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Henry "Big Wins" Chan

@pudymaster.bsky.social
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Any Pronouns. I make video essays on YouTube, and stream on Twitch YT: www.youtube.com/@Henry_Chan/featured Twitch: www.twitch.tv/pudymaster 27↑

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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not gonna lie, Magenta Horizon straight up ruined air juggling for me. Sandbagging enemies can be fun, but having the air become a second battlefield is utterly exhilarating. Control Resonant is still fun, though. Wish they had an option for no magnetism, however.
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Thaumaturge is crazy good. Maybe its greatest strength is how effortless it makes it to roleplay as Wiktor, a man both aware of his Flaw of Pride and also pridefully in love with that.
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Gene Park @gene.meme · 20/09/2026
I asked Hideo Kojima what happened. Sony canceled Physint over a Zoom call. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Hideo Kojima explains the surprise split with Sony
Celebrated game director Hideo Kojima wrestled with Sony’s surprise cancellation months before it went public, he said in an interview, fearing “our studio could collapse.”
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There are so many smart changes to Wo Long 2's combat. Feels like a Nioh 1 to 2 glow-up. It does kind of depend on if they leverage those. For instance, you actually have useful crowd control and aoe abilities now, but if the game doesn't force group fights, it doesn't matter.
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erysdren @erysdren.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Jingtong 景桐 @zogzhu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sweet Home now has English, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese localizations! It is a queer visual novel about coming of age in a small Chinese town and has become a sensation since its release last August store.steampowered.com/app/3528450/...
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Save 30% on Sweet Home on Steam
Sweet Home is a visual novel set in a Chinese high school. Parted friendships, ambiguous romances, tangled relationships, and flawed families... Are these just the pangs of adolescence—or something he...
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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 10/09/2026
Cancelled: Physint Not Cancelled: FairGame$
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Genuinely what the fuck are Sony DOING man???? HIDEO KOJIMA needing a lifeline from Xbox would be almost unbelievable if not for how Sony has been moving these last few years. Actually crazy lmao.
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Finally sent a draft of my book out for feedback, and all I feel is a void. Less than 12 hours and I already miss having something to workshop on it in a meaningful fashion. Weird feeling.
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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
store.steampowered.com/app/2109060/... Did I tell you that it's going through a sales season... again????
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Save 50% on Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest on Steam
Magenta Horizon is a fast-paced 2D action platformer with challenging spectacle fighter inspired combat. Playing as a Reaper of the twisted purgatorial afterlife, push your skills to the limit to dest...
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 15/08/2026
Hey everyone. 

Last night, to my great surprise, I received a long email from Saber Interactive CEO Matt Karch. He apologized unreservedly for the awful way he spoke about me in the press. The email’s full text will stay between us; I’m not that kind of girl. But I have confirmed it was from him. 

Matt said he regretted escalating, and how people online were speaking about me. I’m not worried about being called slurs by random commenters—I’m a trans woman, that’s every day for me—but it stunk to have my skill and reputation built of 20 years in games publicly maligned by someone with institutional power. One thing I saw people saying about me, and that Matt fueled the flames of too, was that this is not my first time calling a former employer out, so I must love drama or be hard to work with. The truth is, bad treatment is everywhere in games; I’m just more willing than others to call it out. And I call it out so maybe others will be willing, too, when it happens to them.

 I’ve been firm from the beginning that I was telling the truth; I think we can all now agree that’s been borne out. Matt expressed a desire to make it right with me; at this time I don’t really know what that looks like for me, and I’ll have to take some time to sit with it, but I do at least accept his apology. None of this changes my stance on AI. Matt and I obviously differ on this, and as a CEO the consequences of its use fall on him, and unfortunately also on his employees.

Apologies are simply in too short a supply these days to spurn one when it’s offered. 

God willing, this is the last statement I’ll need to make about this.

xo
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Moth (Comms Open!) @bloodcrisis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This game is really good and deserves way more attention than it’s getting
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Total Chaos Against Apathy on Steam
A high-intensity action game, inspired by the feeling of emulating arcade-only action games. Learn a simple-yet-nuanced two button control scheme. Use hitstun, attack chains, grabbing and throwing to ...
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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Without serious public pushback, trillionaire corporations like Microsoft will continue to treat talented developers like Naomi Green as expendable. Help us break this unbalanced system and #SaveGameWorkers by telling Microsoft to end their cycles of layoffs: shorturl.at/5ruBE
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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
itch.io/b/3802/game-... Magenta Horizon also has joined the #GameindustryHardshipFund bundle. “Not a good look” is what I always say when I look at the current industry condition, but I thought it’s better to do a little bit of something than just standing still.
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Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others
Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
you guys complain that they're an out of touch elite institution, but it turns out the DNC is doing worse financially than all of you
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TOKYOPOP @tokyopop.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Hiraeth Remained by Nitamoto Sanayama Kazura, a girl who just wants to be loved, discovers that the girl she had been spending all of her money on to look her way has betrayed her. In her moment of despair, she is approached by Yoshibe Kinka, who asks if she would like to die with her.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...
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Vampirium: 1997 on Steam
1997. Dracula is King of England. At his command, master your dark gifts to assassinate his enemies and secure his vampiric empire. Infiltrate locked-down locations, adapt and survive in living enviro...
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If you are one of the many valuable workers callously laid off for corporate interests today, please consider applying to our hardship fund.
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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
One way you can show Microsoft your concern is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...
Yesterday’s layoffs at Bethesda Games Studios were not a cut of “14 layers of management”. We lost dozens of programmers, artists, designers and testers. Many of whom worked at BGS for decades.

If Bethesda fans are worried this will harm the quality of our future games, like TES VI, let Microsoft know!
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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 03/07/2026
Opinion: The PS5 and Xbox Series X generation has been a race to the bottom buff.ly/RFKva6J
A header image depicting an Xbox Series X and a PS5 underwater
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
One of the more baffling aspects to the attempted end of physical games is that having a physical store presence matters. If retailers legit just have a PS6 and no fuckin games it will hurt the bottom line lmao. Why would a retailer even have a games section at that point?
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
God Save Birmingham (beta) is amazing. It's got a great mix of horror, action, survival, and exploration, all supported by remarkable physics interactions that just work. GSB feels like it has the tactility of a VR game applied to a zombie sandbox.
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Aura @aurahack.ca · 25/06/2026
i do not want the games industry to recover. i want something new to be built atop its now ashen foundation and i want those who previously brought ruin, rot, and misery to be outside looking in as they give up and seek some other well to poison
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Feels surreal to have a first draft done for my third book, when seven years ago writing one book felt like a distant dream. Now, three of them later, I can at least say I wrote a good one. Here's hoping I can close the distance on the next dream, getting it published.
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Hilarious that ten years of making soulslikes and Team Ninja has just come back around to making sicko action games again lmao. Wo Long 2 looks sick. Being able to do like AOE on enemies and ascending parries are potentially great ways to build out the combat system.
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Very glad Square Enix is releasing FFVIIRRR on every platform they feasibly can at launch. Also, crazy impressive to have that thing out three years after the last one, triple A dev time most can only dream of nowdays.
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animal jayson ⭐️👁️ @animaljayson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
action game characters when an Evil Fire Demon gives his villain speech: dante: "whoa there hot stuff, looks like we're gonna have to cool you off!" bayonetta: "oh dear, did mummy never tell you not to touch the stove?" gene: "you look like a FLAMING homosexual!" ryu hayabusa: "shut the fuck up"
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Doesn't seem likely, but it'd be neat if DQ12 offered a fem mc option.
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Can't tell my friends or family for fear of spoilers, but I'm nearing the end of the rough draft on my book, and it's actually crazy funny that I have a four to five page stretch of the most deranged stuff I've written. Writing rules lmao.
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Man, RE Requiem is crazy half baked. The hospital section with Grace is basically a classic RE campaign (sans the gun variety...), but everything afterwards... yeesh. Crazy that Grace is more fun than the action game guy because she has reliable stun on enemies and he doesn't.
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Finally playing RE Requiem (early game), and, while enjoyable, I think Capcom needs to go back to the drawing board with their pursuer enemies. They're too leashed and slow to be terrifying, but bulky enough to block off hallways, making you wait somewhere else for them to leave.
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doc @docseuss.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts rules. Being able to make a mock-up of my book cover outside of vulgar scribbles in my notes app is amazing! Lets you export your 'manuscripts' to your local files directly too. Genuinely feels like a blessing to have something so user friendly and beautiful.
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The Crane Rider's Tale 🪽 Wishlist on Steam now! @psychickiss.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
From the creator of #ButterflySoup and #PomGetsWiFi, The Crane Rider's Tale is a mystery game inspired by Disco Elysium, Zero Escape, and Chinese folktales. 🪽On Kickstarter now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/psy...
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Just write. You can salvage a terrible effort, but not one that doesn't exist at all. And, in all likelihood, the ways in which you think what you've written are terrible will differ tremendously from what others make of it. Also, rest easy knowing whatever you write is doubtlessly better than A.I.
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I very much dislike that the only form of difficulty that seems to be 'sacred' anymore is combat related. Crimson Desert blunting the stamina cost of gliding completely trivializes basically every navigation decision in the game, but is praised as QoL instead of a mistake.
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Final Fantasy Meme
Balthier: Listen up fives a ten is speaking 
Balthier: Fran, can we talk, one ten to another 
Fran: I'm an eleven but go on
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 29/03/2026
Oh dang, I knew that indie character action game Homura Hime was clearly inspired by Nier Automata (right down to having an orbiting gun-pod and bullet hell segments in fights), but they even got direct feedback from Yoko Taro and Takahusa Taura. Very cool that the Nier crew actively supported it.
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Homura Hime - Dialogue Between Developers of Nier Automata and Homura Hime! - Steam News
AUTOMATON conducted an interview with Crimson Dusk, the developers of Homura Hime, alongside with producer Yoko Taro and designer Takahisa Taura of Nier: Automata
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Eromancer @eromancer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The FTC has sent a warning to PayPal, Stripe, Visa, and Mastercard over debanking lawful businesses. ︀︀ ︀︀Lawful adult businesses have been financially targeted for years under the guise of "reputation risk." ︀︀ ︀︀If that is finally getting scrutiny, that’s good news. www.xbiz.com/news/297090/...
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FTC Warns PayPal, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard Against Debanking
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent letters on Thursday to the CEOs of PayPal, Stripe, Visa and Mastercard, warning them against debanking practices — including denying access to se...
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I think the writing in Crimson Desert is misunderstood. Very much seems to be in the vein of something more mythic than realistic. Kliff is not meant to be a 'human' character so much as he is the embodiment of a stoic wandering hero who straightforwardly solves the conflicts he encounters.
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Rosarie Maria🦐 @fatamorgana.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
It's so funny seeing people come up with all these insane ways you can fix game dev when the answer would literally be "stop abusing contractor systems so you have to retrain your creatives every 9 months, and fire that guy who's telling you asset reuse is a cardinal sin"
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Here's a video I made of honorable duels in Half Sword. youtu.be/Phof-oGq6xs?...
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Honorable Duels in Half Sword
YouTube video by Henry Chan
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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*Leon casually suplexing a 60 year old man*
"Guess that's The Last of Him."
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Really wish the Tomb Raider challenge patch had an option to use the PS1 save crystals without having to do it on new game plus lmao. All those extra modifiers but not one that is a straight up part of the game's history. Ah well, it's cool nonetheless.
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Was having no end to issues rendering a video. Finally downgraded my nvidia drivers to last stable video rendering ones. It's rendering the video faster than the actual video length. I swear to god if I went through the wringer for four days because of driver issues...
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/02/2026
in honor of resident evil day i gotta post my fav clip from charlie thegamingbrit’s resident evil videos. every time anyone argues about action vs horror in the series i think of this word for word
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George Yang @yinyangfooey.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Enjoyed the hell out of Resident Evil Requiem www.fangoria.com/resident-evi...
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RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM Blends The Best Of Survival Horror And Action
RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM: The return of Leon Kennedy and a new antagonist in the form of creepy scientist Victor Gideon. This is one of the best entries in the series to date, read our full review right ...
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Henry "Big Wins" Chan @pudymaster.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Insanely funny Nioh 3's big new combat feature is "press a button to toggle Ninja Gaiden mode." Nobody does it like Team Ninja.
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James is back in LA @theswweet.myatproto.social · 10/02/2026
Nioh 3 (2026)
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