Substacks recommended by Game File

Recommended by Game File

Push to Talk

By Ryan K. Rigney

A strategy guide for people who make video games, delivered every Friday.

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

- Game File

A16Z GAMES

Empowering founders to reinvent the games industry

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!)

- Game File

How Things Work

By Hamilton Nolan

Labor, politics, and power.

The writings of one of history's great bloggers.

- Game File

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

- Game File

Xanaduum

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

Grant Morrison! Nothing more need be said?

- Game File

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!

- Game File

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)

- Game File

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.

- Game File

Popular Information

By Judd Legum

Independent accountability journalism.

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

- Game File