I love hearing about the game sessions with your Dad. I enjoy sharing things with others, sometimes to a fault. Thankfully my wife is very understanding and open to trying new things. That’s how I got to show her Chrono Trigger and Breath of the Wild; the former she’s beaten twice and the latter she’s put over 200…

I finished up Wolfenstein and am now playing The Persistence, a VR roguelike System Shock for PSVR. For my money, the best part of System Shock is early on when you’re scrabbling for weapons, vulnerable to the various horrors everywhere and carefully sneaking around, and The Persistence basically extends that to the…

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The game of the week for me was Donut County. The charming polygons and colour palette won me over in the trailer, more so than the gameplay itself. But of course, with the Katamari Damacy-like premise of a hole swallowing stuff to become a bigger hole, Ben Esposito created a solid hook as well. This game is short but…

SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 2 OF LIFE IS STRANGE AND BEYOND:

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This week I played through Life Is Strange. Coming off of some smaller games, I wanted something substantial but not too open-world-like. Reading Wolfman Jew’s post on it, like often here, it made me want to play it and for once, I had the game in question ready to go. I finished the game just last night so it’s still…

Haha, that Kerouac-bit made me eye-roll as well. Max seemed way too prudish to appreciate Kerouac’s fucking around. Standard hipster-response. Most of her popculture drops and references seemed sincere though.

I will never understand the inclination some people have to refer to Zelda-style adventure games as RPGs.

Thank you, Wolfman. This is so incredibly kind and uplifting. Watching you grow as a writer and fixture of this community has been just as rewarding as all the people I’ve gotten to work with in an “official” capacity. I’m also so so glad I got to meet you in New York. Give me a holler if you ever want to talk or meet…

Thanks for writing this WJ. You speak for a lot of us.

Hey everyone, I just wanted to drop into the comments and thank you all for the support. It means the world to me, and it’s one of the few things helping me get through this. You’re the best.

Yup, me too.

Oh geez, this might actually have me tearing up over here. I'm so sorry to hear you're departing, Matt, but grateful for all you've done. I can genuinely say that my life would be less rich without the civil, thoughtful community that grew up around the Gameological Society. I'm looking forward to following your…

First of all, farewell, Matt. Thank you for cultivating this site to be a thoughtful, celebratory, and progressive voice in video games. It would have been so easy to let this little corner of the web fall victim to anger, snark, or clickbait (as even many other progressive-minded gaming publications have done!) but…

Gerardi, I am saddened to lose you, but happy for you. I know I’m not alone in saying this, but I don’t mind repeating what others have said; you’ve done a great job cultivating the loving, kind and intriguing community that is Gameological. I’m a relative newbie to the society, lurking since early 2017 and first posti…

Gerardi! What can I say? For years now, so much of the Gameological spirit has been spurred on by you words. I only wish I could have participated more, filling up and breaking more tabs with scintillating conversation. You’ll definitely be missed, and I’m glad to hear you won’t be quitting the Discord server.

Thanks for expressing what’s been so great about Matt and this place in a way far more eloquent than I could manage.

Hear, hear.

Thank you for such a poignant, blessed tribute above to everything I love about this place and what Matt has helped develop over these years. And I hope you have a wonderful time with Life is Strange should you venture into that world.