by Zainabb Hull | Oct 29, 2025 | News, Video Games
Editor’s note: Due to some behind-the-scenes issues, we’re running a few of our GYGO posts belatedly. Some of this information may be outdated—including the information in our usual calls to action for relief for Palestine. We’re presenting the information as it was originally written, and future posts without this disclaimer will be up-to-date.
Hi friends, this past month has been a particularly rough one, and I’ve been coping with cosy games like A Little to the Left (look, if I’m physically unable to clean in real life at least I can tidy up in my games) and horror films like The Ugly Stepsister. It’s also a great help to have squirrel and bird friends visiting every day, especially at a time when I’m unable to be outside much. This is me encouraging you to put out a bird feeder—they make window-mounted ones now too!
Right now on itch.io, you can get Play for Peace’s Games for Palestine Bundle, which features 383 games and other assets for $8. The bundle aims to raise $200,000 for UNRWA to provide humanitarian aid to people in Gaza. [Editor’s Note: This bundle is no longer available, but you can still browse the games included. It raised $116,725.88!]
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, Many Lands Mutual Aid, or Crips for eSims for Gaza.
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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 Zora Gilbert | Jun 9, 2025 | Roundtables, Video Games
Oh, to be on the edge of a lake, a fishing pole in hand, a lazy summer breeze stirring my hair and a peanut butter sandwich waiting for lunch. As we move into the warmer months of the year up here in the northern hemisphere, we’re getting into fishing season—but the beauty of games is that any season is fishing season, if you’re a special kind of sicko (fishing game fan). (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 Zora Gilbert | Mar 27, 2024 | News, Video Games
Welcome back to Get Your Game On, your weekly roundup of whatever floats your host’s boat! Now that I’ve written that it sounds weirdly sexual! I don’t want to fix it, so we’re moving on!
It’s been an exhausting few weeks for me and I can’t really fathom having well-articulated opinions about game industry shenanigans, so this week my beat is: concerts. Do you want to go see a bunch of suit-clad pros play the music that usually accompanies the little guys who live in your TV? I sure do, and I hope to make it easier for all of you to do so as well. (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 Melissa Brinks | Aug 31, 2023 | Roundtables, Video Games
August in the Northern Hemisphere means we’re both in the hottest part of the year (in a year that’s already been scorching) and in the wind-down of summer. Speaking only for myself, I’m both longing for cooler, rainier days and already mourning the departure of the long days. What does any of this have to do with gaming? Well, I feel compelled to make each of my days count—meaning I need time management.
This month, we’re talking about time management mechanics in games. Do they make us feel rushed and stressed? Purposeful and focused? Let’s find out. (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 Ennis Bashe | Nov 29, 2022 | Roundtables, Video Games
Welcome to November! Our weather here in the Pacific Northwest went straight from blisteringly hot summer to frozen ground and rain. Though the rapid climate shift left my head spinning, the cold, crisp air has me craving apple cider and pumpkin pie, which are perfectly in theme with this month’s roundtable: harvesting. (more…)
Ennis Rook Bashe is a nonbinary romance novelist, social worker, and cat dad. If you want to read books with badass queer and disabled characters who take care of each other, you can check out their Amazon author page or sign up for their newsletter. For more information about their series following disabled trans people with magical powers, you can follow them on TikTok at @RookTheBird.
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