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John Carson

@John_Carson

1 year

Y’all know what to do

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John Carson

@John_Carson

5 years

Imagine Death Stranding, but you're a mayor of a town. And in that town live animals that have their own personalities and needs. And you, as the mayor, have to help build the town and connect the animals together by performing tasks and paying off a raccoon real estate mogul.

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John Carson

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5 months

Brother, it sure didn't hurt him as much as the hundreds of people who no longer have jobs. It's not a time to defend execs, Mike. Show some humility for the people who worked for your overly inflated paychecks and express some actual sympathy.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

@TheMattCardona Sami's Blue Thunder Bomb. Looks so damn good that it should be a finisher IMO

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 months

THE BULK OF MY WRITING IS GONE

John Carson

@John_Carson

3 months

Man, @gamestop even took the website down? That's a fucking monstrous move. The staff has work on there that's not accessible now, not to mention freelancers.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

I was asked to wait a day to say anything officially, so here it is. Unfortunately, I am part of the GameStop layoffs and am no longer employed at Game Informer as of yesterday. I'll cherish my time there and the people I worked with even more.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

@ultrabrilliant Call me 56k, because I’m loud, slow, and only work for fewer minutes than you’d like

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John Carson

@John_Carson

8 months

Ugh can we stop painting climbable objects yellow??

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

HUGE PERSONAL NEWS!! I'll be joining @gameinformer next week as their new Associate Editor! I could not be more excited to start in the midst of E3 and everything else. It's going to be A MONTH. I'm looking forward to hitting the ground running w/ the amazing folks at GI!

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 months

This isn’t the time for snide comments about people not supporting GI the right way. This is 100% on GameStop. Always has been. They have had every opportunity to support GI more and fumbled it every time.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 months

Man, @gamestop even took the website down? That's a fucking monstrous move. The staff has work on there that's not accessible now, not to mention freelancers.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

10 years

God created Eve second because of the extra development time it takes to make a woman.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 months

He a 16:9 god

Guinness World Records

@GWR

2 months

Ibrahim Al-Nasser from Saudi Arabia has connected over 400 different games consoles to one TV 👀

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John Carson

@John_Carson

1 year

This move to hire "AI Editors" is a strong case to support independent games coverage that's trying to be sustainable. If you enjoy thoughtful articles, videos, podcasts, and more from REAL people, toss a few bucks to a creator's Patreon or PayPal.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

Two quick things: 1. GI is still very much around, but the crew is operating with a much obviously smaller staff than it should be. 2. Support them and show them love as much as you can. There's so much talent in the entire staff

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John Carson

@John_Carson

5 years

@yozetty @dannyodwyer

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 months

Now @gamestop nuked the Game Informer Twitter account. This scorched earth plan is beyond shitty and evil. Fuck GameStop. Don't give them another cent of your money. Game Informer Forever!

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

It was a dream come true but I guess its time for something else. I have no idea what that is yet, but I'll be ready to hit the ground running wherever and in whatever capacity that may be. Thank you for all the love that’s been shown so far. 💙

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

Nice work @GameOverGreggy . Awesome to see great people do cool things

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John Carson

@John_Carson

10 years

This may be the best Miiverse post I've ever seen. http://t.co/fXlhbYbMrS

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John Carson

@John_Carson

9 years

I'm happy @DanRyckert decided to cosplay as @notaxation today http://t.co/WKb0yti6zG

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

@TolarianCollege Finally! Basic lands in the rare slot again!

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John Carson

@John_Carson

11 months

Actually, $200 isn't that bad, considering you can walk on stage whenever you want to.

John Carson

@John_Carson

11 months

Tickets to The Game Awards are $200, and you can't buy just one? Not that I was planning on going, but that's some hot garbo

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

This is happening! Thanks to Greg for reaching out to Wes and I. We’re more than excited to guest on KFGD!!

Greg Miller

@GameOverGreggy

2 years

Well, Game Informer laid off @LeBlancWes and @John_Carson yesterday, so you know what that means… Today, the Former Informers host Kinda Funny Games Daily! Come send Bless and them love in two hours on !

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John Carson

@John_Carson

4 months

@MarioPrime Sir, another monkeyball has hit the twin towers

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

If you look at the day so far, most of the increase happened before the Bungie news. It's barely moved since. At the time of announcement shares were at $111.19 compared to the $111.40 now

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@JeffGrubb

3 years

Sony shares up 4.27%.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

My review of MultiVersus is now live on @IGN ! Thanks to @JurassicRabbit and @Ronny_Barrier for being too busy with SDCC stuff (and killing it all weekend) and putting in a good word for me. ❤️❤️❤️

MultiVersus Review - IGN

A deep platform fighter with tedious progression systems.

www.ign.com

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@John_Carson

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 months

I’m absolutely heartbroken

Game Informer

@gameinformer

3 months

The Final Level: Farewell from Game Informer 🕹️

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John Carson

@John_Carson

8 years

. @notaxation Maybe use your platform to tell others about the women whose work you admire in the industry instead of making a lame "joke."

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 months

My heart goes out to all of the now-former Game Informer staff. They’re all wonderful, hard working people that do not deserve their livelihood to have been ripped away. Whatever each of them do next, I will support them. I hope you will too.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

Hate on GameStop all you want, but give the GI staff your attention. Watch the YouTube videos, click on articles (and read them! They’re great!) and listen to their podcasts.

Alex Van Aken

@itsVanAken

2 years

Yesterday we lost three Game Informers – @John_Carson , @LeBlancWes , and @JeffAkervik , our brilliant Creative Director of 14 years. We were a skeleton crew before yesterday’s layoffs, I don’t know what that makes us now. They really need your support, and so do the rest of us.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 months

Do yourself a favor: Go read the reviews of video games and encourage others to do so. Aggregating scores doesn’t help anybody when there’s no context. The game industry is actively worse when the impact of games is boiled down to a numerical average.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

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John Carson

@John_Carson

10 months

If you're in charge of laying people off days before the holidays, and I mean this in the most disrespectful way: Eat shit and go fuck yourself.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 months

@bywillborger Wayback to the rescue!

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 months

I was worried this wouldn’t make it out to subscribers, but it thankfully did. I’m so happy to be a small part of the final issue of Game Informer, which is now the only place you can read my FFXIV: Dawntrail review

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John Carson

@John_Carson

8 months

Glizzy < Glizzara < Glizzaga

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John Carson

@John_Carson

6 years

@austin_walker That's the paragraph that stood out to me. These people are just numbers on a spreadsheet to him

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

My first official appearance on MinnMax! Be there!!

MinnMax

@MinnMaxShow

2 years

. @gijeffm and @yozetty will be joined by @John_Carson and @LeBlancWes to talk about their time at Game Informer for Party Chat at 7pm Central, join the MinnMax Council and call in via Discord! We'd love to hear some new voices from the community.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

This sucks so much. Don’t bring GI into your garbage crypto strategy, @GameStop

GameStop

@gamestop

2 years

Game Informer cover NFTs are here! Community artists @CYBERCREWNFT , @MaxxMarshallArt , @torfxnft are all creating for us! Collect all 3… or 4. 😉

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

@geoffkeighley Geoff, if you want, I can read the announcement on a new pre-pre-show

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John Carson

@John_Carson

9 years

Just saw @DanRyckert bobbing his head along to Freebird at the WWE Hall of Fame. Least surprising thing I've seen this week.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

@SaffronOlive White ending battles and creating peace is kind of flavorful tbh

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

@SaffronOlive All five Praetors show up in physical draft packs so it’s probably because of that

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John Carson

@John_Carson

6 years

Is this Tekken stage where you fight Rom in Bloodborne?

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John Carson

@John_Carson

5 months

Aww gee wiz, I hope we can sweep the catastrophic life-changing event under the rug so we can get video games back on track for you gamers.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

8 months

@jessevitelli Kojima wasn’t involved so he won’t realize the injustice

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

@reckless Oh no, how will I ever live with myself buying Nintendo games if they don't give papa twitter money?

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John Carson

@John_Carson

1 year

I'm two days from the one-year anniversary of being laid off from Game Informer. That thought came to me as I posted my first article for @Indie_Informer a few minutes ago. It's good to be back

Sea Of Stars And Lies Of P Headline ID@Xbox Demo Fest Beginning July 11

Five eye-catching indies have been revealed for next week’s ID@Xbox Demo Fest.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

IT'S MY FIRST ISSUE!

Game Informer

@gameinformer

3 years

Come learn all about Bandai Namco's exciting RPG Tales Of Arise in the new issue of Game Informer Magazine.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

8 years

I don't really like Supercuts of things but the Trump sniffs are going to rule YouTube

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 months

I say this a lot, but if some wealthy person wanted to put up to money to start a gaming publication, your pool of talent is deep

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

It's been a hell of a day. Once again thanks to @KindaFunnyVids for having me and @LeBlancWes on to host. Thank you to all of the people in my mentions today, it really means a lot. To the folks who DMed me, I'll get back to you soon.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

Sometimes I think about how much it sucks that my career was cut short and I was robbed of meeting awesome people and the opportunity to cool travel to cool places because of blind, mindless corporate cuts.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

And hello to all of the new followers! I'll of course be tweeting plenty about video games, but also card games (magic, yugioh, etc.) and wrestling. It's going to be a wild ride for the coming weeks/months.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

7 years

@mikesuszek Bring back Tenchu, end Five Nights at Freddy's.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

5 years

@bombsfall I was asked to sign a letter of resignation from a retail store for taking two days off, which I was supposed to have covered but my coworkers no-showed. Then a month after I left they called me up to get me back in and ready for the fall

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

@GameOverGreggy @LeBlancWes It was an honor! We appreciate the platform and the introduction to your audience and beyond

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John Carson

@John_Carson

4 years

Merry Christmas from this handsome boy

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

@GavinVerhey Isolate and Imposing

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

My first review with Game Informer came out today! I really liked my time with Griftlands and plan on playing more once my second review this week is done

Game Informer

@gameinformer

3 years

Griftlands' successful approach to conflicts, relationships, and worldbuilding make this deck building roguelike stand out in the genre. Find out why in our review:

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

Last night at our current place. It’s where Rose and I have lived the longest together. We got a new cat, got engaged, got married, she beat cancer, and we quarantined here. Tomorrow is exciting yet bittersweet. On to new adventures in Minneapolis.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

9 months

I'm not adding this to draw attention to myself. Losing the job sucks, but it's worse when there are no positions to apply for to replace what you did. Those that do become available have a dozen+ killers aiming for the same gig. That's for media. I assume it's the same for devs.

Wesley DracuLeBlanc

@LeBlancWes

9 months

Beyond the money, insurance, etc., the mental toll of being laid off cannot be overstated. I cried a lot when I was laid off (on my b day no less ha) – I worked so hard for the job, and it was gone, instantly. And 18 months later, the worry it could happen again still remains.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

4 years

I wish I could pull off some of the production @DanRyckert does on his streams. Not technically, but personally.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

@JeffGrubb Become Limgrave’s top dominatrix

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

A friendly reminder to writers to think about the language they use, especially when the topic is accessibility.

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@Kotaku

2 years

Street Fighter 6’s cheat mode is a game changer:

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

My new switch stand arrived

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John Carson

@John_Carson

5 months

Shutting down the studio that made one of the best surprises of last year instead of building on it is a hell of a strategy

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@jasonschreier

5 months

BREAKING: Xbox is shutting down Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and two other studios. Story hitting Bloomberg shortly

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@John_Carson

2 years

@GameOverGreggy I appreciate you stepping up and helping out yet again, Greg. ❤️❤️❤️

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

I think I have four applications out for writing jobs. Hopefully I'll hear from one or more of them soon 🤞🤞🤞

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John Carson

@John_Carson

6 years

@DanRyckert

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John Carson

@John_Carson

4 years

I’d subscribe

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John Carson

@John_Carson

5 years

@GI_AndyMc @DuvalMagic Thanks for saying something and backing up your team, Andy. 👍

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John Carson

@John_Carson

8 months

Be careful using the word "delay" with this Switch 2 stuff. While it might be an "internal delay" of sorts who knows what the actual timeline is/was supposed to be), the product was never announced and, therefore, is not a delay delay.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 months

@diegoarguello66 Wayback has a lot of my stuff! Crisis averted for now

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John Carson

@John_Carson

7 years

@NintendoAmerica Capnapped*

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

If you see these guys around Evo this weekend feel free to say hello!

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 months

Contributed a little to this. Please give it a read:

Aftermath

@Aftermath_site

2 months

Goodbye Game Informer, games journalism won't -- and wouldn't -- be the same without you

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

Started my new job today in my previous career. I’ll be fixing up A/V systems for now, but I promise I won’t be far from games. Looking into ways to keep writing or talking about games in my free time. Stay tuned.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

@tylxx @schaeferyn *Blanka likes this*

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John Carson

@John_Carson

5 years

I don’t have anything personal to plug (nor do I think people should need to plug anything that when they get retweeted a bunch) but please go check out @MinnMaxGames ! They’re a wonderful new group made of former Game Informer staff that you should check out!

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

SPECIAL DELIVERY

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

Locked in covid jail currently and I just had a very gentle visitor at the door

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

Congrats to MS for releasing a video game. You should do that more often.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

If anyone has emails they would like to send my way (Press releases, business inquiries, etc.) send them to JohnCarsonGames at Gmail dot com. That’ll be the best way to reach me. ❤️

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John Carson

@John_Carson

1 year

Celebrating FOUR WHOLE YEARS of marriage with my beautiful wife @horse_hands !! I can't believe it's been that long already and I can't wait for forty more ❤️❤️❤️❤️ (also this food looks awesome. Going to hit send so I can eat)

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

@Wario64 THE VALUE

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John Carson

@John_Carson

8 years

Have you listened to the latest @pg_show yet? We discuss Doom, UC4 and more!

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

….why are you sitting like that

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

@SeanRossSapp 3 matches per weekly show sounds accurate to the current product :P

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

Reminder to anyone in the game industry who wants to contact the Game Informer staff: Our emails are available on the site's Staff page. Mine is JohnCarson at GameInformer dot com, and my DMs are open. If you'd like to bring anything to my attention, those are great places to go.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

3 years

Wrapped up my career as an A/V tech this morning. 2 days until I start the career I’ve wanted for 13 years.

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John Carson

@John_Carson

4 years

@SaffronOlive IDK probably one of the Walking Dead cards due to limited availability?

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John Carson

@John_Carson

6 months

Are bald people immune to being Ratatouilled?

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

@itsVanAken lol holy shit

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John Carson

@John_Carson

2 years

I think @itsVanAken is in a video call with himself from the past???

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John Carson

@John_Carson

4 years

A classic holiday game about the importance of sticking together

Wario64

@Wario64

4 years

INSIDE is free on Epic Games Store (must be claimed within 24 hours)

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John Carson

@John_Carson

4 years

She wanted people to put it down after 20 minutes until their friend talks them into trying it again?

The Verge

@verge

4 years

Milla Jovovich wanted Monster Hunter viewers to feel “like they were playing the game for the first time”

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John Carson

@John_Carson

7 months

It blows my mind that people will tie themselves into hateful knots to regurgitate lies from some rando about game development instead of listening to devs like Rami, who go out of their way to open the curtain to the current state of making games in 2024.

Rami Ismail / رامي

@tha_rami

7 months

So the Gamergate ex-dev grifter is back claiming shit about forced diversity leading to funding and let me tell you, not even once in my life have I worked on or with any title that had an easier timing getting funding because it was different, diverse, inclusive, or equitable.

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