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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · Jun 10

In April, I made the rarest of pilgrimages: to Tokyo, and the top of a skyscraper, to meet Hideo Kojima. I went with one question: why still make games? At 61, he has made them for almost forty years. But he has seen his end.

My latest for GQ: www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hide...

The life and death of Hideo Kojima

As Hideo Kojima prepares for the release of Death Stranding 2, the pioneering video game director continues to inject his iconoclastic vision into ever-more ambitious projects

www.gq-magazine.co.uk

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 5h

Big poo?

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 1d

Place is going downhill (congratulations I love you)

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha.

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 2d

Big day! Here's the thing I've been working on for the past few months.

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 2d

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah quite late last night. Quite a long piece. Musta been 10pm BBC news. So overdue.

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 5d

Saw the longest bbc news feature on it last night since… Oct 7th

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 13d

Hahaha

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 13d

I hope you dictated this post into your phone at top volume in the cafe

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 15d

Hahaha

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 15d

Do this to them

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 15d

“Tsushima was a 6 at best”

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 15d

Took a photo of a new jacket and it made me look like a force ghost.

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 15d

Last place anyone wants to be is inner gamer

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 17d

PlayStation: The First 30 Years book up for preorder at Read Only Memory (Deluxe $325, Standard $125) buff.ly/UnC8Lrf

Deluxe Edition limited to 1994 copies

More details: buff.ly/PjBiUwt

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Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · 17d

PlayStation: The First 30 Years

➡️ blog.playstation.com/2025/09/29/c...

Sony is releasing a new photography book with "never-before-seen prototypes, concept sketches, and design models that shaped hardware development at Sony Interactive Entertainment" - coming Spring 2026.

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 17d

Quite crazy and proud to say I’ve spent the last few months working on writing this. It’s very cool.

PlayStation @playstation.com · 17d

A look back at three decades of play 💙

PlayStation: The First 30 Years, a new large-format photography book, launches spring 2026. Pre-orders start today: play.st/42cp78U

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 20d

Joey and Phoebe meme. Phoebe instructing Joey to say "Fix the economy and public services" with him at the end instead saying "Digital national ID cards!"

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 20d

you’re telling me this entire Siberian Orchestra is trans?

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 20d

Also me waking up this morning

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 23d

Could be unwell. I’d caution being mean even if you don’t like the actions of the company someone works for.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 25d

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

A photo of Charlie Kirk with the caption "Trans rights are human rights" in loving memory Charlie Kiek 1993 - 2025

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 24d

Chief cunt of the god squad

Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 24d

Fuckin hell look at him

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26d

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

Shadi Hamid @shadihamid.bsky.social · 28d

One of the biggest mistakes left-of-center pundits and influencers made was decamping to Bluesky. They made themselves irrelevant, shrunk their audiences, and dramatically lessened the positive impact they could have on our public debate at the precise time we needed it most.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 26d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.