Patrick Klepek 🎃 @patrickklepek Twitter profile

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@patrickklepek

2 years

You could not make up a funnier story if you tried.

More Butter 🧈

@morebuttertv

2 years

Seth Green’s Bored Ape NFT, which was set to star in its own animated show, was stolen through a phishing scam. Green no longer owns the commercial rights to the NFT and thus the show cannot move forward. 🔗:

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6 years

1) James Gunn said awful, disgusting things. 2) We need to give people space to grow, and learn from their past. 3) Mike Cernovich and the alt-right have weaponized the left's morality. He is not operating in good faith, and is a toxic opportunist. Do your fucking homework.

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5 years

They’re still punishing Blitzchung. They’re still punishing the casters. This is a double down, plain and simple. And dumped on a Friday night, the exact time people aren’t paying attention, the place you put news you’re ashamed of.

Blizzard Entertainment

@Blizzard_Ent

5 years

Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament

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2 years

Watching gaming outlets jump through rhetorical hoops to justify coverage on Hogwarts Legacy isn’t surprising, but it’d be more honest if they played it straight and just said “our shaky business model does not allow us to ignore any game that might sell 10 million copies.”

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6 years

No game, no matter now good, is worth destroying lives in the process. In 2019, rather than exclusively focusing on where things have gone wrong, I'll be investigating and profiling places where things are changing—studios and individuals making labor conditions a priority.

Waypoint

@waypoint

6 years

How 'Slime Rancher' made a ton of money and stuck to 40-hour workweeks

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5 years

The important takeaway from how Blizzard started BlizzCon today is not that someone "apologized," but that it was an empty apology with no change in Blizzard's stance, empty words about how it originally fucked up. Blitzchung is still banned.

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1 year

I'm not sure where to begin, except to say, with equal parts fury and sadness, that Waypoint is over. The team, myself included, have been terminated by VICE, and our final day running the website, the podcasts, and streams, will come to an end on June 2nd.

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6 years

There is video of a mass shooting from a mosque in New Zealand going around. Yes, it includes a reference to PewDiePie. You do not have to watch it. Do not share it.

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3 years

You'll notice a complete absence in explaining "how."

Game Developer

@gamedevdotcom

3 years

EA calls NFTs and blockchain games "the future of our industry" in earnings call

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4 years

In the past few weeks, Skullgirls developer Lab Zero completely imploded. Rather than scattering to the winds, 16 former Lab Zero employees are doing something bold: former a co-op, where they will share power and profits. My story on this new studio:

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2 years

damn, that pesky cyber gaming, always stopping militarized police officers from running into an active shooter situation and preventing the needless slaughter of children

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2 years

DPS chief Steven McGraw: “We haven’t gotten into the why [motive]. We know the individual was also into cyber gaming in that regard, and group gaming.”

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6 years

I suspect the next 10 years are going to be a long, dark process in really understanding how generationally corrupting the YouTube algorithm has been to young men/boys.

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6 months

Well, this is incredibly gross: Roku has filed a patent that'd allow them to display ads through your HDMI connection, trying to detect if you've paused, say, your Xbox.

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

Roku TVs could one day show ads as soon as you pause playing a game on a connected Xbox, or stop a stream on an Apple TV.

www.lowpass.cc

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7 years

be trollin' hard

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4 months

That was a truly great Nintendo Direct for a “dying” console. Nintendo’s long term decisions allowing them to release so many games, even as they make a generational transition, flies in the face of what everyone else is doing and is paying off.

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2 years

I'm sorry, but why do we care what user rating a TV show has on IMDB? Stories like this only fuel this kind of weirdo behavior.

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@screenrant

2 years

Despite wide acclaim for Frank and Bill's love story, #TheLastOfUs episode 3 has been review bombed, with over 27,000 IMDb users scoring it a one star.

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5 months

Microsoft had had trouble shipping games for two generations now. Hi Fi Rush was one of the best games they’ve released—and wholly original, too. What an awful and short sighted decision.

IGN

@IGN

5 months

BREAKING: Microsoft has closed Redfall's Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush's Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda.

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4 years

GameXplain is one of the most popular gaming news analysis channels on YouTube, especially for Nintendo fans. But former contributors described to me a dangerous workplace, one where they were severely overworked and underpaid. My story:

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4 years

This is huge. They’re delisting Cyberpunk.

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2 years

Oh my god. 😂

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4 years

Two things I didn't know until recently: 1) People fuckin' love Bionicle. 2) Bionicle saved the company that makes Lego from bankruptcy. It's what allows this story of someone spending six years making a Bionicle game in secret to make sense.

A Hardcore Lego Fan Spent Six Years Making an Ambitious 'Bionicle' Fan Game

Even better, Lego seems to be okay with them making it.

www.vice.com

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5 months

There is no “good” answer to this question, but what’s genuinely shocking is not having a better prepared answer, as if it’s surprising it was asked with this (very obvious) framing.

Tom Warren

@tomwarren

5 months

Xbox president Sarah Bond responds to a question from Bloomberg's @dinabass about why Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks was shut down. Full interview here:

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3 years

Union busting begins at Activision Blizzard.

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2 years

You’re allowed to enjoy this. We all get to watch the richest man in the world crumble in real-time.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

2 years

Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.

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3 years

I've spent the last few months talking to developers about what it's been like to watch the rise of cryptocurrency and NFTs come to not just video games, but the companies they work at. The short version: "everybody fucking hates it."

The Crypto Revolution Is an Existential Crisis for Video Games

An internal culture war is playing out across the video game industry, with developers (and players) pitted against executives and crypto evangelists.

www.vice.com

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5 years

A mass exodus is happening at Deadspin in real-time right now, and it's breaking my heart, even if these people—a group of reporters, commentators, and critics I have profound respect for—are doing something brave and noble.

Tom Ley

@ToLey88

5 years

. @barry no longer works at Deadspin and that means I no longer work at Deadspin. Bye!

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4 years

I suspect moves like this will be a running theme from now until the game’s release, but one fundamental fact will remain unchanged: Rowling will still profit from the game’s release.

Jason Schreier

@jasonschreier

4 years

NEWS: Hogwarts Legacy will have trans-inclusive character creation, with body, voice, and gender ("witch/wizard") all separated, sources say. This news follows JK Rowling's transphobic comments and the recent discovery that a producer supports Gamergate

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5 years

This Timothy Olyphant quote on why he ended up in a Hitman movie after Deadwood was cancelled is incredible. "Find yourself bald in Bulgaria doing some pile of shit, that will get you up a little earlier in the morning and make you work a little harder."

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4 years

I just got answers back from my interview with @Uchikoshi_Eng of 999/VLR fame about his new game with Dangonronpa's @kazkodaka and uhhhhhhhhh I had to share this small taste before the weekend hits???

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2 years

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6 years

I've been stewing on this all day, and finally wrote about it. It’s a failure of imagination to suggest we can't have a world where companies treat workers with dignity. Fandom shouldn’t blind us to reality, in which a major company just screwed over its employees.

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@waypoint

6 years

Don't let Telltale milk your fandom until they pay the workers they screwed

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4 years

Can’t think of an event similar to this. Cannot imagine what the behind-the-scenes phone calls between CD Projekt RED and Sony were like. This just doesn’t happen.

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2 years

EA is removing Mirror's Edge from places like Steam next month. You will no longer be able to buy it. The company is blaming it on the "retirement of online services." What a joke.

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2 years

Can’t wait for Biden to tell me to vote.

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2 years

Me: Hops on Zoom for an interview with some Dead Space developers. Devs: One of personal influences, and one of the game's influences, is the Alien series. Me: So, what do you think of Prometheus? I think it rules. Devs: [extremely long pause, followed by a sigh]

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1 year

Waypoint was profitable, for a time, the company bragged about having a subscription business with steady income. The company stopped bragging when we did too well right out of the gate, and they didn’t like the lack of growth. Being profitable wasn’t enough.

Stream More on Max (Perry)

@maxfperry

1 year

From the @nytimes today. THIS right here is the crux of the issue: We have a consistently profitable business, but that doesn't matter anymore because we've sacrificed everything at the alter of 'exponential growth.' It's a false idol. It's insanity. #wgastrong

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3 years

Polygon explicitly calling for Kotick to resign. The role of a good press is beyond providing raw information, it's context and guidance. This is a really important moment in games media, I think, and it's (correctly) the top story on Polygon.

Bobby Kotick must resign

The Wall Street Journal has reported new allegations against Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick. While the company and its board have issued statements defending Kotick, it is time for the CEO to...

www.polygon.com

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10 months

A hell of a thing for Tim Sweeney to say after laying off 830 people this year.

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4 years

I think people are underestimating how many people absolutely do not give a shit about 4K.

Cheaper Next-Gen Xbox Will Cost $300, Launch November 10

If you don't care about 4K and are fine without a disc drive, the Series S looks great.

www.vice.com

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3 years

Giant Bomb has been such an incredible hub of talent over the years, and I'm lucky to have been a small part of that. I'm so excited to see what Vinny, Brad, and Alex do in the future, but I know one thing: it'll be great and I'll be reading, watching, and listening.

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8 years

On Thursday, my wife and I were overjoyed to welcome Jessica Rose Klepek into the world. We’re happy, she’s healthy

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5 years

There's a level in Mario Maker that's been attempted 2.6 million times. No jumping, no running. You don't touch a button. There's a one in 7.5 MILLION chance of things going exactly right. So far, no one's gotten the lucky ticket.

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4 years

lol

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4 years

When will #ps5 pre-orders start? PlayStation worldwide marketing head Eric Lempel says they will give gamers plenty of advance notice. #SummerGameFest

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6 years

eat the rich

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6 years

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick just opened his quarterly earnings call with the line, "We once again achieved record results in 2018."

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1 year

You can tell it’s working.

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@TimSweeneyEpic

1 year

People in this #BlockTheBlue pressure campaign are losers and goons. They're the cool kids from junior high who worked to exclude we nerds from cool kid events, plus the losers who joined in to gain cred. The elite-only verification system sucked, been criticizing it since 2018.

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8 years

Every time I watch this clip of an exasperated 9-year-old campaigning for Obama in 2008, I laugh even harder.

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1 year

Welcome to the world, @RemapRadio

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5 years

No, it’s a job I do because I have a set of skills that pays my mortgage and puts food on the table. It stopped being my hobby when it became a career, and treating fun-sounding jobs as not “real” is how someone like me ends up with thousands of hours of unpaid overtime.

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5 years

@patrickklepek In the end it is a job you do because you love the hobby and even though sometimes I’m sure you would rather do something besides play whatever game it is that you have to review I would bet that most of the time you are enjoying playing.

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Delisting is not removal from a PSN account, btw. If you own Cyberpunk, you can keep playing Cyberpunk. This isn't a P.T. situation.

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PS5's new activities feature could fundamentally change how I play open world games. It made knocking out side activities in Miles Morales, even the boring ones, extremely efficient.

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4 years

anyone else have this thing during COVID-19 where, no reason, they just feel like total shit on random days? best I can describe it is the equivalent of a hangover that lasts all day, even though I do not have a hangover. I'm sure it's just stress and lack of sleep, but bleh.

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Remember the visual novel writers at Voltage who went on strike, asking for better pay and working conditions? Their strike lasted 21 days, and in a surprising move: the workers WON. A story reported with @LaurenKGurley .

Visual Novel Writers Win Pay Raise After 21 Day Strike

Freelance writers for the popular visual novel collection Lovestruck won a significant pay increase from their publisher, Voltage, in a historic victory for labor in the game industry.

www.vice.com

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3 years

can't be upset about the Elden Ring mimic tear getting nerfed if you haven't gotten far enough to get it and become entirely reliant on it

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3 years

How an article trying to raise money for Palestinian charities turned into an editorial crisis for one of gaming's biggest websites. My story on IGN, Game Informer, and what's happened over the last several days:

IGN Staff ‘Pissed’ After Meeting About Deleted Palestine Charity Post

How an article trying to raise money for Palestinian charities turned into an editorial crisis for one of gaming's biggest websites.

www.vice.com

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The thing about the PlayStation 5 Pro is that I wonder if it's simply a glimpse into the future of all non-Nintendo gaming hardware: the equivalent of annual, largely inconsequential phone upgrades. Console hardware has simply reached a plateau.

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The Outer Worlds' standout character, Parvati, identifies as ace. She's become a rallying cry for a marginalized group who rarely see themselves depicted with such care. Parvati feels real because the writer behind her drew on their own life story.

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4 years

The way No Man’s Sky keeps quietly evolving is truly something else.

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No Man’s Sky: Companions 🦝Adopt Pets 🐹Raise Cute Babies 🐣Breed Creatures 🦑Trade Eggs 🤖Customise your pets 🐕‍🦺Train creatures to do chores 🐬Talk to your pet 🦋UI Improvements 🦅Faster PS4 Load Time 🧠Fauna Improvements 🦕Ride giant creatures Free on all platforms

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2 years

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5 years

All that said, I’m happy to report Elizabeth Jean Klepek was born into the world on Wednesday morning, a full two weeks early. The doctors and nurses were incredibly supportive in our—and *their*—trying time, and everyone is now home, happy and healthy.

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19 votes in favor, 3 votes against— Raven Software's QA team has a union. The video game industry has its first major video game union, a huge win for organized labor in an industry prone to crunch and exploitation.

Raven Software QA Votes to Become First Major Video Game Union in the United States

A huge event in the crunch-prone video game industry, which has long resisted organized labor.

www.vice.com

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1 year

The only way I could play Star Wars: Dark Forces was by booting my computer into a special mode where I could literally prevent parts of the computer from taking up memory.

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1 year

$100 whoever made this wasnt even alive in the 90s

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Assassin's Creed being "complete" but getting delayed out of the holidays for polish, moving to day one on Steam, abandoning season passes—this is *all hands on deck* for this game to be a hit. That sounds pretty worrying for Ubisoft's overall health.

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Good news: most game developers seem to think crypto sucks.

Most Game Developers Are Not Interested in NFTs and Crypto

A survey of more than 2,700 developers suggests crypto-related technology will have an uphill battle with creators.

www.vice.com

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It's remarkable how little Nintendo seems to grasp about the modern live service video game? Animal Crossing is built for it. The fans are begging for it. But nah.

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Nintendo has confirmed that Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Version 2.0 update and its Happy Home Paradise paid DLC will be the final major updates to the game.

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Took this photo on my last day at the office as a Giant Bomb employee.

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Opening hours of Elden Ring, I went straight to the castle and got my ass kicked by Margit. It prompted a mild existential crisis—maybe these games didn't fit my life anymore? Then I went south—spent 10 hours south, actually—and returned last night to kick his ass. Cool game.

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This article is full of incredible quotes about Quibi, an unmitigated disaster that everyone saw coming, except the dipshits who bet $1.8 billion (!!!) on it being a success.

Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start (Published 2020)

Downloads of the $1.8 billion short-form streaming app, meant for phones, are paltry. “I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus,” Mr. Katzenberg said. “Everything.”

www.nytimes.com

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The art that fuels our nostalgia was never meant to be viewed on modern HD displays. What's the right way to update history? Inspired by Square's new Final Fantasy "pixel remasters," my big feature on CRTs and the fight over what to do with old pixels:

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I asked Nintendo if the fast travel in Skyward Sword HD that's ludicrously unlocked by purchasing an amiibo is at all accessible without an amiibo-- through a menu or other means--and Nintendo PR pointed me towards the website for the amiibo. So take that as you will.

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2 years

I started choking on my water when I realized what was happening in the last scene of Tár. Un-fucking-believable.

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3 years

This does not sound like it was written by the same staff that published a news article *explicitly* encouraging charity to Palestinians. I don’t buy this at all, and you shouldn’t, either. Nice try.

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I’m convinced Yoko Taro and his colleagues were drunk when they answered my questions for this interview.

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6 years

this is what I tell my daughter when she poops her pants instead of learning to use the toilet

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6 years

Rockstar never talks to the press. So when they do... Letting some of the most powerful people in games brag about 100-hour work weeks without placing that in the broader context of labor exploitation, which Rockstar itself has been credibly accused of, is irresponsible.

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6 years

The industry won't change if reporters let the powerful off the hook

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This whole situation is a nightmare, and Telltale’s executive-level decisions continue to be utterly baffling. Excuse me if I’m hesitant to trust the decision-making and promises of a company more concerned with finishing a season than offering their employees severance.

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I’m not ready to let this go, and you shouldn’t be, either. This wasn’t an ordinary mistake, and it requires more than an ordinary, boilerplate “apology” meant to generate friendly headlines while the news cycle inevitably advances.

Waypoint

@waypoint

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THQ Nordic's 'apology' over 8chan incident isn't worthy of forgiveness

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A cowardly and shameful decision by management at @IGN and @gameinformer . Solidarity with the brave staff who put their careers on the line for merely wanting to support Palestinians.

Kotaku

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3 years

IGN Takes Down Article And Tweet Sharing Palestinian Aid Groups

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why am I so excited about Link in Mario Maker? *this* is why I'm so excited about Link in Mario Maker

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7 years

What a genuine piece of shit.

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5 years

I think this is just gross high-stakes negotiating between two big companies. Disney wants to weaponize fan outrage to force Sony into producing a better offer, which very well might work.

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@IGN

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BREAKING: Spider-Man is reportedly out of the MCU as Sony and Disney fail to reach new terms to co-produce the franchise.

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

5 years

An internal Nintendo memo reviewed by VICE Games shows the company will no longer charge for Joy-Con repairs, will refund those who already paid for them, and being out of warranty no longer matters. My story:

Internal Nintendo Memo Instructs Customer Service to Fix ‘Joy-Con Drift’ for Free

The company will repair devices free of charge, even outside of the warranty period.

www.vice.com

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

7 years

The most popular YouTube personality just casually used the n word while on a stream. I'm sure this is the Wall Street Journal's fault, too.

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

7 years

public me: Disney buying Fox puts the company into hysterically monopolistic territory that should scare us, and our inability to recognize this underscores how the mass monetization of geek culture has blinded us to its control private me: galactus in phase 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

8 months

The Horizon Prophecy must be fulfilled by another victim. It demands blood.

Iron Pineapple

@IronPineapple_

8 months

when the Elden Ring DLC drops in March and I have to skip Dragon's Dogma 2 for it

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

1 year

I have never been more proud to have been associated with a website, or a group of people, than I have since @austin_walker called me up so many years ago, and asked if I'd start this project, what we would eventually call Waypoint, with him. It's my proudest achievement.

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

6 years

pray for this man in this difficult time

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

3 months

Witnessing so much Lost discourse on my timeline because of its arrival on Netflix is throwing me for a loop. Lost absolutely could not have survived the scrutiny of the social media age. It would’ve crushed what was special about the show.

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

1 year

Oh, sorry. One last thing. I can't believe this happened the same day the Armored Core trailer dropped. That's just mean.

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

4 years

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

6 years

A lot of reviews are going to talk about how good the swinging is in Spider-Man, and it is, in fact, good. What surprised me most, though, was the game's heart and empathy. This is a fascinating version of Peter Parker, whose ideology is an asset and a liability.

Waypoint

@waypoint

6 years

'Spider-Man' isn't just good, it's a game about trying to be good

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

8 years

Could not be more excited to announce that, as of today, I'm joining @austin_walker at @VICEGaming as a senior reporter. Hell yes!

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

5 years

the democratic base trying to get pelosi to do her damn job and impeach

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

7 years

I JUST GOT CARDED TO SEE AN R RATED MOVIE WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW I AM A DAD I OWN A HOUSE I CAN DRINK BEER COME AT ME TEENAGER

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

4 years

If you're wondering why Nintendo will be delisting popular Mario games today, I looked into this last year and the answer, according to a dev who's spoken with Nintendo, is straightforward: the artificial scarcity drives impulsive sales.

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

4 years

After happily living in ignorance for years, I am profoundly upset that I can now tell the difference between 1080p and 4K.

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

6 years

BioWare should take some notes from Todd Howard on how to explain a new game to a fan base that has very specific expectations and desires about the games you usually make.

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

1 year

Waypoint should have ended a long time ago. We've always been an extremely weird website—our podcast sign off is "fuck captilaism, go home," after all—but we survived six long years. That's a goddamn eternity in media. We tried to hold on as long as we could.

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

3 years

I am currently typing this tweet so that it looks like I’m doing work while a documentary crew shoots b-roll of me in my home. I hope you like this tweet, and I hope this typing makes it into the final edit.

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

4 years

It's always good to have millions of people watching your livestream and then leave crucial details, such as launch games and pre-order options, to Geoff Keighely's twitter account.

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Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

7 years

what is happening here

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