Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

A couple years ago I made a kind of text assembler/sensory toy based on Hellraiser's LeMarchand box. Deal and flip cards across multiplying piles, trying to separate parts of speech. I aim to discover new 'rules' as I play - inspiration ran dry a while back but I still find it delightful.

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

Please share and help if you can. I can't work at all right now and we really need assistance making ends meet. Thank you.

the stupid thing was: the consumer games press DID have unethical marketing mouthpiece relationships with the industry. the e3 / spike tv / actiblizz / doritogate conglomerate and the payola-dominated masculine corporate culture had a stranglehold on what got made and how it could be discussed --

Another launch day post! Vertical Slice is introducing The Repository, an expanding collection of free design docs and pitch decks submitted by generous developers, publishers, and investors. Fans of @outerloopgames.bsky.social, @kitfoxgames.com, and @outersloth.com will want to check this out!

Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool, by Edward Wadsworth, 1919. It’s a topic that appears to have fascinated Wadsworth. I love every single one of his takes on the subject.

Beetle chromolithograph from ‘The Intellectual Observer’ periodical published in London in 1863. #naturalhistory #sciart #insectart

I'm trying to make a text adventure that is also a mind palace and resting place for carefully salvaged, mostly cringey, possibly undead writing from 20 years ago. I'm keen to hear about text games that do a really good job of instilling a navigable and memorable 3D landscape or structure.

Cornell, LSU, the Burnerverse, Clavicular…just one week. Men are putting their impunity and cruelty on display so brazenly. Humiliating/punishing women has always gone on, but now rape is networked, scalable, monetized. Our systems aren’t failing, tho, they’re doing what they are designed to do.

The Other One: Jordan Magnuson's Game Poem jam is a fascinating collection of chimeras https://bit.ly/4rMF7dg

A realis mood is the grammatical form indicating truth: The fire is dying. An irrealis mood would instead indicate any other possibility. The fire might not die. The fire must not die. Let not the fire die. Pyrrealis, then, is what flint speaks to tinder. emilyzhu.itch.io/pyrrealis

is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟‍♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

Great piece of reporting, though we should be wary of relying on blackbox AI detectors (the article employs a good mixture of investigative methods, besides Pangram).

Roman Sands RE:Build is out. After so many years, you can finally play our labour of love. It's deranged, it goes SO MANY PLACES, it probably shouldn't exist, and I've no idea if you're going to like it or not but that ain't the point. Roman Sands RE:Build. store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/...

More specifically I made the character portraits And dioramas you may find about the psycho-sexual terror in a museum of the fascist heart Jump into the future NOW

This is the engineer Jones, the blueprint man, / loving the place he designed, visiting it alone. from The Book of the Dead, Muriel Rukeyser (1938) wvupressonline.com/node/717

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Here are Jank's subscriber goals. It's simple - the more people join, the more writers we let out of their cages. www.jank.cool/behold-our-f...

I'm working on a feature about videogame art that has been falsely accused of using genAI. If it's happened to you and you'd like to share thoughts about why your work attracted suspicion, feel free to give me a bell: edwin.evansthirlwell@rockpapershotgun.com

Bullet Points Monthly started 10 years ago. To mark a decade of the site, our editors--Yussef Cole, Reid McCarter, Astrid Anne Rose, and Ed Smith--looked at the state of the shooter. We also got nine contributors to do the same. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/08/19/s...

Writing about horror manga from the seventies got me talking about the psychological roots of fascism

Something to bear in mind as things get harder, from a 2009 Metafilter post from someone who lives through Sarajevo.

No time like the present - if you're PR, editors, or even just a little curious go ahead and add jadekingfreelance@gmail.com to your lists ❤️ getting chinese later it feels justified.

A more specific call for article input: I'm very keen to talk to a Mongolian historian who can talk about the cultural significance of the Yam networks - what it means to portray and celebrate those institutions today.

ICYMI: "Assassin’s Creed was unusual: a game produced in the West in which we inhabit an (albeit Occidentalized) West Asian freedom fighter resisting a European invasion." @mlupetti.upandpunch.red on playing Assassin's Creed during the Gaza genocide and 25 years after 9/11:

companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

I'm sad to say that I'm no longer working with the team at Rascal. It's been a great couple of years, but circumstances have dictated that it's time for me to move on. That does mean that I'm now (quite desperately) looking for freelance work, so if you need words for/about games, my DMs are open.

crazy cars, game over screen, macintosh (1988) www.mobygames.com/game/781/cra...

Managed to catch Covid again during a press trip, despite masking up for travel - I may be hard to reach for the next week or so.

"Decay can extract softness from despotism, political persistence from the abolition of utilizable power... Decay mars power on virtual surfaces of zero, there to be rotten and reeked up; but above all, decay leeches death from the living without falling into the black transparency of death."

"The frog in the boiling pot of water looks around and finds all that’s left is hot metal." @jaymcastello.bsky.social reflects on 10 years of writing in the games space:

Nine Pens Poetry Press currently open for pamphlet submissions 😊 Pamphlets | Nine Pens share.google/xj0WxWOqOp2v...

Valnet is a journalist's idea of hell. Support indie games media where you can and help to kill this bullshit. pressgazette.co.uk/news/confusi...

Hi, I wrote about being trans and playing Warframe. Like a nerd. Please enjoy. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you have ever had to belatedly turn an online-required game into an offline-capable game, and would like to come sob bitterly into my shoulder while I transform your anguish into an article of some kind, please, hit me up: www.rockpapershotgun.com/authors/edwi...

Counting Petals

Unreal killed Blueprints last week and also all my cats. www.jank.cool/blueprints-i...