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🎵 Animusic 🎵 @anisongs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
TOP 4 ED1 v2 - FLCL (2000) Ride On Shooting Star - The Pillows #Anime #Animesky #RetroAnime #Opening #AnimeOpening #TopOPED #FLCL #HajimeUeda #KazuyaTsurumaki #Gainax #ProductionIG
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Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 18/09/2026
Doctrine is the new vampire Support hero coming to Overwatch, and we went hands-on at BlizzCon to find out how he plays. paletteswap.site/tru...
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 14/09/2026
It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA
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Steam Hype
Steam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.
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bitch princess of everything (batty) @batshaped.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i only have time for important thoughts
slowpoke (commission for thewiredept)
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 21/08/2026
Another neat-looking indie game that sold very little on Steam goes completely free.
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Avoidvania on Steam
AvoidVania is a 2D game Top-down Runner / Metroidvania taking place in a medieval-fantastic universe.
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 22/08/2026
A great writer on a great site! Congrats! She's one of the best things at RPS.
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Achievement Unlocked: Big Interview
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ah man, they're doing a huge museum exhibit about Chinese single-player games in Shanghai! Look at that giant wall of games the West knows nothing about! How I wish I could visit! D: Only issue is that it's a political statement as well, since many (if not most) of those games are from Taiwan...
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
There's this excellent book called "Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South: The human consequences of piracy in China and Brazil" by Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, it captures the moment in the late 90s when the US went hard on Chinese products and started a "War on Piracy". It's quite eye-opening.
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Panic @panic.com · 02/08/2026
Big Walk. 2️⃣ Days.
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 30/07/2026
Some banger games in here, all to support those people recently laid off and struggling to stay afloat. A Short Hike, Arranger, Atomic Owl, Cycle, Dead Finger Dice, Elephantasy Flipside, Horizon Vanguard, Lucah: Born Of A Dream, Magenta Horizon, Nekomancer of Nowhere, Psychroma, Skatebir and more.
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Lastest @romchip.bsky.social has a really interesting article on Chinese game history, giving an overview + a feminist perspective: romchip.org/index.php/ro... It's great to get articles in English from outside the usual US-center perspective & its citations are a great source for further reading!
Old photo showing members of the feminist collective at Xintiandi company, helping organize the 1998–1999 “China’s Lara” model contest with PopSoft.
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 11/04/2026
I've picked up a whole bunch of followers these past couple weeks, it seems, so a reminder that I maintain (irregularly) a big list of Notable Free PC Games. Mostly beefy ones Games are expensive. The economy is terrible. If you've got a halfway functional PC, you WILL find something great in here.
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Free PC Games - The Best For The Broke
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Aim 🌸 @aimbutmiss.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
hi guys I know I haven't been very active lately, and I don't talk about where I'm from often, but the government made some really scary announcements today so I thought I'd share to let everyone know what's happening. here are some posts from twt for context
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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
absolutely killer next fest so far for the idea that games can look like whatever the hell you want (Airframe Ultra, Cicadamata, Luna Abyss, The Last Salvage Squad)
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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 17/10/2025
Ugh~ There are so many interesting games coming out soon! *checks Steam* ... *adds another one t the wishlist* store.steampowered.com/app/3564740/...
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Where Winds Meet on Steam
Where Winds Meet is an epic Wuxia open-world action-adventure RPG set in ancient China at the tenth century. Players will assume the role of a young sword master as they embark on a journey to uncover...
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Andes Chucky @wendeego.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
By the way, if you'd like to learn more about AMVs, check out this guide I wrote for Yatta-Tachi!
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What Is an AMV? The Ultimate Starter Kit | Yatta-Tachi
Fans of all ages still use the AMV to channel love, angst, humor, and feelings that are tougher to describe.
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scaremyn! @carmyn.zone · 14/09/2025
silksong mods are really popping off
download on the silksong nexus titled "Blue Hornet (Blornet as I like to call her)", with an image of hornet from silksong with a blue cloak instead of her usual red
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Since people are asking for traditional roguelike recommendations, here's mine: -Dungeons of Dredmor: lighthearted intro to the genre -One Way Heroics: Also a lighthearted intro but from Japan -DCSS: Free, complex & beginner friendly -ToME: My favorite, has great combat, secrets & difficulty options
Dungeons of DredmorOne Way HeroicsDungeon Crawl Stone SoupTales of Maj'Eyal
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
if you won't listen to me, listen to them!! and then watch Koki Mitani's Furuhata Ninzaburo like i said in my video!!
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Steam Summer Sale is here, so let me recommend 8 cool RPGs for cheap, with really nice discounts! 🧵
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jaseiken me crazy @tunditur-unda.itch.io · 20/02/2025
little steam review for Kingsvein, the latest strategy rpg from Rad Codex (who also made my beloved Horizon's Gate). had a blast exploring a weird little world full of stone-fused people, living soil, wisps that possess dead bodies, and the series' crunchiest battles yet radcodex.itch.io/kingsvein
wonderful, tightly scoped and designed strategy rpg and a worthy follow-up to horizon's gate. after that game's sprawling world, class roster, weapon system, etc., kingsvein offers a much more refined, focused vision which feels refreshing and appropriate. the more modest scope and structure balance encounters more carefully and show off the design chops they've honed across four srpgs now. barring a couple early battles i missed and came back to late, every fight felt varied and pushed me enough to think hard about what i was doing without getting overly stressed or decision fatigued (this was on normal difficulty btw). i loved horizon's gate for how much it understood and embraced the spatialization of rpg combat compared to inspirations like final fantasy tactics advance. kingsvein takes it even farther, limiting your ability to stack up raw damage and demanding you engage with pushing/pulling, level geometry, and environmental hazards. horizon's gate was excited about all this stuff too, but kingsvein was much more successful in getting me to foreground these elements in my strategic thinking...beyond combat it's thrilling to finally dive into the setting of graven and getting intimately acquainted with its alien landscape. kingsvein's aesthetics are the other major pillar of its identity for me, between the moody pinks and purples and grays of its soil, the strange bubbles and protrusions that pockmark the physical landscape, the idiosyncratic, setting-specific classes like "chisel" and "melder" and "eidolith"... while the core story is, on some level, standard fantasy fare, it sees a full and satisfying dramatic arc with a big, rich climax, and is a perfect excuse to explore a strange and original setting. my only regret is that we didn't get to go even deeper into this world - something to look forward to in future titles, perhaps.

as a fan of the series, kingsvein was everything i wanted and more. for players new to the series, kingsvein represents rad codex at their very best, as their art, design, and vision only get sharper and more robust with each gamegame screenshot: two parties of rock-people clash at the steps of a tower. in the midst of battle, an armored spellcaster tests out potential placements for a quake spellgame screenshot. amid strange semi-organic growths and protrusions in the guts of a mine, i open a status screen, showing skills for the "eidolith" class: flare, void beam, null void, fade, projection...
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