The best Gaming Culture newsletters

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.

Rascal News is a tabletop roleplaying game and culture outlet that publishes voicey journalism and commentary on the RPG hobby, alongside community-submitted press releases. Readers get explainers on hobby discourse and announcements about new games, reprints and tools.

CASCADE CASCADE is a print and web magazine about the trading card game community, with a focus on Magic: The Gathering culture, design, and history. Recent issues announce a larger print edition with long-form features and share personal essays on friendship and playing card games as adults.

CritiqalHit publishes long-form video game reviews and personal commentary, with a conversational, irreverent voice that often uses movie analogies. Readers get opinionated takes on recent and classic games, weighing their artistic ambition and flaws.

ByteVortex.tech is an independent publication mixing practical homelab and Raspberry Pi guides, streaming tooling write-ups, and personal game development logs. Readers get hands-on tutorials alongside a maker's updates on their own TTRPG-inspired game and an archived homebrew campaign summary.

Insert Credit is a video game podcast in which a rotating panel of industry figures discusses topics like enjoyable bad games, memorable NPCs, and early internet ROM culture. Episode show notes are largely lists of references and links, with the substance living in the audio and video episodes.

Gameplay is a newsletter about video games and the virtual worlds shaping culture and community. Recent issues cover a mix of game news, sports sims, and nostalgic franchises in short, topical roundups.

A gaming newsletter that mixes affiliate-driven product pieces, such as an art book review and a retro console buying guide, with original fan-fiction set in game worlds like Dark Souls. Readers get light, general-interest gaming content with Amazon purchase links.