oh my god the splatoon raiders hair options!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what!!!!!!!

Birdwatching is cool now. Trust us. In fact, 2026 is already seeing a flutter of games with birdwatching as their hook. What makes the quaint activity so satisfying? We ask devs @secretplangames.bsky.social, @studioortica.bsky.social, and wildlife researcher @jabaddams.bsky.social to find out.

PLEASE ignore cooking mama's messed up eyes from before i understood how face paint worked (she is fixed now) but the funniest thing ever just happened on my island

The way that some people are using Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has me concerned. Some thoughts about the viral incentives that are motivating certain players of this game and the broad criticisms of it, would love if you checked this out! medium.com/@abrambuehne...

my advice on chilling the hell out and enjoying tomodachi life ⤵️ kotaku.com/tomodachi-li...

Dosa Divas, our cooking themed turn-based RPG is out now on Steam, Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox S|X Two sisters and their upgradable spirit-mech cook delicious meals, fight corpos, build up your reputation with local communities, and reconcile with loved ones. outerloopgames.com/dosa

obsessed with the tomodachi life developers customizing in-game furniture to put "extremely classified nintendo secrets" into their own save files

this might be my guides writing magnum opus www.rockpapershotgun.com/crimson-dese...

i don't think this is a surprise to anyone but i'm really, really excited for this game kotaku.com/tomodachi-li...

just played about 2 hours of raccoin and i can feel important pathways in my brain actively eroding

If you have been donating to @tonemadison.bsky.social and want some other ideas for supporting good writing/art/journalism with your money, I have some suggestions for you, including ongoing projects from some of Tone’s wonderful freelancers:

my final story for tone madison is about my favorite semi-niche hobby and the coolest guy to do it with in wisconsin! (he's been leading weekly walks, which i like to call "the berghain of birding," for around 13 years)

"...Even in the winter on particularly birdless days, [Henrikson] enjoys looking at the patterns that ice crystals form and seeing if he can conjure birds in their shapes," writes @manateemailbox.bsky.social. 🐦

NINE THOUSAND COLLECTIBLE ITEMS IN TOMODACHI LIFE LIVING THE DREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my favorite mechanic in crimson desert is the quit game button

Once again, the point of placeholder is to be replaced and thus easy to identify. If you're using machineslop to get "as close as possible" - that's not "placeholder", that's either being incredibly ignorant or being a liar hoping to get away with it. There's really no third option.

Tone Madison is saying goodbye on April 3. Though we're sad, we're also grateful. Over the next couple weeks, we'll be proud to bring you a few more fiercely independent stories on local arts, culture, and politics.

i make my march madness brackets solely based on empathy

the jesse pinkman of pokopia...

Let's get this place HUMID!

they've let me cover stardew like 80000 times this month at kotaku... dying on the hill that qi is not pronounced like that

everybody on here follows me for games stuff but the weird music blog i've been running for 5+ years just announced that DANNY FREAKING BROWN is our first issue's cover star AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

something cool is happening TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!! 📆

being a life sim fan is so genuinely humiliating like starsand island is so patronizing and derivative and I'M STILL GONNA SINK 100 HOURS INTO IT ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🍄 Hermit and Pig is out now on Steam 👴🏽🐷 A story-rich, turn-based adventure RPG where you fend off wild assailants, forage mushrooms, survive social anxiety, and stumble into a corporate conspiracy with your trusty pig. ▶️ s.team/a/2408350 #indiegame #gamedev #gamingnews

FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whatever

Good morning! February marks the 10th anniversary of Stardew Valley. I had the great pleasure of speaking to ConcernedApe ahead of the occasion about the last ten years and his plans for the future. It's a nice long one, please enjoy: www.ign.com/articles/sta...

god i love tomodachi life!!!!!!!

yay!!!!!!! kotaku.com/tomodachi-li...

thread of every game i beat in 2026! 🧵 one of my goals for this year is to go back and finish all the games i've abandoned for no reason + stop abandoning games in general (idk why i do this so often but it's bad)

love love LOVE this game

Last week, I got a corrections request for a story I didn't write, on a publication I don't write for. It sent me down a very strange rabbit hole involving a mysterious content publisher. There's a lot I don't understand, but here's what I know: aftermath.site/nicole-carpe...

they put twine in adventure time............

oh

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

when you take a bomb ass selfie

watching another thing that starts with g instead of the game awards

"Even as MDEV expands, making the industry accessible to newer indie developers remains a key focus of the conference." @manateemailbox.bsky.social reports from the @wigamesalliance.bsky.social MDEV conference (Nov 7-8), and talks with game developers and industry representatives alike. 🎮

reported on MDEV (a growing game dev conference in the midwest) and the weird state of the games industry in wisconsin for @tonemadison.bsky.social! tonemadison.com/articles/ami...

Electronic Arts Cookie

still thinking about the evangelion themed depression study ad i saw on the l last night

yayyy :)

stoked for Pokemon Legends: Zollner-Amelia

pikmin 4 is kinda the best game ever

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tomodachi life yay yay yay yay :) yay yayyy yayyayaaa :) Yayyyyyy :)

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happy 5th birthday to us… our first print issue is on its way!!! featuring interviews with ninajirachi, cortisa star, and more along with playlists, games, and features on everything from brostep and slutpop to milwaukee’s unexpected queer rave scene 🎂

haven't had time to play a lot of new games this year but WOW i am loving tiny bookshop!!!!!!!!!!!