Hey all!
Here's the first in my attempts to cover more obscure indie stuff. Like I said in the video - this is mostly just qualified blind praise for games I enjoyed playing. Nothing more, nothing less. Let me know if it le...
2019-05-31 05:03:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all! This month's thing is here and it's... weird!
Basically I've been itching to talk about a lot of small, unknown, or simply overlooked games for a while now (you may have seen me complain about the lack of a Videogame Schlock Discour...
2019-05-01 04:46:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
Here's the draft for this month's video! Sorry it took two months to make, but it's almost 1.5x as long as normal, so hey!
Anyways, let me know what you think - my current plan is to maybe clean it up and refine some bits that...
2019-04-01 04:38:47 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks!
Just a quick FYI: There won't be a charge this month, as I don't have anything ready to release. Normally about this time I'm in the last throes of editing a thing together and getting it ready to ship, but I bit off a bit m...
2019-02-28 05:06:12 +0000 UTC View Post
So... I step a bit outside my wheelhouse with this one, and while I tried to Do The Reading I'm still worried I'm going to be inundated with people saying that I either take vaporwave far too seriously or dismiss the entire thing as a joke too eas...
2019-02-01 04:59:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year! Here's a (rough draft?) of the release of the next episode!
2019-01-01 09:12:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Fallout 76 is... maybe not great. And you don't need me telling you it's not great, there's a whole swarm of angry internet people out there telling you (in extremely hyperbolic language) how it's the worst thing since the nuclear apocalypse.
So if you've seen my tweets over the past... month or two, you probably know I've been itching to try out new formats for the show. And if you've been paying attention to the release schedules for games, you also probably know that Nov...
2018-11-29 06:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post
And we bring Halloween to a close with a big fun episode about a bunch of scary driving games! Hooray!
I genuinely didn't mean for this to be A Theme but I was looking around at all the smaller indie games I wanted to highlight this year and ...
2018-10-30 13:58:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Here's this month's second Halloweeny episode, We Know the Devil! It's spoiler intense... like all the way, so maybe don't watch if you want to go in blind.
Sorry for the brief little post on this - I'm wrapping up the _third_ ...
2018-10-30 06:24:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Halloween Month! We're kicking things off with a game I was debating about whether to do for this month, mostly because it's gotten extensive coverage throughout the YouTube-o-sphere.
But once I played it I had such a good time with it ...
2018-10-13 05:56:48 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's video is up! It talks about a game that deals obliquely with some heavy subjects (yay?), but also is really fun to play (yay!).
Talkin' about indie games is kinda hard. I know my normal schtick is to do deep reads of games, but i...
2018-10-01 01:12:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
*whistles* This one's coming in just under the cutoff for the month. I blame August ending on a Friday. Regardless: Prey Mooncrash! It's a game! Well, it's DLC, but hey! It's a thing! And I'm gonna talk abo...
2018-09-01 06:10:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the first of what *might* be two Jurassic Park videos, depending on the reception this one gets!
This video is... perhaps a little nerd-wanky, but it's been a little while since I've let my obnoxious pedant freak flag fly. Still, it w...
2018-08-01 03:21:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all! This month's video is up - and this time it's a visual novel about being a Very Online Teenager in 1999! It's also a game about self-discovery and queer youth. It's pretty neat, especially if you remember going online as a ...
2018-06-28 05:38:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
The short version: I’m turning off donations for this month, and you shouldn’t be charged by my account for the end of May/beginning of June cycle. Nothing serious, just a lot of life stuff has happened and while...
2018-05-31 02:39:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
This month's video is up! This time I'm looking at Far Cry 5, because complaining about big budget games being bad at tackling their subject matter is more or less my wheelhouse.
Enjoy!
2018-05-01 04:31:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all! In this video we're looking at Iconoclasts - a 2D metroidvania game that was a long time coming. It's the result of just one person's work: Joakim Sandberg AKA Konjak. And it's pretty neat! I was torn on looking at th...
2018-04-01 03:36:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the delay, but February's episode is here!
Some thoughts on this one: I remain uncomfortable with how much covering game history involves covering auteurs/creative movers & shakers vs. the people who had boots on the ground. Ana...
2018-03-04 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
So just a update on the next episode: despite my best efforts it looks like it's gonna miss the cutoff for February (curse you, arbitrarily shortest month!). That's the bad news.
The good news is it's only gonna mi...
2018-02-28 22:29:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! I just released January's video about a game where you climb a trash mountain with a hammer! We talk about failure in games, pain and frustration as aesthetic goals, and also I mention Final Fantasy 7 so people can tell me it isn't Aeris, ...
2018-02-01 04:39:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
Here's a video on The Shrouded Isle, a game about running a cult at the end of the world. Also a game about choosing who lives and who dies! And a game about finding out about your neighbors. All in one!
2018-01-01 05:23:36 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
So, let's talk about that there Patreon pledge fee. Sorry if this is the 48424th e-mail you've gotten about this (and really, I'm also ...
2017-12-08 19:32:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Yikes, this one kind of spiraled out of control and somehow became my longest episode ever. Didn't plan on that, I just sort of had poor self-control with regard to editing this month.
Anyways! Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is a really well...
2017-12-01 04:42:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
This year's Halloweeny spookytime episode is now up! This time we're taking a look at Stories Untold, an episodic adventure game that tries to be both a horror anthology series and a throwback to 80's horror in the vein of Stranger T...
2017-10-31 02:43:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
This month I took a look at Prey. On one hand, I really dig its immersive sim gameplay and thematic goals. On the other, the end kind of sucks the wind of the rest of the game's sails. It's a game about identity and reali...
2017-09-30 21:08:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! Sorry this is coming a bit late in the day - I actually destroyed my phone by accident last week, got a new phone (and thus a new number) and had unfortunately turned on two factor authentication just days before hand, so it took a support...
2017-09-01 05:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This isn't a new ES episode (I'm working on that now!) but this is what I went away in June all the way out to Sweden to do! I'm a little awkward - this is my first public speaking gig - but it's a decent remix of the video I did on violence a ...
2017-08-14 06:03:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The Summer of 0451 continues with Deus Ex!
This episode ended up a bit... unwieldy. I really wanted to tap in how the game has changed in ways both good and bad since its release in 2000. At the same time, it's a game I've been wanting ...
2017-08-01 04:17:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally! This took a lot of footage capture (there's bits from Thief, Thief 2, Dishonored, Knife of Dunwall, Dishonored 2, System Shock, System Shock 2, Ultima Underworld, Firewatch, Neon Struct, Gone Home, Deus Ex, and more in here!) and went throug...
2017-06-30 04:52:29 +0000 UTC View Post