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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That too-small car post was me And here it's been for 12 years. Yes, its covered in dust because its under a window that is open 24/7

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Due to extremely high blood pressure I had to stop all energy drinks (was doing 3-4 a day, easy), and eventually all caffeine on a daily basis Now if I'm having to do a long late-night drive, or a crazy early morning meeting, I'll down half a white Monster and OMG I'm blasting OFFFFF

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a player and the original Star Wars trilogy and some Ghibli films. Haven't yet hooked it up..

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Always on the hunt for good "family" co-op games (despite both our kids being adults now...) We still need to start Big Walk, Orbitals comes out today, and I just learned Minecraft Dungeons 2 is later this month! Finally, co-op gamers are eating well

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I can't find the booth to save my life 😭

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Had this exact experience more times than I can count... from publisher/first party execs. Weeks before launching a game

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A German press once got very frustrated with me that I didn't know exact munitions specifications for each of the titan weapons in Titanfall Then a Famitsu reporter asked how an American studio was able to make a mecha game that wasn't bad

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

finishing up last minute prep to fly to gamescom i need steam deck recommendations - just picked up denshattack and nier: automata, what else?

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

for real. i need skate story merch

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Let's meet up. I will pay Real Money for one

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Congratulations! You have won TODAYS BEST POST award

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Absolutely worth it. So happy I saw it in a theater

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Heading to Japan tomorrow, so of course I'm prepping my Analogue Pocket for the trip. Any recommended hidden gems I should check out? As tempting as yet another Super Metroid playthrough is, I feel like I should branch out. Everything except RPGs or tactics games and I'll likely be into it

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

baja midnight, no ice, one order of cinnatwists

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Hits even worse as your kid continually calls out, "slothy has a better speed on that camera" or "slothy has way more roads discovered" or "hahah why can't you ever get in front of slothy???"

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We're just about done hiring for this project. If any of these roles sound interesting to you please apply! We're working on something I think is p cool

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Wasn't totally feeling the opening act before The Prodigy tonight, and then he busted out some Atari Teenage Riot My apologies Nitepunk, I was unfamiliar with your game

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Saros downloaded, won't unlock for another 3 hours

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Only had a couple mins to watch - any initial thoughts? I'm picking it up tonight, always gotta give a new "arena" shooter a try ! Especially one with such a classic feeling identity like Last Flag

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

yes, you should be. skate story is incredible. top 10 of all time for me, immediate #1 for my wife just watching me play through it im 20 years in, on game #6. the post-release downer is a bitch. with time/distance you'll be on an entirely new level

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Definitely biased, but the skyboxes and set extensions we did on Titanfall/Titanfall 2 are still my favorites of all time. Just gorgeous artwork. Tu Bui is a wonder to behold (and an incredible LTS player) www.artstation.com/2buiart/albu...

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Narrowly avoided by ANOTHER Noctua cooler this week by looking at my stash first

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

We had a GIANT notebook full of fan mail in the Respawn lobby. Whenever I was having a hard time seeing the "point", reading through the stories of people who we helped were the ones that keep me steadfast. Silliness matters!

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

And next week is Titanfall's 12th birthday!

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This week marks 20 years since starting at Infinity Ward, marking the beginning of my game dev career - a dream I thought was never going to happen If you're wondering, no. I still don't know wtf I'm doing Some days I still wake up thinking, "Man, itd be cool to make video games for a living"

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The data was cooked to begin with -- COD4 had a demo in 2007 and that game outsold I think everyone (except maybe if you consider Wii Sports pack-in as a sold copy?)

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I found 4 perfectly good monitors of varying quality in my closet last night. Not a single power supply in sight 😭

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Well, I've heard enough - onto the list it goes

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Gotta shoutout the mad lad behind it all, stellar work @gimblll.com

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The last year produced some incredible games, but the one I think I'm going to continue to go back to for years is Sektori. If you love shmups or twinstick shooters like Ikaruga or Geometry Wars I can't recommend it enough. The Steam reviews are spot on store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...

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Sektori on Steam

Sektori is an intense, fast paced twin-stick shooter infused with hard hitting techno music. A game where the high-adrenaline gameplay, visuals, and music come together to transport you into another s...

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Admittedly you'll have to put up with the occasional groan-worthy dad joke puns from me, but on the positive side we're working on something cool and are looking for more awesome devs to help us! tldr: rad team, independent studio, new IP (we own it!), great benefits, equity/profit sharing for all

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Top 5 for me amongst some killer games this year!

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Oh hell yeah. I'll play thru again with HDR and photo mode!

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

First playthrough of Terminator 2D: No Fate completed If this was released to arcades in 1992 it would have made all the money. Highly recommend it if you like this sort of game, just make sure to play on a higher difficulty. Was pretty easy to blaze through on the medium difficulty setting

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Also loving Sektori by @gimblll.com! If you enjoy twin stick shooters and have a burning hole in your soul since Geometry Wars you should check it out. I play when no one else is home because the home theater needs to be at 11 for the music. Didnt blink during a 30m run I had last night, no notes A+

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Shoutout to @bysameng.com on Skate Story. Played a few hours and its everything I was hoping for. Awesome skating gameplay, rad af graphics, killer soundtrack via Blood Cultures, and just a perfectly bizarre narrative - this is the skating game I've been waiting decades for

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb0m... The core conceit of this is truer than you realize. Doing a great Game 3 can be arguably harder to do than Game 1

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Agreed, its a well reasoned write up If I have one issue it's their insistence on cost being The Reason for doing TTS VO. There are logistical reasons (aka getting actors in booths across 10 languages, in time to ship next season) that I could see using this as well Note: we explicitly ban AI @ GW

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Really looking forward to ARC Raiders launch tomorrow. First game I've preordered and been this hyped for in a long while. That server slam test was some of the most fun I've had in PvP in years - no surprise, Embark showed they already know what's up with THE FINALS Anyone else going topside?

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Picked up one of those insane-o 45" ultrawide OLED LG monitors. Wow Suddenly my 4090 doesn't feel quite so beefy 😭

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

30 years ago this is what I hoped video games would become. So happy games like this are being made www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Je1...

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Skate Story | OUT DECEMBER 8 🛹

YouTube video by DevolverDigital

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

So, thank you to Cyan for putting that making-of videon on the Myst CD. Wouldn't be here without it ❤️

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

None of it turned into making games, but about a decade later I finally got into games - as an IT admin. All that time learning the basics of how of how a game comes together turned out to be instrumental in being able to support the world class dev team at IW, which led to me becoming a producer.

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Around this time I was also teaching myself how to build maps in Wolf3D/Doom/Duke3D. Took a few community college courses in high school on an early version of Maya, spent hundreds of hours tinkering with Photoshop from 2.0 onward, and messed with webdev along the way too

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I taught myself how to "script" in HyperCard while my older brother went about making all the art and we put together a few 10-15 minute point and click adventure games on our dad's Mac Centris 610 We got our hands on Infini-D and taught ourselves modeling/animation, and I got a copy of FutureBASIC

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

When I was 12 I got Myst for Christmas and fell in love (was huge Sierra / Lucas Arts adventure game fan), and this making-of video on the CD was the first time I saw any kind of game development. From then on I knew what I was supposed to do

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

@digitalfoundry.bsky.social Do you guys use off the shelf software for your framerate/frametime overlays or is that a custom job? Often in dev I wish I could replicate it, as running extra profiling to get the data isn't always possible

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