Complete English translation for Metalgun Slinger on the Game Boy Advance has just been released. Its romhacking.net intro: "a [Western-themed action platformer], and combat is based upon chaining projectile attacks and acrobatic techniques." Sounds really cool! www.romhacking.net/translations...

i enjoyed the first run of Chainsaw Man, but it is utterly bizarre to me to imagine its current syndication touching on the societal themes people mention, when the original epiphany of the main character's arc was "i just want to have sex." i do plan on getting to the new stuff, regardless lol.

Tonight's look is Castlevania: Curse of Darkness for the Playstation 2. pepsimanvsjoe.blogspot.com/2025/11/play... This is easily the most maddening of the Igavania saga, yet there is something buried underneath that draws me into its embrace. Moth to a flame or something like. #retrogaming #konami

I updated my 2015 review of La Pucelle Tactics. It now has a relatively short section dedicated to its Ragnarok rerelease. I wrote it off-the-cuff, and it's a minor thing compared to my usual articles. Still, maybe someone will find it helpful. Warning: The 2015 review has yet to be rewritten!

@brokestudio.bsky.social Hi! I'm a journalist interested in covering your work. I sent an email to [email protected]. Please let me know if you received it, as I had technical problems attempting to use Homebrew Factory's contact page. Thank you!

our first #Thanksgiving without being able to make jokes about there being a country named Turkey... our veterans who got a purple heart in the War on Christmas didn't fight for this...

🎖Secret agents MASATO and MIZUKI must infiltrate a new secret fortress and put a stop to a frightening project involving a weapon of mass destruction! Fortified Zone 2 is finally available outside of Japan for your Game Boy! ➡️ www.homebrew-factory.com/game-boy/145...

#Commodore64 Game Ending screen: PUFFY’S SAGA • Publisher: Ubi Soft • Developer: Ubi Soft • Release Date: 1990 • Code: Wim Taymans • GFX: Stephane Bervas • Music: Michael Hendriks #C64 #FREEZE64 FREEZE64.com

do you ever think about how embarrassing it is that Chiaki J. Konaka has struggled since 2009 to get the Despera anime made? literally one of the best writers of the ENTIRE medium, but every flavor-of-the-month shonen has to get its own series that never concludes.

i remember laughing at their low IQ game and returning to my Toontown free trial

Here's the first footage of our Cardcaptor Sakura WonderSwan English patch!

Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:

New blog post! It’s an angsty entry! I complain about the “price” of being a writer in the post-SEO world. Also, I critique ‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’s’ newest support wave for the Super Quant archetype.

it really is astonishing things like this can still happen, even with high-profile releases like Sonic Origins. Sonic fans will make an enhanced remake of S3&K that runs on a vibrator over a weekend, and so many people struggle to find any work.

I remember receiving the review key on Friday night. The review had to be published on Monday morning and I had to work my other job all weekend because fuck ever getting paid to review games. Knocked out the achievements and the review in 18 hours because I handle shit and Guardian Heroes rules

JUST HIRE ARTISTS FFS

i'm declaring that one of my next missions in life is to get the original SDF #Macross to appear in a new Super Robot Wars by any means possible. for the ultimate mecha crossover franchise to be deprived of its greatest series because of patent-perching is intolerable. #srw

what if strider was a snes game that felt like a mega drive game?

there really is something special about spending an afternoon watching a random '80s or '90s #OVA. they're almost always rewarding, and their emphasis on higher-budget animation and visual storytelling keeps them a breezy watch.

this looks wonderful. Fangoria is before my time, but i certainly love the idea of it.

remember the band HEALTH? they're still doing shit. that's crazy. i should check out the newer stuff. always liked 'em. #music

Zork I, II, and III are now open source. Microsoft has released the classic Infocom text adventures under the MIT license! opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

i wonder how small the cross-section would be of people answering yes to both, "should people be paid for labor" and "should unpaid internships be illegal?"

they say it's the 35th anniversary of the Super Famicom. they're wrong, of course. it's actually the 35th anniversary of SUPER MARIO WORLD; one of the greatest video games ever put in bits.

if they came out with another 2d pokemon game, i would buy 100 copies i miss the pixel art SO much, i just started a playthrough of pokemon lazurus and i'm charmed beyond words 🌟👄🌟

well, looks like i made it, folks. my bank account is skyrocketing as i type. i'm listed on the NYSE now.

they made that, it's called the "GX era" of Yu-Gi-Oh! can I get a "hell yeah," peeps?

I find it strange that I regularly receive spam submissions for my professional contact forms, but I've gotten almost no spam comments on my actual posts/reviews.

George Washington wouldn't hang them, actually. He's dead, dumbass.

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Hey gamers, if you donate and sub to my Patreon until I have enough money to, I will make a Video Game Awards show that doesn't suck.

I couldn't sleep without first slamming a few words together about Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. pepsimanvsjoe.blogspot.com/2025/11/play... Read it, share it, do whatever you like with it. #retrogaming #konami #playstation

happy GameCube anniversary, everyone! be sure to check out my review for, uh... um... do I really not have a single review for one of my all-time favorite console libraries!? I even beat new games for it this year! I need to remedy that...

Wow, after 46 years, we've come a long way in making animation worse.

losing my mind over youtube's suggested reply for this comment

there sure are a lot of people constantly claiming to "miss" blogs and independent websites, and an equal number of people NOT following blogs and websites. weird.

i really hate the "dead internet theory." even if 99% of the internet were bots, it wouldn't be dead; it would be 99% dead. it should be the "dying internet theory."

it's Shigeru Miyamoto's birthday today. he is 73 years old, and is known for helping to make a video game(s).

Tonight's look is at Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow for the Nintendo DS. pepsimanvsjoe.blogspot.com/2025/11/nint... Don't expect an easy read. This is the one entry in the Igavania saga that I really struggle to organize my thoughts on. #retrogaming #konami

My review for "Shining Force: The Sword of Hajya" is doing good numbers from search results lately. That makes me happy, because I worked super hard on it! Please give it a gander, if you haven't yet.

On stage 16 in Super Robot Wars X. I'm having some fun, but it's impossible to shake the feeling of just how utterly bland the VXT games feel. It's all so weightless and unstylized. None of my gameplay choices feel significant. It's night and day from Alpha Gaiden.

'Shadow the Hedgehog' released on this day in 2005. With the popularity of Shadow post-SA2, it was decided that he should star in his own game, wielding guns and making moral choices. The end result has been ridiculed for its edgy dialogue and convoluted routing system.

Check out this AI art image of a Republican politician in clown makeup I made. I'm "fighting the power." The "revolution" will not be "blogged." My spirit animal is definitely not an 80 year-old geriatric yelling at kids to get off their lawn.

Is there anything more skin-crawling than people "on the left" using AI-generated art to mock Trump etc.? Being "anti-fascist" on moral grounds then expressing it through environment-destroying, human-eliminating means. We need to stop tolerating this. It's incredibly embarrassing.

don't care. make games for people that actually play them.

practice your swordsmanship~!

Genuinely feeling empathy for Metroid Prime 4 fans. Usually I'm fine to laugh at anything but like damn, Nintendo. You're just being mean.

damn, years ago i was up against the tide advocating for metalcore as a subgenre of #Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come on RateYourMusic, and now it's listed with a solid upvote buffer. this must be how someone feels when they successfully open a public park.

do other video game journalists/writers find taking screenshots to be the most frustrating part of the work? I struggle to remember to take them during play, missing key moments, and then there's matters of quality, standardization, and formatting. I really dislike it. I do it, but it slows me down.