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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 27/09/2026

It’s been very exciting to see this come together! Look forward to more in the future…

Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 10/09/2026

Official English-language Touhou is such a joy. It feels remarkable to finally see it! And the translation is nailing the nonsense!

Sakuya telling Marisa that “More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.”

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 08/09/2026

the coolest part of ocarina is that over time, you learn the tunes to the songs in the game, and i think it's neat that the remake will let you truly take advantage of that by allowing you to hum them and have that work in-game. btw i wrote a story last year about the design of the ocarina's music:

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Sorry, Donkey Kong Bananza, But Ocarina of Time Still Has the Best Music-Playing Mechanic

Music is literally magic in Donkey Kong Bananza, so it's weird that the game's musical interludes aren't more interactive.

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 26/08/2026

Congrats! Looking forward to reading!

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Akito INOUE @hiyokoya6.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I co-edited an English-language book, Japanese Game Studies: A Guide to Studying Japanese Games link.springer.com/book/9789819... and it is now out. The project started back in 2021, so it has taken us five years to finally get it published... hiyokoya.hatenadiary.jp/entry/2026/0...

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Japanese Game Studies: A Guide to Studying Japanese Games - Critique of Games メモと寸評

I co-edited an English-language book, Japanese Game Studies: A Guide to Studying Japanese Games https://link.springer.com/book/9789819598564 and it is now out. The project started back in 2021, so it ...

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 13/08/2026

Maybe I’ll try that! It was a counter order…

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 13/08/2026

You have the Jollibee emote! I went for the collab but the code wouldn’t redeem for me for some reason…

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Kamaitachi no Yoru is simply one of the most important Japanese games in history, period. In the historical trajectory of novel games, if Otogirisou, Chunsoft's previous gane, is Pac-Land, this is Super Mario Brothers. It is that foundational in the storytelling and design paradigms it codified.

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Random news: to celebrate the 130th anniversary of author Kenji Miyazawa, the 1993 SFC game Ihatovo Monogatari is being re-released today on Retrostick—a plug-and-play console that comes with a controller and an HDMI-compatible stick. kyodonewsprwire.jp/release/2026... xcancel.com/TsukasaTawad...

Left: the box of the original version.
Right: the Retrostick version

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Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

このたび、ジャパン・パスト & プレゼント（JPP）は、2027年1月30日から31日にかけて、「プレイで学ぶ日本——教育学の視点から見たゲームとゲーミング」と題した日英バイリンガルのシンポジウムをUCLAにて開催いたします。つきましては、本テーマに関する研究発表を募集いたします。 japanpastandpresent.org/jp/news/play...

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Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Japan Past & Present (JPP) is pleased to invite paper proposals for a symposium titled "Playable Japan: Pedagogical Perspectives on Games and Gaming," to be conducted bilingually in Japanese and English at UCLA on January 30–31, 2027. japanpastandpresent.org/en/news/play...

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Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Sorry for the delay. Here's the living memorial roundup for Paste Games. If your favorites didn't make the cut, feel free to add to the replies on this post, and we'll get them added as soon as possible. critical-distance.com/2026/05/04/r...

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Remembering Paste Games: 2010 – 2026

Welcome back, readers. This is a rather impromptu edition of the roundup. It’s not something any of us ever envisioned writing. Indeed, when games media has endured other layoffs and outlet c…

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 26/04/2026

Hopefully it'll come out as an article someday! A draft is in the works...

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 13/04/2026

I'll be presenting a paper this weekend about Xenogears, games criticism in Japan, and the 90s at this year's Critical Game Design Graduate Conference at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. If you'll be there, please say hello! I'm looking forward to meeting more grad students interested in games.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Love seeing collaborations like this! There's so much room to work together to share and celebrate Japanese game history internationally, rather than resigning ourselves to the idea that it has to happen in a closed environment

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 Just as we'd get excited for JRPGs to be localised in English, CRPG enthusiasts in Japan of the 80s would be the same about their favourite Western RPGs. Here in this cool ad from LOGiN's October '85 issue, the Japanese localisation of Wizardry (1981) is being heralded.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

New book now coming out very soon. Next month!

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

In the 90th episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, we journey all the way back to 1984 to discuss the first published textbook on video game development, Atari legend Chris Crawford's pointed, prescient, and idiosyncratic THE ART OF COMPUTER GAME DESIGN: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/31/9...

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近藤銀河👩‍🦼🏳️‍🌈 @spiralginga.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

【告知】『はじめての百合スタディーズ』(水上文/中村香住/近藤銀河)でます！人生と共にあった百合を、重なりつつも異なるクィア/フェミニストである三人が語る一冊。併録の米国百合受容を論じるエリカ・フリードマンの論考、百合の歴史を読み解く品田玲花の論考も百合を論じる上で必読の論考となってます！ www.ohtabooks.com/publish/2026...

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はじめての百合スタディーズ　クィア／フェミニストの視点から - 太田出版

百合オタク×フェミニスト×クィア当事者が語りつくす、百合批評入門。女性同士の親密な関係性を描く、百合というジャンル。その起源から、国内外での多様な受容、そ...中村香住・水上文・近藤銀河著『はじめての百合スタディーズ　クィア／フェミニストの視点から』作品案内。／ISBN:9784778341152、2026年2月25日搬入発売。

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 07/01/2026

Apparently this game was briefly considered lost, but the author found some old floppies in 2017, they were resuscitated by a curator at the Strong National Museum of Play, and now you can play it online — museums rock.

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Game Saves: Preserving the First LGBTQ Electronic Game - The Strong National Museum of Play

Floppy diskettes are an incredibly volatile medium. Available in multiple shapes, sizes, and formats, the magnetic disks were often used, rewritten, and eventually tossed aside as new methods of data ...

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 23/12/2025

I’m feeling very into Capcom lately

A rough drawing of Chun-Li, a Chinese woman in twin hair buns in the middle of, presumably, beating the stuffing out of M. Bison.

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 16/12/2025

One of my senpai played bird calls for me from their denshi jisho and I was amazed! Bird calls in a dictionary!

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 12/12/2025

Basically I can't wait for you to get to that and I salute the ongoing perseverance.

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 12/12/2025

The part in this episode where the idea of playing this game with a partner comes up brought back the memory of my beloved girlfriend watching me play the Cathedral boss fight for over 40 minutes, asking if this was actually any fun whatsoever for me, and me promptly giving up on the game entirely.

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Nicole Braida @nicolebraida.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

CFP for the next issue of G|A|M|E – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment, on “Queer and Trans Game Studies in Global and Local Contexts” is out! This issue aims to map current developments in queer and trans game studies. For full details: www.gamejournal.it/n-132025-bey...

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Hironobu Sakaguchi, recently, on his X account, has been posting an absolute treasure trove of design docs and promotional materials from early games. These are early design docs from Final Fantasy 3.

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 05/12/2025

Congratulations! I'm really looking forward to picking it up!

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 01/12/2025

Issue 2 of Famitsu and they're doing THIS to Mario.

A slightly troubling anatomical breakdown of Mario from the 2nd issue of Weekly Famitsu, titled "We Totally Get How Mario Feels." Scan from the Internet Archive.

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scrmbl @scrmbl.com · 28/11/2025

Blue Boy Trial revisits a 1964 landmark case, focusing on the trans women whose testimonies shaped Japan’s approach to gender and identity for decades. We dive into one of the year's best, and most important films.

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The importance of the superb “Blue Boy Trial” | scrmbl

In 1964, a doctor was arrested for breaking the Eugenics Law. Not i...

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

📢 TODAY - November 21 @ 2PM ET 📢 ⚒️🏠🧑🏿💻 TreaAndrea Russworm talks about what the Black arts tradition can tell us about The Sims, broken systems, and utopian possibilities⚒️🏠🧑🏿💻 🎟️ TIX + Info: buff.ly/DDUsvVm 💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/3PQ2HDE

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TCRF Informalities @tcrfinformal.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Additionally:

(Showing the tcrf.net page for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD.)
(Also known as: Zelda no Densetsu: Kaze no Takuto HD (JP); Developers: Nintendo EAD, Hexadrive; Publisher: Nintendo; Platform: Wii U)

"The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD depicts the land of Hyrule after global warming, in high definition!"

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 17/10/2025

One thing a lot of my friends missed from other social media platforms was interacting with venerable Japanese game devs. To that end I've made a list of folks I know are here, focusing on devs whose games you will have heard of. Please share and tell me who I'm missing! go.bsky.app/5R1tEtT

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 27/09/2025

@kaihat.su has been posting here and there about it.

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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

NO ONE CAN STOP MR. DOMINO ARTDINK CORP 1998 PLAYSTATION

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Great thread, especially for those interested in the ebbs and flows of manga popularity over the years (a subject that is certainly not immune to all manner of internet rumor)

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Linda explainer! -Linda Linda Linda is a 2005 movie about a group of girls covering songs by punk band The Blue Hearts. -Linda³ is an RPG for the PC Engine CD about attempting to recreate Noah's Ark on the planet of Neo Kenya. -The two are not directly related! Hope this clears things up!

an ad for the PlayStation port of Linda³, Linda³ Again

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 04/09/2025

Been chewing on this a lot lately too because I am similarly baffled. But I also didn’t like Hollow Knight all that much so that could be part of it 😔

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Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com · 01/09/2025

Excited to be volunteering this year!

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