Jeff Gerstmann

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Randomly threw on Wrestle Kingdom 10 the other night. Crazy how much of modern American wrestling is all over that era of NJPW shows. It opens with The Bucks vs. Matt Sydal and Ricochet vs. Trent Baretta and Rocky Romero vs. Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish. Hell of a match.

EA should make a Battlefield-themed Peggle game.

No, I gave up on WWE awhile back.

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Hearing reports online that games are not art anymore? I dug up a rebuttal, here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=piZi...

Returning to Haze all these years later, that was sort of the only thing that stood out. In these clumsy, blunt times, those idiots you're teamed with early on don't seem nearly as far-fetched as they did 15 years ago.

Every single time I launch Forza Horizon on PS5 it asks me if I want to link my PSN and Xbox Live accounts together and that the process is permanent. Every time I say yes. And every time it just asks all over again.

Your birthday only comes once a year, so make sure you do something cool! Take me, for example, I dug a PS3 out of a drawer and played a bunch of Haze! Happy birthday to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SIGN UP FOR… BOOSH! All I Got For My Birthday Was This Copy of Haze

Yesterday was my birthday and I decided to do a longer than normal stream but didn't have time to plan what the stream was actually going to be about and whoops I played like four hours of Haze. youtu.be/daubu0IVrP4

The thing about Sonic Adventure is that it’s absolute garbage and once you see that whale you might as well snap the disc in half.

Meanwhile, in CRT land…

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Some of Mike Balls’ finest work is on that album.

There's nothing quite like celebrating a birthday with the power of ranked NES games. Let's take an extra-long look at a fresh batch, including Big Nose Freaks Out, Heroes of the Lance, Othello,… Win, Lose, or Rank | Episode 103

This week's batch of ranked NES games ran long, but that gives us time to really look at Hot Hits like Big Nose Freaks Out, Heroes of the Lance, Othello, and more! youtu.be/4FLc_Rby3xk

Van de Kamp Friday

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Why would anyone spend their birthday trying to play Haze on a PS3? I don't know. Seemed like a good idea at the time. twitch.tv/jeffgerstmann

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I'm going to get online and do video games for pretty much the entire day. Figure I'll rank some NES games and then, uh... I don't know, I have Haze installed to a sketchy PS3? I mean it's my birthday, clearly it's time for some Haze, right? Maybe? twitch.tv/jeffgerstmann

I mean I already didn't like DeSantis, but him making my birthday a holiday for racists is perhaps a new low.

You never realize just how much vomit a three-year-old boy can hold until he releases it all onto your feet.

There’s been a weird shift in Bootleg Movie Clips TikTok where now they seem to have asked some AI thing to narrate over the footage and chop the clips up to match the narration. Like some kind of cliffs notes for movies, it’s some pretty dire shit.

If anyone wants to go to SCEA’s E3 party in 2006, I have an extra invite.

Reminder that there’s no stream today. Currently trying to make food for kids while dealing with some kind of mild to modern food poisoning. Back for a long stream on Friday!

The change they're making breaks MWII and MWIII out into their own entries, so you can launch them directly.

Like I'm not going to sit here and say that it's been an ideal situation, the change they're making seems smart, I wish they'd bail on the whole "Call of Duty HQ" concept completely, but... it's inaccurate to talk about these install sizes as if they've been completely out of your hands.

Some of these "haha the Call of Duty install size is so crazy, good thing they're finally breaking the old games out so you can manage that" articles seem to not know that you've been able to manage which parts of which old games you keep installed for... the entire time? Similar options on console.

wow, these Tower Unite screenshots are looking great, I should jump back in there

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Let’s talk about Fumes, it’s in Early Access! Also: Shadow Labyrinth, IGN’s big user study, the Roblox nightmare, the new PS5 firmware beta, Donkey Kong, Sony going after Tencent’s Horizon: Zero Dawn… The Jeff Gerstmann Show 164: $70 is the New $80

This week's podcast is out where all the podcasts live! This week: Fumes, Shadow Labyrinth, monetizing teens in Roblox, Hollow Knight at Gamescom, the history of Mortal Kombat as a competitive fighting game, and more! youtu.be/qE3JuR2_L-c

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Hey, it's podcast time! Let's talk about Roblox, IGN's new look at trends, the price of video games, Fumes, Shadow Labyrinth, and pairing your PS5 controllers to a billion different devices. Going live now! twitch.tv/jeffgerstmann

I like that Elgato launched a new webcam and set up a "compare to our other webcams" but conveniently left out the _other_ 4K60 webcam they shipped from the selector. That said, hard to imagine anything worse than that piece of garbage.

Burger King is currently selling a "Brisket Whopper," which is a Whopper with brisket in it, on top of the burger. It's bad!