Mark Ⴟ Ⓥ Delaney
@blueskynoise.com
editor for gamespot | vegan, straight-edge, atheist, wife guy from Boston, and as annoying as that sounds | letterboxd: https://boxd.it/aA7G7
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Mark Ⴟ Ⓥ Delaney
@blueskynoise.com
· Jan 23
the world is a beautiful place, but we have to make it that way.
Playing The Seance of Blake Manor and The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow has brought me to an undeniable truth: We need more games that feel like The Wicker Man.
December 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Playing The Seance of Blake Manor and The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow has brought me to an undeniable truth: We need more games that feel like The Wicker Man.
Great day to play Light Up The Town on Steam, a cozy game where you decorate your neighborhood for Christmas. Playable on Steam Deck, too.
store.steampowered.com/app/3419910/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3419910/...
December 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Great day to play Light Up The Town on Steam, a cozy game where you decorate your neighborhood for Christmas. Playable on Steam Deck, too.
store.steampowered.com/app/3419910/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3419910/...
If Santa stopped by your house last night, I hope you and your kids are having a wonderful morning.
December 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If Santa stopped by your house last night, I hope you and your kids are having a wonderful morning.
I'll be giving away some game codes here courtesy of the ID@Xbox team. Check back regularly as more will appear. Happy holidays! 🎁
KPHCT-TP?XD-Q24FV-2CGQQ-C3CMZ
KPHCT-TP?XD-Q24FV-2CGQQ-C3CMZ
December 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I'll be giving away some game codes here courtesy of the ID@Xbox team. Check back regularly as more will appear. Happy holidays! 🎁
KPHCT-TP?XD-Q24FV-2CGQQ-C3CMZ
KPHCT-TP?XD-Q24FV-2CGQQ-C3CMZ
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When the year began, we penciled into our publication calendar the idea to finish 2025 by naming a Portlander of the Year. By the end of autumn, it was clear that this figure wasn’t really a person at all. It was a concept. It was a frog.
Portlander of the Year: The Frog
Rachel Saslow
www.wweek.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
When the year began, we penciled into our publication calendar the idea to finish 2025 by naming a Portlander of the Year. By the end of autumn, it was clear that this figure wasn’t really a person at all. It was a concept. It was a frog.
The regulatory body that oversees paper towel math is failing us.
December 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The regulatory body that oversees paper towel math is failing us.
For my last piece of 2025, I wrote about how it feels to love Arc Raiders so much while also being so disheartened by how it uses generative AI.
Arc Raiders Is My Game Of The Year, But Its Use Of Generative AI Really Sucks
Vouching for my favorite game of 2025 has been difficult because of some decisions the development team made.
www.gamespot.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
For my last piece of 2025, I wrote about how it feels to love Arc Raiders so much while also being so disheartened by how it uses generative AI.
Weekly watergates is simply too many Watergates, in my opinion
🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
December 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Weekly watergates is simply too many Watergates, in my opinion
Buying games on Steam is a separate hobby from playing games on Steam.
December 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Buying games on Steam is a separate hobby from playing games on Steam.
my Arc Raiders username: juturna(#3946)
December 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
my Arc Raiders username: juturna(#3946)
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#pescatarian #Seafood #Speciesism 🐟 ‘The "fish don’t feel" excuse doesn’t hold. Pain in fishes is well-documented — behavioral, neurophysiological, & pharmacological evidence stacks up beyond reasonable doubt’
Rainbow trouts can take up to 25 agonising minutes to suffocate, and we call it “seafood.” If you think pescatarianism is a moral middle ground, this will wreck that illusion.
Trout Can’t Scream — So We Pretend They Don’t Suffer
Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM
#pescatarian #Seafood #Speciesism 🐟 ‘The "fish don’t feel" excuse doesn’t hold. Pain in fishes is well-documented — behavioral, neurophysiological, & pharmacological evidence stacks up beyond reasonable doubt’
I define the Attitude Era as the period when every wrestler was getting run over by cars.
December 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I define the Attitude Era as the period when every wrestler was getting run over by cars.
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The Séance of Blake Manor made the GameSpot 10 Best Games of 2025 List.
"The Séance of Blake Manor's pacing, design, art, and narrative coalesce into an elegant detective experience that will leave you punching the air as its secrets begin to unravel."
www.gamespot.com/gallery/game...
"The Séance of Blake Manor's pacing, design, art, and narrative coalesce into an elegant detective experience that will leave you punching the air as its secrets begin to unravel."
www.gamespot.com/gallery/game...
GameSpot's 10 Best Games Of 2025
We've tallied the votes, debated the games' merits, and chosen our top 10 games of the year.
www.gamespot.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Séance of Blake Manor made the GameSpot 10 Best Games of 2025 List.
"The Séance of Blake Manor's pacing, design, art, and narrative coalesce into an elegant detective experience that will leave you punching the air as its secrets begin to unravel."
www.gamespot.com/gallery/game...
"The Séance of Blake Manor's pacing, design, art, and narrative coalesce into an elegant detective experience that will leave you punching the air as its secrets begin to unravel."
www.gamespot.com/gallery/game...
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imagine if everyone had this level of acceptance
January 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
imagine if everyone had this level of acceptance
my love language is gifting people video games
December 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
my love language is gifting people video games
Next year is gonna be weird. I’ll be on paternity leave for most of Q1 and into early Q2.
I started working when I was 16 and have never taken more than a week off since then, and frankly, I don’t use as much PTO as I should. I don’t know how to relax, but I’ll have three months to learn.
I started working when I was 16 and have never taken more than a week off since then, and frankly, I don’t use as much PTO as I should. I don’t know how to relax, but I’ll have three months to learn.
December 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Next year is gonna be weird. I’ll be on paternity leave for most of Q1 and into early Q2.
I started working when I was 16 and have never taken more than a week off since then, and frankly, I don’t use as much PTO as I should. I don’t know how to relax, but I’ll have three months to learn.
I started working when I was 16 and have never taken more than a week off since then, and frankly, I don’t use as much PTO as I should. I don’t know how to relax, but I’ll have three months to learn.
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Trump: "The only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb chutes open up, because it becomes totally un-stealth. You're going in, you go like this. As soon as it goes like this, for some reason the plane is totally visible. Not good. I watched it happening. I watched it go bing bing"
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Trump: "The only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb chutes open up, because it becomes totally un-stealth. You're going in, you go like this. As soon as it goes like this, for some reason the plane is totally visible. Not good. I watched it happening. I watched it go bing bing"
My most-played Steam game in 2025 was @velanstudios.bsky.social's taken-too-soon all-timer, Knockout City (private server edition). Admittedly, this is because my little girl hops in regularly to pummel the bots, but she takes after me because we both adore that game. Long live KOC.
December 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My most-played Steam game in 2025 was @velanstudios.bsky.social's taken-too-soon all-timer, Knockout City (private server edition). Admittedly, this is because my little girl hops in regularly to pummel the bots, but she takes after me because we both adore that game. Long live KOC.
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We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We are failing our kids
BREAKING: PlayStation is buying Nintendo, according to a fourth grader at my daughter’s school who was not joking
December 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
BREAKING: PlayStation is buying Nintendo, according to a fourth grader at my daughter’s school who was not joking
Reads like a note you’d find on a computer in Fallout where eventually the robots killed everyone in the vault.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Reads like a note you’d find on a computer in Fallout where eventually the robots killed everyone in the vault.
I was 14, in the theater with my cousins and my dad for the midnight release of Freddy vs. Jason.
A Super Bowl-level event for a horror-obsessed kid like me.
(Team Freddy btw)
A Super Bowl-level event for a horror-obsessed kid like me.
(Team Freddy btw)
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I was 14, in the theater with my cousins and my dad for the midnight release of Freddy vs. Jason.
A Super Bowl-level event for a horror-obsessed kid like me.
(Team Freddy btw)
A Super Bowl-level event for a horror-obsessed kid like me.
(Team Freddy btw)
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Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
December 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
