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Brendan Hesse

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Deals Editor at GameSpot | DRPG Sicko at The Crawl: http://youtube.com/thecrawl | Other bylines: Lost In Cult, Lifehacker, PopSci, EGM, IGN, Digital Trends | My games: http://the-crawl.itch.io | He/Him

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They should have announced this in a Nintendo Direct as the β€œone more thing”.

06.03.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1388    πŸ” 461    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 0

my second cover story as a video guy! really excited about what's in the hopper for this issue. some great interviews and insight into the making of Invincible VS, starting off with how it went from comics to fighting games.

06.03.2026 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

that's amazing. Also good timing, since I (finally) call out the apparel in the next video.

ANYWAY! I really like this video, and it's making me eager to get back to RE9.

06.03.2026 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

also funny guys who shout "frog blast the vent core"

06.03.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't dug into the new Marathon's lore, but since it's building off the original 90s trilogy, there are also aliens and ancient cosmic entities locked in galaxies and parallel universes and reincarnating heroes from antiquity coming back as cyborgs

06.03.2026 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I would share a new @teddylastname.bsky.social video regardless, but also--it's pretty dope seeing one of my t-shirt designs being worn out in the wild. youtu.be/Ghl1v-kbiX0?...

06.03.2026 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

RIGHT??

06.03.2026 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dave Rapoza is doing a series of Wizardry illustrations.

DAVE RAPOZA. IS DOING. A SERIES. OF WIZARDRY ILLUSTRATIONS.

06.03.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

05.03.2026 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I, for one, would applaud the decision

05.03.2026 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the correct decision imo (DE is still good, but the Wii version's got the *crunch*)

05.03.2026 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

RT if $3000 would literally change your life

05.03.2026 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4413    πŸ” 3063    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 28

it's wild to see this less than, what... 24, 48 hours since the Highguard lead pointed out that PS5 was the largest share of its player base?

05.03.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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04.03.2026 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

I hate that game but I love that thumbnail

05.03.2026 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

nah www.hardcoregaming101.net/relics-the-r...

04.03.2026 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah, this month is one of the busiest I've seen in a while. I'm prioritizing Banquet, but there are at least 6 more I can think of off the top of my head

04.03.2026 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey this game rules and I think you all should play it when it leaves early access tomorrow.

04.03.2026 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so, SO stoked for Banquet's full release. Had a great time with the early game while it was in EA, I've been holding back from playing it more.

04.03.2026 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have never considered what it would be like to be my enemy before now. Huh.

04.03.2026 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, I'm happy to answer any questions folks have about the position, GameSpot's deals section, etc! I'll open my DMs so folks can reach out.

04.03.2026 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yep, and apparently the puzzles are mostly physics-based? I didn't expect to be looking forward to this one, but now I'm eager to see the full reviews drop.

04.03.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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04.03.2026 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Sending my thoughts to the wonderful folks at Eurogamer and Polygon. You all did fantastic work and deserve better. Corporate consolidation continues to be a scourge, not only on the games industry and within the games media space, but society at large.

04.03.2026 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

there's even a similar darkness/torch mechanic

04.03.2026 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I keep hearing folks name-dropping Dragon's Dogma and Breath of the Wild/TotK in these Crimson Desert previews. You can't do this to me. There are already too many new games I'm interested in dropping this month, and I'm trying to ignore them all to play through all the Relics games instead.

04.03.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

a brutalist region would rule

04.03.2026 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

there was just a string of multiple FF14 and FF11 posts on my TL in a row, nice

04.03.2026 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
04.03.2026 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, anyway. Best of luck to Marathon.

12.02.2026 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0