hey all, taking some time offline and off work as i deal with health issues. i got some bad news but we just need to confirm before i go back on treatments. whatever it is, its small. i just hoped to be done with this thing, but i have to keep going.

🌸NEW VID🌸 Silent Hill f almost drove me insane with how much there is to talk about. EVERY detail led to a rabbit hole of research, but what I kept coming back to is how it's a game about the curses in our blood... curses both supernatural AND societal. youtu.be/F1oc4_hP3IQ

WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."

You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ. We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights. Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal

If you are not from the DC area it is hard to convey just how difficult it is to avoid being in rooms, gatherings and work social circles with people like him. I met Kaelen at a Kinda Funny DC community dinner in 2020 but only found out about his involvement with the Trump campaign afterwards

sure. i only follow kaelan’s personal account. i didn’t even know this one existed until today. i follow many right wing activists from 2016. i worked for the washington post covering the election back then. its helpful for understanding social media strategy and i was an sm editor. never met him

just to clear things up, im not friends with anyone in the white house. i just follow kaelan dorr and he follows me back. he was involved in the old 2016 campaign back when i helped cover politics and he was part of that meme culture. i’ve never met the guy. im joking with paul 1/2

I think over the last few years I thin I've done the whole "reinstall the Xbox app/Gaming Services" dance at least 30 times or so. It's truly baffling how bad the Xbox app on PC is! And it hasn't really improved at all in years.

to play the Xbox version of HALO INFINITE on my $1,000 xbox ally x, i just had verify, repair files, end task for Xbox, uninstall Gaming Services, reupdate the Xbox app in the Microsoft store, update Visual C++ redistributables, reinstall Gaming Services and restart. just like a console on Xmas day!

I think that bit about not villainizing Gender Roles, or more specifically, masculinity is really important because Shu as a character is also wrapped up in the expectations of Masculinity. I.E. that magazine entry you find about Samurai And Baseball and Shu wielding a Baseball bat as a weapon.

For my Silent Hill f review, I interview a therapist. She beat the game twice. We talk about how this masterpiece is about the horror of navigating the self, and the shedding and rebuilding of the self until you no longer recognize who remains. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

For my Silent Hill f review, I interview a therapist. She beat the game twice. We talk about how this masterpiece is about the horror of navigating the self, and the shedding and rebuilding of the self until you no longer recognize who remains. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

"I’m grateful to have lived long enough to" play this game, but it's not very good --- this is an all-timer piece of criticism.

Pokemon Legends Z-A’s Lumiose City is too much of a flat wallpaper for me to enjoy. 2.5 stars. In this review, I reflect on how Pokemon helped me through my cancer recovery, and how today, I hope it learns as I have, that survival is only the beginning. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

vinny vinesauce and i could chat for hours about games and stuff. great meeting him

i met @othatsraspberry.com !!!!

here to support my best pal suzi hunter

here are nycc

The Washington Post is using bothsidesism to justify everything Trump is doing. From yesterday on political purges in the military. They compared it to covid vaccine policies.

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Michigan Avenue right now.

ask any editor i’ve worked for. i am very easygoing and am not precious about my words at all. editors make writing much better.

The Expedition 33 studio says it will resist the economics of scaling up despite success in selling 5 million copies. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

basically this. your favorite small art house studio uses AI and it helped make expedition 33, which everyone seems to be willing to give a pass. clearly its not a hard line for some people especially if it wins game of the year awards

Honestly using Gen AI for backgrounds and textures seems like an obvious method for smaller teams to make bigger and better worlds. Making this some kind of litmus test is asking for 3D games to be more expensive to make, which in turn means more centralization at the likes of EA.

The characters of Expedition 33 are meant to be thought of as human and real. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

A programmer for Expedition 33 did indeed use generative AI art early as placeholder textures that they missed removing at launch. This isn’t in my piece, as it wasn’t a good fit and isn’t new information. but it’s worth clarifying www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

im headed to new york comic con!

incredible content

This is so nice. What an honor to be in such company. 😭

Another Gene Park banger:

My front runner for performance of the year pick now goes to @erikaishii.bsky.social after Ghost of Yotei. It’s nice that the Expedition 33 talent have some direct competition. It’s one of my favorite performances ever in a Sony game for sure. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

I have ZERO complaints about the story of Ghost of Yotei. Just a riveting, satisfying revenge story from beginning to end. Every story beat was riveting, exciting, never bored or irritated. Every character is smart, Atsu is a terrifying, unforgettable lead. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

With writing that hits every note with precision and heart, “Ghost of Yotei” sees Sucker Punch master the open-world formula. Erika Ishii delivers my favorite performance of the year as Atsu. Her quest for revenge arrives with refreshing moral clarity. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

you shouldn't let poets lie to you

running a few minutes late im grabbing a slice of pizza

Bennett Foddy said Kojima's Death Stranding was "really inspirational" for him in creating Baby Steps, saying that it's basically an indie game wrapped in a big-budget cinematic narrative. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

i’ll be streaming baby steps at 7 pm et on twitch.tv/genepark!

Gaming’s trickster sage Bennett Foddy breaks down how Baby Steps is “AAA cosplay,” an homage and satire to the cinematic open world game , why we play them and what it says about us. It is struggle as insight. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

everybody skate

i never played bioshock infinite burial at sea so my chat message here is my first time reaction. it’s not hyperbole i felt ill.

Burial At Sea is the worst DLC I have ever played. It is up there with shit like Star Ocean 3 and Third Birthday in terms of ruining things.

Hideo Kojima and I chat about the current state of digital media and his evolving relationship with audiences as he learns to build bridges, much like the hero of Death Stranding. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

NEW: I spoke to Sucker Punch's Brian Fleming about how the Ghost of Yotei studio's quarter-century PlayStation relationship, their smaller-dev-team strategy and lots more “In order to do something great, you need a really incredible idea and not quite enough time” www.gamefile.news/p/sucker-pun...

We did the interview last Friday, which made a conversation I'd sought for years, suddenly awkwardly timed Sucker Punch had just fired an artist who posted a joke about the Charlie Kirk killing I expected a no-comment But, he said: "making light of someone's murder is a deal-breaker for us"

Gene once again killing it with his taglines and headlines. ❤️👌🏻 Also, I agree. And BOY am I wrestling with this game. But every victory over a boss or area feels like distilled euphoria.

Excellent review. Fun to think of Silksong as the Gravity’s Rainbow of games. Hadn’t considered that angle: a classic crafted for genre experts.

Been puzzling out why I found Silksong so much more captivating than the original, and one way or another it comes down to the (often blatantly unfair!) difficulty level. I engage with art to feel something, and if HK made me feel nothing, Silksong is a game that made me feel *everything*.

Silksong spins a taut lattice, almost every thread in its right place. You may get stuck in its trap. Wrestle mightily against its binds, however, and you will be wrapped in shimmering brilliance. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...