This past month we updated blogs with a mobile-friendly text editor and added blog tags with auto-suggestion. We also updated the Art Portal upload form using the new text editor for commentary, allowing you to upload WIPs and alt images in the commentary space. Art also now has tag auto-suggestion and a new cropping tool that works well on mobile and for animated gifs. Trying blogging and sharing some of your art!

We also enjoyed a lot of great animation and games. Your votes are in and the Best of January have been determined!

Top Five Movies

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  STARBARIANS - Episode 3

  by HappyHarry

  Planning to make a fortune as gladiators, will the STARBARIANS answer a higher calling?

  Movie

  93,586 Views

  (Ages 17+)

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  Salad Fingers Episode 11

  by Doki

  Salad Fingers and the real life Flesh Boy

  Movie

  37,768 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  Kirby Reanimated Collab

  by kirbyreanimated

  The Kirby Reanimated Collab!

  Movie

  13,198 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Madness Combat 11: Expurgation

  by Krinkels

  Madness Combat 11: Expurgation.

  Movie

  51,491 Views

  (Ages 17+)

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  BSV - Chapter 000

  by RicePirate

  Katrina has a run-in with some ne'er-do-wells. José's ass goes numb.

  Movie

  9,858 Views

  (Ages 13+)

The top ranked animation based on original material and winner of $250 is Starbarians. Congrats @HappyHarry!

Top Five Games

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  Reclaim Reality - Hentai Game (NEW VERSION!)

  by hentaiwriter

  18+ sci-fi, visual novel / action-adventure hybrid (with storyline and english voices!)

  Game

  177,329 Views

  (Adults Only)

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  Handulum+

  by StuffedWombat

  Hand ++ Pendulum = Handulum+

  Game

  62,122 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Gragyriss, Captor of Princesses

  by SnowRoadGames

  A strategy game about dragon life

  Game

  25,561 Views

  (Everyone)

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  goodbye, doggy

  by picogram

  Help your family cope with your death as a ghostly dog!

  Game

  19,874 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Kill Baby Hitler

  by jacklehamster

  Are you man enough to kill Baby Hitler?

  Game

  32,957 Views

  (Ages 13+)

Adult-rated content is usually excluded from the monthly voting but there’s an exception when something has been on the front page. Reclaim Reality was featured due to being a really ambitious project and it appears the best-of-month voters agreed. Be sure to also check out the runner-up games below; there were a lot of great ones this month!

Runner-up Movies

6. Mystery Box Surprise!

7. Hey Star, Look at Me

8. The big night

9. Raven Bamboozles Gwen

10. Teach Me How to Doki

11. Momento - First Trailer

12. Burned at the Stake: No Evil 033

13. The Good Boi (Chutney Glaze)

14. LISA shots: Buddy Cuts in

15. OneyPlays Animated: DingDong and The Lost Save

16. VideoGameDunkey Animated: Grand Theft Dunkey - Vice City

17. Labels : Foamy The Squirrel

18. TD-Hurting As One

19. Smash Bros Intro - Remake Latino

20. The End is Neigh

Runner-up Games

6. Hikari's Station

7. MazeWard

8. Nymphiad

9. MochiMochi (Demo)

10. Home *BLEEP* Home

11. Tonight we hunt (demo)

12. Neon Run!

13. Baseball

14. Inherit

15. Friday Night Death Slot

16. Crypt Shyfter: Legend of Azmar

17. Ultimo Games 2019 Gifts

18. Blast Door Part 2

19. Mnémora: The Lenses of Galimán

20. The march of the blobs

21. Bloody Submarines

22. Current Tycoon

23. Porkin Hell

24. Rocket Run

25. Cheddar Panic NG: Super De-Lite

The voter of the month and winner of honorary Supporter Status is @TheEnkian, who happens to be hosting an art contest!

Thank you everyone who participated in January! We were treated to new episodes of Salad Fingers, Starbarians and Madness, along with all the goodness that came from Pixel Day and the Global Game Jam. I want to call January a non-stop joy ride but there was some really sad news too; AngelXMikey passed away after a long battle with Cystic Fibrosis. We’ll keep celebrating his life here on NG though.

Pixel Day judging is wrapping up, expect those results next.

Congratulations to the winners!

At 2/7/19 01:10 PM, TomFulp wrote:

Congratulations to everyone who participated in pixelday and the global game jam ! And also to this month's winners !

It's a good opportunity to catch up with all the cool movies and games I missed this month ! And as Tom said we'll keep AngelXMikey alive through his legacy on Newgrounds !

The quality this month was something else. Every single one of the top 5 animated is this powerhouse showing the absolute top of the line in style, atmosphere, collaboration, choreography, and illustration. Months like this are golden, where so many seasoned and not so seasoned artists unload the best of the best, and I hope it inspires everyone to keep making this crazy shit :0

What a difference this was compared to last month's line-up! Greatness all the way. I'm sure AngelXMikey would've liked it too. Let the creative lifelines never die; inspiration keep coursing through the veins of these grounds for all time.

Congrats to the winners! Very well-deserved.

Kinda wanna see the fact that reclaim reality was on the front page and and best game 0f januaru in the history section

Pretty interesting, in my opinion, that Starbarians beat out Salad Fingers for the top spot. I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing, just that it's pretty remarkable! Congrats to all the winners, and the runners-up - in particular @ChutneyGlaze with that notably dark entry in the saga.

Oh thank you!

Thanks a lot! Extremely flattered people voted us into that spot, let alone nominated us for it :D congrats to everyone else as well!

What a way to start off the new year! First month and we get all these great animations and game, I dunno about ya but I had no trouble filling out my monthly votes not entirely how it ended up but fairly close :D Congratz all winners!

January was probably the best month for Newgrounds in a loooong time

Honorary supporter status? That's amazing, thanks very much Tom! In case anybody is curious you can find my art contest both on my profile page and here.

My new game, Tale of Enki: Pilgrimage has just been released on Steam and the contest is in support of that so please give it a paly.

Oh hey I knew there was something missing there! Tough competition this month eh.

We just need David Firth to get off his ass and give us a proper Jerry Jackson. :P That's how he can win this thing for sure.

Oh, I... thought I wasn't supposed to vote for Adult-rated content in the monthly voting. Congratulations to all the winners! It was actually a really good month and there were some tough decisions to be made :x

Really enjoyed the two games that @Jacklehamster put out this month. His Baby Hitler one was really charming and I'm glad it made it into the top five. Hope to see a lot more from him in the future!

Hope so too!

Such were the previous regulations. :) Times really be changing around here.