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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 13h

Oh nice didn't know you do gamedev and Blender stuff, what have you been making?

John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 14h

This is turning into a nightmare season! At Fate's End is looking more & more like a 2027 release. Kena delayed, Sons of Sparta a third-party dud instead of a Santa Monica gem, Nivalis & Nocturne on not enough reviews... Splendid Software might be having layoffs (only I work here).

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 17h

I'm sure it's better but ai use it for PC Game Pass all the time...

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 01/10/2026

First ever double-hole-in-one on guessthe.game and zoomout.videoludid.com :) #GuessTheGame #1601 🎮 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🔎 ZoomOut 2026-10-01: 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 30/09/2026

Ended up having to reinstall Windows. Clicked "keep local files". Installer: "okay we'll delete all your local files." A pause, a deep sigh. "Okay." How is this OS popular

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 30/09/2026

Isn't it fun how a Windows device might suddenly one day decide not to accept your local password, Microsoft account signin, fingerprint scanner ID, or PIN number, with each relying on the other as backup, and go into a cascading shitshow of failures keeping you out of your own device.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 30/09/2026

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

Just a screwball misfit tryna find his way in this crazy world and maybe make a friend or two along the way

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

Fetching toys for dogs, getting to know your colleagues

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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 · 28/09/2026

Yup. The perfect pacing is gone, the script quality is gone, the characters all felt changed and wrong. Andor season one was simply incredible - a modern masterpiece. Season 2 is like a different show. Those endlessly jabbering dimwits at the crash site. The icky assault scene. I couldn't finish it!

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

Andor series 2 sucked too. It's like the second something gets some success, the equation changes, and something bad happens in production and ruins it

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

Congrats Jacob! Where was that crazy scenic mountain picture taken?

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 27/09/2026

Meanwhile games Jedi Survivor and Star Wars Outlaws, and shows like the Mandalorian and Andor are carrying the torch, and feel more connected to what made Star Wars work in the first place. It's sad what's happened to the mainline films. They're just... not good.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 27/09/2026

Yeah, there was a sense of lightness, propulsiveness, adventure in the first trilogy, but now it's become such holy cinema that everyone involved takes it almost *too* seriously, and that weighs down the vibe. Also, for me, the casting has been light on charisma, and the scripts feel overburdened.

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 27/09/2026

Feel like the interesting Star Wars stuff is happening in side stories, spin offs, game stories. The modern mainline movies are just.. not it.

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

All the mails are structured exactly the same. All of them say one (sometimes wrong) minifact about a recent video; why this makes the game relevant to me for coverage (it rarely is); then a painful AI-bland "call to action" on presumed next steps that will never be taken. (None have "unsubscribe").

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

Yeah I have to do cleanup every few days and categorise 50-60-70 cookie cutter solo dev email senders as "promotion" so they bypass my drowning inbox, where actual important emails land

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

There is definitely some cursed gamedev Discord somewhere with a vast database of harvested emails that people mindlessly blast with the same bad cookie cutter email.

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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 · 26/09/2026

Like the GTAV of the MinnMax community

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 25/09/2026

Have been cheerleading a friend through a catastrophic CS2 campaign—they ended up with probably the most broken, underresourced sleeper possible—by saying, this is your true and valid journey as a sleeper clinging onto their ~life by a single thread. Will send them this :D

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

I can see why "messy" came up so much, even in positive reviews. The combat system is dense, and poorly explained with unhelpful nomenclature: Falter, Dominance, Talent, Power. Lots of abstruse pickups. It's like the opposite of the Capcom design coherency we've admired this year. But it has a vibe.

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

Also: good news about Dylan, they made him immediately likeable as a kind of freaked out sweaty escaped X-man mental patient outsider, and a mirror image of Jesse. I was worried about playing as him, but the feeling of outsiderdom isn't dissimilar to what made Jesse an appealing protagonist.

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

It should be contained; it may be an object of power with core concepts causing abnormal attention patterns, hypnosis, obsession, stupor.

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

Yeah the few Lego games I've played I've been like. This a nicely made game, for someone else, and I can't tell if their ideal someone else is a 13-ish young gamer or a 40-ish fandom member gamer or something else completely.

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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

I like tree best, then muted, but I think brighter might win

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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

Should have you on the pod some time to talk about your favourite non-violent games and mini open worlds! :)

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

My appetite for small memorable open worlds is mighty, and unsated. Am always chasing that Caravan Sandwitch, Lil Gator, Alba, Sable, Short Hike high.

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

Perfect thanks. If they'd focussed on making this mode like, a main mode – and presenting it as The Single Player Dune Epic Of Your Dreams instead of a slightly sloppy seeming MMO – like, the Dune version of Jedi Survivor – it could have had a different reception I think. With this player, at least.

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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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