I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.

Happy Holidays from your pals-slash-haters at Skybox~

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Run Silent, Run Deep good.

Visiting my parents for the holidays often turns into me watching old movies I've never seen. Tonight's choice:

Ronald Reagan’s real legacy, charted and graphed. Spoiler: It’s not the bedtime story we’ve been told. A visual breakdown of the inequality, debt, and mass incarceration still shaping our lives. 'Trickle-down' economics was never real. #economics #economy […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Likely my last article of the year, on both Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6, and how online multiplayer feels like the most apt metaphor now for real war. If you read it and like it, please share it. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/12/24/k...

Good for him, man. We need more prominent FGC cats to be like "Fuck this, I am not supporting Saudi Arabia buying video game shit so they can use it for sportswashing."

So very tired, but I couldn't let 2025 end without taking stock of Microsoft's embarrassing treatment of gaming, Windows, and indeed human beings while it chases the AI money train

Oh, Potter-san thought he could strong arm me, eh? Well let's see how much hired muscle that old robber baron can afford. Bring it, tough guy!

one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills

I wrote about how The Game Awards is a mirror that reflects the industry back at us, and what their continued success says about who we are, what the industry is, and what we value. Almost none of it is good.

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I wrote about how The Game Awards is a mirror that reflects the industry back at us, and what their continued success says about who we are, what the industry is, and what we value. Almost none of it is good.

so thank you, Bari, for streisanding this so hard that a bunch of terminally online 38 year olds who haven’t watched cable television since saturday morning cartoons are glued to fucking 60 minutes you monumentally incompetent goon

Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant “we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough

This year has been a repeated dose of "you think you know people" only to find that they've been shittalking you behind your back for a very, very long time. It's not a fun lesson. But it's a good one. Never say anything about someone you don't want them to read or hear. Because they will.

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

I think I forgot to share this here, but I reviewed @rd.7thbe.at Rhythm Doctor for @ign.com. It was the first review on Opencritic and one of only two on the site. The other one is not in English. It might be my favorite game this year. I cannot recommend it enough. You should buy it.

If someone has not made a blacklist of studios/ publishers that have admitted to or been caught using AI we should probably get on that

I think I forgot to share this here, but I reviewed @rd.7thbe.at Rhythm Doctor for @ign.com. It was the first review on Opencritic and one of only two on the site. The other one is not in English. It might be my favorite game this year. I cannot recommend it enough. You should buy it.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

I know I’m not the first person to say it but the hyper commercialization of the Grinch story is pretty sad and a perfect illustration of the ability of capital to absorb critiques painlessly

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Devastated to hear about James Ransone. Please, you matter. If you don't feel comfortable talking to a loved one, reach out to 988lifeline.org

It turns out that there *is* an archived version, so if you'd like to see the original piece that everyone involved in should be fired for, that insulted the Indie Game Awards, and that Raw Fury should probably be suing The Escapist for libel for, you can!

It turns out that there *is* an archived version, so if you'd like to see the original piece that everyone involved in should be fired for, that insulted the Indie Game Awards, and that Raw Fury should probably be suing The Escapist for libel for, you can!

If we’re going to get really no quarter about genAI usage, I’m going to need people to learn the difference between AI and genAI real fast.

They "edited" the piece, and by "edited" I mean removed about half of it. Here's at least some of it for posterity.

One of the best action movies ever made

Bullitt good. Bullitt very, very good.

I know the car cause because everyone knows the car chase, but I've never seen the actual flick. Remedying that now.

Say it with me now- placeholder assets are supposed to be bright and obvious so you DON’T ship with them. Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”

You all have Trump Derangement Syndrome. Stop thinking about and talking about the guy who for a decade now has forced himself into the news cycle seventy times a day, wants to rename everything in his own name, and is trying to put his own face on money. Why can’t you just leave him alone.

@skyboxcritics.com was a voting member for the IGAs, and this has made me even more proud of that than I already was. Good call.

This is awkward, but as of yesterday I'm no longer employed with Nightdive Studios. I'm currently looking for full-time work and would be happy to share more info via DMs. I'm also open to freelance work!

wow, seeing Jake Paul get beaten half to death, true terror in his eyes, really improved my whole outlook on life

The easiest, lowest sacrifice you can do is to stop playing games and watching media from bad companies. So, so little of a sacrifice. If you can’t do that, how can you expect others to take you seriously?

I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.

lots of people on here complaining that they redacted the names of government officials but did you consider it would probably feel bad to be named in the epstein files? that it might hurt their feelings? right before christmas?

The best creative decision Wake Up Dead Man makes is closing with a Tom Waits song.

I know it won’t matter because democrats are useless and even if they take back power they’ll just have some limpdick reconciliation message, but this is literally going to kill people and RFK Jr should spend the remainder of his life in a cell in a just world, just as Musk should.

“Although I'd say about 80 of those hours are pretty good overall with its fair share of ups and downs, it's those last 20-or-so where it ascends to true greatness.” i get why this is a hard no for some folks, but i cannot stress enough how much it was worth my time Octopath Traveler 0 my GOTY 😌

2025 was bad in all kinds of ways but it was, as ever, a good year for writing about videogames on @pcgamer.com. I spend as much time editing as writing, so here's a short thread of some work I'm proud to have helped shepherd this year! 1. @edgarallanbro.bsky.social on why Virtua Fighter endures

It's so fucking easy to have standards.