My Zelda poem with Videodame made Critical Distance's weekly roundup of game writing 🎉🎉

men, what’s stopping you from dressing up like this ??

None of this is real. 50 fake pubs or 5 real ones. You just have to make it look like you know what you're doing and nobody will question it. You could cover yourself in nacho cheese and glide through the bars of the literary gates and even the New Yorker will go with it

Videodame's videogame poetry update: we are so back.
Natalie Schriefer responds to NIXEU's 2021 digital fanart ZELDA [Girl with a Pearl Earring] videoda.me/zelda-with-a-p…

'Gaming, whether alone or with an audience, makes the player aware of seeing themself seeing themself.'

cohost.org/phoenixsimms & phoenixsimms.bsky.social analyzes Stephen Sexton's poetry collection If All the World and Love were Young: unwinnable.com/2024/04/03/a-1…

A Ranger’s life is all work and little rest. Aragorn son of Arathorn shares with The Cut how an age gap relationship and marrying an older woman can help.

It's that time of year again! I'm looking for book essays for the Exploits section of Unwinnable! You can find more details about submitting here
unwinnable.com/submissions/

here’s what a writer way more talented than you once said

My first published article's out! And on anime mashups, no less ✌ Thanks to Sara Clemens for introducing me to the mag, David Shimomura for being an awesome editor, and HBJ + nakinyko for letting me interview them!

Get palms sweaty, knees weak, arms spaghetti for this fresh Unwinnable Monthly. Featuring eminem's deviated septum enjoyer on Eminem for kids, 🕹 Justin JW Kim (he/him) on anime mashups, and our regulars covering topics from Taco Bell to giant orbs.

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Black History Month is coming up - so here's a reminder: Please focus on what Black game creators do, our games/writing/art/etc. & not just on our struggles - we KNOW the games industry sucks to get into and stay in, but it's especially hard to get our games covered.

still thinking days later about how not only do i rule ass, but it should be obvious i rule ass, and how that is the greatest compliment i've ever received

loving remembering/rereading my poem about/in honor of the GREAT Garden Story (@picogram_art & Rose City Games ) i once wrote for VideoDame (@thesaraclemens rules ass fyi ofc). full poem at link below but here: pics of a few fave silly sweet weird bits videoda.me/making-better-…

Congratulations to Nicole Carpenter of Polygon for winning the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism! #NYGA

Happy Birthday David Lynch

The first Unwinnable Monthly of the year is here, for your reading pleasure. Read Alyssa Hatmaker on reminders of play, Amanda Tien (she/her) on Nancy Drew games, and our regulars on everything from museums to Alan Wake 2.

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Snow Falling on Taco Bell, 2024
Photograph
Gift of Sara Clemens in memory of Mild, Hot, and Fire

Happy Birthday, Hayao Miyazaki!

Looking to speak with game developers who've worked on games that have pets in them (think Fable 2's dog, Fallout 4, Epona, etc.) for a piece about video game pets and our relationship to them! Would love this to be signal boosted! Plz RT