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joseph lastname from bluesky dot com, writing about video games whenever I finish them since 2024. Also featuring random articles involving gaming sometimes.

Reviews, interviews & internet culture theory from video game consultant and freelance writer Jordan Oloman

Rascal News is a tabletop roleplaying game and culture outlet striving to sustainably publish voicey journalism that is compelling, deeply-reported, and fearlessly honest. We’re also a little cheeky.

Deep dives on games both old and new and observations on the changing industry that makes them, from a veteran tech journalist in Hong Kong.

Welcome to the home of my research blog where you can read my thoughts on videogames, nostalgia, and hauntology.

Personal essays and critique of videogame narrative, with a focus on games largely forgotten by the ongoing discourse.

rpg-o-mania covers videogames, mainly console role playing games, with the likes of Final Fantasy, Breath of Fire, Suikoden, Grandia, and so on. rpg-o-mania is designed to give you interesting stuff to read and watch. Articles, reviews, background information as well as some webmasters' rant as well. This page is divided into in-depth-information ("Coverage"), reviews and previews and some media, self-made wallpapers, artwork and even some music.

RPGamer is an enthusiast site specialising in covering video game RPGs of all shapes and sizes.

Digging into gaming, tech, and popular culture history for cool artifacts and hidden treasures!

A video game focused review website, 12+ years in the running, with a particular focus on retro revivals and compilations, or games evoking the memory of such, and giving thoughts on assorted retro adjacent things. Notable works include interviewing the writer of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon!

Hello, my name is Sage aka Samael aka SeeroftheNight (ey/em or they/them). I play way too many video games, many of which were created before I was born, so I decided to start talking about them.

A website dedicated to documenting Sega's hardware legacy. We offer reviews, retrospectives, interviews, and other articles on all the company's consoles and arcade platforms.

The Flipside of Gaming, covering topics retro, niche and indie. Some topics include roguelikes, obscure secrets in Nintendo games, internals, deep dives, development, romhacks, weird gaming-related videos and other things too. Updates daily.

Silicon Sasquatch is a free and independent blog that's been covering games, the people who make them, and the culture we live in since 2008. It was founded by a group of journalism majors who met in college, and they've kept the site going ever since. It features in-depth critique, essays, reviews, and news analysis in both article and podcast form.

The home of Splatterhouse on the internet since 2001.

SpriteCell was created to graph data and archive media related to video games—to study video game history and to preserve it.

A British history of popular video games told one sales chart #1 at a time

Explorations in MMORPGs and related genres with occasional polemics about the industry, prices, hardware, our cats, and things that may or many not have happened in the 1980s.

Criticism & personal essays on the expressive potential of videogames, focusing in particular on game design.

For 20 years, The Dreamcast Junkyard has been one of the world's leading sources for Sega Dreamcast news, reviews, features, interviews, and community coverage. Driven by a passionate volunteer team, our aim is to document every corner of Sega's final console, from classic retail releases and obscure hardware to the thriving indie development scene that continues to create new experiences for Dreamcast fans today. In 2015, we established our podcast, the DreamPod, which continues to be the number one Dreamcast-centred podcast. The Dreamcast Junkyard is a 100% independent, not-for-profit outfit.