The Googlebook is available for pre-order today. I gave the product page a look out of curiosity spawned from the hand-wavy announcement at Google I/O earlie...

Tell me that John Gruber read my piece on iPhone Duo popularity on MKBHD's channel without telling me that John Gruber read my piece. "I still think interest...

Yesterday was the four-year anniversary of my iPhone Xs Max Exit Review . I gave it a read this morning since I may be on the verge of writing a new iPhone e...

Nintendo finally showed off the Ocarina of Time remake in a Direct wholly dedicated to the series and its 40th anniversary. The graphical style is pushing it...

Bring on murderous, hangry Samus Aran baby. I love the timeline we are in to get a new 2D Metroid game in four months. Here's the pitch from the official sit...

Thomas Mahler of Moon Studios—the creators of the Ori games—has made a new review aggregate site called Video Games Critic . The whole pitch is to reflect th...

Me, a year ago : I've dabbled with vibe coding for some projects on this here blog. The other week I tried to make a little Mac app for work to help with con...

Join us next week for two Nintendo Direct presentations! The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on Sept 8 at 7am PT (Approx 30 mins) Nintendo Direct on ...

Trading Pokémon between an original GBA and a Switch 2 😎😲 My GBA-to-Switch trade adapter is working! Still plenty of work ahead, but seeing a real GBA comm...

What makes good video game writing? I asked the writers. by Gene Park for The Washington Post Apple News+ Link Gene Park at The Washington Post had a column ...

"Mr T explains why he’s late, but he wants to make one thing clear – this is not an apology. 'You caught me in my devotion, and nothing comes before God. So ...

I have been using CleanShot for six years now. It's so vital to my Mac workflows that when I use a Mac without it, the computer feels broken. This new Studio...

Audacity is a staple of the audio editing space. It is hard to beat powerful and free. Audacity was (and likely still is) the entry point for editing a podca...

👋🏻 Last time was an unexpected pivot. In the days since, I am glad I made the move. Funny enough I have touched the app since. It has been a particularly b...

👋🏻 It has been a minute, hasn't it? My next essay was not "a combination of another striking moment in Journey and save files on my copy of A Link to the P...

Colin Moriarty returns to discuss his PSN account being boosted, his actions to assist Sony and consumers since, and the moves Sony have to make before the i...

For the last 13+ years, I've been capturing my gameplay in video form. It all started on my 19th birthday when my Dad bought me an Elgato Game Capture HD tha...

I have never seen real-time rendering like this in a game. This is what 13 years, "unlimited" money, and Rockstar's developers can do. 1 Goodness gracious. I...

After leaking last month , Xbox has officially confirmed a program to let users turn physical games into digital licenses. Players have spent decades buildin...

My initial concerns about Horizon Hunters Gathering possibly ruining my annual prediction have been quelled. Jason Schreier has reported that the cartoony on...

In a slightly surprising move to me, KPop Demon Hunters is coming to the Criterion Collection this November. While familiar with the films' insane popularity...

Tucked away at the bottom of Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version Link with Pokémon Home This October , The Pokémon Company and Game Freak h...

After years of saying "I'll watch that some day," I finally committed to watching all 24~ some odd hours of Double Fine's and 2 Player Productions' doco seri...

I have beef with God of War: Ragnarök . I've been a fan of God of War for over 15 years, from way back when I sat in one of those curved GAMER chairs in a Be...

John Gruber linked to a Q&A with Simon Willison about writing a blog from Cynthia Dunlop's " Write That Blog. " How's all that for a little blog linking...

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection by John Gruber To the best of my recollection, this is the first post ...

Casimir Liberski has produced two of the finest The Legend of Zelda inspired jazz albums I have ever heard—and I listen to a lot of Zelda jazz and lo-fi. The...

An app to display, capture, and record footage from your modded 3DS console, built exclusively for macOS.

Louie Zong with this sublime concept album. Not a surprise either since Louie made another favorite concept album of mine— It's Black Friday, Charlie Brown ....

Tomas Franzese returns to the show to chat about his newsletter Remastered, being the weekend editor at Polygon, and help determine if Xbox or PlayStation is going to win the battle for "Which Company...

An app to display, capture, and record footage from your modded 3DS console, built exclusively for macOS.

Not even a week and we got them there updates and lessons. Biggest lesson that I am sure all programmers learn in programmer school— Test your app on multipl...

Lost in Cult is publishing a 400+ page book diving deep into video game UI by Edd Coates, the brain behind the excellent Game UI Database . It looks pretty d...

The Video Game History Foundation has released a massive collection of E3 materials. It's remarkable and just the thing folks like me growing up longed to on...

Announcing an app to display, capture, and record footage from your modded 3DS console, built exclusively for macOS.

We are back in Greece, but it’s not what you think! A surprise 2D adventure takes Max Roberts and Logan Moore back to Kratos’ youth to explore, battle, and learn about an untold story. Does Kratos and...

Happy six year anniversary to the reveal of PS5 boxes! Who would have suspected that this would be the last time ?

"Paper Plates is an unofficial, fan-made hardcover cookbook inspired by the fantastical world of Paper Mario, featuring 35 delicious, charming recipes and fu...

Cibby is an app built for people who love physical games. Explore and rediscover your collection in stunning interactive 3D. If I wasn't building out my own ...

👋🏻 My latest essay was not the one I envisioned writing or publishing next. I was in full swing on what you might think of as "mythical" Memento / TLOUPII ...

Nick "Woz" Wozniak of Yacht Club Games catches up with Max to share lessons from delays, restrictions, and new adventures hot off the heels of releasing Mina the Hollower.

To those who wrote that we might read, to those who fell so we might walk, to those who came before so we might come after, gratitude.

This morning Sony decided to keep up with the Joneses over at Xbox and announce a double whammy of bad news—the PS3 and Vita PSN stores are shutting down for...

"Pixel Symphonic is a show about video game music. We’re here to learn and talk about it with the people who make it, the people who listen to it, and everyt...

Video essayist Kohana joins Max to have a retrospective chat about the June 2026 Nintendo Direct before diving into the differences between a review and a retrospective, good/bad thumbnails, and then ...

I finished 007 First Light yesterday at 2:00 AM and after coming down from the endgame high, my thoughts went back to a lingering question—what does John Gru...

A breath of fresh air—for the game industry, IO, me, and Bond himself. A stylish, confident, slick first outing that will usher in a new era of Bond video games. Earn the number indeed.