Lou Kesten

Clair Obscur leads the AP's list of 2025's top video games In a year in which technology news was dominated by artificial intelligence, the outstanding video games were still being designed by human beings.

It took me a year to write this, so you have to read it.

YouTube video by SNõõPER TV Snooper - Guard Dog - Official Music Video

I can't stop listening to that big album that dropped today.
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Gibby of the Butthole Surfers punched me in the chest.

No one on this new version of 'Match Game' is drinking or smoking, which defeats the whole purpose.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies ...

This is a remarkable game in just about every aspect, but I think what makes it particularly special is the writing (led by Jennifer Svedberg-Yen and Guillaume Broche). I can't remember another game in which I cared so much about every single character. It's a tremendous achievement.

So I'm not going to get the Robert Eggers 'Superman' I was hoping for?

The harbor master in 'Jaws' is named Frank Silva, which was the name of the guy who played BOB on 'Twin Peaks.' IT'S ALL CONNECTED.

Nintendo's Switch 2 soups up the graphics, but does it deliver the games? Nintendo's Switch 2 video-game console is out, and it makes some substantial improvements over its predecessor.

My #Switch2 review for the AP.

I so thoroughly loathed the ending of 'The Last of Us' that I never played 'TLOU Part II.' The HBO adaptation could've steered in a different direction, but it sounds like viewers are just as miserable as I would've been if I had come along for the ride.

My EXCLUSIVE ranking of primary and secondary colors:
1. Purple
2. Blue
3. Green
4. Orange
5. Yellow
6. Red

Someone on Madison Avenue keeps saying: 'You know what totally relatable celebrity would be great for this ad? Pete Davidson!'

The novel I'm reading now has these blurbs on the back cover:
The New York Times: Brilliant...irresistible...compelling.
The Scotsman: There's nothing to force you, having been warned, to read it; nor do I recommend it.
TLS: A literary equivalent of the nastiest brand of juvenile delinquency.

Kentucky Derby prediction: Journalism will have a record-breaking run for the first mile and his owner will shoot him before the finish line.

I have all the friends I need. What I really need is a serious reduction in enemies.

13 years between 'Grand Theft Auto' games seems reasonable. Remember how great 'Duke Nukem Forever' turned out?

Gah, what an awful word. No.

Hitting mute now

'Blue Prince' combines the genre I love the most (puzzle) with the genre I hate the most (akin to the 1980 computer game 'Rogue'). Exactly 2.5 stars out of 5.

'Clair Obscur' reminds me A LOT of Jeff Vandermeer's 'Annihilation' (the book more than the movie). Underequipped explorers forced to reckon with an insanely mutated environment. I'm only a few hours in but I'm awestruck.

The first sequence after the prologue in 'Clair Obscur'? Holy shit.

YouTube video by UPROXX Indie Mixtape The Jesus And Mary Chain - Reverence (Official Music Video)

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"Twin Peaks: The Return," Episode 8

Favorite Val Kilmer performance? 'The Salton Sea' (2002)

I was so looking forward to the Netflix miniseries about my favorite art-rock band, The Residents. Oh well.

Team Gemma. #Severance

Sure, the '90s were the Golden Age of Magazines, but for all the $$$ Graydon Carter spent, Vanity Fair was a shitty magazine so entranced by glamor that it had no connection to reality.

There are at least six Emmy-worthy performances in Netflix's 'Adolescence,' but the two primary actors in episode 3? Bone-crushing.

One episode into Netflix's 'Adolescence' and holy shit I'm glad I don't have teenage kids.

It still blows my mind that Boots Riley's 'I'm a Virgo' ended up on Amazon Prime.

My big screen conked out, so I hooked up an old 24-inch monitor. How did people watch such tiny TVs for so long???