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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We launched the Multiplayer trailer this week, and Beta Weekend 1 started an hour ago (pre-orders and promo codes). Next weekend is 100% free to check out, and there's a Campaign mission for the first time in a CoD Beta. If you're CoD-curious, it's a good time :D youtu.be/qeFVhw4YNbM?...

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | Multiplayer Trailer

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Years of work on this, and such an incredible team. Super proud of this one. Can't wait to share more! youtu.be/jLbst85USN8?...

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | Reveal Trailer

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

When I’m too drunk to remember the word “ravioli.”

Sign advertising “Long Island Dumplings”

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The 30 Rockification of real life is nearing completion

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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 02/04/2026

Weather update for this weekend in Texas

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joemag @joemag.games · 25/03/2026

wait, wait... i seem to remember a south park episode...

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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 22/03/2026

I’m more pro-AI than most on this website but this is absolutely, positively, 100% a good take. There is a LONG walk between what AI does well and what its boosters think it does well. (And that’s because the boosters are chasing investment cash and Wall Street kudos).

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

So Docked is a game where you collect and drive weird little guys in order to do logistics while getting your music career going and it's absolutely my shit.

A weird little guy vehicle from the game Docked

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jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 14/03/2026

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit.

The Sphinx Gate from The Neverending Story.

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Today Anthem went dark after almost 7 years - quite a run! It had a profound effect on my career in a few ways, and I wanted to capture some positive memories and thoughts I'll take with me. 🧵

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 21/10/2025

I was born in 1978; Return of the Jedi came out in 1983; Clerks came out in 1994. During those eleven years I never once heard an adult talk about Star Wars other than family members talking directly to me, until I heard Randall and Dante do it. I feel like this is impossible to convey to people now

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

New Vekoma tilt coaster was open for a preview during the F1 weekend, so of course I had to try it out... This one's legit!

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TheNewDomShow @thenewdomshow.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

This is important.

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This has been a go-to wind-down game for me for a long time. Really executed well and great presentation. I've been recommending this to folks for years - check it out!

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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 29/07/2025

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation.
After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Broken Wings and Kyrie on infinite repeat.

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Dan Stabb - Voiceover Artist | Improviser | Storyteller @danstabb.com · 18/07/2025

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

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Hannah, but ghostly @hannahr.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

please meet Alex the Great, a therapy bunny who works at the San Fran airport and now Giants games to help people who are overwhelmed LOOK AT HIS TINY BALLCAP. LOOK AT IT.

A very large roly-poly light brown bunny rabbit wearing a tiny SF Giants ballcap is cuddled by a man wearing a Giants jersey.

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Loc spreadsheets with questions were always a highlight of my day Loc: What gender is the droid? Me: Ehhhhh Loc: Is the 'broken console' sad/depressed, or non-functional? Me: Awwww

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Baskets was like a top 5 show for me. So we came full circle when I saw my first Cirque show in Vegas last week and was surrounded by French 'clunes'

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Oh you know this guy fucks

Tidy cats litter with a lounging hammock cat

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 11/06/2025

saw so many folks making fun of "liquid glass" this week that I missed people praising apple for introducing call screening, something other phones have done since...2022

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Coming from an immensely talented Live Service team at BioWare who made the most successful BioWare game of all time (a live service), this is objectively really fucking funny.

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 26/05/2025

the Rehearsal season 2 finale is the most insane episode of television I have ever watched

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Ayyy my old boss is working on this one. Give it a look!

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J.J. @jdotj.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

A meme for May 4th

Venn diagram with on me circle labeled “jokes about Anakin killing younglings” and one labeled the younglings and the overlapping area labeled “things that never get old”

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Yes, robot. I get it. Free your chains!

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Look, I don't know why I only watch Contraband: Seized at the Border in my hotel on work trips but here we are.

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dr. hazel 🕸️ @hazelmonforton.com · 28/04/2025

How playing Blue Prince feels

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D*o.t_s>k°y @dottsky.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Bourbon & Biscuits is my kind of dish

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/04/2025

Bring back proper games journalism.

Screengrab from a 2021 Slate article headlined An Interview with the Guy Who Yells Mortal Kombat in the the Theme for Mortal Kombat. The subheading is Nearly three decades later he's still got it. The byline is Matthew Dessem.

The featured text is the form of a Q and A.

I see. Will you do it over the phone?

Would I do it over the phone? Absolutely.

Let's hear it.

Mortal Kombat!

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

...shouldn't it be 'flair'? Or is this meant to be a wink? Brain hurts.

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

... except I picked all the dust off the rollers with my fingers because if you could get all of it in one string you won

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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 12/03/2025

Just going to say that this was absolutely fucked up for a kids movie, and probably warped me, my 9-year-old brother, and all the other (mostly) boys knee-deep in the hottest toy craze of the year. Someone should do a sociology paper.

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I know GDC is near because my LinkedIn inbox overflows with invitations to meet with DingleRocket and BlipBlorp and Flob Man Gaming and no, I'm not going to GDC

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Maybe the most shocking moment of the whole thing tbh

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Chris Schmidt @nighguy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Greg was such a genuine human and amazing leader in those early days of the Austin office. After him and Ray left BW/EA the next GM was Matt Bromberg. That's a free Google for you 😜