OpenAI strikes $38 billion AI training deal with Amazon

This is one of the toughest things I've ever had to write. Hope you can make time for it. #Itagaki

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

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.

It's past midnight on the east coast, which means it's officially Shadow of the Colossus' 20th anniversary. Come join the party.

My interview for @polygon.com with #Itagaki back in 2016, after the release of Devil’s Third. www.polygon.com/features/201...

Was great talking about @designroom.bsky.social with the Aftermath folks!

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...

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.

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...

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.

The McDonald’s x Street Fighter collab in Japan is incredible. No notes. 🤌

🚨🚨🚨 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

Getting off work? Finally have time to read a 10,000-word story? Or perhaps you live overseas... 👀

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

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...

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!

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.

hand-drawn art in used game shops might be my favorite thing in the world

AWS enters into ‘strategic partnership’ with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain

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

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.

I miss dvd commentary tracks

Looking forward to Thunderbolts

本日の一枚。 #カプコンアートワーク #CAPCOM #ARTWORK @kinu-nishimura.bsky.social

Photographs I took of Kyoto after midnight

A large amount of Shenmue and Virtua Fighter 4 concept art has been acquired and put online by @shenmuedojo.com shenmuedojo.com/original-she...

Good news! Unlike the Nintendo Switch 2, the latest episode of NES Works is FREE, and available TODAY youtu.be/qWSoJAO9Kco

Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser

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

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-...

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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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. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/final-f...

Post four of your favorite comics covers. No explanation needed.

Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI

for the potato fears not death

Day one of #AWSreInvent is in the books!

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...