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Expedition 15
July 3, 2025
Take a seat for the 15th edition of Bathysphere! This week we have an essay from Florence on the history of the gaming chair from Ancient Egypt to 90’s...
Expedition 14
June 26, 2025
Hello and welcome to the fourteenth expedition of the Bathysphere. This week, we’ve been looking at Cryptic Crosswords - and more specifically a way in to...
Expedition 13
June 19, 2025
Hello and welcome to the thirteenth expedition of the Bathysphere. Fortunately, we are not superstitious or we would be concerned about clambering aboard an...
Expedition 12
June 12, 2025
Hello and welcome aboard the 12th expedition of the Bathysphere! This week, Floss is looking at fake books, Keith is wandering a digital cemetery and...
Expedition 11
June 5, 2025
Welcome to the 11th journey of the Bathysphere. This week Christian writes about the idea of photogrammic games, Keith is stuck in another strange horror...
Expedition 10
May 29, 2025
Welcome to the tenth expedition of the Bathysphere! This week we have safe-cracking, Solarcans and sassy French games. Chris’ essay is on an interesting trip...
Expedition 9
May 22, 2025
Welcome to the ninth expedition of the Bathysphere! This week we have skiing, towers, art and archival unboxings for your perusal. Keith’s essay is on the...
Expedition 8
May 15, 2025
Welcome to our eighth expedition! This week’s essay concerns the concept of ‘endlings’ in both video games and the games industry itself – if you’re not sure...
Expedition 7
May 8, 2025
Welcome to the seventh expedition of the Bathysphere. We should have paid subscriptions set up now so that you can opt for the annual option (Thank you so...
Emmergency communication
May 1, 2025
Dear Bathysphere subscribers, For some reason best known to the ButtonDown system, our latest newsletter is not providing access to the annual subscription...
Expedition 6
May 1, 2025
Hello and welcome to the sixth expedition of the Bathysphere. Today, we’re introducing paid subscriptions, which will allow us to continue this endeavour....
Expedition 5
April 24, 2025
The Bathysphere Welcome to the fifth edition of the Bathysphere! We were meant to be introducing paid subscriptions this week but there have been technical...
Expedition 4
April 17, 2025
Thank you for joining this fourth expedition of the Bathysphere. From next week, we are introducing a paid subscription which will give access to the full...
Expedition 3
April 10, 2025
Thank you for joining this third expedition of the Bathysphere. Our aim is to write about games we’re interested in, whether they’re new or not, and to...
Expedition 2
April 3, 2025
Hello and welcome aboard for our second dive! We’re absolutely delighted that so many people have joined us. Please do get in contact and let us know what...
Expedition 1
March 27, 2025
Hello and welcome to the first communication from The Bathysphere. We wanted to make a video game newsletter that isn’t in fact about news at all. It’s about...
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