perfect casting

Now that Dispatch is all wrapped up, I gotta say that all the people who praise this as a Game of the Year contender with some of the best video game writing must have been playing a different game than me.

The way this game implements new game plus and chapter select is genius. Certified banger

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Rosalina doodle to celebrate the Mario Galaxy Movie direct! ⭐

She's perfect. No notes. 100/10

Unironically the highlight of that PlayStation showcase for me

Had a lot of fun revisiting Pentiment for GR✨️ It really is one of the best detective games of the past decade

Bond: You must be the nefarious Dr No. No: And you must be James Bonk. Bond: ...No. No: Yes? Bond: No listen. No: I am Mr Bonk. Bond: No! Bonk is not my name. No: It's not? Bond: No. No: Yes Mr Bonk? Bond: NO! No: No need to yell, I'm right here. And then they shag or something, I've never seen it.

Play The Hundred Line! I had the great pleasure to reply to a PR that reached out "for your consideration" asking if I wanted a code that I'd already played it when it dropped; more of you need to check it out!

I will never apologize for a post

Seeing Square Enix continue to make gacha Dissidia games when they could just make Dissidia Final Fantasy Warriors...... man

I read a thread about games with terrible UI earlier and this video has been destroying me all day.

Now that I’ve 100%ed Super Mario Galaxy again, I should move onto the sequel. Buuuuuuuuuuuuut…

I have far too many to count but the first lot that come to mind: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Final Fantasy 16 Metaphor ReFantazio Digimon Story: Time Stranger A Space for the Unbound

Meant to say this yesterday but Korrina, girl, what the fuck are you wearing? I've seen some compare this to Kingdom Hearts, but nah the outfits in that seem downright reasonable compared to this.

Booted up Sonic Racing for the Ichiban Kasuga crossover and he comes with only one song from Yakuza 7? Two if you count his victory theme but that's so few!

Henry's been after a new Fall Guys type game for several years, but Sonic Rumble is not the one.

Hamazaki Has To Goh - where does Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio draw the line on casting, and why is it not at sexual assault? by @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social "it’s particularly insulting and disgusting for him to be cast in a series that has historically featured sex pests being (rightly) beat up" Read on:

I think there's a pretty large chance this never comes out.

We can all agree Rauru’s doing the kikoho, right?

Lol. Lmao even

God it runs so smoothly! The Switch 2 is worth it just for this

After two Marios and a Zelda, a solo Donkey Kong movie's got to be next, right?

Rolled credits on Slay the Princess last night and it has officially become one of those games I'm gonna incessantly bug people to play but will refuse to explain why.

Huh, Camerupt is much smaller than I imagined it should be

Me learning that my “favourite” Pokémon character is in Legends Z-A:

Live your life so that ppl won't spontaneously cheer when you die

New Yorkers...

Finally started Slay the Princess. What little I knew if it made it sound 100% my jam and I was right

Finally caught up on the My Hero Academia dub and every episode for the final season so far has had me do this

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Binged all of Star Wars Visions season 3 last night and justice for my boy Teto. This droid was the MVP of the whole thing.

All caught up on Dispatch and Phenomaman is easily the funniest character in the game

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Eight episodes in and I'm convinced this series of Taskmaster has specifically been designed to drive Maisie Adams and Reece Shearsmith insane.

No video game will make you hopelessly feel that no matter how hard you try, something will always go wrong than Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket.

Absolute Batman breaking a white supremacist's arm in the latest comic 🦇

Been playing the Nintendo Switch 2 port of Two Point Museum for almost a week now and while it's a good port for those who want a handheld option, there's a lot of missed potential for taking advantage of the unique hardware. READ: gamersocialclub.ca/2025/10/30/p...

Hmm. I think Pokemon Z-A moving you up to Rank F is bad design. It feels bad! It feels like the game is going "Hey, we know this premise sucks, and we don't want to do it either, so we're just cutting out half." It basically feels like thee game is doing this to you:

Dear Nintendo, please stop making random announcements with no build up. A heads-up or at least a press release would be appreciated. Signed, a stressed out news writer.

Lucina x FF6 #FireEmblem #FFVI

I've seen a bunch of out of context pages like this today and it's honestly making me a fan of Absolute Batman.

Neat

Mystery Inc's Survival Horrorween 🔪 #ScoobyDoo

Hot damn new phone background acquired