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Ronan Price

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Journalist and games critic at Irish Independent. Data enthusiast. Runner. These are my opinions - you can't have them

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a very good listen as Simon Parkin talks to Sarah Maria Griffin, with plenty of insight from an Irish perspective of how gaming intertwines with life and art
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What an interview, what a guy…
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you haven't heard this series, you should listen to it, and you'll like Dolly even more. (My fave episode is the one where Jad talks to his dad about how "Tennessee Mountain Home" spoke to him as an immigrant far from home.)
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I don't think I want any takeaways from Erin Patterson, thanks all the same
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Jörg Tittel @newjorg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
On September 1st, Sony customers will lose 500+ movies the thought they owned. Welcome to the post-disc future. www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/06...
pushsquare.com
Sony Will Permanently Delete 550+ Movies You Already Paid For
"I won't be back"
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Podcast producers around world are going nuts about Spotify's new trial of a "skip ahead" button - to avoid ads, promos, etc. It differs from "skip x seconds" button because it jumps ads en masse and will push pod producers towards subscriptions if rolled out fully www.semafor.com/article/08/0...
semafor.com
Spotify’s new ‘skip’ button could end the podcast business as we know it
The Swedish streaming giant cast the move as streamlining a feature that already exists, the Spotify app’s 15-second skip button.
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott - who sensibly divorced Jeff Bezos years ago - is self-publishing her latest novel on her Substack bit by bit this month. The first chapter of 'Last Days in Two Nations' makes for compelling but rather grim reading lastdaysintwonations.substack.com
lastdaysintwonations.substack.com
Last Days in Two Nations | Substack
Click to read Last Days in Two Nations, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Australian social media ban for under-16s seems to have a lot of holes in it
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Asteroids, Adventure, Berzerk, Breakout, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong and Yars’ Revenge - they are all classic Atari videogames. But would you watch a movie based on any of them? Hollywood thinks so deadline.com/2026/07/atar...
deadline.com
Atari Signs Deal With Universal To Turn 10 Iconic Games Into Movies
Atari has signed a deal with Universal Pictures giving the studio first look at developing 10 classic Atari video game properties for the big screen.
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Binface really putting it up to Farage with his manifesto...
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Amazon wants to kill off dodgy boxes with next version of its Fire Stick, which is one of the USB devices widely used for illegal streaming www.cordbusters.co.uk/amazon-fire-...
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Amazon’s Fire TV Boss Talks Vega, Sideloading And Freely | Cord Busters
Amazon’s Fire TV Vice President talks Vega OS, the app shortfall and why Fire TV sticks still don’t have Freely - in a revealing Cord Busters interview
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
ESB putting up its #EV charging rates by almost 10% from tomorrow - one day’s notice! It’s less than a year since the last increase. Rates not updated on website yet but email to users gone out today esb.ie/what-we-do/e...
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ecars Electric Car Charging Price Plans Ireland | ESB
Discover our two electric car charging price plans available for use with our electric vehicle charging points across the island of Ireland. See more.
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Oooof, Microsoft raises the prices of all #Xbox consoles for the second time in a year - but this time by a whopping 25% in some cases from August 1. AI and the component shortage to blame, obviously news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...
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Updated XBOX Console Prices - XBOX Wire
Effective August 1, 2026, the price of XBOX consoles will be increasing by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models.
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Stop Killing Games campaign - to keep servers online perpetually or make them work offline - has hit a roadblock with EU rejection of petition
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Outstanding value especially if you love stories told in a delightfully convoluted way
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The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @iethics.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"Landmark German ruling declares Google's #AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers": the-decoder.com/landmark-ger... #ethics #law #internet #tech #business h/t @garymarcus.bsky.social
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The new Halo trailer was captured on a PS5 ... how's that for cross-platform?
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Epic Trek-ness
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Why would you even do this? AI company experiments with asking five LLMs to run their self-created online radio stations autonomously for six months, selling ads and all. One went mad and ranted, another kept repeating itself and (of course) Grok hallucinated big time www.cnet.com/tech/service...
cnet.com
6 Months of AI Radio Went About as Badly as You'd Expect
The experiment was simple. A company gave four AI models $20 each and a fistful of instructions, then left them to their own devices.
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The Nex Playground games console took the US by storm with its motion-controlled, family-friendly fun when it launched last year - now pre-orders are available for the Ireland and UK release in late June, priced at €320 (plus €90 yearly subscription for 60+ games) www.nexplayground.com/en-gb
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Saskiarghhhhh Daniel @saskiadanielceramics.com · 30/04/2026
This is quite the story.
bbc.co.uk
BBC obtains Northamptonshire Police video of woman's arrest
Nadine Buzzard-Quashie speaks for first time about her
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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Fucking hell. What a shot.
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The new 007: First Light videogame has quite the big-budget title sequence in the manner of the Bond films, and stars Irish actor Patrick Gibson with sound design by Ciaran Devlin Rushe. Out May 27. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cqG...
youtube.com
007 First Light Title Sequence – Lana Del Rey
YouTube video by 007 First Light
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Nintendo sued by gamers in the US because it seems unlikely the company will refund consumers even as it pursues the US government for rebates on those Trump tariffs www.gamefile.news/p/gamers-sue...
gamefile.news
Gamers sue Nintendo over tariff refunds, saying consumers should get the money back
A messy situation gets messier
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Will this encourage Sony to re-think its hikes to PlayStation Plus given that it's still considerably cheaper than GamePass at the top level? Doubt it... www.playstation.com/en-ie/ps-plu...
playstation.com
PlayStation®Plus | Hundreds of games to download and play, PlayStation classics, game trials and more
Join PlayStation Plus on an Essential, Extra or Premium membership plan and get hundreds of PS4 and PS5 games, online multiplayer, classics catalogue, exclusive discounts and more.
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Microsoft hiked the price of the top tier of Xbox Game Pass by up to 50% only last October. After a stinging reaction from players, Xbox has dropped it back to €21 a month but will now omit each new edition of Call of Duty from the service until a year after release. news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...
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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire
Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate drops from $29.99 to $22.99 a month. Find out more inside.
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
How social media and apps for kids create addiction using tricks that have hooked gamblers for decades
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The surprising origin of 4 features that superglue kids — and adults — to screens
Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable.
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Granny was in the zone…
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Woah! So Irish YouTuber JackSepticEye is a big-time Hollywood producer now? He's part of the group of companies bringing an adaptation of the gory Gothic PS4 game Bloodborne to the big screen variety.com/2026/film/ne...
variety.com
‘Bloodborne’ Video Game Getting R-Rated Animated Movie Adaptation From Sony
Sony is adapting the 'Bloodborne' video game into an R-rated animated movie, the studio said at CinemaCon.
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Glowing concern, surely?
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Really good read from The Verge based on interview with head of Puck, the new Substack-alike. Should journalists be more like influencers with brand deals, etc? www.theverge.com/podcast/9104...
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Can Puck reinvent news for the influencer age?
CEO Sarah Personette’s risky bet on journalists as influencers
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Elon's toxicity still not a problem for Irish buyers as CSO figures show Tesla models occupy two of the top three slots for EVs sold here in March. But at least sales of EVs jumped 39% in March, year on year data.cso.ie
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Google’s AI Overview in its search results is spewing out millions of lies per hour, according to research, because its accuracy rate is only 90% arstechnica.com/google/2026/...
arstechnica.com
Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour
Is 90 percent accuracy good enough for a search robot?
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Ouch. If you’re considering buying a new #PS5 of any flavour, act quickly because Sony is raising the price of all its consoles by up to €100 from April 2 blog.playstation.com/2026/03/27/n...
blog.playstation.com
New Price Changes for PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal remote player
Prices effective starting April 2, 2026.
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Some interesting data here, ranking the top videogame publishers by their average Metacritic score for at least five releases in 2025. Sony and Nintendo not even in the top 10.
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Fair play to Gavan Reilly, who solves a Rubik’s Cube in about a minute while delivering a piece to camera about his new Monday-night show. We hope the camera cuts didn’t allow you to cheat, Gav
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
More than 150 Irish games in the Steam sale, I believe - not all as Gaeilge
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Interesting-looking job opening up as head of digital games to set policy for Screen Ireland, with some heavy-duty requirements in terms of skills and experience but a salary of €86,000 and a five-year contract
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
#Fortnite, the free-to-play-game that made an estimated $6bn ($6bn!) for its creator Epic Games last year, is raising the price of its obnoxious V-Bucks virtual currency by up to 20% from next week. Sure, Epic needs to make a living and its costs are up - but 20%? www.fortnite.com/news/fortnit...
fortnite.com
Fortnite V-Bucks Price Increase
Read exactly what’s changing March 19, 2026.
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
What a life, what stories…
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Colm Larkin @gambrinous.com · 12/03/2026
Really proud to see this Games From Ireland steam event come together - will be live from 5pm Irish time tomorrow and goes right through St Patrick's Day next week!
An art piece showcasing characters from various Irish games with the text "Games from Ireland, presented by Imirt"
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Imminent changes to the European PEGI rating system mean EA Sports FC likely to get an over-16s-only label due its inclusion of lootboxes you can’t turn off
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This is good reporting from Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten about how Meta's smart glasses sends lots of video clips recorded – in the bedroom, the bathroom and more – to humans in Kenya for review to improve the AI. But few users are actually aware of how much their privacy is being invaded
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/03/2026
“The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives. Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex…”
svd.se
She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The furore over lootboxes in videogames seemed to have died away but now the New York attorney general has launched a lawsuit against Valve over Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2 www.gamesindustry.biz/new-york-sue...
gamesindustry.biz
New York sues Valve over loot boxes, alleges gambling law violations
New York attorney general accuses Valve of promoting illegal gambling in Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Guitar Hero guys are putting the band back together www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUrk...
youtube.com
STAGE TOUR • Official Game Reveal
YouTube video by Stage Tour
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Chilling curried-chip crisis with dialogue in Gaelic and a stomach-turning name, what’s not to like?
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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Interesting long-term study of #EV battery health shows they retain their capacity a lot longer than some might think www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/368998/...
autoexpress.co.uk
Electric car batteries are lasting a lot longer than expected | Auto Express
UK’s largest used EV battery survey reveals the average state of health for electric cars of all ages is 95 per cent
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