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Alex Donaldson

@apzonerunner.com

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Video game critic. Owner/Final Boss @RPGSite.net, Editor-at-large @Eurogamer.net, occasional freelancer & consultant. Into: Arcade cabs, Watches, Dogs, Whisky, fighting games (esp SF), RPGs (esp FF), NFL (Rams), Lego, Poker & Blackjack www.donaldson.zone

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 8h

very funny that this series went from battering the pope inside the vatican to whatever this reaction is lol

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 1d

well well well if it isn't the blowjob brothers

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

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foxgirls - It's evil MILF Monday @foxgirlyuri.yuri.agency · 1d

notice how the mother leaves, but then returns. is this hinting at the return of the "Mother" series? nintendo you sly dogs

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

Close to You – Nintendo www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsuf...

Nintendo drops animated video

explains nothing

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 1d

I'm astonished by how well they sold this in Remake just from the perspective of before they released it I thought it'd be impossible to sell Midgar due to the scale issue, but somehow they do it

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 1d

lmao. It's fine, like. I got an email and I said "sure, I'd love to!" And unpaid. I think it's quite a lovely little thing I put up, too. I am distant enough from it all that I'm just sort of watching, bemused. I feel for Bitmap but does seem like a no-comms-knowledge panic

Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 1d

woof.

(I wrote the foreword for the book in question and have been watching the burning wreck an all-time grimace)

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 2d

More elderly musings from me about the greatest demo of all time (which isn't really a demo, yes, but shush) www.eurogamer.net/a-love-lette...

A love letter to Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, one of the best demos of all time (even if it isn't really a demo)

15 years on, this is the other half of the Dead Rising narrative still worth exploring.

www.eurogamer.net

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