Press X for new goblin

Also: the Adoring Fan, Poob, and King Ramses' curse.

Hoarse toad

Also: cowboy hats, the Afterlife bar, and guys reflecting.

The joke has been canceled

Also: Bad babies, bad Tarkovsky, and better Mikus.

That one sun face

Also: yellow art, junky crosshairs, and Female Dracula.

An interview with the big boss of MGS fan animations

Parametric Avocado explains how he riffs on Kojima classics.

Swimming specialist

Also: disrespectful demons, microwave speedruns, and chairs for hands.

I see the pig and the smile

Also: Claude's second chance, past lives made new, and Diet Yabujin.

You are El Dorado

Also: Mickey Mouse says "Mario Kart," devs get diagnosed, and the Enterprise cranks up the stereo.

It hurts

Also: a nightmare about math, a forever-falling Banjo, and a cream meant for sippin'.

Egg limit

Also: weird hams, an overstuffed chatbot, and the fate of corecore.

Bowser's sourpuss bread

Also: feverish calculations, space travel agents, and the Chaos Emeralds.

Blue hair, blue tie

Also: weird gloop, pipe bombs, and Fox McLOUD.

Bear heaven

Also: suspicious maps, Jeff the Killer, and roguelike taxes.

Pig becomes sand

Also: AI Minecraft, Cave Story unfiction, and a pumpkin surprise.

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Shooting off screens: An interview with DVLSBLSH

by Dan Solberg 20+ years ago in magazine sidebars and web 1.0 galleries, the dominant visual representation of videogames was the screenshot. Capturing single instances of interactive media, screenshots were always a limited format for videogames PR, but that restricted context can also imbue screenshots with a level of

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Behind the art of SpongeBob

A conversation with one of the internet's most ardent SpongeBob archivists.

Pandora's mailbox

Also: teleporting bread, emo spies, and MTV2.

We oughta goup up

Also: a good maggot bit, going Thatcher-free, and the suffering of Minecraft Steve.

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Learning from Las Vegas’ Sphere

The Sphere is itself a symbol — but of what? 

The Gone Pebble

Also: machine megastructures, Columbo, and the ultimate hater.

End of Letterboxdelion

This week, we're discussing platform apocalypses, internet mysteries, and singing Toads. First time reading? Sign up here. Letterboxd defies god, pays price Anime, as they say, was a mistake. Film-reviewing platform Letterboxd compounded that mistake this week by deciding to remove anime masterpiece End Of Evangelion from eligibility

Unintelligible chittering

This week, we're discussing toads, monkeys, replicants, and Andrei Tarkovsky. First time reading? Sign up here. Did Toad kill E3? As everyone knows, the game industry trade show E3 is no more. Like a great marketing mirage, it disappeared as soon as a few companies stopped believing in

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Lain chasing

Also: artisanal white noise, a card shop tycoon, and the giallo zone.

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Yes yes yes

Also: strawberry man, ding-a-ling kid, and dog ahead