Derek Foley

MH Wilds gets big January PC performance update The second large performance optimization update for Monster Hunter Wilds' PC version is out now, and we're happy with the results so far.

They pushed out a patch last month that seems to have improved the performance
www.eurogamer.net/monster-hunt...

Barret telling Cloud "People say they love milfs yet look how they treat the original milf (mother earth)"

It's January 31 in Japan. 29 years ago today, Final Fantasy VII launched for PlayStation.

One Sausage After Another

why he jerkin it

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

YouTube video by Foley Plays Weekly News Recap | 15 December - 18 January 2026 | Meta Guts VR Division

First Weekly News Recap of the year, gang
🥸 Meta guts its VR division
😡 Larian gets a bollocking for genAI use
💩 Ubisoft accused of union busting
youtu.be/vdzuWOMgnXg

The Great Hunger: Ireland's Tragedy in the 19th Century Can you survive The Great Hunger?

This board game on The Great Hunger has been popping up in Irish media recently. While it highlights the struggles of the Irish people at the time, it leaves out England's actions and exploitations that contributed massively to the tragedy.
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42...

The video is done and dusted. Not super happy with the audio quality, but it was fun to put together
bsky.app/profile/doom...

YouTube video by Foley Plays New Games Releasing in 2026

👀Here are 60 games you should keep an eye on in 2026. 🤔And 6 more that might make it out this year.
youtu.be/yaYrMhqHcEE

slightly diminish a game.

Devil May Sigh

Whittled down to 66 and most of the video is done. Maybe up next week 🤞

Working on a video for games releasing in 2026. I've narrowed the list to 70-ish games. I started at 200. I might have the video posted in time for 2027 🫠

Sam Altman standing near a big mountain: “Wow, that’s a big mountain.”

An echo: “Wow, that’s a big mountain.”

Sam Altman: “Wait, could this big mountain help me raise my child?”

More of the same so. I'll come back in 2030 😂

software development in 2026 is going to require some to loosen up a little code doesn't have to be as perfectly crafted the way we did it pre-ai call it slop if you want, but if you're still demanding perfection on every pr while your competitors are shipping "slop" that works.. you're fighting from a disadvantaged position shipping velocity matters more than perfection

Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.

Im sure there will be no issues there at all.

You better watch out. Krampus was in my childhood when I lived in Austria and he haunted me. Loved it. Also painted this:

To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:

- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever

Wow, these look great. East of West is a good shout for me. I like anything with the horsemen of the apocalypse 😅. Thanks!

'Prince of Nothing' series, R Scott Bakker
'Malazan Book of the Fallen', Steven Erikson. I'd love more stories like these 🙏

Weekly News Recap will be delayed a few days, again. Should be up tomorrow or Wednesday

Hopefully the goal was to intentionally make a character everyone would hate

They are hardly likely to say the opposite

Weekly News Recap for 3-9 November will be up later in the week

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information"

They want people to assume this means game info or assets.

But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:

'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

Starfinder: Afterlight 💫 Gather your crew and save the galaxy in this party-based RPG featuring Starfinder 2e ruleset where magic meets technology.

I just backed Starfinder: Afterlight 💫 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/epi...

Masahiro Sakurai shared a photo of a Game Director dinner meeting he had for Tokyo Gameshow!

Participants:
- Hideki Kamiya
- Toby Fox
- Yoko Taro
- Jiro Ishii
- Kazutaka Kodaka
- Keiichiro Toyama