You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline

[youth pastor voice] You know who else exfiled successfuly despite being knocked

Here's my Slay the Spire 2 interview—feat. details about the final ending, new character(s), new modes, and how The Regent's regal buffoonishness was autobiographical, speaking with @megacrit.com's Casey Yano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlmD...

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

Quality doesn't come close to guaranteeing success in this era. Not hard to name great games from the last year that didn't succeed commercially: Wildgate 2XKO Demonschool Generation Exile Killing Floor 3 Mafia: TOC despelote Cross Blitz Esoteric Ebb Citizen Sleeper 2 Skate Story Skin Deep

Get m-m-multi meteored, son

First time playing the Defect's status effect card gen build yesterday, quite good when you've got the best Unreal Tournament gun in your deck

“It was like an out of body experience, except I couldn't stop thinking about another ‘me’ out there giving people bad advice and making a company a bunch of money.”

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Baby's first Big Number in Slay the Spire 2 co-op, casual 24X damage alley-oop

I try not to do ranty threads anymore, but man, this Valve GDC graph has just rubbed me up unbelievably badly This was presented as a good thing - "more games are finding success!" -- when actually the data has just been presented in a tricksy way to make it look like everything is fine

lmao let’s goooo

I raised my eyebrow at Marathon's small maps, lack of safe pockets, and restrictive quests before release. Turns out there's a point to it all. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ma...

First win in Slay the Spire 2 co-op last night. Kind of a Counter-Strike moment of two of us watching our friend fight the final boss while we were KO'd. Some enemies are incredibly damage spongey and co-op runs can really drag (2 hrs), also the UI doesn't support teamwork very well, but yeah, fun?

Battlefield 6 was the 10th most-played game across all platforms in January (excluding China). It is more popular than League of Legends, Marvel Rivals, Rainbow Six Siege X, or Apex Legends in the west.

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

Slay the Spire 2 has such a well-chosen font (Kreon Regular/Bold). Real softness to it that has disproportionate positive impact on the feeling of the game.

what's cool about webp is that no one likes it and no one has ever asked for it

It’s sappening 🍁🥞

Wrote about what it means that Concord — a game that famously nobody played — has become one of the primary lenses through which video games are discussed today. (Also some stuff toward the end about what's next for ReaderGrev...) www.readergrev.com/p/marathon-n...

Listen up nerds, MENACE is good. It's like if you smashed modern XCOM or Jagged Alliance into the idea of Advanced Squad Leader in the most successful way.

"Xbox, like a lot of businesses that aren’t the core AI business, is being sunsetted. They don’t say that, but that’s what’s happening. I expect that the new CEO, Asha Sharma, her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night." gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

Can't believe 3-on-3 is going to decide both hockey gold medals, yikes. Very exciting but it's not the heart of the sport.

Great thought from @morganpark.bsky.social on the spectator sport that game popularity has become. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/th...

So much superstition surrounds matchmaking in ARC Raiders. Yesterday a player swore to me that simply looting a dead body would mark your account as aggressive. As Embark reveals more about this opaque system, the culture of the game will continue to change.

i have to imagine selling games on steam makes you feel like you, personally, are being trapped in a satanic world of illusions every single day of your life

Enjoyed this read from @tjcwilde.bsky.social. It's hard to argue Highguard itself is a flop when it's doing as well as any no-name multiplayer FPS putting itself out there. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/hi...

Interactions like this are why I'm still playing ARC Raiders after basically finishing it twice over. Now my character canonically owes an ambiguous favor to the Speranza Mafia

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

Witnessed a true moment of human dignity in ARC Raiders this morning

Impossible now to walk 50 ft in a Stella Montis peaceful server and not get offered free blueprints.

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

Just really great journalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yKS... @danming.bsky.social

Played the new Monster Train 2 DLC a bunch and wrote about it here. www.pcgamer.com/games/card-g...

ARC Raiders continues to have that cinematic timing RIP to a legend, died as he lived, blasting tunes over prox chat

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Didn't realize the extent to which ICE are "content creators first and Gestapo second," as @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social is reporting. A paramilitary force whose violence is shaped by what will produce the highest-engagement Instagram Reel. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Impossible to win the robot war in these conditions, smh

Welp, my car's battery froze. It's officially cold in Michigan.

I was today years old when I found out that the Defiant CD player is a thing that exists

Did a second playthrough of Dispatch, made almost entirely different choices, got the same major ending. I think this game is just a TV show.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

What deserves more criticism is the cowardice of ICE, who for all their weapons, armor, and numbers, should be brave enough to withstand a car moving at low speed near them without reflexively killing someone.

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

A 10-year, $927 million, Star Citizen-sized crowdfunding campaign, but for creating endless episodes of Dispatch

Keep Driving from Swedish studio YCJY Games is a delight and you should play it. Easily one of the best of a very good year for games. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/ro...

ram prices dropping 🔥