a picture of an into the spine sticker on a po box in new york. it's dirty, old, and peeling off. but it's still in place

happy 8, @intothespine.bsky.social

Thank you @diegoarguello.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute to 2025's Stories of the Year!

They let me write about Promise Mascot Agency :)

I love these roundups because they often highlight not just media I might’ve overlooked but just how skewed most games and media news is. @intothespine.bsky.social’s contributors always uncover gems!

Also, I wrote about Silent Hill: Homecoming for this. 😁

Stories of 2025 - Into The Spine We say goodbye to the year 2025, distilling the past 12 months with an array of stories by 91 writers around the world.

thank you @diegoarguello.bsky.social for once again asking me to contribute to this (and I'm still laughing that the *one* movie I voted for was what you asked me to write a full blurb for😅).
frt, GO SEE PREDATOR BADLANDS intothespine.com/2025/12/31/s...

It's out! And I had the absolute pleasure of sharing a bit about my time playing OVER/UNDER in here, if you wanted a peek of what that was about

Happy to be here. (Hello, 2026!)

Into The Spine's Stories of the Year is my favorite thing to read in the first days of the new year, and this time I got to write about my favorite 2025 game!

Thanks @diegoarguello.bsky.social for keeping up such an important project for games criticism!

wrote a couple hundred words about umamusume for into the spine's lovely year-end roundup. v grateful to @diegoarguello.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute, and to rice shower for reaffirming my will to live

Wrote a little about Final Fantasy Tactics for @intothespine.bsky.social, alongside a selection of wonderful writers

I loved getting to write a little blurb for this, yesterday ended up being too crowded for me to sit down and read it but I’m very much looking forward to doing that today

Thank you @diegoarguello.bsky.social for putting this together every year, it’s one of my fav year-ending things

Happy New Year!
I'm so grateful for the opportunity to write about Tales of Rebirth for the @intothespine.bsky.social 2025 write-ups! Check it out, and all the other amazing contributions!!

I have joined this throng of the talented with a thought on Team Bloober's Cronos: The New Dawn.

No idea how @diegoarguello.bsky.social wrangles together around 100 writers every year for this but he’s a superhero for doing it.

In here with some thoughts on Ball x Pit and the weirdness of a game’s best feature being letting you not play it.

I’m honored and humbled to be a part of this for the second year in a row. Please go read it!

It was fun to contribute to Into The Spine's year in gaming roundup again, wrote about the Yugioh Early Days Collection. Enjoyed reading these entries.

always grateful to diego for inviting me to take part in this! i don't do a ton of games writing anymore so i really enjoyed getting to flex that muscle again and of course getting to write about my beloved silksong :-)

I contributed to this increasingly ginormous recap of another year of gaming and culture and life and all that stuff

incredibly proud to have contributed to this list, thanks a million to @diegoarguello.bsky.social for the opportunity!!

I got to write a bit about Okami and the urgent climate action our planet needs!

Thank you @diegoarguello.bsky.social for all your work putting this together and for letting me be a part of it again.

Happy new year. ☕️🍔

I was very proud to have contributed to this mega round up of the year's best. I wrote about Absolum, and why it's so great.

Always honored to write for of Into The Spine, and it’s incredible to see that, even in an industry bleeding talent, that talent refuses to give up.

I lost co-workers I loved working with in 2025, so massive thanks to @diegoarguello.bsky.social for letting me write about the power of community.

one more to close out the year!! when I reflected on 2025, I knew the touchstone for this period in my life had to be Wanderstop.

Thrilled to be included this, speaking about the massive strides the industry has made in terms of organizing in 2025. Much love to game workers everywhere. ✊🎮

i wrote about a meet cute and a cozy organization game. check out 91 of us nerding out together for @intothespine.bsky.social 🥹

Made a comic shaped contribution to this and I am in some incredible company. If you want a great, unique, funny tour of games in 2025 this is the thing to read

i'm in this writing about the only good FPS that even exists anymore

I am always so thrilled and honored to contribute to Into The Spine’s end of year game round-ups. It’s so nice to be one name among so many and such a talented community!

Always a tremendous honor to be part of what is such a north star of what writing on games can be as a historical document. Wrote a short piece about dementia this year.

“Games Media Erosion I’m bored to tears talking about the decline of games media. There’s such a tidal force pushing against what we do. Our collective demise is being served up in front of us by influencers…”

By John Warren

Oh hey it’s @intothespine.bsky.social’s year end piece and hey who’s that??? intothespine.com/2025/12/31/s...