From this week’s Beano.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Return to Silent Hill has some of the worst facial hair make up I've seen in a film with a $20+ million budget

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

It's been a good film week

My 2025 Nintendo stats are nothing special, but my overall stats for the Switch's lifetime are pretty neat

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer. Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump. Now, it’s gone.

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

Put in a Nice number of hours into Octopath Traveler 2 this year, but kind of a lean year on the PS5 overall

I feel like Chat GPT probably wrote this

PS1 demo discs were so formative for me, tons of games I'd never have heard of otherwise and some of the unique stuff on them absolutely shaped my tastes today

Two things can be true: 1.) The Game Awards are meaningless and we shouldn't take them all that seriously. 2.) Award shows of its scale DO rewrite the mainstream history of the art form, whether they deserve to or not, and its okay to care that it's so thoughtless despite having that responsibility.

It's taken nearly 5 years to get round to putting it up, but finally my pinboard is now on the wall. Still a lot of space to fill...

just saw the worst gaming ad ive ever seen

Excuse me what? My interest is piqued www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif

Such an easy purchase - thought I'd never get to play Device 6 having never had an iPhone, plus a ton of other interesting looking titles

Amazon Prime's adverts have become ridiculous in length and regularity, but most annoying are the sync issues when the ad break is over, forcing me to go back to the menu and then resume the film.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

The Crew 2 is accidentally one of the funniest games ever made because of its procedurally generated storefronts. "CHICKEN GRILLED COFFEE" "SHOE" "BUY ONE GET SECOND ONE" "CIRCULAR DOTS" "$3B.9B"

My little waddly bitey boi is back. All praise Totodile

Some retro gaming pickups this week

Bit of a mess of a pre-sale, but in the end I have my tickets for Super Furry Animals in May www.youtube.com/watch?v=27jB...

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

I love this little cranking machine

A remaster of a specific Dynasty Warriors entry from the PS2 era seems really odd, but 3 was my absolute jam so I'm 100% onboard

Silent Hill f and Hades II dropping on the same day would be utterly amazing if I wasn't busy for pretty much 5 days running from tomorrow. I need time to play!

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

TikTok crackdown underway. The consolidation of social media and traditional media is happening rapidly.

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

I love that they couldn't find a bigger version of Bowser playing the piano

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

the kids in Weapons run like Animal Crossing characters

If you're into puzzle games and haven't played these, then this is a steal. Especially love A Monsters Expedition, one of my favourites ever.

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

Audiosurf is easily the MVP here

Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her". www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Switch 2 killer app

Games for username letters Tetris Effect Animal Crossing New Pokemon Snap Grim Fandango Yakuza 0 Silent Hill 2 Pikmin 3 Hitman Eastward Ridge Racer Type 4 Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem

Fuck Labour