Mat Piscatella

Circana Player Engagement Tracker - Top 15 Titles by Total Weekly Active Users (Not Concurrent) - W/E Oct 25, 2025

- Battlefield 6 holds at #1 on Steam US & CAN
- RV There Yet? debuts in top 15 across Steam
- Ninja Gaiden 4 launches 8th on Xbox with Game Pass
- Escape from Duckov reaches CAN top 15

It's great. Deserves more imo.

From Circana's free 2025 US Holiday Purchase Intentions Report: 63% of folks say that food/grocery costs will impact their holiday purchasing this year, with that number going up to 76% for Gen Z.

The full report can be requested here: www.circana.com/post/2025-u-...

BRB deleting the mlb app

OMG the most Midway set of clips you'll ever hear. *mwah*

Yes. On console it's still just fortnite/minecraft/roblox. But this has been happening for a while. Helldivers II, Silksong, I mean name your viral game it's PC where these games are really showing up (and why the Steam CCUs can mislead when people try to extrapolate them to total market).

Circana Player Engagement Tracker - Top 15 Titles by Total Weekly Active Users (Not Concurrent) - W/E Oct 25, 2025

- Battlefield 6 holds at #1 on Steam US & CAN
- RV There Yet? debuts in top 15 across Steam
- Ninja Gaiden 4 launches 8th on Xbox with Game Pass
- Escape from Duckov reaches CAN top 15

"People genuinely thought that's what I looked like" – 20 years after Mental Wealth aired, meet the star of PlayStation's most bizarre TV spot It was the strangest TV advertisement of 1999, a Scottish girl in pigtails, who may or may not have been an alien, trying to flog you a PlayStation. Guess what? We tracked her down!

From 2019, which only seems like 23520567203 years ago. www.gamesradar.com/playstation-...

YouTube video by PlayStation Europe PlayStation advert: Mental Wealth | 1999 | #20YearsOfPlay

youtu.be/YWmbUMStlGI?...

Oh, we're doing these kinds of ads again?

Time to bring her back then!

a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face . Alt: Saving Private Ryan .gif of young Matt Damon in a military uniform dissolving into decades-older Matt Damon in seconds.

Guitar Hero was released 20 years ago this week, so it's now about as old as Super Mario Bros. was when Guitar Hero came out.

Graceful Gueneviere!

Friends? In this economy?

THIS is an eggsbox

I like when the game has story in it

Seems like I gotta give Arc Raiders a whirl.

Thank you for the very kind feedback! I'm glad you found it worth the time. Cheers!

Yep. Baseball is relishing failure and celebrating mortality.

Mafia: The Old Country's creators couldn't avoid politics in telling an authentic mob tale To understand where the mafia came from, Hangar 13 had to confront Italy's dark past

What makes Mafia: The Old Country so remarkable is a historically charged script that seeks to understand the conditions that birthed the mafia. I spoke to the Hangar 13 team about the Italian labor issues and political unrest that are inseparable from the mafia. www.polygon.com/mafia-the-ol...

Only 124 days until the World Baseball Classic!

Congrats LA peeps.

In the year that is 2025 the Dodgers winning was inevitable.

Big hugs Jays fans.

The cajones to not just step on first

Sick of that guy tbh

Not... Leafs hockey, I hope?

Yeah but then what.

WBC doesn't start for a few months.

*sees Laura Bailey in credits*

The absolute GOAT

Baseball!

The writing and acting in Dispatch is just fantastic isn't it.

I just hope everyone has fun and makes new friends. Should be fun, stressful, miserable and awesome!

Hot new Circana candy stats just dropped:

- US households spent $4.5B on candy in the 4 weeks leading to Halloween last year
- 58% of households will trick or trunk-or-treat this year
- 75% of participating households will give chocolate, while 59% will have gummy/chewy or sour candies

Spooky.