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Total Radlad

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Total Radlad @totalradlad.bsky.social · 4d

2026 video game thread! 🧵

I didn’t want make this starting post until I finished a game, but that took a little while.

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skippyrook

@skippyrook.bsky.social

February 4, 2026 at 7:52 PM

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Knerr

@knerrvana.bsky.social

This is the monado's power

February 4, 2026 at 8:20 PM

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🌸 DreMeMoTo

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February 4, 2026 at 1:13 AM

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faye✨

@segirly.aegis.cafe

every xenoblade 1 cutscene

February 3, 2026 at 1:34 AM

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Supper Mario Broth

@mariobrothblog.bsky.social

According to Motoi Okamoto, Mini-Game Director for Super Mario 64 DS, Shigeru Miyamoto would start midnight crunch sessions for the game's development by walking into the office and announcing "It's Mario time."

"In those days, Miyamoto would come to us at 11 PM, after he finished all of his board-member work, and say, "It's Mario time." At that point, we'd start a planning meeting that would run until 2 AM. At that point, Miyamoto would go home, leaving us with the words, "You should return home soon, for your health." Over the next two or three hours, we'd write the game design documents and summarize the instructions for our artists and programmers.

It was the craziest crunch time that I've ever experienced in my development career. But if the God of Games was working so much, could we give up? Miyamoto had incredible stamina."

-Motoi Okamoto, Script and Mini-Game Director for Super Mario 64 DS, in a 2017 interview with Chris Kohler from Gamasutra

Source: web.archive.org/web/20170405122956/https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/294923/Qamp_A_Design_lessons_learned_from_a_decade_at_Nintendos_EAD.php

February 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM

Total Radlad

@totalradlad.bsky.social

2026 video game thread! 🧵

I didn’t want make this starting post until I finished a game, but that took a little while.

February 1, 2026 at 4:02 AM

Total Radlad

@totalradlad.bsky.social

My attachment to various Nintendo franchises:

🟡🟡🟡⭕️⭕️ Earthbound
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Metroid
🟡🟡🟡⭕⭕ Star Fox
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Mario
🟡🟡⭕️⭕️⭕️ Golden Sun
🟡⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕ WarioWare
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Donkey Kong
🟡🟡🟡🟡⭕️ Kirby
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Pokémon
🟡🟡🟡⭕️⭕️ F-Zero
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Zelda
🟡🟡🟡🟡⭕️ Fire Emblem
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Pikmin
🟡🟡⭕️⭕️⭕️ Animal Crossing
🟡🟡⭕️⭕️⭕️ Splatoon
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Xenoblade

JV® @jvrbc.bsky.social · Nov 10

My attachment to various Nintendo franchises:

🟡⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️ Earthbound
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Metroid
🟡🟡🟡⭕⭕ Star Fox
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Mario
🟡🟡🟡🟡⭕️ Golden Sun
🟡🟡🟡🟡⭕ WarioWare
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Donkey Kong
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Kirby
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Pokémon
🟡🟡⭕️⭕️⭕️ F-Zero
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Zelda
🟡🟡🟡🟡⭕️ Fire Emblem
🟡🟡🟡🟡⭕️ Pikmin
🟡🟡🟡🟡⭕️ Animal Crossing
🟡🟡🟡⭕️⭕️ Splatoon
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 ⭐️Xenoblade⭐️

Lyte @lytewav.bsky.social · Nov 10

My attachment to various Nintendo franchises:

🟡🟡⭕️⭕️⭕️ Earthbound
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 ⭐️Metroid⭐️
🟡🟡⭕⭕⭕ Star Fox
🟡🟡🟡🟡⭕️ Mario
🟡⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️ Golden Sun
🟡🟡⭕️⭕️⭕ WarioWare
🟡🟡⭕️⭕️⭕️ Donkey Kong
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Kirby
🟡🟡🟡🟡⭕️ Pokémon
🟡🟡🟡⭕️⭕️ F-Zero
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Zelda
🟡⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️ Fire Emblem
🟡⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️ Pikmin
🟡🟡🟡🟡⭕️ Animal Crossing
🟡🟡🟡🟡⭕️ Splatoon
🟡⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️ Xenoblade

January 28, 2026 at 11:06 PM

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Sonic the Hedgehog

@sonic-official.bsky.social

Nothing brings a friend group together like Murder.

🎨: @deegeemin.bsky.social

A fake detective "Whodunit" film poster. The image features the characters from The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog game in their respective outfits. Sonic is missing from the image. The text reads, "Wake Up Dead Hog. A Sonic the Hedgehog Mystery." The text on top displays the cast names as, " Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles Prower, Amy Rose, Shadow Hedgehog, Rouge Bat, Blaze Cat, Vector Crocodile, Espio Chameleon, Knuckles Echidna, Barry Quokka, Dr. Eggman. A Sonic Social Whodunnit". The bottom next reads, "Sega Presents A Mirage Express Production. A Movie That Doesn't Exist, But Should. Starring Sonic the Hedgehog But Dead and Everyone Else. Costume Designer The Conductor's Wife. Music By An Enthusiastic Band Of Chao. Edited By A Train That Just Wished To Know Love For But A Moment. Emotional Support by Charmy and Cream. Executive Producer The Bouncer Chao. Directed By The Conductor. Written By Barry the Quokka. Special Thanks To The Flicky Inside All Of Us."

January 23, 2026 at 6:41 PM

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Yggdrasiel

@yggdrasiel.bsky.social

This is your reminder to be the best version of yourself that Big Joe knows you can be!

January 21, 2026 at 3:04 PM

Total Radlad

@totalradlad.bsky.social

Finally, some real music

That one annoying track from Phantom Hourglass that plays in every single dungeon/cave with few exceptions

January 20, 2026 at 1:19 AM

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Becc

@bodacious-becc.bsky.social

Digital art depicting Cain and Abel (Fire Emblem) doing a funny matching pose like Will Ferrel and Ryan Reynolds on a poster for the movie 'Spirited' over a background of a map from Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem

January 15, 2026 at 5:59 AM

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Meaf❗️

@meaf.bsky.social

Fire Emblem protagonist: "We need to save the kingdom from these evil invaders!"
Grizzled Advisor: "Only you can lead the people to victory, my lord."
Love Interest: "Come on, let's go save the villagers!"
The Other Two Guys You Start With:

〽️ax krieger locks in @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · Dec 29

for 3 years now the ads on all of my devices have been begging me to watch a christmas movie with will ferrell and ryan reynolds and literally all i know about it is this fucking picture

will ferrell and ryan reynolds looking stupid on the poster for spirited (2022)

January 14, 2026 at 9:02 PM

Total Radlad

@totalradlad.bsky.social

Nintendo year in review thing

January 13, 2026 at 8:03 PM

Total Radlad

@totalradlad.bsky.social

Whoever picked the locations for Star Pieces in Paper Mario TTYD really liked putting them behind random objects

January 13, 2026 at 4:41 AM

Total Radlad

@totalradlad.bsky.social

Accessibility/quality of life does not mean making the game play itself

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · Jan 6

Sony has patented an AI gaming ghost that will play PlayStation games for you when you get stuck www.eurogamer.net/sony-has-pat...

Screenshot from Horizon Forbidden West showing Aloy firing an arrow at a large snake-like machine

January 6, 2026 at 2:19 PM

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SparksOpus

@sparksopus.bsky.social

A Xenosaga playthrough? In 2025?!

YES!

Here's the first episode :D
youtube.com/live/sCPI2CL...

Our Journey Continues - Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht | First Time Reaction

YouTube video by SparksOpus LIVE

youtube.com

December 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM

Total Radlad

@totalradlad.bsky.social

Finally, Goku is joining the MCU

GeekTyrant @geektyrant.com · Dec 24

New Rumor Claims the Third AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Teaser Trailer Will Focus on a Very Surprising Character

The release of director James Cameron ’s sequel Avatar: Fire and Ash has brought the release of the first teaser trailer for Marvel’s highly anticipated Avengers: Doomsday . The first trailer was...

buff.ly

December 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM

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Dylan

@dylanpdx.bsky.social

Can we buy balatro
Mom: We have Balatro at home
Balatro at home:

December 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM

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Yakumono

@luigiblood.bsky.social

Well there you go I made a micro post of it lol
luigiblood.neocities.org/micro/2025-1...

December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM

Total Radlad

@totalradlad.bsky.social

I have played a video game once or twice

PlayStation 2025 Wrap-Up for me, I played Final Fantasy VII Remake, Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMix, Detroit: Become Human, Castlevania Requiem: Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood, and Astro's Playroom. There was also one other game that I didn't play enough to reach top 5, no idea what that was.

In total, I played 31 hours, 6 games, and got 100 trophies in 2025. FFVII Remake was my most played game at a whopping 9 hours.

December 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM

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Potato Cat

@potatocat21.bsky.social

December 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM

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Kosperry 🧀

@kosperry.bsky.social

The conscious claws of Doc Ock! 🔴 (Spider-Man 2, 2004)
As a huge fan of Doc Ock/Alfred Molina for over 20 years Ive wanted to animate him for a long time! Its not often I animate humans as they can be a bit challenging, but for a rough practice clip Im happy with the turnout! :D