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Soul Blazer: all things bright and beautiful

July 14, 2026

I’m not a religious man, but I do have some enduring memories of my time attending a Church of England primary school. One of those was, presumably as part of our government-mandated Daily Collective Act of Worship , hearing stories of what God, Jesus and friends had been getting up to in Olden…

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Aftermath

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

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A Green Mushroom

A Green Mushroom started out as a place for me to write games but has transformed into more with time. Over the years, it has become my little corner of the internet to jot down and share anything that interests me.

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Arcade Heroes

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.

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Arcadence

A games criticism blog by Nick Capozzoli

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You Found a Secret Area!

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Writing about the mostly forgotten games and events in the world of video games and pop culture.

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Astral City Mini

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?

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Autumn Wright's Blog

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.

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Azhdarchid

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

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BB's Backlog Challenge

Clearing my games backlog by playing a random title for one hour before reviewing it. I dearly wish I had given it a better name.

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birthbydrip

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)!

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Jason's Export Feed

Going through various forms of RPGs, action-adventure, and other oddball gaming genres past to present. Infrequent update schedule.

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Laura Michet's Blog

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.

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Renga in Blue

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

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Bold Oblique

Personal website of writer Joshua Winters. Exploring games and writing with curiosity, passion, and an adherence to the long, meandering essay.

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Breaking Arrows

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

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Bullet Points Monthly

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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.

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Melodic-Ambient

Game-design-focused writing + news by game designer Melos Han-Tani (co-creator of Angeline Era, Danchi Days, Anodyne Series, etc)

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CD-ROM Journal

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

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ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine

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

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Citystate - Exploring Computer Games

Hello. My name is Robin, and this is my personal blog about computer games. Here you can find essays about old games I've played, industry commentary, a few freeware games I've made for fun, and Maraoke* parody song lyrics written by me. ( * https://maraoke.com/#what )

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