herded up a little (early) group retrospective on the Nintendo Switch ahead of the Switch 2's release (mainly so i could have a new excuse to blab about Gunpei Yokoi on the site) engadget.com/gaming/nintend…

here's my write-up of the new Backbone Pro controller. i like it! a clear upgrade over the original. it'll be a great gift. but $170 for a mobile gamepad is always gonna be a tough sell, especially now engadget.com/gaming/backbon…

i'm liking CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33, but the "we have Moogles at home" and "we have 'Aerith dies' at home" energy is undeniable

here is a 100-word review / some bad poetry on the reflective qualities of EURO TRUCK SIMULATOR 2 jeffreviewsgames.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/eur…

microsoft branding a studio as "AAAA" only to have it spend 7 years building a game that doesn't ship before it cans the whole staff seems like a perfect microcosm of the video game industry in 2025

waxed poetic about FAST FUSION for our new list of Switch 2 game recs engadget.com/gaming/nintend…

as an american who recently had a kid, the only attainable goal i have left in life is, of course, to finish in the top 10k in Fantasy Premier League. it's year 11 for me, previous best rank is 22k, last year was 76k (which was enough for top 1%). here's my team to start the year

truly cannot express how funny it is that people spent a couple years torching their life savings on shitty drawings of apes. just the worst monkey pics you've ever seen. how could anyone have expected things to get better for us after that

you can still log off, it’s not too late

nobody feels more in charge of technology than a boomer using an LLM for something they could've done on their own in a few minutes

why do all AI evangelists talk like this

clair obscur was fine and all but it didn't let you play as a big monkey who punches through the ground to eat bananas

1. Elden Ring 2. BotW 3. BG3 4. Overwatch (pre-OW2) 5. E33 6. TLoU Part 2 7. Sekiro 8. It Takes Two 9. GoW 10. Astro Bot 11. Overwatch (post-OW2)

HoF copypasta

This Kenrich Williams three-pointer sends the Paycom Center into a frenzy! 📺 NBC (ET/CT/Select MT) and Peacock

how do i reconcile liking that Geese album with the fact that i live in actual Long Island City and genuinely enjoy it here

this is a bad reviewer, actually

the influx of vagueposting on this hell app is a psyop intended to increase engagement with the AI bot

well i guess we deserved one of these after the 20 years of being annoying. probably the worst offensive SB performance i've ever seen. at least Seattle is a likable team, congrats to Seahawks fans. Darnold being a champ is fun enough.