Started replaying Mega Man X4 only to realize… I don’t think I’ve ever played X4 to begin with? And it’s amazing?? Feels like I found 100 dollars in my pocket

This month on What A Cartoon Movie: "My Neighbor Totoro"! We're taking an in-depth look at this charming slice-of-life film that defined Studio Ghibli and won over global audiences. Exclusively on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/what-c...

Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...

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Incredible Star Wars holiday cards from 1977.

now petting first time

Phil Hartman as the Grinch, from a 1994 Behind the Scenes special on TNT. Not directly related to The Simpsons, but this clip was too good to not share, since Phil was a regular Simpsons guest star during this time.

Simply Having A wonderful

this is a really good piece of writing and i am very glad i read it and i think you might be too.

It's that time of the year again

New life-size dioramas at Ghibli Park. There's even "On Your Mark" and "Ghiblies 2" ♡ news.ntv.co.jp/category/cul...

Tonight Stekkjastaur, the first of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He likes to sneak into the sheep shed to drink milk from the ewes. All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.

leon’s back, baby

Talked to the Mad Men special effects foreman holding the puke hose about all the (usually) invisible creative work that goes into making grounded TV feel real

Lost my Animal Crossing save so I started a new island last month. Telling myself to take it slow, trying not to min/max everything and burn out by being a turnip day trader. We’ll see how long it lasts.

me and @adashtra.bsky.social are doing an AMA about metroid prime 4 this afternoon, so get those questions in www.theverge.com/games/836580...

It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

Turns out adding a bunch of garish colors WON'T make your Mortal Kombat 4 Game Boy port any better! WATCH - youtu.be/4ampC43S_WI

i can't believe i never thought to do this before

First photo of Peach meeting Rosalina

Looking forward to Awkwafina's Yoshi voice

Hi there! 👋🏾 I'm really excited to finally share what I've been working on these past couple of months! I'm putting a lot of time and energy into crafting a definitive behind-the-scenes breakdown of all the Amnesia games for fans and newcomers alike. Feel free to preorder if you're interested! 🕯️

In denial about this

The Fortnite Simpsons update is incredible HOWEVER why are there steamed hams at the *Simpsons* table? I think we all know what should happen to whoever made that blunder

Reuploading a classic to Bluesky, Forgive me god.

Friday fit check

My Mario Party halloween costume comes with an official strategy guide, I wasn’t kidding when I said it was fully playable 🎲🙂‍↕️

So did Zelda rebuild her boyfriend out of robot parts or

The second LaserDisc Rip today is rarer than the first, and also is by Japanese City Pop artist Tats Yamashita. Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year: Christmas in New York. archive.org/details/chri...

Trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next? Our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet, is now live in its entirety. You can check out each piece in our beautiful hub, or join us on a quick scroll 🧵

Reading Lord of the Rings for the first time in like 20 years and you know what, people give the movies a hard time for having six endings but the book has like 18 beginnings

This was absolutely the first line that came to mind

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

🚨🚨🚨 We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site. • We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon • Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n • See more: designroom.site

pro gamer move

mario bros commission!

doing my bluesky age verification test

hello it is my birthday, if you feel so inclined please check out my little novella i published recently thank you merrittk.itch.io/vampirocene

Newly minted evergreen meme

thank u Hades 2 for adding animal familiars 🐸💕

Commence to spooky

people of earth, lend me your energy! www.kickstarter.com/projects/206...

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