if you don't listen to the entire opening song of a Tales game every time you boot it up what are you even doing

"I'm speechless." Here's a thank you letter from VEAP for everybody who donated to our ICE Out Charity Stream with @giantbomb.bsky.social! You can still donate, help us cross $275,000! bit.ly/iceoutminnea...

Playing Tales of Vesperia to start the year and before I can finish it, 2026 has already piled up with games I want to play 😂 MIO Escape from Ever After - already out. Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined - out this week. Under the Island Tales of Bersaria Remastered Ys Proud Nordics - all out this month!

It's Sunday night at 7 PM, school is cancelled tomorrow due to ice, and my 6yo daughter just wants to get in her bed under the covers, turn out the lights, and watch Moana while eating cheetos with me ❤️

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

Hey if you want the best new college football channel, it's this one 👇

went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible 🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌

Here are my Top 10 Games of 2025. What a great year! I wish I had time to do more of a writeup/presentation, but keeping it simple works, too. My Game of the Year: Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

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Poptarts Bowl let's goooooo!! (Not a bad consolation for a rough November)

Giant Bomb is doing a Top 10 games of the decade so far, so I figured I'd try my own. My Top 10 Games of the '20s (so far)

Oh my gosh. Feb 6 - Dragon Quest VII Feb 20 - Ys X Mar 13 - Monster Hunter Stories 3 That's a lot of game for 5 weeks! That's probably gonna be the whole first half of my year.

I'm playing the HD-2D Remake of Dragon Quest I and it's an amazing game that stands on its own in 2025, not just a historical novelty. But a critical option is playing with the objective markers OFF! The heart of the game is taking in the world, talking to people and *figuring out* where to go.

Yeah!!!

Remember Rev. David Black, the Chicago pastor who was shot in the head with pepper balls? If you haven't heard him speak yet, listen to this. To ICE: "You can repent"

Best XP attempt of the season, after a botched snap Iowa State's kicker went for it anyway

Heck yeah! The Village Bride is one of the best Star Wars stories. I'm so happy it is getting a sequel.

Fantasian is such a beautiful game! I'm at 45 hours and deep into the second half. The first half is very linear and guided. The second half feels almost like a different game. It opens up and lets you figure everything out and go in whatever order you want, no handholding. I love it.

haynes kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang

This trailer ad played for me on Twitter (for the new Emma Stone/Jesse Plemmons movie) and this shot comes up in the trailer. It's used in a lot of things, famously the original The Walking Dead poster/image. It always takes me out of what I'm watching because I drive on it at least twice a week 😂

It seems like Massive is downsizing. Not super surprising, but still unfortunate. My heart goes out to all those hardworking devs. Star Wars Outlaws is one of my favorite games of all time. You can tell it was a true labor of love from the team. Well done to all who worked on it!

Game-winning touchdown

I was not excited for the latest State of Play because it seems like most Sony studios are only working on extremely dour games (RIP Ratchet, Insomniac's gone to the Marvel mines forever) But this article doesn't even mention Sony's best current franchise - Horizon, which is awesome 😎

@grubb.wtf @tolkoto.com on Nintendogs there was a comment about 2 baseball players creating the first high five. 1 of the players was Dusty Baker, who had an incredible career of being present for historical moments, including managing the Bartman game and being on deck when Hank Aaron hit 715th HR.

Estelle continues to have the absolute best lines

Picking up right where I left off with Trails in the Sky a few weeks ago. 15 hours in. This is what I dreamed video games could be when I was 13. It feels nostalgic and modern at the same time. It's so good.

I love Shakra’s singing and wanted to play along - 🎶🪡

Silksong: I spent 90 minutes trying to beat a boss and finally did it. Without thinking I set the controller down, the boss's body exploded, killed me, and I didn't get credit. I marched right back up the mountain and beat them again without taking a single hit 😎

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Galaxy Brain Wish: Ember Lab (Kena: Bridge of Spirits) gets to make a game based on their Majora's Mask animated short!

Yeah, no. I'm a contractor, I write for games, and sometimes that means writing 100% of a game's text. I'm a valuable part of the team! Contractors aren't just "support", they deserve to be credited (and treated) better than this

I'm about 6 hours in and really enjoying Fantasian Neo Dimension. It's so reminiscent of PS1 Final Fantasy with its static backgrounds and text treatments, but most specifically the full Nobuo Uematsu soundtrack!

I have finished the Trails in the Sky demo after more than 14(!) hours and I don't know how I'm gonna wait 3 weeks to play more. It is *the* game I am most excited to play, even more than Silksong.

One piece of gaming criticism I’ll never accept is people who dislike Hollow Knight’s map system. You are wrong. Being lost and getting the map two-thirds into an area is good. Making the map in your brain is good. It would not work any other way.

Wait... Is Estelle Bright the best character?

Two different times at my son's preschool, *at a church*, he had a classmate with two moms. We saw them at parties and functions all the time. He never had any questions, it was just normal to him.

This is my first Trails game and 3 hours in I *love* this combat system!

Trails in the Sky getting a Switch 2 version on release day? With a demo out now? (Switch version soon) And progress carries over to the full game?!!!?

A thing I've been seeing lately in cosy gaming circles is the idea that game critics can't be trusted, especially on bad reviews. it's either "they don't understand the genre" or "my boyfriend told me IGN isn't trustworthy and I'm going to uncritically apply that to all outlets" it's very worrying

Two of my absolute favorite games this year are two Switch 2 launch titles - Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time and Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma. Both are fantastic. There was so much more to the Switch 2 launch lineup than Mario Kart and Welcome Tour.

This quote works for so many RPGs 😂

I'm just now getting to the new Outlaws DLC and no game inspires me to take the long way like this does. I got a tip while I was in Myrra to go find a treasure map at an imperial base in the Akivan mountains. So I flew my ship to a rural outpost and I'm ready to sneak my way in for a heist.

Not surprising, but still disappointing. Star Wars Outlaws is my favorite game of 2024, and my favorite Star Wars game of all time. It is incredible. No game has ever made me feel as immersed in the world of Star Wars like Outlaws does.

The two most deserved Emmy nominations I've ever seen

Last five GOTYs: 2020: Final Fantasy VII Remake 2021: The Forgotten City 2022: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 2023: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 2024: Star Wars Outlaws