After being encouraged by many of you, I stuck with Silent Hill f and rolled credits. You were right. Some really cool shit in there. I maintain that the combat feels wrong for the game it's in, but I'm glad I finished it.

Instead of buying this, you could go to therapy.

"Pay $80 for a game you don't have to play" is a hell of a value proposition in a world of Let's Plays and streamers.

I'm just over 4hrs into Silent Hill f, and I really don't know... There isn't a lot of SH DNA in here so far, and why is there Dark Souls-style combat? Has anyone else finished it? I'm debating dropping it. Is it worth pushing through?

Want to spend less time doomscrolling on transit, so I dusted off an old friend.

Claiming the evil you performed was done under protest will not save you at the gates of Hell.

Starting the year off on the right foot.

Ended 2025 delivering a comic script I'm really proud of and excited for, as well as finishing the outline for a creator-owned series developed with an artist I love. This year, I'm re-focusing on comics in a big way, so if you wanna collab, get in touch!

Grades are in! 91% on my final project, 94% on the course overall. 2025 fucking sucked but I went out on a high note, so that's something.

Video Games Are Good, Actually.

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

Merr Cribus from Pancake and his new friend, Stegosaurus.

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

I keep writing and rewriting posts about the Doomsday trailer. What a bummer.

This looks so sic! I wish you all a very money.

Opened this in a pack and my co-worker said "oh so they make Magic cards based on your personality?" RIP me.

"Inevitable" is a marketing term, not a certainty.

"This is a tech driven industry, so you try stuff." Try having some integrity, then.

Art is as much the process as it is the result. When you poison the former, you poison the latter. Reference isn't just "look at a similar thing." It's resonance, emotion, and inspiration. You will never get that from the Slop Machine.

Of all the studios to become cooked in 2025, I never would have predicted Larian makes the list. Shit sucks lol.

when the CEO is the one saying "everyone is fine with our genAI usage" i ain't believing u

f u c k i n g y i k e s . That CEOs feel comfortable making statements like this is such an indictment of our industry. (the headline is the least of it) insider-gaming.com/lords-of-the...

This is what genAI wants to do with thinking and also creativity.

Spent some time yesterday finally organizing my stacks of comic singles from the year. I guessed wrong and two short boxes was not enough. 😅 Couldn't be helped! It was a good year for comics.

If devs/publishers genuinely believed AI was 'the future of game design', they wouldn't cry so hard about having to disclose use of it on their steam pages.

GDCheese is the developer networking event we all need in 2026. 🙏

I finished this on Thursday!! 30 weeks, 150+ pages of notes, and 5 Unreal prototypes later. An exhausting undertaking when paired with also working on a major game during the day, but very rewarding.

QA. They face disrespect both within the industry and with audiences, and none of your favourite games would ship without them.

If you ever catch me calling The Game Awards "gaming's Oscars" I want you to take me out behind the shed and end my misery. The Oscars aren't perfect, but they are genuinely invested in honoring the work of artists. The Game Awards is Summer Game Fest with delusions of grandeur.

This might be a hot take, but if you don't want games to be overtaken by AI slop, you have to choose not to play games that spotlight it. Companies don't care that you wag your finger, they care that you withhold your money and attention.

pals you gotta quit spotify

This has been my most anticipated game for years. Cannot wait to spend a good portion of my holiday break with Skate Story.

I've lost track of how many times I've seen Whiplash.

I know Wrath of Khan is an undisputed classic, but this is my favourite Trek movie.

Do your part! Help make Dollman 2025's Best Little Guy!

We're fucking cooked.

My top 5 most-listened to songs this year are off the latest Linkin Park record. Yeah, I'm okay. Why do you ask?

The contract is signed, which means it's official: new comic work by me in 2026! Hell of a way to close out the year.

Cyberpunk 2077 was the last game I played in 2024 and I've basically thought about it on-and-off all year. Couldn't stay away. Now it's the last game I'll play in 2025 too. 😅

The false connection between perceived quality and love/passion is one of the worst misunderstandings our audience has about what we do.

Wake Up Dead Man was PACKED at the big downtown cinema. Full house kinda packed. Nice to see from a film that a) will be on Netflix in short order, and b) isn't a giant licensed IP of some kind. Also, it was a blast.

Shareholders.

The only video game award of the year that matters!

By the same token, more creative people need to learn to separate "I like it" from "this is right for the project." Sometimes those are the same thing and sometimes they are very much not!

Tim is right. Stores should stop tagging games that use AI for content and should stop selling them instead. That way players don't have to check if they're about to spend their hard-earned money on slop.

Psycho Mantis knew what games I played. On that day, my fate was sealed.

Sent some money toward a good cause. If you have anything to spare, please consider helping!

Wait hold on wait I just watched a video where someone referenced being a kid and looking out the window, imagining a character running alongside the car, jumping and dodging the obstacles that passed the window. I did this exact same thing. Is this a common thing?? Did other people do this?!?!