OH MY GOB! Blippo+ has been nominated for four awards for the 28th annual Independent Games Festival! 🏆 Seumas McNally Grand Prize 🏆 Nuovo Award 🏆 Excellence in Visual Art 🏆 Excellence in Audio 🏅Honorable Mention: Excellence in Narrative See you @officialgdc.bsky.social!

Anthem always had a cool story and world building, but the endgame live-service crap actively encouraged players to rush through the campaign to get to the "real game" at the end, which was not as good. It was the journey, not the destination, etc. RIP to another game lost, like tears in rain.

I didn't get picked for the Bananaball lottery

Hackers dresses as power rangers taking down white supremacist websites? Now that's a new spin on our cyberpunk future techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/h...

i know everyone is understandably down on tech as an industry but i love CES as our global Stupid Gizmo holiday. happy CES day to those who enjoy gawking at the dumbest, flashiest gadgets

Last year I played Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Yakuza 0: Director's Cut, Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2. How many this year? Probably depends on how many more Switch 2 ports we get after Kiwami 3 + Dark Ties.

I'm going into this year With a knife behind my back It's getting harder to hear I'll read your lips as you laugh Black bear standing with gloves Wish I could show you I'm tough Black bear, you're eating me up So tough, let me show you my guts

Heated Rivalry

I don't know if time is real anymore I played this game from start to finish in one sitting . Holy shit. It's #PEAK

The Star Wars coin pusher game is addicting 🙂‍↕️ I did not get the fucking Yoda card and I'm going to have to go back for him soon.

Got a new Miku at Round 1 😍

I fuckn love weird controllers and I just found out about the Echo Aviation Controller for Microsoft Flight Sim 🤤

Eephus got a home release until this year, so I'm counting it as one of my fav movies. An old ballfield is to be demolished to make way for a school. This disrupts friends, community, etc. There's no bad guy, it's just... sad. A film about moving on, I suppose. 100% on rotten tomatoes for a reason!

Andor season 2 was my favorite TV of the year, by a mile. It's also my favorite Star War. The anticipation I had for this show paid off in droves. The best written Star Wars, the best acted Star Wars... We will never get another show like this. It's so good it knocked Rogue One down a peg. Somehow.

I've been rewatching The OC, which is an excellent TV show that doesn't need me to defend it. Wrapped season 2 last night (so it's all downhill from here, yes) and had completely forgotten about George Lucas' fun cameo as himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E93_...

One of these things is not like the others #starwarsunlimited #twinsuns

The War Between the Land and the Sea was soooooooo dumb but I still loved it.

If anyone can point me in the direction of a good NDS romset, that would be great! I haven't found anything comprehensive and my collection sucks. Especially looking for Japanese RPGs that have fan translations.

Unfortunately, it's a good idea

Everything is worse now, so this isn't exactly surprising, but it's wild how many food products traditionally sold in 16oz sizes have now shrunk to 15oz sizes (and are still more expensive). This fucks with most recipes. Everyone's lasagna's are 6.45% less cheesy now. Fuckin hellscape, man.

If you have any interest in this game, please buy it! Celebrate unique games by PLAYING them instead of watching one of the countless full-game playthroughs on Youtube that haunt shorter games (and their sales, and return policies). www.videogameschronicle.com/news/i-wish-...

[favs of the year post] To a T (2025, uvula, Annapurna Interactive) A game about a kid stuck in a t-pose, learning to embrace what makes him different than others. Dev'd in collaboration with AbleGamers. Theme song sung by Rebecca Sugar. Short and sweet, one of the best feel-good games of the year.

Promesa (2020, Juliàn Palacios Gechtman) Lovely little walking sim where you wade through scenes inspired by oral history told to the dev by his immigrant grandfather. Very dreamlike, the way a child might imagine these stories.

Watching @loganolio.bsky.social play this on stream and it looks sooo cool. Gonna have to borrow my husband's Steam Deck for this one.

It's so depressing that SyFy only has one active original show. Again, the SyFy channel, famous for its science fiction shows, only has one single science fiction show. (The Ark, with season 3 starting in March)

[favs of the year post] Star Wars - Reign of the Empire - The Mask of Fear "Andor Season 0" and it does it so perfectly that I mix up what was book and what was TV in my head. Mon, Bail and Saw are the stars. The political terrorism in this story... 😩 is uncomfortably real. I love Mon so much.

I'm so tired of Sleep Token, please stop with it. I cannot believe they just showed Donkey Kong with a fucking Sleep Token song over him.

We are SO EXCITED to finally show you Xcavator 2025! This is an unreleased (and unannounced!) NES game from 1991 that we recovered from its source code. The rights to it were 100% donated to us, and it's being published as a fundraiser cartridge to support our work!

My friend Bray sent me this lil short advert about a lone wolf becoming vegetarian 🥺🥺🥺 it’s so gorgeously designed and animated

We have been waiting for Ethiopian food in our hometown for soooo long and it's finally here and it's so good 😊

This game got a big update today that added a super casual mode, removing most of the difficulty and stress so more people can enjoy the story and performances!

Almost 7 years later and this is still one of top fav Switch box arts. Love the game, too. Makes me wonder where the Switch2 rhythm games are... there was tons of support for them in the first year or two of the Switch1. The Switch 2 screen yearns for greasy fingerprints.

'A Normal Lost Phone', 'Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story' & 'Alt-Frequencies' are getting delisted on January 30th 2026. They are currently on sale for less than a $1. store.steampowered.com/news/app/523...

One of my all-time favs, super easy to pick up and play on Dreamcast.

So many memories here.

[favs of the year post] The Alters, by 11 Bit Studios One of the most stressful games I've ever played (like all of their games). The base-building, sci-fi survival gameplay, combat etc. are all elevated by by Alex Jordan's amazing performance as 11 versions of Jan Dolski. Brilliant soundtrack, too!

So funny that Vince Desi thinks his studio has a reputation to uphold after almost 30 years of selling the same shithole games to edgelords. I'm honestly shocked they didn't just say "yeah it's AI, buy it anyways or your mom's a whore".

[favs of the year post] PERFECT PERSONA, by Utsu-P Super high energy vocal synths and random dubstep breakdowns. Starts with a banger and holds that energy through the whole album, IMO.

[favs of the year post] I Don't Want to See You in Heaven, by The Callous Daoboys 10/10 album, so diverse and FUN to listen to, beginning to end. Ferocious vocals, unexpected samples and genre dips. Effortless blend of emo, mathcore, metalcore, nu-metal, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL5U...

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Started playing Kingdom Come Deliverance last night on Xbox and was immediately so disappointed 🫣 The gameplay is so unforgiving that after 3 attempts at the FIRST MISSION I looked up a guide. I want to give it a proper shot and eventually play KCD2 but, oof. Not being able to save-scum is rough.

This is very niche but yesss I am into that sort of thing!

My book is finally back in stock! 😭 Get your signed copy of Love in the Light: A Musical Novel from my shop! Order here: https://www.lukemcquillan.com #booksky #queerbooksky #mmromance #indieauthor #newbook #musicals #broadway 🌈📚

Tapping the sign.

KIRYU-CHAN! 🔪✨ #yakuza

Magnolia Bakery's Banana Pudding 🍌

Completely forgot that I bought a box of these viral Korean squished croissants. Was so confused opening the mail. They're delicious! Sweet crunchy genie KRUNGE.

I know it drives some folks crazy when people say things like "that's so aesthetic" BUT BUT BUT this is soooo aesthetic