Chris de Hoog

1) Link's Awakening
2) Tears of the Kingdom
3) Hyrule Warriors

"AI has long been part of gaming and will continue to be" is so heckin disingenuous. I've been a game AI engineer for almost 20 years, which has absolutely nothing to do with the current bubble of generative AI that is burning the world to solve no actual problems.

Canadian Tire store in Ottawa. giant red triangles everywhere

in Canada we have a store called "Canadian Tire" and you're probably thinking "a store named after a tire definitely has a circle for a logo" but no, you're wrong. they chose a colossal red triangle

We have GOT to bring back the weird game commercials of the lates 80s/early 90s

I find it extremely noteworthy that the crumbling of Xbox was down to its focus on Game Pass.

Subscription services have destroyed profitable full purchasing from more successful traditional models for music, film, and TV, and it obviously will for gaming. A great service for consumers short-term.

Feels like a good day to point out for whoever needs to understand it that Pokemon is actually controlled by The Pokemon Company, which Nintendo has a stake in, but is not actually Nintendo

Big news. I wrote a biography on Nobuo Uematsu and it drops this Fall, published by @viz.com. It is jam-packed with amazing revelations about the Final Fantasy composer that the public has never heard about, as shared by himself and those closest to him. This is the definitive chronicle on Uematsu.

Amazing news! Congratulations, I can think of no one better for the job!

I mean, same.

The perfect analogy *does* exist!

sorry still mad: after after i landed my first games media gig, a reporter took a liking to me offered to chat about the industry at GDC. We met, chatted. I get into a cab. He texted me "I really wanted to kiss you" after i got back to my hotel.

I was 21 and thought i did something wrong.

I hope things in our industry change for the better in the future. I will not allow anyone to feel this way again.

YouTube video by O-Dog Kubrick The Simpsons- Rocket Towards the Sun (Dedicated to Erik Nicholas)

Or a rocket to the sun, like The Simpsons. But I've been feeling for a while like the billionaires have turned the Earth into that rocket and trapped us all on it with them.

Rich talk from the silver spoon dropout.

Magic: The Gathering | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — New Mechanics, Artwork & Where To Find Them! Since NYCC 2025, Magic: The Gathering | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been teasing fans leading up to release, and today WOTC revealed all the details.

Magic: The Gathering | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — New Mechanics, Artwork & Where To Find Them!

#MTG #TMNT #MagicTheGathering #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles #MTGTMNT

Legit thought this was Duke Nukem himself, in 3D.

I booted up Mario Tennis Fever last night and felt a profound wave of sadness that we've never gotten a follow-up to Mario Hoops 3 on 3. Never before or after have I sunk so much time into a Mario sports game.

I am steeped in knowledge of the Old Ways!

The high holy week of Festivus

I'm still holding out for punchable Argath.

Pokémon Pokopia: Gotta Build All These New Horizons Pokémon Pokopia is shaping up to be the sort of crossover we never knew we wanted, melding the best of Animal Crossing and Pokémon.

Pokémon Pokopia is shaping up to be the sort of crossover we never knew we wanted, melding the best of Animal Crossing and Pokémon:

You're so right about point A there. Even if Highguard was an amazing game within the now-tainted live-service model (I wouldn't know either way, I paid it zero attention), it was targeted by a type of Gamer who got a vicarious dopamine hit watching Concord fail and is determined to recreate it.

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

I posted on *three platforms* just over *20 minutes* after Radio-Canada first misidentified this innocent trans woman as a mass shooter on national television in a 6:00pmET broadcast.

I tagged Radio Canada and Patrice Roy.

They didn't issue a correction until after 2:00pmET today.

Unacceptable.

I have the strangest sense that the Fear Effect series is one of those PS1 entities that doesn't hold up so well, thematically, after 25 years.

"The Creation of Makai Toushi SaGa/Final Fantasy Legend," 1989, colourized

Observations from Montreal An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.

“Pierre Poilievre was Housing Minister in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, which allowed 800,000 affordable rental units to be sold off to corporate landlords and developers. Under Harper, the average home price in Canada went up 70%, and Poilievre refused to do anything about it.”