Branching Path: Kite Stenbuck’s Top 10 Games of 2025

At the start of the year, I finally saved up enough money to build a new gaming PC. It’s packed with high-end components – an RTX 4070 Ti Super graphics card, a Ryzen 9800X3D processor, and a motherboard that can handle multiple SSDs. I was excited to play all my favorite games at the highest settings, aiming for a smooth 60+ frames per second at 1440p resolution. From now on, this PC will be my main gaming machine for anything that isn’t a Nintendo exclusive. And, I recently got my hands on a Switch 2 as well!

Amazon Prime’s Tomb Raider Cast Revealed

In February, a remastered collection of Tomb Raider IV-VI was released for current gaming systems. Then, in November, Lara Croft achieved two world records: she became the best-selling female video game character and the most frequently featured video game character on magazine covers.

Stranger Things creators shut door on sequel series: “Gross cash grab”

The final episode of Stranger Things, titled ‘The Rightside Up,’ premiered on Netflix on December 31, 2025, bringing a close to the story of the characters we’ve followed for ten years. While the Stranger Things universe may continue, this marked the end of this particular group’s journey.

New Commodore 64 Mini Gets Huge Discount, Includes 25 Modern Games

The original C64 Mini launched in 2018 for $70 and came with 64 classic games from the 1980s. This Black Edition is a special, limited release designed to honor the creative homebrew developers who are still making new games for the Commodore 64 on original hardware. It includes 25 modern games, like Sam’s Journey and A Pig Quest, which many fans now consider to be among the best Commodore 64 games ever.

Splitgate Studio Reacts To Player Numbers: “Steam Charts Don’t Measure Fun”

I saw the developer recently address all the talk about player numbers on Steam, and it really resonated with me. They pointed out that Steam charts don’t actually tell you how fun a game is! It’s just a snapshot – one number, on Steam only, at a single point in time. They explained that it doesn’t give you the whole story, like what it’s actually like to play, or how amazing the community is that’s been working to make Arena Reloaded even better. It’s a good reminder that numbers aren’t everything!