Chris Plante
@plante.bsky.social
host and founder, Post Games
co-host, The Besties
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Watch Post Games video shorts on your app of choice!
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This video explains how The Game Awards actually work
- The voting
- The categories
- The many different names and reboots over the years
- The reasons games like Mario Kart World and Blue Prince will *never* win the top Game of the Year prize
- And a whole lot more
- The voting
- The categories
- The many different names and reboots over the years
- The reasons games like Mario Kart World and Blue Prince will *never* win the top Game of the Year prize
- And a whole lot more
The history (and secrets) of The Game Awards (Oli Welsh) | Post Games
Get more from Post Games on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This video explains how The Game Awards actually work
- The voting
- The categories
- The many different names and reboots over the years
- The reasons games like Mario Kart World and Blue Prince will *never* win the top Game of the Year prize
- And a whole lot more
- The voting
- The categories
- The many different names and reboots over the years
- The reasons games like Mario Kart World and Blue Prince will *never* win the top Game of the Year prize
- And a whole lot more
Reposted by Chris Plante
Anyway anyway
do you wanna play horses but *dont* wanna play horses?
Play Mouthwashing
do you wanna play horses but *dont* wanna play horses?
Play Mouthwashing
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Anyway anyway
do you wanna play horses but *dont* wanna play horses?
Play Mouthwashing
do you wanna play horses but *dont* wanna play horses?
Play Mouthwashing
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Four very good reviews here that all have totally different reads, but all feel like they’re in conversation with one another. Extremely healthy and GOOD.
www.wired.com/story/horses...
www.eurogamer.net/horses-review
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
www.theverge.com/games/839464...
www.wired.com/story/horses...
www.eurogamer.net/horses-review
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
www.theverge.com/games/839464...
‘Horses,’ the Most Controversial Game of the Year, Doesn’t Live Up to the Hype
First it was banned. Then its sales blew up. But “Horses” fails to meet the lofty goals of its own ideas.
www.wired.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Four very good reviews here that all have totally different reads, but all feel like they’re in conversation with one another. Extremely healthy and GOOD.
www.wired.com/story/horses...
www.eurogamer.net/horses-review
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
www.theverge.com/games/839464...
www.wired.com/story/horses...
www.eurogamer.net/horses-review
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
www.theverge.com/games/839464...
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If I didn't get to that game you wanted me to play it's because I was busy finishing the games I already loved.
December is often about getting to the industry's most hyped games and beloved hidden gems, but this year I didn't want to lose myself amidst all the releases and recommendations.
Here's My Pursuit to Finish the Games I Claim to Love.
pentopixels.com/article/fini...
Here's My Pursuit to Finish the Games I Claim to Love.
pentopixels.com/article/fini...
December 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
If I didn't get to that game you wanted me to play it's because I was busy finishing the games I already loved.
Orange County/LA people:
Come see the movie that almost certainly inspired Home Alone, but is somehow EVEN MORE VIOLENT!
Come see the movie that almost certainly inspired Home Alone, but is somehow EVEN MORE VIOLENT!
Our December edition of @plante.bsky.social’s Hallucinations series, is the Christmas classic DIAL CODE SANTA CLAUS aka Deadly Games aka 3615 code Père Noël aka Hide and Freak!
Dec 17th 🎅🏻🔪
🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/dial-...
Dec 17th 🎅🏻🔪
🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/dial-...
December 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Orange County/LA people:
Come see the movie that almost certainly inspired Home Alone, but is somehow EVEN MORE VIOLENT!
Come see the movie that almost certainly inspired Home Alone, but is somehow EVEN MORE VIOLENT!
My wife and son are traveling for a wedding, and I have Game Award obligations most of next week, so I'll need to work through this weekend.
Obvs, I don't endorse crunch, and this isn't my normal. But damn, working the occasional weekend feels existentially easier when it's for your own business.
Obvs, I don't endorse crunch, and this isn't my normal. But damn, working the occasional weekend feels existentially easier when it's for your own business.
December 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
My wife and son are traveling for a wedding, and I have Game Award obligations most of next week, so I'll need to work through this weekend.
Obvs, I don't endorse crunch, and this isn't my normal. But damn, working the occasional weekend feels existentially easier when it's for your own business.
Obvs, I don't endorse crunch, and this isn't my normal. But damn, working the occasional weekend feels existentially easier when it's for your own business.
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it's friday night and that means it's time to let everyone know that my piece about silksong's relationship with faith is live for patrons!
will go public on monday, hope you all like it <3
check it out early here: www.patreon.com/posts/why-si...
will go public on monday, hope you all like it <3
check it out early here: www.patreon.com/posts/why-si...
December 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
it's friday night and that means it's time to let everyone know that my piece about silksong's relationship with faith is live for patrons!
will go public on monday, hope you all like it <3
check it out early here: www.patreon.com/posts/why-si...
will go public on monday, hope you all like it <3
check it out early here: www.patreon.com/posts/why-si...
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TOTAL CHAOS — a game title that requires you growl it like kurt russell — made me want to puke and quote lord byron ⛄ that's kinda what the long nights of winter inspire, too @apogeeent.com
www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...
www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...
Nearly 10 years later, Doom 2 mod Total Chaos is reborn as a standalone horror FPS I'll be playing all winter, and it makes Silent Hill look like a rom-com
Indie Spotlight | Sam Prebble's gothic Doom 2 mod is now bigger, darker, and more haunting than ever
www.gamesradar.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
TOTAL CHAOS — a game title that requires you growl it like kurt russell — made me want to puke and quote lord byron ⛄ that's kinda what the long nights of winter inspire, too @apogeeent.com
www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...
www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...
The conversation about the ban was/is important and necessary, but I'm glad we're moving into the "What about the actual game" part of the discourse.
wrote about Horses, which should be defended against censorship, and also is a game I think is bad :) www.wired.com/story/horses...
Horses, the Most Controversial Game of the Year, Doesn’t Live Up to the Hype
First it was banned. Then its sales blew up. But Horses fails to meet the lofty goals of its own ideas.
www.wired.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The conversation about the ban was/is important and necessary, but I'm glad we're moving into the "What about the actual game" part of the discourse.
This video explains how The Game Awards actually work
- The voting
- The categories
- The many different names and reboots over the years
- The reasons games like Mario Kart World and Blue Prince will *never* win the top Game of the Year prize
- And a whole lot more
- The voting
- The categories
- The many different names and reboots over the years
- The reasons games like Mario Kart World and Blue Prince will *never* win the top Game of the Year prize
- And a whole lot more
The history (and secrets) of The Game Awards (Oli Welsh) | Post Games
Get more from Post Games on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This video explains how The Game Awards actually work
- The voting
- The categories
- The many different names and reboots over the years
- The reasons games like Mario Kart World and Blue Prince will *never* win the top Game of the Year prize
- And a whole lot more
- The voting
- The categories
- The many different names and reboots over the years
- The reasons games like Mario Kart World and Blue Prince will *never* win the top Game of the Year prize
- And a whole lot more
Which brave internet soul will cosplay an icon?
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Which brave internet soul will cosplay an icon?
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this was sooo good
hi its 🐝 yourself friday :) i wrote on my blog about keep driving, a road trip rpg that was very touching to me leavingtheparty.blog/2025/12/05/k...
“keep driving” is sad in the way that teenagers with cars almost always are
some spoilers below, including spoilers for one of the many endings “Dandelion” off the album “Nuet” by Dorena. please purchase this song on bandcamp, and listen while you r…
leavingtheparty.blog
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
this was sooo good
Video games: still good
We JUST debuted Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator's Steam page at the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted showcase--and you can PLAY THE DEMO TODAY!
💰Day trade as a series of weirdoes across the universe
🙏Owe a loan shark who can legally kill you
💵Short a baby
store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...
💰Day trade as a series of weirdoes across the universe
🙏Owe a loan shark who can legally kill you
💵Short a baby
store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Video games: still good
I'm really grateful that @marioprime.bsky.social and the many other folks at @polygon.com are putting in the work to keep the site relevant. I would be disappointed to see the site wiped off the internet like so many others.
Further proof companies don't make publications. The people do.
Further proof companies don't make publications. The people do.
Horses' only sin is that its broad themes don't entirely pay off its loaded imagery. Otherwise, it's an effectively uncomfortable games that turns life's mundane humiliations into surreal horror. If anything, its bans fill in its thematic gaps for it. My review. www.polygon.com/horses-banne...
Horses review - the banned Steam game doesn't deserve its ban
Horses tackles life's daily humiliations with surreal horror that will make you squirm
www.polygon.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I'm really grateful that @marioprime.bsky.social and the many other folks at @polygon.com are putting in the work to keep the site relevant. I would be disappointed to see the site wiped off the internet like so many others.
Further proof companies don't make publications. The people do.
Further proof companies don't make publications. The people do.
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I am kind of in awe of the fact that Gio can go from a pitch-perfect Deadpool review that makes me want to throw my phone out a window to this nuanced piece on outsider art and its unwanted but now inextricable metacommentary.
Horses' only sin is that its broad themes don't entirely pay off its loaded imagery. Otherwise, it's an effectively uncomfortable games that turns life's mundane humiliations into surreal horror. If anything, its bans fill in its thematic gaps for it. My review. www.polygon.com/horses-banne...
Horses review - the banned Steam game doesn't deserve its ban
Horses tackles life's daily humiliations with surreal horror that will make you squirm
www.polygon.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I am kind of in awe of the fact that Gio can go from a pitch-perfect Deadpool review that makes me want to throw my phone out a window to this nuanced piece on outsider art and its unwanted but now inextricable metacommentary.
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
Thank you @kerrblimey.bsky.social for inviting me to participate in this alongside so many incredible indie journalists!
'We survive or fail on our own terms:' The rise and risk of independent game media
'We survive or fail on our own terms:' The rise and risk of independent game media
Can worker-owned outlets create a brighter future for video game journalists and their readers?
www.gamedeveloper.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Thank you @kerrblimey.bsky.social for inviting me to participate in this alongside so many incredible indie journalists!
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Games can deliver some truly memorable locations, and Henry reflects on how he's come to better appreciate their intricacies across the years.
Learning to Better Appreciate The Worlds We Wander
When games become travel destinations.
www.rewinder.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Games can deliver some truly memorable locations, and Henry reflects on how he's come to better appreciate their intricacies across the years.
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We are recruiting game makers affected by the 'NSFW' policy changes on Steam and itch.io for a survey. This survey is part of a broader project on the factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of porn games. More info about the project and survey at www.pppproject.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We are recruiting game makers affected by the 'NSFW' policy changes on Steam and itch.io for a survey. This survey is part of a broader project on the factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of porn games. More info about the project and survey at www.pppproject.com
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One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
I can’t stop playing this game. You could be in my predicament!
ANGELINE ERA releases in FIVE DAYS!!
Want to stream it on launch day? Write a last-minute review?
WE HAVE LOTS OF KEYS!! GET IN TOUCH NOW!!! [email protected]
otherwise... BUMP THE WISHLIST BUTTON!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
Want to stream it on launch day? Write a last-minute review?
WE HAVE LOTS OF KEYS!! GET IN TOUCH NOW!!! [email protected]
otherwise... BUMP THE WISHLIST BUTTON!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
December 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I can’t stop playing this game. You could be in my predicament!
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I wrote about the Horses controversy debacle, and I hope this game manages to get its time in the sun, despite not being very "fun" www.rogue.site/editorials/h...
Games are allowed to be messy and miserable
There's merit to controversial and ugly stories
www.rogue.site
December 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I wrote about the Horses controversy debacle, and I hope this game manages to get its time in the sun, despite not being very "fun" www.rogue.site/editorials/h...
NEW FUNLAND ALERT
AIM FOR THE STARS: FUNLAND NO. 5 HAS LANDED
@oniongames.bsky.social's YOSHIRO KIMURA on life on Earth. @lukewasthefish.bsky.social on life on alien worlds (or at least SLC). @kaittremblay.bsky.social on death in the cosmos.
Cover by @alexanderlaird.bsky.social
funland.itch.io/funland-zine...
@oniongames.bsky.social's YOSHIRO KIMURA on life on Earth. @lukewasthefish.bsky.social on life on alien worlds (or at least SLC). @kaittremblay.bsky.social on death in the cosmos.
Cover by @alexanderlaird.bsky.social
funland.itch.io/funland-zine...
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
NEW FUNLAND ALERT
I love this book. Perfect for a cold, snowy weekend
In case you didn't know, @kodansha.us is offering 31 days of FREE digital manga!
Today's giveaway is Volume 1 of A Sign of Affection!
kodansha.us/2025/12/01/t...
Today's giveaway is Volume 1 of A Sign of Affection!
kodansha.us/2025/12/01/t...
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I love this book. Perfect for a cold, snowy weekend
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every year npr puts out the best, most diverse goty list. there are always so many games on here that i haven't played, let alone heard of. it's very cool. i'm super excited to be part of it this year!
From indies like Blue Prince to big console exclusives like Donkey Kong Bananza, NPR staff members and contributors round up their favorite games of 2025. n.pr/3K8WaF5
The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff
From indies like Blue Prince to big console exclusives like Donkey Kong Bananza, NPR staff members and contributors round up their favorite games of 2025.
n.pr
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
every year npr puts out the best, most diverse goty list. there are always so many games on here that i haven't played, let alone heard of. it's very cool. i'm super excited to be part of it this year!