Design Room publishes long-form oral histories of video games, built from interviews with the people who made them, covering famous titles and obscure ones alike. Issues also include community features and occasional updates on the publication's paid tier and plans.

Games criticism by Nick Capozzoli, combining close reading of individual titles like Baby Steps and QWOP with essayistic arguments about how gaming discourse frames itself. The sample also includes a personal essay about losing a pet, which shows the writer's voice beyond games.

Brain Worms is an essay newsletter that explores strange and unusual questions about media, from genre labels in video games to cult-like books and the cultural history behind them. Each issue offers a long, witty, digressive piece that uses a quirky premise to examine how media works and how people think about it.

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.