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The video game industry is miserable, but some people are trying to make it fun again
Videogames are making more money than ever, but in 2025, everyone I know who’s livelihood depends on the industry in any capacity feels some degree of doomed. But maybe it's not all bad. Maybe we just need a new perspective on the hobby. Here are some things that might help.
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Rescued Kusoge – Join me on my quest to see nipples in BMX XXX
I had a long running column during my time at Destructoid, but the new owners delisted one of them. Probably because of the title, but that's dumb anyway. So my lost Weekly Kusoge article on BMX XXX is here now. As always, their loss is your gain.
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The Switch 2 is coming! And these games might be there for launch
Many are gearing up for 2025 to be the worst year of their lives, but for a number of wide-eyed nerds out there, the pending announcement of a new Nintendo console has latched onto their future orientation like a benign parasite, taking up any space where pessimism would otherwise reside.
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The Game Complaint Department is now Maximum Utmost!
You may have noticed some changes around here. I should have probably had this post done for when the switch was thrown, but here it is: welcome to Maximum Utmost. Don't be frightened. We mostly just put a rug down over the old website. Nothing much has really changed.
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3 Child Endangering NES Intros
Rescued from the now sunk Destructoid community blogs, this article harkens back to a time when I was desperate for attention. I mean, I still am, but I was then, too. It's about how 8-bit children threw themselves headlong into danger, sometimes for the promise of candy, other times through coercion.
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Game Complaint Department’s Game of the Year 2020
2020 sucked for a lot of people, and I’m of no exception. I don’t want to make a competition out of it or throw some pity party, but it was an incredibly trying period for me. The tribulations have followed into this year, but I continue to make an effort to just keep moving on. As such, the Game Complaint…
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Happy 1 Year Anniversary!
My first full year of running what was then called the Game Complaint Department. It's actually kind of painful to reach back that far into my memory, as that's right before my life got really tumultuous. Also before I started doing this professionally. So, I was still writing this on someone else's time.
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Game Complaint Department’s Game of the Year 2017
The first year of Game Complaint Department's (before it was Maximum Utmost) Game of the Year "awards." I should have come up with a dumber, flashier title. I can't believe I've been running this site since 2017. Really, what the hell? I still feel like I'm new at this.
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Opinion – Why the Ataribox Doesn’t Deserve Your Hype
A crude early article that was, at the time, at least reasonably accurate. Atari would later change course entirely, but when this article was published, they were rather reprehensible. Enclosed are some thoughts about the then-impending launch of the "Ataribox," which would later launch as the Atari VCS.
