As I mentioned in my indie game roundup, I took a break from posting because of…y’know, and I guess I’m back at it because it takes my mind off things and brings me joy. If you enjoy these, subscribe to some blogs with a RSS feed reader (I use Inoreader) and start your own blog! Doesn’t have to be anything big, could just be with Zonelets or Bear Blog. We can at least make the web feel less small in 2025.

Photography

Game developer Yaffle now has a blog filled with lots of nice photographs.

I also enjoy the photography posts by Nicky Flowers.

Video Games

Collection Chamber is a great abandonware blog. Every month they upload five games that have been updated to work on modern operating systems.

Rob talks about two side blogs he’s started. Tatwatch is one focused on b-movies and Videogames is focused on video games. All three blogs are great and in my RSS feed reader.

Speaking of Rob, I also liked his review of the upcoming 3D Don’t Die Mr. Robot.

Ephemeral Enigmas wrote about the 1983 Intellivision game Dracula. I’ve really enjoyed this blog for retro games writing, often focusing on console games I’ve never heard of.

Good Old Days also writes about old games I’ve never heard of. This time they have a review of the Atari ST game Simulcra.

Final Fantasy VIII Is the Best is active again. Please follow this one if you’re remotely interested in lots of blog posts defending a game that gets a lot of criticism even from fans of the series.

Aura talks about games they’re interested in but don’t have time for because of IGF.

Harris Powell-Smith put together a list of Choice of Games releases made in October.

Tabletop RPGs

Clayton talks about his process for designing tabletop rpgs.

Binary Star Games writes about process optimization in tabletop rpgs.

Prismatic Wasteland did a thread of posts on Bluesky about people writing on vampires in tabletop rpgs if you’re looking for more ttrpg writing in your RSS feed reader.

Books

Tally recommends some books with creepy houses.

Transfer Orbit lists 22 new SFF books to distract you from a terrible November.

I really like the book reviews by the Lunar Flaneur. This time they recommend the sci-fi novel A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys.

Politics

ghoulnoise talks about how there was always going to be work to do.

Molly White tries to answer the question “what do I do now?”

Other Stuff

It’s not a blog post, I just like when cool people interview other cool people. Emily Price talks to Joe Richardson, creator of adventure games like The Procession to Calvary.

It’s not new but this seems like a nice guide to getting into making pixel art.