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The origin story of Mina the Hollower

007 First Light feels like a Hitman game for people who are bad at Hitman games but want to feel like they're good at Hitman games

The next logical step for companies pushing AI on everyone as the new normal is the slow and inevitable walk back as those same companies realize so much of it is vastly too expensive for what it actually does

Why did Mina the Hollower's developers add ways to make the game easier? Here's why:

JANET!!!!!!!!!!!

Big, ambitious, weird, and difficult, Mina the Hollower is like last year’s Silksong, built transparently on its inspirations but something altogether its own

A moment in which renowned strategy master Rob Zachny is hoisted by his own petard

Mixtape is like playing an interactive music video [complimentary]

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is fantastic, unique, and rewards your curiosity

"So you're just raw dogging your mortality?" — @robzacny.bsky.social

The idea of GameStop wanting to buy eBay is merely the normalization of financial manipulation delivered by cult of personality

For weeks, @patrickklepek.bsky.social has been slowly trying—and then retrying—Baby Steps' audacious Manbreaker challenge. It has tried his patience unlike anything else. But last week, he took his last step. And it was beautiful.

AI is making everything worse, including the price of a Switch 2

Mixtape is one of the best, most bangin', and most vulnerable videos games of the year. It's is Life Is Strange (absent the supernatural) by way of John Hughes

Sadly, the power of Positive Thinking will not help you or @patrickklepek.bsky.social make the most difficult steps in Baby Steps

Did you know that Super Mario Land 2 has a secret level inside of Mario's balls?

Returnal didn't work for @patrickklepek.bsky.social, despite giving the game a few different chances. Can Housemarque's new game, Saros, be different? A few hours in, he's feeling optimistic

Replaced is one of the best looking video games @patrickklepek.bsky.social has ever seen. And it's also pretty fun, too.

Game Pass is suddenly cheaper—but it's still very expensive. Microsoft, like any service, wants you to eventually forget you're paying for it every month. But is the only version where that's a reality one where Game Pass has a bunch of ads?

Hozy is a very cozy, very beautiful, and very breezy new game about cleaning and decorating that's likely to charm anyone into games like it

The (former) Bungie composer Marty O'Donnell is back, baby! Back to, well, grifting and pretending he's going to be elected to Congress and, as @robzacny.bsky.social puts it, pretending Trump is just a normal Republican guy.

You've never played a video game like Titanium Court—and neither has @patrickklepek.bsky.social. Titanium Court defies easy explanation, but it's one of the most unique and unforgettable experiences he's had in years

Pragmata is a 7/10 video game that you love like a 10/10 video game. Unless it's a 8/10 video game that you also love like a 10/10 video game. The point is that we really love Pragmata

Plus, an exploration of one of the great joys of owning your own place: you can pound nails into whatever you want without consequences!

WARNING: BLOODBORNE HOT TAKE FROM JANET INCOMING

Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man is a shockingly prescient commentary on the myriad ways religion has been twisted and weaponized in America

Baby Steps is a cruel game. The Manbreaker, the game's toughest challenge, is especially cruel. But even by those standards, this is mean

With Marathon, @robzacny.bsky.social has been really taken by watching Bungie returning to its own world from 30 years ago, a world with ideas about science fiction, cyberpunk, capitalism, imperialism, and, uh, haunted house space ships

Pragmata has been one of @patrickklepek.bsky.social's most anticipated games of 2026. And he's happy to report that Pragmata, which mashes up shooting and puzzling, is very good and very fun

Fridays starting TOMORROW at 11:30AM PT/2:30PM ET @nataliewatson.bsky.social and @danika.bsky.social will be playing through RE9 Requiem! Will they call on the spirit of Waypoint's Big Boy streams and Walmart yodel kid to get them through? FIND OUT! twitch.tv/remapradio www.youtube.com/@RemapRadio

Baby Steps is an incredible video game. You spend hours looking for a place called Box City, only to discover something much worse.

There were many video games released in 2025. But how many games included a level with sea horses that made you cry?

Y'all wanna see a dead body?

And Roger is a powerful story about what it means to be a caregiver as a loved one enters their final days—and it also has a religious turn that rubbed some of us the wrong way

Go Slimey Go! is one of 2025's best platformers—you just haven't heard of it.

As Rob so accurately points out, what is Battlefield 6 if not a deep meditation on faith, meaning, and learning to trust in a greater community, aka the squad?

sorry, what time in the morning?

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this is what video games are all about, honestly

There’s no getting around the fact that generative AI resides on a foundation of theft and counterfeiting on a previously unimaginable scale.

“Why should I have to suffer just for the clout of saying I rolled credits?” On the latest episode of Remap Radio, @gameonysus.bsky.social talks late game design choices in Consume Me and why she had to bow out early.

"Previously to this, Larian could have this reputation as a writing first, narrative first studio in an industry that frequently treats those disciplines as afterthoughts. Being a studio that makes games—or RPGs—the 'right way.' And then you do something that doesn't comport with that image."

We might just be *too good* at RV There Yet…

Is Master of Command the coolest horse-and-musket game ever made?

Does Metroid Prime 4: Beyond do much to shake up the formula? No. Is that enough for someone like @patrickklepek.bsky.social, who is starved for games like it? Yep.

Consume Me, a video game about the overwhelming anxiety of being a teenager, has skyrocketed into Janet's top 10 list for games of the year.

everything’s fine :)

Prepared to head back into RV There Yet? with @danika.bsky.social, @robzacny.bsky.social, @cado.bsky.social, and @patrickklepek.bsky.social. Will Papa Rob continue to tolerate his unruly smoking children? Twitch: www.twitch.tv/remapradio YouTube: youtube.com/live/ogf3ajM...