splatoon raiders trailer screenshot of an octoling with a bunch of trinkets in their hair

splatoon raiders trailer screenshot of an inkling with a rubber duck and clothes hanger in their hair

oh my god the splatoon raiders hair options!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what!!!!!!!

The Gamification of Birdwatching is Here Birdwatching is cooler than it ever has been, and it's opened the door to a flurry of new Steam games that use it as a hook.

Birdwatching is cool now. Trust us.

In fact, 2026 is already seeing a flutter of games with birdwatching as their hook.

What makes the quaint activity so satisfying? We ask devs @secretplangames.bsky.social, @studioortica.bsky.social, and wildlife researcher @jabaddams.bsky.social to find out.

i feel like i'm probably the only player who this has happened to lmao

(both miis are supposed to say the same word here, and i typed the word "cooking" here for my cooking mama mii to say. isabelle said the same word, but in the wildest coincidence ever, her word was pulled from the game's word bank and not mine and the game didn't register that they're the same word)

PLEASE ignore cooking mama's messed up eyes from before i understood how face paint worked (she is fixed now) but the funniest thing ever just happened on my island

wow!!! congrats!!!

What Are We Doing? My friend sent me the following:

The way that some people are using Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has me concerned. Some thoughts about the viral incentives that are motivating certain players of this game and the broad criticisms of it, would love if you checked this out!

medium.com/@abrambuehne...

Tomodachi Life: A Guide To Living The Dream And Having Fun Treat it like a reality TV show where you create the cast

my advice on chilling the hell out and enjoying tomodachi life ⤵️

kotaku.com/tomodachi-li...

Dosa Divas, our cooking themed turn-based RPG is out now on Steam, Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox S|X

Two sisters and their upgradable spirit-mech cook delicious meals, fight corpos, build up your reputation with local communities, and reconcile with loved ones.

outerloopgames.com/dosa

a screenshot of the new tomodachi life showing a mii standing in an office with a small red pikmin pet. text at the bottom says "Some details have been censored to protect extremely classified Nintendo secrets" and a portion of the screenshot on the left is blurred out.

obsessed with the tomodachi life developers customizing in-game furniture to put "extremely classified nintendo secrets" into their own save files

Crimson Desert: All Abyss Nexus locations Here's a list of every single Abyss Nexus fast travel location in Crimson Desert, including every region as well as the Abyss.

this might be my guides writing magnum opus www.rockpapershotgun.com/crimson-dese...

congrats on a great run!!! it was lovely getting to freelance with you there

Here’s Why Tomodachi Life On Switch Might Be The Next Big Cozy Hit Miis are back on the menu, boys!

i don't think this is a surprise to anyone but i'm really, really excited for this game

kotaku.com/tomodachi-li...

thank you scott!!!!

just played about 2 hours of raccoin and i can feel important pathways in my brain actively eroding

If you have been donating to @tonemadison.bsky.social and want some other ideas for supporting good writing/art/journalism with your money, I have some suggestions for you, including ongoing projects from some of Tone’s wonderful freelancers:

tone madison is SUCH a cool local site run by great people, and i've been so lucky to both contribute + have my work covered there. gonna miss it a lot :(

my final story for tone madison is about my favorite semi-niche hobby and the coolest guy to do it with in wisconsin! (he's been leading weekly walks, which i like to call "the berghain of birding," for around 13 years)

Good birding in all seasons with the storied Charles "Chuck" Henrikson The retired lecturer and winsome ornithologist has been coordinating Tuesday birder hikes at the Arboretum for well over a decade.

"...Even in the winter on particularly birdless days, [Henrikson] enjoys looking at the patterns that ice crystals form and seeing if he can conjure birds in their shapes," writes @manateemailbox.bsky.social. 🐦

picture of my switch showing the tomodachi life demo. i’ve unlocked 44 of 9,814 items

NINE THOUSAND COLLECTIBLE ITEMS IN TOMODACHI LIFE LIVING THE DREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

snooze quit...

my favorite mechanic in crimson desert is the quit game button

Once again, the point of placeholder is to be replaced and thus easy to identify.

If you're using machineslop to get "as close as possible" - that's not "placeholder", that's either being incredibly ignorant or being a liar hoping to get away with it.

There's really no third option.

Tone Madison is saying goodbye We are sad, but grateful too.

Tone Madison is saying goodbye on April 3. Though we're sad, we're also grateful. Over the next couple weeks, we'll be proud to bring you a few more fiercely independent stories on local arts, culture, and politics.

march madness bracket selection screenshot. i picked siena over duke

i make my march madness brackets solely based on empathy

gimmighoul saying "i want a home, yo" in pokopia

the jesse pinkman of pokopia...

Let's get this place HUMID!

they've let me cover stardew like 80000 times this month at kotaku... dying on the hill that qi is not pronounced like that

everybody on here follows me for games stuff but the weird music blog i've been running for 5+ years just announced that DANNY FREAKING BROWN is our first issue's cover star AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

something cool is happening TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!! 📆