Happy Monday, folks, and welcome to the Weekly Video Games Thread! Inspired by my new adventures through the near-future Lumiose City of Pokémon Legends: Z-A, here’s today’s prompt: what are your favorite—and least favorite—examples of a series going from turn-based … Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Moves from Turn-Based to Real Time
The actual prompt was gonna be about the super-powered zombies, but I thought I’d wait a while on that one. Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Suddenly Remembers the Word “Abattoir”
Astro’s Playroom: really cool. Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Is in an Ancient-Slash-Futuristic World
Okay, to be clear, this is about electricity floors. Which is not in the header image because I did not take picture of the floor when it was electrified. Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Is Unduly Enamored with Lex Luthor’s Deathtrap in The Dark Knight Strikes Again
Happy Monday, folks, and welcome to the Weekly Video Games Thread! Last week I started the latest game I got for free as a member of the unpaid games journalism intelligentsia, Escape from Ever After. I think I’m… halfway through? … Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Clones It Up
If you haven’t played this game, it plays basically that one song from Twin Peaks. It’s great. Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Is Hip and Trendy, to Quote a Modern Phrase
Every one of these tiny planets is so wonderful. Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Feels the Gravity of the Situation
The actual worst caption I’ve seen was in BioShock. It’s the opening speech, but with lines spaced and ordered in truly bad ways. Continue reading Wow, the Weekly Video Games Thread Has Some Bad Captions
BABA IS FUN. No, it really, really is. Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Changes the Rules
Okay, so this was written on the night of December 21. Which means I have to now write the totally awesome prompt for December 22. Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Rides a UFO
I completely forgot just how much of a pain it is working with the “accordion” feature. But we need it because WOW, these are long. Continue reading Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Peely Awards for the Worst in Pop Culture
I did a “don’t call it a comeback” joke in an article in 2024, so I’ll that reference to you. Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Comes Out of the Past
I cannot believe that not only is there another goddamn Dexter reboot, but that it replaced another “another goddamn Dexter reboot.” Continue reading The 2025 Peely Awards for the Worst in Pop Culture, Round II Part II
There weren’t many video game disasters this year, but hoo boy was MindsEye something else. Continue reading The 2025 Peely Awards for the Worst in Pop Culture, Round II Part I
Maybe I’ll redo that boss fight music prompt in a few years. Give us a chance to see more new bosses. Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Wants Some Racing Tunes
Not to goad you into voting for categories that bias War of the Worlds, but DEAR LORD it was bad. I mean, WOW! Continue reading The 2025 Peely Awards for the Worst in Pop Culture, Round I
Shots fired at Mega Man today, I guess. Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Gets a Really, Really, Really Cool Robot Suit
I don’t think I’ve done a “Wolfman Jew rant” in a while. Fortunately, this is still pretty short, punchy, and not all negative! Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Comes Up with an Award
Maybe it’s a Marx Brothers reference? You know, what’s great about writing prompts like these is that I know it’ll be hard to ever be this dumb going forward. I’ve got a floor! Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Is Not a Reference to Karl Marx
Kirby prompt for next week. Had to try to have something Thanksgiving adjacent for Monday. Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Dons a Kinda “Eh” Thanksgiving Look
World of Goo’s also pretty fun. Maybe I’ll talk about that someday soon. Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Listens to a Sound Test
