PlayStation will likely earn more on the 30% platform fees for GTA VI for example than most of their first-party output. Strengthening that PlayStation ecosystem - locking in users, making sure people spend on games there - makes more sense than an extra $30 mil from a PC release.

The Chinese Bonhoeffer. The CCP may do well and read up on the history of Rome... www.wsj.com/world/china/...

In 1952, Richard Nixon's career was nearly derailed by revelations that he had access to a slush fund of $18,000 -- less than a quarter million today." People used to give a shit about that kind of thing, you see.

Pfwoarr @marathonthegame.bungie.net

The watch vs the clothing style of the people camping out for said watch.

There is a certain sadness to scalping as the economics only work out if you're very young, unemployed or lack marketable skills. If you offset a decent hourly wage against camping out for 24-hours, dealing with potential buyers, going to the post office etc.

De overheid ziet alles, en alles is in beeld, maar dan? Het grote Niets. Nederland anno 2026. Vergeten dat je ook echt iets moet doen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

The money is in energy generation and energy storage.

Trumps visit to China: The Uygur concentration camps and human rights violations aren't even mentioned once. Not by politicians, not by media, by no one. Taiwan has already been sold-out (no surprise). A complete moral failure, and the days of the US leading the free world are over.

Some work has fallen through, so I need some new freelance work asap. Please share if you can 😊

Trump et all got played so hard by the Chinese, I had The Office (UK) level second-hand embarrassment.

Looking forward to this one. Being able to turn off the insufferable NPC character banter in 5 was a godsend. Would be an interesting feature if developers could offer NPC variations per audience type. The middle-aged get readable instructions, and the young get yelled at by influencers.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I remember seeing a Judas build in 2018 (and being intrigued of course). Curious to see what it became. www.eurogamer.net/bioshock-cre...

Why report on that Xi-Trump summit at all? You're just printing an endless stream of lies and things that will not come to pass.

We don't have scandals anymore.

If you haven't yet: Play Indiana Jones and The Great Circle. Fantastic game, best Indy since Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Man, gamers do not react well to finding out their taste is mid and their opinion worthless.

I'm looking for artists that are good with mist and mood. Charcoal (style). Links to bio's appreciated.

Idea for an app where you have a minimum character count instead of a maximum so that you're forced to argument a point coherently. Otherwise you can't post. AI as the first arbiter in what your posting is verifiable untrue with links to sources.

I thought The Bone Temple was pretty good, albeit a little too graphic for me—and I know it is a zombie film. This is a complaint I have about a lot of modern films and TV: too explicit (in everything).

Zelensky, Navalny, Tusk, Kallas... : it's interesting that all Europe's moral leaders are coming from Eastern Europe. Zelensky is our modern day Churchill.

Alt headline: Trump extorts a private company for $400 million toward his illegal plan to revamp public spaces to his personal taste.

I think The Artful Escape already gave me what Mixtape is giving, and I'm not a huge nostalgia guy taste-wise. Although I am in the mood now for Everybody Wants Some!

Here are just a few of the many illustrations by Keita Amamiya that you can see at the exhibition currently dedicated to him in Osaka. x.com/hashtag/%E9%...

Limited edition of 20. Grey paint on MDF board. Asking price $950. Luc Tuymans. Let's just say that this isn't my favorite work by Tuymans.

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

Exfil with one of the limited-edition @marathonthegame.bungie.net fine art giclées with fluorescent screenprinted details! Each Runner shell print is an exclusive edition of only 60(!) copies and includes a hand-signed Bungie team Certificate of Authenticity

If, like me, you can't wait for Christopher Nolan's upcoming The Odyssey film, play Hellblade 2. Holy shit does that game serve up some impressive audiovisuals. Total vibe.

The modern Met Gala has always been a done-deaf affair, but in 2026 it’s especially a Marie Antoinette painting-a-target-on-your-back thing for the rich. www.wsj.com/style/fashio...

The acceleration of the unseriousness of capital — meme stocks, crypto, prediction markets, the entirety of Tesla, the Trump administration— this ponzi economy basically, will not end well.

The sound design in @marathonthegame.bungie.net is INSANE. Right up there with the scifi greats such as Alien.

I wonder if Pokémon cards or crypto is the largest unofficial currency right now.

Tesla now has to become the Weyland Corporation, or it will crash the global economy as a stratospheric meme stock. www.wsj.com/business/aut...

I value Banksy's art only slightly over Bored Apes.

I am ridiculously excited for The Odyssey this year. Hoping for extra BWAAAPBWAAP!

I thought that according to the US supreme court, he can't? He already forgot, didn't he?

The absolute, most simple thing you can do to fight tyranny - the most low effort act - is to not buy off Amazon.

So the only economic gains in America are reaped by the rich. The rest is getting poorer, and the national debt keeps ballooning. www.wsj.com/opinion/econ...

I don't think I ever played this Neo Geo game, but it has been locked in my brain ever since seeing it on TV as a kid. Probably because of its Akira "inspired" backgrounds in the opening level.

@marathonthegame.bungie.net is one of the few modern scifi universes to really give us a brand new future aesthetic. Away from Bladerunner/Alien grit or Y2K etc. Look at what megacorps hide behind their colorful logos. Those in Marathon were at least better designed. www.ft.com/content/2138...

A budget of €2.200 billion for the EU seems more than acceptable to me. Especially looking at what is achieved with that budget, compared to Dutch national and regional governments in the past decade.

AI is good at predicting what would logically follow. Language has grammar, music has structure. Handy guardrails. It's interesting that out of all the arts, I've found AI weak at choreography, because how do you predict a dance routine such as here at 4:22? www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6_m...

It’s interesting that AI mostly reveals that we value no one’s work but our own—except for people in advertising, who don’t even value their own work.

Why play something else?

God didn't create Michael Jordan to play baseball.

God didn't create Michael Jordan to play baseball.

Having friends, feeling useful and sleeping well is proven to be X times more effective for longer living than popping 28 supplements daily and doing drugs, but you can't make money off sleeping people.

I don't think Americans who are not at least bilingual can truly grasp the staggering amount of damage this administration is doing to the US internationally, and it's own security. You really, really have to believe you don't need friends in this world. Which is Trump to a tee.