Last year No Escape added a page to the site detailing some other games and digital culture-focused websites we thought were interesting and valuable. In the first iteration, we reached out to readers directly with the simple ask: what other sites do you read? This year we’ve expanded the list for you to add to your RSS feeds or do whatever else. You can also still submit sites if you like.
If you want to submit a website to the blogroll, click the button.
Entries marked with an asterisk (*) are blogs hosted on Substack. These blogs/newsletters may be moving to other platforms in the wake of the company’s doubling-down on specifically letting Nazis hang out there, so you might go check a link out just in case individual blogs share where they’re going. Still, we figure you should know where you’re headed and if you don’t want to click on those links, we get it.
Additionally, this list is separated into two major categories: smaller sites and bigger sites. Bigger sites will be at the end. If you feel a site has been miscategorized, please let us know.
Finally, if any of the sites listed below stop posting, don’t post relevant content, or end up running shitty bigoted content please let us know and we’ll remove the listing.
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A
A Critical Hit!
A Friendly Wizard
A Weapon To Surpass Blaming Yourself Or God While Knee-Deep In The Dead
Ada Play
Aftermath
Aguas’ Points
AIPT
Alex.
Arcade Idea
B
Bad Game Hall Of Fame
Bee Sprawlbug Discorporated
Bones of Contention
Boris Bezdar
Bullet Points Monthly
Buried Treasure
C
canon fire
CD-ROM Journal
clickbliss
Clockwork Worlds
Coty Craven
Critical Distance
Cohosts
BunchesOfBees
Campster
cass
dannn
dreamcastaway
e3kHatena
funbil
gayanimegirl
highimpactsex
iiotenki
ireneista
ItsMeLilyV
Jeremy-Writes
kasiski
kylelabriola
love
mcc
MOOMANiBE
mrhands
noescape (yes we have one too)
ponett
QuestForTori
sylvie
SunshineMoon
thecatamites
D
Daniel Fernández
David Howard
Dead Game*
Death is a Whale
Deep-Hell
Dreamcastaway
E
Electron Dance
Ellaguro
Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling
Ephemeral Enigmas
Epilogue Gaming
Evan’s Space
Every Frame Per Second*
EX*
F
G
GamerFocus (ES)
Gamers With Glasses
GamesHub
Gamesline
Gayming Mag
GlitchOut
Gold Machine
Grace in the Machine
Grumpy Gamer
H
Hailing From The Edge
Have You Played?*
Haywire Magazine
Highimpactsex
I
In The Lobby
Indie Hell Zone
Indie Side
Indie Tsushin
Insert Credit
Into The Spine
Invalid Memory
J
K
Kayinworks
Kimimi the Game-Eating She-Monster
Kritiqal
Kuso Games
L
M
Mads Haus
Matthew Pon
May The Sunflower
Minidoshima*
Mokkograd
O
Obscuritory
One Controller Port
Overland
P
Pixel A Day
Pixels For Breakfast
PixPen
Pizza’s Letter* (Alt link)
Plant or Beast
Play The Past
PlayCritically
Ponett
PopMatters
Press Play Gaming
Press.exe
Problem Machine
Punching Robots Club
Q
R
Radiator Blog
ReaderGrev
Remap Radio
Roadmap
Renga in Blue
S
San Diego Historical Games Convention
Sidequest
Space-Biff!
SquidRadio
Start Menu
T
Talk and Play*
Tap Repeatedly
Tell Them I Died
The Almighty Backlog
The Cool Zone
The Digital Antiquarian
The Punished Backlog
The Rosebush
The Tax Collector Man
The White Pube
Thinkings Space
Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games
Timber Owls
Time Extension
U
V
v buckenham
vehemently
Videodame
Vidyasaur
W
Weird Fucking Games
Why Not Games
Z
Major (Corporate/Peer Reviewed Academic) Outlets
ArtReview
Destructoid
Epic Games Store
Escapist Magazine
Eurogamer
Fanbyte
Game Developer
Game Informer
Game Studies
Gamepur
Games Industry
GamesRadar+
GameSpot
Harper’s Bazaar
IGN
Inverse
Journal of Games Criticism
Kotaku (Australia)
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Paste Magazine
PC Gamer
Polygon
Press Start Journal
Rock Paper Shotgun
ROMChip
TechRadar
The Guardian
The New Yorker
The Paris Review
The Ringer
The Verge
TheGamer
Touch Arcade
VG247
Vulture
Wired
Drop us a line if you notice anything that needs changing!