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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 17h

The intimacy of this recording takes the breath away. We're in the room with him.

Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 17h

A day listening to D'Angelo 👑
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D'Angelo - Africa (Demo)

YouTube video by Music For Listening

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 1d

A generational talent gone before his time. This one hurts.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 1d

god damn man

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Andes Chucky @wendeego.bsky.social · 1d

reading this now, most bonkers fact i've found so far: shadow of the colossus started life as monster hunter before monster hunter?!

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, hell yeah -- lavish hardly does this justice

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Nearly 100 current and former developers at MindsEye studio Build A Rocket Boy slam Leslie Benzies and the rest of studio leadership for poor management and botched layoffs.

They say crunch was mandated leading up to release only for 250 people to be sacked afterwards.

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Reid McCarter @reidmccarter.bsky.social · 6d

I reviewed Battlefield 6 for Kotaku

Kotaku @kotakudotcom.bsky.social · 6d

Don't expect much from the AI enemies in Battlefield 6's campaign, but there's plenty of grim war spectacle to enjoy otherwise.

Read our full review: kotaku.com/battlefield-...

Soldiers stand near a Humv in a war zone.

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 6d

a pleasure to read you on the site!

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 6d

Read @reidmccarter.bsky.social's review.

"The point of the game, whether in its single-player campaign or multiplayer mode, is to make you feel like you’re an agent of small change within the overwhelming chaos of a warzone."

Kotaku @kotakudotcom.bsky.social · 6d

Don't expect much from the AI enemies in Battlefield 6's campaign, but there's plenty of grim war spectacle to enjoy otherwise.

Read our full review: kotaku.com/battlefield-...

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 8d

Explored this in a broader piece on Yotei's depiction of nature and the historical moment of its setting.

atmos.earth/art-and-cult...

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 8d

let me at it 🔪

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 9d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 9d

one of the realest

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Dan HIll @cityofsound.bsky.social · 12d

Found this featuring interviews with the game’s art directors, which is interesting. atmos.earth/art-and-cult... What impact might this have on millions of largely young(ish) people playing it? Reinforcing immersion in ‘perfect’ virtual worlds or reconnecting with embodied natural worlds?

This Year’s Most Anticipated Video Game Is an Homage—and Elegy—to Nature | Atmos

Nature in Ghost of Yōtei is more than a backdrop. This rugged and beautiful scenery is a character with its own powerful story.

atmos.earth

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Jason Dinh @byjasonpdinh.bsky.social · 13d

this game-of-the-year contender doesn't take nature lightly

Ghost of Yōtei, out today, tells the story of a land and its people resisting 17th-century colonization—a surprisingly modern environmental tale

@lewisgordon.bsky.social takes @atmosmag.bsky.social behind the scenes into its making 🌎🧪

This Year’s Most Anticipated Video Game Is an Homage—and Elegy—to Nature | Atmos

Nature in Ghost of Yōtei is more than a backdrop. This rugged and beautiful scenery is a character with its own powerful story.

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Bennett @foddy.net · 13d

Level design started with a fractal base, then in most cases a zoomed-out flow idea (‘keep looping til you realize you can go off-piste’) then finally ‘foot interest’ and sightlines. I dunno at least that’s where we ended up, at first we were really bad at it, as you saw when you playtested

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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 13d

maxi boch told me about the sound design in baby steps!!

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 13d

Was significantly less hellish than advertised tbh

Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 13d

Box hell!

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 13d

This was good — and funny!!

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 13d

That line—what we're supposed to view as real or "true to the story" or however you want to put it & what we're supposed to view as happening in the exaggerated dream realm that comes w/a work's status as a VIDEO GAME—has always fascinated me & here, via M:TOC, Ed builds up to an important question!

Ed "Gein" Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 13d

The @bulletpointsvg.bsky.social Mafia: The Old Country issue continues.

This week, it's my turn. If you have time to read and share this article, I'd be flattered.

Link and preview attached.

bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/10/02/y...

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 13d

It's definitely a smooth play, but I've found a ton to chew on as I gallop, slice, and dice my way across the landscape.

And it really is beautiful to look at, my god

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Jason Dinh @byjasonpdinh.bsky.social · 13d

Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 13d

and this

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 13d

I mean, also, just look at this

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 13d

Yōtei has a lot going on, particularly in its depiction of nature and indigenous Ainu people on the cusp of colonisation.

Wolves would go extinct; people would get assimilated. I don't think the ghost of the title soley refers to Atsu but the land and its inhabitants.

atmos.earth/art-and-cult...

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