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Imran Khan

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Writer at Restart.run. Former Producer/Head of PR at MyDearest. Used to write about games at GamesBeat, Game Informer, Kinda Funny, and Fanbyte full time; IGN, Kotaku, Washington Post, basically everywhere freelance. Contact: imran@restart.run. He/him.

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a white man holding a garfield phone saying “go to hell”

a white man holding a garfield phone saying “go to hell”

i have something to say

25.11.2025 01:18 — 👍 724    🔁 181    💬 13    📌 2

One year my dad refused to serve pillsbury biscuits because he couldn’t get the can open and we were told not to ask about the biscuits

25.11.2025 00:49 — 👍 66    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Hey

I had so much more to do with fanybyte being toxic

25.11.2025 00:43 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Both Hades II and Clair Obscur are about the whims of gods who, in their petty squabbles, fail to treat the mortals beneath them as equals.

24.11.2025 22:59 — 👍 76    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

I’m not voting for Pritzker for starting a Star Wars ranking discussion online.

24.11.2025 22:49 — 👍 33    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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maybe i am going insane

24.11.2025 18:49 — 👍 13779    🔁 2975    💬 137    📌 70

The Robin shit, though? That’s true.

24.11.2025 22:07 — 👍 23    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mfw the Batmobile loses a wheel and the joker gets away and people say VERY UNTRUE THINGS about my scent

24.11.2025 22:07 — 👍 66    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

I will be in L.A. adjacent to The Game Awards (for different reasons). Do you want to show me your game for coverage on Restart? Or just for the hell of it? Got a preview event? A mixer? A spare hour with nothing to do?

Let me know and we can figure something out!

11.11.2025 18:10 — 👍 70    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Honestly one of the coolest start-up messages I've ever seen. Game: store.steampowered.com/app/3594120/...

23.11.2025 22:16 — 👍 52    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 4

I am told that this is not the case in Remake, but I would swear that Rude mostly avoids Tifa if you have her in the lead and sticks to AoEs.

24.11.2025 14:28 — 👍 20    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

In FFVII -and- Remake, Rude tries not to attack Tifa (though in the latter he will get her with AoE attacks if she is in the way) because he has a crush on her.

24.11.2025 14:10 — 👍 86    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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I am surprised more people did not realize this!

23.11.2025 21:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Turns out this was all much ado about nothing and Google isn’t using your Gmail to train AI and if wanna turn all that stuff back on you can get your spam filters back

22.11.2025 23:06 — 👍 707    🔁 433    💬 14    📌 17
Lyrics on a karaoke machine: 

I guess it rains down in Africa 
I guess it rains down in Africa
I guess it rains down in Africa

Lyrics on a karaoke machine: I guess it rains down in Africa I guess it rains down in Africa I guess it rains down in Africa

Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday

22.11.2025 21:15 — 👍 4198    🔁 1200    💬 64    📌 80

What’s Jon Moxley’s favorite mobile game?

The Simpsons: Tapped Out.

23.11.2025 03:16 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Toni Storm and Mina's stipulation: everyone make out and then wrestle

23.11.2025 01:57 — 👍 181    🔁 35    💬 11    📌 3

I am good at several things but only really enjoy one thing.

22.11.2025 22:03 — 👍 26    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but ACAB also means Ea-Nasir

All coppers are bad

22.11.2025 22:02 — 👍 103    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 0

I don’t know if it only makes sense without the periphery stuff, but Nier has books, stage plays, etc. I once asked Taro about this and how are English fans supposed to keep up and he looked confused and asked “Why would you need to keep up? Who needs all of that?”

22.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 673    🔁 233    💬 7    📌 15

Oh no I have to do work to review a game I’m so privileged to do my job in a post lamenting I have to bother someone over the holidays because if I don’t it runs into another event and I will not have time to do so.

22.11.2025 15:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Right, she’s a known power-hungry liar.

22.11.2025 03:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My guess is she either runs for governor or Ossof’s senate seat. Ossof is weak and I can’t imagine she’s happy a Jewish person is the senator for Georgia.

22.11.2025 02:21 — 👍 45    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

I was bugging a PR person for weeks about code for a game that got delayed and is now coming out again so now I get to bug them ~right after thanksgiving~

22.11.2025 00:51 — 👍 40    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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The Video for Hoyoverse’s Varsapura Sure Looks Like Control | Restart Hoyoverse’s latest game definitely has some, erm, fairly direct influences.

The half-hour video for Hoyoverse's Varsapura sure looks like anime Control

21.11.2025 23:15 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

With it maybe being the case that CoD will not be the best selling new release this year and it definitely not being the best selling new release next year, I wonder when internal politics at Microsoft will start pointing fingers at each other over it.

21.11.2025 23:04 — 👍 107    🔁 4    💬 5    📌 0

This analysis brought to you by me just buying FFX-2 on Steam

21.11.2025 22:10 — 👍 40    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

An odd thing is, with the way the industry is currently moving, it makes more sense for me to buy everything I want to get on PC right now, because it's almost more likely for future consoles to support Steam than it is for future consoles to support their past and current iterations.

21.11.2025 22:01 — 👍 181    🔁 16    💬 6    📌 2

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21.11.2025 21:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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