It took forever on the YouTube processing end, but this week's batch of ranked NES games is finally here! This week includes Batman Returns, High Speed, Ultima: Quest of the Avatar, and more! youtu.be/pqDkIlWjLsM

Could really go for an episode of AEW Rampage right about now, it'd be nice to have some solid Friday night wrestling again.

YouTube's been real slow lately on the encoding side. Tried to yank some music out of a video after posting it and the processing spun for like four days. Now today's archive says it's going to take hours to get up.

The time for science is upon us! Let's rank a fresh batch of NES games, including... wait, Ultima IV was on the NES? Cripes. twitch.tv/jeffgerstmann

Q side is rigged, I'm never making it out of Silver 3

NOW we're talking

Sometimes you find yourself wondering "man, what's the difference between HexD and sigilkore, _really?_" and spend an hour listening to some of the worst bullshit raps you've heard in like a decade! But at least I know the answer now? Sort of? Time well spent.

Sonic Rumble is out today, it's a bad Fall Guys with some wildly expensive monetization. But don't let that distract you from the part where the game is bad? Anyway, I found myself wanting to know more about it so I played it and now I know. Here is a record of that, in case you also want to know.

Hello Wednesday! It's Video Games. twitch.tv/jeffgerstmann

I was going to make a joke that Curtis Sliwa was just going to shuffle back to making the sleaziest public access TV show that 1983 New York has ever known, but then I glanced at his actual history and it's way funnier.

As someone who does not live in New York, my desire is simple and, perhaps, a little self-serving: I would like to never see Cuomo's stupid fuckin' face or hear his stupid fuckin' voice ever again. It'd be great if that creep just lost this election and went away forever.

"people"

Hey, here's this week's podcast! Let's talk about ARC Raiders, the Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection, that Xbox full-screen thing rolling out to the MSI Claw, BF6 cuistom server madness, The Simpsons, and more. youtu.be/0mA0T2Ji51A

It's podcast time, let's talk about ARC Raiders, Mortal Kombat, this weird half-keyboard I bought, and the news! twitch.tv/jeffgerstmann

Always cool when you go to cut a video and discover oh hey, this thing I recorded a few days ago doesn't have any audio for the first two-thirds of it for whatever reason.

This is my “dropped out of college to go see Mortal Kombat 3 in Reno” look.

Been trying to decide if I care who wins or not and ultimately... yes, turns out my lifelong hatred of the fucking Dodgers is, indeed, lifelong.

Man, baseball.

Powerwash Simulator 2 has me back in that “dude I should buy a pressure washer and blast this whole house with it” mindset.

This week's batch of NES rankings is ready for you! Here's TMNT: Tournament Fighters, World Games, Desert Commander, and more! youtu.be/MTHUyC8LPIg

It's Friday! It's time to rank NES games! Fighting games on the NES! There aren't many of them, at least not officially. Let's look at one! Also: World Games? Desert Commander? Let's see. twitch.tv/jeffgerstmann

I don't know what changed, but my Steam download speeds have been getting faster and faster as of late.

I meant it! youtu.be/D7ORIspI2gY

The reviews are in! Kids LOVE Down Periscope!!!

Here's a look at Wreckreation, the new game from the studio founded by some of the creators of the Burnout franchise. There's a lot of Burnout Paradise in here, it's been neat! But it feels a bit thin in spots. youtu.be/1hb-X43twR8

Hanging out on the internet, might play some Wreckreation later? twitch.tv/jeffgerstmann

This week's podcast covers Once Upon a Katamari, Wreckreation, Halo on a PlayStation, some more odds and ends about whatever Xbox does next, the CS2 skin thing, and more! youtu.be/8IpuaE6fhLg

It's time for a podcast! Let's talk about Once Upon a Katamari, Wreckreation, my time so far with The Outer Worlds 2, Halo all up in your PlayStation, the Redacted Sector, Toshinden (?!?!) and more! twitch.tv/jeffgerstmann

Went to pick this back up tonight and upon loading my save I discovered that, uh... I guess I'm starting The Outer Worlds 2 over from the beginning?

I don't normally like to tease interviews ahead of time on the podcast but this week's a big one (see image for details).

This response from the White House is somehow dumber than I could have ever expected.

Didn't get my hands on Wreckreation until this morning but it makes a great first impression. They definitely want you to know that it's pretty much a Burnout game. Similar menus and UI to Paradise. Driving feels solid so far, need to put in some more time, though.

Fell to my death so hard in Outer Worlds 2 that the whole game crashed. Bad tech luck tonight, going to give up on all of it and try again tomorrow.

I've never seen a game--especially an already-released game--beg me to fill out feedback surveys as much as Skate has. Got one last night that started asking me about a seasonal event, and when I checked the "I don't know anything about it man" box it just rolled right onto WELL WHAT DID YOU THINK??

Cool, my portable Xbox is hosed. That’s what I get for… leaving it in sleep mode for two days?

I am also coming to PlayStation.

Here's this week's batch of NES rankings, including Monopoly, Ultimate Basketball, Ren & Stimpy, and Castlevania 3! youtu.be/tFPLeO9OJyc

It's time to get live and rank games! Apparently they made a Ren & Stimpy game for the NES? Also a third Castlevania game? That can't be right... twitch.tv/jeffgerstmann

Hey! Reminder that if you sign up to this Patreon you get a bonus podcast every week! This week has first impressions of Once Upon A Katamari along with some further discussion of the ROG Xbox Ally X and how it relates to whatever the word "Xbox" will come to mean. www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

A big Diet Dr. Pepper would fix me

The more Once Upon a Katamari I play, the more I feel like the levels are designed a little too tightly. You just bang around some levels like crazy and get caught in small areas. Kind of annoying. Also the katamari skids more, I think. Changing directions is frustrating.

My son is rolling up underwater creatures in Katamari and he found a mollusk and was confused by it and he said “maybe it’s a ghost in the shell” and now I’m extremely confused and trying to figure out where that came from. Who is exposing my child to anime???

wednesday, 4:05pm, time to post hole youtu.be/fwpUKs6reR4

I am ONLINE! Come chat for a bit, then maybe we'll do a video game or two. twitch.tv/jeffgerstmann

Wreckreation is supposedly out next week. Really curious to see how that one turns out. The trailers definitely have a certain Burnout-meets-Trackmania vibe that make it look very much like my kind of thing.

Here's this week's podcast, which covers the releases of Keeper, the ROG Xbox Ally, Ninja Gaiden 4, and Ball X Pit. Also: Warner wants to sell, maybe we could buy the rights to Paperboy? There's a new Intellivision coming and it's probably actually going to release? Crazy. youtu.be/--HPg85dxkE

Megaphone is back with its bi-monthly "redesign the interface to make it slightly worse and also make audio files somehow take even longer to process" redesign. Killin it!

It's podcast time so here's some stuff about ninjas, Xboxes, lighthouses, Paperboy, saboteurs, AI, and more. It's video games! twitch.tv/jeffgerstmann