I’m starting to worry that the sports prediction corgi might have a bias and that his upcoming Finals prediction will be compromised.

New Button Mash! 007 First Light and Mina the Hollower reviews! I finished them both. Two very different games that I absolutely loved. (Plus some depressing stuff about AI-related hardware price increases creating a lost generation of iPad gamers) open.spotify.com/episode/6u3h...

Just astonishingly bad quality print on these Fanatics shirts. Might as well make my own shirts if the Knicks actually ever give me another reason to buy a t shirt.

“The notion that everyone is just gonna accept it is insane.” As unbeatable as Thunder-Spurs look, NBA GMs aren’t flinching. Latest from me, at The Ringer:

Every Knicks fan getting congrats texts right now like they just won an Emmy or something.

Knicks are the first NBA Cup champ to reach the NBA Finals 😂

Nice to get to watch some summer league after the nba game.

Need the Knicks to stretch that lead a bit so Donovan Mitchell can go Chris Paul meme tonight

Cavs had a flawless plan but two people ruined it.

It’s definitely already a year of “too many good games.” Lots covered on the newest episode of Button Mash: open.spotify.com/episode/7kQr...

Donovan Mitchell would drive me nuts if I were a Cavs fan. Sure, he hit that difficult contested three but the Cavs had Mobley being guarded by Brunson with shooters on the floor to space.

on last night's incredible comeback by the knicks/epic meltdown by the cavs: www.theringer.com/2026/05/20/n...

Weird that the Cavs didn’t let Donovan Mitchell play after midway through the 4th quarter.

I wrote about Kash Patel, please read before our legal department finds out

Philly is out of the playoffs but we’ll keep thinking about them in the weeks ahead every time Jared McCain drills a shot.

I don’t know how this is possible but the Knicks have made more threes tonight (24) than the Golden State Warriors have ever made in a playoff game (21).

The Liberty opener being during a Knicks playoff game has got to be one of the best problems I’ve had this year.

There is a sequence in Mixtape that I have replayed four times already. Blown away by this game. Finished it in one sitting, will remember it forever.

You couldn't make Star Fox characters ugly enough for me to lose interest.

Is there a mercy rule in playoff basketball? Maybe a 50 point lead?

I wrote about the assassination attempt

On Button Mash/The Ringer-Verse, @matt-james.bsky.social and @jmrivera.bsky.social joined me to talk about 3 new IPs from international studios: Pragmata, Mouse: P.I. For Hire, and Replaced. • Capcom keeps killing it • We miss the 1P FPS • Is pixel art a personality? open.spotify.com/episode/3N6a...

I’m 96 hours into Crimson Desert and less than halfway through the main quests. I’m obsessed. It’s a massive, brilliant exploration game built upon a revelatory new game engine. It is, however, peppered with little flaws. Our in-depth impressions on Button Mash: open.spotify.com/episode/29SQ...

All in all, pretty thrilled to not see a Bryce Harper White House visit.

One of the more common tropes in video games is the idea of a blight unrelentingly spreading across the land. That's where we're at with AI. What's even the point of creating art if people are encouraged to throw an AI filter on top of it?

Just laughed out loud at a car driving by blasting Staind

The Wizards should be ineligible to pick first overall in the draft for letting this happen.

It is pretty funny that the heyday of at-home lightgun games was not [checks notes] RIGHT NOW when people have the biggest tvs in the history of humanity.

A big Button Mash for a big week in gaming: • @matt-james.bsky.social & @steveahlman.bsky.social on Marathon, live-service questions, and...console wars, again? • @charlespulliam.bsky.social on Pokopia, Pokémon's past and future, and Switch 2 • Two "Rage Quit" rants open.spotify.com/episode/1KpX...

So much of Marathon works for me but I can’t get past it being an extraction shooter, which I do not like. All I need from an extraction shooter, to make it palatable, is to let me permanently keep any gear I extract with once.

This is legit one of my favorite games of the past few years. Basically Zelda if it was a twin stick shooter. I played it on Steam. I'm going to buy it again on Switch. Please buy it, I need at least five sequels to this game. It's only $16.

Happy Resident Evil day to all who celebrate! We played and finished Resident Evil Requiem. I had a tremendously fun time talking about it with @benlindbergh.bsky.social and @jmrivera.bsky.social. It feels great when a hyped game HITS. open.spotify.com/episode/1pix...

Surprised at all the somber takes because I wrote about why,requiem and all resident evil, is hilarious, actually www.theringer.com/2026/02/25/v...

Tonight, at the State of the Union, Trump will lie about the cruelty of his presidency. But the people Trump is attacking have faces, voices, and stories. They are the stories of this country.  I was honored to have my story included alongside brave folks standing up to Trump.

What percentage of Resident Evil players in 2026 do you think have ever touched a typewriter in real life?

Hey! Listen! Enlisted fellow Legend of Zelda lovers @midimyers.com, @mackeza.bsky.social, and Zachary Small to p̶l̶a̶y̶ ̶F̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶S̶w̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶A̶d̶v̶e̶n̶t̶u̶r̶e̶s̶ draft our favorite Links, bosses, dungeons, items, and more for the franchise's 40th birthday. Reminisce with us on Button Mash: open.spotify.com/episode/7h1Z...

One of the things I'm most looking forward to about GTA 6 is that it's going to be so inescapably big that a certain percentage of kids who only ever play Roblox will have curiosity about a different video game for the first time in their entire lives.

Went to Minneapolis and spent time in the homes of people hiding from ICE. Those who’ve been detained and who fear detainment, undocumented immigrants and American citizens, all fearful of the dangers outside their homes, all reliant on a remarkable network of care. www.theringer.com/2026/02/19/n...

Talented devs continue to pay the price for executives who decide to chase the live service gold rush. It was notable that Guerrilla Games opened their recent presentation of Horizon Hunters Gathering with basically an apology for making a multiplayer game.

[sees whole milk make an appearance in an RFK video] I never trusted whole milk.

My headache machine for fools arrived

Nintendo used to spend so much money on random celeb photo ops.

It turns out that walking the dog in a downpour is made 1000 times better by a stranger driving by with the windows cracked blasting Toni Braxton’s Unbreak My Heart at 100 decibels.

Of course Kawhi is on another level with the jersey untucked. Obviously the Clippers would have multiple chips by now if my guy was allowed to be truly free in NBA games.

KAT defense leads to the Team USA win! (He’s on Team World)

New Button Mash! Talking new game releases with @benlindbergh.bsky.social and @steveahlman.bsky.social: •Dragon Quest VII Reimagined •Mario Tennis Fever •Nioh 3 •Reanimal •Mewgenics •Romeo is a Dead Man Plus reactions to an incredible State of Play!

I wrote about how they're getting away with it

[Sam Darnold wins a Super Bowl] Well Dante Moore must feel like a FOOL now not allowing himself to be drafted by the Jets.