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ICYMI: Backers of physical media have called on gamers to boycott PlayStation for a week in August to send a message to Sony that its decision to kill discs from 2028 is unacceptable. https://t.co/Q54DTtbkUV

There are many reasons why i don't respect IGN or the people who make up its leadership but chief among them:

A search of all IGN posts on bluesky including "BDS" in them with no results found

IGN@ign.com · 4d ago

Daryl Surat@darylsurat.bsky.social · 4d ago

#blutoid hot take: i think the AI bubble and its impact on the games industry has finally turned the 360 and PS3 (and by extension the Wii) into "retro consoles" for me. 🧵 1/

I regret to inform you that the Kacho will be pontificating this month on a Game Center CX livestream whether or not it is time to expand the scope of retro gaming to include the PlayStation…3. And Nintendo Wii.

A screenshot of Game Center CX host Shinya Arino holding a Dual Shock 3 controller while a Nintendo Wii and fat model PlayStation 3 are in front of him, with large captions for Wii and PS3 superimposed along with Japanese text conveying shock and dismay (“What!?” “Intolerable!”)

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 5d ago

A lot of incredibly weird responses to a story about a celebrity setting money on fire for attention lol There was nothing stopping her from going to a local shop, buying a lose copy of this card, and doing this with it. And no one would have gaf 🤷‍♂️

K-pop star Momo is under fire after breaking open a vintage graded Pokémon card to stick it on her face and keep it in her phone case

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 5d ago

Every so often i need to remind myself it isn't worth arguing w/ people who lack the life experience to be aware of their hubris. Sometimes young people just need to fight for the sake of fighting and you need to give them space to do that

#blutoid sony has an internal policy not to address community backlash because they believe (a) if it works, it encourages more in the future and (b) if it doesn't, it just adds to said backlash. They're breaking that policy here and i think they're about to see a lot more of (b) moving forward lol

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 6d ago

'‘We’re going to cautiously move this forward’: Sony says it hears PlayStation disc backlash but will continue its plans www.videogameschronicle.com/news/were-go...

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 6d ago

#blutoid i still can't believe this is real but like, they filmed it! It's somehow happening lol. My inner garland sicko outweighs my inner from soft hater so i will be there!

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 6d ago

A24's 'Elden Ring' movie has wrapped filming ⚔️ Written and directed by Alex Garland In theaters March 3, 2028

SuperStation console mode looks sleek af, really liking what Taki and the Retro Remake team have done with this so far youtu.be/1sfifOftuFE

SuperStation One - Console Mode Tutorial

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People on the internet stop conflating the niche circles you exist in with the broader art medium challenge (impossible)

#blutoid double post put I'm watching Amores perros for the first time (doing an Iñárritu run ahead of his new movie) and I'm like "man, TLOU *really* borrowed heavily from this film's score, the acoustic guitar here is uncanny" and lol

ctg867@ctg867.bsky.social · last yr.

>it was not $400 >"secret third thing" was the AI bubble that fucked everything worse than tariffs did >slowed a lot from its launch but has still sold at/near record pace, even if it wasn't the a lofty 30M plus How we feeling about the first year of the switch 2 so far? #blutoid

Prediction 1) Assuming a $400 price point and 2) Barring tariff impact / other geopolitical fuckery I think Nintendo is gonna sell as many Switch 2 units as is physically possible to produce, and I think it's entirely plausible that number is 30+ million in its first 12 months #blutoid

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com · last wk.

#blutoid dammit, that really sucks. There were always examples of games w/ bad tutorialization or signposting but this has gotten increasingly worse over the years. Devs keep chasing the lowest common denominator player, removing all friction at the expense of being able to learn/grow

Maaaan the Halo remake is exhaustingly Modern in its bullshit... Cortana has all kinds of extra tutorial dialogue. The intro of invisible elites, instead of being a scary moment of guys suddenly dropping dead around you, is her going "Invisible elites!! Look for distortions in the air!" Christ alive

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.

Great feature on a thing i generally understood to be true about east asian corporate hostility to the journalistic process but pretty wild to see it articulated like this (also something that seems to be true in much of the gaming space, not just w/ anime studios)

I hate doing anime interviews: aftermath.site/i-hate-doing-a...

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 2w ago

"this bad idea would have been a good idea if it made more money" Riveting commentary here lol

Forza Horizon 5's director says Xbox Game Pass was a good idea in theory, "The reality is not enough people have subscribed." https://bit.ly/4vGs8dq

/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Games that give you some kind of audio visual indicator that an unblockable attack is coming but it happens so far ahead of the attack that it isn't just functionally useless but actually makes it harder to parry or evade. (This is me complaining about ghost of yotei boss fight design #blutoid)

🚨New noclip_2 Feature!🕹️ Investigating Pinball's Surprising American Comeback Featuring interviews with @jeffgerstmann.com, @jerf.xyz, @cheapassgamer.com and a host of pinball experts. WATCH: youtu.be/FjCchQAo_mk

Investigating Pinball's Surprising American Comeback - Frank Howley

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm just saying

I was invited to the Riyadh Comedy Festival (in Saudi Arabia), which is something that I obviously did not want to do. They offered me, I’m not going to say how much, but it was seven figures to do one show, which is way more than I’ve ever been offered in my life to do a show. But I just couldn’t be part of that. I’m not dissing anybody that took the money because I’m sure everybody that went there got a lot of money. I’m sure they had their own reasons and justifications for doing it. But I’m doing enough that I don’t need to take any amount of money if it makes me feel icky, and that kind of did.
I respect Weird Al’s restraint here, but also those people deserve to be dissed! They took money from a government with numerous human rights abuses on its record that relies on popular entertainers (and athletes) specifically to cover up those abuses.

Which brings us to Kojima, who—alongside other video game bigwigs like Activision COO Joshua Taub, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, Sega president Shuji Utsumi, and former Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada—was a speaker at the 2025 Esports World Cup’s New Global Sport Conference, another Riyadh-based, Saudi-government-backed act of reputational whitewashing. He did not need to! None of those executives did. They chose to. It’s unclear whether or not money changed hands, but that’s kind of beside the point. (Let’s be real, though: Considering that Saudi Arabia is about to fork over billions to complete its purchase of EA, it probably did.)

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2w ago

Weird Al > Hideo Kojima aftermath.site/weird-al-saudi...

weird al posing goofily next to his hollywood star

#blutoid y'all i think i have a problem 😭

Chuck Zimmerheld@chucktowski.com · 2w ago

Some incredibly important games on here, but a not insignificant number of omissions I'm struggling to square.

Log in, track your progress (Not Played, Played, Completed, Seen Everything) on 151 games that shaped video game history. Not a Best list, an Important list. giantbomb.com/the-most-imp...

/noclip@noclipvideo.bsky.social · 2w ago

#blutoid finally got a chance to watch this one. Really insightful look into the history of MMOs, but also just the social history and shared experiences of games, period. Highly recommend (last month's star wars galaxies doc was also very good!)

🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ The History & Evolution of Massively Multiplayer Games We talk to @raphkoster.bsky.social about the history of group play, how MUDs became MMOs and the evolution of online worlds. WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHu7...

Ains @seasonedgaming.com · 2w ago

My Halo Campaign Evolved review is live and reflects on the changes Halo Studios chose to make and how they affect the classic campaign. I also touch on the 3-mission "mini" campaign addition, what sprint does to the flow of missions, and more. 🫡 seasonedgaming.com/2026/07/23/r...

Review : Halo Campaign Evolved : A Guilty Spark

To say that Halo Combat Evolved was formative for me would be an understatement. While I was in my early 20s when it released, like many I became

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Ains@seasonedgaming.com · 2w ago

Halo Campaign Evolved arrives today (in premium access) and my review will be live later today for @seasonedgaming.bsky.social . As anyone who knows me knows, I have a lot of thoughts. Some good, some bad and I have more to put on paper. Excited to share fully later today. #Halo #Xbox

Rhys Elliott@superhys.bsky.social · 2w ago

#blutoid the dead space remake sold 4.3M units, slightly more than FF7 rebirth and a good bit more than silent hill 2, but EA still cancelled their next game. I fucking hate this industry, man

Here's this gen’s top remakes by copies sold across PlayStation, Steam, and Xbox (Alinea Analytics estimates). We also cover why the hell there are so many bloody remakes these days. Big write-up: alineaanalytics.substack.com/p/this-gens-...

@gamersnexus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Update: We are working on a follow-up to the LG story and have some disturbing findings re: LG's products. It will take us a while to parse everything and we have involved multiple security researchers, lawyers (working on reading around 40,000 words of LG agreements that are, generally, terrifying

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2w ago

#blutoid xbox has leveraged play anywhere in its console exit strategy to encourage people to keep buying games knowing they're playable on PC, but I'm genuinely surprised they're doing this. Guess we'll see if this will get long term support or if it's just an empty gesture.

XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC announced starting with 4 games: -BLiNX: The Time Sweeper -Conker: Live and Reloaded -Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge -Fuzion Frenzy news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 2w ago

I was just reminded that Star Wars: Zero Company has permadeath, procgen, and time limited mission and got bummed out all over again. I get it, it's basically an XCOM full conversion mod but I was really hoping for something closer to a proper RPG. Why can no one seem to make this?!

Nintendo Switch 2 console is $427 on Woot w/ code GIFT26, $399 for new customers buff.ly/vOTIblp #ad

/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 2w ago

The History & Evolution of Massively Multiplayer Games (with Raph Koster) - /noclip

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/noclip@noclipvideo.bsky.social · 3w ago

I say this with zero hyperbole: there are few people who are a part of this art medium who have a better grasp on our connections to it than Jeremy Jayne. I could listen to this mfer wax philosophical for hours lol #blutoid

Remember buying boxed games? @jeremybjayne.bsky.social felt the need to get physical recently. So he headed to his local store to pick up a game he'd never played before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i80z...