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Britton Peele

@brittonpeele.com
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Writer. Pop culture critic (video games, geeky stuff, etc.). Fiction someday. Product Manager at The Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ. Formerly at The Dallas Morning News.

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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 9h
I've listened to a lot of stuff lately about how the future of "content" (particularly on the internet) is supposed to be personalized. That things should be "liquid" and conform to the reader. I feel like that totally misses the point of most of the things I want to engage with.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 11h
It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 22h
Turns out the bulk of this seems to be coming from the End Poem that plays when you beat Minecraft (I’m a fake gamer who’s only ever beat the Ender Dragon in creative mode so I was unfamiliar), but it’s still a bizarre thing to see here jumbled up with the government stuff.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 30/09/2026
Confirmed this myself and was met with the depressing information that even in this extremely bizarre land of hallucinated Minecraft I still need to bring two forms of ID, because I am alive.
America.gov chatbot response to “play Minecraft” that says “You. You. You are alive. You still have to bring two forms of ID.”
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 29/09/2026
If you're way into the story/world of Control Resonant and want more of that in book form, I really enjoyed reading "There Is No Antimemetics Division" earlier this year and think the vibes are on a similar wavelength.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 29/09/2026
Go ahead and give Dan, @janochoa.bsky.social and @giantbomb.com a Webby nomination. This is great stuff.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 25/09/2026
I get that I should have bought and started installing Control Resonant earlier today instead of waiting until I wanted to play it tonight, but it’s still a bummer that the “Ready to Play” status on PS5 means “You can play for about 10 minutes, then you’ve gotta wait again.”
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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 23/09/2026
Hell is everywhere for those with eyes to see
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 23/09/2026
I don't like setting my fantasy football lineups, either. This is why I have made the crucial decision to not sign up for any fantasy football leagues.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 22/09/2026
I have a lot of feelings about this and most of them aren't great. I'd love for someone to come rescue Arkane and Ninja Theory, but with the state of the industry as a whole right this second... Man... A lot of books will be written about this specific rise and fall period of Microsoft.
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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 22/09/2026
Probably starting tomorrow.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 17/09/2026
Narnia means a lot to me, and I have a lot of faith in Greta Gerwig. The "rock opera" touchstone is interesting. but I'll let her cook. (And she's right, Narnia was *literally* [in-fiction] made with singing.) Also, this image of Charn (I assume) looks cool. 🤷‍♂️
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Jason Wilson @jasonbwilson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is the sort of journalism we get when a newsroom isn't beholden to SEO, chasing guide traffic or ... *shudders* pumping out garbage with AI. Someone had a question, looked into it, and wrote about it! Nice job, @adashtra.bsky.social.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 15/09/2026
I have a lot of disposable income if you take out some of my biggest expenses.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 15/09/2026
One cool thing about a lot of FPS games in the N64 era (like Turok) was that you could change the blood color. My very strict, very anti-gun mom was ever so slightly more accepting of me playing a game if my enemies at least bled green instead of red, because it was less lifelike.
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
snatcher, screenshot, sega cd (1994) www.mobygames.com/game/7524/sn...
green caps text on a black background:
this story is dedicated
to all those cyberpunks
who fight against injustice
and corruption every day
of their lives.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 11/09/2026
Shoot, this sucks. The Moss games were truly great VR experiences with a lot of charm. I've been meaning to check out the newer non-VR release they did.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 11/09/2026
Rescued this from my local library’s book sale because I couldn’t imagine anybody other than me picking it up from the kids/Disney section.
Book: Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - The Visual Guide
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 10/09/2026
Is this what drugs are like?
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 09/09/2026
The pitch in this video was that it was inspired by Infinity Blade and Souls-like games, which got my attention. (The striking visuals also helped.) I'm so glad that the Playdate is still going strong. Season 3 is looking interesting.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 09/09/2026
My Kirby-loving son is going to lose his mind when he sees this trailer. He gravitates to the open worlds of Mario Odyssey and Donkey Kong Bananza, so if this is that but Kirby it’s right up his alley.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 09/09/2026
2027 looks like it could get off to a strong start.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 08/09/2026
A real, no joke thing my 7 year-old said when I showed him the Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake trailer: "Wait, can you jump whenever you want? Then that's the game for me." (He has played but not finished the original OoT.)
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 08/09/2026
It’s been a very long time since I’ve bought any sort of special edition console. Are the Nintendo ones usually more expensive than the standard system? A $20 premium on top of the $50 price hike that just happened this month feels… steep.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 08/09/2026
Do I already own these in both hardcover and softcover, one of which was signed by Rand Miller? Yes. Do I also have the more recent Book of Atrus re-release? Yes. Am I still going to get these? [Sigh] Probably.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 08/09/2026
"Do not recite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written."
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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 08/09/2026
"looks AI as fuck" is a very irresponsible thing to say about things that are expressly not using AI <3 idc if you wanna insult nintendo bc it's a huge corp but i DO care if you are constantly accusing things that are not AI of looking like AI if only bc it's a boring insult
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Tristan Cooper @tristanacooper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Love this glow up
bazaar owner from ocarina n64bazaar owner from ocarina switch 2
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 08/09/2026
I think I like a lot about this, including a lot of the NPC models. It’s really just the main character models that aren’t sitting right with me. But the original Ocarina of Time was such a formative game for me that it’s impossible for me to look at it without nostalgia goggles.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 08/09/2026
I’m sorry but I am, in fact, going to be extra at least once and play Zelda’s Lullaby on my real ocarina to do it in-game.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 08/09/2026
Not showing a trailer at this moment was a wild move.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 06/09/2026
Orbitals is such a gorgeous game in motion. (And lots of fun, too.)
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 04/09/2026
Speaking personally, I would not deny her.
A screenshot of Final Fantasy Resonance with an attractive female character saying “But I will not be denied!”
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 03/09/2026
Yes, this. A few nights ago I told my wife (and myself) that I wasn't sure I wanted to boot up Star Wars Zero Company because I didn't have enough time to truly get into it before I needed to sleep. Spoiler: I played it anyway and stayed up way too late as a result.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 02/09/2026
Well... I already own Myst on *so many* platforms... But I don't own it on PS5. So...
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good Housekeeping let me calm the nerves of anxious parents skeptical of video games
goodhousekeeping.com
I'm a Games Journalist and a Dad—Here's What Parents Get Wrong About Educational Video Games
Games don’t need to be full of math problems or vocabulary quizzes to be opportunities for learning.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 02/09/2026
You know what? Sure. OK. Somebody will rent out a movie theater or put this on a stadium Jumbotron and it will look cool.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 01/09/2026
I'm pretty excited to play Orbitals with my 7 year-old this weekend.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 31/08/2026
If you had not told me who wrote this review I would have guessed @janochoa.bsky.social at the end of the first sentence. And that's beautiful. (Also, sounds like I do need to find the time and budget for Onimusha...)
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 29/08/2026
I hadn’t busted out the PlayStation Portal in awhile, but it turns out Star Wars: Zero Company is a pretty perfect fit for it.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 28/08/2026
I'd be kind of surprised if anyone who heard me say "y'all" when speaking (which I absolutely do) thought I was doing it to be "folksy." "Y'all" is a useful, gender-neutral term, and I'm from Texas, so... Y'all can deal with it.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 28/08/2026
DLSS seemed like an interesting idea when pitched as something that could make games look better on weaker hardware. But now I'm expected to have much more powerful hardware just so my games can look *worse*?
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 27/08/2026
I never even finished GTA V. Wake me up when there's a new Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 27/08/2026
So the people launching a new Twitter under the name Twitter launched their thing so I signed up. Turns out they have an AI scanning tweets for "truth" and it currently has no idea what it's doing. Posted something innocuous about Star Wars Zero Company and it essentially blocked it from all feeds.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Quiet Year is one of the best and most accessible ttrpg-like games I've ever played. If you haven't tried it you should buy a copy now.
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Brutal Legend is free on Itchio for the next ~666 minutes (in honor to Tim Curry) buff.ly/OwIZtbB
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 26/08/2026
This is one of the weirdest (dumbest?) movie marketing things I’ve seen in recent history.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 26/08/2026
Among many other things I tend to fondly remember Tim Curry for his audiobook narrations of the A Series of Unfortunate Events books. But this Command & Conquer clip will undoubtedly be ingrained in my head forever.
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Britton Peele @brittonpeele.com · 25/08/2026
This seems like a good idea and I'm surprised it took this long to happen.
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