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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 3h

I cannot believe the fun I’ve been having in Songs of Glimmerwick these past few days. I can’t wait to get back to it, and I bet you’ll be feeling the same too. www.70percentcomplete.com/songs-of-gli...

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Songs of Glimmerwick is playing all the right notes

Impressions of the magical life sim after 8+ hours

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 29/09/2026

Even the small snippets of text point to such a cohesive, rich world I want to know more about. Jusant is such a master class of world design in both art and text. “When there’s no water, everything seems so fragile.” The whole world written down at the bottom of a missable letter about seagulls.

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 25/09/2026

In the grimdark future of 401k there is only “In this economy??”

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 18/09/2026

Control Resonant reviews day? No thanks. Carly Rae release day? Yes please

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Causeway Studios | The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham @ PAX West @causewaystudios.com · 11/09/2026

Huge thanks to @giannidicrosta.bsky.social and @mrthehuman.bsky.social for stopping by to play The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham at PAX West! The praise is both heartwarming and validating. Their discussion reflects exactly what we're going for with the demo! youtu.be/pGY0Rb_Ce8s?...

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The One About PAX West 2026 - Episode 47

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 10/09/2026

It’s newsletter day once again,! This time I’m diving into the visual inspirations for the “ink and grain” aesthetic of Signet City. 📷 Read here: jumpovertheage.substack.com/p/signet-cit...

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SIGNET CITY: Visualizing the City

Drowned in ink and grain.

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you were looking for a good take on dice in games today, here you go:

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 10/09/2026

New post on the site all about dice and how I can’t help but see the world in tabletop terms. Check it out! Odds are pretty good you’ll gain 1 Perspective, Discourse, Stress, or Quiet 👀 www.70percentcomplete.com/the-greatest...

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The greatest storyteller is a six-sided cube

How Citizen Sleeper, Amberspire, and Mothership have me seeing the world through snake eyes.

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 10/09/2026

Also, totally unrelated. I super want a crew blazer all of a sudden

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 10/09/2026

I’ve been slowly watching The Prisoner (thanks Library digital loan through Kanopy!) and the hokey camera work in this show is 1. Hilarious and 2. Aspirational to me

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 08/09/2026

I’ve spent most of my adult life wearing an Apple Watch and, after a week in Hawaii without a charger, and forgetting to wear it the past few days, it’s very weird unwinding the gamification of movement…and trying to figure out if it’s a positive force or not.

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 03/09/2026

I see the September release calendar, then look back down at my Steam Deck downloading Deathloop

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 31/08/2026

Don’t judge a book by its cover folks, spoilers, there wasn’t a single gunshot in this one. Classic Aggie misdirect

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 25/08/2026

If a massive video isn’t enough for you, we’re also launching The Design of Power, a collection of essays, videos, and podcast episodes that use games to explore the fraught relationship between power and design. The first essay is available now! www.70percentcomplete.com/the-design-of-power/

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The Design of Power

Welcome to The Design of Power, a collection of essays, criticism, and videos exploring how power is created through design. New pieces will be released over the coming months, examining themes of tot...

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 25/08/2026

Year 3 of 70% Complete kicks off with a video I’ve been working on for months. It’s about Wolfenstein, yes, but it’s about so much more than that: architecture, history, and, yes, concrete. This isn’t your typical video game essay. youtu.be/iNe3Y1EgkWI?...

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The Most Powerful Weapon in Wolfenstein

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 20/08/2026

Working on a Wolfenstein: The New Order video. It’s both about what think it is…and also really not.

An image of the never-built Volkshalle building from Albert Speer’s Germania project with the phrase “Total architecture” written in Tannenberg, a Germanic-style typeface. The entire image is cropped to appear on as a Super 8 film.

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 20/08/2026

ONE BILLION DAILY USERS *Microsoft remains a target of the BDS Movement. If you don’t know what that is, you can learn more here: bdsmovement.net/microsoft

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Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 17/08/2026

Reading emails (unlike real life) is actually Good and Helpful

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 13/08/2026

I love that the first quote is from Looking Backward, a utopian novel so few have heard of. This is a really cool site!!

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 11/08/2026

Review of sorts for Dimhaven is up on the site! More than anything though, this game solves a HUGE puzzle game struggle I’ve had (since Myst!) that I want more folks to experience: the camera. www.70percentcomplete.com/dimhaven-the...

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Dimhaven: The Lost Source is all about the Polaroids

Dimhaven's camera is a gameplay innovation I'm begging every puzzle game to steal

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 11/08/2026

For the morning crowd! Big new piece on the website about the difficulty assists in MIO: Memories in Orbit! It’s not about *less* difficulty, it’s about *different* difficulty. www.70percentcomplete.com/mio-memories...

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Assists in MIO: Memories in Orbit are more than difficulty tweaks

Player agency in difficulty adjustment meets thematic depth in MIO: Memories in Orbit.

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 11/08/2026

The Prisoner, huh? For a show I only know through white-piped blazers and an Iron Maiden song, this kicks ass?

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 10/08/2026

I’m back playing MIO: Memories in Orbit, which means it’s time to enter the difficulty discourse. Assists are good, but MIO makes them meaningful. www.70percentcomplete.com/mio-memories...

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MIO: Memories in Orbit wants you to play it

You're playing the game wrong if you DON'T turn the assist on

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 05/08/2026

What a fun time having with Jesse and making some dream games! Give it a watch or a listen and TRY not say SHOWTIME throughout your day

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 04/08/2026

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I'm Doing My Part! - Serious Soldier Meme

Alt: A gif of a soldier from Starship Troopers saying “I’m doing my part!”

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 02/08/2026

HELL YEAH DUDE ROAD TO ONE BILLION STARTING OFF STRONG Remember kids, Xbox is still a target if BDS Movement. The best time to boycott Xbox was when the boycott started, the second best time is today.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 23/07/2026

Shout out to @bonjourborzoi.bsky.social for making a deeply affecting video game I think of almost everyday. I’m happy to share it with all my friends and parent friends whenever I get a chance youtu.be/p4E1jwNFQbE

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Phil breaks down how Camille and Laura changed his view on parenthood

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 21/07/2026

I remember getting my first fake id in college for the infinite pasta glorp bowl. 19 straws slurping up highlighter orange noods from a dog bowl man those were the days

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 15/07/2026

This mystery auction is an absolute nail biter!! You’re not going to want to miss this one!

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CognitiveClips @cognitiveclips.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

There was some big talk at #SummerGameFest about gamers wanting new experiences, loving independent developers, and SGF helping promote discovery. How well did the big names do?? My latest essay breaks it down by numbers, and the results might surprise you ⬇️⬇️⬇️ youtu.be/5SDdi2vHZuM

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Where are the "new experiences" in gaming??

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 06/07/2026

Jesus. How can you possibly pull out of this tailspin

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 06/07/2026

I’ve heard similar thing in the software engineering space. The problem is that those same engineers that deny jobs to “AI natives,” don’t quite see the contradiction. “Of course, we use it everyday…but if you mention using it extensively in an interview, big red flag.”

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 07/04/2025

the Nintendo Switch 2 price sucks

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 25/06/2026

With the Xbox news, it’s becoming much more obvious every day why so many indie devs are pivoting to mobile ports too. Golden Lap, possibly Caves of Qud, and Disco Elysium. When hardware is astronomically expensive, mobile development isn’t a nice to have, it becomes paramount to survival

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 25/06/2026

Did you know you can just get the sickest books ever made from the library???

A top down map or Broadacre City, Frank Lloyd Wright’s utopian city with a key on the left hand side.

A photo of the Broadacre City map side panel that explains Wright’s rules for his city:

A NEW FREEDOM FOR LIVING IN AMERICA

No private ownership of public needs.
No landlord and tenant.
No "housing". No subsistence homesteads.
No traffic problem. No back and forth haul.
No railroads. No street cars.
No grade crossings.
No poles. No wires in sight.
No ditches alongside the roads.
No headlights. No light fixtures.
No glaring cement roads or walks.
No tall buildings except as isolated in parks.
No slum. No scum.
No public ownership of private needs.

An acre of ground minimum for the individual
Broadacre City makes no change in existing system of land surveys
Has a single seat of government for each county
Administration by radio and flight
Architectural features determined by the character and topography of region
No major or minor axis

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 24/06/2026

Mobile seems PERFECT for Golden Lap!

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 20/06/2026

Nothing is more telling about the state of AI quite like driving into SF and every billboard is for AI tech companies I’ve never heard of…instead of for like car dealerships or scammy car accident lawyers Your ad spend is telling on you

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 19/06/2026

Happy Juneteenth! If you're looking for something cool to play today to support a black business in the U.S., check out some of my games. - Studio is Black-owned - Black characters - Black Voice Actors And racist trolls hate us ♥️ linktr.ee/aerial_knight

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 19/06/2026

Tried to pick some of my favorite games with less than 500 reviews to share! I’d recommend every single one of these games to almost everyone, especially if you like emotional narratives, discovering rich worlds, or experiencing the depths only a game can explore.

Nine video game box art images, from top left to right: Duskpunk, Camille and Laura, As Long As You’re Here, Ambrosia Sky Part One, Hypnos, Out and About, Without a Dawn, Amberspire, The Magnificent Trufflepigs

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 18/06/2026

Sometimes you get reminded of a classic game, then lose an entire week to it and feel the need to suck all your friends into the same RAD VIDEO GAME black hole. You should play Luftrausers. Here’s why: www.70percentcomplete.com/luftrausers-...

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Luftrausers is still a perfect video game

What you need to know about Luftrausers is that it kicks ass.

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 17/06/2026

CANNOT wait for all the “found a safe in the basement of this house I just bought” movies that just fucking end with no closure

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 16/06/2026

Wow, it’s almost Microsoft fiscal, and look, this blog post from July 2025 remains evergreen. I should just make the headline read [insert number here] and I won’t even have to update it www.70percentcomplete.com/9-000-more-h...

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9,000 more humans sacrificed to appease the Line

In its latest round of layoffs, Microsoft yet again fails to hold onto 9,000 employees

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 15/06/2026

It is WILD to me that in the same month we get a new Spyro the Dragon, Compulsion is rumored to be on the chopping block. South of Midnight was not perfect, but goddamn was it a wonderful look at what an emotional, intelligent 3d platformer can be in the age of photorealism.

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 07/06/2026

Where’s the @paletteswap.site article about Phil Spencer’s Hexen t-shirt being raised into the rafters of Xbox HQ at the start of this presentation

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 03/06/2026

Tuned into the State of Prey and Arkane Austin is still closed and Prey still has no sequel. Damn.

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Phil Bothun @phil.70percentcomplete.com · 22/05/2026

I love when new train engines are pulling the commuter rail trains because there are ALWAYS at least six teens with DLSRs gleefully snapping picks of the engines. I need that joy in my life

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