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I used to run an indie gaming YouTube channel for six years, and was a games journalist for nine, which means I’ve picked up a lot of indie games over the years that I was never able to cover. Many of these I’ve forgotten I even owned, so I wanted to share some of them to make up for lost time, I suppose.

Foreigner is CJ Cherryh at her absolute best, a fantastic novel that’s smartly written and with a well-realized world. It’s got a couple of small hiccups, but this book shows why Cherryh is considered one of the foundational sci-fi writers of our time.

This is a (sadly small) list of studios and individuals who have vowed to not use genAI in their games. I can’t say for sure it’s every single studio because annoying articles don’t get written about people who speak against AI, so I had to rely on social media.

I was frustrated by the lack of articles listing every video game studio confirmed to be using AI, so I made my own.

I have far too many books I’ve bought years ago that have been sitting around. These include a bunch from CJ Cherryh, Terry Pratchett, and Colson Whitehead, and a few others.

These are the best books I read in 2025, not necessarily the ones that came out this year. There’s a surprise appearance by a Greek goddess, a book looking a Japanese terrorist attack, CJ Cherryh’s sci-fi/fantasy mash-up, and a few more.

Dead Talent Society and Good News came out of nowhere and were incredible. I watched my first Wong Kar-wai and instantly fell in love, and a Stephen Chow movie makes an appearance, though probably not the one you’re expecting.

I was reading the Promise Mascot Agency art book and it really illustrates (no pun intended) why AI will never be able to create art.

Mega-consolidation is as much a threat as AI. Paramount being allowed to takeover Warner Bros., the PIF being allowed to snap up EA, and similar future deals will have devastating effects for everyone.

Google just can’t stop being evil. Their latest ploy? Changing article headlines using AI. The results? Exactly as you’d expect.

Google just can’t stop being evil. Their latest ploy? Changing article headlines using AI. The results? Exactly as you’d expect.

I read a short story collection with stories from George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Connie Willis, and Larry Nivens, but by far was my favorite from an author you likely never heard of.

Peertube is a video-hosting platform similar to YouTube, but different in a lot of ways. It’s free and open source, it runs on several different instances, and there’s no algorithm dictating what viewers can watch or what creators can make.

Having loved Gate of Ivrel, I eagerly snatched up several more CJ Cherryh books from eBay. One of them was Heavy Time, part of her Company Wars sub-series in the greater Alliance-Union Universe. The third book in this sub-series, Downbelow Station won Cherryh her first Hugo, so I was excited for this.

Around this time some 13 years ago, I had took a seasonal job at Toys R Us, the “happiest place on Earth.” It was the worst job I ever had.

Gate of Ivrel, by CJ Cherryh, is a fantastic blend of science fiction and fantasy. Great characters, a fun world, and just so well written. I loved this book, one of my favorites of the year for sure.

I - a complete Linux-illiterate - have spent the last seven months trying and mostly failing to get Linux to work on my desktop.