Ever try a game and it just doesn't grab you? Then you give it some distance, come back to it... and it just doesn't let you go? @thqnordic.com

The perfect product for someone nursing a broken toe and allergic to codeine (the active ingredient in prescription Tylenol). 1000 mg of Acetaminophen! 🥴

"Um... ACTUALLY." I would just like to point out that this is not, in fact, the Dark Forces version of Kyle Katarn... but the version introduced in Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II." 🤓 (Still looks awesome and I'm all over it!) #GamingHistory

Bliss.

Replaying Far Cry 5, and I don't recall it being one of the stronger entries. But man, I am loving it. Two things immediately come to mind: 1. It looks great and absolutely screams on the Series X. 2. The subject matter seems, er, more relevant now. 😬

Been thinking a lot about my personal game(s) of the year. Can't pick just one! Here are the games that have given me the most joy, and stolen the most hours. @arcraiders.bsky.social @duneawakening.bsky.social @vtmb.bsky.social @kingdomcomerpg.bsky.social (European devs crushing it!)

I love @arcraiders.bsky.social, including the tension and danger of PVP. As a dev, I know how challenging it can be to balance a game like this. I just wish, you know, it took a dude with a lvl 1 Stitcher just a TAD longer to kill a lvl 75 Raider with a lvl IV Anvil and a heavy shield... 😵‍💫

The devil on my shoulder.

We stayed up way too late wandering the frozen landscape of Kona. We also have absolutely no regrets.

Just hit the quaint little Lamar, Kansas. 7:00 am local time. Really easy to imagine a young Clark Kent racing alongside. #HobbitOnATrain

Finally fulfilling a dream - traveling cross country via train. Just left Boston, and after a layover and switch to another train in Chicago, I'll be arriving in LA on Monday. Then flying home the next day. 3 nights in 2 separate sleeper cars. SO ready!

Back in my beloved Boston for a couple of nights and thought I'd share some Fallout 4 trivia. Remember DB Tech? Here's the actual building. Back in the day it was Don Bosco Technical High School - MY high school! Now it's a Y (and they use our Olympic-sized pool). 😆 @fallout.bethesdastudios.com

Lots of travel post-Thanksgiving. I'm the reverse John Candy - automobiles, trains, planes.

Still absolutely loving @arcraiders.bsky.social. Can't get enough. Also, I'm not exactly sure what it is about the "easy" Dam Battlegrounds map - maybe the influx of new players with itchy trigger fingers - but it is an absolute PVP bloodbath. Every. Single. Time.

ARC Raiders is basically the most dangerous extraction shooter I've ever played. In a game that supports full PVP, but encourages civility, it's easy to let your guard down. But you never know when the tables may turn… and they turn often. It may be time to go full Ghoul...

Been playing copious amounts of both these games lately. Arc Raiders kind of reminds me of Fallout 76 in that other players tend to give you a hearty greeting instead of shooting you in the face. In Vigor, not so much. 😂

🧵(1/2) I basically mainlined @thechineseroom.co.uk's VTM: Bloodlines 2. It's been a long, long time since I've felt so connected to NPCs. Really great writing and voice acting all around. I'm actually sad that it's over. Sooo... I guess I'll play it again, in between bouts of BF6 aanndd...

Tomorrow is today!! Woohoo!! Happy Fallout Day!!

You can never win the expectation game (as a Fallout dev I know this well) so the biggest thing working against VTM Bloodlines 2... is the 2. This is a totally different type of game, a slick, smooth action RPG vampire fantasy. And it is SO fun and well-made. Props to @thechineseroom.co.uk

When you need a combat palate cleanser...

They're so ready! #Battlefield6

#BloodOfMehran is the best 25 bucks I've spent on a game in a long while. Is it old school? Absolutely. Indie with a less-than-AAA budget? Sure. Fun as hell and surprisingly well made? A resounding yes.

Well, I thought my account was secure. No, I did not repost whatever it was a bunch of folks just messaged me about. How's YOUR weekend so far? 🫠

I almost didn’t click, but glad I did… full video is crazy

Because sometimes you want to play a new game with fancy next-gen graphics... and sometimes you just want to kill some Gorn. #StarTrekOnline

Been playing a lot of Battlefield 2042 in prep for BF6. And while I'm super jazzed for the new game, I do have to admit I'm going to be bummed no longer playing as my go to - Michael K. Williams' Irish. What an absolute legend, and such an amazing way to be immortalized. ♥️

(Was just telling my wife about this photo from a con autograph sesh a few years ago. 😜) Friends: "Didn't you write that line for Skyrim? You must be so sick of that meme." Me:

The 2025 GeoGuessr World Championship was a big event in our house today. I can't wait for the 2026 Boston semifinals.

That moment you discover @mafiagame.bsky.social has a Sicilian language option.

Blue Sky seems like a lovely time management company. I just really wish I didn't end up on their website every time I try to log in here on a browser. 😬

I absolutely adore radio serials, which is why I wrote some for Fallouts 3 & 4. @duneawakening.bsky.social has some of the best I've ever heard in a game, with great writing, voice acting and sound design. More adventures of the O'Garee family, please.

I had no idea @bethesda was shadow dropping these Heretic and Hexen remasters. Decided to check them out, and found myself fully engaged for like three hours. Fun fact: Heretic has one of my favorite enemy death anims of all time - the Golem splits open and his soul flies out.

Tales of the Shire is about as far from @duneawakening.com as you can imagine, and exactly the palate cleanser I needed after the joyful hell that is Arrakis' Deep Desert. 🤓

Decided to jump into @duneawakening.com at lunch for 20 minutes just to blast over to the DD post-Coriolis Storm to launch a couple of probes. Then I saw the sandstorm wall moving in. I asked myself - can my jet-equipped ornithopter possibly outrun this? The answer is no. No it could not. 😆

Man, we're apparently still not through the batch of games made by leads who were convinced Soulslike combat was the way to go. And you know, sometimes, you just can't help but feel like they just didn't think it through...

Today my mind keeps drifting back to my disastrous Deep Desert run last night in @duneawakening.bsky.social. My cargo-equipped assault ornithopter was just ripped to pieces by an organized squadron of three rocket-armed PVP pirate ornithopters. I didn't stand a chance. It was amazing. 😂

Listening to @npr.org on the drive in, and one of their little instrumental zingers had me double taking my radio. Was that a little... Sabbath? Did they really slip in a little Paranoid? Methinks they did. Respect. 🤘

Playing the new RoboCop standalone DLC like RoboCop - @lenovo-legion-go.bsky.social and @getviture.bsky.social glasses. Basically feels like I'm playing on a 40" on my handheld. Pretty sick. (And no, I ain't shillin' - I buy all my own toys. 🤓)