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Old timey villain capitalism: "We will poison the waters and charge $100 for the antidote." Shitty, but I get the logic. AI capitalism: "We're going to destroy humanity and kill the internet" -> ??? -> Profit

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 37m

Going to be taking my first red eye flight since, like, college. I don't know if my 30-something year old body can handle it.

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 7h

Still have a few more projects going up before my last day at IGN this Friday. All of them really special to me. One of them a 44 minute long conversation with legendary artist and director @realgdt.bsky.social. Hope you all enjoy this! I'm really proud of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgCM...

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 22h

This is what happens when you present the wrong piece of evidence in Ace Attorney.

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟‍♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Congrats to Cornell for going from the Ivy you go to when you didn’t get into the better ones, to being the Ivy that protects rapists and punishes activists.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Local store had some Cyberpunk boosters. Not bad!

The Ilya Kushinov Judy Alvarez Cyberpuno TCG card.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

24 hours with the Steam Frame and it’s exactly what I wanted: a Steam Deck I can strap to my face.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Want to read more Light Novels before the end of the year if anyone has some recs!

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Huge get for the GI team! Super curious who approached who for this.

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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Very random (but important) question: What are your favorite non-profits doing work in media, journalism, and (for my own interests) video games? Looking to get a better idea of the kind of work happening out there for a larger project. Likes and RTs appreciated.✨

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There’s an alternate timeline where funkos didn’t become popular, and in that timeline collectors editions come with games and legos are priced normally.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I will never not side-eye Robert Eggers who keeps setting his movies in dusty old Europe and how that affects his casting choices, but I have no proof so that's all I'll say on the matter.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think what's insane is like 2 years ago the headline: "Activision takes over Halo" would have broken the internet. But it's such a sign of the times that I saw that this morning and went, "Oh, yeah, sure okay."

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AI so bad they have to make humans do the work and call it AI.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Your game reviews are in the best hands.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bit surprised by how many people on the Steam Frame subreddit are saying this is going to be their first VR headset. I feel like there are cheaper entry points to see if you like the tech.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Resident Evil was a blast! Perfect kind of schlock, though I think they made the main dude half a level too stupid.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm deeply lactose intolerant, specifically with milk (a glass will ruin my day). But sometimes I walk by some at a grocery store and I'm like Matt Damon in The Odyssey during the siren song.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Seeing online that Fortune's Weave encourages you to swap around storylines and play the game in parallel, rather than stick with one character before moving onto the next. Is this accurate?

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I will say the characters in Fortune's Weave are doing a lot more for me than 3 Houses, where a quarter of the cast were fascist, the other quarter were zealots, and the rest were random anime tropes.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think the thing about new Fire Emblem with me is they keep adding on top of it, and what I actually want is an experience that has just the features from the GBA games and nothing more.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Saw this on Instagram and reposted it immediately after seeing how much care they put into it.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Did I misremember that Control Resonant and Control 2 are two separate games? Is that something I just made up?

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

a photo of a small, spotted wild cat, with orange fur and brown circular markings, staring up with big golden eyes.

Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And now I wait to see if I'm lucky enough to give Valve my money.

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Onion's back in triage at the emergency vet, fingers crossed nothing serious is wrong and I hate to ask again after yesterday's visit, but I can't pay for the care he needs without help. My PayPal is jeeyon.shim@gmail.com and my Venmo is Jeeyon-Shim. Every little bit helps, thank you so much <3

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John Katsin @crouton-salad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

After 9 years at IGN this is the last video I edited: m.youtube.com/watch?v=nStf... 3 people, including me, who worked on this video were laid off, with out notice, just a couple hours after publishing it. It was an honor to work with them and so many others at IGN impacted by these layoffs.

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Steam Frame Review – A Great All-in-One VR Headset, But It'll Cost You

YouTube video by IGN

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hey! So after seventeen and a half years, October 2nd will be my last day at IGN. It was genuinely a dream come true to do this thing for so long alongside some of the most talented people on earth. I got to travel the world, meet my heroes, and make a ton of really fun shows and videos. An honor ♥️

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Max Scoville @maxscoville.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Welp. Starting in November, I will no longer be employed by IGN. It's been a hell of a ride and I cannot understate how much of an honor and a privilege the last 11+ years have been. This was a dream job, but the best part of IGN is, was, and always will be the people.

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Clint Gage @clintgage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well friends, that's it for me. This week IGN let me go, effective immediately. It's been a pleasure talking about movies and TV and to anybody that's read/watched/laughed at any of my work on IGN and CineFix over the years, here's a heartfelt thank you to contrast the grimace in this picture.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For any mutuals wanting to talk about what post-games career can look like, I've been doing various 1:1 calls with friends and former colleagues about my post-games journalism career this past year, and happy to do so with anyone wanting to talk about that process and ask any questions.

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Bo Moore @usebomswisely.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My byline is only on one of the 7 stories we posted this morning, but I edited every one, worked late last week and logged on early this morning to make sure everything was on track for one of our biggest coverage days of the year.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I put myself on the waitlist, but the Steam Frame would have been a much easier sell pre-AI ramageddon.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We’re going to look back and find that milkshake duck might be the most relevant internet meme of all time.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Kind of want one as a desk clock

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

News of a mainline sequel took me so off guard for a moment I thought we were already on Diablo 5 and this was an expansion.

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蟹のオーパーツ @kaniopa.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

5枚以上でカルーセル表示になったみたいなので実験

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There is admittedly a cascading effect where knowing I’m gonna get GTA 6 on PS5 is also making me consider getting a Portal to play it in bed.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Brand New Day is the first MCU movie I'm waiting to hit 4K, so excited for a new one.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fuck a productivity app. The best thing I ever did to improve my work day productivity is getting myself a large ass, chunky notepad.

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Would love to read a story about how the more hardware/engineering side of game dev sees the current RAM shortage and what that means for next-gen games. Like, will we see the first regression in performance and graphics during the jump to one gen to the next?

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My sense is that the feeling towards the third-person PlayStation flavor has hit a tipping point (we all saw that one supercut of all the different Sony 1st party games blending into each other) and the only thing missing was the first disappointing game in that mold to come out and break the dam.

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