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Senior Director and Video Game Industry Advisor at Circana. Formerly of Activision and Warner Bros Games. I helped get one of your favorite games greenlit.

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Bizarre update: Valve has removed the bit in its new blog post about the Steam Machine possibly not shipping in 2026.

07.03.2026 01:50 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

I like the game. I hate myself when I play it. It's complicated.

07.03.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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There are good games. And then there are games that make you happy you were alive to play them.

07.03.2026 00:47 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm just playin.

SF burritos >>>>>>>>>>> LA burritos

07.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Might as well eat soggy bread wrapped in a dishwater soaked rag.

07.03.2026 00:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The whole Yoshi in Dodger gear has enraged me at all other California cities.

06.03.2026 23:55 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Another sign of the breakdown of civilization.

06.03.2026 23:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mission burritos more like mission burblaaaaaahtos amirite

06.03.2026 23:36 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Safe travels to the San Francisco area, folks.

And remember. Friends don't let friends eat burritos wrapped in aluminum foil.

06.03.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Me pitching to Yoshi every time

06.03.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

YOSHI NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

You're DEAD TO ME.

06.03.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

06.03.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Steam :: Steamworks Development :: Steam Year In Review 2025 Our annual platform summary for developers

"We hope to ship in 2026, but as we shared recently, memory and storage shortages have created challenges for us. We’ll share updates publicly when we finalize our plans!"

Welp.

steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

06.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 7

One of the interesting findings from surveys we did in Southeast Asia a few years ago, was that gamers were starting to shift some of their spending away from video games and towards gambling platforms.

Part of it was due to stuff like this, where it is becoming normalized in influencer circles

06.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 152 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Nintendo suing US government over tariffs
aftermath.site/nintendo-tarif...

06.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 2168 πŸ” 510 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 445

What we have for this is a from a mix of sources where some are self reported and others are smaller sample. Directional, but can't get to this level of detail with a range of error I'm comfortable with. Tl;dr - maybe?

06.03.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

From Circana's PlayerPulse - US video game player sentiment around the use of generative AI is worsening. In December 2025, over 25% of players said the use of generative AI would lead them to refuse or be less likely to buy a game.

Reposting because in my first try I words up my mixed.

06.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yeah. That's my bad. I wrote it wrong. Dammit.

06.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nope. A bunch of unsures shifted to neutral.

06.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If I was younger, smarter, richer and better looking I probably wouldn't be talking about video games on the internet but here I am.

06.03.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
PokΓ©mon and Xbox, Two Old Dogs With the Same Old Tricks - Delayed Input
PokΓ©mon and Xbox, Two Old Dogs With the Same Old Tricks - Delayed Input YouTube video by Kyle Bosman

Kyle Bosman's breakdown of yesterday's Project Helix announcement (I guess that counts as an announcement?) is excellent.

Clip starts at my favorite bit, but the whole Xbox portion of the video is well worth a watch, imo.

youtu.be/Qt3_cYb1CfI?...

06.03.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 98 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

All while prices in everyday spending categories like food (and now gas) continue to soar higher.

Not great.

For gaming, expect to see f2p, subs and the big live service games continue to take more share.

06.03.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 125 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

... wut.

06.03.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

2026?

06.03.2026 00:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes it is! Once again, proving your exceptional taste in all things.

06.03.2026 00:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Project of Lana II is also out today, for my fellow fans of running right in an atmospheric adventure game.

06.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, game corpos do have their own language, Xbox in particular.

But yeah, none of this is new if anyone's been paying attention since the 3 billion gamers goal days.

05.03.2026 23:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But, yeah, this is what Xbox had been talking about doing for months.

Y'all.

05.03.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

Why are people talking like anything in the Project Helix post is new or surprising outside of the code name?

Don't answer that.

05.03.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 120 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

Mostly the Wii U HD version with the Amibo, yeah.

05.03.2026 22:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0