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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 2h

Daisy and Violet appear in one of my favorite movies (and one I'll see soon as part of Spooky Season), 1932's Freaks

JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Went to Busch Gardens’ Howl-O-Scream event with my twin brother. Had a lot of fun with some great houses and hanging out with some drinks. Nice to enjoy Halloween season as an escape of the news.

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

These haunted houses don’t got nothing on me

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When people want me to explain my YIMBY stances

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1985 is one of the more important years in video game history, as the NES launched in America and the industry got its mascot. The modern console era had begun. #nintendo #retro #history #substack

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Game of Impact - 1985

The Most Consequential Games of All-Time

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1985 is one of the more important years in video game history, as the NES launched in America and the industry got its mascot. The modern console era had begun. #nintendo #retro #history #substack

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Game of Impact - 1985

The Most Consequential Games of All-Time

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oct. 2, 1926: The marriage of 51-year-old New York millionaire Edward Browning and 16-year-old Frances "Peaches" Browning is over. The child bride whose supposed “Cinderella story” has been the subject of a tabloid frenzy leaves the couple’s estate for her mother’s home in New Jersey.

Their marital woes went on to inspire cartoon-like “composographs” in the New York Evening Graphic tabloid

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Klobrille @klobrille.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gears of War: E-Day | Official Launch Trailer feat. Metallica www.youtube.com/watch?v=3onc...

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Gears of War: E-Day | Official Launch Trailer

YouTube video by XBOX

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

LBJ and Bobby Kennedy campaigning during 1964

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I cut off the monkey’s head in Sekiro and started celebrating too early

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As the 8-bit years got going, the first major titles for the new Nintendo system began to establish the new ecosystem, and the Japanese industry began to shape the new console era. #retro #history #videogames #nes #substack

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Games of Impact - 1984

The Most Consequential Games of All-Time

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sept. 29, 1926: The prospect of cigarette advertising aimed at women horrifies H.T. Webster’s “Timid Soul,” Caspar Milquetoast: “Next thing we know they’ll show ’em actually smoking!”

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Games of Impact - 1984

The Most Consequential Games of All-Time

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sept. 28, 1926: A federal appeals court finds the government awarded the Teapot Dome oil lease by fraud, and orders it canceled. The panel in St. Louis links ex-Interior Secretary Albert Fall, who granted the concession, to “a trail of deceit, falsehood, subterfuge, bad faith and corruption.”

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Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️🍂👻🦇 @retrogameart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pokémon Red and Blue Version were released 28 years ago on this day in North America (1998) #retro #art #gaming #Pokèmon

Pokèmon Red Version box artwork
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Game Boy
1998

Pokèmon Blue Version box artwork
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Game Boy
1998

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pretty tough day for wrestling fans yesterday. WWE super fan known as “Sign Guy” and AEW wrestler Pac both passed away. Learning more and more this year you have to enjoy the present and cherish your time on this Earth. My thoughts and prayers go out to both of their families.

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m gonna be finishing Blood of the Dawnwalker soon, got a couple hours into Well Dweller and I’m ready to go all in because I’m already in love with it

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Godzilla Minus Zero just adding another round

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Old School Gaming History @gaminghistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

- The daily video game history fact - Dragon Slayer (1984) was a foundational action RPG that helped establish real-time combat and exploration in Japanese RPGs, laying the groundwork for the action RPG design that would shape the genre for decades. Gameplay: youtu.be/Aq9-xp8yc80

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1983 was the start of the 8-bit console era with the launch of Nintendo’s Family Computer System in Japan. Games like Dragon’s Lair and Donkey Kong 3 led the way. #videogames #retro #history #substack

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Games of Impact - 1983

The Most Consequential Games of All-Time

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Games of Impact - 1983

The Most Consequential Games of All-Time

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

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Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️🍂👻🦇 @retrogameart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis ad (1999) #retro #art #gaming #ResidentEvil

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis ad
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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apple got mogged (as the kids say), as a believer in headsets that’s seen big tech become obsessed with AI, it’s nice to see someone care for this category. This looks like what Vision Pro should have been. However it’s Meta so you got privacy concerns. Do something Ternus.

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watching the 1960 election coverage 🤓 and started laughing when they mentioned Vermont always goes to the Republican

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Xbox “reset” has changed Xbox and it truly is Asha’s Xbox now. The green brand has been transformed, but isn’t for the better? Also, returning to my style of historical context 🤓 #xbox #gaming #videogames #substack

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The New Xbox

It Really is Asha’s Xbox Now

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AndresPlays @andresplays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is my pleasure to welcome Bri (@blondepizza.bsky.social) to Pixel Byte with her thorough review of Real Web Legends: Carter's Quest! A flamboyant adventure that rises above its inspirations.

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Real Web Legends: Carter’s Quest Review – Better Than Its Muse

Real Web Legends: Carter's Quest is a unique action adventure with flirty energy that makes it rise above its inspirations.

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Obama’s 2012 campaign song “Forward” is a lowkey banger

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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The New Xbox

It Really is Asha’s Xbox Now

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Most openly racist administration since Woodrow Wilson

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have a theory that the stuff put under the Activision banner is going to be multiplatform, while Xbox Games Studios is exclusive, and Bethesda is case by case basis. Which explains World’s Edge, Halo, and Rare going to Activision.

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Zack Burrows @zackburrows.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Life is Strange: True Colors impressed me on multiple fronts and has quickly become my favorite in the series. Here’s my review: sightingames.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/r...

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Review – Life is Strange: True Colors

Move over flight, invisibility, and super strength… empathy is the hot new superpower.

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It seems obvious to me that Xbox was a mess with no leadership in the studios and no organization. It comes at the cost of unfortunate layoffs but it seems the goal of the “reset” is to make the games group as a whole more organized and focused.

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Klobrille @klobrille.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Infographic | Xbox Studios Organization With all the changes going on, I received many requests to update this visual. Some things might change further or aren't clear yet, but I tried my best to visualize how the organization is looking to go into the future.

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JM Mendez / 1UP Vault 🎃 @1upmendez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The slight silver lining here is that Rare going to Activision might be the best thing to happen to their IP. Of course that’s mostly on hope right now and it may not change anything. Halo going to Activision might be the best move in the long term too.

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Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Activision will develop the next Halo title, led by a "new, purpose-built team that is separate from ongoing development and plans for Call of Duty" ➡️ news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

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