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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 18h

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Controller Club - A Video Game Podcast @controllerclubpod.bsky.social · 20h

What is the best Mario power-up of all time? We ask that question in Episode 174 with special guest @brianpshea.bsky.social from @gameinformer.com .

Apple: apple.co/3veJvGd
Spotify: sptfy.in/1i9i

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday!

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday, Matt!

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 1d

Metal Gear Delta done. Completed one game a day and raised money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social.

Thank you to everyone that hung out and donated. People are going to benefit so much from the money.

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday, man! I hope everything turns for the best soon.

Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 2d

😂😂😂

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 2d

Lucky for you somebody somewhere has seen this and is probably already feeding this prompt into an AI! 🤩

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 2d

hey what effect does the president going on tv and saying stuff that everyone, even the people who agree with him, know is just obviously untrue have on a culture?

let's find out

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 3d

This week on All Things Nintendo, @marioprime.bsky.social and I have a blast running down Pokémon’s long history with spin-offs. Who knew 16th century daimyō Oda Nobunaga had a Shiny Rayquaza? youtu.be/giSa8uKyrOY?...

Pokémon's Wild Spin-Offs w/ Giovanni Colantonio

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 2d

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody ever talks about the pure vibes of the intro to Smash Mouth’s “Walking on the Sun”

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 3d

The part in this episode where Brian reveals the plot of Pokemon Conquest to me sent me into the stratosphere. Could not believe it.

Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 3d

This week on All Things Nintendo, @marioprime.bsky.social and I have a blast running down Pokémon’s long history with spin-offs. Who knew 16th century daimyō Oda Nobunaga had a Shiny Rayquaza? youtu.be/giSa8uKyrOY?...

Pokémon's Wild Spin-Offs w/ Giovanni Colantonio

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 3d

This week on All Things Nintendo, @marioprime.bsky.social and I have a blast running down Pokémon’s long history with spin-offs. Who knew 16th century daimyō Oda Nobunaga had a Shiny Rayquaza? youtu.be/giSa8uKyrOY?...

Pokémon's Wild Spin-Offs w/ Giovanni Colantonio

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 4d

Peacemaker has Nintendo references this season.

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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 4d

Each year, we compile our top-scoring reviews into a constantly updated article, allowing you to easily see our picks for the best games of the year as we approach the final months of the calendar. Here is our 2025 edition: gameinformer.com/TopReviews2025

A header image featuring imagery from Hades 2 and Hollow Knight: Silksong

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 5d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 4d

We’re doing our best to bring in as many incredible people from across the industry as possible!

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so thrilled to have @jayguisao.bsky.social contributing to Game Informer again.

Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 4d

Battlefield 6 hits the ground running with a multiplayer suite full of dazzling sandboxes just waiting to be leveled, but not every part of the package is as effective.

Our review: gameinformer.com/review/battl...

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 4d

I’d recommend checking out @theindieinformer.bsky.social. They do incredible work focused on smaller indies and come from major outlets. The media for smaller games isn’t dead; it just transformed.

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sorry you’re feeling frustrated. It’s completely reasonable to, but I don’t know that the members of games media are the main ones to point your ire at. In a perfect world, we’d be able to cover every game that looks cool, but particularly this time of year, it’s just not feasible.

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eric van allen @seamoosi.bsky.social · 4d

anyways here's a pod episode from last week, featuring a 35-minute interview with the team behind newly launched indie gem Battle Suit Aces and a discussion about the stellar Consume Me.

youtu.be/MxMY2RPERpQ?...

The Outer Worlds 2, More Ghost of Yotei, And Battle Suit Aces Interview | The Game Informer Show

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 4d

I’m glad your team was able to manage that, but that was in a completely different era, and a different situation than many media are in right now. At GI, we do our absolute best to cover as many smaller games as we can, particularly in our issues, but we can’t get them all.

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