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@ziaddd.bsky.social
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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 9h
I remain pretty bummed out by the state of decompilations, ports, FPGA cores etc these days. The rise of GenAI has really flooded the whole scene with garbage and kinda poisoned the whole concept. Good piece from @pandamonium.bsky.social on it www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/09/24/c...
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Column: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos
The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of all SHIRO! Media Group contributors. The cost of modern day video game consoles and personal computers have skyrocketed…
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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i think discussing intent as a way of asking "why is this like this" is solid but if you're actually looking at something as art you kind of should evaluate it through a pov that looks at it for the whats and not the whys lol
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
one of my favorite comments i've ever received
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
sat down with the homie @jiikae.com to talk about the current games discourse climate, FOMO and why even "gameplay-first" guys don't just wanna play with rectangles all day www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ3S...
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
weighing in on this www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtnW...
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
MONKEY BALL DREAMCAST PORT twitch.tv/ziadbruh
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
RESI MOVIE REVIEW! THE FF7 SITUATION! ACE COMBAT 6! IT'S POTENTIAL MAN MONDAY! twitch.tv/ziadbruh
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
modern capcom tier list. join the fun: twitch.tv/ziadbruh
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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey, My interview with Geoffroy Vincens from the French Indie studio @nova-box.com is now available on //CounterCulture! Enjoy! counterculture.ghost.io/indie-narrat...
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
recalling an ancient IGN conversation where they had this one editor say "you should never give out 10s," and while that's stupid, i think we may have swung too far in the other direction
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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 15/09/2026
excited to check out Wolverine for myself today (good or bad 😂) wrote about what I was seeing in reviews here: jakesteinberg.substack.com/p/perfectly-...
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Perfectly Functional
The Disappearing Critic
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
IT'S GOD HAND'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY... YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS twitch.tv/ziadbruh
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
you could argue sony’s put their full publishing weight behind a couple semi-recent japanese AAA games (both death strandings, bloodborne? anything else?) but when was the last time one of them was developed at one of their own studios?
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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It feels like people aren't willing to do the long building of their channels that those did and see baiting the algorithm and chasing FOMO discourse as a shortcut to big viewership. Only now that shortcut is so full that the way longer honest highway feels like the better option.
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No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com · 02/12/2025
SIGN OUR BOYCOTT XBOX PLEDGE: We are asking gamers, game workers, streamers & journalists to join us in boycotting & divesting from Xbox, to force Microsoft to end its complicity in the genocide of Palestinians. We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com
A graphic which uses the colours of the Palestinian flag: white, black, red and green. Text at the top reads “No games for genocide”, and text at the bottom reads “Boycott Xbox, Sign the pledge”, with the website nogamesforgenocide.com below. In the middle of the graphic is an icon of a fist punching upwards, splitting a missile in half. One half of the broken missile has the Xbox logo on it, and the other half has the Microsoft logo on it.
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
just aggressively shaking my head at everyone recognizing that the mainstream system of desperately covering every single new game the second it drops is broken, yet so many of my peers in the independent sphere choose to recreate it on a smaller scale and to produce the same type of shallow content
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 11/09/2026
i'm not going to play wolverine but all the arguments around it are very strange coming straight after onimusha, a game that has basically all the same problems except just better boss design and animation feedback
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
insomniac’s wolverine is not UNIQUELY bad. we in fact just had an equally vapid and boneless AAA game release a week earlier. what can we learn from this whole situation? youtu.be/-WxeZdOLoCY?...
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Wolverine is not that bad*
YouTube video by ZiadAfterDark
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
playing more onimusha: way of the 3/10 twitch.tv/ziadbruh
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
the skillup wolverine shit is how i felt about FF7 remake seven years ago. never wrong, just early.
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
genuinely feeling a 3/10 on the new onimusha. one of the most unbelievably vapid games i’ve played in a while. we did not know how good we had it with sekiro.
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
you already know twitch.tv/ziadbruh
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ocarina remake looks great. full thoughts here: youtu.be/EwcS8eGwmas
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Errdor @errdor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@ziaddd.bsky.social getting those live reactions is the only highlight
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
you already know twitch.tv/ziadbruh
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
about to master the way of the parryslop twitch.tv/ziadbruh
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
the secret best version of the original onimusha is stuck on xbox to this day… let me put y’all on game: youtu.be/xMWRMUaFjlw?...
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
i got to dive into the switch version of @angelineera.bsky.social a bit early and am happy to report it's both a great port and a wonderful game in general... out now on all systems! WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-G2...
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A beautiful, action-packed Zelda-like | Angeline Era Impressions
YouTube video by ZiadAfterDark
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
i'm fairly confident i was the best crazy taxi player in the gamescom press area, and it brings me no joy to say that world tour is NOT a game for hardcore fans, and extremely underwhelming even on its own terms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf1t...
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
siri told me there's no chance of bloodborne today twitch.tv/ziadbruh
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
thinking about marvel tokon
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
below you'll find a real quote from IGN's onimusha review. i'm not trying to send hate their way but i think we gotta ask some serious questions about how we approach new releases... video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUYD...
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
i got to play castlevania, mega man and crazy taxi at gamescom... let's talk about it twitch.tv/ziadbruh
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I PLAYED CRAZY TAXI, MEGA MAN AND STRANGER THAN HEAVEN AT GAMESCOM... also playing an actually good onimusha twitch.tv/ziadbruh
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
i don't trust anybody who looks at the movement in the new onimusha and doesn't think it's a complete non-starter as far as a faithful sequel to the classics goes
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
there’s genuinely tokon players in platinum rank who don’t know how to play neutral and do nothing but spam auto combo
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Rasheed Abueideh - Now crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow 🍉 @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thank you @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp for sharing about Palestine Checkout Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame about Palestine store.steampowered.com/app/4438850/...
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Dreams on a Pillow on Steam
From an award winning game designer, Dreams on a Pillow is a folk tale based on the true events of the 1948 Nakba. Play as Khadra, a young woman fleeing a massacre in this stealth-puzzle adventure gam...
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
gamescom week final train ride home, see y’all next year
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Character Action vs Beat 'em Up video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRc...
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
hearing tides of annihilation has hit stun and marvel vs capcom 2 assists
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
give a man a barebones terranigma re-release and he’ll be happy for a day. teach a man how to download ROMs and he’ll be happy for the rest of his life.
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
took me a moment to grok it but duskbloods owns. didn’t realize that from bringing their level design chops to a game about giant multiplayer maps with shifting objectives was something i wanted
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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 20/08/2026
Why is positivity seen as neutral and negativity seen as suspect? Why do people invoke "let people enjoy things" at the whiff of interesting writing? Maybe lumping misogyny and racism in with "negativity" is a bad idea! The podcast tackles the BE NICE BRIGADE: youtu.be/jzSdVAI306E?...
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The Be Nice Brigade™
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
this game fucking sucks
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TheWolvesDen25🐌 @thewolvesden25.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I need to finish this but @ziaddd.bsky.social has a great video about the level up system in general but tackles some of Splatoon Raiders in addition to how this game both usurps and at other time indulges in the rpg elements youtu.be/L5agoVpRK2Y?...
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The problem with RPG mechanics
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
devil may cry was once the centerpiece of my social media bubble. many have since come forward to declare the CAG-era officially over... now i dare to ask: is character action still cool? www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEsN...
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Is Character Action still cool?
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
i'm pleasantly surprised how different and less souls-y this looks compared to wukong. not blowing my socks off but that is a nice thing to see www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi2Q...
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Black Myth: Zhong Kui – 15 Minutes Gameplay Trailer
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
you won't believe the news i'm about to share with you. don't miss it: twitch.tv/ziadbruh
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Joie @lowlevelowl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Guested on a podcast with A Very Good Good Fella* about how we approach getting into series and how entrypoints into them affect our overall experience Throw it on while you're commuting or hyperfixating—i only make like 2 off-color jokes * a goodfella, if you will
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ziad 🇱🇧 @ziaddd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i genuinely think fighting games should not let you enter ranked on PC without a mandatory benchmark that confirms you can run it at a stable 60fps. if i fight one more laggy magneto i’m turning off crossplay
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