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Your art fucking rips, Jaime. Holy shit I love this stuff so much.

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And we ended up with the worst versions of both of them anyway.

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Straight up the sleazy video game exec character I did almost every week.

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Type of fit you’d wear to reveal an Xbox exclusive first person shooter on stage at E3 2012.

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Adam that’s amazing! Thank you for this! That’s so cool!

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I’ve never written anything using AI, I never will, and I have zero respect for any professional who does.

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

So I would’ve loved a new Bowser song in this one but Peaches is an original song they made for that film specifically, not a licensed song they had to pay to borrow. Definitely different than backing a scene with licensed pop music!

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Love how he’s too short to reach his own webcam.

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Legitimately laughed out loud at this. Incredible work.

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One of things I vastly prefer in The Mario Galaxy Movie over the previous one is that there are like two and a half licensed songs in it instead of thirty and one of them is Hypnotize by Biggie Smalls.

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This put a huge smile on my face. Amazing work.

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Weirdly I am an absolute helicopter parent about making sure my kid doesn’t play shitty games or watch low effort slop on YouTube

See me and brothers watched that movie as kids knowing it was bad and stupid and we’d laugh at it and quote it in mocking ways around the house. Kids can definitely tell when something sucks. My kid walked out of Disney’s Wish and said “I didn’t like that. That wasn’t good.”

Kids deserve fun kids movies and I think these movies are exactly that. I enjoyed them as much as stuff like Hoppers, Mutant Mayhem, Elemental etc.

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Aw man but she did such a great job defending his child trafficking sex island adventures every day for a year and a half straight!

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No I totally get you, I think even if you don't like these characters or hate the story you could probably still recognize that the animation is gorgeous and inventive and the orchestrated soundtrack is fantastic.

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Keza holy shit! I can't wait to read this!

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I actually think that it's totally ok to dislike these movies publicly as an adult but I also think it's also important to view them through the eyes of a child as well.

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Same and I completely recognize that the bit is almost shamelessly the Zootopia DMV sloths gag done over again but also ROB actually moved like that so it works.

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To be fair that's exactly how I felt when I took my kid to see "Wish"

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It's fascinating reading some of the most viciously negative reviews of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and then taking my seven year old on opening night and see her beaming with joy for 90 minutes. Reminded me that some of my favorite comedy movies growing up also had barrel bottom review scores.

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I came here to recommend The Haar! I love it a ton and think about it constantly.

Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

By some miracle, for the second time in ten months I got to sit down with Shigeru Miyamoto, this time at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto. As always, he was an absolute delight: www.ign.com/articles/ill...

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Even excluding everything else, number of concurrent players is a completely meaningless metric when talking about the quality of something. There is no automatic "popular = good" rule. McDonalds has sold millions of Filet O Fish. Larry the Cable Guy once had the #1 comedy album. Roblox exists etc.

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I try it out for free every time I accidentally press that button thinking it's the Home button.

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It’s my birthday today. I woke up in Osaka, hung out for 12 hours, flew back to California and got back home by 1:30PM where it’s somehow still my birthday? This feels like time travel. This feels illegal.

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Recording one today! We had to skip last week because of GDC chaos!

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

They put Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Secret of the Ooze back in theaters for a few weeks and my young nephew went to go see it. Before the movie they showed an IGN ad with me in it so he saw me on a big movie theater screen and man, that’s easily one of my proudest career (and family) moments.

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Yup, this. I pay for those things and couldn’t watch this.

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

One of the big reasons that The Game Awards gets more viewers than The Oscars is because you can just watch The Game Awards on YouTube but for The Oscars you have to check every streaming platform you already pay for, realize none of them have The Oscars, then sign up for a 7 day trial for Fubo TV.

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Oh yeah, that’s actually where I got started when I first moved across the country to work in the games industry! Did reviews, features, previews, podcasts, and everything else I could do! Glad you dug the work back then! Almost seventeen years ago!

Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

How have I never seen these?? These are amazing.

Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I still get press emails like this nearly every day and it takes all the restraint in the world to not screencap them and send them to.

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That's the nicest thing you can possibly say to me so thank you!

Just returning the favor for all the new Ninja Turtle action figures you keep making me buy.

Especially when you can kiss the chef to the face with an infinite rocket launcher and get his pantry key without having to waste requiem bullets!

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I wrote about how Resident Evil Requiem works so well as a Hollywood style legacy sequel for one of my favorite characters and why that's a really rare thing for video games. It would make my day if you read it <3 www.ign.com/articles/res...

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I think I put 40 hours into this game across multiple playthroughs 😬

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Perfect answer. I'm pretty sure freshly cracked black pepper would kill Scrooge McDuck in ten seconds flat. Baloo probably ate habanero salsa with Louie after a night of drinking. Zipper could fuck up a bottle of unlabeled trinidad moruga scorpion sauce without blinking.

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

People waiting in line for several hours outside of a bakery to buy a cronut or crowaffle or crancakes or whatever else Frankensteinian croissant breakfast item mutant hybrid thing they were selling.

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

They will sternly shake their heads for thirty seconds and then turn around to clap like seals and vote for him a fourth time. They have no spines.