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A semi-transparent handheld gaming device with four colorful buttons against a wooden background.

Is it time to quit games?

An honest exploration of attachment, time, and limits

Key art for Kirby™ and the Forgotten Land – Nintendo Switch™ 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World.

Does Kirby have anything to say?

If you’re hungry for dinner, eat dinner

Key art for The Long Dark, featuring the title, a graphical axe, and a man warming himself by the fire in a snowy wilderness.

The Long Dark of the soul

My wife calls it my depression game.

Key art for Donkey Kong Bananza. Donkey Kong, with Pauline on his back, smashes downward into a large rock as gold explodes around his fist.

Donkey Kong Bananza and reward density

How to beat the slog

The logos for Promise Mascot Agency and Fantasy Life i.

The source of overwhelm: Fantasy Life i and Promise Mascot Agency

What differentiates one checklist from another

Screenshot from Drova: Forsaken Kin where a group of fighters are in a store, one of them saying "N... no. M... my arm is fine again. I... I can work."

On red pixels: violence and verisimilitude

Guest Backlog from Brandon Walsh

A picture of the Switch 2 with its screen turned off, bearing a reflection of me taking a picture of it, waving my hand hello.

The Switch 2 is a mirror

Whatever you think the Switch 2 is, it is

Key art for the game Blue Prince. A boy walks through a distant door in a dark blue manor.

Blue Prince is an obsession simulator

Why do my notes look like my novel revision?

On Polygon

Solidarity to everyone who worked there

Key art for the game Endling: Extinction Is Forever. A mother fox and her three kits sit near rusted oil barrels and other trash.

Endling and the art of the escort quest

Give me a reason to care

Key art for the game Wanderstop. It features a frowning woman sitting next to a smiling man on a bench.

The only review of Wanderstop that is also a review of the app Gentler Streak

Burnout, shmurnout

Screenshot from Metaphor ReFantazio showing the hero fighting a giant worm with a human's face, four horns, and a eyeball r

On heroes

No one is coming to save us

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