HeyJaredScanlines’ Journal
Long-form reviews about games new and old, gaming culture, hardware and retrospectives. This is a personal Substack, not a brand or media outfit.
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- 15
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- Sep 27, 2026
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Written In Blood 2026 (opens the original)
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After months of brutal heatwaves reaching 40C (104F) and beyond, a chill breeze is at last beginning to blow. Knobbly-legged craneflies are infiltrating your home through every nook and cranny, spiders are beginning to creep indoors in search of mates and the trees are gradually turning bare. Autumn is here. We all have our Halloween and autumnal traditions; after the excesses of Summer, many people like to pare down and refocus as the cold drives us back indoors, apples and pears (the fruits, n
Video Game Worlds You’d Love To Live In (opens the original)
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“Another list!?” I can hear you protest, slamming your meaty fists down on the nearest surface and perhaps wondering if Scanlines’ Journal is about to fall off. Yes, I do try to keep my lists to once a month: my core audience is here more for the reviews and my dubious opinions on the gaming space but October is going to see a rigorous 2 reviews a week schedule and I’m not ready to review the games I’m playing right now, so I’m afraid this week it’s foie gras instead of caviar. I’ve been sinking
A New Era For The Journal - CEX Box #1 (opens the original)
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A special thanks to for providing some great advice in the comments of last week’s midweek post, to those who kindly made one-off donations to the Journal in the past and to a certain long-time subscriber who has been supporting me on Ko-Fi already for more than a year. It’s been a long time coming but as of today, some 20 months and 130 articles into my publication’s life, I’m launching paid subscriptions. An overactive imagination and a somewhat aggressive dedication to anonymity prevented me
Rain World Is Like Harsh Noise Music (opens the original)
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The entire human experience has been profoundly shaped by our status as predators. We have forward-facing, rapid moving eyes with full-colour vision to track distant prey instead of wide, peripheral vision and eye-sockets on the side of our heads to help us flee; we walk on two legs in order to free up the hands for wielding weapons, cradling our young and cooking felled animals; our cardiovascular system and body plan isn’t built for speed but persistence, with strong evidence pointing towards
A Few Changes (opens the original)
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Don’t worry, this isn’t a ‘I’m leaving Substack’ post but I must admit, the thought had crossed my mind lately.I’ve been writing on Substack since New Year’s Day 2025 and it has had a profoundly positive effect on my confidence and my personal discipline; short of a Winter and Summer break and one bad bout of food poisoning, I have almost never missed a week of publishing. All of that being said… this platform aggravates me a lot. The biggest irritant: the lack of a Games category was thankfully
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