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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 11h

Reviewed a Star War over at TouchArcade's Patreon, it was a good one

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'Star Wars Outlaws: Gold Edition' Nintendo Switch 2 Review | The TouchArcade Show

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ミルキージェームズ (Remastered) @milkman.bsky.social · 17h

Today I lost someone who was truly like a brother to me. I am gutted to the core. I guess I can say so now that it's on his Facebook page. He even listed himself as my actual brother on Facebook. Anyone who knows me knows how close we were. RIP, senpai. You will always be a ninja.

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 15h

Image of Tomonobu Itagaki’s Facebook, with a final post-death message from him.

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 15h

Uhhh Tomonobu Itagaki is dead?? The heck??

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TouchArcade @toucharcade.bsky.social · 1d

This Week in Switch & Switch 2 at TouchArcade:

- New Releases featuring Absolum, Xenotilt, and more

- Reviews of Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, Yooka-Replaylee, Mamorukun ReCurse, and Sonic Wings Reunion

- Some hot sales of the moment!

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TouchArcade Presents: This Week in Switch and Switch 2 for October 13th, 2025 | The TouchArcade Show

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 2d

Who’s gonna tell Kain that he looks even stupider than Irvine Kinneas

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Iain Mew @superchartisland.com · 3d

Commando, directed by Capcom's Tokuro Fujiwara, was a big 1985 arcade hit. Elite Systems won the bidding for the home computer rights, staking their future on it succeeding there too. Now they just had to make those versions of the game by Christmas...

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Commando – “Now rush the 2nd area”

1985 was quite a year for Tokuro Fujiwara. He had earlier started his career at Konami, joining from Osaka Designers’ College to do visual design work, initially without realising it was a video ga…

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 3d

RPG review, embargo tomorrow

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 7d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 4d

Buddy that was a *steal*

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah I consider this game quietly a part of the Heaven & Earth series even though it was more Shade’s gig than Quintet’s, very good stuff

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 5d

Never get trapped in a hot take prison of your own design

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah I loved that one back when I reviewed it

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 7d

Time to settle in and own the place

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Yongary Glen Ross @youoldsoandso.bsky.social · 8d

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GAME DESIGN COMPANION: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF WARIO LAND 4

Daniel Johnson, Harry PlaneGame Design Companion: A Critical Analysis of Wario Land 4 takes under-appreciated gaming gem, Wario Land 4 (2001) for the GameBoy Advance, and splays the meat and bones of ...

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Analoren @analoren.bsky.social · 8d

Region Locked is also fun www.barnesandnoble.com/w/region-loc...

Region Locked|Hardcover

Not all games are released equal. The barriers of language and culture can leave our world divided, and this includes the video games that we get the chance to play. Matt Barnes, Dazz Brown and Greg S...

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Analoren @analoren.bsky.social · 8d

Ask Iwata absolutely deserves a place here www.viz.com/ask-iwata

VIZ: The Official Website for Ask Iwata

Words of wisdom from the former global president and CEO of Nintendo.

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Tony Toon @tonytoon.bsky.social · 8d

Racing the beam is a fantastic look into both the history and technology of the Atari 2600. mitpress.mit.edu/978026253976...

Racing the Beam

The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that “Atari” became the generic term for a video game console. The Ata...

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Tony Toon @tonytoon.bsky.social · 8d

I Am Error is like Racing the Beam but for NES. mitpress.mit.edu/978026253454...

I Am Error

In the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System videogame Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, a character famously declared: I AM ERROR. Puzzled players assumed that ...

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 8d

Might add more later but that’s a lot of reading for now! Go support independent authors and small publishing! Even one sale means the world when you’ve poured your heart into writing this kind of thing.

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 8d

With the current fracas it feels weird to recommend a Bitmap book but with how it started, I think this is appropriate. If you like RPGs, you have to read The CRPG Book. No matter how much you think you know you’ll learn something here. From Felipe Pepe & many others.

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The CRPG Book - Expanded Edition

The CRPG Book - Expanded Edition [Felipe Pepe] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The CRPG Book - Expanded Edition

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 8d

Back to Boss Fight for Super Mario Bros. 2 by Jon Irwin. This was an early one in the line and for me it perfectly hit the tone of what Boss Fight is all about - personal deep dives into single games. A real page-turner.

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Super Mario Bros. 2 by Jon Irwin

Release Date: October 6, 2014 184 pages ISBN 13: 978-1-940535-05-0 Foreword by Howard Phillips the Game Master In perhaps the most famous switcheroo in all of game history, the Japanese version of S...

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 8d

Shameless plug for novel I edited: Toshie the Hero and the Orbs of Destiny is not a book about games, but if you like RPGs it’s a charming read. From the guy behind the Final Fantasy V Four Job Fiesta, Eric Koziol!

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Toshie the Hero and the Orbs of Destiny

Amazon.com: Toshie the Hero and the Orbs of Destiny eBook : Koziol, Eric, Mizutori, Ahiru, Musgrave, Shaun: Kindle Store

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 9d

I can confidently say this is just about the best book on the Virtual Boy library you’re going to find. Written by the ever-knowledgeable Jeremy Parish, it’s a great conversation piece for your fancier parties. Just like the Virtual Boy itself!

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Virtual Boy Works Hardcover Book – Limited Run Games

After Nintendo achieved world-shaking success with its Game Boy handheld system, a next-generation follow-up seemed inevitable. Yet few could have predicted the form it would take—or how poorly it wou...

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 9d

Want an RPG book? Chris Kohler’s Final Fantasy V book for Boss Fight Books is a great one! Falling in love with an import RPG in the 1990s was a whole different ballgame, and Kohler’s passion for the game shines through brightly.

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Final Fantasy V by Chris Kohler

Release Date: October 24, 2017176 pagesISBN 13: 978-1-940535-18-0 When Final Fantasy V was released for the Japanese Super Famicom in 1992, the fantasy role-playing game was an instant hit, selling tw...

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 9d

On a similar note, Blair Farrell has been covering comic book video games with zeal for years, and his books on the topic are excellent. Here’s the Spider-Man one!

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The Web of Spider-Man Games: The Amazing and the (Not So) Spectacular

The Web of Spider-Man Games: The Amazing and the (Not So) Spectacular - Kindle edition by Farrell, Blair, Noel, Anthony, Pike, John. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Web of Spider-Man Games: The Amazing and the (Not So) Spectacular.

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