New Blog Post. "2026 in Games" Last year's top 5, and the games to play this year.

New Blog Post. "December Games"

I think FIFA must rescind Donald Trump’s FIFA inaugural peace prize or I think the reputation of the FIFA peace prize could be severely compromised and it will be seen as just a sycophantic bauble - poor FIFA

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

£70 for an Evercade VS and a cart is a ridiculous deal if you’ve ever been interested in the Evercade www.argos.co.uk/product/7867...

Does feel like I didn't play as many games as I would have liked this year, but it's not as bad as I'd thought. #bgstats #tabletop

The new Electronic Eggs #Discord is now open to join. Feel free to get involved in chat about gaming, retro gaming and pop culture from years gone. If you have anything you'd like to see discussed on the podcast, just drop a line and we'll do our best to get back to you. discord.gg/a9yPB7mp

Treated myself to using annual leave between Christmas and New Year, only to immediately get sick. Bought myself the new Octopath Traveler game to play since I'm stuck on the sofa anyway. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Microsoft continuing to find all new ways to make me want to ditch gamepass.

james cameron every few years

There's just so much fucking money on the anti trans side. They stuff the pockets of anyone willing to be their stooge. It's hate for pay. www.erininthemorning.com/p/chloe-cole...

So very tired, but I couldn't let 2025 end without taking stock of Microsoft's embarrassing treatment of gaming, Windows, and indeed human beings while it chases the AI money train

What’s your favorite game from every Nintendo console you’ve owned? FC: Parasol Stars SFC: Biker Mice from Mars N64: Robotron 64 GC: Eternal Darkness Wii: Ghost Squad GB: Solar Striker GBC: Tetris DX GBA: Pinball of Dead DS: AC Wild World 3DS: AC New Leaf Switch: AC New Horizons Switch 2: Silksong

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Seeing as its christmas and steam sale time I figured I should recommend some games I enjoyed this year, even though they are mostly of the old school shooty bang bang variety that nobody else likes. I've probably mentioned all these before so feel free to ignore this

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

Have you tried Apple's "Clean Up" ai function in Photos? It's advertised as being able to remove blemishes, distracting details, entire objects. But if you use it in any photo that contains nudity it switches to a censored pixelation mode. One step closer to my tweeted predictions.

Ach, my heart. It breaks. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

The first Hollow Knight getting a native Switch 2 edition 😍

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

One other thing I've noticed is that you're suddenly against all technology if you're critical of GenAI. No dude, I like robots, VR, and digital watches. And I can see the benefits of assistive AI/LLMs for stuff like medical research and data processing and pre-existing automation QoL stuff.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Currently: Watching: Mortimer & Whitehouse - Gone Fishing Reading: The Book of Dust: The Rose Field (still) Playing: Sektori (you should too) Listening to: Shaggy - Christmas in the Islands

Bit of Christmas gaming this weekend. Christmas Nights into Dreams? Something like that.

Doom studio id Software unionizes to secure AI protections, benefits: "We see the direction the industry is headed" aftermath.site/id-software-un...

It SHOULD happen again. We don't want this kind of creeper surveilance in our lives.

Our XBOX 360 episode is out now @electroniceggs.bsky.social with @liberaljoon.com and Tom from @thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk electroniceggs.podbean.com/e/electronic...

Disney is supposed to be the home of creativity and artistry. Only the best were supposed to be chosen to work in its Burbank studio. Changing the barrier of entry to 'any dickhead who can type what Mickey should do' will have Walt spinning so fast his coffin will take off like a fucking helicopter

Recording with @chrissmith.bsky.social last night and he reminded me that Sensible World Of Soccer is backwards compatible on the Xbox Series. This morning I managed to confirm it by discovering I already had it installed. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Sektori starting to click, but I had to drop the difficulty back down while I work towards a full clear. This is on PS5 but I might have another go on Steamdeck to see if I'm getting any better on the handheld too.

Urging everyone to play Sektori, I haven't had twin-stick shooter brainworms like this since Nex Machina

Apparently the #PlaystationWrapped will keep updating till the end of the year, so I've still got time to see Sektori accurately reflected...

Hah! To absolutely nobody's surprise www.theguardian.com/football/202...

pals you gotta quit spotify

This time 20 years ago, The Dreamcast Junkyard was born! 🥳 We’ll be celebrating all month long with some extra special surprises! For now, here are some words from our founder Tom Charnock, and our friends, about this monumental milestone: www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2025/12/20-y...

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

A little interview I did for Digital Foundry. I probably get at least some of the old things and times wrong, it's been so long... 🙂

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

Pathetic.

“Boss, people are still saying we at FIFA are corrupt after holding a World Cup in Qatar.” “Don’t worry, I’ve got an idea that’ll get them giving us a thumbs up again”

No bigot has ever understood Alf Garnett or Till Death Us Do Part, it's like Johnny Speight got the magic spell to make the show dickhead-proof wrong. No racist ever watched the show and thought 'He's just like me, I must educate myself!' They're so dumb, all they ever saw was "A RACIST LIKE ME!!!"

A truly great idea. 10,000 ethical assets freely available. There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism. Support real artists, not con artists.

The Boomers may be clinging to political power, but at least my generation controls entertainment now. 😁 That's how we get cool stuff like THIS: a self-transforming, voice-controlled, walking Gen1 Soundwave THAT DOUBLES AS A BLUETOOTH SPEAKER. 👀🤘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-9U...

agreed, but if you’re doing sexy teen Star Trek it needs to be called Deep Space 90210

*Slams table* PLAY SEKTORI! RIGHT NOW! GO PLAY IT!

Why Aren't We All Playing Sektori, an Awesome Arcade Shooter from Ex-Housemarque Devs?