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🎮 Senior Gaming Editor @ Rolling Stone 📰
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/
I find it funny that the Steam Machine marketing angle is, "It's 6x times more powerful than this 3-year-old handheld device." I'd fucking hope so.
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Steam Machine looks like one of the little modular IKEA cubbies. Kewt.
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Finally, Gabecube
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Brie Larson is an extremely obvious pick — she's Nintendo's celebrity show pony, but Benny Safdie? They're trying to tip the scales away from The Discourse with that one.
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The rhythmic block-clearing series gets a 'Tetris Effect'-style overhaul that's heavy on the synesthesia, if light on actual content. Review ↓
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'Lumines Arise' Is a Trippy Puzzle Game Beamed Into Your Eyeballs
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To be a James Bond author and genuinely be this stupid is wild. People have understood how different interpretations of the same character works for generations. Bond is no different than a comic book character — pick your flavor and entry point, and go. It's that simple.
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While I wasn't *quite* as smitten by Lumines Arise as everyone else, I was enthralled for a stint. Especially in VR, it was like a wild two-day bender of stress relief, but I don't see myself coming back to it as often as I do other puzzlers.
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'Lumines Arise' Is a Trippy Puzzle Game Beamed Into Your Eyeballs
'Lumines' gets the 'Tetris Effect' treatment with an immersive synesthesia makeup
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/lumines-arise-review-1235463270/
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Was writing about F.E.A.R. for
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enough? Nay. Was talking about it with
@murph04.bsky.social
and
@stolisomancer.bsky.social
on the Daydremcast enough? Nope. For last month's Skydive, the Skybox crew sat down to talk about one of the best horror shooters ever made. F.E.A.R. forever.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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The turning point of Season One sees the Z-Team bonding over big secrets and bloody bar brawls as the endgame takes shape. (This post contains spoilers). Recap ↓
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'Dispatch' Episodes 5 and 6: Don't Get Drunk With Your Supervillain Co-workers
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5 days ago
Monolith's horror-shooter stars a ghostly little girl, but players have always missed the point of its tragic story.
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'F.E.A.R.' at 20: Is the Game's Villain the Ghost -- Or the System That Killed Her?
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Rounding mid-season, Dispatch isn't showing that its choices make a huge difference — but it still feels like more than the sum of its parts. I'm really enjoying living in this world and replaying each episode multiple times. EP 5+6 recap
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'Dispatch' Episodes 5 and 6: Don't Get Drunk With Your Supervillain Co-workers
'Dispatch' is hitting big reveals and emotional beats, but the choices are becoming flat.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/dispatch-recap-episodes-5-and-6-1235451092/
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Rounding mid-season, Dispatch isn't showing that its choices make a huge difference — but it still feels like more than the sum of its parts. I'm really enjoying living in this world and replaying each episode multiple times. EP 5+6 recap
@rollingstone.com
www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...
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'Dispatch' Episodes 5 and 6: Don't Get Drunk With Your Supervillain Co-workers
'Dispatch' is hitting big reveals and emotional beats, but the choices are becoming flat.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/dispatch-recap-episodes-5-and-6-1235451092/
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George Santos lived in Huntington, Long Island before becoming a member of Congress. He lived in the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, New Jersey after that.
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If you have a Tesla you should get rid of it immediately.
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5 days ago
Nancy Pelosi secretly being queen of the stock market and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vocally opposing elected officials profiting off the stock market feel like intrinsically connected facts that quietly explain their instant bad blood the minute they became House colleagues
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6 days ago
The third spin-off in the musou mash-up series is out today and is a pitch-perfect blend of genres that lets the princess — and players — kick butt. Review ↓
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'Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment' Is an Action Epic that Gives Zelda Her Due
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I had to do it. I had to watch this Kim Kardashian / Ryan Murphy show out of morbid curiosity. I can’t comprehend how any of this got made. Every minute, dollar, brain cell burnt on this must have been part of some group psychosis. Is it anti-art?
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Andrew
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I grew up watching The Simpsons every Friday. Every Week. Who Shot Mr Burns is a cultural touchstone for me. To be able to contribue to the show/characters/lore in my own small way has been a dream come true. Young Andrew would be out of his mind if he knew.
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Like many, I've been sucked into
#Fortnite
again thanks to
#TheSimpsons
.
@rollingstone.com
has an exclusive look at the alternate couch gag produced by The Simpsons team, Gracie Films, for the monthlong crossover:
www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...
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'The Simpsons' Drop Into 'Fortnite' With a Brand New Couch Gag
The Simpsons are taking over Fortnite with Springfield Island, plus Homer, Marge, and Flanders skins
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/the-simpsons-fortnite-couch-gag-1235459241/
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A genuinely hilarious story from at the bizarre scene at Sliwa's party last night, courtesy of
@nikkimcr.bsky.social
@rollingstone.com
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No One Was Sweating It at Curtis Sliwa's Boozy Election Night Party
Attendees at Republican Curtis Sliwa's election were unbothered that their candidate lost the New York City mayoral election to Zohran Mamdani.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/curtis-sliwa-supporters-nyc-mayoral-election-1235460195/
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
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It’s going to feel so fucking good to just get up in the morning and go about the day without *that* feeling again. Instant vibe shift.
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Rolling Stone
8 days ago
The third spin-off in the musou mash-up series is a pitch-perfect blend of genres that lets the princess — and players — kick butt. Review ↓
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'Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment' Is an Action Epic that Gives Zelda Her Due
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Samus is the only character that gets a pass to do the Akira Slide. She’s it.
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Gaming embargoes have been extra egregious lately. The whole "no story details whatsoever" bit in the pre-release review window is bad. There's also another game out where the embargo is basically demanding not to spoil anything *post* release, while also backtracking on pre-release access entirely.
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Nintendo's embargo for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment was so restrict IGN is waiting to publish its review until launch.
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As someone who’s played a dumb amount of
#HyruleWarriors
,
#AgeOfImprisonment
is the game I wanted this series to be, adding more
#Zelda
mechanics to the gameplay, with more fluid and diverse combat, and it doesn’t run like shit. Full review
@rollingstone.com
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'Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment' Is an Action Epic that Gives Zelda Her Due
Nintendo and Koei Tecmo nail the 'Hyrule Warriors' concept with an engaging story and 'Zelda' mechanics
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/hyrule-warriors-age-of-imprisonment-switch-2-review-1235458481/
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Amazing Election Day omen.
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Happy to have spoken with
@ryangaur.bsky.social
for this story on retro gaming. 🔥👾
www.backmarket.co.uk/en-gb/c/tech...
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Why 2025 has seen a retro gaming boom | Back Market
In 2025 sales of old video game consoles have surged, with retro gaming solidifying itself in the mainstream. We explore what's fuelling this trend.
https://www.backmarket.co.uk/en-gb/c/technology/2025-retro-gaming-boom
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It’s genuinely funny when the lie is so big and blatant that stretches the bounds of reality. So, an eighth of the entire city is just going to vanish on Wednesday like the Rapture?
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“There’s no official word, but it’s worth noting that Godzilla Minus One was so-called because it took place before 1954’s Godzilla.” So we’re just making things up now?
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Rolling Stone
11 days ago
The latest update of Epic's online game includes character skins for Homer, Marge, and Flanders — and an all-new Battle Royale map. More:
www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...
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The Simpsons Are Coming to 'Fortnite'
Homer, Marge, and Flanders lead the charge into an all-new Springfield themed map
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/the-simpsons-fortnite-1235457856/
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@rollingstone.com
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The Simpsons Are Coming to 'Fortnite'
Homer, Marge, and Flanders lead the charge into an all-new Springfield themed map
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/the-simpsons-fortnite-1235457856/
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Week 2 of
#Dispatch
evolves past the sitcom pilot & tutorial stage and quickly picks up speed to show how its branching narrative could play out, while still retaining the feeling of a scripted TV show.
@rollingstone.com
@adhocstudio.com
Recap w/ *SPOILERS*
www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...
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'Dispatch' Episodes 3 and 4: Even Superheroes Deal With Layoffs
'Dispatch' continues building on its playable TV show foundation with a ton of important choices
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/dispatch-recap-episodes-3-and-4-1235451091/
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Wrote about Dispatch, the real hole that’s been left since Telltale’s closure, and the place I think episodic games could have in a binge-obsessed society
www.inverse.com/gaming/dispa...
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It is, in fact, so much dumber.
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Making my
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debut writing about Monolith's incredible F.E.A.R. and how the story's meaning has kind of gotten lost over the years. Alma isn't F.E.A.R.'s villain. Armacham and the people that made her are. She's as much a victim as anyone else, a spirit of vengeance made, not born.
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Halloween special: writer
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looks back at
#FEAR
, the 2005 horror game whose famous monster has been totally misunderstood for 20 years. It's a great read.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...
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'F.E.A.R.' at 20: Is the Game's Villain the Ghost -- Or the System That Killed Her?
Monolith's 2005 horror FPS shares a tragic monster story with films like 'The Ring' and 'The Grudge'
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/fear-horror-game-alma-real-meaning-1235457552/
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White people will watch ‘The Bear’ and implicitly understand the casual use of “cousin,” but a brown person says “aunt” and it’s suddenly time for the DNA check.
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Week 2 of
#Dispatch
evolves past the sitcom pilot & tutorial stage and quickly picks up speed to show how its branching narrative could play out, while still retaining the feeling of a scripted TV show.
@rollingstone.com
@adhocstudio.com
Recap w/ *SPOILERS*
www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...
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'Dispatch' Episodes 3 and 4: Even Superheroes Deal With Layoffs
'Dispatch' continues building on its playable TV show foundation with a ton of important choices
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/dispatch-recap-episodes-3-and-4-1235451091/
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Spoke to Masaaki Hayasaka about the Dragon Quest remakes and the legacy of the series!
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For
@rollingstone.com
writer
@easbygames.bsky.social
spoke with
#DragonQuest
producer Masaaki Hayasaka about what the legacy of Japan's greatest RPG series means and how they're keeping it alive.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...
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How Modern Remakes of 'Dragon Quest' Are Keeping an RPG Dynasty Alive
'Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake' producer Masaaki Hayasaka talks about the Square Enix game's legacy
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/dragon-quest-remakes-keep-rpg-dynasty-alive-1235456147/
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Fuck Arkham. Absolute Batman game when?!
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Katelyn Burns
16 days ago
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
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AI replacing jobs right now feels like every CEO's kid just got their MBA and is now your boss with no experience, no track record, a bunch of naive, amateur ideas, and is blackout drunk at least 15% of the time.
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Matt Zoller Seitz
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New Yorkers: please vote!!!! Cuomo went all-in on racism in the final 2 weeks because he's got nothing else. And as we've seen, that's a very effective motivator.
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alyssa mercante
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I reached out to The White House and asked about its use of AI-generated Halo imagery. White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai just responded to me, and it's insane. I've removed the paywall. Please share and subscribe if you can.
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The cabbage patch kid doesn’t want this smoke.
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