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Randy Nelson @randynelson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Nine days after Nintendo added TV-mode VRR to Switch 2, Welcome Tour still appears to be the only released game with the eShop's new “VRR Output” flag. The upcoming Ocarina of Time remake has it too. I’m tracking the eShop metadata for changes. 👀

Screenshot from the Nintendo eShop showing Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour's flag denoting its support for TV mode VRR output.

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Randy Nelson @randynelson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It sounds great in person. I was hoping for the boot sound and some Crash Bandicoot OST or something iconic like all the other console ornaments, but at least it’s the entire sequence as if a bootable game is in the drive.

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Randy Nelson @randynelson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s not 2028 yet but this new PlayStation doesn’t run physical discs. It does play the full startup sound, however. It joins my set of the NES, SNES, Genesis, Dreamcast, Xbox, and Xbox 360. Hoping for but not expecting to see SMS,TG-16, Jaguar, Saturn, GameCube, Wii U. Maybe GameCube. Handhelds?

Photo of a Hallmark holiday ornament version of the original PlayStation.

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Randy Nelson @randynelson.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Manually adding MP3 metadata for the first time in more than a decade so I can properly listen to the new TMBG album. It's being sold directly ahead of the 4/14 release to raise funds for studio time, etc. tmbgshop.com/collections/...

Cover art of They Might Be Giants' 2026 album The World Is To Dig. A realistic painting of a beautiful valley in Yosemite with a tall waterfall flowing into it. The work was painted by American artist Thomas Hill.

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Randy Nelson @randynelson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I tried describing this to a friend once and they thought I'd 100% made it up. The coolest kids had that plus the Water Wiggle AND a Willy Water Bug. A veritable cavalcade of summer lawn toy wonderment!

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Randy Nelson @randynelson.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The first woman to lead NOA. This will be an exciting and long overdue era. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Nintendo of America's incoming President and COO, Devon Pritchard.

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Randy Nelson @randynelson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

How good is macOS Tahoe's new "combine stock emoji" feature? THIS GOOD. (🐧 + 🥵)

Red-faced penguin with a tongue sticking out of its chest mouth.

Emoji with tongue out, penguin "makeup", and penguin feet.

Penguin with two wings, two arms, holding a smiling emoji turned red by blood ostensibly dropping from the penguin's beak.

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Randy Nelson @randynelson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Loving my new shirt. Never forget: You gotta believe!

PaRappa the Rapper T-shirt featuring the game’s characters as illustrations in a grid pattern with playback controls underneath revealing that they’re on an album cover.

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Randy Nelson @randynelson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Games also make up the lion's share of the removed apps — almost 200K were zapped in 16 months. No doubt many of them for cloning other games and blatant IP infringement.

A table showing the ranking of Google Play categories by number of apps removed between January 2024 and April 2025. The top five are Games (199.4K), Education (160.7K), Business (115.4K), Tools (102K), and Entertainment (94.3K).

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Randy Nelson @randynelson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Oh, we made another chart. This one shows that new app *releases* on Google Play are actually up nearly 10% in the first four months of 2025. Games are still the biggest portion of those.

Chart displaying the number of new apps being added to Google Play monthly between January 2024 and April 2025.

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Randy Nelson @randynelson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The decline actually began before Google's cleanup initiative and rebounded a bit after the EU trader status rule variation kicked in requiring developers to disclose their name and address on their app/game's store page. We made a chart, of course.