iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"Could we see $1k+ pricing? Sure, that's possible... Could it be 2027? Maybe. Could it be 2028? Sure. Later? Why not. I do not think that current market conditions allow for much certainty at all in the hardware market. Hopefully the conditions improve. They could get worse. Who knows." - me

gamesradar.com

PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible"

The PS5 Pro is about to cost $900, after all

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

There's been a lot of discourse about live service games, but the fact that they *demand* an ongoing, employer-like relationship with players in order to be successful is unsustainable. Games can't keep being made that way

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Tiny Roar Games @tinyroargames.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

We just premiered the announcement trailer for Verdant at the @wholesomegames.com Wholesome Snack showcase! 🥳🌱🎮 🦌 Single-player survival in the overgrown ruins of the 80s 🌿 Give and take life with your unique powers 🫀 Listen to your body, not a HUD #Verdant #indiedev #gamedev

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Hyper enthusiast, price-insensitive players are really keeping things going, especially in the non f2p gaming space. According to Circana's Q3 2025 Future of Games, only 4% of US video game players buy a new game more often than once per month, with a third of players not buying any games at all.

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

As time is relative, the year as the individual experiences it is unique. And since only that individual existed in that particular year, this statement is, by nature, impossible to not be true. There are infinite GOTYs delivered by infinite consciences across an infinite universe. And beyond.

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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 03/10/2025

One of the things that has me curious given the rush to cancel Game Pass is about how significant the attrition rate was expected internally at MS. Any time you change a service offering or increase pricing, there is an expectation you'll price out some of your customers.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Skepticism is always healthy, but I've been keeping tabs on this for years (since my big 2018 story about Red Dead 2's crunch). They certainly haven't eliminated *all* overtime but everyone I've talked to at Rockstar says it's night and day from previous projects. If that changes, I'll report on it.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I think the suggestion that any kind of human-to-human interaction should be replaced with human-to-chatbot interaction should be scrutinized as a kind of moral rot. It’s antisocial ideology and should be treated as such

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

GTA 6 getting pushed does not mean there will all of a sudden be a whole bunch of dollars available for other games in 2025. It just means that a bunch of the dollars that would have been spent on gaming this year have disappeared.

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Dan Ryckert @danryckert.com · 01/05/2025

Getting a job in games media seemed almost unattainable when I broke in back in 2005. In the years since, it’s become almost impossible and ultimately inadvisable. I can’t imagine trying to break in today. Independent is pretty much the only option now. Support your favorite creators directly.

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Alli Shaw @allidrawscomics.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 11/04/2025

oh you mean like every other time they've tried this? everywhere else in the world?

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A lot of conservative men would burn the entire world down if it meant getting women out of the workforce because their entire sense of self is based on the idea that they were born superior to women

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 11/04/2025

Look. I'm not going to say it. But only one country could do this.

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The Amityville Jordan (1979) @jackal27.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

EVERY VIDEO GAME CONSOLE IS FILLED WITH MASTERPIECES BECAUSE EVERY VIDEO GAME IS A MIRACLE!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The ideas around “neutrality” and “bias” have done so much damage in the mainstream media. These ideas only work in one direction—against the left—and result in people in the industry who personally identify as left-leaning overcompensating and doing the right’s work for them

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RallyCarDelta Gaming @gameoverthirty.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Not terribly surprised to see a 90 day pause on tariffs (base 10% still in effect and China specific tariffs still active). The 10% baseline is still, arguably, an incredibly dumb thing to do, but catastrophe has been avoided for at least 90 days. I assume China and the US will work something out

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Relatedly, I have a feeling the “tech CEOs don’t let their kids see screens” stuff is not true. I think it’s propaganda to make them seem more elite and drive pro-internet censorship campaigns

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

If you don’t allow your kids to have internet access until they’re like 16 and then just give them a phone they’re likely going to get scammed and abused immediately. This already happens. Kids need to be actively taught digital *literacy* from a young age, that’s the problem

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/04/2025

These guys are told from the day they are born that vulnerability is feminine, so they dedicate themselves to being (or at least appearing) invulnerable, complete unto themselves, but of course that's profoundly anti-human, so what results is a bunch of weird dysfunctional behaviors.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/04/2025

The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Bill Ackman thinks he’s a genius heterodox thinker because he’s now criticizing Trump for hurting his own business interests. In reality this shows he’s an unparalleled idiot whose wealth should be redistributed by force

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Because engaging with their demands for civil debate is pointless

CNN push alert: Sea lions are attacking people in the waters off California's coast. Here's why

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Hey, I wonder if there's any economic news today. I'll check out the website of America's biggest news network--Fox! Phew. Nothing's up! Biggest news in US today is a very nice Christian woman was slapped for no reason after sticking a camera in a stranger's face & calling her a baby killer.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Here is the top comment on this article: “You are advising responsible honest people who have worked hard, saved all their lives… to scale down their retirement dreams because a one person has decided to destroy the US economy. Why not write an article about how to get rid of the real problem?”

nytimes.com

How to Protect Your Retirement Savings Now as Markets Plunge

If you’re within five years of retiring, either before or after, you’re at your most vulnerable financially. Here are steps to weather the volatility.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/04/2025

I'm losing my mind

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Conservative fans who spent two years complaining about a black character in a video game will be happy to know that there will soon no longer be any video games

kotaku.com

Nintendo Halts Switch 2 Pre-Orders Over Trump's Tariffs

New tariffs threaten massive price hikes on gaming hardware and other consumer goods

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Designercon @mahoukarp.com · 04/04/2025

gotta keep moving 🦈

Illustration of a car with a seal and a shark inside. The seal is driving and the text above says "The horrors persist but so do I"

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

No, the Democratic Party isn't losing because it's Too Woke:

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Jazz The JRPG Queen 👑❤️🎮 @jazzlikestogame.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

People can be excited for the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 & all of the upcoming games even wanting to buy said items, but still be disappointed in the pricing that’s been pre-determined by the company. Both of these things can be true at the same time. I just had to get that off of my chest. 🤘🏻😤

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RallyCarDelta Gaming @gameoverthirty.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Again, no one is building factories here to make game consoles. It's never going to happen. The system will collapse on itself before anyone even tries it. The ESA is right. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/us-trad...

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/04/2025

I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time

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onion person @junlper.beer · 03/04/2025

the entire US system is sustained by the cheap treats we get, like a new video games and pieces of technology. telling americans they can't have their treats is like declaring war on their existence

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The heterodox free speech argument was always a misnomer. They don’t give a flying fuck about freedom of speech. They were upset at things like the idea of trauma victims being able to pursue an education without psychological harm (trigger warnings) and setting their own boundaries (safe spaces)

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Sitting Andrew and Tristan Tate as guests of honor at a public event after they flew out of the country they were facing human trafficking charges in is rape culture in action

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