Persona 5 is a very good game. Excellent, even; terrific, if I were to use a third adjective, but let’s not get out of hand. I need to open with this, because Persona 5’s lacklustre representation of queer and LGBTQ+ people, aside from being frankly shoddy, critically and arguably irreparably undermines its themes.

Joe Biden will be president after January 20th, 2021 regardless of the Trump campaign raising many doomed-to-fail lawsuits. It is time and has been time – since the President-Elect won each recount since the election was called – to talk about what impact the incoming administration will have.

Surprisingly enough, the narrative well of “device that allows detectives to go into people’s dreams to solve crimes” is one that’s been gone to before. AI: The Somnium Files, from Zero Escape director Kotaro Uchikoshi, attempted it before to perhaps limited success, but AI was a cartoonish, narrative-on-rails game. The Signifier, from Playmestudio, is narratively much darker and closer to an open-world game than its competitor in the somnia-scouring industry.

The number of people broadcasting on livestreaming service Twitch skyrocketed mid-March as the Coronavirus pandemic persisted. Reporting by The Verge revealed that considerably more people are watching Twitch now that coronavirus regulations are disincentivising leaving the house – and, according to Twitch statistics aggregator Twitch Tracker, it appears that supply has increased in tandem with demand.

Most governments are having to adjust their processes as the Covid-19 pandemic continues, but some are seeing a significant resurgence as the disease forces us to stay indoors. These are the governments of the world’s micronations, tiny countries not legally recognised by either the United Nations or any of the world’s quote unquote “genuine” nations.

There’s a debate, ongoing since really video games entered the mainstream consciousness, over whether games should be “political”. Are video games a distinct medium that are an escape from the drudgery of the day to day and which should be protected from the encroach of the “political”? Or should we endeavour for video games to be taken seriously as an art form and embrace its grappling with real world themes and issues?

My review of bizarre five-dimensional chess video game 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel for PowerSpike Games.

My review of choose-your-own-adventure game The Henry Stickmin Collection, a bizarre five chapter arcana of high jinks and shenaniganery.

My piece for the Daily Micronational on a lawsuit against the intelligence agency of micronational state the Empire of Abelden, brought by two micronational newspapers.

The animal welfare group PETA was pounced on by angry Twitter users earlier today for posting a Tweet about Animal Crossing.

An article explaining midterm elections in the United States.

A slightly parodical article about the system the US uses to elect the president.

The first part of my video series attempting to build an authoritarian social network about hammers. It makes sense in context.

The first part of my video series attempting to make a multiplayer, phone-as-controller video game.