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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Blackshard (PS5, 15 hours): Cosmic horror backrooms. A labyrinth of unfathomable scale. Subverts video game design language and blurs the idea of "intended" paths. Walking. Searching. Platforming. Discovery. Insignificance and eternity. Awe. Truly exceptional.

a giant architectural mess of hanging pillars and cables and geometric blocks, all black and white and gray.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm always looking for a video game that completely takes me over. Something I am always looking forward to getting back to. Blackshard has done this to me. Very unexpectedly.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This game is really good! Basically co-op Hades. I genuinely highly recommend it.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Creature Kitchen (Steam Deck, 3 hours): Cook for keys, keys for foods. Sate the diverse appetites of your many neighbors while housesitting a cabin in the woods. Take pictures. Make friends. Cozy. Spooky. Real ones appreciate the Arctic Eggs homage.

A kitchen stove with a frying pan on it and a recipe box next to it. A paper bag labeled "fish and chips."

a dimly lit porch on a dark evening in the woods. a raccoon sits in a rocking chair. a crow stands next to a paper bag under a wind chime.

The kitchen floor. There is a mouse perched there by a shiny key.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The two Hellblade games are gorgeous and underappreciated works of art. I'll miss this studio. I'll mourn the loss of the falsely promised third Senua installment.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 22/09/2026

One of the coolest darkest weirdest boldest games of the year got a release date.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Erica (PC, 2.3 hours): A choose your own horror mystery with multiple endings and intentional ambiguity. Phenomenal acting, phenomenal music. There isn't enough media in this format.

A young woman looking confused and frightened in a big fancy room. Another girl is sitting behind her at a piano.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

tried to use the word "grok" this afternoon and was devastated to realize that it is completely ruined

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Dana Scully: No Mulder don't be silly, it's just the title of low rent dating advice book from the 90s. Fox Mulder: *somehow ends up being completely right about Men being from Mars and Women being from Venus by the end of the episode*

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Resident Evil (2002) (PS5, 22 hours): The inspiration for some of my favorites, and I wasn't disappointed. The seminal mystery manor. A traditional puzzle—fitting all the pieces together. Frantic gunfire and fine-tuned phobias. Quick camera cuts and excessive hoarding. I was almost a Jill sandwich.

The player character Jill standing with a handgun drawn looking at a corpse in a dark area overgrown with vegetation. The caption reads "Forest has given up the ghost."

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 18/09/2026

New pod, for your weekend! On the agenda: ✨ What Onimusha gets right (spoilers: it's a lot) ✨ What Sony is getting wrong (spoilers: also a lot) ✨ 2026's next indies ✨ And more! Apple: tinyurl.com/gitw297 PocketCasts: pca.st/3vha70ud YouTube: tinyurl.com/ytbb297 Patreon: patreon.com/gaminginthewild

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Dave Jackson | Tales from the Backlog @realdavejackson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When we say a game "holds up", what do we mean by that? What standard does it hold up to? Do games "age"? Patrick and James of Retro Spectives podcast joined me for lengthy discussion around some of the language we use when talking about old games. talesfromthebacklog.fireside.fm/holdingup

Tales from the Backlog discussion- Do Video Games "Hold Up"?

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1) Possessor(s) is a good game. It's not a top favorite, but it's good, and I recommend it. 2) This is my favorite piece ever written about a video game: www.eurogamer.net/solar-ash-re...

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Solar Ash review - Nothing breaks like a heart

This glorious game about movement and adventure also feels like a rumination on something deeper and more personal.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dear Diary, Last night, Resident Evil reminded me of several phobias I'd forgotten I possess. Also, I have hoarded too many healing items and still don't know what half of them do.

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Sam Grittner @samgrittner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

All the wrong people hate themselves.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

for someone who was pretty sure they were going to stop playing Resident Evil, i sure have been playing a lot of Resident Evil

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Dear Diary, Today I killed a giant snake with a grenade launcher but I reloaded my save because I didn't do it good enough.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I acknowledge there are a lot of holes in my gaming history, but I've never encountered a game that actively punishes you for saving like Resident Evil does.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Devotion (PC): Lives upended by change and failure and fear. Piece by piece through hallways and years a dark picture comes together. I'm left with lingering sorrow. Wish I could have played it on a better system.

a living room from the point of view of someone sitting on the couch watching tv. a glass coffee table has a spread of newspapers with a meal of fish and soup laid out on top of it.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Secret Panel HERE 🧠 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/mind-body-84972760

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I wrote about AI, our relationship to pain and to comfort, and about why writing should hurt johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/writing-sh...

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

Writing Should Hurt

On our relationship to pain and creativity

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erin @dracula3d.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

this is an interesting perspective from imamura i also assumed it was mostly meant to look puppet-like, but it's nice to have an opinion from someone who actually knows the man

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🦷👁️Alex Rochon👁️🦷 @alexrochonva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bluesky, collectively, on Samus in Metroid Ravenous: “I like the kind of woman who will just fucking kill me.”

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Dave Jackson | Tales from the Backlog @realdavejackson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The only metric by which we can measure if the Ocarina of Time remake is Good or not is if it still takes King Zora 30 whole seconds to scooch over

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Ash Paulsen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ash.gvg.io · 08/09/2026

Everyone’s arguing about the Ocarina of Time remake’s visuals and I’m over here just thankful Link is left-handed again, like god intended

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I will be playing the Ocarina remake so hard.

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Tom Voros @tom.voros.ca · 07/09/2026

Sorry to say this but if you're using AI don't be surprised if people don't want to play your games, buy your art, listen to your music, or use your apps. It's unfortunate but this is inevitable. It's already happening. Get on board with rejecting AI now or get ready to be left behind.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hypogea (Steam Deck, 3 hrs): Platforming with a stick. I love everything about this game. Forgiving platforming. Robots helping robots. Simple and wordless storytelling done right.

A humanoid robot standing in a dark room with a staff. There are multiple lines of inactive robots standing motionless in the recesses.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

33 Immortals really quiet this morning, and it makes me sad. I know the game probably won't last forever. I'm lucky to have experienced it at release with lots of concurrent players. Egregiously underrated game.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Silent Hill (PS1, 12 hours): One man braves the fog and snow and growing shroud of nightmares to save his daughter. Rusty grating, riddles, blood splatter, overwhelming darkness. Tank controls and limited ammunition. Slow, compelling, hard to follow.

A man in a dim alleyway. It's foggy and snowy. There is a lot of blood on the wall and ground.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This fucking sucks, man. I really liked Eurogamer.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

okay but I haven't yet recovered from the trauma of her last role

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Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror] @nintendoamericax.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Join us next week for two #NintendoDirect presentations! The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on Sept 8 at 7am PT (Approx 30 mins) Nintendo Direct on Sept 9 at 7am PT (Approx 45 mins) Watch both here: ninten.do/6019aVw0v

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Horizontal camera controls were reversed on GameCube, and somehow I've memory holed this. Whenever I try to go back and play something on the system it's like I've never played a video game before.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

All the Orbitals reviews say it is "too much like other things in 'the genre.'" Well what if I haven't played any Hazelight stuff? Would I be blown away as a person living under a cooperative multiplayer rock?

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Playing Silent Hill for the first time, and on the one hand I'm upset that this hasn't been remade for modern consoles, but on the other hand I don't know how you could make this game without the tank controls.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I don't use LLMs for anything for any reason, and it has not held me back from accomplishing the things I want. If inessential things are bad for society, you can just not use them. Boycott is a lost art.

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Nate @thenatewolf.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

You are speaking to me as if I am a horse you own instead of a horse you are lucky to have stumbled across in a meadow.

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"you can just emulate it" see the problem with this is that i'm not a huge nerd

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Icarus 🎃 Dumpsterfire @pluperfectidiot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My favorite thing about Bluesky is that I can post whatever I want and no one will see it

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Denshattack! (PS5, 9 hours): It would be hard to convey the immaculate bliss, the perfect artistry, the absurd escalation, the cosmic exhilaration. A game with sick tracks.

A yellow train car midair over a yellow track that stretches out over a deep blue body of water. there is also a shining ethereal rainbow track next to the yellow one, and large shining ethereal rainbow rings encircling the path of the train.

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Tara Shoe @tarashoe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“how old are you” fine, thanks. How old are you

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soccrstitious @soccr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Best Star Trek crew (wrong answers only)

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