Britton Peele
@brittonpeele.com
Writer. Pop culture critic (video games, geeky stuff, etc.). Fiction someday. Product Manager at The Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ. Formerly at The Dallas Morning News.
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Our friend Birtton Peele (@brittonpeele.com) pops in to share the games he wanted an excuse to talk about! Who else is brave enough to crown the "Best Pac-Man" game in 2025?
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Britton Peele's 2025 Games He Wanted an Excuse to Talk About | Giant Bomb
Britton Peele's Top 2025 Games He Wanted an Excuse to Talk About - A guest list for GiantBomb.com's 2025 Game of the Year.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Our friend Birtton Peele (@brittonpeele.com) pops in to share the games he wanted an excuse to talk about! Who else is brave enough to crown the "Best Pac-Man" game in 2025?
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May start only posting these on IG/TT because Bsky video compression is ass.
But yeah! I want to make more things. I'm gonna make more things.
www.instagram.com/janjerome/
www.tiktok.com/@jan.ochoa
But yeah! I want to make more things. I'm gonna make more things.
www.instagram.com/janjerome/
www.tiktok.com/@jan.ochoa
December 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
May start only posting these on IG/TT because Bsky video compression is ass.
But yeah! I want to make more things. I'm gonna make more things.
www.instagram.com/janjerome/
www.tiktok.com/@jan.ochoa
But yeah! I want to make more things. I'm gonna make more things.
www.instagram.com/janjerome/
www.tiktok.com/@jan.ochoa
My six year-old’s favorite Christmas gift this year? A whoopie cushion. He specifically asked for it.
I do not yet regret this gift, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings.
I do not yet regret this gift, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings.
December 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
My six year-old’s favorite Christmas gift this year? A whoopie cushion. He specifically asked for it.
I do not yet regret this gift, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings.
I do not yet regret this gift, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings.
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Day 4 @giantbomb.bsky.social GOTY List Recap!
@jordanwminor.bsky.social
@julie.radiantarray.io
@brittonpeele.com
@picklegiraffe.bsky.social
@superpac.bsky.social
@samanthazero.com
See these & 18 others here: giantbomb.com/articles?cat...
We will return with 1 staff list & 5 guests tomorrow!
@jordanwminor.bsky.social
@julie.radiantarray.io
@brittonpeele.com
@picklegiraffe.bsky.social
@superpac.bsky.social
@samanthazero.com
See these & 18 others here: giantbomb.com/articles?cat...
We will return with 1 staff list & 5 guests tomorrow!
December 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Day 4 @giantbomb.bsky.social GOTY List Recap!
@jordanwminor.bsky.social
@julie.radiantarray.io
@brittonpeele.com
@picklegiraffe.bsky.social
@superpac.bsky.social
@samanthazero.com
See these & 18 others here: giantbomb.com/articles?cat...
We will return with 1 staff list & 5 guests tomorrow!
@jordanwminor.bsky.social
@julie.radiantarray.io
@brittonpeele.com
@picklegiraffe.bsky.social
@superpac.bsky.social
@samanthazero.com
See these & 18 others here: giantbomb.com/articles?cat...
We will return with 1 staff list & 5 guests tomorrow!
If you’re wondering if there are still family Zoom calls where 20+ minutes are spent trying to get one more person’s audio and video working, the answer is yes.
December 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
If you’re wondering if there are still family Zoom calls where 20+ minutes are spent trying to get one more person’s audio and video working, the answer is yes.
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Having a @giantbomb.bsky.social Game of the Year list was a bucket list item. Merry Christmas to me!
Check out @brittonpeele.com's Top 5 games and some superlatives that may or may not be related to a Retro Achievements addiction.
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Britton Peele's 2025 Games He Wanted an Excuse to Talk About | Giant Bomb
Britton Peele's Top 2025 Games He Wanted an Excuse to Talk About - A guest list for GiantBomb.com's 2025 Game of the Year.
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December 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Having a @giantbomb.bsky.social Game of the Year list was a bucket list item. Merry Christmas to me!
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Check out @brittonpeele.com's Top 5 games and some superlatives that may or may not be related to a Retro Achievements addiction.
giantbomb.com/articles/bri...
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Britton Peele's 2025 Games He Wanted an Excuse to Talk About | Giant Bomb
Britton Peele's Top 2025 Games He Wanted an Excuse to Talk About - A guest list for GiantBomb.com's 2025 Game of the Year.
giantbomb.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Check out @brittonpeele.com's Top 5 games and some superlatives that may or may not be related to a Retro Achievements addiction.
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My Christmas gift this year is nostalgia. (And preparation for the RetroAchievements Wii launch.)
December 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My Christmas gift this year is nostalgia. (And preparation for the RetroAchievements Wii launch.)
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Breaking news: The Supreme Court said it would not allow President Trump to deploy the National Guard in Chicago for now, a significant setback for his campaign to push troops into cities across the country.
Supreme Court hands Trump a major defeat on National Guard deployment
The Supreme Court holds that the president’s authority to deploy the National Guard for law enforcement purposes likely only applies in “exceptional” circumstances.
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December 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Breaking news: The Supreme Court said it would not allow President Trump to deploy the National Guard in Chicago for now, a significant setback for his campaign to push troops into cities across the country.
Oh my God, this is unexpected and tragic.
Vince Zampella (Call of Duty, Respawn, Battlefield 6) has reportedly died in a car crash.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Oh my God, this is unexpected and tragic.
You also often have to tap through tutorials on events that you have done many times before.
It sucks that this is probably the most egregious case of this stuff I’ve seen in a free-to-play experience while also being a decently fun solitaire game (like Fairway Golf with Disney packaging).
It sucks that this is probably the most egregious case of this stuff I’ve seen in a free-to-play experience while also being a decently fun solitaire game (like Fairway Golf with Disney packaging).
Here’s a “I didn’t play for a week and now the Christmas event stuff started and every recurring revenue system reset requiring a new pop up” version that is somehow twice as long
December 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
You also often have to tap through tutorials on events that you have done many times before.
It sucks that this is probably the most egregious case of this stuff I’ve seen in a free-to-play experience while also being a decently fun solitaire game (like Fairway Golf with Disney packaging).
It sucks that this is probably the most egregious case of this stuff I’ve seen in a free-to-play experience while also being a decently fun solitaire game (like Fairway Golf with Disney packaging).
Since The Game Awards my TikTok feed has been filled once again with people discovering Expedition 33 for the first time, and it’s making me wish I could also experience it for the first time again.
December 20, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Since The Game Awards my TikTok feed has been filled once again with people discovering Expedition 33 for the first time, and it’s making me wish I could also experience it for the first time again.
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Maybe.
2008 also coincided with peak Wii, the rise of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, peak-ish 360 and Call of Duty started firing on all cylinders.
Games was never "recession-proof" - it brute forced its way through the economic challenges.
Now? Maybe not so much?
2008 also coincided with peak Wii, the rise of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, peak-ish 360 and Call of Duty started firing on all cylinders.
Games was never "recession-proof" - it brute forced its way through the economic challenges.
Now? Maybe not so much?
Been pretty interesting seeing the latest (dire) economic trends in the gaming industry. I do wonder if some of these companies just had a false confidence that they wouldn't be impacted by the current economic conditions because of how the industry did during the late 00s recession
"...there has to be a willingness to invest in fresh new markets, build products that expand the medium's appeal and reach, and put in the work to engage consumers who aren't plugged into games media and influencer ecosystems."
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December 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Maybe.
2008 also coincided with peak Wii, the rise of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, peak-ish 360 and Call of Duty started firing on all cylinders.
Games was never "recession-proof" - it brute forced its way through the economic challenges.
Now? Maybe not so much?
2008 also coincided with peak Wii, the rise of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, peak-ish 360 and Call of Duty started firing on all cylinders.
Games was never "recession-proof" - it brute forced its way through the economic challenges.
Now? Maybe not so much?
Learned last night that the Netflix original Captain Underpants series, which my son absolutely loves, is being removed next month. No physical release exists.
Dreamworks could theoretically take it elsewhere, I think? It being a Netflix production complicates things.
Dreamworks could theoretically take it elsewhere, I think? It being a Netflix production complicates things.
December 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Learned last night that the Netflix original Captain Underpants series, which my son absolutely loves, is being removed next month. No physical release exists.
Dreamworks could theoretically take it elsewhere, I think? It being a Netflix production complicates things.
Dreamworks could theoretically take it elsewhere, I think? It being a Netflix production complicates things.
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Breakdown of where the money you pay for a game on Steam goes:
- 30% goes to Valve, right off the top.
- The remaining 70% goes to the publisher, and is split with the developer based on their contract. Usually the publisher will want to recoup their investment before paying the devs.
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- 30% goes to Valve, right off the top.
- The remaining 70% goes to the publisher, and is split with the developer based on their contract. Usually the publisher will want to recoup their investment before paying the devs.
...
If you didn't know, between Steam's cut, taxes, and company profit splits, I get maybe 25 cents per unit sold of Eldritch at this price. And that's fine, it's a game I made in another lifetime, I'm just happy if anyone is still enjoying it in the year of our Lord 2025. But yeah. Games is hard.
December 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Breakdown of where the money you pay for a game on Steam goes:
- 30% goes to Valve, right off the top.
- The remaining 70% goes to the publisher, and is split with the developer based on their contract. Usually the publisher will want to recoup their investment before paying the devs.
...
- 30% goes to Valve, right off the top.
- The remaining 70% goes to the publisher, and is split with the developer based on their contract. Usually the publisher will want to recoup their investment before paying the devs.
...
My greatest gaming guilt this year is probably that I have an unopened copy of The Hundred Line - Last Defense Academy just waiting for me to try it.
December 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
My greatest gaming guilt this year is probably that I have an unopened copy of The Hundred Line - Last Defense Academy just waiting for me to try it.
It probably also doesn’t come with this behind-the-scenes DVD that I, the sole person who liked this game when it came out, got for pre-ordering it.
December 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It probably also doesn’t come with this behind-the-scenes DVD that I, the sole person who liked this game when it came out, got for pre-ordering it.
I have a vague memory of seeing some Sega Channel brochure/ad/standee thing when my parents dragged me along on an errand and I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever heard of. But we couldn’t afford cable, much less a video game channel, so I never played it.
This is cool.
This is cool.
As part of our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel, we have recovered OVER 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including the legendary lost game Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels.
Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/
Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/
December 16, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I have a vague memory of seeing some Sega Channel brochure/ad/standee thing when my parents dragged me along on an errand and I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever heard of. But we couldn’t afford cable, much less a video game channel, so I never played it.
This is cool.
This is cool.
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Summarized here for people who are already groaning at the headline:
1. the reporter (who, to his credit, has been the #1 reporter covering this story for years) uploads all his documents/notes on the case to AI on a whim
2. AI hallucinates useless gibberish answers
3. reporter goes "hm nevermind"
1. the reporter (who, to his credit, has been the #1 reporter covering this story for years) uploads all his documents/notes on the case to AI on a whim
2. AI hallucinates useless gibberish answers
3. reporter goes "hm nevermind"
I asked AI to scan thousands of Barry and Honey Sherman murder case documents. Here’s what it told me I missed
Toronto police turned to AI in Sherman murder case. So I did too
I was skeptical, but curious if AI could tell me something that I had not already learned from endless days and nights perusing documents. Here’s what I found.
www.thestar.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Summarized here for people who are already groaning at the headline:
1. the reporter (who, to his credit, has been the #1 reporter covering this story for years) uploads all his documents/notes on the case to AI on a whim
2. AI hallucinates useless gibberish answers
3. reporter goes "hm nevermind"
1. the reporter (who, to his credit, has been the #1 reporter covering this story for years) uploads all his documents/notes on the case to AI on a whim
2. AI hallucinates useless gibberish answers
3. reporter goes "hm nevermind"
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
The new about Rob Reiner is tragic (and getting moreso by the minute it seems).
There is of course a lot to remember him for. Because it's a favorite show of mine, my brain actually goes to his great moments in New Girl. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Js...
There is of course a lot to remember him for. Because it's a favorite show of mine, my brain actually goes to his great moments in New Girl. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Js...
new girl - nick´s twilight zombies
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December 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The new about Rob Reiner is tragic (and getting moreso by the minute it seems).
There is of course a lot to remember him for. Because it's a favorite show of mine, my brain actually goes to his great moments in New Girl. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Js...
There is of course a lot to remember him for. Because it's a favorite show of mine, my brain actually goes to his great moments in New Girl. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Js...
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people don't want an agentic os they want to do this
December 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
people don't want an agentic os they want to do this