After seeing the list of shows in winter 2026 season, all I want to know is when we're getting Bocchi the rock season 2

My latest Nintendo digest features links to @mackeza.bsky.social, @alucarti.bsky.social, @jasonschreier.bsky.social, @drewgmackie.bsky.social, @pjoreilly.bsky.social and others!

A show which you should watch. Good animation and character design

Finally met Leia in Tales of Xillia and the game hides the best character for way too long

These albums saved my weekend

'tis the season to think about games you didn't play/finish from earlier in the year, and I really think Last Defense Academy should be one of them. I swear it gets good (after 30 hours) www.polygon.com/hundred-line...

Today is the 17th anniversary of 428: Shibuya Scramble, a highly acclaimed entry in Chunsoft's sound novel series and one of my all-time favorite novel games. I love it so much I made a whole dang documentary about Chunsoft and their sound novels: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9BT...

Getting back to Plastic Tree and Sugar kinda saved the year for me

I covered every version of Octopath Traveler 0 for @rpgsite.net going over visuals, performance, load times, and more. I even tested the Switch version on Switch 2 and PS4 version on PS5: www.rpgsite.net/feature/1905...

If you like RPGs and/or the other Octopath Traveler games, you should play Octopath Traveler 0. It has great things in it. It's a massive game and with beautiful moments to enjoy. At the same time, it has cracks hard to ignore.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond plays like a post-mortem of its own dev cycle. The story of a doomed race throwing one last Hail Mary to salvage its legacy after a series of failed experiments. Disjointed, full of abandoned ideas, but Retro finds a way through the debris. www.polygon.com/metroid-prim...

As if I'd let a new Falcom Western release go by without doing an interview. I chatted with @refint.games about the Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga remaster, working with @falcom.co.jp, how the team added Switch 2 enhancements without a devkit, and more: www.rpgsite.net/interview/19...

Growing up i'd say 80%-90% of purchaseable media was pirated. Even today just short of half of people here don't even have bank accounts but there are kiosks where you can insert cash to pay bills and also top off a steam wallet. piracy is a service issue and access creates markets

For the Fangsgiving special, I wrote a bit about Tsukihime a piece of blue glass moon and why more people should at least learn about it

It’s so damn hard to get excited about a new week of work when it is starting like this

Shuten Order went from being bad handheld on Switch 1/2 because of low resolution portraits to being fantastic with this upgrade on Switch 2. I hope we see something like this for The Hundred Line also.

For the Fangsgiving special, I wrote a bit about Tsukihime a piece of blue glass moon and why more people should at least learn about it

After the announcement and the poster recently shared by Toei, I was expecting Sharivan to be the first project red show but no, we are getting Gavan Infinity youtu.be/G-uXVPccMn8?...

I reviewed @kinmoku.bsky.social's VIDEOVERSE on Switch for @nintendoinsider.bsky.social. It was awesome revisiting it after I first played it on Steam Deck two years ago: www.nintendo-insider.com/videoverse-s...

For my last piece from my big interview with AdHoc, I dug into the story behind the mysterious Mr. Whiskey, which is basically the story of how Dispatch grew up during development www.polygon.com/dispatch-mr-...

Let's hope they will also bring the best one back

I reviewed both Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (fine for handheld, meh for TV play) and One Piece Pirate Warriors 4 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (good upgrade, but should've been better) for @nintendoinsider.bsky.social: www.nintendo-insider.com/dragon-ball-... www.nintendo-insider.com/one-piece-pi...

Oh hey, this is me! Constance is a fast and fluid upcoming metroidvania that unfortunately chose to push its barely-there ~mental health journey~ angle to the fore, instead of the ~we made a very pretty and really quite well designed metroidvania~ parts instead: www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

After years of teaching and studying for my master's and phd, I found myself tired of that life and began searching for other options. Then I learned about international publications that accept pitches from freelancers (even from Brazil!) so I decided to give it a shot

What a great day

A poem that cannot be translated

Replaying Steins;Gate was not part of plans for next year... but maybe...

FYI, the Nintendo eShop sales of our titles end today! In 12 hours.

Looking to speak with academics/experts specializing in video games studies specifically ideas around conquest, environmentalism, and land for a piece. Please repost this or give recs.

It's everything I could have wanted and more

I covered Demonschool from @necrosoftgames.com @ysbryd.net on PS5, Switch, Switch 2, Steam Deck, and ROG Ally for @rpgsite.net. I know many were curious how this feels on console and handhelds: www.rpgsite.net/feature/1896...

For this weekend blog I wrote about how, besides being a lady killer, Lloyd is a fun, almost too cliche of a protagonist who can become the strongest character in the game

For this weekend blog I wrote about how, besides being a lady killer, Lloyd is a fun, almost too cliche of a protagonist who can become the strongest character in the game

Instead of just covering the Atelier Ryza Secret Trilogy Deluxe Pack (three games) ahead of its launch tomorrow for PS5, PS4, Switch 2, Switch, and PC, I also covered the original trilogy and tested everything I could across every device for @rpgsite.net: www.rpgsite.net/feature/1892...

I've spoken with a bunch of smart and cool people the last few weeks for different stories, but this was definitely my favorite www.polygon.com/south-of-mid...

There was no early access for the Deluxe Edition on Switch 1/2 so it took me a bit longer to do this (cross save being broken did not help). My Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road Switch and Switch 2 Edition impressions are up now on @rpgsite.net with comparisons and more: www.rpgsite.net/feature/1895...

Following our PC port and Steam Deck impressions, we have a new feature covering how Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road looks and feels on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch going over visual differences, load times, performance, and more: www.rpgsite.net/feature/1895...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ5d... I want the new Yoroiden Samurai Troopers anime to be good because I love the original one, but every time I watch this trailer I can't help but feel it seems... not that good...

The genre heavyweight returns for its crown, with a side of slapstick

Level-5 is back (again). Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is shockingly captivating so far. I wrote up some thoughts on the PC port based on my time with it yesterday and today for @rpgsite.net www.rpgsite.net/feature/1894...

Despelote

For Polygon's console anniversary package, I took a shot at explaining why the PS5 and misguided branding made Final Fantasy 16 seem particularly flawed when it was really not much different than any FF before it www.polygon.com/ff16-final-f...

The idea that Steam Deck would be a Nintendo killer was always silly. The idea that Steam Machine could be an Xbox killer is way more plausible. But it's entirely going to depend on whether or not Valve has any actual interest in doing that. Some snap thoughts. www.polygon.com/microsoft-xb...

Outside of Nintendo, hardware that inspires joy and whimsy is rare. But with Valve's new Steam Machine, the comparisons to GameCube abound

For this preview, I could play a bit of Octopath Traveler 0 and while I like most of it, I believe it might have lost something really special because of some changes to a core aspect of the series www.polygon.com/octopath-tra...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQEL... Hearing about Falcom's plans for next year is exciting and just makes me more hyped to play Trails Beyond the Horizon. Only two months and I will have another trails game to play

For this preview, I could play a bit of Octopath Traveler 0 and while I like most of it, I believe it might have lost something really special because of some changes to a core aspect of the series www.polygon.com/octopath-tra...

I need to play with Kamen Rider W so I think I will finally buy Super Robot Wars Y

I'm not the best at performing long combos in Tales of Xillia (I'm practicing though) but it is relaxing to just punch stuff while playing Jude. Just my little doc venting all this anger with his bare hands