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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 6h

I keep getting this very specific sensation when playing Control Resonant that's like: 'this is the one and only time I'll get to play this for the first time, so relax, concentrate, appreciate, fall into it.' Felt this way playing Clair Obscur, TOTK, Death Stranding 2. Just: the really good shit.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 29/09/2026

Control: Resonant, the wholesome story of a guy who goes to see some art in the big city.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 28/09/2026

Rough month to launch the Witcher 3 remaster with everyone deep into Control, Onimusha, Dawnwalker, Fire Emblem, Silent Hill, Well Dweller, etc.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 26/09/2026

Shout out to @remedygames.com for listening to feedback & adding difficulty sliders to Control 1&2. Remedy's idea of base difficulty is about +20% on mine, I've found—being able to tune it improves the experience immeasurably. Everyone is different. There is no cookie cutter player. This is the way.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 24/09/2026

Happy CONTROL: Resonant day to those who celebrate. Who's picking it up?

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 24/09/2026

It's baffling how so many cold-call PR emails misunderstand what a PR email is for. If you're brusquely offering 80mb of b-roll & outlining the embargo before I know what the game is, you've lost me already. My advice is: don't assume we're interested. Engage more actively. Make us interested!

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StudioWink@Developing“Re:Connect”💡 @studiowink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks for sharing Re:Connect! <3 Everyone, be sure to check it out! #TGS26　#ReConnect

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 24/09/2026

Played the first five hours of CONTROL: Resonant tonight. Opened a cold drink when I sat down, when I got it up was exactly where I'd put it, still full, now warm. A very absorbing game.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 23/09/2026

The Tokyo Game Show is wrapped! From the Indie 80 cohort to the showcases big & small, here are 30 games to watch, including: ✨ A webcam game where if you stop smiling, you die ✨ A shoot 'em up where you fight the Japanese alphabet ✨ A mini-game anthology about saying goodbye #TGS26 #TokyoGameShow

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30 New Indie Games From The Tokyo Game Show 2026

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 23/09/2026

I retired from doing Wordle on the day I failed to get "pshaw". It felt like time to stop, vividly. The game was saying one thing—or its NYT editor was, I suppose—but what I'd heard was: "You know, five minutes a day is not inconsiderable when you add it up over a decade." Couldn't unhear it. Pshaw.

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Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com · 22/09/2026

We want everyone to be able to enjoy CONTROL Resonant totally fresh, and to help make that a reality we ask you to not share story details on your social media without clear warnings. We can't wait to hear what you all think when the game releases this Thursday! #CONTROLResonant

A note from the Remedy Entertainment team to our CONTROL Resonant community. We're so excited to welcome you into Altered Manhattan. We've spent the last few years packing Dylan Faden's adventure full of surprises and twists, and want everyone to be able to enjoy CONTROL Resonant totally fresh. To help make that a reality, we ask that, across the next couple of weeks, you don't share story details on your social media without clear warnings. As always, please treat each other with kindness, and respect everyone's right to experience the game spoiler-free. We definitely want you to share your opinions, though, and can't wait to hear what you all think when CONTROL Resonant releases this Thursday!

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 23/09/2026

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30 New Indie Games From The Tokyo Game Show 2026

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 22/09/2026

Which one do you think wins the A/B test? Muted, Brighter, or Tree?

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 22/09/2026

One of the coolest darkest weirdest boldest games of the year got a release date.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 21/09/2026

Becoming a Macklemore listener wasn't on my bingo card this year. His streams doubled this week, they say, and this track in particular, so let's call it solidarity.

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HIND'S HALL by Macklemore on Apple Music

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 20/09/2026

Onimusha's combat rules. Love how smashing a torch on the wall here takes two enemies out the fight, giving me time to consume a bunch of souls and unleash a huge attack on the others (and then get comedy-papped by an arrow in my moment of triumph).

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 20/09/2026

It was eye opening going through Sony's 25-26: the cuts, cancellations, layoffs, and misfires; cancelled GoW, Spider-Man, TLOU2 multiplayer, Concorde, Hunter's Gathering, Bluepoint, London Studio, PSVR2, gutting Bungie, fumbling Kojima—they're making ~winning the console wars look like a rough time.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 19/09/2026

Ed Sheeran reportedly feels "thrown under the bus" after his whole tour quit. But that's a bizarre abdication of responsibility. He has autonomy, and chose his response. He chose to try and "good people on both sides" a genocide. He didn't need to be thrown, he jumped under the bus all by himself.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 18/09/2026

New pod, for your weekend! On the agenda: ✨ What Onimusha gets right (spoilers: it's a lot) ✨ What Sony is getting wrong (spoilers: also a lot) ✨ 2026's next indies ✨ And more! Apple: tinyurl.com/gitw297 PocketCasts: pca.st/3vha70ud YouTube: tinyurl.com/ytbb297 Patreon: patreon.com/gaminginthewild

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 18/09/2026

This Switch sale is a big one, you can get these four certified indie bangers for <£15 total.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 17/09/2026

My heart skipped a beat to see an email from Remedy in my inbox. But no, not a review code, just a launch trailer. I guess I'm more excited about Resonant than I realised :')

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 17/09/2026

"IP" is a gross term to use for creative work (unless you're an entertainment lawyer or something). The rotted legal framework of ownership that something exists within does not reflect its true nature. Use better words.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 15/09/2026

A look at some exciting games that are still to release in 2026, including a new game from Moonlight Kids (The Wild At Heart devs!), a wild pixel art horror game with live action cut scenes made by an Argentinian film crew, and some bonus takes on Control 2, Kena 2, the impossible hype of GTA, etc.

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Top 15 Indie Games Coming Out This Year

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 14/09/2026

The time it took the perception of Sony to go from undisputed winners of the console wars to a husk of a company starting its inevitable decline can be measured in one fumbled Kojima project and a Metacritic 78.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 14/09/2026

Did y'all hear the rumour that some companies are making AI trailers & websites for games that don't exist, and launching them on high profile showcases to see if anyone is interested before commiting to development? Idk if this is like a known thing, but I was taken aback. Next level vapourware.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 14/09/2026

It's funny that "condemned" is the word that used for a dangerous building, huh. Like a surveyor has to stand outside of it giving a speech to the media about its disgracingful slumping roof and shamefully decrepit load-bearing columns.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 13/09/2026

This month's Metacritic scores: 85: Onimusha 🏆 83: The Blood of Dawnwalker 82: Mortal Shell II 82: Orbitals 80: Moonlighter 2 78: Wolverine 78: Plague Tale Resonance Still to come: ?? Well Dweller ?? Fire Emblem ?? CONTROL: Resonant ?? Nivalis Nights ?? Nocturne ?? TOEM 2 youtu.be/vqNdRJpjgeM

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The Indie Game Guide To September 2026

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 12/09/2026

Played a few hours of Onimusha. The action is tight, it looks great, and the characters have a fun pulp cinema vibe. Game stories often have the X-Man movie problem of being entirely unserious while grasping for gravitas that... isn't there. Onimusha knows it's silly. Extra points for that.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 10/09/2026

Me, to a taxi driver: "What sort of stuff do you listen to?" He: "Old stuff." Me: "What, like, the Beatles?" He: "Nah, you know, like Nirvana." Later, reading a shoegaze artist's biography: "I grew up listening to a lot of dream pop when I was a kid, like Beach House..." I am become dust

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 08/09/2026

Seeing people picking holes in truly minor aspects of the Ocarina remake reminds me that gamers are uniquely incapable of just being happy with something

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 05/09/2026

Saw a great triple-bill of Gwenno, Angine de Poitrine, and Stereolab at the Manchester Psych Fest today. Angine were incredible—a paradoxical feeling of being both improv-scribbly and astonishingly tight.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 04/09/2026

Hotel room best types of coffee, ranked: 1. Fresh coffee & cafetière 2. Nespresso machine 3. No coffee 4. Coffee bags 5. Instant coffee

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 03/09/2026

The director of Ori and No Rest For The Wicked is awful. He compared cancel culture—that is, social & professional consequences for abusers when the law fails—to the holocaust. His new anti-critic review platform will formalise racist, sexist review bombing as a feature, not a bug. Fuck this guy.

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No Rest For The Wicked Director Calls Game Critics 'Untrustworthy'

Pay attention, because his new site is 'the one source of truth for gamers'

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So Many Games @somanygames.co.uk · 02/09/2026

September promises to be the busiest time of the year with a swarm of new releases trying to grab our attention. Thankfully, John from @gaminginthewild.com is back to help guide you through this overloaded period with his top picks in this months Indie Game Guide!

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Indie Game Guide to September '26 | So Many Games

John's back to attempt to help and guide you through what can easily be classed as the busiest month of the year for releases.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 01/09/2026

This is the month where everyone dived forcefully out of GTA's way, straight past the slightly bare October release schedule and into a big pile of September. youtu.be/vqNdRJpjgeM

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The Indie Game Guide To September 2026

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 01/09/2026

People *must* know that buying things doesn't mean owning them, says Sony. Surely this model is gonna get burned down by the EU, if nobody else.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 30/08/2026

What's your game of the year, so far?

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 29/08/2026

YouTube changed what a "view" is. People used to have to watch for a while to count as a view; now, views are counted even if they leave on 0:01. So "views" are up, but mean less—they're more like "clicks". It's nonsense, and must mean they want to monetise against view counts in some new way.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 28/08/2026

There were an overwhelming *400* games on the show floor at #Gamescom2026. But here's a filtered list of 30 interesting indie contenders to keep an eye on.

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Best New Indie Games From Gamescom 2026

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 28/08/2026

You get a note from Dolly Parton when you donate to her Imagination Library project, which gets books to kids who can't afford them. donate.imaginationlibrary.com It's cute and heartfelt and signed:

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 28/08/2026

There is kind of no way GTAVI could live up to its hype level. It's like people are expecting a UFO to fly out of their screen and grant them eternal life, rather than running around picking up side quests, getting new outfits, and looking in your inventory now and then like every other game.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 27/08/2026

Patreon is on the fast track to being fully algorithmically enshittified. I support one long-running Arsenal podcast, and now when I open the app it's like YOU LIKE FOOTBALL HUH WANNA SUPPORT AN EVERTON YOUTUBER? Fucking... no. Stop tryna make me "discover" stuff, my god.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 27/08/2026

This new Plague Tale game looks nice, but is very dull. It doesn't ask or answer any new questions as a game, or as a story. It kinda sucks to be playing an adventure game and find yourself thinking: "This seems like a sensible product to have created. I see why you did this."

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