Reposted by NeilTom Francis @pentadact.com · 09/10/2026In case you quite reasonably assumed that xkcd was exaggerating. Brilliant work. 2448
Reposted by NeilProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵 19596023539
Reposted by NeilGareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 24/09/2026Silent Hill Townfall is tame at first, its opening village chores a little too dry, but once part 4 begins it locks-in on a kind of architectural horror that makes real the implicit hostility and structural violence of pebble-dashed council flats and damp-cornered shopping centres. Powerful stuff. 3495
Reposted by NeilAndy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 24/09/2026It's really refreshing seeing shitey normal working class life depicted like this in a game, and a Silent Hill game no less. Pebble-dashed council flats, three-bar fires, Post Office counters, concrete shopping precincts. This must be how posh people felt playing Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. 321103267
Reposted by NeilJan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 23/09/2026if you’re a games company that wants to survive it has been proven over and over again you need to do whatever it takes to stay away from being publicly traded. you’ll be turned into wood chips the moment it’s convenient. 81036215
Reposted by NeilJoe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind 393091659
Reposted by Neilcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"I hope people read my thread and respond to what I said and not whatever they made up in their head," I said, posting on the Responding To Whatever You Made Up In Your Head website 212317265
Reposted by NeilCara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 15/09/2026unfortunately his movies are so aesthetically fascist that they cannot actually be queer. sorry about ur gunmetal sheen and plastic-looking makeup-ass directing, u will not enter the kingdom of heaven 4829
Reposted by NeilPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 15/09/2026Unbelievable www.instagram.com/p/DdUmGqOEpST 342826324
Reposted by Neildannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is what Sheeran should have done and perhaps would have done if he’d grown up Irish. They have so much more to lose than he does, but immediately made the right call at great professional expense. Support for human rights isn’t a political stance, it just requires intelligence and integrity. 71240179
Reposted by Neilheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 14/09/2026she thought i was telling lies of p but i showed her the wonders of o 9654126
Reposted by NeilReid McCarter @reidmccarter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The first season of our interview show wraps up with an episode featuring Harvey Smith. @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social has done a really great job putting this series together so please give it a listen and a share if it sounds interesting to you. 11711
Reposted by Neilheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 11/09/2026so i think the idea that this represents some kind of reckoning for the sins of AAA design trends is a misread. this game lost the PR narrative months ago, Forspoken style, and the execution in the final game is a bit less polished than peers. people are still fine with this stuff in games they like 1317610
Reposted by NeilEd Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026And so, the first series of Jewel Cases comes to a close. For the finale, @harvey1966.bsky.social speaks with me about Carrier Command, Ultima Underworld and the differences between 'good friction' and 'bad friction'. The Criterion Closet but games? Here it is: soundcloud.com/bullet-point...soundcloud.comJewel Cases S01E06 - Harvey SmithThe first season of Jewel Cases comes to a close in an episode with Harvey Smith, Black Pony Interactive founder and a designer whose work includes Deus Ex, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Dishonored, Prey, an 0137
Reposted by Neilheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 10/09/2026yes we raised prices for tariffs. no we did not bring any of them back down. to show how much we love you: up to 30% off tears of the kingdom 229645
Reposted by NeilPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right). 187165495089
Reposted by NeilTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A secret - a quite big one, that nobody talks about - is that you can actually get on more successfully as a writer by befriending these people & networking with them than you can by writing fucking good books. My problem is I don't want to be their friend. I want to write fucking good books. 420211
Reposted by NeilAdam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The Crow Country intro starts with the current year and then counts down to 1990, which means the intro takes slightly longer to play through each year 18717114
Reposted by Neilheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/09/2026in 1996 if you were a kid you saw wave race 64 and were like holy shit. holy shit look at those waves. feel the waves. on a home console too. i cant imagine what comes next. and then it just never got better than that actually 31717
Reposted by NeilMAN✿N GEVERS @sunfishhh.selkieharbour.com · 04/09/2026It was so much fun to chat about some of my most inspiring games! Each one has shaped my journey in video games so digging into them together was such a treat. Thanks for having me on!! p.s. everyone should check out the rest of this series! some really amazing developers and conversations here!! 065
Reposted by NeilEd Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Gone Home and Tacoma co-creator Karla Zimonja ( @coals.northsky.social ) joins me on the new episode of Jewel Cases -Can detective games really 'work'? -Does the Resident Evil 3 water sample puzzle make sense? -Is there anything Cosmo D can't do?! All this and more: soundcloud.com/bullet-point...soundcloud.comJewel Cases S01E04 - Karla ZimonjaThis week, Ed is joined by Karla Zimonja, whose work in games includes BioShock 2 and Minerva's Den, as well as Gone Home, Tacoma, and Wanderstop. /// Jewel Cases is a new interview series, hosted by 0117
Reposted by NeilEd Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 25/08/20262004/2005/2006. A certain lighting and type of character model that feels to me right in the nexus between real and not real/drawn directly from references but still subjective/dark but vivid/serious, not conservative. Goes well with guns and death. 4275
Reposted by Neilbrad a. mantium @bradamantium.bsky.social · 21/08/2026If it weren't for Bullet Points I wouldn't have played Samson, but don't hold that against them. Best crit in the biz bar none, worth every penny of support or reading every article at the very least. A few of my favorites: 142
Reposted by NeilBullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026On the third episode of Jewel Cases, a series that works like the Criterion Closet but for videogames and developers, @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social talks to @remysiu.com , founder and developer at Sunset Visitor, the studio behind 1000XResist and Prove You're Human : soundcloud.com/bullet-point... 283
Reposted by NeilBullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Bullet Points Monthly started 10 years ago. To mark a decade of the site, our editors--Yussef Cole, Reid McCarter, Astrid Anne Rose, and Ed Smith--looked at the state of the shooter. We also got nine contributors to do the same. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/08/19/s... 19552
Reposted by NeilKevin @gamedevkevin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026New blog post: Mouse Raycasting Derivation. Given a position on the screen how do we cast a ray through it into the scene? Some simple maths that was new to me, might be useful to someone in the future. kevinmoran.github.io/posts/mouse_...kevinmoran.github.ioMouse Raycasting Derivation - Kevin's BlogThis article outlines a derivation for a simple way to cast a ray in world space through a mouse position on the screen, allowing for mouse picking, shooting gameplay, etc. 041
Reposted by NeilEd Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026"It’s still more morally interesting to kill or not kill in Thief: The Dark Project than it ever was to harvest or save in any BioShock." The new episode of Jewel Cases is out now: m.soundcloud.com/bullet-point...m.soundcloud.comJewel Cases S01E02 - Jordan ThomasPlay Jewel Cases S01E02 - Jordan Thomas by Bullet Points on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. 072
Reposted by NeilUnwinnable @unwinnable.com · 14/08/2026ICYMI: "Only Bungie could have made Marathon, and because Bungie made Marathon, it is doomed." @rubeck.bsky.social explores Marathon's paradoxical design: unwinnable.com/2026/08/13/a...unwinnable.comAlive for Twenty-Five Minutes at a Time - UnwinnableImprovisation is the music, chaos is the rhythm you’re always attempting to align with, and you will often drop the drumsticks. 0113
Reposted by Neilautumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 12/08/2026we need to kill the ""expert" in """high""" brow thing appraises tangentially related low brow thing I make my personality" genre 1334
Reposted by NeilEd Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Imagine the Criterion Closet but game developers and videogames. Been doing the interviews and cutting these together for the past few months. Very pleased to get the first episode, with Future Racer 2000 and Flathead's @timoxton.com, out today. Free to everyone. See what you think. 15221
Reposted by Neildwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026[0011617] Children born in prison are never released 07933
Reposted by NeilJim Trinca @jimtrinca.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I gave No Man's Sky the 6/10 it deserved at launch. But, after ten solid years of painstaking updates, QoL overhauls, and *huge* story expansions all released absolutely free of charge, I'm happy to say I would revise that score to a 4 6546
Reposted by NeilBullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"I loved gaming but I didn't identify with gaming culture, I don't think. It was hard to love the games but then the culture around it felt very brash and low-brow ... Leisure Suit Larry-kind of shit." soundcloud.com/bullet-point...soundcloud.comJewel Cases S01E01 - Tim OxtonIn the debut episode of Jewel Case, Ed talks to Tim Oxton, creator of Silkbulb Test, Flathead, and Future Racer 2000. /// Jewel Cases is a new interview series, hosted by Ed Smith and modelled after C 186
Reposted by NeilChris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 01/08/2026Venba is less than $4 today If you like immigrant stories, food, or games that might make you cry and want something you could finish this weekend I'd highly recommend it.store.steampowered.comSave 75% on Venba on SteamVenba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversatio... 117295
Reposted by NeilJay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 29/07/2026i was working on something else about zero parades (still forthcoming) that had a note that was like 'i don't know what to do with the theme of sexuality here' so when BP reached out i decided to try to close read it by itself. fun exercise! there's a lot happening there! 23715
Reposted by NeilDominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 26/07/2026Just a little reminder to everyone: Algorithms are useless. It's very hard to find cool stuff without being shown it by someone else. So if you find something cool - a band, a game, a video essay or anything else - share it and tell people about it. And thanks to anyone who does! You're cool! 4883339
Neil @neilisainmdom.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Finally finished this article (I skipped most of the examples since I don't play StS). Really well put together tck.mn/blog/correla...tck.mnCorrelated randomness in Slay the Spire 2Here are three true statements about the game of Slay the Spire 2 (in single player): If you pick Neow's Bones in the Underdocks, the random curse is ~54% likely to be Debt.* It is impossible to r... 100
Reposted by NeilBullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026El Goddamn Dorado, our Patreon series on Uncharted, continues with @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social and @reidmccarter.bsky.social talking about 2016's Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. www.patreon.com/bulletpoints... 043
Reposted by Neilcmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I wrote about James Bond, games where anything could break out, and (lightly) the squandering of everything. Big notional essay. 04613
Reposted by NeilFinal Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out 4643031438
Neil @neilisainmdom.bsky.social · 21/07/2026There are endless avenues to dunk on this image that did the rounds recently. The one that struck me is the absolute fallacy of separating the process of making art from its impact on the audience. The process often is the idea! 131
Reposted by NeilEd Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026If you subscribe to Bullet Points, at the cost of $1 per month, you can listen to our podcast on the Uncharted series (and all the other exclusives, like Deus Ex, Remedy, Call of Duty) 231