Britton Peele

@brittonpeele.com

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Writer. Pop culture critic (video games, geeky stuff, etc.). Fiction someday. Product Manager at The Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ. Formerly at The Dallas Morning News.

Giant Bomb's "Games that Made History": I have played 72 and completed 39 out of a total of 151 games on the curriculum - a history of industry shifting, culturally relevant, and historic firsts in games since 1962.
Music CDs in jewel cases for “Pokemon: 2.B.A. Master” and the official soundtrack for “Pokemon: The First Movie”
A Sensory Overload leaderboard with Britton Peele's score of 95,634, lower than Jeff Grubb's score of 143,976.
The rule book for Rillem: A Solo Journaling Game in front of various playing cards, a crochet gnome and pens used to denote travel.
Solo journaling TTRPG books for “Rillem” and “Project Ecco” on top of a table.
Japanese cover art for Final Fantasy VI, with Terra on top of Magitek armor.
The final score result of The Daily Weather, a small card game (18 cards total, 10 played at a time) with a different weather-themed picture puzzle every day.
Reddit’s “Context and What Happened” under the topic headline “Colorado Avalanche Facing Elimination”: Colorado Avalanche Facing Elimination - Reddit Snapshot Context & What Happened • Eliminated From Playoffs: The Avalanche were knocked out after losing to the Dallas Stars in 7 games. "That was the craziest period of hockey l've ever seen." • Memorable Performances: Mikko Rantanen delivered a dramatic Game 7 hat trick that eliminated Colorado and stunned fans. "There's no bigger middle finger in sports than eliminating your former team in game 7 with a 3rd period hatty." Fan Reactions & Tone • Shock and Awe: Many called the game one of the wildest they've seen. "That is one of the most insane games I've ever seen" • Painful Narrative: Fans highlighted the brutal scripting of Rantanen's hatty vs. his former team. "Rantanen hatty in a game 7 vs Colarado... the WWE couldn't have written a better script than that. Salt in the fuckin wounds bro." • Individual Legacy Moments: Rantanen's performance was framed as a defining legacy moment. "Rantanen legacy game"
A Google search highlighting the Star Fox series but showing a four-person musical group that is very much not Team Star Fox.
The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship tabletop game
colored pencils on black paper This is a character named John from the game "Halo."/ learned to shade and add value with colored pencils. It is challenging blending the different shades. My favorite part is the head and arms, I like how I did the coloring
Illustration credit: Quentin Peele A young child’s drawing of various elements from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, including the Hylian shield, the Master Sword, Link, Navi, and a slingshot.
A RetroAchievements module showing "Grill-Off with Ultra Hand!" on the Nintendo Wii
Excerpt from the article: For example, Google reduced our headline "I used the 'cheat on everything' Al tool and it didn't help me cheat on anything" to just five words: "Cheat on everything' AI tool." It almost sounds like we're endorsing a product we do not recommend at all.
The cover of the new Choose Your Own Adventure book, THE STOWAWAY, by Griffin McElroy
Screenshot of a Google summary for Jenova.ai reads: “Jenova is the most powerful Al agent platform in the world. Access a universe of expert agents for every domain, or create your own in minutes.”
A screenshot from Pokopia with Tangrowth saying “Britto... It seems you might have some sort of mysterious power.”
A screenshot from RetroAchievements showing the mastery of “SegaSonic Cosmo Fighter Galaxy Patrol.” It was mastered in 16 minutes, 8 seconds.
A screenshot from “Trails in the Sky: First Chapter” of Maybelle saying “Return the prices to normal immediately!”
Congratulations Talebearer! In 2025, you played 118 games on retroachievements.org and unlocked 822 achievements, earning you 4423 hardcore points. You submitted new scores for 219 leaderboards. You spent 186 hours playing games across 20 systems. 35 hours and 21 minutes of that were playing Game Boy Advance games. You mastered 11 games, and beat an additional 15 games on hardcore. Your most played game was Kirby's Star Stacker at 16 hours and 49 minutes. Your rarest achievement earned was Holier Than Swiss Cheese from ChuChu Rocket!, which has only been earned in hardcore by 4.17% of players.
The Mayflash wireless sensor DolphinBar.
A screenshot of a Facebook post from December 12, 2011 which reads "For some reason I have a homemade 'E3 2003 Media CD' with a bunch of art assets from GameSpot. There are some N-Gage screens on it."
The book “Days at the Morisaki Bookshop” by Satoshi Yagisawa
Randy Pitchford holding a copy of Half-Life for the Sega Dreamcast at the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, TX.
Mega Man Legends (Greatest Hits) in a DVD box with a $2.99 “Previously Played” sticker on the front.
A screenshot of a dark, underground area in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, in which Zelda is using a flashlight.
Playtime stats from the new Nintendo Store app showing games sorted by “Over 100 hours,” “Over 50 hours” and “Over 10 hours.”
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REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nintendo of America Inc. (NOA) today announced that Doug Bowser will retire as President and Chief Operating Officer on December 31, 2025, after more than a decade in multiple leadership positions. He will be succeeded by Devon Pritchard, a 19-year veteran of the video game industry and long-standing member of the NOA leadership team. In addition, Satoru Shibata will join NOA as Chief Executive Officer, while continuing his roles as Managing Executive Officer and Corporate Director, Member of the Board at Nintendo Co., Ltd. (NCL). Pritchard will also join the NOA Board of Directors and become an NCL Executive Officer.
A tiny crochet gnome sitting on top of books.
The box for “D” on the Sega Saturn.
TikTok DM from me reads: “Let’s get the TV hung and watch it.” TikTok’s automatic warning after blocking my message: “This message may be in violation of our Community Guidelines, and has not been sent to protect our community. If you believe this was a mistake, let us know so we can review this along with recent messages.”
The cover of Myst: The Official Strategy Guide.