persona / psx atlus, 1996

wild arms 2 / psx media.vision / production i.g, 1999

dragon warrior vii / psx heartbeat, 2000

Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍

Chrono Cross ~ クロノ・クロス (1999) Developed by Squaresoft.

all that for a B

Posting a little thread ranking all the games I played last year (ones I rolled credits on), none of which were released in 2025. I did play all the Devil May Cry games though and picked up where I left off on the Final Fantasy pixel remasters. Anywho, here they are:

Chrono Cross ~ クロノ・クロス (1999) Developed by Squaresoft.

goodnight youtu.be/qWkT9OfaZ58?...

Listening to Memories of Dust from the Nier Automata soundtrack while I renew my car registration online.

Holiday shopping

Our first Archetypes article is by game designer Gareth Damian Martin, examining how the architecture of Skies of Arcadia draws the player's gaze towards azure skies. vist.ly/4h9kp

The space

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We are legion. We will do as you command. You want us to wear what?!

Me and who? youtu.be/kVoRFWrR0yc?...

RIP to one of gaming’s realest dudes

In case anyone needs them 🦌

dino crisis / psx capcom, 1999

Me, every time I tap to pay with my Kojima card

In this scene from the long-running American soap opera Days of Our Lives (s61e008), Aaron uses playing Xenoblade as an excuse to invite Arianna into his dorm room.

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info

just so you all know, the ps6 will be shaped like a hexagon. fyi

goodnight youtu.be/T2Nigb_H3z8?...

A new article from me on System Shock 2 Remastered and the ongoing campaign to eliminate all traces of human energy from videogames. www.pcgamesn.com/system-shock...

goodnight youtu.be/t48_ku1HFLw?...

One of my artworks was chosen by Orbital to be featured in their Brown Album reissue and it is difficult to convey just how much it means to me to be included in the supplemental materials for my all-time favorite album. I am just over the moon about it.

waku waku ski wonder spur / super famicom human club, 1995

what randy's doing here is actually a sales technique that dates all the way back to the middle ages. google "randy pitchford medieval times" if you want to see him talk about it

While a bunch of you were jacking back into Oblivion, I was deep in The Witcher 3 again, the game that, in some ways, blew Bethesda’s open-world RPG model out of the water. For @the-ringer.bsky.social, I reported on the making of a storytelling all-timer. www.theringer.com/2025/05/16/v...

for those like me not near the Tate, you can see these on her website here: www.suzannetreister.net/Ampages/Amen...

SimCity 2000 Special Edition is $2.45 on GOG buff.ly/1DX3VwI #ad

Same

Resident Evil 3 ~ バイオハザード3 (1999) Developed by Capcom.

Surely this is going to go well for a company that famously runs hundreds of publicly editable wikis.

- Gotta be brand safe or you'll get shut down - If you're brand safe, you'll be sold for scrap to an AI mill

on the origins of “valnet”

Shocked and devastated at the Polygon news. Here is a site that was literally doing it all. Took up all the new trends (guides, pop culture coverage, video, etc.) on top of maintaining what they originally staked their brand on and it’s still not enough. Then nothing is. kotaku.com/polygon-sold...

king's field ii / psx fromsoftware, 1995

The Legend Of Dragoon ~ レジェンド オブ ドラグーン (1999) Developed by SCEI.