Really funny finale to the Overwatch 2 saga: when the game was first announced, they said that any new content for Overwatch 2 would also be in Overwatch 1. This seemed very unlikely and sure enough didn't happen. But Blizzard kind of just did that with Diablo 2 getting the new Diablo 4 class

Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 2 is the biggest "wait and see" there's been in a long time. Given the state Vol 1 launched in, and that Konami can't just copy Bluepoint's work for Metal Gear Solid 4, there's a good chance it could be a total wreck.

Somehow, I only just realized that my favourite Pokémon and my favourite Sonic character are the exact same thing

The Highguard situation illustrates an oft-overlooked angle of live-service startups. Part of why the big publishers can get away with a live service game because they either have other revenue streams or cash reserves to keep it going even when it's not immediately popular.

Sonic Unleashed is so good when it's not being bad

Waking up to a bunch of notifications of a mass shooting really is one of the worst ways to wake up

"Oh good, no more remakes are in development, hopefully new things are on the way" I said, only having read the first half of the headline.

Devil May Cry 6 seems like some sort of collective delusion. So many people are posting about how excited they are for it when there is zero evidence that it's in development.

I'm sorry to all my friends who like Magic: The Gathering but also, and it pains me to say this, I warned you about the crossovers bro. I told you dog

Finished Sonic Forces. It's not completely bad. But there's also nothing to recommend about it. It's kind of inexplicable that it's so much worse than Generations despite two thirds of the game being conceptually the same.

Disappointed that my place on the map of Bluesky is too remote to have any meaningful connection, but the closest cluster to me seems to be Creative and Gaming Community, which is pretty accurate

This take is akin to saying that you should watch foreign-language films with the subtitles off because film is a visual medium rather than a textual medium. I don't think even the staunchest formalists would make that argument

When the people who normally like Yakuza's side content are saying the side content in the new one is bad, you know something is horribly wrong.

Okay I've thought of one other thing I kind of appreciate about Sonic Forces: the use of classic locations like Green Hill and Chemical Plant, while still being fan service and asset flipping, at least treats them as actual places rather than just iconography. It's something!

The biggest problem with Sonic Forces is that it just isn't interesting. After Colors, Generations, and Lost World were much more lightly written, they decided to go for a more serious story again, but it's just so dull.

I've lost control of my life

Sonic Frontiers: The Final Horizon... conceptually a more satisfying finale, but it still manages to feel rushed. Parts of the final boss just kind of don't work.

Always fascinated by how any feminine folklore creature that was originally described as ugly will eventually become sexy in cultural depictions. Succubi, lamia, harpies, even witches if we want to stretch the category to include folkloric humans.

The boss rush at the end of The Final Horizon is beating my ass. Doesn't help that one of the bosses sometimes glitches out and just doesn't do anything. At least it's the first one. If this happens during Knight, I'm uninstalling.

Part of me is sad to know the mass market paperback is dying. The other part of me remembers how miserable it was reading a nearly cube-shaped mass market of Deadhouse Gates. So, it's a wash.

Nobody wants to hear this but while Kid Rock's music is definitely bad, the clip of him going around isn't much worse performance wise than the live shows from many famous rappers. A lot of them are just ad-libbing over a backing track.

Against my better judgment, I think I might wade into frame rate discourse

Sonic Frontiers: pretty good. The open world design isn't the best and top often feels like it's just finding the right spring to launch into a short platforming challenge, made worse by how short the render distance is so floating platforms just kind of pop into existence.

"Cutscenes are 60 FPS but gameplay is 30 FPS" is hilarious. It's like they completely misunderstood the reason frame rate matters.

About to finish Sonic Frontiers. The only trophy I'm missing aside from the "finish the game" trophies (yes, there are two of them) is the one for beating every enemy type, so... I guess the final boss counts as one of them?

I'm always surprised by the take "Breath of the Wild is a good game, but it doesn't feel like a Zelda game" because to me it very much feels like a Zelda game, just not a good one.

I'm going to be honest: I think a lot of you don't know what "industry plant" means

People on here will say anything. "Tales of Arise is pro-slavery." No it isn't. That isn't true.

Truly a dire state of affairs that Horizon is getting a spin-off with horribly ugly visuals and the reaction from gamers is "they finally put an art style in Horizon!"

I do not think Kamala Harris is announcing a campaign for president. I think she's launching a podcast

Well the marketing surrounding Overwatch 2 was deeply confusing and often contradictory but I think I've finally internalized the notion that Overwatch 2 is a fully different game from Overwatch. Now to take a big sip of coffee and read the news

This Is Spinal Tap

The challenge of making a Beatles biopic: Paul McCartney was only 28 when the band broke up. Paul Mescal is already 30.

Famously apolitical musician Jelly Roll has broken his silence and announced his support for Hezbollah in the 2026 Lebanese general election

I love how the spelling has evolved from "yoked" meaning built like an ox to "yolked" presumably meaning a guy who eats a lot of eggs

There's something really funny about the way people recommend anime and manga to newcomers. "Yeah, you should start with the psychological thriller murder mystery and then work your way up to the action series made for teenage boys, and after that you might be ready for a comedy series"

Thinking about a post I saw a while back complaining about how every revenge thriller says revenge is bad. Yeah, that's what the genre is about. Maybe you just don't like it.

These are some Fighting Baseball Super Famicon names

Just learned that one of the organizations Pras Michel used to illegally funnel funds from Malaysia to the USA via was also the organization responsible for Pajama Boy

Glad to see The Cure win a Grammy. Don't really care about anything else that's happening

Something I can't ignore regarding Sonic Generations and Sega's broader modern/classic dichotomy for the character is how it makes you think Classic Sonic was a much longer era than it really was.

He's pulling the Drake defense, which means Bad Bunny is probably going to call him a pedophile at the Super Bowl

I'm kind of surprised by the negative reaction to this. Not because he's right, but because he's more or less saying what so much of the gaming commentariat have been saying for the last few years, albeit in a less generous way.

Looking at the relatively new Grammy category for video game music. I can't tell if the problem is that video game publishers just aren't actively submitting much for consideration or if Grammy voters are just clueless about video game music, but it's kind of dire.

The Grammy eligibility window has always baffled me. In 2026, they will possibly be awarding their highest honor to an album from 2024.

Took me until 3-1 to realize that all of the cyberspace levels in Sonic Frontiers, while visually resembling just a handful of different themes, are all based on different levels from the series (3-1 is Sonic Adventure 2 Green Forest, which I recognized almost immediately). Very cool detail!

I still can't get over how funny the timing is for Square Enix to decide they're committed to releasing all of their games on Xbox. It kind of feels like if they decided to port Final Fantasy X to the Dreamcast.

Just learned that Brett Ratner's father, Lee Ratner, was the founder of a rat poison company. It's what he was born to do

The most obnoxious things about hero shooters and MOBAs is that you can't just say characters, you need to call them Legends or Champions or Operators or Gladiators or something

Mildly amusing that, despite going out of their way to make Amy less of a caricature, Knuckles is still extremely stupid. When did he become so stupid? Is this a holdover from Sonic Boom?