Tired: Lumines Arise is best experienced on <insert recreational substance here>. Wired: Lumines Arise is best experienced on the delusion that VR gaming will strike it big...one day...

39 runs later, and I’ve rolled credits on Hades 2. Ending was a little rushed, though it was apparently much worse before the latest update. Either way, game’s real good. Time to grind to the epilogue.

The ideal Discord experience

In hindsight, I probably should have gotten the PlayStation version of Once Upon a Katamari.

I’m about to throw the best tea parties.

<runs to Bluesky, out of breath> Has…has anyone called it the GabeCube yet?!

Some more Nintendo pickups from the trip. The Wii Remote cushion didn’t fit in the picture.

The Pokémon plush I acquired in the recent trip. I swear I don’t have a problem.

Imagine a world without Pop Vinyls

Went to see Twice! For the third time!

After three weeks of travelling around Taiwan and Japan, I am back in Australia. And I brought back something silly.

The traditional post-Japan trip web search

A pilgrimage completed at the Nintendo Museum

‘Get me Danny Elfman!’ ‘He’s unavailable.’ ‘Then get me his non-union Mexican equivalent!’

There’s a tweet lamenting the lack of historical titles played by young games writers. Context is good and all, but good writing and unique insights can come from so many other sources than just playing older games. Not to mention the undercurrent of ‘Oh you like video games? Name all of them.’

Forget everything else, my Game of the Year for 2025 is the minigame that you can play on the TV during the Japanese baseball broadcast.

There are few things more gauche than posing for photos — or even worse, taking a selfie — in front of the Hiroshima bomb memorials.

Thank you, Toyota Supra, for single-handedly tearing down the Berlin Wall 🫡

One more collab cafe in Tokyo, this time the Final Fantasy IX one.

The Tokyo collab cafes do not stop. Today was the Kirby Cafe.

The very first thing I did when I arrived in Tokyo last night: Plopped down at the Pokémon Cafe

Me, a Mariners fan, seeing the result of today’s baseball game

Some of the location-exclusive merch at the Pokémon Center Taipei is pretty good. I’ve already got the Pikachu, I might also grab that bubble tea Teddirusa.

Same as it ever was

Nice.

It’s still real to me dammit!

Day one of this trip. Ow my legs and feet.

I’m always grateful for the people that come to our quiz and trivia PAX panels year after year (as is @alicedkc.bsky.social)

Every other driver on the F1 grid has 19 opponents. Oscar Piastri has a 20th opponent in Zak Brown.

Sure, you could watch the NRL Grand Final, but what if you could watch me play Hades 2 instead. Pretty good proposition, eh? Live NOW www.twitch.tv/an_bear

Is there anyone out there who has responded positively to the Game Pass price hikes? Is Microsoft just hoping the general sentiment is resigned defeat, or that people magically forget that they can cancel their subscriptions?

I've said I've cleared Hades 2, but can I do it on camera? Probably not...but what if probably? Live NOW www.twitch.tv/an_bear

15 runs later, I have my first victory in Hades 2. The first of many.

I’m mildly amused by the game that ABC News chose to contextualise EA for its audience

In the next Mass Effect, Female Shepard is going to be allowed to have only one romance option: Cristiano Ronaldo.

Capcom is making its premier Street Fighter 6 tournament a pay-per-view event — and charging up to 60 dollaridoos for the privilege. Tell him he’s dreamin’.

Hades 1 is one of the greatest games of the current generation. Let's see how Hades 2 lives up to those lofty standard. Live NOW www.twitch.tv/an_bear

The one saving grace from today is that the blueberry key lime pie I made turned out perfectly cromulent…unlike the Geelong Cats’ performance.

Watching the Grand final.

This AFLW match was a good opportunity to test out the zoom on the iPhone 17 Pro’s cameras. At 1x, 4x and 8x.

Happy Friday Before the AFL Grand Final, Xbox

Uh oh, someone is running an illicit copy of Windows…in middle of the Xbox Showcase.

🎵 ‘Cause I've got a Goldeen ticket, I've got a Goldeen chance to make my way, And with a Goldeen ticket it’s a Goldeen day🎵

Sam Porter Bridges has really let himself go. Live NOW with Baby Steps www.twitch.tv/an_bear

Did Zak Brown hire an Etsy Witch? It’s the only explanation for all of Oscar’s inchidents this weekend.

No stream tonight, unfortunately. A dog ate my homework, I need to wash my hair that night, I forgot the Azerbaijan Grand Prix starts early, retrograde is in Mercury, etc etc etc. I'll be back in the stream mines later in the week, hopefully after a victorious recovery effort from Piastri.

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As part of the revival, Seth Rogen is insisting on character name changes. So look forward to to Kermit the Fog, Ganja the Great, and Dr Weed & the Electric Mayhe-he-he-he-hem.

Sam might not be the fastest, highest or strongest. ...What, you were waiting for a 'but'? Live NOW www.twitch.tv/an_bear

Randy was too busy refreshing r/BorderlandsRule34 to optimise his game for PCs