We already covered Forza, but here's a list of the other 2025 Xbox-published games that sold over 100K on PlayStation. This list doesn't include Forza or CoD. Full write-up on the free Substack here: alineaanalytics.substack.com/p/how-2025s-...

And also finished Routine. There's some tricky puzzles to work out while keeping your ears open for what's hunting you and a nice rabbit hole to go down trying to figure out what happened here. Between this, Skate Story, and Cassette Boy, I've played a lot of moon games lately.

First 2026 game finished: Cassette Boy. Nice little adventure that definitely had me questioning whether I solved some of its puzzles "the right way." A couple mysteries left afterwards too that I might need to do some digging to solve.

Whaddaya buyin' #ResidentEvil

Last week, I got a corrections request for a story I didn't write, on a publication I don't write for. It sent me down a very strange rabbit hole involving a mysterious content publisher. There's a lot I don't understand, but here's what I know: aftermath.site/nicole-carpe...

@lootlevelchill.bsky.social *waves hey, trying to get in touch if you wouldn't mind shooting me a DM. Thanks!

1st Gamedev PerkUp of the year! 🥳 We might have some new goodies in the works as well 👀 See y'all there!

Tonight, it's pretty fun to have your wife consistently play Animal Crossing for years, but pay absolutely no attention to any video game news.

Ever wonder why some bugs stay in the game? 🤔 #gaming #johnromero #DOOM #quake #gamedev

If you're fans of games like Sea of Stars, Clair Obscur, Octopath, Mario RPG, this is for you. www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/do...

i was able to pick up some short term work, but i'm still open and looking for my next full time narrative role! I'm an asset to your team at any stage and ready + eager to be challenged.

Our next big project is live! @lewisgordon.bsky.social spent the past few months tracking down nine people who worked on DICE's innovative 2008 parkour runner.

Here's my Nintendo recap thing.

DICE travel is booked. Coming in that Tuesday afternoon. I will be wandering around, but if you want to book some time, let me know.

Ok, our friends at Pocketpair sent me a code, and I just played like the first 45 minutes. I really love what's here so far. Zelda nods of course, but also reminding me of some out of the box stuff from Tunic and Talos Principle. Don't sleep on Cassette Boy!

GREAT STUFF Quarantine Zone is out now and it should be in your library like it's already in ours: store.steampowered.com/app/3419520/...

Well, I just saw a shooting star pretty much in broad daylight. That was bright.

We're back from the holidays with stories to tell and games to discuss, including our thoughts on Witcher 3 DLC rumors, Big Hops, Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined, Hades II, and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. youtube.com/watch?v=aTNN... @luckshotgames.com #DragonQuest #Witcher3 @supergiantgames.bsky.social

There's now a chat bot awkwardly placed on the Xbox PC store when you redeem a code. While trying to copy/paste, it pops up and asks if you want help. These companies are desperate to bother you at every turn.

Why gamers love reaching the HIGHEST places in games?🗼 #GameDev | #IndieDev | #UE5 | #ゲーム制作

It’s marketed as an esports display but this is secretly an amazing choice for retro style games on PC and emulation like Mame with variable refresh rates. Very impressive showing.

First week of 2026 was completely busted, and everything was thrown off. So much craziness and running around putting out fires. Hoping I can just get a normal week next week.

I know by paragraph 2 if an agreement is drafted by AI. They are the biggest piece of shit agreements frankensteined from 1,000 different places w/ missing definitions, repeated provisions and conflicting language. It takes 10x longer to fix an AI agreement than to just draft one form scratch

Aerial_Knight's DropShot is now Gold! We Did it!!!

Just an old roommate jammin in Bangkok. www.youtube.com/shorts/vuNRF...

Update - my hard drive was dead and the repair guy couldn't recover. So I grabbed a new drive today and recovered from my backup drive, which thankfully had done a backup just a couple hours before I left for the holidays. It's aging as well, so ordered a new one of those too.

If you sent me something from Poland, let me know. Otherwise I'm gonna treat these indecipherable voice mails as scammers and let them send it back.

Found a spot for the new Amiibo.

Oh fun, it looks like the main drive on my computer with all my important docs has probably failed. So, I'm gonna need to deal with that tomorrow instead. I do have a backup drive if needed so I should be able to recover one way or another, but this is gonna be a pain.

Car troubles are the worst since you never know how much you're in for, but it just adds insult to injury when it's something that "doesn't matter." So, I get back and my stereo isn't working, but it isn't working in the weirdest way.

CES being THE DAY after Christmas break guarantees I will never go back to that show unless I am forced to. Unhinged scheduling.

Found in my mom’s closet: my old Commodore 64 joystick. The computer is long gone so didn’t expect it to still be around.

Missed it by that much. Really thought I had it all, too. Also: copy that save file before you point of no return. Doesn’t look like I can get back after finishing save.

Sylux taunt of the day.

Happy New Deer

Maybe the funniest thing about Metroid Prime 4 is that the Sylux amiibo grants you a "daily taunt." Like, we can't get Samus to say anything in this game, but if you tap the toy of this dude on the controller, he'll deliver a generic villain one-liner.

Been a while, but amiibo are back this Christmas. These suckers are really detailed. The bike is huge.

2🚨0🚨2🚨6🚨 Pon has news!? Oh, sadly, it seems he’s forgotten the name of the game... it’s not Pon’s Winter. Thank you for your support and excitement throughout 2025. Our sincerest apologies, but we’d like a little more time to make this TANUKI adventure a truly special one!

Finished Skate Story (client) last night, and the last couple chapters are crazy. That and Dreams of Another are just absolute fever dreams this year.

I can't deny it.

If you're a Scrabble dork like me, check out the Beyond Words demo from the GoldenEye devs. It's basically like single player Scrabble with lots of Balatro style perks and multipliers. store.steampowered.com/app/3823370/...

If you haven’t caught it yet, here’s @sofiahariz.bsky.social ‘s interview with Kyle which has a lot of insights behind the scenes of The Game Awards, Summer Game Fest, and gamescom ONL. Really great stuff. www.sofiahariz.com/portfolioblo...

Very happy to see the love for Sofia on the last couple podcasts. All according to plan. ;)

The voice of Karlach, Samantha Béart, joins us for a chat while she's in town. Bloodworth hops on a call to talk about Damon & Baby. We discuss the Larian AI backlash, and Isla finished The Alters! youtube.com/watch?v=SwOC... @samanthabeart.bsky.social @arcsystemworks.com @11bitstudios.bsky.social

Ah, the Mexican prototype forger returns! This is the latest in a series of similar forgeries that rip off game collectors around Mexico City. The scammer peels labels off retail games to make them kinda look like prototypes to the untrained eye. www.reddit.com/r/retrogamin...

Christmas lights at botanical gardens.

Sunset ride.

Well, good morning.

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

We had a chance to interview legendary composer Yuka Kitamura (Elden Ring, Bloodborne, Dark Souls III, & Sekiro) about going freelance, her approach to music composition, wanting to release an original solo album, boss themes, DLC music, coffee, and more: www.rpgsite.net/interview/19...