🏄 Subway Surfers might have pulled off a rare trick. A sequel that grows the franchise instead of cannibalizing it. Original game: ~540K estimated downloads per day. City: ~5M est. downloads in 10 days. Together the brand is now doing 1M installs a day worldwide.

GDC attendees (and others in the Bay!) @digitaleclipse.bsky.social will be showing some of our interactive documentary games at SFMOMA on Thursday and Friday, the 12th and 13th! Requires museum admission, which I believe is discounted if you have a GDC badge. www.sfmoma.org/event/playsf...

🧩 If you want to see the power of character IP in mobile games: Candy Crush Solitaire ~$12M est. lifetime net revenue. Disney Solitaire ~$137M in 11 months. Same core game. Different emotional connection.

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Asking for a friend

ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal

Playing it as intended

Ape Escape - Hide & Seek t-shirt (by Henrique Torres) is $20 at The Yetee (today only) buff.ly/D9KOlCO #ad

B3-4T says bring on the weekend

When it comes to AI, I am in favor of tools that enhance quality, and strongly against tools that replace creativity

Excellent read if you’re interested in a concise history of one of my favorite console lineages, the PC Engine.

Wow. Would love to see more of this. Maximo is one of my favorite PS2 games and even got a cover at PSM. Fond memories of playing it at Sony’s E3 booth with my late friend Tomonobu Itagaki.

Brand new TMBG--It's a hit! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io63...

If you’re worried about the future of games, remember that your $ holds enormous sway. Support companies who actually care about the art and craft of making games, who put people first and value their employees & audiences. Support indies especially. The future doesn’t belong to greedy corporations

🤖 🏈 Claude bet the Super Bowl on one message: “No ads in your AI.” Downloads jumped 211% week-over-week. Every other major AI app dipped or stayed flat. And the craziest part? The biggest day wasn’t game day. It was a week later. That’s not a spike. That’s momentum.

🔥 Grok just matched ChatGPT’s first year revenue on mobile. ~$79M in 12 months (estimated). ChatGPT did ~$80M in its first 12. The difference? ChatGPT launched alone. Grok launched into a knife fight. If this pace holds, year two gets interesting fast.

Quick trend of December average selling prices of new video game hardware, physical software and accessories over the past 10 years in the US. The average price paid per unit of hardware increased by 87% over that period, accessories jumped 121%, and software only 4% (which surprised me tbh).

💀 Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile shuts down April 17. Lifetime estimates: 24.8M downloads, $17.3M gross ($12.1M after stores' fees). For context, the still-functional COD Mobile sits at 459M installs and $2.47B. Same franchise. Completely different scale.

Hey, YouTube is broken, but we found a way to bring it back if you watch our podcast live right now: youtu.be/2iTLon4VK_4

Celebrate Virtual Boy Day with the Nintendogs www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iTL...

The World Is To Dig arrives April 14. Pre-order vinyl, cassette or compact disc at TMBGshop. Hear the song Wu-Tang now. open.spotify.com/track/4A509s...

Random: Excited About the Virtual Boy's Re-Appearance? Why Not Check Out This New Footage Of Its Winter CES Unveiling.

Thanks for everything, Hideki-san

Help this cat! www.spotfund.com/story/54598c...

Hey, I worked on that! (wasn’t responsible for the order but still sorry it was a pain)

A treat for Friday the 13th: We've added the near-complete run of Game Player's magazine to our digital library! 232 issues across 12 (!) different series archive.gamehistory.org/folder/b3155...

Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads mocking AI with ads helped push Claude’s app into the top 10

MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments are coming. Join us, won't you? rifftrax.com/kickstarter

New Documentary Project 'Passport To Adventure' To Shine A Spotlight On Lucasfilm's SCUMM Engine.

Now hear this! Our latest song, a preview of our upcoming album The World is To Dig, is Wu-Tang. open.spotify.com/album/3ATWcp...

i could exclusively make stuff in skyrim and be happy

Found more bits of my childhood Conan game - making progress in piecing it back together. Music is by Music Legends - not mine.

Terarin Games Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary With 'Blaze Of Storm', Coming To Steam & Switch Later This Month. (Image: @Terarin55)

O.h D.ang!

LEGO Ideas Floating Sea Otters Set is up for preorder on Amazon ($119.99) buff.ly/OdAL6W7 LEGO Store buff.ly/hogwrhf #ad

Confirmed - not a virtual, Virtual Boy, but a real Virtual Boy.

I’ve heard rumors the State of Play this time is Montana.

“Hello, yes. Japan? I’m going to need one of each. Thank you.”

what happens if everybody wang chungs tonight

Today (Feb. 4) is the 16th anniversary of the release of the Flash version of Robot Unicorn Attack on the Adult Swim website. Be sure to listen to "Always" today to celebrate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWqJ...

Baby Trading Simulator made it to Steam's New and Trending!! If you're already enjoying it, *please* leave a review to keep our momentum going in the algorithm--and thank you all so much for playing! store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...

OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch

Check in with this BRAND NEW instrumental from us! It's called Peggy Guggenheim! open.spotify.com/track/6bbU3F...

🕹️ Something interesting is happening with NYT Games. Crossplay soft-launched for ~8 months, ~228K installs. Then it goes live for all and adds ~186K in a day. Now it's the No. 1 free app on iOS. Feels like brand gravity has kicked in. This could be a gateway, not just a game.

@appfigures.com top non-game apps by December downloads and revenue are out. This is worldwide, App Store and Google Play. Although ChatGPT is No. 1 overall, it's interesting to see Gemini doing so well on iOS. Will we need both Gemini AND "Siri 26" on our iPhones though?

X pulled its best subscription feature out of the app. Looked reckless. Turns out it was a demand test. Standalone pricing unlocked more revenue than hiding it in X subs. Now X + Grok just had their biggest revenue month ever. Unbundling didn’t kill value. It exposed it.

Well, there goes the metaverse!