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Maximum Utmost’s favourite soundtracks of 2025
What did you put in your ears last year? Need something else to stick in there? In this phase of Maximum Utmost's end-of-year awards, we're talking about the best aural experiences heard in 2025.
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Maximum Utmost’s favourite narratives of 2025
We've rolled into a new calendar year, and now it's time to look back and flip off the previous one. It's the start of Maximum Utmost's end-of-year coverage. To start, we have a selection of great stories the authors experienced this year.
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I have complicated feelings for Terra Invicta, a complicated game
I like complex games, sure, and Terra Invicta is full of complexity. However, it's not a total knock out of the park that it maybe should be. At least, it's not for me, which is where things get a bit compicated.
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Support Romeo Is A Dead Man if you want Suda51 to keep making games
Maybe it's panicking about nothing, but some red flags have gone up around Grasshopper Manufacture's newest project, Romeo is a Dead Man. Could Netease dropping as the publisher spell certain doom? It might!
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The passing of Tomonobu Itagaki marks the end of an era
Industry legend Tomonobu Itagaki died early this month. His cause of death hasn’t been formally disclosed, but prior to his passing, he was fairly transparent about having health issues to the degree that might require hospitalization. It could be the last time that the storied developer made headlines, but it was far from the first. His public rivalry with Tekken…
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Grand Theft Auto 6 probably won’t be that important
“Is that an intentionally provocative headline?” you ask? Er, I guess. What’s more provocative to me personally, and the reason I wanted to write this, is the ugly idea that some games are more universally important than others. That some values about what makes a game good or bad are more correct than others. That if you like certain games,…
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The giant hamburger in Donkey Kong Bananza is a beautiful, disgusting triumph
There is a lot of untapped potential when it comes to giant burgers. Donkey Kong Bananza seems to be the first game since BurgerTime to really understand the appeal of massive mountains of meat, bread, and vegetables.
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Nada Holdings fires blanks as real shots are taken at censoring games
I am so tempted to buy the rights to Lollipop Chainsaw. I mean, it’s one video game intellectual property that’s only had one game in 15 years. What could it cost? Ten dollars? Or maybe it’s free, depending on how big of a pain in the neck you are. I’ve heard rumor from at least one drunken, but otherwise reliable…
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Yes, you should play bad games
Budgeting your time and money so you can fit in as many "good" games as possible before you die is boring. There are so many ways that you can enhance your understanding and appreciation of games by deliberately playing the bad ones. Let me explain...
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The Switch 2 needs a mascot – I offer Linkle as Tribute
Most Nintendo consoles have had official or unofficial mascots. Captain Falcon, a more muscular, futuristic man than Mario could ever be, initially was created to represent the Super Famicom/SNES, with his colors intended to match the console’s Japanese controller’s buttons. The Wii came into this world bearing the visage of a whole new lifeform – the Mii – things that…
