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The McDonald’s x Street Fighter collab in Japan is incredible. No notes. 🤌
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Matt McMuscles
about 2 months ago
NINTENDOOO SIXXXTY FOUUUUUURRRR! OH MAH GAAAAWD! Watch -
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Design Room
2 months ago
Our next big project is live!
@lewisgordon.bsky.social
spent the past few months tracking down nine people who worked on DICE's innovative 2008 parkour runner.
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Mirror's Edge: An oral history
17 years on from its release, DICE's first-person parkour thriller is a cult classic. We spoke to nine people who worked on it about how the revelatory game came to be.
https://www.designroom.site/mirrors-edge-an-oral-history/
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Shane Bettenhausen
3 months ago
Happy 25th Anniversary to Phantasy Star Online and its best boss
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The Verge
5 months ago
OpenAI strikes $38 billion AI training deal with Amazon
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OpenAI strikes $38 billion AI training deal with Amazon
Pouring billions more into AI.
https://buff.ly/Dj4khew
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The Duke of URL
5 months ago
This is one of the toughest things I've ever had to write. Hope you can make time for it.
#Itagaki
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The Duke of URL
5 months ago
Oh, I also did a tribute to my brother Itagaki for
@theguardian.com
. I didn't realize it was up. This is way shorter, but no less poignant, I think. I tried to do him justice.
#Itagaki
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‘A force of nature who took no prisoners’: a tribute to Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki
The driving force behind Team Ninja was a game development samurai who almost always won his battles
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/oct/22/a-force-of-nature-who-took-no-prisoners-a-tribute-to-ninja-gaiden-creator-tomonobu-itagaki
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Josh Fairhurst
5 months ago
Extremely rare b-roll footage of an Electronics Boutique in late 1994 or early 1995. Enjoy it! I found this among 40TB of files from Digital Pictures' archive.
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Matt Leone
5 months ago
It's past midnight on the east coast, which means it's officially Shadow of the Colossus' 20th anniversary. Come join the party.
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Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).
https://www.designroom.site/shadow-of-the-colossus-oral-history/
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The Duke of URL
5 months ago
My interview for
@polygon.com
with
#Itagaki
back in 2016, after the release of Devil’s Third.
www.polygon.com/features/201...
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The ups, downs and future of Tomonobu Itagaki's Devil's Third
Hear from the man in charge about the game’s eight-plus years of development.
https://www.polygon.com/features/2016/11/16/13596478/the-ups-downs-and-future-of-tomonobu-itagakis-devils-third/
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Matt Leone
5 months ago
Was great talking about
@designroom.bsky.social
with the Aftermath folks!
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Emanuel Maiberg
5 months ago
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/
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The Duke of URL
5 months ago
I’ll have more to say on the topic of Itagaki-senpai’s passing soon. But I have been looking at my Team Ninja collection all morning. There’s a bunch still tucked away that I need to dig out. But whenever I ask a creator to sign something, it’s an acknowledgement of their hard work, and memories.
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Retronauts
5 months ago
according to a notice on his Facebook page, Tomonobu Itagaki has passed away at the age of 58. No details were shared, but the statement expressed his misgivings about “failing to produce a new game for the fans”
www.facebook.com/share/p/17am...
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The Duke of URL
5 months ago
Today I lost someone who was truly like a brother to me. I am gutted to the core. I guess I can say so now that it's on his Facebook page. He even listed himself as my actual brother on Facebook. Anyone who knows me knows how close we were. RIP, senpai. You will always be a ninja.
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The McDonald’s x Street Fighter collab in Japan is incredible. No notes. 🤌
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Design Room
5 months ago
🚨🚨🚨 We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site. • We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (
@mattleone.bsky.social
) did at Polygon • Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus:
bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more:
designroom.site
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Design Room
Video game oral histories
https://designroom.site
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Matt Leone
5 months ago
Getting off work? Finally have time to read a 10,000-word story? Or perhaps you live overseas... 👀
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Dark Horse Comics
6 months ago
Take a chronological journey through gaming’s least linear format: the action RPG with The History of Metroidvania: Decade One—1980-1990, coming next march. Details:
bit.ly/3KBaRk9
Dives into the gaming trends of the early 1980s and how those beginnings shaped metroidvania genre. By Jeremy Parish
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The entity formerly known as Jeremy Parish
6 months ago
Remember how I kept talking about the Metroidvania book I had in the works, and then it kinda dropped off the radar? I didn't lose interest. I was just working with a Legit Major Publisher (Dark Horse!) on turning it into the pilot release for a Press Run team-up:
www.gamespot.com/articles/exp...
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Explore The Origins Of Metroidvania In This New Retro Gaming Book
This new book will explore the history of the enduring metroidvania genre in video games.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/explore-the-origins-of-metroidvania-in-this-new-retro-gaming-book/1100-6535314/
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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ game music!) 🎮🎵
7 months ago
HAPPY SILKSONG DAY! New, FREE EP: A Knight (for a Knight)
knight.ocremix.org
PLEASE TAG fellow Hollow Knight fans!
@damonzmusic.bsky.social
's 4-track tribute to
@christopherlarkin.bsky.social
's amazing score to the first game! Features his mom, cellist Christine Giguère + art by Annie Doyon! GET!
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A Knight (for a Knight)
OC ReMix presents a free video game ReMix album, A Knight (for a Knight)
https://knight.ocremix.org
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Des Walsh
7 months ago
Archival footage like this of a place that no longer exists is the kind of ref you should just let wash over you and watch it when it suddenly appears in your recommendation like this just did for me. A Space is not just how it looks but its how its used and the people that do so and their history.
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Diamond Feit
10 months ago
hand-drawn art in used game shops might be my favorite thing in the world
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TechCrunch
11 months ago
AWS enters into ‘strategic partnership’ with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain
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AWS enters into 'strategic partnership' with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain | TechCrunch
Amazon says it'll work with Humain, the AI company recently launched by Saudi Arabia’s ruler, to invest '$5 billion-plus' in a strategic partnership.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/aws-enters-into-strategic-partnership-with-saudi-arabia-backed-humain/?utm_campaign=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=organic
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11 months ago
New season of
@goodjobbrain.bsky.social
! (Bear w/ me while I set up socials here) Ep 286: trivia about secrets — hidden rooms in landmarks quiz, mysterious 0s on your money, spy holes in Gibraltar, investigating an oatmeal’s secret surprise, & Pikachu’s printer scandal
goodjobbrain.com/episodes/286
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Brandon Sheffield
11 months ago
It's extremely cool to me that we've reached a point in tool development for older consoles where it's viable for a legend of the original era to make a new hardware-pushing genesis game in 2025.
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Jason K Pargin, author
11 months ago
I miss dvd commentary tracks
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Dan Hipp
11 months ago
Looking forward to Thunderbolts
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CAPCOM OFFICIAL/ARTWORKS Ⅱ
11 months ago
本日の一枚。
#カプコンアートワーク
#CAPCOM
#ARTWORK
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Liam Wong
over 2 years ago
Photographs I took of Kyoto after midnight
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VGDensetsu
12 months ago
A large amount of Shenmue and Virtua Fighter 4 concept art has been acquired and put online by
@shenmuedojo.com
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The entity formerly known as Jeremy Parish
12 months ago
Good news! Unlike the Nintendo Switch 2, the latest episode of NES Works is FREE, and available TODAY
youtu.be/qWSoJAO9Kco
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The Best of NES 1985-87: NES Works Recap No. 1
YouTube video by Jeremy Parish | Video Works
https://youtu.be/qWSoJAO9Kco
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TechCrunch
12 months ago
Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser
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Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser
Amazon on Monday unveiled Nova Act, a general-purpose AI agent that can take control of a web browser and independently perform some simple actions. Alongside the new agentic AI model, Amazon is releasing the Nova Act SDK, a toolkit that allows developers to build agent prototypes with Nova Act. Nova Act, developed by Amazon’s recently […]
https://tcrn.ch/3QTO56X
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Retronauts
over 1 year ago
Hello and welcome! We are Retronauts, a video game podcast born in 2006 and still running thanks to fan support. Join our patreon for early access to regular episodes & hours of exclusive material every month.
patreon.com/retronauts
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Drew Mackie
about 1 year ago
Chrono Trigger is rich in lore, and just looking into the origins of the names its characters shows you what's missing from the English localization... but also how our version tweaks some aspects for the better.
www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/chrono-...
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On the Origins of Chrono Trigger Character Names — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games
Thirty years later, there’s meaning hidden in the characters who saved the world.
https://www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/chrono-trigger-character-name-origins
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Diamond Feit
about 1 year ago
This Week In Retro: after 30 years of hearing about the quality of Chrono Trigger, I decided it was high time to play it for myself. Sign up to read/listen here:
www.patreon.com/posts/124404...
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Phoenix by Tapbots
about 1 year ago
🐦🔥
tapbots.com/phoenix/
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Phoenix for Bluesky
A Bluesky client based on the award-winning Twitter app for iOS.
https://tapbots.com/phoenix/
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Drew Mackie
about 1 year ago
I wrote about all the monsters Final Fantasy 1 "borrowed" from D&D, and how the series has largely dropped or obfuscated many of these, even if some (notably the Mindflayer) have endured, IP be damned.
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Final Fantasy vs. Dungeons & Dragons — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games
And why has the Mindflayer endured when many D&D monsters have not?
https://www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/final-fantasy-vs-dungeons-dragons
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Post four of your favorite comics covers. No explanation needed.
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The Verge
about 1 year ago
Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI
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AI’s payoff will be massive, says AWS CEO Matt Garman
The new head of AWS says Amazon is betting on a “massive” shift with AI.
https://buff.ly/40yZm2c
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Uncle Duke
about 1 year ago
for the potato fears not death
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Day one of
#AWSreInvent
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over 1 year ago
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I’m hiring! Looking for an experienced social marketer to lead product launches on the
#AWS
social media team. Details in the job description below. Please let me know if you, or someone you know, might be a fit.
amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2817...
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Sr. Social Marketing Manager
The AWS Social Media Team (SMT) is looking for an experienced social media marketing manager to join our team and support company-wide social marketing motions including social media strategy, social ...
https://amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2817495/sr-social-marketing-manager
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