







Disparity Games' Ninja Pizza Girl is a video game build on family.
Rotten Dot Com by Dena Yago
May 6, 2026 – “Rotten.com was a haunted arcade, dispensing trauma in gumball-machine doses straight to kids with dial-up, who chewed on images never meant for their half-formed stomachs.”

Erlend Sogge Heggen (@erlend.sh)
1. solitude: single-player game loop 2. bottomlessness: infinite scroll 3. speed: instant delivery/gratification 4. teasing: generally satisfactory, never perfect; “maybe the next one is exactly what I want” ↘️ quoting NPR (@npr.org): Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable. n.pr/4mH6i6s
Samurai Unicorn
An action horror game with retro-graphics, set in the sprawling megacity of Sydney3.

The Slow Death of Online Safety
cataclysm: The zombie apocalypse starts now
I love it when people suggest console games for Linux are a joke. I can think of three or four games offhand — crawl is one, taipan and gearhead are others — with more depth and intelli…

The NOexistenceN of you AND me
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

The internet's favorite horror subgenre is breaking into the big time
Backrooms brings liminal horror to the masses, and with it, a generation looking for a past that might not exist.

Context Sensitivity
The Existential Terror of Battle Royale
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video games. Video games are probably the single thing most attributable to my career as a programmer, and everything else I’ve done professionally after that. I still feel

How the KOSA and KIDS Acts will Harm Vulnerable Teenagers
KOSA & the KIDS Act harm vulnerable teenagers by cutting them off from online communities & support systems, & could be used to censor LGBTQ content for minors.

Opinion | Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them (Published 2017)
The industry’s infamous “crunch” culture is taking a serious toll on workers.

The surprising origin of 4 features that superglue kids — and adults — to screens
Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable.

The surprising origin of 4 features that superglue kids — and adults — to screens
Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable.

#780: Play the banana song!
Plus: The next generation of "tradwives," babytech creep, and scrolling more socially

The Making of ‘Excuuuuse me, Princess!’: an oral history of The Legend of Zelda cartoon
How to build an oral history of an ‘80s Legend of Zelda cartoon

Baby Smash! • Delightful keyboard fun for curious kiddos
Baby Smash! is the playful, baby-proof keyboard experience that turns every key press into colorful giggles.
