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Accessibility menus and gameplay modifiers are crucial for lots of gamers — but what if they were also a little silly? Here's @nicoleclark.bsky.social on how Yacht Club Games developed Mina the Hollower's now-iconic mods menu:

Accessibility menus and gameplay modifiers are crucial for lots of gamers — but what if they were also a little silly? Here's @nicoleclark.bsky.social on how Yacht Club Games developed Mina the Hollower's now-iconic mods menu:

It feels impossible to keep up with game releases these days, but that shouldn't leave you feeling guilty or keep you from checking out new (or old!) titles. @midimyers.com's latest here:

This article on The House in Fata Morgana is a front for an existential crisis over a defunct history park, which in itself is a front for an article on how incredible The House in Fata Morgana is. Thank you so much to @mothership.blog for letting me write this! It was a really great experience.

Free with your email, today's piece from @ashhuntly.bsky.social examines how we retell history, and why The House in Fata Morgana does it so well: "This is the danger of telling history only by folding paper in half: the imprinting marks both sides."

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Mortal Shell 2 is an eerily apt analogy for endometriosis, @spoonienet.com discovered soon after receiving their diagnosis.

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Got a baby sleeping on you? Don't worry, you can still play games — ideally one-handed mobile games like the ones @zoehhannah.com recommends here.

Adelina Cortez fell in love with Pokémon long before Pokémon Scarlet came out. Nonetheless, that was the first game where she saw herself and her community reflected in the characters and the locale. Free to read with your email:

@blunderchief.blather.ing thought his daughter just wasn't into action games. Then, she started asking to play as Crouton. Then, she asked to start her own save file.

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@blunderchief.blather.ing thought his daughter just wasn't into action games. Then, she started asking to play as Crouton. Then, she asked to start her own save file.

Adelina Cortez fell in love with Pokémon long before Pokémon Scarlet came out. Nonetheless, that was the first game where she saw herself and her community reflected in the characters and the locale. Free to read with your email:

Reporter Jason Collins chatted with Games Done Quick organizers and runners to learn what makes GD Queer so special: "Every time donations crossed a $1,000 milestone that first weekend, the stream flooded with the same two words: I'm gay."

Reporter Jason Collins chatted with Games Done Quick organizers and runners to learn what makes GD Queer so special: "Every time donations crossed a $1,000 milestone that first weekend, the stream flooded with the same two words: I'm gay."

Have you snagged your Mothership merch yet? Packages are already starting to arrive!!! www.mothership.blog/motherships-...

Have you snagged your Mothership merch yet? Packages are already starting to arrive!!! www.mothership.blog/motherships-...

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Managing editor @zoehhannah.com plays basically all the cozy games she can find. Here are her favorites right now, free to read with your email:

Managing editor @zoehhannah.com plays basically all the cozy games she can find. Here are her favorites right now, free to read with your email:

In a heavy but powerful read, @madisyn-writes.bsky.social writes on don't rock the boat, the interactive fiction that shows how poor allyship, cis apathy, and outright hatred of trans folks hurts us all.

In a heavy but powerful read, @madisyn-writes.bsky.social writes on don't rock the boat, the interactive fiction that shows how poor allyship, cis apathy, and outright hatred of trans folks hurts us all.

For @dreamcastaway.bsky.social, Fabio's lust for Dietrich — whether it's sexual or envious or both — is one of the most compelling parts of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave.

For this week's Dear Mother advice column, Maddy Myers posits that walkthroughs, hints, and Let's Plays may be the key to finishing a game everyone's saying you *have* to play.

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Sometimes you just need a game that’s cozy, spooky, and perfectly autumnal. Review by @zoehhannah.com

Friendships between men are often quiet. In Big Walk, silent communication just isn't enough — that is, unless you're doing a puzzle where communicating with your body is the only option. New from @daytenrose.bsky.social here:

Friendships between men are often quiet. In Big Walk, silent communication just isn't enough — that is, unless you're doing a puzzle where communicating with your body is the only option. New from @daytenrose.bsky.social here:

"I moved into social media management, a new career path at the time. That’s where I stayed for ten years. Ten years is an accomplishment. It’s also a sort of confinement." - from Adelina Cortez's new personal essay on the game that brought her back to herself.

"I moved into social media management, a new career path at the time. That’s where I stayed for ten years. Ten years is an accomplishment. It’s also a sort of confinement." - from Adelina Cortez's new personal essay on the game that brought her back to herself.

Like this week's Dear Mother letter-writer, @midimyers.com feels things deeply, including emotional connections to fictional characters. Maybe, she posits, that level of empathy is a gift.

It's tiiiime! Answers to our first-ever AMA here, featuring Mothership co-founders @zoehhannah.com and @midimyers.com doing lots of excited giggling.

It's tiiiime! Answers to our first-ever AMA here, featuring Mothership co-founders @zoehhannah.com and @midimyers.com doing lots of excited giggling.

Like this week's Dear Mother letter-writer, @midimyers.com feels things deeply, including emotional connections to fictional characters. Maybe, she posits, that level of empathy is a gift.

it's ME writing about WOLVERINE!!!!! for @mothership.blog which you should already be subscribed to anyway, but if you're not yet, this is a good time to join us. this game is so fucking strange and i am obsessed with it even though it's not fun to play. allow me to explain why............

Our EIC @midimyers.com thinks Insomniac's Wolverine is not fun to play, but as an X-Men fan, she's obsessed with the weird choices it made. Her review here:

at @mothership.blog we can publish a personal essay about the 1999 star trek game Birth of the Federation and there doesn't need to be some sort of "timely" reason or justification for doing so and i think that's beautiful

Today's story takes us deep into outer space by way of Dani Lamorte's prose about Birth of the Federation, injury, colonization, and the systems that define our world.

We heard you'd love to get into TTRPGs. @catbussell.bsky.social is all about lowering the barrier to entry and helping you start your first adventure www.mothership.blog/how-to-get-i...

we filmed a bunch of answers to these today! we’re filming more tomorrow, so if you ask us something today/tonight, we could still get to it ❤️

It's time for our first-ever AMA! Got questions for Mothership's founders Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah? Drop 'em below and we'll respond (maybe even in video!) throughout this week and next.