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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of these is not like the others...

Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I also hereby declare that Denshattack! has perfected the Rainbow Road into space sequence, even more so than the one in Mario Kart World??? Truly, an incredible finale. Straight onto the GOTY list!

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hereby declare that Denshattack! has officially perfected the Guitar Hero boss battle riff, and all other versions have been rendered null and void.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can feel myself getting pulled into Blood Dungeon the same way Vampire Survivors did all those years ago, and I've been trying so hard to resist it. But I've also just unlocked Skinja, and man alive, that naked, cartwheeling little freak sure can move across a map, hot damn!

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austinbroth.bsky.social @austinbroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You can put regular sized shoes on Sora in Fortnite and it looks insane

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've completed the Station Eleven rewatch having read the book for the first time last month. The show was actually quite different to what I remember, but in loads of good, cool and interesting ways!

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just in case you weren't full from the Ocarina of Time Christmas dinner, have a Metroid dessert for New Year, says Nintendo. Yes please.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I always forget how wild it is that Ocarina of Time makes you board a full-blown ghost ship in what's essentially a portal to hell underneath the town graveyard.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nintendo's bid for nostalgia above all else with the Ocarina remake is an interesting one. In some places, they're leaning into almost 1:1 recreations of old N64 art (see Link lifting the Master Sword). In others, like Sheik, it seems like her Smash Bros design is the stronger inspiration...

A screenshot from the Switch 2 release of Ocarina of Time, showing young Link lifting the Master Sword above his head inside the Temple of Time.

Artwork from the N64 release of Ocarina of Time, showing young Link lifting the Master Sword above his head inside the Temple of Time.

A screenshot from the Switch 2 release of Ocarina of Time, showing Sheik playing a harp.

Artwork from Super Smash Bros for Wii U, showing Sheik striking a pose.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Did I get @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social a vinyl player for Christmas last year *solely* so I could also buy this as a very indulgent (and admittedly now very belated) birthday present for myself? I guess we'll never know.

A photo of the Breath of the Wild vinyl set, showing the outer blue box, the inner binder and one of the disc covers, sleeve and patterned vinyl discs.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Was just thinking earlier this week how it was a shame Nintendo hadn't done anything major for Zelda's 40th. And lo! Double Direct!

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Capcom is on a generational run. But this is no renaissance: the company has never been greater. I reported on the secret of its success, from "Crapcom" in the early 2010s to its one-banger-after-another present, speaking to many of its most illustrious producers. www.theringer.com/2026/09/03/v...

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How Capcom Cracked the Code of Game Development

The video game industry is in turmoil, but 2026 could be Capcom’s career year. How does the company behind ‘Resident Evil Requiem,’ ‘Pragmata,’ and ‘Onimusha: Way of the Sword’ keep pumping out hits?

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Heck yeah, I recently played the original 20 Small Mazes after enjoying last year's Strange Jigsaws and it was an hour very well spent (and also free!). Looking forward to this!

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I refuse to use a sink if not flanked by two cats.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hot dawg, I've wanted to play Terranigma ever since I saw an Extra Credits video about it in, like, 2012!

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Oh no, I've been playing Resident Evil 2 Remake, and there *definitely* isn't enough ammo to last even a day in that place, and that's before we start factoring in Mr. X. I'm toast.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Tired: taking a 20-minute train from Bath to Bradford-on-Avon. Wired: taking *5 hours* to walk from Bath to Bradford-on-Avon along the very chill Kennet & Avon canal path, plus two aqueducts (...then taking the train home!).

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Aww yeah, The Incident at Galley House is full of the good stuff - and its code-breaking mystery machine is scratching my brain in exactly the same way Inkle's TR-49 did six-odd months ago. Delicious.

A version of the epic handshake meme with video games TR-49 and The Incident at Galley House shaking hands over 'using codes on homebrew computers to solve crimes'.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

News that Spider-Man has made almost a billion dollars in one weekend is a good reason to crack out this excellent Tom Hollander story: youtu.be/z_c4JHOIoSc?...

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Tom Hollander Once Mistakenly Received Tom Holland's Paycheck for Marvel's Avengers

YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Did the National Trust's 6-mile Bath Skyline walk today and hot damn, I love this city so dang much.

A view of Bath from the site of its sham castle.

A view of Bath surrounded by trees and fields.

A view of Bath from Widcombe Hill, with a pink flowery plant in the foreground of some yellow grass fields.

A view of Bath and its railway line with the Pullman train pulling out of the station from Bathwick meadow.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

SFB Games have done it again with The Mermaid Mask. A brilliant follow up to Tangle Tower, with an even more ingenious mystery at its core. It's the kind of game where you actively want to talk to everyone about every item just to savour all the great writing, animation & voice performances. Superb!

A screenshot from The Mermaid Mask showing a brawny man called Dirk shrugging his shoulders and saying, "I know that sounds mondo suspicious, but - I just flat out can't say any more about it."

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Discovered something strange this week: YouTube will auto-dub some foreign language video, but loses its mind if that clip also contains English language. See what happens to Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side in this Italian show: youtu.be/DCisbHHkTzg?...

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Gomorra – Le Origini | Episodio 6 | Pietro e Angelo per sempre

YouTube video by Sky

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Wow, didn't expect the big twist of A Plague Tale: Requiem to be that it's all just one giant setup for Pentiment... Who knew!?

A screenshot from A Plague Tale: Requiem showing a young girl standing in an old library where illuminated medieval texts are on display on several angled desks and benches.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A wild juxtaposition of headlines this morning.

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Jehtt @turbojehtt.net · 05/07/2026

I love how they expanded on the story in this game.

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Ludwig Kietzmann @ludwigk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

For lunch today, I'm making the salad from Rhythm Heaven Groove. It has 413 tomatoes, just how you like it.

Woman chopping tomatoes in a cartoon kitchen in Rhythm Heaven Groove

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

From now on all disagreements must be settled in the ten second cake grabbing game in Rhythm Heaven Groove.

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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Incredible payoff

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Ithaca is so close to its funding goal, but there are only a few days left for this all or nothing project. If @thepixelhunt.bsky.social's video below resonates with you, please consider backing it.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

MVP of The Bear S5 has to be Christian Lundberg's score - some mega heavy lifting going on in this season's music!

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Cranking up a new multiplayer game of Solium Infernum always prompts the same question: how the heck do I play Solium Infernum?

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Rolled credits on Mina The Hollower today, and big shout out to the load-bearing pillar that is the 'no pit damage' modifier.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's weeks like this where insane temperatures have been declared "a risk to life for even the healthy population" of the UK that make the funding and development of games like @thepixelhunt.bsky.social's Ithaca all the more urgent.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is a *preposterously* good deal

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Graham Smith @grahamsmith.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Baffling to me that people think Nintendo are playing it too safe, as if Bananza, Kirby Air Riders, Tomodachi Life, Yoshi And The Mysterious Book aren't all deeply strange games or unexpected sequels. Even Pokopia takes a beloved series into an entirely new genre. The Switch 2 is only a year old.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

RIP all remaining games press 🥲

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Xbox: spend 30 days and 1,000 man hours to throw out the PS5 version of Gears and win back fans. Nintendo: watch one of our best creative minds lose a thumb wrestle live in front of 1 million fans.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Holy heck, that Final Fantasy Resonance pixel art! Gorgeous.

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Xenoblade, Xenoblade, Xenoblade, XENOBLADEEEEEEEE

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Aww, heck yeah. As per @jumpovertheage.com's newsletter, this sounds absolutely rad: "Grow into and through its inhabitants, uncover and change their stories, and witness the terminal season of the signet city."

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

September, October and February now the only acceptable months to release a video game, it seems...

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Cor, Doom never fails to disappoint. Get that expansion into my veins, stat!

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Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

There's the teeniest, tiniest whiff of Affordable Space Adventures about this, and even if that's totally incorrect and way off base, the vibes are RIGHT, you know? Intrigued by this!

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