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☕️🎮📸 *makes history, leaves* 0451games.com
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These were the best-selling games at retail in India in 2025. Some surprises and a gradual genre shift is apparent. This likely mirrors digital sales in a large way. Fun times ahead.
0451games.substack.com/p/best-selli...
#PS5
#India
#GameSales
#BestSellingGames2025
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These Were the Top 10 Best-Selling Games in India in 2025
Shift happens.
https://0451games.substack.com/p/best-selling-games-india-2025-ps5-xbox-series-x-nintendo-switch
about 1 month ago
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Jeremy Parish, Professor Emeritus, Streeling Universe, Trantor
about 15 hours ago
A scanner to surpass Metal Gear....
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Frank Cifaldi
about 15 hours ago
I was curious what paper scanner there is to get if money is no object and it turns out the best one is a Metal Gear
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I've seen some trailers in my day but damn that Raji Kaliyuga gameplay trailer is rough. Extremely poor dubbing and voice acting. Randomly sliced up gameplay. Camera too far back in certain scenes. I guess no one in-house flagged this. Yikes.
about 15 hours ago
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"You know Mando, I guess we really are the last of us," Grogu at the end of
#TheMandalorianAndGrogu
11 days ago
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yes yes make systemic crunch that’s been documented for nearly a decade an “indian work culture issue” dipshit
24 days ago
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Capcom had a booth at Comic Con Mumbai. This is a first. Good to see despite Pragmata being next to impossible to buy in the country at retail.
24 days ago
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holy shit
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These were the best-selling games at retail in India in 2025. Some surprises and a gradual genre shift is apparent. This likely mirrors digital sales in a large way. Fun times ahead.
0451games.substack.com/p/best-selli...
#PS5
#India
#GameSales
#BestSellingGames2025
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These Were the Top 10 Best-Selling Games in India in 2025
Shift happens.
https://0451games.substack.com/p/best-selling-games-india-2025-ps5-xbox-series-x-nintendo-switch
about 1 month ago
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Saros Is Likely the Best PS5 Exclusive This Year
highchaosrun.com/2026/04/24/s...
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Saros Is Likely the Best PS5 Exclusive This Year
The Saros PS5 release date is at the end of April and this is likely the best Sony exclusive this year.
https://highchaosrun.com/2026/04/24/saros-ps5-review-release-date-dualsense-story-difficulty/
about 1 month ago
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Giovanni Colantonio
about 1 month ago
This PR strategy make a lot more sense when you realize that video game platform holders function like wrestlers. They operate on heel/face turns based on how the business is doing. Your console is making a ton of money? You can afford to go heel. Burned too much good will? Babyface pivot.
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Nvidia’s AI boom priced gamers out of PCs. Now it wants them back with GeForce Now.
@darthrahul.bsky.social
and I discuss how its server rental service fits in a market averse to paying for content.
dayzeromedia.substack.com/p/nvidia-gef...
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Is Nvidia’s GeForce Now India Launch the Right Compromise—or Just More Friction? We Review.
Nvidia’s AI boom priced gamers out of PCs. Now its cloud service wants them back. Is GeForce Now the hero India's PC-curious need?
https://dayzeromedia.substack.com/p/nvidia-geforce-now-india-review-release-date-launch-price
about 1 month ago
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news newsletter, 7:30am ist, 0451games.substack.com
about 1 month ago
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When Indian game devs put out a reel and press release asking people to wishlist their game days before launch expecting it to work:
about 1 month ago
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Good. The math never mathed for years. First of many.
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about 1 month ago
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PS5 and Nintendo Switch India Sales Near a Million: Where Does Nvidia’s Newly Launched GeForce Now Service Stand in a Crowded Gaming Arena?
0451games.substack.com/p/nvidia-gef...
#india
#pcgaming
#PS5
#NintendoSwitch
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PS5 and Nintendo Switch India Sales Near a Million: Where Does Nvidia’s Newly Launched GeForce Now Service Stand in a Crowded Gaming Arena?
GeForce Now is a bet that Indians will pay for content. And I'm here for it.
https://0451games.substack.com/p/nvidia-geforce-now-price-release-date-ps5-sales-nintendo-switch
about 1 month ago
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Chet Faliszek
about 1 month ago
This is why Kotaku needs to stop using AI to write their articles. Wait. Zack, you didn’t use AI? Well… they also didn’t make a live service game. It’s just a buy it once multiplayer game… The whole article is a glee fest over pain. I swear so much of the press hates games and devs…
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Jim Trinca
about 1 month ago
"Oh I'll just capture a couple of shots for-"
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Wild how FAU-G: Domination is the first made-in-India game to actually have a LAN final. Wilder that it wasn’t Indus Battle Royale since SuperGaming raised way more money and had a bigger team. I guess all that money can’t buy execution. Or a vision.
about 2 months ago
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Rahul Majumdar
2 months ago
You can watch the full episode on Day Zero's Substack or on Spotify video feed! Also available on Apple and Amazon.
dayzeromedia.substack.com/p/fishbowl-r...
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Amidst a PS5 Price Hike, Could Fishbowl Be the PlayStation India Hero Project’s First Big Hit?
No prizes for guessing what we're discussing this week
https://dayzeromedia.substack.com/p/fishbowl-review-ps5-price-hike
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Rahul Majumdar
2 months ago
Today's Day Zero episode is quite special. We unpack the first PlayStation India Hero title Fishbowl! Spoiler alert: it's awesome! Don't miss it releasing later this week. I and Rishi had a blast playing through it! 💜🐟💜
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Mike Drucker
2 months ago
I wrote some stupid, angry jokes about the stupid, angry video game layoffs this week.
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How Is Tim Sweeney So Bad At This?
Sweeney's apparent well-meaning follow up to laying off 1,000 people doesn't actually help anyone.
https://www.thegamer.com/tim-sweeney-tweet-epic-layoffs-ceo-reason/
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ai for translation is such a huge fail because ai understands context as well as xbox leadership understands how to make money
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2 months ago
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price hike SIX years after launch we truly are in the worst timeline
#ps5
#ps5pro
2 months ago
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Charles PM
2 months ago
This got cut for length, but one of the reasons Veatch uses a few AI-generated clips (which are all clearly labeled) was to test the claims that generative AI programs like Sora can help filmmakers make more money through better deals with studios. Turns out, it's not that simple
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every masterpiece has a cheap copy
2 months ago
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the nvidia ceo is so ai-pilled he’s basically hallucinating at this point
2 months ago
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Shunal Doke 🏳️🌈
2 months ago
Hot take: too many of our artists have just simply lost their spine.
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Shunal Doke 🏳️🌈
2 months ago
Not just an AI piss filter. An AI piss filter with like three sliders.
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Shunal Doke 🏳️🌈
2 months ago
Something about the marketing for this game has also been rubbing me the wrong way.
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Lying about meeting the PM is one thing, straight up simping divisive shit when your own movie and game were about unity is sad.
2 months ago
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ez refund after having ai slop in-game with no disclosure on steam
2 months ago
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lmao so much for developer control, it’s an ai piss filter
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2 months ago
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Jörg Tittel 🔜 DevGAMM Gdańsk
2 months ago
NVIDIA is the Trump/Musk of videogames. It’s all lies and grift with no accountability - and with total disdain for what’s fair, just and in good taste. I wish Nintendo stop working with them but sadly the world’s most successful game system is powered by this hideous brand.
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Dave Andress
2 months ago
A couple of handfuls of the world's richest people are literally orchestrating the collapse of the democratic public sphere, globally, and everyone else is just letting them.
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2 months ago
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DLSS5 is Nvidia’s Xbox One moment.
2 months ago
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Pokéman493
3 months ago
DLSS5 Gave Us The Most Insane Head
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Nvidia astroturfing in progress.
3 months ago
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gril
3 months ago
The fake cannot fade. The dead cannot die.
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Liana Ruppert
3 months ago
Anybody deal with a deepfake porn made using their face? Looking for help on how to handle this
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been less than 2 days since the dlss shit fest and max level hasn't peddled propaganda on behalf of its clients, rip
3 months ago
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Dominic Tarason
3 months ago
Between this and the Krafton/Unknown Worlds legal battle, it's a real good time for CEOs to be ignoring absolutely everyone intelligent in the room and just doing whatever. Unfortunately it's the regular folks who'll probably get fired because accountability is a fairytale made up by optimists.
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Dominic Tarason
3 months ago
I'm genuinely impressed at how badly Nvidia have fucked up their PR. First claiming that everyone has got it wrong about DLLS5 being Gen-AI an then immediately saying it is. Plus claiming that all the changes were directed by the original game's devs only for the devs to say they were in the dark.
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Brandon Sheffield
3 months ago
This is proving to be a popular sentiment, so if you want to play a game that was 100% made by human beings, check out Demonschool. (it is an RPG with puzzle-y tactical battles, so make sure you like that kind of thing first)
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
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Demonschool on Steam
Demonschool is a new-style tactics RPG where motion equals action. Defeat big weirdos in between the human and demon worlds as Faye and her misfit companions, while navigating university life on a mys...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/Demonschool/
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As a self-styled connoisseur of dosas (and a Paper Mario stan) I’m here for this day one.
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3 months ago
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VJ. | Comms Open
3 months ago
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dlss 5 off vs dlss 5 on
3 months ago
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lol ai slop coming to enshittify video games now because not being able to afford a gpu wasn’t bad enough
3 months ago
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