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ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi · 01/10/2026

steam: this game you've had installed for two years but never played has an update. we'll download it next week me: no you'll download it right now motherfucker. and i will sit here and watch it download. steam: so you're gonna play it? me: fuck you

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 9h

Take me back to the days of making a mix tape off the radio and jamming out with one of these hefty yellow Walkmans. (God, I *am* old now)

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Absolutely abhorrent read. Strong reminder of the dangers women constantly face in this industry. The number of these kinds of stories we keep seeing is absolutely unacceptable

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Following the Top 9 bandwagon with a chronological list of first experiences that hooked me on video games as a hobby and a medium. Each of these has a story in my formative years.

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trailer for a documentary about a concert venue in my hometown: it was legendary and anybody who was anybody in the area had to play there as a rite of passage Me: oh cool, that's the dive bar that used to do all-ages shows when I was a teenager

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Would love to see eBay do something about this situation, but given that their reporting form doesn't have a suitable option to report immoral price gouging, I doubt it. The card's price on Collectr is $133.36 CAD, up $21.38 today, and the higher listings on eBay right now are $496-707.

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"The problem is that taken together, none of this feels like strategy, and it certainly doesn't feel like a vision of what Xbox is actually going to be once this reset completes." 🎯

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We've passed over 5000 out-of-print magazines in our digital archive! This is a big milestone that wouldn't have been possible without our community of supporters, collaborators, and industry partners. And it's about to keep growing. Learn more...

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VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next. | Video Game History Foundation

We've passed a big milestone for our digital archive. Let's talk about where our magazine collection is going next...

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Jason Fanhees @jasonfanelli.com · 23/09/2026

This is how my mind works today.

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1) Undermine physical media 2) Gut the industry with a series of acquisitions 3) Layoff staff in droves & shutter the studios 4) ??? 5) Completely reset and restructure the company 6) Profit???

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey I recognize that quote

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Getting back on my WH40K bullshit.

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Booted up the game and found it was raining on the login screen, then spent 30 seconds with my pup and fell in love. What a great game Soulframe is shaping up to be.

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Joseph Knoop @josephknoop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Game critics, if you ever struggle to review a game in the meager time allotted to you, let PR know in an email. We can take that feedback and incorporate it into reports. Doesn't mean a CEO/director will see reason, but it's at least one more way we can fight to make things better for next time.

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If Canada does become a part of / an associate of the EU... will it be easier for me to buy Square Enix merch than it is now?

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Bookio: Confused Man with Math Equations

ALT: Bookio: Confused Man with Math Equations

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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 18/09/2026

It's happening again

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Never give up. Never cognitively surrender.

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The last two weeks, seeing all the FFVII Revelation reactions but not having experienced it myself:

Bart Simpson sitting by his bedroom window, head propped up on one arm, lamenting - from the episode where he breaks his leg and all the neighborhood kids are using the Simpsons' above-ground pool

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CGMagazine @cgmagazine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Now, as Square Enix re-releases Crisis Core Reunion onto the market on Switch 2, and Final Fantasy VII Revelation is a fixed point on the road ahead, Zack's story hits differently." www.cgmagonline.com/review/game/cri… #FinalFantasyVII #CrisisCore #Switch2

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The discourse: "Final Fantasy Resonance is too much fan-service" Final Fantasy Resonance: "Hold my beer, it's original story time"

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FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE | Tokyo Game Show Trailer

YouTube video by FINAL FANTASY

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ZeroooO0OooooO0Ooooo @scootercomputer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have an unconventional solution to the loneliness crisis and the erasure of third spaces...

Marketing graphic for Nintendo Streetpass on the 3DS. It shows white stick figures going about their days and the two in the middle are walking away from each other, one has a tote bag the other a briefcase. It shows 3DSes in their bags and green arrows forming a circle between the people. At the bottom is two 3DSes doing a wireless communication thing between them.

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Enjoying the opportunity to preorder brand new physical games while I still can.

A copy of Marvel’s Wolverine for PS5, sitting on a couch

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I thought the Directs last week were the nail in the coffin for my desire to pick up the Dagdan Edition of Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave, and yet now in the eleventh hour I'm wondering... maybe I should get it after all

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alzandah Nintendo Switch 2 Edition @alzandah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ll be sharing this Metroid Ravenous piece as a file eventually so you can print it out for yourself.

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 04/09/2026

My first piece for @kotaku.com sees me document the rather surreal experience of demoing a game funded by a government that would have me executed for being trans. kotaku.com/the-1001-thr...

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The 1001 Threads Of Mizan Director Avoids Answering A Simple Question At Gamescom - Kotaku

'This is a really decentralized company. We completely decentralized'

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Dj Cutman @djcutman.com · 13/09/2026

I have 24 hours to dispute 100 dmca takedowns or we lose @gamechops.com

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There’s a major overlap between technocrats who want a science fiction world, but have taken all the wrong lessons from sci-fi, and far-right guys who are nostalgic for a past that didn’t exist, but they don’t know because they don’t read enough history. Ignorance is a cultural identity now.

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

15-year-old me would be so excited to know that this book exists. Ask your local bookstores, FF fans!

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

With the Ocarina remake allowing players to use the microphone and real instruments to perform songs, I would love to see Masayoshi Soken play "Otamatone of Time."

Composer Masayoshi Soken holds up an Otamatone on stage at a live performance - a small white instrument shaped like a musical note.

Link plays the Ocarina of Time in the game's remake, blowing into a small yam-shaped instrument.

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Ellie, but spooky @roughling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

this is such a fun little horror moment in metroid 2. absolutely perfect use of the gameboy's memory limits: you want to get some space between you and the surprise metroid, but the hole you shot to get here has already filled with sand again. you're trapped.

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.ajgenerated @clone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I mean yeah

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Erin is one of the best in the biz, so scoop this up!

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m glad for reprinting as I now have this flawless triumvirate of albums by Moneen on vinyl.

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Live footage from inside PlayStation HQ:

Comic illustration of a man on a bicycle leaning down to put a stick into the spokes, setting himself up to wipe out hard

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PNP Games 🇨🇦 @pnpgames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time has 100:1 the lifetime preorders of GTA VI in under an hour. A The Legend of Zelda themed Midnight Launch is being planned with a potential special guest attending. You threw away community for convenience, Rockstar.

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tapping this sign for the umpteenth time, because "remake" still doesn't mean "we remade something and erased all traces of its original form from reality"

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Note from my notebook from 2016 which I find has only grown in pertinence in the intervening decade.

I know I buy far too many books but I like to think that lining the walls of my house with them wards off evil in some deeply important way.

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Misa on Wheels @misaonwheels.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Town officials: “We are trying to quietly approve a project proposal to create new jobs and lower taxes.” The project:

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Someone tell me we can still see the Highwind pilot level up their confidence as Revelation goes on

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

lrt: the new Tomb Raider remake is beginning to look like exactly what I expected it to be as soon as Amazon got involved

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 03/09/2026

hello I am modern aaa game designer. the shareholders told me to make the game longer. I do not wish to make the game longer. they told me to make the game longer or I lose job. I make the player collect 6 potatoes for 5% damage resistance. The shareholders are happy. I've been laid off.

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Chris de Hoog @hoogathy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Me running to EB on April 8 2027

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