This week on Post Games:
Act 1: A Career Built on "A Cry for Help"
Act 2: "This Is a Fuck You"
Patreon Bonus: Tidepools, Pinball, and a Musical: The "Sunny Side" of Edmund McMillen
Guests:
Edmund McMillen: Co-creator of Mewgenics
Closing Song: "Fleas and Parasites" by Matthias Bossi and John Evans (Mewgenics)
Act 1: A Career Built on "A Cry for Help"
Edmund McMillen’s Newgrounds Games (Newgrounds)
The Undateables (Wiki)
Pontifex (Chronic Logic)
Alex Austin (alexraustin.com)
The Independent Games Festival (IGF.com)
The award that changes the lives of its winners (Post Games)
Evil Dead 2 (JustWatch)
Braindead (A.K.A. Dead Alive) (JustWatch)
The Toxic Avenger (JustWatch)
When I asked about Rage 2’s worst character, I got an unexpected response (Polygon)
Love on the Spectrum (Netflix)
Jhonen Vasquez (Wiki)
R. Crumb Looks Back (The New Yorker)
Gish (Steam)
Tri-achnid (Newgrounds)
Time Fcuk (Newgrounds)
Aether (Newgrounds)
Coil (Steam)
Act 2: "This Is a Fuck You"
Mewgenics review - a roguelite where sacrificial arse maggots and frightful defecation are the keys to success (RPS)
Mewgenics review – infinite ways to skin a cat (The Guardian)
Mewgenics Review (PC Gamer)
Jeffrey Epstein Couldn’t Stop Emailing People About Eugenics (Mother Jones)
From fringe to federal: The rise of eugenicist thinking in US policy (Al Jazeera)
A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database (The Guardian)
The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism (Stat News)
RFK Jr.’s Eugenics-Coded Crusade (Vanity Fair)
RFK Jr. Must Go. And He's Not the Only One. (Science)
Patreon Bonus: Tidepools, Pinball, and a Musical: The "Sunny Side" of Edmund McMillen
Santa Barbara Sea Glass & Ocean Arts Festival (Sea Glass & Ocean Arts Festival)
All Tide Pooling (Explore Santa Barbara County)
Exploring Tide Pools In The Santa Barbara Area (GetOilSlick)
Mewgenics: Diseased Smelly Cat Tactics | Castle Super Beast 342 (Woolie Versus)
Stern Pinball Lineup (Stern)
No Place like Jersey: Inside the factory of the wizard of pinball (Polygon)
MATTHIAS BOSSI INTERVIEW! Mewgenics, Repentance and More! (Sinvicta)
Ridiculon on YouTube (PlanetRidiculon)
Them Kitty Bones - Mewgenics Official Lyric Video (PlanetRidiculon)
That hippie from the Mad Men finale stars in this 16-minute one-man musical about cats (The Verge)
This Week in Video Game Links
Romeo is a Dead Man's most beguiling spectacle is its astral fish tank menu (RPS)
Not every game remake needs to grow up (Polygon)
Happy 10th birthday, XCOM 2, the most brilliant, frustrating game of its time (Eurogamer)
Gaming’s new coming-of-age genre embraces ‘millennial cringe’ (The Guardian)
Difficulty done differently: Cairn and Baby Steps deliver kinder, more generous masocore (Eurogamer)
One of the most underrated indie duos out there is making its 3rd game in as many years: An 'extreme stop motion horror' project that promises to be 'grossly fun but also stomach-churningly appalling' (PCGamer)
Free Game of the Week: Replaced demo
Here's a new demo for one of my most anticipated games of 2026. From the Steam summary: "Uncover the sinister secrets of Phoenix Corporation, through the eyes of its own creation, R.E.A.C.H. - an AI trapped in a human body against its will." (Steam)
What Else I’m Enjoying
As ever, the next anime season looms – this one particularly loaded with a number of highly anticipated adaptations. (Re:Frame)
Back in action: January 1991 - The first part of a year-long series analyzing 1991's action releases, and comparing them to the 2026 crop (PVGuide)
A singular theory for the Epstein network (Garbage Day)
Death of a Sports Section (The Ringer)