Mathew Kumar
@mathewkumar.com
Writer of exp. magazine (https://expzine.com). Game developer for hire. He/They.
Every Game I've Finished 14>24 is OUT NOW: amazon.com/dp/B0DJPFPVFT Patreon: patreon.com/expzine
Every Game I've Finished 14>24 is OUT NOW: amazon.com/dp/B0DJPFPVFT Patreon: patreon.com/expzine
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Mathew Kumar
@mathewkumar.com
· Sep 16
Pleased to announced that exp. 2602, a new #zine in my exploration of the 1970s releases for the Atari 2600, is available for pre-order NOW at our new online store! Read more: expzine.com/2025/09/16/a...
Via @dylancuthbert.bsky.social and @retrogamermag.bsky.social, if I ever interview Miyamoto it’s gonna be a Nardwuar-style affair where I suddenly surprise him with some digestives
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Via @dylancuthbert.bsky.social and @retrogamermag.bsky.social, if I ever interview Miyamoto it’s gonna be a Nardwuar-style affair where I suddenly surprise him with some digestives
Pro Wrestling is one of the very best of the NES black boxes:
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Pro Wrestling is one of the very best of the NES black boxes:
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On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we share Tareq al-Karmy’s poem Not Only Rivers, translated by Alasdair Gray for A Bird Is Not a Stone, featuring translations of both established & emerging Palestinian poets translated by 24 Scottish writers.
November 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we share Tareq al-Karmy’s poem Not Only Rivers, translated by Alasdair Gray for A Bird Is Not a Stone, featuring translations of both established & emerging Palestinian poets translated by 24 Scottish writers.
I don’t think people understand how urgent this is. Due to climate change, they are coming to the day they will have to abandon Tehran. Meanwhile in the west we accelerate our ecocide: maybe the next Moai, sorry AI data center, will fix the problem?
November 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I don’t think people understand how urgent this is. Due to climate change, they are coming to the day they will have to abandon Tehran. Meanwhile in the west we accelerate our ecocide: maybe the next Moai, sorry AI data center, will fix the problem?
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It's Black Friday! If you're shopping on Amazon, it'd be cool if you'd add the paperback version of Every Game I've Finished 14>24 to your cart: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJPFPVFT
If you prefer digital, the PDF/epub version is ON SALE for 25% off all weekend at the exp. store. Just $7.49! Why not?
If you prefer digital, the PDF/epub version is ON SALE for 25% off all weekend at the exp. store. Just $7.49! Why not?
Every Game I've Finished 14>24 (Digital) - exp.
The epub/pdf edition of Every Game I’ve Finished 14>24. “One of the finest of his generation of critics”—Kieron Gillen (Die, The Wicked + The Divine) Fifty-two essays composing the very best of…
expzine.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It's Black Friday! If you're shopping on Amazon, it'd be cool if you'd add the paperback version of Every Game I've Finished 14>24 to your cart: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJPFPVFT
If you prefer digital, the PDF/epub version is ON SALE for 25% off all weekend at the exp. store. Just $7.49! Why not?
If you prefer digital, the PDF/epub version is ON SALE for 25% off all weekend at the exp. store. Just $7.49! Why not?
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truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind
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The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
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This review has a VERY interesting take. Will history remember Kumar as the genius he is? Or just some wacko.
New exp. for supporters! Baby Steps is absolutely as good as everyone says it is. The best game-feel of the year. But is what it asks of you... necessary? expzine.com/2025/11/27/b...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This review has a VERY interesting take. Will history remember Kumar as the genius he is? Or just some wacko.
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Wish I had a pitch this good for expzine.com
Want to know the fate of STARLIGHT THE HORSE? Sorry, you'll have to read the blog
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Wish I had a pitch this good for expzine.com
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i think that, in the ends, it's the obsessive need to whitewash it — to make israel not simply just another country but the perfect country, the blameless country, the hero country that defines the best and brightest a country could possible be — that made the contradictions inescapable…
Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
i think that, in the ends, it's the obsessive need to whitewash it — to make israel not simply just another country but the perfect country, the blameless country, the hero country that defines the best and brightest a country could possible be — that made the contradictions inescapable…
It's Black Friday! If you're shopping on Amazon, it'd be cool if you'd add the paperback version of Every Game I've Finished 14>24 to your cart: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJPFPVFT
If you prefer digital, the PDF/epub version is ON SALE for 25% off all weekend at the exp. store. Just $7.49! Why not?
If you prefer digital, the PDF/epub version is ON SALE for 25% off all weekend at the exp. store. Just $7.49! Why not?
Every Game I've Finished 14>24 (Digital) - exp.
The epub/pdf edition of Every Game I’ve Finished 14>24. “One of the finest of his generation of critics”—Kieron Gillen (Die, The Wicked + The Divine) Fifty-two essays composing the very best of…
expzine.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It's Black Friday! If you're shopping on Amazon, it'd be cool if you'd add the paperback version of Every Game I've Finished 14>24 to your cart: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJPFPVFT
If you prefer digital, the PDF/epub version is ON SALE for 25% off all weekend at the exp. store. Just $7.49! Why not?
If you prefer digital, the PDF/epub version is ON SALE for 25% off all weekend at the exp. store. Just $7.49! Why not?
From the exp. archive: ModNation Racers (San Diego Studio, 2010):
ModNation Racers (San Diego Studio, 2010) - exp.
A racetrack is always a racetrack.
expzine.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
From the exp. archive: ModNation Racers (San Diego Studio, 2010):
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This is true and it's why it's important to support independent critics... like me!!! I just posted a 2500 word essay on Baby Steps and I've worked hard this year to talk about more new and independent games like it. I don't have any steady income right now, just $1 per month makes a difference:
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is true and it's why it's important to support independent critics... like me!!! I just posted a 2500 word essay on Baby Steps and I've worked hard this year to talk about more new and independent games like it. I don't have any steady income right now, just $1 per month makes a difference:
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New exp. for supporters! Baby Steps is absolutely as good as everyone says it is. The best game-feel of the year. But is what it asks of you... necessary? expzine.com/2025/11/27/b...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New exp. for supporters! Baby Steps is absolutely as good as everyone says it is. The best game-feel of the year. But is what it asks of you... necessary? expzine.com/2025/11/27/b...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
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Like we’re all clear this is as dangerous as it is farcical right
The lengths the British government will go to please the Israeli government.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Sally Rooney books may be pulled from UK, court told
Normal People author Sally Rooney's books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to "uncertainty" caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the British High ...
www.rte.ie
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Like we’re all clear this is as dangerous as it is farcical right
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what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
This is true and it's why it's important to support independent critics... like me!!! I just posted a 2500 word essay on Baby Steps and I've worked hard this year to talk about more new and independent games like it. I don't have any steady income right now, just $1 per month makes a difference:
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is true and it's why it's important to support independent critics... like me!!! I just posted a 2500 word essay on Baby Steps and I've worked hard this year to talk about more new and independent games like it. I don't have any steady income right now, just $1 per month makes a difference:
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Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
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Inflation made 100k a year for a family go from upper middle class to struggling. With most of this inflation happening since the turn of the century.
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Inflation made 100k a year for a family go from upper middle class to struggling. With most of this inflation happening since the turn of the century.
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There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon poisoned with herbicide
Exclusive: Unknown culprit suspected of spraying glyphosate on protected trees hoped to stop peat erosion and flooding
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
New exp. for supporters! Baby Steps is absolutely as good as everyone says it is. The best game-feel of the year. But is what it asks of you... necessary? expzine.com/2025/11/27/b...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New exp. for supporters! Baby Steps is absolutely as good as everyone says it is. The best game-feel of the year. But is what it asks of you... necessary? expzine.com/2025/11/27/b...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
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It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.