Chris Schilling
@schillingc.bsky.social
Editorial director @lostincult. Author of IMMORTALITY: Design Works, Outer Wilds: Design Works. Critic (games/film). Formerly deputy editor, Edge. [email protected]. Utility friend par excellence.
Then we should do as its title suggests
Made with AI - Let it Die sequel Inferno discloses substantial generative AI use www.eurogamer.net/made-with-ai...
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Then we should do as its title suggests
A stupendously good video game. Always thought more text-based games would take cues from it, but maybe anything that drew from DEVICE 6 was always destined to be compared to it so no one tried
Simogo Legacy Collection • Spotlight 5: DEVICE 6
Available Dec 2! Wishlist:
Steam store.steampowered.com/app/3817040/...
Nintendo Switch www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Nintendo Switch 2 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Available Dec 2! Wishlist:
Steam store.steampowered.com/app/3817040/...
Nintendo Switch www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Nintendo Switch 2 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A stupendously good video game. Always thought more text-based games would take cues from it, but maybe anything that drew from DEVICE 6 was always destined to be compared to it so no one tried
Bizarre and wildly unhelpful that this summary is what comes up when you Google 'Outer Wilds reviews'. A scathing snippet from an extremely unrepresentative user review (the user average is even higher than the critical average) that doesn't even have the excuse of recency (it's from February 2022)
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Bizarre and wildly unhelpful that this summary is what comes up when you Google 'Outer Wilds reviews'. A scathing snippet from an extremely unrepresentative user review (the user average is even higher than the critical average) that doesn't even have the excuse of recency (it's from February 2022)
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5 whole years since we uploaded our first (mediocre) episode. Fortunately, some of the later ones were quite good.
Thank you for supporting us!
Thank you for supporting us!
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
5 whole years since we uploaded our first (mediocre) episode. Fortunately, some of the later ones were quite good.
Thank you for supporting us!
Thank you for supporting us!
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So I'm taking the plunge and ordering some PC parts over Black Friday.
If you appreciate what @startmenu.bsky.social has done over the years, like @rewinder.co.uk/my freelance work, or thought I didn't sound like an idiot on Game Mess Mornings, now would be a great time to show your appreciation.
If you appreciate what @startmenu.bsky.social has done over the years, like @rewinder.co.uk/my freelance work, or thought I didn't sound like an idiot on Game Mess Mornings, now would be a great time to show your appreciation.
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
So I'm taking the plunge and ordering some PC parts over Black Friday.
If you appreciate what @startmenu.bsky.social has done over the years, like @rewinder.co.uk/my freelance work, or thought I didn't sound like an idiot on Game Mess Mornings, now would be a great time to show your appreciation.
If you appreciate what @startmenu.bsky.social has done over the years, like @rewinder.co.uk/my freelance work, or thought I didn't sound like an idiot on Game Mess Mornings, now would be a great time to show your appreciation.
Oh, this packaging is ace, might have to pick up a retail copy to go with the subs version
If you’re picking up the new edition of Edge today, head for your local store's VHS section. For issue 418, we meet the Saber Interactive team behind John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, and bundle in a 2026 art calendar to celebrate the forthcoming 40th anniversary of The Legend Of Zelda.
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Oh, this packaging is ace, might have to pick up a retail copy to go with the subs version
Sektori may be the first game I've played where it's less my waning skills that are the issue but my eyesight. (It's very good, even if I am very bad at it.)
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Sektori may be the first game I've played where it's less my waning skills that are the issue but my eyesight. (It's very good, even if I am very bad at it.)
Are games fart?
The East LA level in Tony Hawk's American Sk8land has an elaborate secret involving an invisible rail that clips you through geometry to an out-of-bounds section of the map, revealing a message telling you to hide in the bushes in the Beverly Hills map.
When you do so, the game plays a fart noise.
When you do so, the game plays a fart noise.
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Are games fart?
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Could Starmer watch a video on his phone with volume on full blast, no headphones, on a train, next please?
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Could Starmer watch a video on his phone with volume on full blast, no headphones, on a train, next please?
Bill Macy is so good in Train Dreams – easily among my favourite supporting roles of 2025. And Kerry Condon isn't a bad replacement when he departs.
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Bill Macy is so good in Train Dreams – easily among my favourite supporting roles of 2025. And Kerry Condon isn't a bad replacement when he departs.
🪕Out-er Wilds, it's Outer Wilds it's Outer Wilds
Out-er Wilds, it's Outer Wilds it's Outer Wi-lds🪕
Out-er Wilds, it's Outer Wilds it's Outer Wi-lds🪕
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🪕Out-er Wilds, it's Outer Wilds it's Outer Wilds
Out-er Wilds, it's Outer Wilds it's Outer Wi-lds🪕
Out-er Wilds, it's Outer Wilds it's Outer Wi-lds🪕
Replayed this recently for obvious reasons and it's just *immaculate*
Simogo Legacy Collection • Spotlight 3: Beat Sneak Bandit
Available Dec 2! Wishlist:
Steam store.steampowered.com/app/3817040/...
Nintendo Switch www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Nintendo Switch 2 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Available Dec 2! Wishlist:
Steam store.steampowered.com/app/3817040/...
Nintendo Switch www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Nintendo Switch 2 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Replayed this recently for obvious reasons and it's just *immaculate*
When the Vatican releases a statement it's a vox pope
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
When the Vatican releases a statement it's a vox pope
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
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This is genuinely one of my favorite games of all time. It is so simple yet so clever and is filled with so many amazing details. And it's also very playable by someone who has absolutely no rhythm like me.
I cannot believe you can get this, Year Walk, and DEVICE 6 all together. Just magical.
I cannot believe you can get this, Year Walk, and DEVICE 6 all together. Just magical.
Simogo Legacy Collection • Spotlight 3: Beat Sneak Bandit
Available Dec 2! Wishlist:
Steam store.steampowered.com/app/3817040/...
Nintendo Switch www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Nintendo Switch 2 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Available Dec 2! Wishlist:
Steam store.steampowered.com/app/3817040/...
Nintendo Switch www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Nintendo Switch 2 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This is genuinely one of my favorite games of all time. It is so simple yet so clever and is filled with so many amazing details. And it's also very playable by someone who has absolutely no rhythm like me.
I cannot believe you can get this, Year Walk, and DEVICE 6 all together. Just magical.
I cannot believe you can get this, Year Walk, and DEVICE 6 all together. Just magical.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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As of today, the retail edition of How a Game Lives is available in bookstores, libraries, and online platforms. Ask for it locally! Get it from your favorite bookseller! bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
As of today, the retail edition of How a Game Lives is available in bookstores, libraries, and online platforms. Ask for it locally! Get it from your favorite bookseller! bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
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Ahead of Simogo Legacy Collection's launch next week, I had a chance to chat with Simon @simogo.com about preservation, Switch 2 input options, working with Nintendo, how it felt revisiting these games, coffee, and much more for @nintendoinsider.bsky.social: www.nintendo-insider.com/simogo-legac...
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Ahead of Simogo Legacy Collection's launch next week, I had a chance to chat with Simon @simogo.com about preservation, Switch 2 input options, working with Nintendo, how it felt revisiting these games, coffee, and much more for @nintendoinsider.bsky.social: www.nintendo-insider.com/simogo-legac...
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Join us! Looking for a contract animator on EU timezone to come work on the coolest secret game in development anywhere in the world (IMHO 😈) app.trinethire.com/companies/30...
Half Mermaid Productions | Senior Gameplay Animator
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November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Join us! Looking for a contract animator on EU timezone to come work on the coolest secret game in development anywhere in the world (IMHO 😈) app.trinethire.com/companies/30...
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The extent to which the storefronts dictate what games can reasonably be made is an ENORMOUS problem.
This is a particularly egregious example, and worth paying attention to: www.gamesindustry.biz/santa-ragion...
Besides the point, but I found HORSES to be deeply compelling (I don't like horror).
This is a particularly egregious example, and worth paying attention to: www.gamesindustry.biz/santa-ragion...
Besides the point, but I found HORSES to be deeply compelling (I don't like horror).
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The extent to which the storefronts dictate what games can reasonably be made is an ENORMOUS problem.
This is a particularly egregious example, and worth paying attention to: www.gamesindustry.biz/santa-ragion...
Besides the point, but I found HORSES to be deeply compelling (I don't like horror).
This is a particularly egregious example, and worth paying attention to: www.gamesindustry.biz/santa-ragion...
Besides the point, but I found HORSES to be deeply compelling (I don't like horror).
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Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
It would be disastrous if Santa Ragione were to close. Really hope this gets resolved and/or Horses is a success
NEW: Indie studio Santa Ragione is facing closure after its surreal horror title, Horses, was barred from Steam ahead of its upcoming December release
The studio behind Saturnalia and Wheels of Aurelia said Valve has yet to adequately explain why an early version of Horses was blacklisted in 2023.
The studio behind Saturnalia and Wheels of Aurelia said Valve has yet to adequately explain why an early version of Horses was blacklisted in 2023.
Indie dev Santa Ragione facing closure after Steam ban
The Italian studio's upcoming horror title, Horses, has been barred from Steam ahead of its release in December.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It would be disastrous if Santa Ragione were to close. Really hope this gets resolved and/or Horses is a success