For 2026, what I hope to see is the world embrace art It’s what makes life worth living. The sharing of the human experience. Read more books, watch more movies, listen to more music, support artists! We need it now more than ever.

Now that the year is over… what did they mean by this?

Fastest selling console in Spain too as of today www.gamereactor.es/ventas-espan...

Pokémon 30th anniversary logo features Pikachu’s designs throughout the years Seems to tease a slight redesign for 2026’s game

Serebii Update: Pokémon has released a small animation to commemorate the start of 2026, the year of Pokémon's 30th Anniversary www.serebii.net

Switch 2 has out sold the lifetime sales of the Wii U, Dreamcast, and Vita in the UK already, just six months in It also out sold the original Switch’s first calendar year (March-December 2017), despite having three fewer months to do so

Switch 2 sold 221,033 units in Japan last week Over 11x more than the ps5 Wild

That Famitsu Metroid prime interview was surprisingly open about the game’s troubles They knew the game felt old but they spent too much money on the development already so they could not reboot it a second time famiboards.com/threads/new-...

Influx of new artists has been a nice Christmas surprise The life blood of any website

Stardew Valley: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition out on US eShop ($14.99 - includes free upgrade pack for owners). Search on the console eShop

I love this so much I have re-watched it 20 times now

BTW, seems like it was indeed a price error They mixed up the discount between Witcher and cyberpunk

It’s funny they admitted to rushing this out to get it to market quickly Should be a decent get now I believe it’s also on sale on the Eshop

Cyberpunk for $17 is wild The DLC has never been this cheap Less than half the price of the previous best sale for ultimate edition on any platform ever Don’t think the DLC has ever been this cheap either

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition (Switch 2) is $17.49 on US eShop buff.ly/CYPmcBy

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

Sandfall lied when submitting Expedition 33 for the indie game of the year award Their nomination/win has been rescinded The game launched with several GenAI assets

Surprise! Industry is doing OK, actually Decline is mostly in North America and mostly down to one console

Skyrim launched on switch 2 with near unplayable input lag Incredibly unfortunate as it otherwise achieved PS5 visual parity But just a week later, the input lag has been greatly reduced

Come on man

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

From yesterday

While yesterday‘s video game sales news was bad, I’ve seen poor takes from people who should know better Like being shocked that a new console was not #1 in November But this has been the case for virtually every console 3DS? Outsold by Wii Switch? Outsold by ps4 Ps5? Outsold by switch 2020+2021

Dispatch is coming to Nintendo Switch (w/ free upgrade to Switch 2) on January 28! 📝 Pre-order now on the Nintendo eShop and get 10% off! 🎮 bit.ly/45exWQK

Xbox sales down 70% Lost its spot in the top 3 to a subscription fueled Kinect Is this good?

Dispatch is coming to Switch and Switch 2 early 2026 www.vooks.net/dispat...

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined & Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade illustration by Tetsuya Nomura in anticipation of their upcoming release/ports:

Absolutely adored Rayman 2 when I was younger Especially on 64 Really beautiful game with a great atmosphere interested in tonic as a pseudo prototype that is a notably much worse game, haha

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.

Cool the game is probably in a decent shape now Completely broken from launch on the original Switch

Wild

On Donkey Kong Jungle Beat’s anniversary?? Truly is donkey Kong December

One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning:

“we only plagiarized during the creative process” Cool

Final Fantasy 7 Remake demo is now available on the Switch 2 eshop

Silksong has officially sold over 7 million units Huge numbers People love bug game

Hollow knight switch 2 edition also announced

Even more hollow knight youtu.be/qDFEeeLy6ws?...

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition gets Switch 2 Edition, free upgrade www.vooks.net/divini...

I’ve been interested in just how improved the switch 2’s third-party situation is over the original switch I think the only noteworthy games we had for the first two years were old ports of doom and Skyrim Day 1 RE Requiem and Pragmata feels bigger than anything we got during the 9 years of switch

Why did Sega do this?

Nintendo commercial promoting Final Fantasy 7 remake, resident evil, Requiem, and the dusk bloods (old footage) Probably the biggest third-party lineup Nintendo has had since the SNES youtu.be/6HfzkQx89aI?...

I went to sleep early yesterday, so I missed out on the end of the show I knew people were legitimately expecting half-life 3 Surprised to wake up to the grand finale instead being Paladins with the Concord art style

My best bud worked on this game I'm so proud of him and the team geekculture.co/ace-combat-8...

Only thing of value the Keighley’s produces Watch the Donkey Kong musical performance youtube.com/clip/UgkxHG-...

New Megaman too! youtu.be/8i97QCOWSC4?...

New Mario Galaxy Movie trailer youtu.be/jw6vtgE76gw?...