We are a volunteer-run writing collective working at the intersection of academic game studies and popular game criticism. We've got gaming stories to tell; we bet you do, too. www.gamerswithglasses.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mx6fcxrbfk2yNew interview on the site! @aguaspoints.bsky.social and Julie Normann Bjørnskov talk Escape the Baby Alarm. https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/interviews/how-being-a-parent-influenced-escape-the-baby-alarm06 Oct 2026 02:33 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx6fcxrbfk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mwt5hwkcsc2iNew feature! @mayorhere.bsky.social wrote about Pragmata, other minds, and the relationships people create with AI. https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/pragmata-ai-minds01 Oct 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt5hwkcsc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mwbytg7lh22ySometimes, you write about games. Sometimes, you write about not playing games. Sometimes there's a game called Exhausted Man, and you do both. New from @edmondchang.bsky.social, looking back on a summer without games through the lens of ludofatigue: https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/the-summer-without-games-or-living-with-ludofatigue24 Sep 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwbytg7lh22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mvivyil5w22kNew review of Future? No Thanks! from contributor @prankorigami.bsky.social . Check out this utopian dream. https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/future-no-thanks-review14 Sep 2026 20:07 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvivyil5w22khttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mvivyil5w22kNew review of Future? No Thanks! from contributor @prankorigami.bsky.social . Check out this utopian dream. https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/future-no-thanks-review14 Sep 2026 20:07 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvivyil5w22khttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mv3q3kha7k27The day after the day after Labor Day is still Labor Day https://kotaku.com/blizzard-workers-union-contract-microsoft-200073242209 Sep 2026 14:17 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3q3kha7k27https://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mux3eueclk2kAnd also this one, from @mayorhere.bsky.social! We really had so much to say about friendslop https://medium.com/@spencer2457/learning-how-to-fish-badly-with-guns-95e5a4030b4607 Sep 2026 17:56 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mux3eueclk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3muuoyqb45s25It was so fun to be part of this! So much great stuff here [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Sep 2026 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3muuoyqb45s25https://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3muukj3rz2c2yThis is very cool. Check out the piece from @corndruid.bsky.social in our pages, and also good stuff from regular contributors @aguaspoints.bsky.social and @exalclaw.com! [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Sep 2026 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3muukj3rz2c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mucrozjf3k25"Here’s a dizzying world full of absurd obstacles that come at you out of nowhere, and here’s something unwieldy, chaotic, and fragile to carry. You don’t need to know where you’re going or why; the only instruction is, 'Don’t break this.'" https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/carry-the-glass-parenting-friendslop-jam30 Aug 2026 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucrozjf3k25https://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3muaay77lys2v"The premise intrigues me because it...feels like a subversion of the Divine Comedy’s obsession with a divinely-mandated system of reward and punishment." @skycherry.bsky.social returns to @astralshiftpro.com's Hell Maiden in early access. https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/hell-maiden-early-access-dante29 Aug 2026 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3muaay77lys2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mtwove2pd22qTo the true Dead Space heads among us: we haven't published a book review in a while, but this one's for you. @mayorhere.bsky.social reviews Make Us Whole by @unabridgedgamer.bsky.social, published by the mighty @lostincult.co.uk. https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/how-dead-space-consumed-itself-review-of-elijah-beahms-make-us-whole25 Aug 2026 20:47 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwove2pd22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mtbuhu4gmc22New on the site is a Forbidden Solitaire review from @aetataureate.bsky.social! Let's talk interactive art aesthetics, online representation, strategy, and design. https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/forbidden-solitaire-from-representation-to-manipulation17 Aug 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbuhu4gmc22https://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3msqaxinrzc2sGwG's very own correspondant canard, @srtrzinski.bsky.social, shares her impressions of Duck Side of the Moon! Come for the disco, stay for the community. https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/impressions/duck-side-of-the-moon10 Aug 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqaxinrzc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3ms7butakl22b@mayorhere.bsky.social on Saros: "Robert W. Chambers's Yellow Shore becomes more knowable in Saros than the original myth ever was, and something is lost in that. But the core idea survives: the horror was never the Shore. It was always the wanting." https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/saros-chambers-horror-desire03 Aug 2026 19:58 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7butakl22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mr6dt34u622hWhat makes a good map? @srtrzinski.bsky.social offers a brief taxonomy of game maps while making the case that it can be okay to just want clear directions from point A to point B. https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/help-im-lost-maps-for-the-directionally-challenged21 Jul 2026 17:35 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6dt34u622hhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mqwpyfifgs26Doing a little archival maintenance today. Christian, Nate, and Don were on to something with this trio of short game blurbs about Umurangi Generation, Pivotal, and End of the Skyline back in 2020. https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/indie-cyberpunk-games-part-218 Jul 2026 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqwpyfifgs26https://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mq5uylueuc2j@corndruid.bsky.social on Perfect Tides: Station to Station by @meredithgran.com: "When you examine the idea for even just a second, it’s pretty strange that we ever talk about 'the college experience' in the singular." https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/perfect-tides-station-to-station-loves-truths08 Jul 2026 19:44 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq5uylueuc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mppon6qebs2zNew on the site is our first interview for quite a while: @optional.bsky.social had a conversation with @gimblll.com about Sektori, arcade games, roguelikes, and that thumping soundtrack. https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/interviews/interview-kimmo-lahtinen-sektori03 Jul 2026 04:13 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mppon6qebs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mppon6qebs2zNew on the site is our first interview for quite a while: @optional.bsky.social had a conversation with @gimblll.com about Sektori, arcade games, roguelikes, and that thumping soundtrack. https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/interviews/interview-kimmo-lahtinen-sektori03 Jul 2026 04:13 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mppon6qebs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamerswithglasses.bsky.social/post/3mpmhr2esm22vAfter editing this one, @optional.bsky.social couldn't resist playing it. His thoughts are now appended to the piece by way of the "Editor's Glasses" thing we do sometimes. Interpretation on interpretation! [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:4edaodr2xjhh4kobj4emxh6e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmhr2esm22v