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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 14/10/2026

🚍 THANK YOU BUS DRIVER IS NOW AVAILABLE! 🚍 If you’ve ever loved anything we’ve ever done, now is a critical time to support us. It’s $4.99 USD for bite-sized bus driving shenanigans. Want to help us reach more players? Your shift starts now! Buy TYBD: doublefine.com/tybd

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Unfortunately Eurogamer no longer has the staff to catch these things anymore.

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@suleyk.bsky.social Not what we previously thought, Japanese translation is a tricky business.

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The amount of times I forget! Cheers 👍

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Heard you're off as well? Take care man 👍

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Subscribed to the @videogameschronicle.com patreon today. You guys have been absolutely killing it. I felt I should contribute to not only independent journalism but your now almost obsessive Japan trips! #vgc

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Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I spoke to former WarioWare series director Goro Abe about life after Nintendo and how teaching has given him a different perspective on game creation. www.videogameschronicle.com/guide/wariow...

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WarioWare director reveals what changed after he left Nintendo | VGC

Goro Abe says switching Nintendo for teaching has given him a new perspective on game creation…

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I miss the old cookie PlayStation. I don't like the new corporate Playstation nearly as much.

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Imagine how long it would take Glasgow city council to approve a building like that!? We'd a be deed!

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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 10/09/2026

DLSS 5 is just a lighting pass and not an ai hallucin--

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our day at the museum was the most costly of our Japan trip by a fairly wide margin!

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@andyrobinson.bsky.social Was that an Osaka or a museum t-shirt you were sporting in the last VGC podcast? Couldn't tell from your camera angle ☺️

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Compulsion Games @compulsiongames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Indie Life at Compulsion Games Due to recent budget reductions, our office aesthetic is now shifting from "Artsy Chic" to "Immersive Frugality." Follow along for more trendsetting lifestyle updates! #indie #compulsion #compulsiongames #games #beforeandafter

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I loved it when Nextlander played this so I'm excited to see what you think!

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Why is it a family of devices Sharma?" "My A.I agent says it would be a good idea!"

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Star Wars - Zero Company knows what it's doing. Got a trophy for missing a 95% shot! 😀

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I guess I'm playing The Witcher III again in October. What a crazy amount of upgrades, plus I've never gotten round to the dlc. #witcher3

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm so glad I'm no longer on that cesspool.

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ZX spectrum really was the wild west of development

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Congrats on another cycle round our local star.

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

@matpiscatella.bsky.social Game mess mornings are always great when you're on. It's always good to hear your take on the state of the industry. #giantbomb #circana

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Julian rocking the quintessential late 80s, early 90s haircut

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Two weeks removed and the post holiday blues have set in. Would do almost anything to be back in Japan 🥲

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This smacks of a board meeting where the board have said to him, "The fuck are you doing?"

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I've been back home for three weeks and I miss the street food in Dotonbori so much! 🥲

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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 12/08/2026

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma visited Bethesda this week and says The Elder Scrolls 6 is "incredible". Meanwhile, union members put up a giant inflatable rat outside the building and planted red flags to protest Microsoft's layoffs this year. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-ce...

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says The Elder Scrolls 6 is ‘incredible’ as Bethesda protesters put up giant rat outside building | VGC

Workers also planted red flags outside to represent the Xbox staff laid off this year…

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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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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you're not at a 30 degree angle are you truly asleep though? My eldest (now 23) did the same thing for the first few months of her life.

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Eesh! But honestly worth every penny, best holiday, amazing country and some of the best scenery and memories made in my life. ❤️ #Japan

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The A.I industry summed up brilliantly in just over 100 seconds.

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I've been here for the last two weeks and it's pishing down today, it was so welcome I intentionally got soaked 😂

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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 20/07/2026

"We are committed to making this clearer" - Xbox executives say it's "not obvious" to all players what its criteria are for making its games console exclusives or multiplatform. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/we-are-...

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‘We are committed to making this clearer’: Xbox exec says it’s ‘not obvious’ to players which games will be exclusive | VGC

Xbox is reportedly still deciding whether some upcoming games will be multiplatform…

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Ryan Cohen does seem to be his ketamine dealer's best friend.

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I did and wtfay? Oh wait it doesn't matter because you're blocked.

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🍺 Stephen Beattie 🖖 @stephenbeattie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I wish them and double fine and the others who have gotten independence all the luck in the world. I'll certainly be buying the games these studios put out and none of my funds will be going anywhere near Microsoft!

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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 14/07/2026

Now no longer with Xbox, South of Midnight studio Compulsion Games has invited partners to collaborate with it after going independent. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ex-xbox...

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Ex-Xbox studio Compulsion Games invites partners to collaborate with it after going independent | VGC

The South of Midnight studio wants to work with other game and entertainment studios…

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