by Zainabb Hull | May 21, 2025 | Mobile Games, News, Tabletop Games, Video Games
Hi pals, Zainabb here, doing my best to be cosy in a world filled with horrors. I don’t just mean the type of cosy where you light a candle, bundle up with sixty blankets and plushies, and play a game where you have the time and capacity to grow food and craft things. This sort of escapism is important sometimes, but I’m also finding cosiness in befriending our local crows and squirrels, in attempting to grow flowers (my chaotic squirrel friends keep digging up the seedlings), and in spending time with loved ones watching films like Sinners with casts of colour resisting white supremacy. Keep on resisting, feeling joy, and connecting—and playing your favourite games when you need to rest in between.
The Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle is now live on itch.io! You can get over 200 games, zines, and more for $16 with all proceeds going directly to Crips for eSims for Gaza.
And as always, resources for a free Palestine include The Palestine Academy, the Palestinian Feminist Collective’s amazing action toolkit and my own newsletter, Crips for Palestine. If you’re able, please donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians or Crips for eSims for Gaza. (more…)
Zainabb Hull is an editor at Sidequest, a writer and organiser, and sort-of artist. They’re also a trans, queer, and disabled brown femme who runs Crips for Palestine, a newsletter sharing digital actions that disabled folks and allies can take in solidarity with Palestinian people.
by Melissa Brinks | May 14, 2025 | Mobile Games, News
It’s Wednesday again! I have not been playing mobile games because I got horribly sick, watched a bunch of videos on even further divorcing myself from my phone, and installed a bunch of time-tracking and app-blocking apps on my phone. (Installing apps to block apps is kind of hilarious, now that I write it out.) These apps tend to drain my battery for some reason, so by the end of the day, when I might be tempted to play a mobile game, my phone is simply too close to death to allow it. Is this progress? I do not know. (more…)
Melissa Brinks is Sidequest’s editor in chief, co-creator of the Fake Geek Girls podcast, author of The Compendium of Magical Beasts, and an aspiring beekeeper. She once won an argument on the internet, and tweets at @MelissaBrinks.
by Zora Gilbert | Apr 30, 2025 | News, Tabletop Games, Video Games
Welcome back to Get Your Game On Variety Hour! This is, sadly, my last GYGO contribution before I’m whisked away to full-time teacher training and grad school. Be good while I’m gone!
The theme of this month’s gaming news seems to be litigation, so stand by for a roundup of who’s suing who this week and why. (more…)
Zora Gilbert cares a whole lot about words, kids, and comics. Find them at @zhgilbert on twitter, and find the comics they edit at datesanthology.com.
by Zainabb Hull | Apr 23, 2025 | News, Tabletop Games, Video Games
Hi friends, Zainabb here, living an especially cosy game life recently to help me cope with endless flare-ups and deep heartbreak as the genocide of Palestinians only seems to worsen and Sewage Island keeps trying to destroy trans lives. I’ve been playing Minami Lane which soothes me with its pastel streets and community cats to pet, and I just finished Arctic Eggs, which is less aesthetically cosy (you’re frying cigarettes and cockroaches in a dying world, after all) but the weirdness of this game brought me a lot of joy and hope.
You can currently get over 450 TTRPGs for $5 with the TTRPGs for Trans Rights – Ohio Bundle on itch.io, which is raising money for TransOhio and Kaleidoscope Youth Center.
And as always, resources for a free Palestine include The Palestine Academy, the Palestinian Feminist Collective’s amazing action toolkit and my own newsletter, Crips for Palestine. If you’re able, please donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians or Crips for eSims for Gaza. (more…)
Zainabb Hull is an editor at Sidequest, a writer and organiser, and sort-of artist. They’re also a trans, queer, and disabled brown femme who runs Crips for Palestine, a newsletter sharing digital actions that disabled folks and allies can take in solidarity with Palestinian people.
by Kamie Wootan | Apr 16, 2025 | News, Video Games
Hello, Nintendo fans. I’m currently under the weather and spending some extra time in bed, which really reminds me just how much comfort and escape video games can provide on days like these. Despite feeling a bit off, I’m excited by all the news and updates coming our way. It’s been a big month in the Nintendo world, and I’m looking forward to sharing all the thrilling developments with you. Sit back, relax, and join me as we dive into this month’s highlights. (more…)
Kamie Wootan is a fiction writer and poet from Bozeman, Montana. She has a MLITT in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. When Kamie isn’t writing, she is reading, playing a video game, hanging out with her amazing son, or working on her latest hobby.
Keep up with Kamie here:
Instagram: @kamiewootan
Twitter: @KamieWootan
by Melissa Brinks | Apr 9, 2025 | Mobile Games, News, Video Games
Hello, mobile gamers! I have been taking a break from mobile games lately in favor of… reading. Every now and then I have to question whether the things I’m doing on my phone are actually bringing me any joy, and it turns out that Longleaf Valley was not, in fact, bringing me any joy, so I put a bunch of books on hold on Libby and have been reading in my idle moments instead. The fun thing about this (I’m sorry, this isn’t about games at all) is that I just put my to-be-read list on shuffle, essentially, and read whatever pops up. That means I’ve read three gay romance novels (by Johanna Chambers, and I really liked them), one gay YA romcom (David Levithan’s Boy Meets Boy, which I was at first ambivalent about but ended up loving) and am now about halfway through The Furrows by Namwali Serpell, which is not something I’d ordinarily pick up on my own, but I really like it! Reading: it’s fun. I promise I’ll talk about games later.
Israel has resumed attacking civilians in Palestine, including rescue and aid workers, which, according to the United Nations, may be classified as a war crime (it is in fact a war crime to attack aid workers). If you have the means, please consider donating to one of the many fundraisers available at GazaFunds.com or Operation Olive Branch. For more, Zainabb Hull’s Crips for Palestine offers a number of digital actions you can take to support Palestinians. (more…)
Melissa Brinks is Sidequest’s editor in chief, co-creator of the Fake Geek Girls podcast, author of The Compendium of Magical Beasts, and an aspiring beekeeper. She once won an argument on the internet, and tweets at @MelissaBrinks.
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