We cosplay more like a real award show than ever before to share our faves of the past year. New categories, an achievement award, and someone even chokes up (me, in the most literal way).

Reports of #MarioKartWorld’s death are greatly exaggerated. Just spent three hours with friends online, got instant matches in Knockout Tour, and had a great night. #NintendoSwitch2

The Real Turtles of Beverly Hills. instagram.com/p/DUMfmgSgVrm/

Linkin Park coming Up From The Bottom to be One Step Closer to their first win in 20 years is no small feat. Even if In The End the voters let Good Things Go, No More Sorrow for what LP achieved! (Sorry for the Overflow of puns. I’m working on Breaking The Habit.) #Grammys

Satoru Iwata once teased that a system codenamed NX would “change video gaming life.” 11 years (almost to the day) later, we know it as the Switch and it just became Nintendo’s best-selling hardware of all time. And Switch 2? Still the fastest selling ever.

How did it not occur to me that Comcast would use the Olympics to promote their own studio’s movie starring characters who already had their own Olympic video games? All of which is to say: this Yoshi / Toads bobsled spot is great. #SuperMarioGalaxyMovie

The new Muppet Show special nails the exact type of randomness I fondly remember (Rizzo singing Blinding Lights?), even if it wasn’t the specific randomness I hoped to see again (no Mahna Mahna).

The Partner Showcase reminded me of the later years of E3. The big studios save their reveals for their own events, so we instead get a mix of known games and smaller projects. But of those present, nice to see them embrace Switch 2's underdog feature, GameShare. #NintendoDirect

I love how something as small as the buttons on a chair can become an easter egg in the Mario movies. They’re the Super Famicom colors, even correctly facing whoever sits there! #SuperMarioGalaxyMovie

Very impressed by the Pragmata demo. The Switch 2 version looks and runs great, and the hacking mechanic is a fun twist on third-person shooting. Or in the words of Hugh: