From the sublime to what should be career ending felonies, this was a year of various levels of pain.

2025 was one of the roughest years of my life. I only had about a three month period where I didn’t want to perform a self-amputation of my right foot, my job is still an exhausting mess, all the BS the 11th province is pulling which affects a lot of my friends… 2026 can’t be worse, can it?

Because calling it the “eSlop” would be a little too on the nose.

Three thousand and fifty seven.

For the first time since roughly 2022 we had multiple systems to track for digital releases, and the full year on Switch and Switch 2 combined for 3,057 releases in North America. That is now four years in a row that the Switch itself has beaten its total from the... Read more...

Justin weighs in on the first trailer for Mega Man's latest return.

Capcom recently revealed the Blue Bomber’s latest game, Mega Man: Dual Override. That's right, Mega Man is finally back… again. As a big fan of the series I needed to express my feelings for what's going to be a 40th anniversary title for the series.

The trailer for Dual Override was brief... Read more...

A preeminent Madden-on-Nintendo scholar dives deep into how EA went from more than 75 games on Wii to basically nothing and maybe back again.

Almost exactly 14 years before the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, EA’s then-CEO John Riccitiello took the stage at Nintendo’s annual E3 press conference on June 7, 2011 to talk about an unprecedented partnership with Nintendo on their upcoming console, the Wii U. “What Nintendo’s new console delivers speaks directly to the players of EA Sports and EA Games,” Riccitiello told the audience.

From the "never happening" to "aren't you legally required to deliver this?", there were things conspicuously missing this week.

The Partner Showcase was definitely something straight out of 2022 (complimentary): plenty of things for the RPG sickos, some games making their Nintendo debuts, and Borderlands 4 getting punted to the sizzle reel. But as the first post-Switch 2 launch showcase? I can definitely see why it fell flat in some circles. A grand opening of a Monster Hunter... Stories and a closing of two Square Enix HD-2D games does not an all-timer make.