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Two reels a day. Forty seconds each.
Gaming's
strangest
corners.
Retro · Mods · Upcoming · History · Hardware
Two reels a day. Forty seconds each.
Retro · Mods · Upcoming · History · Hardware
Two reels a day. Forty seconds each.
Forty-second reels, read by me and captioned, about the games people stop scrolling for: a racing game with no collision detection, or a 1984 galaxy that fit in 22 kilobytes.
4M views · 60 reels · 8 past 100K
The ones that blew up.
Every reel goes out on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Facebook the same day. These did the biggest numbers. Hover or tap for a loop; click to watch where it did best.
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What I cover.
I skip news and reviews. I cover a game, a mod or a piece of hardware from any era when the story behind it is strange enough to fit in forty seconds. Each row opens an example.
I write each script, check it against the sources and read it into a microphone. Sources and footage are credited in the post. No voice clone is used, and no script is read twice. Game footage comes from the developers' own trailers and press kits where it exists, and from credited captures where it doesn't.
About RWNorthPole.
RWNorthPole is one person. I started streaming in 2015, stopped for a long stretch, and came back to making things about games because I never stopped enjoying it. The reels are the format that stuck: forty seconds in my own voice about one thing worth knowing about a game.
I play strategy, horror, simulators, RPGs, open-world games and indies, and most of what falls between. The games this channel keeps returning to say the rest: Mount & Blade, Sid Meier's Pirates!, Arx Fatalis, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Noita, Shadows of Doubt, Heroes of Might and Magic III, and whatever a modding scene has rebuilt from the ground up.
Off the games side I like hardware and tech, music, and running a homelab. By day I work in marketing and AI, which is why every claim on this site comes with a source and every reel is read by me.
- SinceStreaming in 2015, reels since 2026
- PlaysStrategy, horror, sims, RPGs, open world, indie
- AlsoHardware, music, homelab
- Day jobMarketing and AI
- VoiceMine, every reel
- Contactrwnorthpole.com/contact
Send me your game.
If your game has a story people would stop scrolling for, I want to hear it: a detail nobody else has covered, or a mod scene that got out of hand. Indie, AA, retro re-releases and total conversions get the same forty seconds as anything else.
- 1Send keys and press kits to the address on the right, or through Keymailer (RWNorthPole). A trailer, a few sharp captures and one paragraph on what makes the game unusual is plenty.
- 2Official trailers and press-kit captures beat anything I would have to record. Sources are credited in every post and embargo dates are kept.
- 3I don't run sponsored scripts as opinion, and I don't promise coverage. A pitch gets a reel when the topic is good enough for one.
Find me here.