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Moises Taveras
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🇩🇴| he/him | www.underleveled.xyz | words @ kotaku, gamespot, av club, gamesradar, etc. | reachable ➡️ moises.taveras59@gmail.com
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I reviewed Despelote, which is at once the smallest game and also the biggest thing in the world. It's a towering achievement and something that will live with me for the rest of my days. My rave for Digital Trends: www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/despe...
Despelote review: miraculous slice-of-life soccer game pulls a hat trick
Despelote is an autobiographical and sumptuously rendered slice-of-life game that shoots for gold and handily gets there.
www.digitaltrends.com
hell yeah, that ruled
February 19, 2026 at 1:42 AM
the “zero mission” in zero mission fuckin bangs
February 19, 2026 at 12:59 AM
i remember talking about the first ep on a podcast at the time and the host (zero shade to them) just kinda not buying into the believability of the hostility the gas station guy shows to sean near the end. i think they’d believe it now!
I'm a little surprised that I haven't seen any writing or retrospective work about Life is Strange 2 recently, given, uh, everything going on in America - and what that game talked about.
February 18, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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There is a type of Sepiroth-American who only posts in an antagonistic way. He is a failure who is either 19 or 55 years old. He is around you. You may be related to him
February 18, 2026 at 5:04 PM
million things i could be playing and yet
February 18, 2026 at 5:00 AM
i'm sorry, is the MLB preordering children?
This is the worst thing happening in baseball. It is happening all the time and nearly every team is doing it. And a lot of prospect media is complicit.
February 17, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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I blogged about back pain, Baby Steps, and the uncanny moment the game goes into first person.
foot strikes + baby steps - one more run
Baby Steps, like running, is about repeatedly driving your feet into the ground. On Bluesky, I foolishly asserted about an hour into the game that I, a runner, would be...
onemorerun.blog
February 17, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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i wrote about the male fantasy of firewatch for the a.v. club

www.avclub.com/firewatch-10...
10 years later, Firewatch’s critique of masculinity is just a different shade of toxicity
Acclaimed upon release 10 years ago and still held up as an exemplar of video game narrative, Firewatch dresses up the same male fantasy.
www.avclub.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:45 PM
come to my first ever pax panel! maybe i’ll even be in the baguette costume
Video Game Trivia returns to PAX East for JUDGEMENT HOUR.

@platanoranger.bsky.social & @nolanerdcast.bsky.social vs. @aspecificegg.bsky.social & @katerblossom.bsky.social vs. @mrbadbit.bsky.social & @adamgumby.bsky.social vs. the PAX audience!

Bobcat Theatre
Saturday, March 28
7:30pm

VOD later!
February 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM
what if we all just replayed metroid dread
February 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
we did it, chat. we made the pull quote. appreciate ya @critdistance.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM
spent the day writing about my favorite doomed relationship and love in games and real life. this one's a little all over the place

happy valentines day, firewatch is for yearners www.underleveled.xyz/firewatch-is...
February 15, 2026 at 2:38 AM
da pitt :(
February 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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God of War trilogy remake is the game you make when 12 live service projects didn't work out
February 12, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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i hate videogames
February 12, 2026 at 11:13 PM
tokon looks cool, hope it gets more than two weeks
February 12, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Big Walk can fix me
February 12, 2026 at 11:00 PM
hey whats up with that marathon trailer looking nothing like an extraction shooter
February 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
castelvania got a mf like
February 12, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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MGS4 is freeeeeeeeeee!!!
February 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
im never this guy but as a control freak, let me review resonant for you
a look at Control Resonant, coming 2026
February 12, 2026 at 10:25 PM
we gotta stop naming things Kena: Scars of Kosmora

the streets yearn for Kena 2
February 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THREE THOUSAND 🥹
The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!

There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!

Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
February 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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if you don’t have the finances (or the stomach) to withstand a less than stellar launch, you shouldn’t be making a live service game. this is a management failure and I hope the affected staff land on their feet
Wildlight (Highguard) lays off staff according to a LinkedIn post

"Unfortunately, along with most of the team at Wildlight, I was laid off today.

This one really stings as there was a lot of unreleased content I was really looking forward to that I and others designed for Highguard."
February 11, 2026 at 11:20 PM
blight club good
February 11, 2026 at 7:50 PM