This blog runs on the PS2’s EmotionEngine. Boggy is somewhere on the spectrum between Mitsuri’s boob window and Greg’s tea kettle.
Video Game Review: Steam Next Fest 2026
Burn-9
I’m getting at this quite late and played way less demos than I usually do (less than 10 this time around!), but I found a few gems I have to shoutout. I’m getting at this quite late and played way less demos than I usually do (less than 10 this time around!), but I found a few gems I have to shoutout. I’m getting at this quite late and played way less demos than I usually do (less than 10 this time around!), but I found a few gems I have to shoutout.
…Boggy's Jams: The June '26 Playlist
Oh, She's Bookish: Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
Press Reset, Book Cover Image
Completed: July 7th, 2026
After reading “Play Nice” and being absolutely immersed in the history of one of my favorite studios, I decided to look into more books in the genre. I tried “Doom Guy,” which is an autobiography of John Romero, co-founder of iD and all the Doom games. I could not get into the narrative, which may be the first-person writing style. So, I returned to Jason Schreier. I found Play Nice to be dry on the writing, but unmatched in the content he was able to get access to, and the bear of a process I can luckily only imagine of getting it all into order. For all of its investigative journalistic quirks of being measured and direct, it still felt compelling. Press Reset is more of an anthology of stories and, true to its title, is quite a downer. You can’t really let that influence your review per se, but I did have to take this book slower just to balance out the emotional tone of it all. So, in that way it was a success. As I think part of Schreier’s point of writing was to both inform and disillusion the public and potential developers by findings so many real-world examples of how it all goes wrong. And what is particularly powerful is how it does not matter who you are - unless you are Gabe Newell, I guess- but everyone else, even the greats, fall to the machine that is the video game industry. There is more of Schreier’s personality in this book, though it is still very sparse. His moments don’t add anything for me, but it may add levity to others reading. I’m glad these stories are documented and I’m glad this book was written, but I can’t really recommend it unless you are a diehard fan of one of the games covered, a general fanatic about the games industry, or on the academic/historian side of this because of all the primary sources.
…Media Noms: Week 27 2026
June 29th - July 5th 2026
Media Noms: Week 26 2026
June 22nd - June 28th 2026
