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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

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Keith Arem

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The Legendary Bill Farmer explains the most difficult part of working on #LikeaDragon #PCB #SEGA #RGG

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Kevin

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when sonic and the secret rings title screen said fake police report I felt that

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If you let Square Enix name Tetris it'd be Voluminous Shapedrop

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Until proven otherwise, that Movie Shadow level is an isekai where you play as Keanu, trapped in Shadow's body

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gamestop just laid off all of game informer's employees today

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bet y'all wish you bought physical copies now

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@MRIXRT Fine print be like: "It was certainly *a* game of that year"

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the wedge issue of our generation

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We've managed to not only track down an old Dreamcast console that once belonged to Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, but we may have also uncovered at least one game that the former teacher-turned-politician has historically enjoyed: Crazy Taxi.

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Kevin

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2 months

If the PS5 Pro does add PS3 backwards compatibility, it means for the first time, you could play three different versions of The Last of Us 1 on your PS5

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Kevin

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5 months

all you platformer nerds better show up, or else I don't wanna hear shit when Ratchet's all that's left again

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A new Astro Bot game expected to be announced within the next 15 days according to Dealabs/billbil-kun. Part of the game is set in a desert environment and one of the new characters is a "fennec fox in the form of a robot" Seemingly for PS5 (not PSVR2)

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Kevin

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3 years

There's a lot of Other M discussion going on, and I've noticed folks going back to translation issues to explain how the story fell apart in English. That completely ignores that Sakamoto insisted on directing the English dub, despite not speaking English himself.

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1 year

Evil versions of YouTube game reviewers forcing them to play a bad game like

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Kevin

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3 years

The new Sonic tease looks great so far!

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Kevin

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1 year

GRAVELY IMPORTANT PSA: Netflix is ending PlayStation Vita support later this month. This is your PSA that Netflix supported an app on the Vita for eleven years and is still not available on Switch.

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Kevin

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3 years

NEW VIDEO🎉 Much of Sonic's history is brushed off as "the bad ones," but the true stories behind Sega's catastrophic, crunch-filled collapse from '98-05 are even more dire than we ever hear Please share/RT or I'll show you a REAL rough transition to 3D😡

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Kevin

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4 months

normal people when Sonic fans try to explain Emerl

Frack's Sonic Deals

@FrackDeals

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POSTERS! SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS: DARK BEGINNINGS! #AnimeExpo

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Somebody just sent me this. I...I think Yuji Naka might've threatened to punish me for reporting what Xtreme's developers said in my Sonic Team video. so, uh... ...hopefully he at least subscribed?

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Kevin

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2 years

Okay Square Enix's garbage naming scheme has finally peaked with Various Daylife

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Kevin

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please enjoy this preview of the ending of Shadow Generations, when he has to choose between Maria and saving time itself.

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Kevin

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2 months

Bro directed a PS360-era zombie game that took until the end of the PS4 to come out, where the zombies are called freakers And still thinks it's way too cool and deep to be sullied by being mentioned in an anniversary game

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Kinda sad that Deek has been reduced to promoting other games … well done Bend Studio! Way to protect your legacy!

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2 years

Fun fact: Tomb Raider 2013 outsold the entire Final Fantasy XIII saga. Square lauded each XIII game as a huge success, and its CEO resigned while scapegoating TR for its financial losses. Also, Rise of the Tomb Raider outsold all of XIII too. Hollywood accounting is WILD

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Kevin

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@James_Boss17 @_MachineGunKiss

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Update: They respected me for saying it

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2 months

I think the newest highlight of my career is seeing Astro Bot's director willingly seek out, watch, enjoy, and comment on my Astro VR video... which includes the phrase "HD Rumble is actually the robots fucking inside the controller." I'm never getting another sony review code

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Wait...

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Kevin

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3 years

BUY OR RENT (or click the video right below it and watch for free)

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Kevin

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2 years

Brock's old enough now that he's 100% made Sonic video essays. A lot of them.

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I think the newest highlight of my career is seeing Astro Bot's director willingly seek out, watch, enjoy, and comment on my Astro VR video... which includes the phrase "HD Rumble is actually the robots fucking inside the controller." I'm never getting another sony review code

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4 months

maybe this is the best R&C on PS5 actually

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Kevin

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2 years

Ni no Kuni went from a Japanese-only DS game to one of 2013's biggest sleeper hits, to one of 2018's most disappointing, to an outright bad movie, to NFTs. What a fall from grace, my god.

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2 years

@antdude92 smh

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Craig

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The Black and White Promo Artwork for Batman Arkham City is undefeated

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Kevin

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2 years

what if Frontiers was just a petition from Sega to finally get Sonic a neat moveset in the next Smash

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2 years

please dear god no

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

11 months

You know how the Oscars have that press conference backstage with the winners, and how they get to give the winners their moment more fully? Why in god's name is The Game Awards not doing that? If we're actually gonna "celebrate the games and the people behind them," let's do it

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

4 years

NEW VIDEO, RTs appreciated! This is the story behind the game that killed Metroid - and the story of one man's obsessive ambition. Other M is more than just "the bad one," it shows us that Metroid's most interesting character is actually...its director.

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

2 years

If this isn't ripe for @VGAdvisor I don't know what is

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

5 years

Maybe the rarest Ratchet & Clank pickup I've found - a Japanese Christmas edition of Deadlocked! It comes with a slip cover and a little card with the cheat code for the Santa Ratchet costume. I'm not really sure why this exists but I'm glad I found it! @insomniacgames

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

3 years

@Somecallmejon even the carpet is Sonic-themed

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@TheGoldenBolt

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I want to die

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@TheGoldenBolt

2 months

This is the right app to say that the PS5 pro is specifically aimed at that friend of yours that stands by their tesla purchase, right

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Kevin

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Translation is only so much of an excuse. That game is exactly, perfectly, how Sakamoto wanted it to be. Don't blame the translation, when he very clearly wanted it this way. Whether his auteur nature was for better or worse, that's up to you to figure out!

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Kevin

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Three or four times this year, somebody irl has mentioned my vids to a friend, unprompted, not knowing that person's friends with me. This is my favorite one though

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

5 years

The two most brutal games of 2020 now come out on the same day. Parents beware!

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

2 years

I will be their new god

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cursed

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boy it'd sure be a shame if more people heard what Naka's former coworkers said about him real shame

The History of Sonic's "Bad" Years (Documentary) - Collapse, Crunch,...

A significant chunk of Sonic the Hedgehog's history has been brushed aside simply as "the bad years," without much effort having gone into preserving the act...

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2 years

Nintendo Direct in 2027 be like

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1 year

This is what I get for offering stickers to @antdude92

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Kevin

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every youtuber

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Kevin

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5 months

@antdude92 you missed a few

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The "Astro Bot soulless PS cynicism" ragebait is even dumber when its last level pays tribute to a JP-only Sega self-parody, uses a DIFFERENT Sega game's song to set the tone, just bc ...AND is a PS homage. It's a Matryoshka doll of love, not unlike one of its 1st new enemies

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@TheGoldenBolt

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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (2021)

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At @Somecallmejon 's request, my new Deadlocked thumbnail #CharityVsRoom

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hi i'm downloading a bunch of japanese gameplay videos of the 2008 Dig Dug MMO game how's your night going

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I finally realized what Co-Tweets were reminding me of

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post your most threatening 2000s boy band pictures, i'll go first

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@Somecallmejon

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@MykonosFan I'll take that and raised you: remember team sonic racing you don't

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ladies and gentlemen we got 'em

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@That_Juan_Gamer that's what the game is about right, like the storybook is sonic covering up his crimes

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2 years

why

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

1 year

NEW VIDEO🎉 In 2007, THQ posted its first billion-dollar year. In 2012, it filed for bankruptcy. What happened? The recession, the iPhone, a public promise to shift focus...an unwillingness to actually change, and much more. RTs very appreciated 💙

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

10 months

My favorite part of this is the game never has and never will run as well as this video shows

Nintendo of America

@NintendoAmerica

10 months

Exploration checklist: ✅ The skies of Blueberry Academy’s Terarium Dome ✅ The vast fields of Paldea Where are you heading to next in #PokemonScarletViolet ?

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Remember when @Twitch announced Twitch Charity last month, implying that this new feature would help take the hassle of converting your subs and bits into a donation, and that Twitch wouldn't take a cut of this? They lied, here's a thread (1/12):

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

3 years

It's time. See you on the other side🔩

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

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Fun fact: All of FFVII's in-game content is available on all 3 discs! Once you load one disc, you can swap out and the game either skips past FMV cinematics...or it replaces them with FMVs from that disc. Here's my actual, unedited recording of THAT Aerith scene using Disc 2!

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

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At last I can finally rot your brains just like mine: Ty 2's town theme has a riff that's way too close to Better Call Saul's theme. I kept thinking I was being pranked on voice chat. So I forced @TheOtherTravGuy to do what needed to be done. Full vid:

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@TheGoldenBolt

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NEW VIDEO🎉The Rise, Fall, & Resurgence of TY the Tasmanian Tiger It's still the year of the Tiger! Here's the complete history of Australia's first AAA game & platforming's resilient underdog! RT unless you wanna end up down under. Wait, can I say that?

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People may not know this, but Persona 5 was heavily inspired by Atlus's magnum opus, Hamster Paradise 3

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2 years

I just wanna throw out there that my Sonic Team video has only aged better every day.

Takashi Mochizuki

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FNN: Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office arrested 57-year-old game creator Yuji Naka in context of insider trading related to new installment from popular Dragon Quest franchise.

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stop following me, I don't want any of you here

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Steam, what in the hell

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feel like shit just want him back

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Kevin

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2 years

More children have been introduced to Sonic because of Roblox than Sonic Adventure. Both of them. Just wanted to brighten your timeline a little, carry on.

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BIG NEWS!! the first episode of SONIC PRIME is going to be available 5 DAYS BEFORE THE PREMIERE!! on @Roblox in the Sonic Simulator.

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@insomniacgames Okay *now* this one works better

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I'm excited for this one to respond with "omg you replied love your videos!!"

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@antdude92 persona 5 is my favorite game of all time, i'm excited to finally play it

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NEW VIDEO 🎉 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart 1 Year Later After almost two years of work, my full-series R&C deep dive retrospectives are finished. Let's dive into Rift Apart, its production, and what makes it such pure fun! Shares/RTs are very appreciated💙

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I have finished and 100%ed Sonic Frontiers. Here's a picture of Sonic rocking the Timbs to celebrate.

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Better one

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@SuckerPunchProd Finally, more people will put respect on Bentley's Hackpack's name

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Please enjoy the PS5 Pro's killer holiday app

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NEW VIDEO🎉The Rise, Fall, & Resurgence of TY the Tasmanian Tiger It's still the year of the Tiger! Here's the complete history of Australia's first AAA game & platforming's resilient underdog! RT unless you wanna end up down under. Wait, can I say that?

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

4 years

EXCLUSIVE: New images from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)

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1 year

Now it's real, no takesies backsies 🎉🎉

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

5 months

even better, money where your mouth is if you want a new Sly, it's now natively on PS5 (with new trophies!).

Wario64

@Wario64

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PS2 Classics Catalogs coming to PS+ Premium on June 11th: -Tomb Raider Legend -Star Wars: The Clone Wars -Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus

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NEW VIDEO 🎉 The final chapter in the R&C retrospective saga. I've written about 170k words on these games, and this time around...few of them are kind. Shares/RTs VERY appreciated!

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

2 years

New video S O O N👀 It's been a while since I talked about the full dev history behind this one, let's change that.

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

3 years

@Canadianguyehh You've since muted this but for anybody else reading: This refers to smartphone livestreams. You need fifty (50) subs to stream from your phone. The last few weeks in CA have had a lot of everyday folks trying to do so, so this is making the rounds again.

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Kevin

@TheGoldenBolt

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Addendum: The reason I searched for Kirby images