Substacks recommended by Game File

Recommended by Game File

Nicole Carpenter is a reporter covering the business and culture of the video game industry, and Save Spot is her personal newsletter, where she'll share her work weekly.

Game File contributor Nicole Carpenter shares all of her newest games reporting, across the many outlets featuring her superb journalism (and her occasional rankings of Sour Patch Kids).

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The Game Business

By Christopher Dring (The Game Business)

Expert analysis, exclusive data, and in-depth interviews on the global video game industry — delivered by industry insider Christopher Dring.

Games industry expert Chris Dring, backed by Geoff Keighley. A powerful combo!

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Push to Talk

By Ryan K. Rigney

Your strategy guide to the new games economy

Ryan Rigney is a game industry insider who interviews fascinating people.

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a16z speedrun

A weekly dive into the cutting edge of tech, entertainment, and AI.

A venture capitalist firm's gaming substack that publishes fascinating dives into key topics in gaming (and for some reason reads a bit like also-recommended Push To Talk. I wonder why!)

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How Things Work

By Hamilton Nolan

Labor, politics, and power.

The writings of one of history's great bloggers.

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Crossplay

By Patrick Klepek

A newsletter at the intersection of parenting and video games.

The best site to read for parents who love video games

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Xanaduum

The Project of a Lifetime. A living archive from Grant Morrison.

Grant Morrison! Nothing more need be said?

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Read Max

By Max Read

Explaining the weird new future, one newsletter at a time. Subscribe for a twice weekly delivery of internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come.

Max explains politics, culture and more. And is fairly funny!

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Dead Game

By Ethan Gach

A newsletter about the people who make games and the communities that obsess over them.

Ethan Gach covers the weird ups and downs of live-service games (and probably should charge for his substack)

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Kirk's Notes

By Kirk Hamilton

A newsletter about music and other things.

My friend and former Kotaku colleague Kirk Hamilton writes (and podcasts) beautifully about great music.

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Post Games

By Chris Plante

A weekly podcast about how and why we love video games.

A terrific new gaming podcast from Chris Plante, the former editor-in-chief of Polygon.

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The GameDiscoverCo newsletter

By Simon

Analysis, data and insight about how people find & buy video games in the 2020s.

Why did no one buy that amazing video game? Or buy that other one? Simon Carless has probably figured it out.

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User Mag

By Taylor Lorenz

A tech and online culture publication by Taylor Lorenz, featuring original reporting on how the internet is reshaping politics, business, media, and culture.

Taylor Lorenz is one of the best in the business at making sense of online culture.

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Popular Information

By Judd Legum

Independent accountability journalism.

No one's better at calling out BS. Righteous journalism about the world we live in.

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