CHUN-LI

It was so underrated.

2025 was a great year for people who stand for nothing and believe in nothing too. So with that in mind, @edgarallanbro.bsky.social is here to beg you to believe in SOMETHING, and stand for SOMETHING. www.startmenu.co.uk/home/will-bo...

Untitled Yakuza Game

See you in DR2x2 Hajime

Most "Nintendo" (derogatory) move of all time is making an app called "Nintendo Music" and still not including a single Xenoblade Chronicles track in it over a year after its launch.

Happy New Year! Here’s hoping we all have a better 2026… please let 2026 be better

Due to unforeseen circumstances with my health and work, I am unable to invoice for any of the work I have carried out this month. As a result, I have no way to pay my bills. I owe £775 next month, and can't earn that before they are due. paypal.me/quirkycat please help.

The startmenu Awards return for another year with the debut of the first site-wide vote for startmenu’s Game of the Year! But before that, we’ve got a selection of critics’ choice awards highlighting the good, the bad, and the ugly of 2025.

Dreamers #Klonoa #Kirby #NiGHTSIntoDreams

this essay does an awesome job striking to the heart of the hundred line! it mentions most of the big reveals so i would maybe suggest playing the game first if you're interested, but if not, it makes it easy to see why so many people (like me) think it's one of the best games to release this year.

I miss them

I've been dealing with my health deteriorating much faster than ever before, and I'm in a permanent state of Exhaustion. As a result, I'm not making enough money to pay my bills. If you want to help, please consider donating to my gofundme. Thank you, and happy holidays. gofund.me/5d9b3338b

My EOTY roundup for Stop Caring is now live, a bit more informal than the regular essays I provide, I wrote about my 10 favorite games of 2025 and award one the coveted title of Stop Caring GOTY I also wanted to take a moment to thank all the contributors and supporters in the beginning :)

I have a sneaking suspicion that if it doesn't get absolutely flattened in localization Yoko Taro's next narrative might go really hard on this, and could be really good for it

ICYMI: and Roger is a short, hard-hitting interactive novel that's worth your time on Steam and Switch. www.rewinder.co.uk/and-roger-im...

Everything you need to know about final fantasy you can learn from the Simpsons

Share a great female villain

Finally caught up with My Hero Academia. Very flawed show and I'm glad it's over but it was a lot of fun and that last season was full of hype. Mixed feelings on the ending but I think it mostly stuck the landing. Now how long before the unnecessary sequel series?

I'm starting a series of longer design reviews, and Dispatch was a great first candidate - from its weird treatment of women to its lack of narrative consequences, there was a lot to talk about malindy.medium.com/dispatch-des...

Now that we're halfway through the Gnosia anime, would it be too much of a stretch to say it might be better than the game? Turning the protagonist into an actual character and fleshing out their interactions with the crew has done it so many favours.

Fem Tintin! #theadventuresoftintin #tintin #art

- Traveled to Germany for Gamescom - Traveled to Paris for a Pokemon event - Interviewed Takashi Iizuka - 100%ed The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

Wrote some more about the best game of 2025 www.gamesradar.com/games/platfo...

So frustrating that the official release of the Octopath Traveler 0 soundtrack is missing a bunch of music. What's the point of an official OST release if it's incomplete? It doesn't even have this banger on it youtu.be/_gsL-JrHUs8?...

"They don't make games like they used to", says man who refuses to play indie games made exactly like they used to be

I say we should take a game that got snubbed or enough people didn’t play in 2025 and carry it forward to 2026 GOTY considerations. Hundred Line, for example.

I watched this for Christmas with the parents and I don't consider myself much of a movie buff, especially from an actual movie making perspective, but damn this new Knives Out has some A-tier lighting

How long till a Betty Boop horror movie where she's a serial killer is announced? I give it the first two weeks of January

Merry Christmas fam!

probably the best Christmas movie of the last decade

If you're reading this, really hope you're having a good Christmas today. And if you don't celebrate, hope you're having a good day anyway.

Happy Holidays from all of us at SEGA! 💙 🎨: @supsross.bsky.social

"All I said, Niles, was that it sounded like the poor fellow could use a night away from life's troubles, how was I to know that the circus WAS life's troubles for him?" "Perhaps his tiny car would have provided some indication? Or did he instead come to your session by unicycle?" "Oh ha HA."

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Gamers. It’s time

I did wonder if this could see a delay now that GTA 6 isn't coming out in May anymore

Unironically, this may be what gets me back into Teppen.

Here we are, at the end of our first calendar year as a website. So we present to you Rewinder's Game of the Year awards for 2025.

I knew I had to write something Hundred Line related for the @startmenu.bsky.social Winter Spectacular. As always, a massive thanks to @lexluddy.xyz for giving this piece a home and to @kellymerka.bsky.social for editing it.

if there are any sites looking for a freelancer to review/cover yakuza kiwami 3 who has also reviewed infinite wealth + pirate yakuza and wrote about the series at length in the past, i'm truly the girl for it 💜 aware this is a little early shares appreciated 💜

Money and power are concentrating in video games in the same way as in the wider world. And games influence people’s thoughts and attitudes: the most powerful people in the world have started to realise this. I wrote about the state of play at the end of 2025: www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

Last-minute gig idea! A knock-off VHS that looks a bit like a classic Disney cartoon:

Just watched Die Hard for the first time with my dad. And yeah that's a real good action movie.

it is shockly difficult to find and up to date press kit of images for fornite

New vid - Yami's Christmas (Body)Countdown #5 Griddle Hockey would probably be my choice for best kill in YGO period just because it's fucking nuts that Yugi blows a kid up and there's zero, literally zero, negative consequences youtu.be/5aTcjwgMFv0

Everyone deserves to spend the holidays surrounded by people who love and appreciate them. Except for the guy who invented the webp.