what I’ve been working on during said A Baoa Qule Log sessions this week:

posting occupies an entirely different part of my brain than texting does

doing a watch-through of the UC gundams over the holiday break—or as I’ve been referring to it, “watching my A Baoa Qule Log”

in all your merrymaking, make sure you're not forgetting who matters most this Christmas: the male backup vocalists who materialize at 1:57 in Perry Como's 1959 recording of Home for the Holidays to echo the words SOME PUMPKIN PIE before exiting the stage of history, their solemn duty complete

This holiday, take a moment to remember that not everyone is going to be opening presents on Christmas morning. Some of us, after all, are seen as ancestral foes by Santa’s elves after waging terrible war on their forebears in the early ages of the world. And we don’t regret it! They deserved it

Christmas is associated with a figure with a long white beard, surrounded by many elves - a clear Christianization of Gandalf.

This holiday, take a moment to remember that not everyone is going to be opening presents on Christmas morning. Some of us, after all, are seen as ancestral foes by Santa’s elves after waging terrible war on their forebears in the early ages of the world. And we don’t regret it! They deserved it

happy festivus everyone!

So very tired, but I couldn't let 2025 end without taking stock of Microsoft's embarrassing treatment of gaming, Windows, and indeed human beings while it chases the AI money train

That CBS 60 minutes episode that got pulled is available for streaming via a VPN provider using a Canadian IP address - the international broadcaster didn't pull it. watch.globaltv.com/series/2893d...

reporting live from I Love Women HQ, here's silent hill f scriptwriter ryukishi07 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩: (this article features ryukishi07's unedited thoughts, but you can read more of my interview with him and producer motoi okamoto in context here tinyurl.com/ytvy4ze2 ❤️‍🩹🔒) www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...

tried to see if I could pick Destiny 2 back up after not really playing since The Final Shape, and it's like the decade I spent with Destiny never happened. it's become entirely impenetrable. just a brick wall of competing UI elements and unfathomable gear considerations

merry christmas, everybody

2025 was bad in all kinds of ways but it was, as ever, a good year for writing about videogames on @pcgamer.com. I spend as much time editing as writing, so here's a short thread of some work I'm proud to have helped shepherd this year! 1. @edgarallanbro.bsky.social on why Virtua Fighter endures

idk stancil's history, but if it you can't comprehend why consumer sentiment might be low when our economy is being piloted by blatant, unrepentant sociopaths, I suspect you've led an exceedingly comfortable life

so... is there a Mr. First-of-its-kind Advanced Female Dummy for Use in Frontal Crash Testing...?

thinking about railguns

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

A champion's soul never ages. www.pcgamer.com/games/fighti...

This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default. And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit

BREAKING: council of perennial losers urge public to look over there instead

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

for all its faults, Wilds still nails the fundamental Monster Hunter satisfaction of stunting on Rathalos after fighting him for a decade:

I assure you I did not

ah, cool. Looks like Google wasn't content with butchering headlines in Discover and has graduated to rewording them in normal-ass search results, too.

Watched this Limmy video about some absolutely cursed toilet design earlier and I can't stop thinking about it In my restless dreams, I see that toilet youtu.be/5vj7puG3UDo?...

On the heels of the failure of big money pushes for NFTs, crypto, wearables, and the metaverse, it is absurd to hold the position of "AI is inevitable and we must learn to live with it." It's also a craven position that suggests we shouldn't fight for what we value. We decide our own fates.

This is an important moment, and we need to explain to the public why it's important. An agency with the power to decide who gets to broadcast is supposed to be independent from the president so it won't abuse that power. If it's not, then we are letting the president seize the power to censor.

Sorry but calling 2025 one of the best years for Google without focusing on how much worse it is making Search -- and every other part of the internet it touches -- is like declaring it a great year for the private equity company that bankrupted Toys R Us

Short version: chasing the hardline party’s voters without any real principles of your own makes you lose your own base and convince fence-sitters to support the hardline party, not you.

counting on one of you sickos to point me at the best not-chrome alternative

New by me at The A.V. Club! I got to do my first ~Preview~ piece and take a look at the playtest for ABOUT FISHING, the new super atmospheric game from the developer who brought us the inimitable Arctic Eggs! Go read it!!

Tried recreating the Leonardo DiCaprio Pointing meme in Garry's Mod (it was for work reasons because my job is fun like that) and this is how it turned out -- only asking someone appreciate that he does have a cigarette between two fingers because that part took the longest

could someone explain to me what kind of use cases there are for AI-generated placeholder text that a good old lorem ipsum or [protagonist says thing about X plot beat writer later TKTK] wouldn't fulfill? genuine question, I don't know how any of this shit works

Our PC Gamer GOTY list is live. I love how it reflects the personalities and tastes of this site. We'll also have the cherry on top—⭐personal picks⭐—publishing throughout the next few weeks. www.pcgamer.com/games/pc-gam...

could someone explain to me what kind of use cases there are for AI-generated placeholder text that a good old lorem ipsum or [protagonist says thing about X plot beat writer later TKTK] wouldn't fulfill? genuine question, I don't know how any of this shit works

I could not be more ready to play airplanes. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

AI imagery is the equivalent of Plato’s prisoner being bored of sunlight, clambering down into a cave, shackling himself to a rock to watch shadows cast by firelight and forgetting that the world above exists.

its genuinely so fucking cool to hear that Last of Us director had the foresight to see the stagnation doing more of the same would lead to and was like "nah fuck this I want to keep making new interesting things" this rules and his new game looks rad as hell store.steampowered.com/app/3041680/...

Think it's worth noting because it apparently hasn't been mentioned outside of this tweet, but Fate of the Old Republic is an action RPG, apparently?

I think art should exist in all sorts of gnarly, upsetting forms. But damn game trailers are getting pretty comfortable with just dropping a bunch of extremely graphic violence in your lap without any heads up, huh

Werner Herzog is game of the year. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Werner Herzog is game of the year. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

in our complacency we have once again ceded cultural hegemony to the French

when i wish ill upon the game awards as an institution this man is excluded. he brings more into the world than that entire street fighter movie will

half-life 3 any minute now

I'm happy we played the same game this year