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Cairn: Flow Within Constraint

Cairn is a game about climbing. It was released merely days after Skyscraper Live , a Netflix special also about climbing. I'm not a climber; the closest I've gotten was fumbling on...

A Retreat from Game Subscriptions

Remember the persistent idea of an evergreen gaming service, a "Netflix for games," that gamers had been clamoring for since…well, since Netflix became a household name? We did enjoy a brief era...

Year of the Linux Console, Steam Edition

A few weeks back, Valve—the company most famously behind the Steam platform for PC games—announced a trio of hardware devices slated for an early 2026 release. Adding to their already-excellent portable-gaming console, the...

Pixelache

I just finished the game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It was originally released back in April, but due to the organic praise from critics and the gaming community alike, the game was sold out for...

Review: Ask Iwata

Ask Iwata is a fairly unique biography, as far as biographies go. Satoru Iwata was the beloved Global President of Nintendo Corporation Limited. It's a posthumous memoir, but one written based not on...

Financialization Endgame

2024 was a pretty rough year for the video game industry. Even though there were some great games released last year, workers continued to get laid off at a higher rate compared to 2023, and...