was glad to contribute a handful of words to this--and looking forward to reading through everything in it! @diegoarguello.bsky.social is a superstar for putting these together every year

this was an immeasurable effort from everyone involved. the list is packed with calls to action and donation funds. folks wrote about anything from games to movies and books. we didn’t include anything published or developed by microsoft, and avoided games with gen ai like the plague

Our Battlefield 6 issue comes to a close with an article from @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/12/24/k...

Likely my last article of the year, on both Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6, and how online multiplayer feels like the most apt metaphor now for real war. If you read it and like it, please share it. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/12/24/k...

You better watch out. FUNLAND NO 06 is up for subscribers. Everyone else will have to check their stockings in the morning... www.patreon.com/posts/funlan...

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Gather the family around the fire and settle in for Bullet Points' annual look at our favourite and least favourite games of the year, with @youmeyou.bsky.social @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social @strida.bsky.social @reidmccarter.bsky.social & special guest, @ethangach.bsky.social tinyurl.com/y5n9mabc

We flew up to the North Pole for this, a discussion of what's HOT and what's NOT for videogames in 2025.

Wake up, Sleeper. Congratulations to our Narrative recipient for 2025, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector!

VILE: Exhumed isn't on sale because it's not on steam but it is still free at vileisbanned.com

Here are my top ten favourite games from 2025 paired with the photography of Willy Spiller, the Swiss chronicler of Koch-era New York City.

In Ruins. An unlikely game from me, I grapple with what all is there to say about war games during war. On Battlefield 6, destructible environments, and gardening:

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New this week on the site, @theautumnwright.bsky.social on Battlefield 6. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/12/17/i...

The #NewYorkGameAwards nominees for Best Games Journalism are: 🔵 Duncan Fyfe 🔵 Felipe Pepe 🔵 Jackson Tyler 🔵 Joseph Earl Thomas 🔵 Lewis Gordon 🔵 Nicanor Gordon 🔵 People Make Games

Two for one today: For everyone, Yussef's article on the meaning (and lack of meaning) in Battlefield 6's destruction system bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/12/10/s... For patrons (a mere $5 per month), a new episode in our Splinter Cell series, this time on Conviction www.patreon.com/posts/small-...

The latest episode in our Splinter Cell podcast, Small Nasty World, is on Splinter Cell: Conviction, and it's up now. www.patreon.com/posts/small-...

Spent some time pontificating on Battlefield 6 and the Modern Military Shooter's relationship to real world violence. Inspired by @platanoranger.bsky.social's excellent piece: www.avclub.com/ive-turned-o...

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New this week @youmeyou.bsky.social on Battlefield 6's strange little planet: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/12/10/s...

I wrote about Battlefield 6 and slippery depictions of reality to start off this issue of @bpmonthly.bsky.social. Read it below! bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/12/03/m...

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I had a cold but I recorded this podcast anyway. It has it all.

AIM FOR THE STARS: FUNLAND NO. 5 HAS LANDED @oniongames.bsky.social's YOSHIRO KIMURA on life on Earth. @lukewasthefish.bsky.social on life on alien worlds (or at least SLC). @kaittremblay.bsky.social on death in the cosmos. Cover by @alexanderlaird.bsky.social funland.itch.io/funland-zine...

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Our new issue on Battlefield 6 starts off with @reidmccarter.bsky.social on its unreal world. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/12/03/m...

The new issue is out today. @jeremypeel.bsky.social plays Toxic Commando and talks with Tim Willits. After that, he interviews Failbetter about moving on from the Fallen London universe. @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social writes her first ever article for Edge, about the growing chaos of game prices.

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

We talked about Invisible War, a game that has a lot going for it.

Underrated, misunderstood, a game that gets better the more I think about it. Reid and I discuss the structure, style and themes, and how Invisible War serves as a spiritual link between two eras of immersive sims.

exciting news!! I got to write about hermeneutics, translation, and gender (all my favourite guys) in silent hill f!

This piece is just wonderful. One of those "I didn't know you could do crit like this!"

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Our current issue comes to a close with a new article on Silent Hill f, by @zweiteturm.bsky.social bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/11/19/p...

Incredible work from Leanne to finish our Silent Hill f issue. It's a close examination of one individual puzzle (from the school section) extrapolated into an essay on how language, and the language of videogames, can illuminate other cultures.

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On this episode of Gone Shootin', Ed and Reid sit down to discuss a range of topics, like: which videogame characters are getting into heaven, 007 First Light, Dumb Hannibal Lecter, Argentina, and James Bond's favourite foods. soundcloud.com/bullet-point...

The new episode of Bullet Points, 'James Bond's quiche', is live now.

battlefield 6 /// november 2025 /// @bulletpointsvg.bsky.social

i wrote about silent hill f which is moving & intense, but ultimately set on dispelling “the fog” of its strong points…

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New on the site, @strida.bsky.social writes about Silent Hill f. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/11/10/m...

A write up on why reading other critics is worthwhile in all instances, with extensive quoting from others works I have read, and publicly sharing the very large games writing resource document I've been slowly accumulating links for these past months (years) open.substack.com/pub/breaking...

Before the weekend, I wanted to bump my article for Kotaku on historical fiction in videogames and how the past is presented in Ghost of Yotei, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and more. kotaku.com/ghost-yotei-...

I wrote about historical fiction and romantic visions of the past in this year's videogames. Read it below!

thrilled to have this piece from @reidmccarter.bsky.social on kotaku today interrogating how 2025's spate of historical fiction blockbusters all try to convincingly recreate the past, and what it means when games offer up their own visions of history. kotaku.com/ghost-yotei-...

We did it: Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is now playable in French, Japanese, & Simplified Chinese! PLUS it's on sale on every platform too 🥳 ⭐ Steam: bit.ly/CS2Steam ⭐ Nintendo Switch: bit.ly/CS2NOA ⭐ PlayStation 5: bit.ly/CS2PlayStation ⭐ Xbox Series X|S: bit.ly/CS2Xbox

I also speak with the creators of The Mortuary Assistant, Amnesia, Crow Country, Distraint, Sniper Killer and DreadXP about the state of modern horror games, and bring you the complete, 13-year-long story of Routine.

- Simon Parkin reports on the Microsoft boycott - Reid McCarter interviews MachineGames maestro Jerk Gustafsson - Paul Weedon profiles Snapshot, founded by XCOM creator Julian Gollop - I have an essay on Resident Evil. I also speak with Red Barrels about making The Outlast Trials