Eric Gerson

Dad. Gamer. Singer. Games/Digital lawyer for Disney; tweets are my own.

[Eric Gerson @ETGers]

Try looking your infant son in the eyes as you tell him your PS4 controller is "not a toy."

[Eric Gerson @ETGers]

Wellness check on every single person in the tristate area. #lgk

[Eric Gerson @ETGers]

@knowsworthy PS5 so I can platinum it, and will play it handheld via Remote Play to either my Steam Deck or my AYN Thor

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

The assault on an NYPD officer outside Madison Square Garden last night was unacceptable.

New Yorkers are rightfully excited about the Knicks' historic Finals run, and we want fans to celebrate this moment together. There is, however, no place for violence, and no tolerance for attacks on police officers.

Thank you to the officers who worked to keep fans safe throughout the night, and we wish the injured officer a speedy recovery.

The overwhelming majority of New Yorkers celebrated responsibly, and I urge everyone to continue doing so as the Finals return to New York.

[Push Square @pushsquare]

Wolverine PS5 Cuts Through the Crowd, Tops PS Store Pre-Order Charts. https://t.co/YVHYgQtEOJ

[Geoff Keighley @geoffkeighley]

Just Announced: Toy Story: Retro Roundup! and Toy Story 3 remaster.

Includes 11 classic games. Both console and handheld versions of four Toy Story games and A Bug's Life.

Launching October 15th, 2026

[Eric Gerson @ETGers]

the mina the hollower soundtrack is live on Spotify which means my music to work to is sorted for the next bajillion years, nice

[Eric Gerson @ETGers]

@dougboneparth ::starts to panic trying to remember what I was wearing when you saw me this weekend::

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals.

As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them.

Go Knicks.

[Insomniac Games @insomniacgames]

Hey everyone,

See ya Tuesday.

Thanks!

[Eric Gerson @ETGers]

@DetectiveSeeds @RockstarGames Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis Two

[Gene Park @GenePark]

this game deserves its perfect scores btw. i’m not done with it but it’s incredible. just another notch in a high quality year for games

[Shinobi602 @shinobi602]

007: First Light has sold over 1.5 million copies in its first 24 hours

#007FirstLight

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

.@NYCSanitation I'd like to report a sweep

[KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 💙🧡💙🧡 @alv_money]

He’s in the fucking nosebleeds with the people instead of being down in celebrity row

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

State of Play returns on June 2.

The over hour-long show includes an extended look at Marvel’s Wolverine, plus news and updates on upcoming PS5 games: https://t.co/u88KNkpTla

[Eric Gerson @ETGers]

@knowsworthy Dude. Yes.

Hell, even if it was a more modern version. They could do it as a spin-off of FFXIV, using same assets, but with real-time 3 player PvE third-person action combat. A co-op looter style action game with a final fantasy setting, enemies, classes, and tropes? Come on.

[Polygon @Polygon]

Forget Wolverine, Cyclops gets the comeback he deserves thanks to an X-Men renaissance https://t.co/iuVR02mMGa

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

The CEO of Take-Two, the company behind GTA, just said something the entire AI industry doesn't want to hear.

And he said it without being anti-AI.

Strauss Zelnick's argument is precise. AI is built on datasets. Datasets are backward-looking. Creativity is forward-looking. A model trained on everything that already exists cannot, by definition, produce something genuinely unexpected. And all hits, by their very nature, are unexpected.

Asset creation and hit creation are not the same thing. AI is getting very good at the first one. The second one is what actually makes money, builds franchises, and changes culture. Nobody has shown AI can do that yet.

The derivative property problem is real. You can clone GTA with existing technology. You could do it before AI. It would take 3 years and look identical. It still wouldn't sell. Because it isn't GTA. It's a clone of GTA.

And consumers, despite what the industry occasionally pretends, can feel the difference between something genuinely new and something assembled from the residue of things that already worked.

Thousands of mobile games ship every year. 0 to 5 hits get made. The same studios make them every time. The technology to make more games has been commoditized for years. It didn't democratize hit creation. It just flooded the market with more forgettable product.

The Silicon Valley thesis that AI unlocks game creation for everyone is true in the same way that cheap cameras unlocked filmmaking for everyone. They did. And the same 5 studios still make the movies everyone watches.

What Zelnick is saying, without quite saying it, is that the thing AI cannot replicate is taste. The instinct for what hasn't been done yet. The cultural antenna that detects the gap in the market before the data can see it.

Data tells you what people wanted. Hits tell people what they want next.

Those are different jobs.

[Eric Gerson @ETGers]

@KutterIsKing Literally 100% tourists in times square dawg

[𝕊𝕋𝔸ℝ𓇼 @flowwithkel]

People retweeting this asking why we don’t do this anymore and it’s because there’s freaks who record you and then will make fun of you online for having fun