I hope 2026 is kind to us all

On my favorite games of 2025, in that weird meandering way I think about games and life and industry and everything. Thanks to @giantbomb.bsky.social for having me! giantbomb.com/articles/ram...

I need everyone on Bluesky to see this one

Silicon Valley isn’t just polluting our cultural and information systems with AI slop and destroying the environment in the process. They’re also poised to force consumer electronics to shoot up in price because they’re buying up so much hardware for data centers.

Happy Birthday Lemon Pig

uh holy SHIT?

GAMES THAT COSTS NOTHING OF THE YEAR: Fourmiworld by @cheyennix.bsky.social and @zapathie.bsky.social short, extremely freeform troidlike where you literally carve your own path through the world between points of interest. no two first playthroughs will be quite the same! also the art rocks

I wonder if the website that users can generate csam will succeed in its argument that it shouldn't be banned in australia for children because it doesn't harm children

Anyway, popping in some new batteries after a much needed winter break. Ready to kick development back into high-gear! #tascots #godot

what are we doing here bro

In 2025 billionaires went from controlling the government to being the government and they still can't stop crying all the time

they’re going to want to kill him for this but he’s so right, individualism as an ideology needs to end

Event Exclusive Limited Run Games Founder & CEO is Leaving Limited Run Games in March Variant Cover is in Stock. ow.ly/vOvr50XQTVU

Let's start a campaign to add the tag "Arcade Puzzle" to games like Tetris, Lumines, Puyo Puyo, Petal Crash, etc on Steam. These games get lumped in with great but completely different genres of puzzle games like Portal and sadly sidelined. Steam users have the power to carve out this niche!

Alright, there's four days left on the Steam Winter Sale! My big PC Gamer roundup should be live on the last couple days, but in the meantime, here's a thread of stuff that fell JUST short of it. If this work has helped you, any tips via Paypal or Ko-Fi automatically go on more games to research.

www.theverge.com/news/851259/... jogcon 2, look forward to no one getting it again - analogue triggers though!

Finally found one of my history white whales: A Gamer's Manifesto, an unhinged multi-page rant from c2005 that was passed around message boards like Martin Luther's theses. Ground zero for the internet era of angry gamers who hate everything web.archive.org/web/20100129...

the first thing I drew in 2026 is BALLS. DANG IT!

Check out our discussion of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard! Also on this episode, my fellow #HG101 hosts discuss The Cabin Factory! #podcast #ResidentEvil #TheCabinFactory hardcoregaming101.libsyn.com/resident-evi...

happy new year mint blancmanche #galaxyangel

quizagon, print ad, imagery (1983) archive.org/details/crea...

once again thinking about wesker's code veronica laugh that sounds like he just remembered something unrelated that's funny

So if you want to play an old iphone game, like 2010 era - even if you have an old phone you're almost shit out of luck if you didn't also buy the game at that time?!

While cleaning today I found the business card Kenji Eno gave me the one time I met him. It was at a launch party for his game Newtonica. We talked a bit then he needed to go back to DJing. A cool guy. Taken way too soon.

So far, the earliest reference to skateboarding I can find in a video game is actually in Wonder Boy. April 1986. There were four games in 1986, with 720° being the only one that directly tried to recreate skateboarding virtually.

2026

As we enter 2026, we should give thanks to the continued health and happiness of Pac-Man, his family, and his wife Pac-Mom, who is exactly as we remember her since 1982 and definitely hasn't changed at all due to a series of bizarre legal circumstances

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Here is the 15th and final chapter in this series on the life and career of Rieko Kodama. vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama15 Dispo en VF vgdensetsu.net/riekokodamav...

Goat

the PC88 port of XeGrader, the recent Druaga-esque puzzle-STG by Hydlide series creator Tokihiro Naito, is up for sale on booth, ¥3980 https://valgus.booth.pm/items/7812568 🇯🇵 you're getting raw d88 files for use with your emulator of choice free demo https://valgus.booth.pm/items/7814722 🇯🇵

Finally. The only day you can be posting this

if you're getting ready to ring in the new year perhaps you would care to listen to us talk about Ridge Racer 4, one of the most new year games of all time on our podcast, top 47858 games of all time www.hardcoregaming101.net/podcasts/top...

Just a quick extra thing before the end of the year, five Arcade Archives releases from 2025 you should check out if you haven't~ Let's continue to enjoy the masterpieces that built a generation for video games (and Ostrich Gaming) tepidsnake.dreamwidth.org/33919.html

Live on the free feed: @jparish.bsky.social @atariarchive.org & @feitclub.bsky.social memorialize the video game legends who departed our lives in 2025 retronauts.com/article/2466...

ARE YOU READY TO MAKE YOUR LEMON PIG DOES EVERYONE HAVE THEIR LEMONS

people like this should be castrated. whatever gene that begs people to "figure out" open-ended art should be sieved out of humanity

Astra Superstars New Year's card, for New Year's 1998.

"Australians have no culture"? What do you call The Nutbush then?

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

The wiimote deserves to be a genre of controller

I will never understand why they replaced community submitted subtitles for this nonsense Real human people were happy and willing to make subtitles in a variety of languages for free, and the creator had full control of what submissions were used And they GOT RID OF IT

Nanao from the flop hit mech ps2 game Robot Alchemic Drive is truly the most real icon of the working class She is our struggler icon

#2025年自分が選ぶ今年の4枚 あちらに貼ったものですが、こちらにも貼っときますね 今年お気に入りの4枚です♪　 SNSを取り巻く環境が混沌としてきて来年の状況がどうなってるのか全く読めませんが、今後も好きなものを好きな時に好きなように描いていけたら良いな☺ では皆様よいお年を〜✨️ #パトラ子 #パステル #一条あかり #いまだけ月見食べ美

My complete retrospective on the Time Crisis series is finally complete after months of research and preparation~ Hopefully you'll enjoy the journey of reading as much as I did writing it, let me know what you think! 🔫 www.lightgunfanatics.org/previewsedit... #TimeCrisis #Namco #Retrospective

meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright