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James Tocchio
@jamestocchio.bsky.social
✏️Writer, video games, cameras & fiction
👋 https://www.clippings.me/users/jamestocchio
📝Editor at http://CasualPhotophile.com
📷Owner http://Fstopcameras.com
🧡Nerd at http://GGDreamcast.com
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My big feature on Lumines and interview with Tetsuya Mizuguchi is in this one, alongside so many great articles. If you’ve not checked out Retro Gamer yet, this is a great time to start.
Here's the newsstand edition of @retrogamermag.bsky.social which will be out on Thursday.
Well they messed up but I have a 3D printer so I can fix it.
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Great stuff
This marks one year of my column. I really love writing it, and hopefully it saves my loved ones a few lectures.
ICYMI: "Still, the embodied complications of an accelerated puberty are more interesting, and more frightening to me, than the well-trodden sci-fi abstractions of what makes a human."

@nochshorn.bsky.social digs into the real fear of Alien: Earth:
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Love that Unwinnable and its excellent contributors often point me to things I’d never otherwise see.
my first article for unwinnable is about @neal.fun 's i'm not a robot!
"The state of modern technology is overwhelmingly miserable, and I’m Not a Robot works so well because it laughs with you about it."

@beewertheimer.com plays I’m Not a Robot, a game that puts you through an absurd CAPTCHA gauntlet:
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Vib Ribbon’s disc art is gorgeous.
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Taking this all very seriously for a character that once evaded capture by dressing as a whole clown. And don't forget the pigeon that did a double-take...
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Don't think, don't wait. Go buy this game now. It is perfect.
🎉 Lumines Arise Available Now for PS5 and Steam 🚀

Light, sound and haptics unite your senses. Feel the good vibes. Puzzle differently.

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2370000/Lumines_Arise
PS5: store.playstation.com/concept/10011885

lumines.game #LuminesArise
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I really want to write a very specific video game article for Rolling Stone.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Sorry about my face, but I'm in the new @retrogamermag.bsky.social talking with Simon Flesser of @simogo.com about their Musical Action Game Sayonara Wild Hearts! As always, the magazine looks stunning thanks to @retrogamerdaz.bsky.social and @hkt3030.neocities.org and the design team. Go buy it!
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Be more like this
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A collection of inventive and thoughtfully made games!
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Reposted by James Tocchio
As you get ready to play Lumines Arise on 11/11 next week, why not dig into the Making of Lumines (the original!) in the latest issue of RetroGamer. Available now! @retrogamermag.bsky.social @jamestocchio.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This was amazing. Someone on Youtube makes videos where they play through issues of @retrogamermag.bsky.social, and their response to my interview with @kt.uvula.jp was so wonderful. I try to write articles that focus on the heart and soul of gaming. It worked this time! 🙏
youtu.be/w0fP9bqlAi4?...
Let's Play Retro Gamer Magazine July 2025 - 25+ Classic Games from Arcade to Amiga!
YouTube video by Alex Krasny
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November 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I adore this article by @johnandersen.bsky.social which shares his experience interviewing and covering the games of Shinya Nishigaki.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/rem...
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My big feature on Lumines and interview with Tetsuya Mizuguchi is in this one, alongside so many great articles. If you’ve not checked out Retro Gamer yet, this is a great time to start.
Here's the newsstand edition of @retrogamermag.bsky.social which will be out on Thursday.
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
what's your favorite wii game?
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
1999 for obvious reasons.
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
October 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Wishing Shinya Nishigaki wasn't taken from us.
October 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
God it’s perfect
October 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I can’t wait to interview a ram stick for a gaming magazine.
Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming
October 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Found Shenmue 2 in a shop the other day and had to buy it. Then when I got home I saw that my copy from release day way back in 2001 has “For Display Only” on it! That’s weird. Why does it say that??
October 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
do you like the North American box art better or do you have a brain?
October 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I spoke with legendary game creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi about developing for virtual reality, his vision for the future of interactivity, and his company’s upcoming game, Lumines Arise.
www.uploadvr.com/from-pong-to...
From Pong To VR: Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Quest To Make Games That Move You
With Lumines Arise launching this November on PS VR2 and Steam, we interviewed Tetsuya Mizuguchi about his career and how Enhance are approaching this new entry.
www.uploadvr.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Wrote an essay about playing Death Stranding after my wife and I lost our baby boy, how it was the most emotionally devastating media I’ve ever engaged with, and how it and its sequel have helped me feel whole in 2025.

Boy I’d like this to be published.

Grateful anyway.

Wish you were here, son.
September 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM