Good morning, videogames. All the best writing about videogames this week was published on Jank, including four reviews, four freelance articles, a podcast, several regulars (including this one) and a blog post about a chair. We still need 75 more paying members to be able to open up freelance submissions and expand our pool of writers, if any of this moves you. Otherwise, I will begrudgingly admit that other websites exist. Here's links to some of them.

I'm looking forward to the Ocarina Of Time remake, due for release on Switch 2 next month. I've not played the game since the N64 original was new, some 30 years ago, and I've forgotten most of its details. That might be ideal, going by Matthew Castle's preview of the remake for The Guardian.

The dilemma facing any remake, let alone of a game recognised as a genre-defining classic, is how closely you hew to the past. As with this year’s Star Fox revamp, Ocarina of Time finds Nintendo in a celebratory mode. It’s a polished victory lap for a game with little to prove. For newcomers it means seeing what the fuss is about

Good morning, videogames. This week's Lie-In is a relatively short one, but several of these links are to long reads that will fill your comfy Sunday morning all the same. Let's dig in.

Earlier this year, before the Microsoft divestment, some staff at Double Fine tried to unionise. Then two weeks later, they retracted their petition. For Kotaku, Rebekah Valentine spoke to current and former staff to find out what happened. This is excellent reporting.

However, over the course of the thread, the tone began to shift, with more openly concerned and even negative voices speaking up. Several self-admittedly ineligible people expressed discomfort with having not been told about the union in advance, suggesting that all employees should have a say in the decision, even ineligible ones. Multiple others, again mostly (but not entirely) ineligible, stated that they supported unions generally, but a few also argued that unionizing wasn't right for Double Fine due to its unusual make-up.

As part of that report, Valentine also conducted a lengthy interview about the situation with Tim Schafer, published here in full. I think Schafer deserves some credit for being willing to sit down and talk about

Good morning, videogames. Thanks for all your responses to last week's question about which reviewers have a definable aesthetic taste. My personal opinion is that I don't think there are many good answers to the question, because the realities of modern games media don't provide opportunities for writers to work as critics or with editors long enough to refine their taste and their voice. I'm taking the number of commenters that named designers rather than writers, or writers long-since retired, as a sign you all agree. Don't correct me. Thank god for Sin though, eh? Let's move on to another week of links to articles you might enjoy.

I've wanted to read something in-depth about the booming Pokémon fangame scene for a while. Ana Diaz delivered just that for Fansplaining this week.

The popularity of the fangames themselves attests to the central role they play in the Pokémon fandom, which is massive: Pokémon is estimated to be the highest-grossing media franchise in the world. Fangames have huge audiences; Pokémon Uranium, for example, has reportedly been downloaded more than 1.5 million times. A quick search on YouTube reveals that video