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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gotta say, from how they marketed it I was expecting Mario Kart World to be a lot more Forza Horizon esque rather than the open world and the races being completely separate. #MarioKart

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Using the very real problem surrounding physical games these days to push for more preorders when you're one of the places facilitating those preorders seems like a conflict of interest to me. They say they don't want to create FOMO but they knew what they were doing here. #PhysicalGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

$1500 just for your PSN account to be hacked. *clap* *clap* Sony. #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All this news about games being in the works. After years of silence about their first party lineup. Sony's really desperate to win back some fan good will aren't they. #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One would think you'd send a survey like this around before you decided to just randomly announce you're dropping discs one day, but who said Sony was making any smart decisions this gen. #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hopefully Undead Labs is able to survive independently. The first State Of Decay is still special to me. #VideoGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Honestly can't tell who's managing their studios worse right now. Sony or Microsoft? #VideoGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I wasn't planning on getting one of these, but Sony's recent decisions have really sapped my desire to play on my PS5 and gaming on my laptop proved an inadequate solution. #Switch2

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

After having two Playstation headsets break on me after a couple months I would avoid any Playstation branded headset like the plague. #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Whatever you want to say about sales of the console itself Sony absolutely fumbled this whole generation, and that's before they killed discs. And when the PS6 costs $1000 they're gonna lose the sales too. #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Well I finished the Orpheus DLC for Stray Gods. Very short, but an enjoyable addendum to the main game I guess. The speed dating part was the highlight. #StrayGods

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Insomniac should have just made another Spider Man game. #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Again I ask. Why does Hermen Hulst still have a job? #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sony is so far past the point where something like this would have actually made an impact on this gen it's not even funny. #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't think there's a single media property in my life that's as important as Star Trek is. The entire basis for my media intake today goes back to catching reruns of Star Trek Voyager after school. So here's to 60 years Star Trek, my life wouldn't be the same without you. #StarTrek

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The expansion to Ghost Of Yotei is noteworthy and when they inevitably start doing PC releases again maybe I'll check it out, but man there is absolutely nothing a State Of Play could do to make me want to start gaming on my PS5 again. #StateOfPlay

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Say what you will about Xbox, and they've certainly made a lot of bad decisions this gen, this disc to digital program trounces Playstation's "We're ending discs and screw all of you who bought them" messaging pretty handily. #VideoGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Witcher III is really entering that Skyrim territory now isn't it. #WitcherIII

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This Teenage Exocolonist game does not slow down with the tragedies does it. #VideoGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Man, they really went for it with the different gameplay aspects in this Cloudpunk DLC didn't they. #Cloudpunk

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Before Playstation soured me on touching my console at all I was interested in trying this just because it's Horizon, but it's clear this game isn't going to do big numbers. And man, the fact that they don't have a second team working on Horizon III is mindblowing. #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sam's always been my favorite character. R. I. P.

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Well, I still have the DLC to do, but I've finished Cloudpunk and I gotta say that turned out to be a pretty heartwarming game. #Cloudpunk

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Live look into Sony's boardroom: "You know, maybe we weren't out of touch enough during the PS3 generation." #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Elden Ring I guess. So many people out there saying it's a gateway to the Souls genre that plays more like an open world game but there's still way too much confusing gameplay mixed with unnecessary difficulty spikes. #VideoGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

With most games you'd hear they did a gameplay demonstration for the CEO and think "hey that means the game's actually coming along pretty well" but that's absolutely not the case with Elder Scrolls VI. #ElderScrolls

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Maybe the same people who said the ABK deal would have zero negative consequences for consumers and developers aren't the ones you should be listening to for takes about how the death of physical games will have zero negative consequences for consumers and developers. #VideoGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Vinyl records, the things you famously can't just go into Walmart and browse the shelves for. If Sony was going to treat physical games like that there wouldn't be anywhere near as much backlash dude. #PhysicalGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I suppose that's that then. I'll never be making another purchase on their platform ever again. PC it is. #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This Tiny Bookshop game has absolutely sucked me in dude. Hours just disappear. #TinyBookshop

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

First off, stuff like this is always just an excuse. Same thing always comes up with Sony and PS3 backwards compatibility. If there was money in it and they actually wanted to do it they'd just do it even if it took a lot of effort and dev time. #DragonAge

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Because I definitely care what French Bobby Kotick has to say about physical games. #PhysicalGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Man that's how many God Of War projects announced now. And people said they were milking the Horizon IP. And to think we had all those rumors that Santa Monica was actually working on a new IP before all this. #GodOfWar

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sometimes it seems like PSN is down every other week. But sure these are the people that want to directly control all your gaming purchases. #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Star Wars The Old Republic is such a comfort game for me. I can come back after five years, which I've now done twice, and no matter how much has changed I get sucked back in. #SWTOR

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So when it's Gamepass it's all "Well people don't play games that way, most only play a few a year, this thing was just a bad idea and had no impact on any game's sales performance at all" #VideoGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Couldn't have used any of those laid off devs on these projects though right. Nope, Xbox and Todd Howard have more marketing to peddle. #Bethesda

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dave The Diver's really digging into those latent Diner Dash skills I haven't used in 20 years. #VideoGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

One has to wonder what the point of all these "Microsoft owned studio is still the size it was when it made popular thing" articles even is. Or the "Game director says all the game directors are still there so everything's fine" piece we got for Obsidian. Like who does that help. #Xbox

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Finished Stray Gods. And I mean I've loved the Telltale format since The Walking Dead, but between this and Dispatch I think it's safe to say the genre is in very good hands right now. #StrayGods

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

So that's both of Obsidian's big new IPs Microsoft's killed now just to shunt them off to be the emergency Fallout team. Because apparently having a Fallout game to go along with the show never occurred to these executives before. #Xbox

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Imagine having Id Software, Id freaking Software, and not knowing what to do with them. Microsoft just needs to get out of the games business at this point. #Xbox

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Well, there it is. Cancelled my Playstation Plus subscription after five years. Couldn't put down the real reason why though so had to click other. #PhysicalGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I built this collection up a lot the last five years and barring some miraculous turnaround from Sony I guess this is where it's gonna end up landing. Too bad it doesn't seem like they want my gaming future to be on their platform anymore. #PhysicalGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Feel like the news today has kind of sapped my gaming momentum, and my gaming momentum hasn't been particularly good since November anyways. I was just starting to make progress in ME3 too. #VideoGames

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Honestly, there wasn't much that would have made the Steam Machine actually look desirable but what Sony did today was definitely one of them. #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

You can't convince me Sony isn't actively trying to make the PS6 the most undesirable console of the last thirty years at this point. #Playstation

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Imagine looking at what your competition has going on with Spider Man and now Wolverine and thinking nope don't want a piece of that, better cancel it. #Xbox

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

How did I never know James Vega was Iron Bull. Granted I haven't played ME3 since Inquisition came out but still. #MassEffect

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John Thompson @firesofanarchy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Another day of mass layoffs and price increases but don't worry someone will be out there explaining how we still need these new consoles in 2027 soon enough I'm sure. #VideoGames

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