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[mashu @mashkiel]

Sonic fighterz

[RY3NO @CRy3no]

We’re almost at 3 weeks since the worst news in gaming history dropped. It took 3 weeks for them to respond to the PS3 closure backlash years ago. So hopefully we hear something soon. All eyes are on you @PlayStation

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

A new report claims PlayStation could be using social media bots to defend its decision to stop making physical game discs.

According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, AI was used to analyze accounts posting in support of PlayStation’s digital-only future.

The report says many of those accounts looked suspicious, with recent creation dates, AI-generated profile pictures, and very similar posting patterns.

[Warlock | DoesItPlay @DiPWarlock]

"Sonys Decision to End Physical Discs is Getting Indies Caught in the Crossfire"

Fixed your title.

[patchzy @patchzyy]

Announcing Mario Kart Wiicompiled!

The first static recompilation of a Wii game: Mario Kart Wii, rebuilt for PC.

Releasing in beta this August, with online play and optional Retro Rewind support, bringing over 200 tracks!

Here’s your first look:

[Michael @TheMG3D]

Worst opinion I’ve ever seen

[TerrAko @ Best Samira 2XKO @TerrAkoFGC]

Just a reminder that bandi said they were down to make a new one, it was just Nintendo that didn’t green light it

[Boundary Break @BoundaryBreak]

Mainstream media finally weighing in on this and it's a incredibly pro-consumer toned headline.

That's typically the silver bullet to big business.

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Interesting controversy in Pokemon Go:

The game has been out for ten years and is celebrating its tenth anniversary. To celebrate, they had a lavish event in Times Square last night, where the game took over all the screens and participants could battle the legendary Pokemon Mewtwo in the game. This echoed a cinematic trailer released with the game’s launch in 2016 that had never previously been possible in the actual game.

BUT, the event was restricted to a group of 2000 streamers, “community ambassadors” and invited guests who were given tickets that activated the event in their game. If you showed up to Times Square without an invitation, there was nothing there.

The Mewtwo the special influencers got had perfect stats and a special background that nobody else can get. This weekend, Mega Mewtwo is releasing worldwide, and Niantic/Scopely, the publisher of the game, expected the millions of players to watch a livestream where a bunch of Twitch streamers attended a spectacular party everyone else was not invited to and were gifted powerful in-game characters, and then they expect all those players to pay money this weekend to buy raid passes to hunt for a perfect Mewtwo.

The community is furious. If Niantic/Scopely had expected this to be received positively, they radically miscalculated. Their mistake, which a lot of companies make, is that they believed people like influencers, and enjoy watching influencers receive free stuff as they promote products.

In fact, most people HATE influencers, and they especially hate it when these leeches get free stuff.

[normie 𓆏🦔 @KellytoyDK]

if there's one company I'd expect to pick up distribution rights to the Weinstein-produced film Escape From Planet Earth then yeah I guess it'd be those guys

[TheGoldNPlushSonic @PlushSonicReal]

I miss when generative AI didn’t exist

[Goldrum the Swag Bear 💿 @Goldietheswag3]

If you claim to support physical, but turn around and buy this, you are weak and part of the problem.

[Azuren — Cancel your PS+ #SavePhysicalGames 💿 @AzurenTheGamer]

This is why they wanted you to believe their analyst. This is why their CEO sold over half his Sony stock. And he wasn't the only board member to sell a significant chunk, either.

The cancellations *are* working. Don't let the corpos tell you otherwise.

[Kercy @KdeKercy]

Look at that Community Note man, all these "analyst" are fucking nothing but Sony people 😭😭😭😭

[Feras @Aizmov]

Majority of fans will accept it but I can’t sleep with clear conscious if I let a corporation dictate how I live my life. I am a consumer, not a number; I am moving to Switch 2 & PC, even if I do it alone, I will sleep knowing I didn’t bend the knee to such anti-consumer practice

[Kode Kaldwin 🦇 @kodekaldwin]

Sony allegedly not telling its partners about the decision to stop new physical disc releases, upsetting Kojima and getting him all worried, and then ducking out on social media only to return with a silly little product video is so spineless lmao.

[Lythero 🎮 @Lythero]

will this product also be blocked in 132 countries along with Tokon?

[Nick @ FF7 Revelation waiting room @EmpX22]

Sony made such a generationally bad announcement that you got people who hadn’t touched a Nintendo device in decades getting the switch 2, incredible.

[Neo @NeoWokio]

Promoting a fight stick when you don't want everyone in the world playing your new fighting game is nasty work

[Poorly Aged Things @PoorlyAgedStuff]

i don’t understand. this a physical product? how do i download it?