Finished the Monster Hunter Stories 3 demo and loved it. Spent around 8 hours, a surprising amount of content to get stuck into. They’ve expanded the formula a lot, everything feels bigger and more detailed. Really intrigued to see where the story goes! Next month's gaming choices will be tough.

"Yahaha, you found me!"

Crazy to think this series started as a little 3DS spinoff.

Watched the new Silent Hill. It was ....a movie. To be fair, it was kinda cool seeing some of the iconic scenes being brought to life, but you'd never even believe it was from the same director as the first one. My recommendation? Just play SH2. The Bloober remake. It's great.

I love demos. For real. They make me feel like an accomplished gamer when I haven't completed anything in weeks.

I might have to replay Granblue Fantasy Relink especially if it comes with additional content. The OG game was short and sweet, I had a blast with it.

So many games. So many shadow drops. So many demos!

It's time to play the music.

LTTP but I played the Pragmata demo and I'm instantly sold. What a cool concept! I had no idea what the combat was all about, but it's almost like Resident Evil x Dead Space with hacking mechanics layered on top. Gonna be hard to resist this one in April. Feels *very* Capcom in the best way.

My brain today.

Been recovering from a cold but doing some cozy gaming while tucked in bed definitely helps! Decided to check out Where Winds Meet tonight. It's really pretty.

An all-stars season of Traitors would be fascinating if it consisted purely of former Traitors.

There's not enough hype for the Cult of the Lamb expansion. Sadface.gif

Not sure if Kiln is for me, but I'm really happy that devs like Double Fine exist, are allowed to have fun and be creative, and make anything they want. It's incredible that they're still around after all these years.

We are so back!! Fable is looking amazing!

Beast of Reincarnation is looking pretty great. Stoked that Gamefreak is able to work on their own IP for a change.

Ooh, more Luigi content... 👀 I wonder if they'll do a red shell with the Insider's rewards this time?

This is just Luigi's Mansion now.

Someone I work with in freelance told me I was undervaluing my work. The truth is that I always find it hard to price myself up, since every pitch is different, and budget ceilings change all the time. So yeah, I really appreciated that honesty. Being reminded of my worth felt pretty great.

Saw Hamnet yesterday and my main take-away is that Max Richter continues to be one of my favourite score composers ever. Everything he touches just adds so much emotional depth. The movie was pretty good too in the way it came together at the end.

Been thinking of Eternal Sonata and would love a remaster of this classic some day.

What a heart wrenchingly honest movie about loneliness, connection and loss. I teared up 3-4 times throughout this movie. Funny and endearing characters, great performances and beautiful cinematography. If you love Japanese culture as well, it's a must watch.

Showing my age but does anyone else miss the days where we all burned CDs and DVDRWs? Watching that progress bar tick down before the disc tray spat it out. I had entire folders with collections of stuff. Now of course, all digital.

Ramyun to seal the Honmoon.

It's too late for me, save yourselves.

Everyone this season: Using my super secret spy skills and my former training in clandestine operations and with a degree in psychology I can assure you I have an insane amount of credibility and I am not a Traitor.

A reminder to look after yourselves. If you need a break from something, take that fucking break.

The AC New Horizons 3.0 update dropped early! I'll be waiting for the Switch 2 update but this time tomorrow you bet I'll be starting a new island!

I spent 6 hours fishing in Star Ocean SSR before I realised that maybe I should just indulge in a proper fishing game 😂 So, this has now become my cozy game for the day! It's super chill and I can catch up on my podcasts while I play. The pixel art is beautiful! Yes, I'm easily distracted.

Fiona when you piss her off.

First proper day back to work this morning and after being off for almost 3 weeks, I've learned that I'd be an absolute expert at retirement 😌

Started playing Star Ocean Second Story R. Had this one in my library for a while. Hoping to complete more JRPGs this year!

Was really craving something very simple and comforting after a week's worth of junk food and made congee.

Already amped for this season of Traitors UK. They finally figured out a way for the audience to get into the shoes of the faithfuls and second guess everyone. It's brilliant.

Now watching. Going in blind, don't really know much about this at all other than it's good 😅

Happy New Year everyone! 🎆✨🎉 So glad I don't have to trek into central London when our local display is right outside our window 😅

All done! Fun build, simple set but looks great. Bowser is being built in the background which seems like it's gonna be gigantic 😂

Any guesses on what I'm building? 👀

I made it to 20 titles! Pretty happy I got more gaming done than I usually do this year. It helped that some of these were super short of course. Had a real blast playing them!

Who knew my last game this year would turn out be one of my 2025 faves? I LOVED Keeper. Constantly creative, surprising despite its linearity. Feels like Tim Burton, Laika & Ghibli made a Journey-style puzzle adventure about a bird & her lighthouse. Top-tier Double Fine. Go play it if you haven't!

Decided that Keeper will be my last game of the year, hoping that I can complete this one relatively quickly. Gorgeous game so far!

This classic somehow eluded my childhood despite being a millennial. Now I've finally seen it and all I can think of is how cool it would be if the live action Zelda movie carried the same vibes!

Me: "What do you want to do for New Year's?" Him: "Stay in and play board games all night long"

Finished both Metroid Prime 4 and Dispatch today! MP4 was fun but felt the mechanics were underutilised in both puzzle and boss fight designs despite having some amazing potential for some clever "a-ha" moments. Great atmosphere though and scratched the itch somewhat, so still worth playing.

Really want to watch the finale of the gay hockey show but while my parents are over... I'd imagine we'll all end up an emotional wreck but for completely different reasons 😂

New frens deployed 🥰

Parents have been fed and now I can rest 😌

Blessed 🥰

Merry Christmas everyone! I lost my Xmas stocking last year (silly story), and Rob is away this year so I wasn’t really expecting anything… and yet he secretly made one and hid it in a drawer for me to open this morning. I am UNWELL 😭

One of my favourites games this year has dropped a huge DLC update, AND it's free, AND on Xmas Eve?? Cancel all my plans please.