Follow everyone on this list and make 2026 the year human voices - not algorithms - speak for our beautiful medium again.

Four games that defined my 2025:

I spent the biggest part of this largely dreadful 2025 working on a game I’m very proud of. It is in more ways than one a childhood dream come true - and I can’t wait to announce it sometime in 2026. Hope you will all get as excited about it as I have been since I came up with it.

Halo. Goodbye.

God forbid the country that colonised a quarter of the planet only to hand its seas to Uncle Sam before deciding to turn its back on its European neighbours and choosing to colonise itself should be unwelcoming and racist. As a foreigner in the UK, I feel stupid for believing that people can change.

I often think about how it was cheaper for my ex to fly to Vilnius and back than for me to get a train to Reading. Absolutely mental you’d think someone would do something about this obvious issue that’s strangling our economy.

Looking forward to Russell Crowe playing Bannon in the Nuremberg sequel.

When your only growth industry are weapons and mass murder, something is very fucking wrong

This is also the main reason why overall revenue, discoverability and quality of games on Meta Quest, sorry, Horizon has gone down the (Skibidi) toilet. It’s more important to waste young people’s lives with addictive F2P FOMO loops than slowly building what was a once sustainable medium & culture.

Are we all going to allow them to suck us and our planet dry or is 2026 when we say enough is enough? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk

BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.

I’m 37 followers away from 5,000. Can you help me get there before 2026 kicks in? I promise I’ll become even more fascinating.

Sam Altman should just have stopped at: “I cannot imagine.”

Terminator 2D by @bitmapbureau.com is the perfect game for this holiday period, especially if you have friends and family around and only have a couple of hours to yourself (and your twitchy fingers). It’s a loving reimagining of what a 90’s Terminator game could have been. Awesome comfort food.

He did instead talk about “compassion” and “pilgrimage” but only did so in the context of the great British military - and never to urge compassion for people coming on ‘small boats’. Pathetic.

Looking forward to the King reading the Epstein files in his Christmas speech later today.

Follow @darrenhupke.bsky.social’s lovely starter pack featuring some of the lovely folks who bring videogame books and periodicals to us all. Also do let him know if your name should be added. go.bsky.app/Py2qArP

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope Santa brought you all the upgrades.

What a beautiful, heartwarming story. We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My top 3 films of 2025 in no particular order: - One Battle After Another - Sinners - F1 I recommend you watch them all.

Now that’s a list

I’m sick and tired of attention seekers using LinkedIn to mansplain every little toilet thought of theirs, like this “obituary” here. Imagine having the impulse to lecture the newly departed in public. This is hell.

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

Playing Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders with my daughter. PS5 vs Steam Deck. So much fun! @megagonindustries.bsky.social

Please help my friend who earlier this year fell victim to the worst this industry has to offer - and has been playing catchup ever since. Andrew’s a kind man of many talents - noone deserves such hardship, especially at this time of year. If you have any money to spare, please help. Thank you. ❤️

we seriously do not do enough to honor our video game legends while they’re still here. something needs to change

What a sad, sad day. Another great man has left us. youtu.be/2XZ0Y0TbTHQ?...

Absolutely devastating.

An early Xmas present has arrived: @lostincult.co.uk [lock-on] 006, an extra special one: firstly a few hundred lucky folks received an exclusive @csmashvrs.bsky.social EP and sticker with it and secondly it contains my long and passionate conversation with the “Gentle Giants” at @thebehemoth.com.

Hear me out: Pirates of the Gary Numan

Between the Escapist Blue Prince piece and that Retro Dodo war-machine Game Boy not-advertorial, it's sure easy to see in just a few days how Experience Leaving the Games Media is having an effect. I know it's been like this for years - but even two, three years ago, these pieces don't run.

I fear for Avatar releasing on the same weekend where we’d all happily watch Tate and Paul getting knocked out over and over again.

I’m surprised and appalled that TETRIS is okay with being associated with this deplorable product. Everyone pls pressure TETRIS to take the necessary steps to extract their license with a very public announcement - or TETRIS will be as dead as the future victims of this lunatic’s killer machines.

This is incredibly painful for me. I have never asked for help like this before. But I have had people reach out to me asking if they can help, so I am sharing my story and finally asking for help. I've been lucky to have a lovely group of followers here, please share if you can, anything helps <3

Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders by @megagonindustries.bsky.social is absolutely brilliant and now out on PS5, too (with cross-platform multiplayer!). This is what a 3D Sonic game should feel like.

Culture has been cornered by technofascists. While they talk about “culture wars”, attacking DEI, feminism etc (dividing / conquering all progressive movements), the real culture war is their dismantling and ownership of all production and distribution under the univerally fascist “content” moniker.

I beg you to not ignore this please. This call for help is urgent and very much needed. My name is Frecklly, I am 28 years old, and I am the sole breadwinner of my family. I live with and care for my single mother, who is disabled and sick and unable to work.

One Battle After Another is superb. Easily the most thrilling, surprising and strangely delightful movie of the year.

I’m surprised and appalled that TETRIS is okay with being associated with this deplorable product. Everyone pls pressure TETRIS to take the necessary steps to extract their license with a very public announcement - or TETRIS will be as dead as the future victims of this lunatic’s killer machines.

tetris lending their name to this SUCKS and they deserve to be shamed loudly and constantly over it

trying to decide if this would be a good or bad idea

I am so deeply sorry to be in the position to have to pull this lever again, but I just watched my car get towed away and I don't really know what else to do anymore. More details in the update & description, but if you're able to help out or share, we would be grateful beyond words.

I love you; @timeextension.com. ❤️

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

Sektori v1.0.1 patch is now LIVE on all platforms. I tried my best to not introduce new problems, but let me know if so!