Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Steam) w/ 8 more games is $14 on Humble Award Nomination Bundle buff.ly/j02K9qS #ad also in $10 tier

Merry Christmas

Spoilers for @p1podcast.com's upcoming GOTY discussion. But a bonus top 5 that is not part of that. Thanks @giantbomb.bsky.social @marinov1.bsky.social @grubb.wtf for the opportunity! 💕

Bought a copy of my senior yearbook off of eBay. Found my picture and it had "hi, Jeff" written on it.

This is just Heated Rivalry without the hockey? What's the point?

The second LaserDisc Rip today is rarer than the first, and also is by Japanese City Pop artist Tats Yamashita. Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year: Christmas in New York. archive.org/details/chri...

Always a must-see list!

oh no i got vulnerable on the internet and maybe looked far too inwards to find my Top 10 Games of the Year! giantbomb.com/articles/jan...

Imagine wanting to replace this kind of human endeavor with AI trash youtu.be/MVUuoXAkuUg?...

Shouts out to the team for collecting, editing, and posting the GOTY lists! We're kicking off Day 2 with Dan's Top 10 Games of 2025! giantbomb.com/articles/dan...

Final elf torture of the year

So credit cards are just paying someone to borrow money from your future self? Time travel is way worse than I thought it would be.

The crossover event of the season.

I made this (article and image)

I'm gonna start signing off all my emails like Joe now.

Over 1200 ballots now in the @giantbomb.bsky.social Community GOTY vote. Still time to get yours in. Vote Here: tinyurl.com/GBCGOTY25

Titanfall 2's campaign is nothing short of a masterpiece, and what a gift it was for all of us. Such heart, incredible design, impeccable mechanics. Nearly ten years later it more than holds up, it remains arguably the pinnacle of the genre. If you've never played it, please do so.

Bless everyone who maintains the tools to download video files from proprietary players.

I have the flu

60 Minutes should do a segment on the Streisand Effect.

No words. Vince had everything this industry was always looking for.

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees of the inaugural Kinda Funny Games Daily Awards! We wouldn't have a show without all your hard work. ❤️ @duckvalentine.bsky.social @jasonschreier.bsky.social @giantbomb.bsky.social

You probably didn't expect someone to go in-depth on Vagrant Story in a 2025 GOTY list, but here we are. giantbomb.com/articles/aid...

Shout out to @lucyjames.games - a genuine, warm person that made me feel welcomed as a part of the audience and now as I work for Giant Bomb. Great list and love to see Seance here. giantbomb.com/articles/luc...

Vince Zampella, Respawn Entertainment co-founder and the head of EA's Battlefield series, has died at age 55. gameinformer.com/2025/12/22/v...

11 hours in and going strong! We have raised over $3000 for Extra Life! The more we raise, the more Kingdom Hearts I play! twitch.tv/tolkoto

Uhh here's a #ScanlineSunday, uhhh, fuck it—let's do this one! It's definitely a game I can't tell if I enjoy or hate, but it definitely makes me feel things, that much is certain! Virtuoso (3DO, 1995) JVC AV-27230 27" CRT TV SCART (transcoded via Shiny Bow converter through HD Retrovision cables)

Final MiXMAS is starting! Playing Dream Drop Distance all day for Giant Bomb's Extra Life! And I'm gonna start by debuting The Gamer Rap 2! twitch.tv/tolkoto

No better way to start your holiday vacation than joining @tolkoto.com to raise money for kids today. www.twitch.tv/tolkoto

Chicago Pope during the game

Not a bad way to spend the afternoon

Football isn't real

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

The five best Christmas video games are: 5.) The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie’s Revenge 4.) Parasite Eve 3.) Hotel Dusk: Room 215 2.) Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales 1.) Christmas Nights into Dreams

Perfect vghf vintage mag to show up as I get sick for Christmas. Love the obvious lasso tool on the guy in the space adventure review.

Something's in the air. I think it could happen.

Oh hey, Shout Factory is streamlooping the uncut version of Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas (complete with the Kermit interstitials!) www.youtube.com/live/CzuPZBh...

Marcus is a dick

One last thing before we're out for the year.

I'm a genius

Yeah, the four horsemen of lessening inequality throughout history have been massive wars, revolutions, state collapses, and plagues. That's almost without exception. The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel

Seriously, if you don't actively work to prevent Luckey from taking over retro, he's going to infect everything

this thing can suck my dick -- fucking blasphemy to put that logo on a pair of koss porta pros

oh my god

There is a reason the lawyers at some of the big, more conservative companies won't let anyone use AI for anything creative.

Feeling pretty sore from the dentist today, so I'm gonna get some rest tonight. But Mike and Shawn are gonna handle Game Mess Decides tonight!

Even if it was super helpful, everyone should still be screaming about it.