Lots and lots and lots of drunks. Not me though! 🫡
One was a firefighter and a drunk. The other was a Vietnam vet who worked a series of odd jobs afterward (also a drunk).
I think since the games industry/gamers are so, so often needlessly cruel, some people like, “overcorrect” and reject all criticisms in the indie space.
Like, criticism is good! Of the work at hand + business practices! It’s just important to find folks who will be honest AND constructive.
I have quite literally never played a single hand of Balatro but I blast that theme on repeat every day.
It’s still absolutely surreal that Fiverr contract work got a TGA orchestral remix but it is proof we don’t live in the ABSOLUTE worst timeline.
If it’s safe to assume this is about the RE Review Discourse of the Day… sometimes a Nice and Normal person has a bad take, and the fact that can so easily snowball into 100s of people who don’t know a thing about a person viciously digging into them is one of the nastiest ills of a site like this.
“Lemme steal clickthrough revenue from struggling bloggers but also pwease click on any Amazon link I might post so I can get a lil kickback, as a treat 👉👈”
lol c’mon man, what a bad joke
My girlfriend scraped her knee and dropped and busted up her phone this morning, and then had her croissant stolen out of her hands by seagulls.
You are not struggling alone today, sadly. 🥀
HELLSCREEN 1.0 is OUT of early access!
It's a Retro FPS with Metroid-vania lite elements & a rear view mirror.
Yes, you can shoot behind you!
My favorite player description of it is
"The most fucked up driving game I have ever seen"
Buy it below!
You’re an incredible developer, Jamie, and while I haven’t followed every step of development, I know you’ve had a tough and uncertain journey with Hellscreen. Your perseverance and commitment are so admirable.
I can’t wait to give 1.0 a go — love what you’ve done and can’t wait to see what’s next!
I hated the Pokemon ad btw. I refuse to believe a professional soccer player’s favorite pocket monster is Zygarde.
That is an industry plant-ass legendary and I feel like it was in that ad because Z-A is the latest game.
Phenomenal choice from the actress who picked Luxray, though.
the odds are never zero…….. good luck friend…
This is VERY TRUE and I want to plug my colleague on my feed, because CNET is lucky to have Adam Benjamin — someone who has lived and breathed hero shooters for a decade. His infectious enthusiasm for OW is so refreshing when so many folks are outrage farming.
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top 10 most exciting pieces of gaming-related news so far in 2026
It’s like, Overwatch will fundamentally be and represent so many different things to so many different people — it becomes a shared point of comparison, but people have these *completely* different visions of OW contextualized by time and cultural moments.
I think this also happens with WoW/MMOs.
I know saying “Overwatch is special” is preaching to the choir here but your point about people being mad at an OW fumble/some other gripe is also so interesting.
It’s a 10-year-old LIVING game, and that means people have seen so many different “Overwatches”.
I honestly don’t think Overwatch can EVER lose this particular juice. Blizzard’s 10-year-old cinematics could carry that emotional weight by themselves.
It was the first game to do what it does, and the imitators usually lack some je ne sais quoi — maybe character design, maybe tight gameplay, idk.
I’m convinced there are VERY few hero combos that hit quite like a synchronized Brig/Ana duo. When the gears are turning and the peels are working, it’s one of my favorite support backlines to play with a friend — you just feel so unstoppable. It’s like Zarya/Rein levels of dopamine.
On Jan. 14, our parent company Ziff Davis laid off 5 of our members, days after our successful CES showing as the CNET Group. This is the third round of layoffs since Ziff acquired CNET in 2024. We’re sick of our members being on the chopping block.
Read our full statement below:
The folks running GameStop don’t care about maintaining or nurturing the brand. They care about extracting the greatest amount of value out of the stockholders — a subset of people who believe in “GME going to the moon.”
This will give you an idea of who this is for:
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Remember when nu-Call of Duty Modern Warfare admonished players and failed you out of the mission if you flashbanged the baby in the crib?
The propaganda game backed by the military industrial complex is taking more of a stand against baby violence than elected politicians in America right now.
that thumbnail is psychically damaging 😭
Sun/Moon are definitely solid, love the island vibes + the Ultra Beasts grew on me a lot as time went on.
I’m a complete sucker for nostalgia so Emerald or Platinum is probably my personal #1.
My favorite Pokemon are Aron/Aggron + Gible/Garchomp though… I guess I love the “cute to badass” pipeline
YIPPEE I see so much Pokemon!
I also did not play *quite* as many games on my Switch this year as I’d hope to, but sometimes that console just feels like the Pokemon Machine for me.
Which Pokemon is your favorite???
“This was a brilliantly done illegal mission, hoorah team!”
like c’mon man
I think the fact that Trump didn’t even bother to manufacture consent for this Venezuela takeover is a foreboding sign of things to come.
It reminds me of when Elon Musk flippantly wrote, “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.”
Except the president of the United States wields military power.
I remember seeing the trailer for that and digging some of the cinematography with the rings — but I’m too skittish for horror films (esp in theaters)
Took my partner months of poking + prodding to get me to Sinners because I figured it’d be too scary, and that ended up being my #1 movie of 2025. 😅
I did not see nearly enough movies this past year… 🙈
What’s your favorite movie from your 2025 watchlist?
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
This platform is far from perfect, but I’ve never been on a social media app before that has had such kind and welcoming communities to join.
I’m glad more people from around the world are adopting Bsky — that means more people with unique perspectives to share on our common interests! c:
Exactly! The way he scrapes by is quite literally farming outrage like 5-6 times a day. Even if he DOES have a good time, I’m sure he’ll find a way to harass someone — his livelihood depends on destroying others.
It’s the parable of the scorpion and the frog. It’s in his nature to sting.
