Niki Fakhoori examines childhood trauma, dementia, and healing through Pokémon Black & White.

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Welcome back readers. We’ve got tons of reading to share this week–22 articles to put a number on it–and that includes a lot of writers making their TWIVGB debut! Don’t forg…

Sam Vu Nguyen – June 2026 Make everyone else and I see me for me. Be it the indoor cameras my parents have purchased, aliens, or some “Truman Show-esque” situation, there are cameras inside m…

First Lines The last human programmer died on a Tuesday, and by Wednesday the code had already begun to mourn…. —hypothetical 1st line penned by LLM Claude I cannot speak to a generation I refuse to...

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Colin Clark It seems cheap and trite at first glance to focus my effort into putting my opinions on something so trivial as video games front and center when the world is literally burning. We&#821…

Colin Clark Let me make you a deal, I’ve got four incredible game recommendations loaded in the chamber. Not just any game recommendations. These four come from my recent brain throbbing doom…

My eyes are so bleary I can barely see the screen as I write this and my thumbs creak and pop every time I hit the space bar. I just spent the last 9 hours playing Lumines Arise on my arguably too-…

Easy Delivery Co. has left me blisteringly melancholic. For two days now I have felt an existential pit in my brain and gut that may or may not have affected my service as “your friendly neig…

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Col, July 2025 If I were a Boomer, I’d bloviate on how god damn soft I’ve gotten in my late 30s. And I know for a fact that the 22-year-old version of myself thinks as much. This ass th…

Colin Clark The Playdate is a thing of beauty. I carry it with me everywhere I go. It sits in my purse top pocket along with its yellow usbC cable. It’s there whenever I have a few minutes to…

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Giant Bomb is going indie, and during a chaotic (and desperate) time in games journalism, it's the win the field needs!

Colin Clark At the risk of exposing myself for the fraud I am, let me state first and foremost that this in no way stands as a working review of Clair Obscur, nor is it a misguided interpretation o…