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Escape From Ever After is definitely the MOST Paper Mario of the Paper Mario-likes. Also probably the best? The game's premise recognizes that much of what makes golden age Paper Mario funny is how it lovingly subverts what you think you know about the Mario world. Great game to kick off 2026. 4/5

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The Sammys 2025: 10. Citizen Sleeper 2 9. Tiny Bookshop 8. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond 7. Blue Prince 6. Stray Children 5. Hades 2 4. Silent Hill f 3. Promise Mascot Agency 2. Donkey Kong Bananza 1. Silksong Pretty good year! Hopeful for 2026

All you need to know about Promise Mascot Agency is that it's a management sim card battler set in a Showa era town that you chaotically barrel through in your winged truck. The Yakuza influence is clear, but it would be insane to accuse this game of lacking originality. Bewildering and perfect.

I briefly lost consciousness last week and woke up to this

Bewildering news from Microsoft today. As always, Schreier is the guy to follow for updates. To say I hope everyone lands on their feet okay feels ridiculous

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

Oh, this reminds me, I handled the English script localization for this game. Hope you like it!

If you are the Staten Island Switch 2 receipt stapler 1) I hope you are holding up okay and 2) let me know if you're available for an interview. All personal info will be kept private/anonymized! ethan.gach@kotaku.com Signal at 2673263042

Happy Pride by the way

Hard to believe that in just one week I will receive the coordinates to the dead drop site that scalper will be leaving my Switch 2

Ragnarok, Divine Deliverance #GoogleTranslatesMTG #MTGxFINALFANTASY

Official Yoshitaka Amano GEX art is a clear sign that this reality is collapsing in on itself

Saw Sinners last night. It was good! Humiliating that they've gotta set a movie in 1932 for me to be like—oh I know that song. That one too!

Early impressions of Blue Prince: I've never been more stressed out that I don't have a banana in my entire life

I will play better games this year, but none will make me smile like Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. I always reach the end of these games surprised that Ryu Ga Gotoku managed to sneak a genuinely moving story into a funhouse of evil idols and underdog taco salesmen. They did it again!

First you gotta find the ninjas

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Tickets for the self directing and audition prep workout are live! Bring your own copy (or test your chops on a randomized script) and we'll work on building confidence in your self directing skills! Head over to scarygood.studio/learning to sign up!

Citizen Sleeper 2 is like if Disco Elysium wasn't funny at all. The prose gets a little purple, for my liking, but that's probably inevitable in a game with so many transcendentally beautiful moments. Can't make an omelette etc etc. I highly recommend it to people who like Books.

Started playing the tribe nine game⚾️🔥

Still playing catch-up on 2024 games. Indika dares to ask "what if those Plague Tale games were awesome?" You play as a sad nun with a mysterious past in 19th century Russia, on a mission to deliver a letter while navigating severe religious psychosis. You can hold L2 to Pray.

Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.

damn, didn't get selected for the Switch 2 Experience

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Salóme Gunnarsdóttir (Maria in the Silent Hill 2 Remake) performed the motion capture for the character while pregnant. Daily reminder that developments in technology are great when they allow more artists to do more cool shit—not less.

Just got around to Who's Lila by @garageheathen.bsky.social. It's a reverse detective game where the central mechanic is dragging facial features around to express emotions. A must-buy for anyone who understands that the pupil cannot see itself and our personalities are - definitionally - imaginary.

It's January 17 2025, and—if you can believe it: it's a Friday once again

david lynch loves you

The entirety of my politics at the moment

Today is the last day you can post this picture

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is maybe the biggest surprise of 2024. MachineGames' new first-person adventure de-emphasizes gunplay, and focuses instead on the very-Indiana Jones moment when stealth fails and improvisatory melee tomfoolery commences. Unexpected and very late GOTY.