Starting off the year with some retro tunes, courtesy of Porter Robinson circa 2014. I believe 10 years is the universally agreed upon length to be considered retro right? If so, I guess that makes me 4x plus retro going into 2025 and my body feels as much. Hope you all had a fun holiday season; it’s time to restart the grind and get back into the flow of things.

If the previous year taught us anything, there’s a lot of valiant attempts to bring the old into the new. Some of them are quite disastrous, while others are much better. I came across something in the “hopeful” category called Desktop Survivors 98. It’s based off of the popular “survivor” genre and looks quirky enough to stand out from the crowd. To further highlight my dinosaur status, I agree with the dissenters in the comments of the game using Windows XP default as a background choice (although technically the photo was taken in January 1998). That operating system was 2001. They could have used the same design motif of 98 with the title of their game as the logo, without stepping on any infringements. Us old folks are picky.

I don’t have the same tastes as Pseychie does, but I do appreciate his thoroughness in how he analyzes stuff. The video is a good introduction to a bunch of stuff releasing in 2025. If you want to share, let me know what upcoming game in 2025 you’re looking forward to, gacha or not.

Soft normie landing after a holiday season, we have some lovely art of Fulcre from LO courtesy of Umigarasu / ウミガラス. I am of the belief that if LO ever dies, the fan-art of its characters will probably live another 5 years autonomously before fading completely in memory. I can only hope all of us have the same residual impact on the world!