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...
#TheTwen2ie5
#50 HOT DAD - Rap Is Back (2024) +12!
Am I seriously saying the best song of the decade (so far) is a shoegaze song ironically about rap from a guy who mostly makes comedy music? Yes. Yes I am. And I'm right.
#50 HOT DAD - Rap Is Back (2024) +12!
Am I seriously saying the best song of the decade (so far) is a shoegaze song ironically about rap from a guy who mostly makes comedy music? Yes. Yes I am. And I'm right.
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
#TheTwen2ie5
#50 HOT DAD - Rap Is Back (2024) +12!
Am I seriously saying the best song of the decade (so far) is a shoegaze song ironically about rap from a guy who mostly makes comedy music? Yes. Yes I am. And I'm right.
#50 HOT DAD - Rap Is Back (2024) +12!
Am I seriously saying the best song of the decade (so far) is a shoegaze song ironically about rap from a guy who mostly makes comedy music? Yes. Yes I am. And I'm right.
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I feel like it is culturally important to note that I recently played an old episode of the Simpsons on Disney+ for some kids and then a random newer episode and the kids, unprompted, were like “how come this isn’t as funny?” so it’s not just nostalgia we are correct
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I feel like it is culturally important to note that I recently played an old episode of the Simpsons on Disney+ for some kids and then a random newer episode and the kids, unprompted, were like “how come this isn’t as funny?” so it’s not just nostalgia we are correct
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The Important Cinema Club returns to @ Eyesore Cinema for an Action Extravaganza on DECEMBER 8th! We're going to record a live podcast, show shorts, and a bone-breaking feature!
Buy your ticket now before they're gone: www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-very-imp...
Buy your ticket now before they're gone: www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-very-imp...
A Very Important Cinema Club Christmas Action Spectacular!
Join us for a LIVE! podcast recording, a screening of Christmas shorts, and a bone-breaking Holiday feature film extravaganza.
www.eventbrite.ca
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The Important Cinema Club returns to @ Eyesore Cinema for an Action Extravaganza on DECEMBER 8th! We're going to record a live podcast, show shorts, and a bone-breaking feature!
Buy your ticket now before they're gone: www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-very-imp...
Buy your ticket now before they're gone: www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-very-imp...
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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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...
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I hate every box I see
From Xbox One to 360
No you'll never stop me playing on PC
Oh my god! I was wrong
It was an Xbox all along
From Xbox One to 360
No you'll never stop me playing on PC
Oh my god! I was wrong
It was an Xbox all along
a cartoon of a man kneeling down next to another man
Alt: Animated gif of Troy McClure in the Planet of the Apes musical in the Simpsons.
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I hate every box I see
From Xbox One to 360
No you'll never stop me playing on PC
Oh my god! I was wrong
It was an Xbox all along
From Xbox One to 360
No you'll never stop me playing on PC
Oh my god! I was wrong
It was an Xbox all along
DID YOU KNOW: expzine.com has an RSS feed, and always has! Never miss a post: expzine.com/feed
RSS rules. RSS never became less relevant. RSS is a way to claw your agency back from silicon valley algorithmic timelines. That said if you use it you really are a sicko
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
DID YOU KNOW: expzine.com has an RSS feed, and always has! Never miss a post: expzine.com/feed
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Fun fact: that's Fran Healy of Travis doing the theme song (and it works incredibly well)
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Fun fact: that's Fran Healy of Travis doing the theme song (and it works incredibly well)
#TheTwen2ie5
#49 HAYLEY WILLIAMS - True Believer (2025)
Echoes of Chino Moreno's ††† here (not just because there's an upside down cross in the visualiser here) in what I think is my pick for 2025's best song (sorry Deafheaven). Powerful and beautiful and I can't help but loop it
#49 HAYLEY WILLIAMS - True Believer (2025)
Echoes of Chino Moreno's ††† here (not just because there's an upside down cross in the visualiser here) in what I think is my pick for 2025's best song (sorry Deafheaven). Powerful and beautiful and I can't help but loop it
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
#TheTwen2ie5
#49 HAYLEY WILLIAMS - True Believer (2025)
Echoes of Chino Moreno's ††† here (not just because there's an upside down cross in the visualiser here) in what I think is my pick for 2025's best song (sorry Deafheaven). Powerful and beautiful and I can't help but loop it
#49 HAYLEY WILLIAMS - True Believer (2025)
Echoes of Chino Moreno's ††† here (not just because there's an upside down cross in the visualiser here) in what I think is my pick for 2025's best song (sorry Deafheaven). Powerful and beautiful and I can't help but loop it
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I will be honest, I did not realize the unreleased Viewpoint 2064 even had a final version. As a fan of the original game and its various incarnations though, I can't wait to sit down with this over the holiday weekend!
FOUND! Viewpoint 2064 - FINAL VERSION preserved (N64)
YouTube video by Hard4Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I will be honest, I did not realize the unreleased Viewpoint 2064 even had a final version. As a fan of the original game and its various incarnations though, I can't wait to sit down with this over the holiday weekend!
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Our statement in solidarity with our fellow workers' ongoing protest against @rockstargames.com's gross union busting!
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Our statement in solidarity with our fellow workers' ongoing protest against @rockstargames.com's gross union busting!
Excited to see Kier Starmer's list of best Star Wars films, which I assume goes something like 1. Coronation Street 2. Strictly Come Dancing
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Excited to see Kier Starmer's list of best Star Wars films, which I assume goes something like 1. Coronation Street 2. Strictly Come Dancing
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HEADS UP: The owner of YIPEE-KAI YAI MOVIEGOER, who is releasing a bunch of Albert Pyun films, has angrily called and threatened someone who criticized one of their releases for using AI.
www.reddit.com/r/boutiquebl...
www.reddit.com/r/boutiquebl...
[Mature Content] From the boutiquebluray community on Reddit: Disturbing follow-up to Yippee Ki-Yay Mother Video's release of Albert Pyun's Road to Hell
Posted by xenago - 456 votes and 200 comments
www.reddit.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
HEADS UP: The owner of YIPEE-KAI YAI MOVIEGOER, who is releasing a bunch of Albert Pyun films, has angrily called and threatened someone who criticized one of their releases for using AI.
www.reddit.com/r/boutiquebl...
www.reddit.com/r/boutiquebl...
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EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
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I have no "useless video game knowledge." All of it is vital.
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I have no "useless video game knowledge." All of it is vital.
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Udo Kier's first and only post on Twitter 💯
March 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Udo Kier's first and only post on Twitter 💯
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RIP Udo Kier
‘I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.’
‘I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.’
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
RIP Udo Kier
‘I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.’
‘I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.’
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In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
#TheTwen2ie5
#48 NICHOLAS BRITELL - NIAMOS! (Chandrilian Club Mix) (2025)
Dance like your enemies are watching.
#48 NICHOLAS BRITELL - NIAMOS! (Chandrilian Club Mix) (2025)
Dance like your enemies are watching.
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
#TheTwen2ie5
#48 NICHOLAS BRITELL - NIAMOS! (Chandrilian Club Mix) (2025)
Dance like your enemies are watching.
#48 NICHOLAS BRITELL - NIAMOS! (Chandrilian Club Mix) (2025)
Dance like your enemies are watching.
Alright, well I don't mind mentioning again that Every Game I've Finished 14>24 is still available in paperback and digitally and I need more reviews on Amazon and Goodreads!
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Alright, well I don't mind mentioning again that Every Game I've Finished 14>24 is still available in paperback and digitally and I need more reviews on Amazon and Goodreads!
Fascinated by this. He's made some sort of instant calculation any film he could name might be taken to mean something. What's the most inoffensive film you can think of? Like he can't blandly say "Loved Star Wars as a kid" in case anyone points out Luke Skywalker is an anti-fascist terrorist etc.
November 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Fascinated by this. He's made some sort of instant calculation any film he could name might be taken to mean something. What's the most inoffensive film you can think of? Like he can't blandly say "Loved Star Wars as a kid" in case anyone points out Luke Skywalker is an anti-fascist terrorist etc.
Got an ad for ModRetro over on Instagram. Reported them for selling weapons
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Got an ad for ModRetro over on Instagram. Reported them for selling weapons
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"kick it! the ball!!!"
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"kick it! the ball!!!"