Arcadion is the best raid storyline since Binding Coil. The 7.4 MSQ is my favorite patch story since 5.3. Glamour update has completely changed the way I value loot. I feel blessed to be working on and playing this game right now. #FFXIV

“Although I'd say about 80 of those hours are pretty good overall with its fair share of ups and downs, it's those last 20-or-so where it ascends to true greatness.” i get why this is a hard no for some folks, but i cannot stress enough how much it was worth my time Octopath Traveler 0 my GOTY 😌

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My absolute pleasure to chat to @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social, Caleb Shomo, Koji Fox, and Soken (again!) about the power of using your platform, your voice, and your art

We're near the end of my Dragon Quest VII Reimagined coverage, so enjoy an exclusive and up-close look at the dolls that were created to be scanned into the remake!

Wrote about Canadians making a big splash at #TheGameAwards. Whether it was the HUGE surprise of Casey Hudson’s new Edmonton team making Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, other key BioWare alums spearheading Exodus or Montreal-based Invoke’s new D&D game Warlock, our devs crushed it! 🇨🇦 🎮

The Game Awards 2025 Winners Revealed Read more: www.consolecreatures.com/the-game-awa...

I am humbled and honored beyond belief to be supporting STAR WARS: FATE OF THE OLD REPUBLIC. From legendary director Casey Hudson. Mass Effect + KOTOR replay starts... now? www.youtube.com/watch?v=9219...

Fate is in your hands. Check out the reveal trailer for Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. Learn more at www.SWFOTOR.com youtu.be/9219uxlaEe4

I guess I can finally tell people that I'm writing on Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, the spiritual successor to my childhood. I want to say something clever right now, but my heart's in my stomach and my words are slowly floating into the darkness of space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAmk...

Bluey's Quest for The Gold Pen is out now! "genuinely delightful" and feels "like an interactive Bluey episode" We launched the game live on Australian TV! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uf_... Launch Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsGY...

Assuming you also think it's horrifying for the most powerful person in the world to label an ethnicity as "garbage", please help donate to The Somali Museum of Minnesota to help our neighbors demonstrate the beauty of their culture. www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe

It’s only Wednesday

As someone raising a newborn right now, this is viscerally offensive. How do you do it? Furiously Google dumb questions, call your parents, and feel like you want to vomit at all hours, like the rest of us.

At least we can all agree, Jimmy Fallon truly is the worst to ever do it

at least it's friday

FFXIV has a whole refugee crisis story arc where you go and ask for help from every major world government and they all tell you to pound salt, forcing you to start new organizations to support them. This is AFTER you've saved those government's nations, too.

oh biscuits! not a new parent but just as stoked to be supporting this title with kyle and co. jetpack joyride was an all timer for me as a kid so this is all such full circle moment :D out next week!

I'm biased, but this one of the best patch trailers we've ever done: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPY1...

As a new parent, I am beyond thrilled to be supporting "Bluey's Quest for the Gold Pen." Out next week (review code going out soon!) and the show's creator Joe Brumm just gave a RARE public interview about the game. A legit game-game with something for everyone: variety.com/2025/digital...

Light it up, let's go! 🔥 A new song by award-winning guitarist Tom Morello, featuring Beartooth, is making its way onto the Arcadion stage in #FFXIV! Here's a message from Tom and a preview of the upcoming track, Everything Burns!

My review is up for Octopath Traveler 0! It's got some blemishes, but hot damn, it's got heart. Easily the best story in the series, and unequivocally the boldest. www.thegamer.com/octopath-tra...

Nothing if not consistent

On Dec 4, Creative Assembly will show the future of Total War - ahead of that, I talked to Pawel Wojs, game director at the studio, about how the franchise's 25th anniversary, and how it's not just endured, but flourished amidst the ups and downs of the strategy genre www.inverse.com/gaming/total...

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

Here’s the now officially award-winning recipe, lightly modified from my last time posting:

I won.

Ready for competition

I couldn’t afford the refundable deposit on a room Sony booked for me, so one of their PR reps put his personal down for me. All weekend, I watched the work they were doing with fascination.

My chili recipe. If you don't own a smoker (I don't), you can skip the chuck roast or find it pre-cooked and frozen in your local butcher shop.

If you wanna make chili this weekend, I’ll post my recipe in a bit. I’ve been refining this over months for a cook-off this weekend. Absolute explosion of chile pepper and beef flavor. Doing some prep now.

Not to spoil the ending too much, but “a bedtime story for the broken” is such a *bar* that I need a cigarette. kotaku.com/dragon-quest...

It really is absurd how Dragon Quest II went from "one of the worst in the series" to "one of the best of the series" with the remake.

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake is not Dragon Quest I or Dragon Quest II, but it is a a classic song of hope for our modern, hopeless times. In one of my deepest dives yet, I unpack how these games have changed, and how the meaning of Dragon Quest has evolved for me through these remakes. #blutoid

Ever just listen to the Spider-verse 2 soundtrack and break out in goosebumps?

I've never been more enamored with the full slate of games I'm working on, than right now. Games where, any one of them could single-handedly define my year as a player.

Haven’t been posting much, but Dispatch is the best thing I’ve played in a long time, and my son is my life’s treasure

Exclusive: We spoke to Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii for 90 minutes about the entire series. Here's the story of his journey to actually making Dragon Quest, as told by Horii himself. gameinformer.com/exclusive-in...

I don’t see a universe where Dispatch isn’t my Game of the Year.

Square Enix announced a new Final Fantasy 7 book - a sequel to Traces of Two Pasts (which I genuinely loved), written again by Nojima. This one is a sequel to Two Pasts, telling new stories for Tifa and Aerith before FF7, and a side story about Cloud's time as a Shinra infantryman

Luto

On New Gameplay Today, we've got an exclusive look at Dragon Quest VII Reimagined! We show off how this new remake of this classic Dragon Quest adventure changes things up while retaining its charm. youtu.be/hT5yaxleOXA

I waited way, WAY too long to Spider-Man 2. This is absolutely peak.

At State of Play Japan, a new look at Dragon Quest VII Reimagined:

Hell yeah, Sean Bean-ass Kiefer in Dragon Quest 7

Literally every person who worked on it in the credits

Exclusive Interview: Here's how the Dragon Quest VII Reimagined team streamlined the game's main scenario. gameinformer.com/exclusive-in...

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Jersey day!