Ben O’Brien

Can the destiny of Hyrule really rely on such a lazy boy? Counsellor, writer & anxious anthropomorphic clock. He/Him.

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

Now that I can talk about it, I wrote this! Super stoked to have two trailers I wrote/worked on debut at @thegameawards 2 years in a row now. Let’s keep this streak rolling babyyyyy

[The Callisto Protocol @CallistoTheGame]

From Striking Distance Studios and the creators of Dead Space, comes The Callisto Protocol – a terrifying, story-driven, survival horror game set in a prison colony on Jupiter’s dead moon Callisto. Coming 2022. #CallistoTheGame

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

Such a massive chapter of my gaming life for the last decade. A lot of fun, some excellent story telling and soooo many attempts at explaining to friends what the hell is going on after they agreed to play it with me.

[Destiny 2 @DestinyTheGame]

"Thank you for walking with me all these years."

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

@PatrickLenton Hey, it works for the Swiss guard! They get to wear those fabulous frocks around the Vatican and the Catholics don’t make a peep.

Pride is the next logical step.

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

@BBW_BFF The fun part about getting diagnosed is those people then become the most annoyed anytime you talk about your ADHD.

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

@Brocklesnitch Rustle Brand.

It took my brain a full 24 hours to think of this.

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

@Brocklesnitch Man first the Russel Brand clip now this. Loving this new trend of people staying silent to let idiots completely dismantle themselves.

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

Imagine being so bad at comedy, you get upstaged by a silent audience member.

Imagine losing an argument to an imaginary heckler.

Imagine a person doing absolutely nothing for 2 minutes and still completely owning you.

Imagine posting evidence of this own your own socials.

[Ben Bankas @BenBankas]

Triggered girl at comedy show…

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

@PatrickLenton I say let people post whatever dumb, ignorant opinion they want…

All I ask in return is that whenever they’re go out, they have to wear a shirt featuring their worst tweets.

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

@ishowspeedsui @Serrels I’d love to join your crew but I need to follow my dream of becoming the worlds first Pirate Therapist. Also I’m a Moose.

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

@Nicole66640666 @shujaxhaider I think if you watched that whole season and didn’t see any acknowledgement Robby’s unacceptable behaviour, then maybe the problem lies with an inability to understand media on both a surface and subtextual level 🤷‍♂️

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

@hnwalker1980 @unknownT0234 @BNGServerStatus Servers went down for maintenance 4 hours ago. So I assume he means total wait time.

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

@Cromwelp Reactions to this thread also highlight for me how many gamers seem uncomfortable with viewing the medium with the complexity it deserves. What is this pressure for every game to either support the weight of astronomical hype or be doomed to become “Concord 3.0 loll”.

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

Cool to see HBO defending and prioritising representation over catering to noisy bigots.

So… any Trans characters? 👀

[IGN @IGN]

HBO boss Casey Bloys has discussed the "serious security" around its Harry Potter TV series, in the wake of death threats sent to Snape actor Paapa Essiedu. https://t.co/1ccnCD71Cq

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

*Study conducted by AI technology leading company.

It takes 30 seconds to google this stuff, man. Media is cooked.

[GameSpot @GameSpot]

GenAI In Games? Most Players Just Don't Care, Study Finds https://t.co/J7nLfb6bk1

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

@GameSpot Whoa so a study by “AI leader” Circana is suggesting people don’t hate AI? That’s crazy. Thorough reporting there, GameSpot.

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

Uh… maybe I’m out of the loop here but… that voice probably isn’t a good thing, right? Cc @MyNameIsByf @MarathonTheGame

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

My gaming experience in 2026
#Marathon #ArcRaiders

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

We live in world where banks are run by the greedy, governments are led by criminals and our defenders and protectors curb stomp the most fundamental human rights…

So sure, why not buy our intelligence from this dumb asshole?

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

��� SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

This man is proposing to do with the sum total of published human knowledge what capitalism does with everything: steal it and then build enclosures around it for profit.

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

Maidenless gamers will trash talk a game for having “ps1 ass visuals” and then this is what the game actually looks like

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

That said, the negativity around Marathon should be studied. There’s such an unusual trend now of wishing failure on a game for zero reason beyond players not thinking they’ll like it? It doesn’t even seem ideological at this point, just pure knee jerk rejection?

[Ben O’Brien @BennyOBrien]

Have been really enjoying Marathons, more than I thought I would. What it lacks in the survival immersion of ARC, it somehow has balanced out in the fun, simple playability of it. I bounce of Exfil games hard sometimes because of the Loot Loss, but Marathon has defied that for me

[Paul Tassi @PaulTassi]

my Marathon take is that it is really good but really hard and really, really going to be needed to play with a team you know to get very far

that's fine! but I think you're definitely going to see it be audience-limiting, and current players may not retain the patience