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Here's a big old chat I had with Hamaguchi-san, which in many ways was a bit of a casual hangout before we did the MCM panel. We talk about all sorts - part 3, dataminers finding non-final versions of Rebirth's pivotal scenes, and how Square lost all of the design data for the original FF7.

Metal Gear series has sold 65.1 million copies worldwide!

Silent Hill series has sold 13 million copies worldwide!

This is one of the toughest things I've ever had to write. Hope you can make time for it. #Itagaki

September 2025 U.S. Video Game Market Highlights Thread from Circana - Borderlands 4 Led Several Hit New Releases Helping Deliver 10% Growth in September US Video Game Spending

That's crazy!

YouTube video by Spencer Pressly Tales From TGS 2025 With @GenkiGamer - SMTN Link 383

This week I sit down and chat with @genkigamer.bsky.social once again for our yearly Tokyo Game Show recap. We also talk about how we are feeling about the Switch 2 after four months on the market. Check it out below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Watch: youtu.be/MY4vbQHBnDc

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He has a long history of stealing my posts. I didn't know about all this other stuff tho

I have had the issue of him constantly copying my posts and not checking the sources himself.

Y’all have GOT to stop uncritically sharing Stealth’s posts without checking your sources!

I can’t find a source for when and where Miyamoto supposedly said this or who translated it ANYWHERE and yet my timeline is flooded with takes on it.

At #BGS25, I was interviewed by @colemono.bsky.social regarding my Resident Evil book, Itchy, Tasty! It’s a 55-minute interview about how I wrote the book, plus my thoughts on the games industry.

If you have some time to kill, do give it a watch/listen!

Tomonobu Itagaki, the Creator of Dead or Alive and known for his work on the Ninja Gaiden series, has sadly passed away at age 58.

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The next episode of the SMTN podcast is up a whole FIVE days early. I sit down and talk to @genkigamer.bsky.social once again about surviving another year of TGS. All you need to do is support me on Patreon at any level to start listening today. www.patreon.com/posts/141307...

Today I lost someone who was truly like a brother to me. I am gutted to the core. I guess I can say so now that it's on his Facebook page. He even listed himself as my actual brother on Facebook. Anyone who knows me knows how close we were. RIP, senpai. You will always be a ninja.

Sorry for your loss.

Hideo Kojima met a Hideo Kojima lookalike in Brazil! lol

Damn! Nice one!

Black Myth Wukong new update with bug fixes & performance optimizations is coming on Oct 13!

- PS5 patch size is a huge 93.3GB
(If the update cannot be completed due to insufficient storage or other reasons, you may continue playing the current version or try deleting the game and redownloading it)

Nobuo Uematsu says the Final Fantasy main theme reached its ultimate form by Final Fantasy VIII

Up until then he had been working on parts of the main theme bit by bit with each release. He says by FF8 it reached a form he could call complete!

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I won a Square Enix Store lottery to buy a signed Yoko Shimomura Super Mario RPG vinyl OST and it arrived today!

Yoko Shimomura is the GOAT!

Tokyo Game Show 2025 Tour!

I made a video tour of some of the major booths at TGS 2025! Including PlayStation, Square Enix, Koei Tecmo, Bandai Namco, Capcom and more! A small taste of Japan

WATCH: youtu.be/7TyS3dWaXE8

Yoko Taro said he has become a person that is only able to write at night.

He says that it is okay recently because during the day he usually has many meetings and calls with producers and other staff etc.

via Archipel Caravan Game Edition Event

Astro Bot was made in about 3 years of full development with a team of 30 developers at the start growing to 65 by the end!

Timeline:
• 2021: 1 year of prototyping
• May 2021: Pitch to Sony
• 2022 - 2023: About 2 years of production
• 2024: 6-9 months of polishing & finalizing
• Sep 6 2024: Release

Prototyping was a big part Astro Bots's development

Team Asobi spent 1 year prototyping. Even during development they would continue to prototype ideas outside of platforming. Some ideas get used like a sponge prototype that became a power up

Other ideas never get used but may be used later!

Yoko Taro says Neon Genesis Evangelion and Aliens are some of the works of fiction that inspired him!

via Archipel Caravan event

Nicolas Doucet thanked the 3rd party partners that leant their characters to Astro Bot at the Archipel Caravan event!

They got almost 100% of the characters they asked for (they hoped to get 1/3rd of them)

He says PlayStation would not exist without the support of all the other game companies

Ghost of Yotei was the #1 best selling game in Japan this week!

It sold 120,196 physical units at launch on PS5

Former Capcom Director Hideaki Itsuno said Capcom vs SNK 2 really came together and improved a lot in the final 3 months of development!

He says they were given the extra 3 months they needed but these days it is much harder to get extra time to work on a game.

via Archipel Caravan Game event

Devil May Cry Director Hideaki Itsuno says he designed DMC5’s pacing with potato chips in mind!

He designed scenarios so players know when they can take a potato chip break. He wanted to make it clear when a cutscene was coming & give enough time to take a small break to eat some potato chips!