Katsuoji Temple was well worth braving the cold, taking a long train ride across Osaka, and riding up a mountain

This week on All Things Nintendo, @timgettys.bsky.social joins me to look back at the best games of 2025! Find the show in video form on YouTube and Spotify, and in audio everywhere else! youtu.be/YcOUm3qsEi4?...

nobody had a closer affiliation or more smiling pictures with Epstein than this mf 😭

Merry Christmas 🗼🎄

As far as views from a hotel room go, this could be a whole lot worse 🏯

NOT THE SAMURAI RESTAURANT IN SHINJUKU SAMPLING THE HYMN OF THE FAYTH

‼️Seeking my next opportunity‼️ My contract at Meta expires in March and I've maxed out my extensions, so I'm actively searching for what's next. I'd love to stay in comms, editorial, marketing, and/or PR for games and/or XR. Let's work together! RTs appreciated.

A prominent commentator in the fighting game community, Sajam, has announced he will not participate in future EVO events following its acquisition by the Saudi government.

Here’s more from my conversations with Bethesda about the Fallout series.

My microtransaction policy is that if I enjoy the game and spend a lot of time playing it, I don’t mind throwing a few bucks here and there. Usually, it enhances the experience, but I recently got back into Fallout Shelter and dropped money on the season pass and it completely removed the fun.

CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”

I just woke up to the Vince Zampella news. What an absolutely devastating loss. Though I didn’t know him well, I had nothing but pleasant interactions with him. I remember being a little starstruck the first time I met him back at E3 2015. But what an undeniable impact that man had on the industry.

imagine if there was some idiot who, in his haste, messed up the yen to USD currency conversion and accidentally tipped the omakase chef $130 on a $140 check. imagine that extremely and totally hypothetical situation.

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Can’t believe how much they redacted

Me when they make an announcement on the train in Tokyo

You all have Trump Derangement Syndrome. Stop thinking about and talking about the guy who for a decade now has forced himself into the news cycle seventy times a day, wants to rename everything in his own name, and is trying to put his own face on money. Why can’t you just leave him alone.

“Whoops we accidentally left one in. Surely nobody will notice if we pluck the image that contained the guy everyone knows is in the files and cares the most about. That will make this pass and not draw this whole thing out for even longer, right?” The dumbest people imaginable.

Big things happening on r/OnionLovers

Leaving the country until 2026 ✌🏼

You just know Travis stares bewildered at this art for hours each day

Can’t believe how much they redacted

Danny Elfman on the Shelfman

No more work til 2026 ✌🏼

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Get your wishlists ready.

This week on All Things Nintendo, @finruin.bsky.social joins me to run down her favorite Switch indie games of 2025! Find the video on YouTube/Spotify and the audio everywhere else youtu.be/SrPPBJXtLak?...

interesting to have a memorial center for a guy who is alive but maybe they know something i don't

I learned long ago that whataboutisms just simply don't work when it comes to the Trump administration, but truly: Could you imagine if any other administration tried this hard to conceal the depth of their leader's relationship with one of history's most notorious human traffickers/pedophiles?

Here are my personal top 10 games of 2025! Read the full list of Game Informer editor top 10s here: gameinformer.com/best-of-2025...

Who knew American democracy could be easily dismantled by just saying “Well, what are you going to do to stop me?” every time someone says you can’t do something.

I have been ceaselessly surprised by the kinds of apps that think I want 2025 Rewinds from them.

We all have extremely powerful cameras with us everywhere we go, allowing us to capture the beauty of Earth like never before, but every way we have to publicly share it compresses the quality and covers it with eight different buttons and UI elements. Great work, app designers.

When one person opens the window shade on a flight

You would think Lex Luthor, with all his smarts, would know the proper way to have his employees speak into a Blue Yeti

I put a lot of effort into this list, pls share😓

Seymour Guado Awarded Blitzball Peace Prize hard-drive.net/seymour-guad...

This recent stretch has been the least I’ve enjoyed social media since I left Twitter. Bluesky felt better for a while, but when you make your platform “Twitter 2011,” and both the users and platform owners fail to meaningfully chart a different course, it’s inevitably going to tread the same path.

While talking with Bethesda leadership recently, I asked about how Elder Scrolls VI development is progressing.

This is our special larger issue, which will be an annual end-of-year tradition for GI going forward. We have a great cover story by @itsvanaken.games on WoW: Midnight, we well as our Game of the Year awards!

Todd Howard, Angela Browder, and Emil Pagliarulo gave us an update on how development of The Elder Scrolls VI is going. Here are their latest updates: gameinformer.com/interview/20...

I always forget how incredible Tim Curry is in Home Alone 2.

A reminder that while ICE has been running rampant, citizenship naturalization ceremonies have largely been postponed/canceled, even for those who have successfully completed their citizenship interview. They continue to find ways to block immigrants doing it “the right way” from becoming citizens.

The response to this has been incredible! We're glad you're all as excited about this as we are. Reminder: Our work is mostly funded through individual donations to our charity. We're close to hitting our goals for 2026! If you were waiting to give, now is a great time: gamehistory.org/donate

Might mess around and fly across both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean this week ✌🏼

@lukethomas.bsky.social hey man, just saw the news about BC and MK. If there’s anything I can do to support you during this transitional period, let me know.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

I badly tweaked my lower back just before spending more than 10 hours on planes today. That’ll teach me to exercise.

Just used the sunk-cost fallacy to justify staying on the couch even longer.

The recent NFL officiating has me thinking we might have another major-sports gambling scandal in headlines very soon.