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Remap is a games-focused newsletter from the creators of Waypoint, offering long-form criticism and reflective essays on video games. Recent issues cover racing game design, the politics and tone of a penguin-perspective indie game, and the themes of war and flight in Ace Combat 8.
Stop Caring is a video game publication that examines games as artistic media, their cultural conversations, and personal lessons they offer. Its issues mix long-form interviews with indie developers and critical essays on mainstream titles and franchises.
A blog of niche game criticism that reads video games through cosmology, medieval history, folklore and the occult, with essays on The Witcher 3, Scriptorium and Dark Souls-era titles. Readers get long-form, historically grounded analysis and a retrospective on the blog's first decade.
Exalclaw pairs essays on video games and the stories behind them, such as a critical look at Penguin Colony's Lovecraftian themes, with experimental prose poems from the companion Observing Digital Space Debris series. Readers get thoughtful game criticism alongside surreal, introspective poetry.
Austin Walker's newsletter mixes personal updates with criticism of indie games, such as his thoughts on the Umurangi Generation makers' Penguin Colony. It also tracks the Kickstarter and design process behind his tabletop RPG Realis.
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