new releases, with the keen eye of a game designer.

Concise design analysis alongside casual, personal monthly journaling, spanning games across a wide range of genres, styles, and eras. Come say hi. ♡

This a blog about how Final Fantasy VIII totally fucking rules, and if you don’t like Final Fantasy VIII, you are a coward.

All about Flicky, a 1984 arcade game by SEGA, and the quest for the high score.

A volunteer-run site dedicated to bridging the gap between academic game studies and popular game criticism.

A blog about old games (and sometimes new ones) all written from a unique, subjective perspective informed by personal history, a background in print media and a belief that it's more important for games to be interesting than it is to be good.

Essays, reviews, interviews, and podcasts from a thoughtful and welcoming group with diverse interests!

Games That Weren't is a long-running archive dedicated to cancelled and unreleased video games, prototypes and lost gaming history. Since 1999, we have been preserving rare information, assets and developer stories from across all eras of gaming.

Website dedicated to scanning/preserving video games and their history.

Giraffe Feels is a podcast and now fanzine exploring my memories of retro video games cutting off in 2003.