Arthur Gies (he/him)

Aegies - Twitch A writer, podcast host, and video game consultant who streams games (about fifty percent dota, fifty percent other things).

more pokopia, because the world is too much for other things: twitch.tv/aegies

the world is nuts and i'm trying to decide travel stuff so let's ignore that and play pokopia for a couple of hours: twitch.tv/aegies

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i anticipate a measured and considerate response toward this test by the gaming public at large.

It’s still likely to be locked down in some way. It has to be for security purposes.

If you have flights you’re expecting to take this year and you can book them now, it would probably be good to do that before the impending jet fuel price shock hits (oil isn’t just gas prices).

I could make a dozen of these with entirely different genres and still feel as strongly.

Varied but taste-indicative pile of 4k pickups tonight.

I have now moved on to pokopia.

Twitch Twitch is the world

hello i'm going to chat about the next-gen xbox announcement and how consoles get announced and also playstation's strategy shifts while i play the hot new extraction shooter *checks notes* the division 2? (there's a hardcore mode now!) twitch.tv/aegies

Every Xbox since the Xbox One has run multiple operating systems simultaneously more or less. A console is bespoke hardware with a collection of specific hardware configurations.

bart is tap to pay with apple/google pay now too, right?

hard same (even though it wasn't actually a good game). right place right time.

This is generally how they announce things (and Sony announced the new PlayStation project in a YouTube video last year).

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

uh holy shit he fired kristi noem. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

i'd like to know where this is appearing, because i'm certainly not getting it.

i regaled @patrickklepek.bsky.social with this comparison at the event we were at for it. it very much feels that way.

so the bride(!) reviews are just about evenly split between positive and negative, and you'll never believe what demographic line appears to split the vast majority of positive and negative reactions!

i find so much of the commentary around grace in RE9 hilarious because all of it is "she's so relatable and normal" and like, yes, she's scared shitless, but she's also racking back the slide on her sig like fucking john wick's daughter and firing an additional gun that would break her arm.

ah. well. there you go.

Going back to CFO Lin Tao's comments during Sony's Feb 5th earnings call...

i mean ... there are absolutely people at playstation and sony who feel like the only good xbox is a dead xbox, and until that happens, they won't be satisfied. they can't keep stuff off PC, but they can pay to keep it off xbox.

or sony reinvests in dumptrucks of money to get third party exclusives again.

well, that and "new exec makes changes to old exec's strategy in part because it's old exec's strategy." there's no glory to staying on the same path, even if it's profitable.

if playstation couldn't get PC players on board with PSN accounts with helldivers (if, in fact, PSN accounts almost killed that game on PC until sony backtracked), they were never going to get people into their ecosystem via PC (or so I imagine the thinking partly went).

do i think playstation walking back SP releases on PC makes sense? not at this point in the generation/where the economy is, but broadly i think an exclusive strategy makes sense to sell a console. clearly PS5 benefited from the promise of exclusives, even if the slate has been sparse in practice.

a couple of things on this:
1) part of this is, i think, cope - this gen's PS 1st party hasn't been moving the units they did last gen, and blaming PC is easy.
2) i don't think playstation likes giving 30 percent to steam and PC players refuse to use anything else.

I just realized that the villain in weapons is the motor pool sidekick in streets of fire and I need to sit down for a minute.

hello i am back to clawing my way through aliens: dark descent and i'm sure we can talk about AI or windows or highguard or how you may not understand how the video game industry works (or maybe you do and i don't idk): twitch.tv/aegies