Tessera

I love my game collection not for the quantity, but for what it symbolizes. I have been collecting for 22 years and this shelf isn't just to store cases and carts, but memories and events that can never be replaced. PHYSICAL FOREVER ❤️

Drink a Beer & Play a Game@dbpg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Check Jim's video too!

This week marks Sonic the Hedgehog’s 35th anniversary so to celebrate, I take a look at my top 10 Sonic games youtu.be/ubgt35Rf-4g?...

NEW VIDEO! After talking about Sonic the Hedgehog for years, it is finally time to list my favorite games in the series! Just a couple days shy from his 35th birthday! Link in the reply!

Daniel @bladeblur.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW VIDEO! After talking about Sonic the Hedgehog for years, it is finally time to list my favorite games in the series! Just a couple days shy from his 35th birthday! Link in the reply!

Happy 35th @sonic-official.bsky.social ! Thank you for all the years of speed, fun and passion! Keep running for decades to come! #sonicthehedgehog #sonic35 #sega

Daniel @bladeblur.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Yoshi!

Vance/Vallon bunny dad@istricer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Mario time!

Daniel @bladeblur.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I am like a ninja 🥷

Williamgood@williamgood.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Found a wild @bladeblur.bsky.social at GameOn Expo!

TheCartoonGamer @thecartoongamer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NEW VIDEO ALERT! I'll show you how to REALLY celebrate Pokemon Day, with a ranking of EVERY English Pokemon Theme Song. Which one will come out on top??? Shares appreciated and all that! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj77...

Daniel @bladeblur.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy 30th Pokémon! Thank for decades of entertainment and allowing me to meet so many wonderful people in my life. I am glad that I have chosen this wonderul franchise 🙌❤️💓 #Pokemon #Pokemon30 #Pokemon30thAnniversary #PokemonGO #PokemonFRLG

Daniel @bladeblur.bsky.social · 7mo ago

As happy as I am to see this, I was hoping we'll get Gens 1 and 2 first. I just love the idea of using the pokemon bank feature to transfer Pokemon from the oldest games to the newest installments. Plus they put Crystal there, I imagine all the folks who will go for Shiny Celebi all over again.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version on Nintendo Switch Trailer (Feb 27th) www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8c_...

Daniel @bladeblur.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy 20th Anniversary to Chibi-Robo! Playing it for the first time since it was released two decades ago!

Victor Lucas @victorlucas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The chat is open and EP’s #RocketAndRaygunAwards presented by @pnpgames.bsky.social is GO! Thank you to everybody that contributed vids! ❤️ youtu.be/tyW3xAzFZM4?...

THE ROCKET & RAYGUN AWARDS with VICTOR LUCAS & BEHR SAFI! - The Best of 2025! - Electric Playground

YouTube video by Electric Playground Network - EPN

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Daniel @bladeblur.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Here are my 10 games I'll try to beat in 2026: Super Mario RPG Klonoa: Empire of Dreams Illbleed Ridge Racer Type 4 Okami HD Timesplitters El Viento Conker's Bad Fur Day & Live and Reloaded Rayman Origins Guardian Heroes Layover from last year: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Star Fox 64

Drink a Beer & Play a Game@dbpg.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It is that time of the year again! Watch or listen to me talk about the best games of the year, including how Baby Steps has changed one man's world perspective ❤️

We have a new episode of the Power Hour Podcast as @bladeblur.bsky.social joins us to talk GameStop closures & bait tweets, Jim’s Baby Steps, Lara Croft’s reveal, Rolling Stone’s top 25 games of 2025, your Patreon questions & more! Up now on YouTube, Apple & Podbean, links below 👇

Daniel@bladeblur.bsky.social · 8mo ago

LIVE NOW @ twitch.tv/bladeblur !

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Jankuary 2! Playing Hotel Mario for the first time! Please help me through this...

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Hey there! Tomorrow 1/16 at 10pm EST/7PM PST I am going to be live for the 2nd @jankuary.bsky.social on twitch! I enjoyed the event a lot last year so this year I am tackling one of the most infamous games of all time: Hotel Mario for the CDi. Is it as bad people say? Tune in tomorrow to find out!

Drink a Beer & Play a Game@dbpg.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Always fun times at @dbpg.bsky.social 's podcast. These two are great at what they do and it is such a huge honor being an annual part of their show. Check them out!

Recording time with our buddy @bladeblur.bsky.social while enjoying the Blenders BlackBerry Oreo by Axe & Arrow

G to The Next Level 🔜 G-CON 5 on 🟣 (9/13-9/19)@gtothenextlevel.com · 8mo ago

4 games that defined my 2025.

4 games that defined my 2025.

Daniel @bladeblur.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Titanfall 2 is one of the best First Person Shooters I have ever played in my life. Vince has been responsible to many classics and he will be missed. My condolences to his friends and family. ❤️

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Vince Zampella, video game developer behind ‘Call of Duty' franchise, killed in crash www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/v...

Brendan Hesse is at Pax West @brendanlh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I beat Metroid Prime 4 a couple nights ago. 100% items, it took 16 hours and change. It did weird things to my brain, and I needed to write about it. So enjoy this unplanned meditation on the fourth Metroid Prime game. Please repost and share it around :)

Within the first hour of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Samus is imbued with psychic powers. From that moment onward, I spent my 16-hour first playthrough wishing I had psychic abilities, too. Not because I want to move things telekinetically or see into the future, but because I wish I could beam my thoughts about Metroid Prime 4 directly into someone else's mind. Your mind. Maybe I wouldn’t have to talk about this game--because, frankly, I think we’ve all talked about it too much already. Instead, you could know—feel—my experience with the game first-hand.

If I had psychic powers, you would know what it feels like to have actively, stubbornly, held Metroid Prime as your favorite game these past 25 years, and the self-inflicted expectations I struggled against in the lead up to Prime 4’s launch. And you would know how it felt for all that to dissolve the moment I viewed an unknown world from behind the familiar HUD of Samus’ visor.

If I could share my memories with you, you could trace in yourself the same shape of the emotions I felt while exploring Ice Belt--my awareness flitting between the unease in my gut and melancholy in my chest. The sense of scale I felt seeing the megalithic storm clouds of Volt Forge’s skybox. My surprise that Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano somehow found such an alien electric guitar tone, but also chose to feature it prominently throughout the soundtrack. The familiar compulsion to break every green crystal and return to locations to collect lingering items, long before the game asked me to. The way a single unimportant scan in a Lamorn shrine evoked vivid images of the species’ final hours.

How else, than with psychic abilities, could I convey the way the dissipating mist in Fury Green’s Cargo Launcher platform never lost its novelty? Or how it felt to look up from the depths of the Great Mines, see the gray sky peeking through the broken rock hundreds of feet above, and think, “This is all I’ve ever wanted from Metroid.”

And if I could invite you into my mind, then you, like me, would also question if the only reason these familiar “Metroid-y” moments meant something is because they’re juxtaposed against my frustrations with the story; my disappointment in the brevity of Flare Pool and linearity of The Great Mines; my lingering apathy towards Samus’ companions and underutilized rival; my skepticism about whether this is the direction I want the series to take, if it continues.

You would see how these highs and lows blend uncomfortably, echoing the unpleasant dissonance I felt between the oversaturated orange and purple hues of Sol Valley against the dense, dark, moody atmospheres of the on-foot biomes. Or the ways radio calls and escort missions impinge on segments of sublime isolation and engrossing visual design.

Maybe after all of that, you, too, would struggle to resolve these contradictions and distill the totality of this arc into a succinct statement of quality, much I like am.

Alas, I do not have psychic powers, so these words must suffice.

Written & Designed by Brendan Hesse
Proofreading & Feedback - Abram Buehner

Special thankt to THE CRAWL Patraon Supporters

Daniel @bladeblur.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Tekken is my favorite fighting game franchise of all time, with Tekken 5 being in my top 10 games ever. Harada-san did so much for the franchise and it was a major honor seeing him in passing back in Comic-Con 2012. Wish him all the best in his new life chapter ❤️

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Katsuhiro Harada to leave Bandai Namco at end of the year

I’d like to share that I’ll be leaving Bandai Namco at the end of 2025.
With the TEKKEN series reaching its 30th anniversary—an important milestone for a project I’ve devoted much of my life to—I felt this was the most fitting moment to bring one chapter to a close.

My roots lie in the days when I supported small local tournaments in Japanese arcades and in small halls and community centers overseas.
I still remember carrying arcade cabinets by myself, encouraging people to “Please try TEKKEN,” and directly facing the players right in front of me.
The conversations and atmosphere we shared in those places became the core of who I am as a developer and game creator.

Even as the times changed, those experiences have remained at the center of my identity.
And even after the tournament scene grew much larger, many of you continued to treat me like an old friend—challenging me at venues, inviting me out for drinks at bars.
Those memories are also deeply precious to me.
In recent years, I experienced the loss of several close friends in my personal life, and in my professional life I witnessed the retirement or passing of many senior colleagues whom I deeply respect.
Those accumulated events made me reflect on the “time I have left as a creator.”
During that period, I sought advice from Ken Kutaragi—whom I respect as though he were another father—and received invaluable encouragement and guidance.
His words quietly supported me in making this decision.

Over the past four to five years, I’ve gradually handed over all of my responsibilities, as well as the stories and worldbuilding I oversaw, to the team, bringing me to the present day.
Looking back, I was fortunate to work on an extraordinary variety of projects—VR titles (such as Summer Lesson), Pokkén Tournament, the SoulCalibur series, and many others, both inside and outside the company.

Daniel @bladeblur.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Mortal Kombat was one of my favorite movies growing up. Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa's Shang Tsung is a major reason why the movie still holds up. It's even more amazing he returned to the role in Mortal Kombat 11 almost 25 years later. R.I.P Tagawa-san, and no matter what your soul is a part of all of us!

IGN@ign.com · 9mo ago

Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, known for his roles as Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat (1995), Nobusuke Tagomi in The Man in the High Castle, and Chang in The Last Emperor (1987), has passed away at 75.

Rest in Peace - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
September 1950 - December 2025

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Happy 20th Xbox 360! Might as well bring a video I did for its 10th anniversary a decade ago. A lot of my choices are either changed or dated since some games have become multi-platform. Still besides not putting Amped 3 there or placing Lost Odyssey MUCH higher, I still have nostalgia for this vid.

Top 10 Xbox 360 Exclusives - BladeBlur

YouTube video by BladeBlur

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Xbox 360 is now 20 years old (November 22, 2005)

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 10mo ago

If it is true, it will be 5 years since the supposed January 2021 of the original iteration of the remake.

Insider-Gaming: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake is scheduled to release in mid-January 2026 with an appearance likely at The Game Awards (Dec 11, 2025) insider-gaming.com/prince-of-pe...

I was expecting Kirby Air Riders to do so well critically, but the scores ended up more lukewarm than I thought. That being said, it's MUCH better than what the original received back in 2003. Not much of a comparison since we had 22 years of advancement in the medium but still. Food for thought.