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Andes Chucky @wendeego.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In between payments, applying for jobs, and running low on funds for health insurance...if folks are able to support, feel free to do so here

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Support Adam Wescott

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geographyofrobots @geographyofrobots.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NORCO is $5 on Steam until Thursday October 8th.

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Deleted Saves @deletedsavesmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you @julianbenson.bsky.social for featuring @dykedeitz.bsky.social's fantastic piece on Papers, Please in this week's Sunday Papers!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's a ton of video games out now where you have a job, job simulator games are huge right now, but there are none where the entire game is *you quitting a job* Imagine a game where the entire game is you quitting jobs of various kinds as dramatically and messily as possible. Last day simulator

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it is finally 1) not 100° 2) not pouring rain and my daily walks CAN RESUME

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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Black Bryony digital painting

of bryony vines and young hawthorn leaves

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Calligram Studio @calligramstudio.com · 02/10/2026

Phoenix Springs is getting a fun little update for its second birthday.

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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing

Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"

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Esper Quinn 💠 @esper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it’s not like i have 300k followers or anything, but any woman working in game journalism or an adjacent field, please reply to this with something you worked on recently that you’re proud of and i’ll repost it. feel free to include cash’pp/payp’l/v’nmo links.

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artemis, scary boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing · 01/10/2026

I am confident in one thing: the outpouring of support Stop Caring and myself have received in the last few days have made it clear the publiction will continue, hopefully for many more years. Worse comes to shove, we WILL make something work. Now's a great time to support: www.stopcar.ing

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Stop Caring

A publication about video games focused on the ways they evoke unique cultural conversations as well as the personal lessons we can learn from them as artistic media.

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I walked, you walked, we walked <3 big walk

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artemis, scary boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing · 01/10/2026

Big Walk GOTY

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hiero melão 🍈 @lesbiankakyoin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

big walk :)

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Andes Chucky @wendeego.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

big walk? more like big game of the year

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 30/09/2026

joyce carol oates is not your friend; she is, sometimes, hilarious

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 29/09/2026

ICYMI: "The crash was not an ending, but a beginning: the opening salvo of an extinction event." Feature Excerpt: @kellymerka.bsky.social muses on man-made ecological change in Sable: buff.ly/v1QUIqW

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The Damage Is Done - Unwinnable

The planet Sable knows is a palimpsest – its ecosystem has been overwritten.

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Brittany @sameoldstory.co · 29/09/2026

When I joined this app I was in fact literally 38 years old, it is unfair the joke doesn’t age along with me

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 29/09/2026

"The crash was not an ending, but a beginning: the opening salvo of an extinction event." Feature Excerpt: @kellymerka.bsky.social muses on man-made ecological change in Sable. unwinnable.com/2026/09/28/t...

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The Damage Is Done - Unwinnable

The planet Sable knows is a palimpsest – its ecosystem has been overwritten.

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

sufjan stevens singing beautifully and spiritually: I am exactly like john wayne gacy me: you might not … be … EXACTLY like him

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An excerpt of my Unwinnable cover story is now available online! For the "whole tang, entire fish," check out the latest issue here: unwinnable.bigcartel.com/product/unwi...

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

something I've found myself craving is a Navidson House game not House of Leaves, nor the Backrooms, nor MyHouse.wad no combat, no monsters or minotaurs, no Johnny Truant, just a house that changes, and maybe hates you

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Your House is styled as a Choose Your Own Adventure Book, having you traverse the mansion by selecting key words from the text. I quite like the cut of its jib! store.steampowered.com/app/2667740/...

A screenshot from Your House. A teenage girl sits in the window of a fancy room as she drinks a cup of coffee. The subtitle reads: "There's too many unanswered questions."

A screenshot from Your House. An illustrated page of a book. The image is of a living area with a radio sitting on top of a credenza. There are some books scattered on the floor. The text reads: "As soon as she turns off the music, the doorbell can be heard crystal clear. Debbie feels defenseless, as if she has revealed her standing in a strategic game. Her pulse quickens. 'They're still there...' she thinks as she crosses into the hall."

A screenshot from Your House. A close up of an eye.

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Looking for Fael's multidimensional plot opens up the door to delightful pastiche. Using a leaf bug (phasmid!) as a central conceit makes it extremely me-coded. store.steampowered.com/app/2521170/...

A screenshot from Looking for Fael. It features an apartment living room that has been taken over by various flora.

A screenshot from Looking for Fael. The entryway of an apartment that is overgrown with plants. An audio device in a drawer plays a distorted audio file. The subtitles read "[...] Morpheus [...] phasmid [....]"

A screenshot from Looking for Fael. A cluttered desk with a beige CRT computer monitor and keyboard.

A screenshot from Looking for Fael. A red telephone on a wall, surrounded by beige telephones (none of which are fully in frame). The subtitle reads: "It was an exoskeleton! The molting of an insect, but the size of a human."

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

recently played two residence-based puzzle games that tickled my fancy: Looking for Fael and Your House

A screenshot from Looking for Fael. A smartphone playing a voicemail from Fael. Fael's contact photo is a leaf bug.

A screenshot from Your House. It features a page from a book, which includes an illustration of a teenage girl wearing a backpack standing in front of a multistory mansion. The text reads: "...number 57 along the odd-numbered sidewalk. She feels her pulse start to quicken. 7... 19... 25... 33... 41... 'It can't be...' Debbie stops in front of number 57 and gets off the bike. She can hardly believe her eves. In front of her is a house she can't..."

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

speaking of "me-coded" games, I need to shout out Bubblegum Galaxy, a relaxing city-builder with Bee and Puppycat–adjacent aesthetics in which you must rebuild the galaxy before management shuts down your office store.steampowered.com/app/1989120/...

A screenshot from Bubblegum Galaxy. Player character Haco (bottom right) and her coworker Magda (bottom left) sit in front of a "blue screen of death"-styled error screen. It reads: "A fatal exception has occurred and the current application will be terminated to prevent damage to your computer. MEMORY_CORE_CORRUPTED NO GALAXY FOUND Technical information: *** STOP: 0x0006f 0x000068 0x000020 0x00006e 0x00006f *** bubblegum_galaxy.sys: Address 0x000WUT base at 0x000SRY location 0x000IDK Contact your system administrator daruma or technical support cat for further assistance."

A screenshot from Bubblegum Galaxy. Intern Haco speaks to her coworker Penti, who is having a meltdown and yelling in binary.

A screenshot from Bubblegum Galaxy. A completed planet composed of hexagon tiles. A menu on the right-hand side displays completed quests and the score.

A screenshot from Bubblegum Galaxy. Haco and her office coworkers stare in shock and disbelief.

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

recently played two residence-based puzzle games that tickled my fancy: Looking for Fael and Your House

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Deleted Saves @deletedsavesmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mazen Haggag's piece on Final Fantasy XVI featured in this week's Critical Distance! Check it out here: www.deletedsaves.com/the-cultural...

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The Cultural Void of Final Fantasy XVI’s Dhalmekia

The problem is that Dhalmekia — the only non-white nation in the base game — is all surface, no substance.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my favourite typo is, & will always be, ‘the literary cannon’

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

help protect yourself and your immunocompromised neighbors!

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

as always, I am thankful to Unwinnable for letting me run with this pitch and for @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social's thoughtful edits you can grab a copy here: unwinnable.bigcartel.com/product/unwi...

An image of Sable biking across the desert, accompanied by the text "The Damage Is Done, by KM Nelson."

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

by happy coincidence, today @unwinnable.com released its latest issue, for which I wrote the cover story I didn't plan for this piece to accompany Sable's fifth anniversary, but I'm very glad it did!

The cover of Unwinnable Magazine's 203rd issue. It features an image of Sable's titular protagonist sitting on the sand at sunset in front of the wrecked spaceship and the skeletons of long-dead megafauna.

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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kind of a beautiful coincidence this landed on Sable's anniversary. A pleasure as always to work with @kellymerka.bsky.social along with all the regular rogues.

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 24/09/2026

I Big Walk, you Big Walk, we all Big Walk. Also happy anniversary Sable???? This month's Unwinnable Monthly has @kellymerka.bsky.social on Sable, plus our regulars on everything from big walking to penguins who have seen too much. Buy: buff.ly/IPrw7Fa Subscribe: buff.ly/PXHeLJe

The cover of the September 2026 issue of Unwinnable Monthly, featuring art of the main character of Sable sitting on the desert sands.

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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 23/09/2026

very beautiful work by km here!

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 23/09/2026

KM put so much work into this killer piece. Be sure to check it and the rest of this month's Unwinnable.

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

by happy coincidence, today @unwinnable.com released its latest issue, for which I wrote the cover story I didn't plan for this piece to accompany Sable's fifth anniversary, but I'm very glad it did!

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Gregorios Kythreotis @eteogreg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s Sable’s 5th Anniversary! I’ve written some reflections on what the game means to me, and to celebrate I’m delighted to announce that @lostincult.co.uk are reprinting the Sable Design Works Find out more here: www.eteogames.com/sable-turns-...

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Sable Turns Five with a Design Works Reprint

Reflecting on the Five-Year Anniversary of Sable, and announcing a reprint of the Sable Design Works art book.

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

full circle (more to come soon)

A screenshot from the video game Sable. Sable rides Simoon toward the gate to the Ewer, returning to the Ibexii clan.

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

got to check out @markanthony-mfa.bsky.social's exhibition "REVERSE COWBOY" today

Several stacked CRTs displaying a dramatically posed cowboy. Part of an art installation entitled REVERSE COWBOY.

An exterior shot of the cactusBARN, featuring the artwork RGB DUCK SHAPES, part of the exhibition "REVERSE COWBOY."

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Deleted Saves @deletedsavesmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mazen Haggag closes out Deleted Saves Issue #3 with a deep dive into the superficial representation of Middle Eastern & North African culture in Final Fantasy XVI. Check it out below! www.deletedsaves.com/the-cultural...