The blog-like saga to try to understand what the games we chose to play may or may not say about us – often pretentious, perhaps occasionally thought provoking
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Four player games season – the lonely teenage mutant hero turtle of the 1990s
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Stranger Things 3: The Game – 16-bit-style adventures in a virtual Hawkins
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31 Dec 2025
The Year in Squareblind 2025: July – December
From July onwards, the blog looked at the concept of a more open-world Mario Kart, while also contemplating the geopolitical significance of a nation state owning Electronic Arts.
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We worked in a farmhouse on the border of Leicestershire and Warwickshire, miles away from the rest of civilisation. And this game was created before the internet was a thing. We continuously played until it got too easy - and then ramped the difficulty level up until we found it a challenge. Wait till you get to level 5 🥵😅
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The Year in Squareblind 2025: Jan – June
The year kicked off with the announcement of the Switch 2, along with thoughts on sustainable games, greenwashing & whether Captain Planet on the Amiga made gamers better people from an environmental standpoint.
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21 Dec 2025
From Breakout to Ball X Pit – further gamifying a digital world
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20 Dec 2025
An excellent SNES game where you fight fires and rescue people inside a chemical company’s facility.
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20 Dec 2025
Character collaboration will feature in many of the puzzles in my new Melkhior's Mansion spin-off for the Playdate. A quick turn of the crank switches between characters.
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30 Nov 2025
A year in the life - levelling up a gamer in the real world
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9 Nov 2025
Resources, waste and the circular economy of Death Stranding
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26 Oct 2025
Three seconds of immersive gaming with Samurai Sword Fight on Switch
Immersion isn't always about open world artistry - it can sometimes just be all silly faces and pretend swordfights...
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12 Oct 2025
Squareblind at 10: 2023 to 2024 – Funny games and scared gamers
Our last trawl through the last ten years of the blog considers whether #EarthwormJim2 shows that games can be good and legitimately funny.
There is also a real world haunted house...
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5 Oct 2025
A bargain for who? Saudi Arabia targets £41bn EA purchase.
What might the cost be, if at all, for gamers?
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3 Oct 2025
For the first time ever, Disney’s rare, out-of-print gateway horror movie SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1983) finally arrived on streaming today, now playing exclusively on Disney !
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21 Sep 2025
Squareblind at 10: 2021 to 2022 - The evolving sound of gaming
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14 Sep 2025
Squareblind turns 10: 2018 to 2020 – manifesting gaming heroes in real life
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7 Sep 2025
Squareblind turns 10: 2015 to 2017 -
Life lessons from turn-based steam-punking, Groundhog Day and Sid Meier
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31 Aug 2025
Squareblind at 10 – a note from the editor on anniversaries in gaming, life and blogging
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31 Aug 2025
'An anti-social pastime'
31 Aug 2025
In Kirby and the Forgotten Land, you can press up on the d-pad to say hi to every Waddle Dee in Waddle Dee Town.
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In Kirby and the Forgotten Land, you can press up on the d-pad to say hi to every Waddle Dee in Waddle Dee Town.
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