You’ve got to make the distinction right? The game I loved most this year is probably also Donkey Kong Bananza, closely followed by South of Midnight, but neither is the best game of the year. Maybe this is a weird games media thing?

“What you doing with your time off before Jan” Well…

Started playing Dementium recently! One of those DS curios that I remember reading about in ONM, I do really quite miss the era of having a hugely underpowered handheld that devs could make smaller, lower budget games for

Boxing Day beach walk 🐾

Boxing Day beach walk 🐾

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

If Father Castle decides you've been naughty, you get a copy of Astro Bot on PS5. If he decides you've been nice, you get Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour.

Merry Christmas all! 🎄

Fulfilled a childhood dream and completed House of the Dead 3! Loved this in the arcade as a kid, and finally taking down that final boss felt incredible

"The effect is, frankly, catastrophic" - the voice actors and unions fighting back against gaming's controversial use of AI www.eurogamer.net/video-game-p...

Today is my last day at GLHF as Deputy Editor and it's been a wild ride over some four or five years. I'm not really one for the freelance life but if you need an experienced games writer for reviews, mocks, or scorching hot takes, give me a shout while I figure my life out.

Just finished up Dunkadillo, a little 1-2 hour indie game I picked up on a whim for less than £2 on the Switch Deceptively simple, one button control, but with some really clever level design A reminder for me tbh that plenty of indies fly under the radar with no PR/marketing

Divinity Switch 1 with a free upgrade to Switch 2 is on sale but Divinity Switch 2 is not

IWGB: "Rockstar’s latest statement is littered with falsehoods and disinformation - they have given multiple, conflicting reasons to explain why the workers were fired, as if attempting to reverse engineer a rationale for the dismissals. Once again, they have chosen to mischaracterise... 1/3

Caught up on the game awards announcements this morning, one of its best years probably! Watching the trailers did make me more thankful that we did finally get Metroid Prime 4 this year. Despite its faults, there really is so little else like it

Rockstar now claims it was, in fact, the leaking of “specific game features from upcoming and unannounced titles” that led to the firings. We’re going to have to see the company prove this in an employment tribunal & more than that, it’ll need to prove it for all 31 fired employees in the UK too.

I really do hope that Retro gets a chance to give Prime 2 the remastered treatment at some point, its level and world design is simply phenomenal, and it feels like the Prime game that most people probably skipped over

GG Metroid Prime 4! A game that I have more thoughts on than I could possibly get down into words It’s probably a good 8/10 though

Deeply sad about this, every performance of his as Qwark was brilliant, and his absence in Rift Apart was glaring

Time to restart my Wario Land playthrough in 2026 I guess!

🚨 The UK Video Games Industry Census closes 19 Dec. Run by Ukie & Dr Mark Taylor, it’s the most comprehensive survey of the UK games workforce, exploring: 🔹 Industry mood & outlook 🔹 Layoffs, visas & training 🔹 Careers of women in games Open to all UK games workers. Take part: zurl.co/yfMwu

Very proud of myself for playing a lot less FIFA in 2025, and playing more new stuff, but looking at this I’m realising that the Switch 2 and Xbox may have been my primary consoles in 2025. Which feels wild

Rock Paper Shotgun knows what's up!

We'll be running a few tribute pieces in our January issue to celebrate the sad passing of our colleague Nick Thorpe. What was your favourite article by Nick and why? Some answers will appear in the magazine.

We announced Better Than Us last night! A game about screwing over billionaires and taking their money. Make sure to check it out if you haven't yet youtu.be/LVUF2QlTa04?...

Ever dreamed of gaslighting billionaires? Good news. Better Than Us, our next game, lands in 2026.

Before I go on Etsy, are there any laid-off game artists in my follower/repost pool who would be available for a custom DnD party art commission? Four characters, a few special requests, preferably by Christmas? DM me! I have money!

Managed to put quite a few hours into Prime 4 today and I’m liking it a lot, but perhaps in spite of itself? It actually feels more like a GameCube / PS2 era game than the original Prime, which is crazy.

This is very cool!

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

Been thinking a lot about how amazingly powerful this moment is in a game with so little story cutscene staging. Making brilliant use of breaking a franchise tradition, the way it uses an iconic tune, etc. Just chills at the time youtu.be/bdTdUoSCfS4?...

Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director rebukes "big budget = sh*t" but suggests "the public company model is broken" www.gamesindustry.biz/baldurs-gate...

Big Tuesday evening plans

Do I know anybody who has experience writing scripts for video reviews, and could give me ballpark figures for rates? I've been approached with something that may or may not progress, but this isn't my area and I don't know how high/low is reasonable.

EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum". PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...

Setting up a PSN account for my son. Everything seems to be in order, just need to choose an OnlineID and WHAT

Played this for the first time a couple months back, it rules

GamesRadar+ is also hiring a hybrid UK-based Hardware & Tabletop Staff Writer. Come work with @thewordyben.bsky.social and me!

We're hiring a guides writer at GamesRader. Like writing about games and solving puzzles? Then take a look. UK based but remote's okay. All the details are in the link. apply.workable.com/futureplc/j/...

This concept sounds wicked and I'm gutted that it never got off the ground properly

Interrupting the game awards discourse on here to once again request that Nintendo brings back pointer controls Give me a Switch 2 sensor bar peripheral

Watching Fantastic Four finally and this CGI baby is an absolute horror show

This annoying MacKenzie character in Prime 4 that everyone hates is going to turn out to be Sylux all along, right?

Do I know any Edinburgh-based games journalists?

220 employees at Rockstar North have signed a letter condemning the dismissal of 31 workers amid union busting accusations www.gamesindustry.biz/over-200-roc...

Years and years ago I heard about inattentive ADHD for the first time and thought “huh that sounds like me” and I went to the GP and there was barely any waiting list at that point and they gave me a form to fill out and then BECAUSE of the probable adhd I forgot to do it and now it’s impossible

Good job valve, now do the Steam DS

Finally, Gabecube