So, I finished a playthrough of Disaster Arms - Impact Project B.A.H.N. the other day (first game down of 2026!) and came out of it super impressed, it's a gorgeous 2D run-and-gun game with some really intense action. Kinda haven't stopped thinking about it. store.steampowered.com/app/3462730/...

hey bsky. i used to make music. then i stopped because it was hard. now i'm doing it again because it's fun. and also i feel a lot of rage. anywho I'll be releasing a punk rock concept album about Chrono Trigger on January 30. it's called Ipso Facto Meenie-Moe MAGICO and I hope you think it's neat

Decades of precedent. Literal decades. The only thing that changes is the excuse.

My biggest goal in 2026 is to create more. Stopping my brain from stopping myself when something isn't the absolute perfect version of The Thing I envisioned. So as part of this effort, the newsletter is back Subscribe for free here send-news.beehiiv.com/subscribe

I started a website today! level-headed.com Over the last few years I feel like I've made a lot of excuses for not pushing forward with creative stuff, but I'm making a concerted effort to be present in 2026 starting with a blog for video game takes and stuff. My opener is a 2025 Year In Review.

I was at 19 games completed when I lost my job back at the beginning of November.

Saga Soraya's written two of my absolute favorite games of all time (Xenogears and Soma Bringer). Seeing her retirement announcement today was really painful for me, and a monumental loss. I hope she'll pick the pen back up some day.

Princess Roanoke

I'm gonna be thinking about Unbeatable for quite a long time. You're just a part of my life now, and I can't get rid of you.

Just counting games that came out in 2025 (I played a lot from before!) -The entire lead-in to room 46 -This scene with Maelle -Lumines Arise's credits sequence -The (not pictured) Unbeatable title drop What a year, honestly. Hoping to catch a couple of the last major beats before it's over.

Just imagined Jason Momoa doing a Blanka Ball and laughed so hard I thought I was gonna throw up

They call em indie games 'cause the devs are indie trenches

🅉🄴🅁🄾 🄼🄾🄼🄴🄽🅃 "it's out. the road getting to this point really resembles what the game itself ended up becoming. if you give it a go, i love you for it." - @rj.dcellgames.com , director / writer / music + sound lead / etc

Just saying, there was a deliberate uptick in noise in this Hungarian restaurant as soon as the piano cover of Last Christmas started playing. Doesn't matter where you go in this world...

#gndm 再録絵　このシーンやっぱり好きだ

tetsuya mizuguchi truly, earnestly believes, with his whole heart and whole mind, that generic vocal trance from 2003 has the power to awaken humanity's shared consciousness and guide us to universal peace. The strength of his conviction is so powerful that it might actually cause this to be true

You got here just in time, Lumines.

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

The unemployment arc continues

Hey, just putting this out there 'cause it's been such a huge part of my life for the last 7-ish years but today was my last day working at Square Enix. That means I'm also lookin for opportunities now so please feel free to let me know!!

the doc is maybe even better

Legit think I just watched the singular greatest game of baseball in my life. Finally, a Dodgers game to clear that 2016 Cubs/[Guardians] game off the top spot.

Shohei Ohtani going home tonight and hittin one of these

Thank you

OK we can end it tied for the longest game in World Series history, that'd be cool

Every half inning I have to stop begging for it to end because the Jays are batting

Dodgers have been getting bailed out ALL NIGHT by Shohei, if they lose this game despite his unreal performance I don't really know how they make it out. Now they have to walk it off to even get there.

Fun season, will do again. The last 3 or so ranks were GRUELING though, dragons literally everywhere...good to know for later really, I didn't train any 😅

Hell of a first shiny 👀

This talking skeleton says “I’ve got the dead man’s hand… good thing I’ve got no SKIN in the game! Hahahaha!!!” then says “In fact, I’ve got no SKIN at all!!” and I’m like dude we clearly got it the first time

You simply do not fuck with Shohei Ohtani lmao

Started playing Gnosia again, motivated by the anime's debut. I didn't finish it last time, not for any particular reason other than probably juggling it with 4 other games. Everybody looks so cool but is such an asshole LMAO. I wanna be friends with Raqio so bad but they're a complete jerk...

jesse vitelli

Absolutely diabolical stretch of "games made for Arren" coming at the beginning of November...

I'm but a small part of a much much bigger picture, but I couldn't be more proud to have my name attached to a game so overwhelmingly revered as one of the best of all time. This is a brilliant retelling of Final Fantasy Tactics (maybe unfortunately) timeless story and now my preferred way to play.

Guy climbing mountain voice: Yooooo my goat hopped on peak???

There's nothing special about Bluesky other than that it's where my friends are at right now. Once they're gone, I'm off to the next place with them.

I've been griping about this for years to anyone who would hear me, so seeing someone truly more adept than I've ever been picking this content apart is hugely validating... If you're a big FFT fan you should give this a look, especially before playing Ivalice Chronicles. It's brilliantly laid-out.

Just had this awful feeling in the pit of my stomach for the last, idk, 3 weeks? I feel like I'm being overly sensitive but I couldn't say what about. It's been really distracting and I've got zero clue how I can make it go away and get back to doing stuff I like doing without being taken out of it

There’s only so many times one can say “this shit sucks and we’re in hell” before ya start sounding like a skipping record

Not gonna act like I can fully interpret all the legal specifics of the Nintendo patent news but the amount of "spectators" incorrectly assuming what it covers is driving me nuts. Still think patents are a net negative for games but that doesn't excuse the misinformation dooming lol

New fight stick came in today! I've wanted something more compact with quiet switches for a long time now and finally made the call. If you know me you know what the color scheme is all about, I'm just gonna need hella decals. This and my leverless are about to be travel buddies.

I finished it last night but I've just kinda been thinking about the entirety of that last chapter in my head all day. What a great time. I've got some reservations about both FC and SC but it's such a charming start. How could I not love it?

Just imagined Jason Momoa doing a Blanka Ball and laughed so hard I thought I was gonna throw up

Mentally, I'm here

Listening to the Trails in the Sky SC OST because I desperately wanna play the game right now and the algorithm keeps trying to feed me stuff from The 3rd. Calm down dude I'm not there yet lmao

babe we’ve had ace hardware three nights this week can we please get something else