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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

5 months

Finally time to start my list of completed games in 2024! Here's the previous years: 2020: 2021: 2022: 2023:

Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

1 year

Time to start my 2023 list of completed games, shows, movies and books! 1. Little Orpheus Very nice and colorful relaxed Limbo-like adventure. Only a few hours long, but the music is great as well as the narration. Little hidden gem of a game from @ChineseRoom .

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

8 months

I was fired from The Escapist today. I have declined my severance pay and will not be signing an NDA. I'm incredibly proud of everything my team and I achieved over the last four years, and the community that we built together. Figuring out next steps now and moving forward.

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Nick Calandra

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3 months

Played Helldivers 2 tonight. The bugs, nor the automatons were able to stop democracy. But then the real threat arrived. The “woke”. Had to put the controller down. There was no defeating it. Our 56 year old commander was nowhere to be found. It was hopeless.

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Nick Calandra

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2 months

Saving this one for the record. This is the community manager that was let go on Helldivers 2 for suggesting people continue leaving negative reviews on the game to get Sony’s attention, and told Kern to fuck off. The ACTUAL HD2 community wants them back and supports them.

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Nick Calandra

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6 months

I like when people say "they made" something when it was generated by an AI and they just pieced it together... People like this deserve to be mocked by actual creatives.

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@TheReelRobot

6 months

The most ambitious AI film I've made to date. We are less than a year out from commercially viable AI films. Updates to @runwayml (control) and @elevenlabsio (speech-to-speech) have me believing it. If you liked it, some of the people that inspired me recently are

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Nick Calandra

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1 year

I like how Xbox gets headlines like this, but when Sony keeps all of Square Enix titles off Xbox, it's just a business deal lol.

Game Developer

@gamedevdotcom

1 year

Microsoft killed PS5 version of Bethesda's Indiana Jones game

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Nick Calandra

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24 days

Welcome to reality Justin lol.

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Nick Calandra

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2 months

Any statement Xbox / Microsoft makes about prioritizing resources should be laughed out of the building when they spent 70 BILLION to acquire Activision. Money that could have gone to supporting their own teams, nurturing talent and giving studios the time they need. Damn shame

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Nick Calandra

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5 months

Y’all gotta stop getting your “facts” from social media. Jesus. There’s not been any definitive proof about this game using AI art, and social media has made up its mind that it has. This is goofy.

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Nick Calandra

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8 months

The amount of support we're seeing is insane, thank you. Gamurs doesn't know what they just let go of with The Escapist. Our team is incredibly talented, our community is something I'm proud of every day, and we all loved the work we did. We will share more tomorrow.

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Nick Calandra

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2 months

What accountability? What exactly does accountability look like for executives? I have never seen one of them take accountability other than a sorry social media statement and a big paycheck.

Mike Ybarra

@Qwik

2 months

I see a lot of shots at Phil over today's Xbox announcements. I get it. But knowing him as a human, I know this hurts him as much as anyone else. I can't speak for all of the leadership there, but I do know him and I do know what he is likely going through. I'm not trying to

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Nick Calandra

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24 days

Not gonna share the video cause I’m not giving grifter’s clicks… but one of them went around Japan asking Japanese people if they were mad about Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ representation. They all said no. So then he interviewed his own camera guy to get the answer he wanted 😂

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Nick Calandra

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2 months

Going back to vacationing, but first, I got a big hearty laugh out of this. Even the games he “defends” want nothing to do with him or his goons 😂

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Nick Calandra

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3 months

And there it is. It’s the same story every single time. Call them out and they scurry away. Lol.

Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

3 months

I think my favorite thing about Mark Kern is that his third failed game, Em-8ER, has an option to buy "founder's packs" for up to $1500 (!). His little army that wants him to be the savior of games would milk them for all the money they've got. Source!

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Nick Calandra

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8 months

I was let go for "not achieving goals" that were never properly set out for us, and lack of understanding of our audience and the team that built that audience. I've watched many colleagues let go for the same reasons, and today was my day!

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Nick Calandra

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1 month

Mark Kern is accusing me of doxing him now, but no such thing ever happened. His address was never shared in our Discord. A public Linkedin account was, along with public business filing records for Crixa Labs LLC. He was not doxed in any form by me or our community.

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Nick Calandra

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7 months

If you needed any more indication The Day Before is a scam, the CEO of FNTASTIC has nuked himself from Twitter.

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Nick Calandra

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3 months

I think my favorite thing about Mark Kern is that his third failed game, Em-8ER, has an option to buy "founder's packs" for up to $1500 (!). His little army that wants him to be the savior of games would milk them for all the money they've got. Source!

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Nick Calandra

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8 months

Oh yea, I was locked out of my email while I was being fired lol. So, if you wanna get in touch / stay in touch, my email is nickjcal242 at gmail dot com.

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Nick Calandra

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7 months

Game Awards needs a reset. I of course enjoy the announcements, but it’s become too corporate. If we want the awards to be about the awards then make it interesting. Let devs share their stories. The expectation is for new games, and to skip the awards.

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Nick Calandra

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7 months

Last thought on TGAs, is that between The Muppets, Kojima, Hollywood actors screaming shut up or talking about their broken foot taking up a lot of time… and people like Sam Lake and Swen Vincke, getting shooed off stage as they give emotional thanks. Well? Priorities.

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Nick Calandra

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2 years

Remembering today that we won't have any God of War coverage at launch because Sony PR said they didn't like our "tone" last year, so I stopped requesting copies from them. First time I had ever had that happen in 14 years of working in games media, and it felt real icky.

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Nick Calandra

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1 month

All the talk about publisher greed, expensive pre-orders and in-game monetization made me think about this from a tip I got from someone a few weeks back. Bet ya can't guess what game it's from.

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Nick Calandra

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3 months

It's ever so amusing watching people rally around Mark Kern, who can only talk about his past because the only thing he contributes to the games industry now is... nothing. His legacy is Firefall, a failed MMO that tanked his studio, and now spends his days on Twitter faffing.

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Nick Calandra

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6 months

Will never understand why EA insists on the Need for Speed brand while Burnout collects dust.

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@VinciusMedeiro6

6 months

Playing Burnout 3 and man this thing rules

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Nick Calandra

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2 months

I’m sorry I can’t he got trolled so hard and is so angry about it. Oh my god I’m trying not to die laughing at this. Might be the funniest interaction I’ve seen on this platform. I LOVE a good troll. Back to watching Tokyo Vice 😂😂😂

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Nick Calandra

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3 months

I'll be busy doing some other projects today, but him claiming a "malicious" attack is straight up hilarious. Will happily keep digging into his business dealings later on. Watching a grifter squirm in real-time is satisfying.

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3 months

Less than 6 months ago. Not only is Ember not a real game, the money he’s raising via packs for it isn’t even going towards it 😂 It’s for FireFall, and IP he doesn’t even own. I don’t think I need to go any further on this.

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Nick Calandra

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8 months

Hey. I know a lot of people are mad at The Escapist, but DO NOT direct your anger at the writers still there. They are doing their job, and this blindsided all of us. The articles are not AI, they’re people putting food on the table. Zero animosity towards The Escapist.

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@EscapistMag

8 months

Ryan Reynolds revealed Dogpool will be in Deadpool 3, and the release window for the movie. Here's what you need to know:

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Nick Calandra

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2 months

Why am I pointing this out? Because if that community manager gets reinstated, I’m more than sure it’s another thing Kern will try to take credit for because he pointed out this person got screwed. That’s his whole game, taking unearned credit for things to prop himself up.

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Nick Calandra

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8 months

WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK! Watch the premiere of Fully Ramblomatic!

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Nick Calandra

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2 months

Time for a fact check! In the interviews I've done with ex-Blizzard employees that worked with Mark, he was literally laughed at for this, and had nothing to do with WoW Classic aside from the petition. The server was originally shutdown because they were offering paid subs.

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Nick Calandra

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1 month

Big takeaway from me after finishing Hellblade 2 is that Xbox needs to give that studio a big check and let them cook. Ninja Theory is only an 80 person studio. Hellblade 2 may be mechanically simple, but all the ingredients are there for them to be Xbox’s Naughty Dog, imo.

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Nick Calandra

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1 year

I'm so very glad that my career is not based around writing mean-spirited headlines like this to get people to pay attention to the work I do. I'd rather quit covering games altogether before I got to a point where I needed to write stuff like this to survive.

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Nick Calandra

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8 months

I will update later this afternoon on where you can find what's next for the now-former team of The Escapist. Tomorrow, @YahtzeeCroshaw and I will be hosting a livestream at the new place at 11 AM CT (the time ZP would USUALLY go up) to go over what happened, and what's next!

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Nick Calandra

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2 months

Welp, I have official confirmation now on Merk Kern coercing Gigabear (his top backer) into speaking positively on his project... from Gigabear himself. I received an anon tip that confirms what I suspected in my reporting. The tweet from Gigabear confirms this convo happened.

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Nick Calandra

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3 months

God, he's going after the community manager of Helldivers 2... again? Game is one of my favorite of all-time already, and boy do I hope that dev team just turns around and absolutely disowns this guy. I know they don't want the negative attention, but for fuck's sake.

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Nick Calandra

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8 months

20,000(!) subs on YouTube and we haven't even posted anything yet. Holy moly. Y'all, we're doing this.

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Nick Calandra

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5 months

Alright PlayStation, hear me out. Give the Helldivers team this IP and let them go to town with it.

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

7 months

Did you know that after you complete a single player game… you move on to the next one? No? Me, neither.

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Why Is Starfield Hemorrhaging Active Players?

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Nick Calandra

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7 months

Turning the comments off on those Escapist videos so that viewers are uninformed about where we all went is a cowardly move.

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Nick Calandra

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4 years

Welp, now I'm gonna say the quiet part out loud. Schreier is toxic. For all the good reporting he does, if you get another angle on his story, or have a critique of him, he sends his followers to dogpile you and paint you as not credible. Only HE is credible, according to him.

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Nick Calandra

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7 months

Yea, do NOT buy The Day Before. I'm usually pretty lenient, but that is nothing but a cash grab. There's no gameplay loop, clear AI generated art around the city to fill billboards, no animations to speak of for the zombies, absolutely no mission design to speak of. Nothing.

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Nick Calandra

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8 months

Oh hey, what's that?

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Nick Calandra

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8 months

The team is what's important, not a name. Every single person that worked with me on The Escapist is amongst the highest quality, and we WILL continue. You know me, I don't like sitting around and we work fast. Future is bright.

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Nick Calandra

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8 months

I'm very excited to announce the name of our next adventure, Second Wind ( @SecondWindGroup ). @YahtzeeCroshaw and I will be live tomorrow at 11 AM CT to discuss our plans, where to support and when the first videos will drop. Subscribe: Cont.

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Nick Calandra

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2 years

I feel like if the roles were reversed, Jim Ryan would be singing a very different tune here and Call of Duty would very quickly be only playable on PlayStation.

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Nick Calandra

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7 months

Ahahaha. Not FNTASTIC completely scrubbing their channel to hide any evidence of the fake 'The Day Before' game they marketed. Left is today. Right is from earlier this year. Have zero problem describing this as a full-blown scam now.

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Nick Calandra

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2 years

Some people are so overtly cynical about games sometimes it’s hard to believe they enjoy games at all aside from building an audience around that cynicism. Exhausting to read in my feed sometimes.

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Nick Calandra

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2 months

I wonder where all the dumb culture warriors mad about Assassin's Creed Shadows were at when this dropped three years ago. Or the live-action adaption announced two years ago. Grifters gonna grift :)

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Nick Calandra

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2 months

So. Much. Hate.

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2 months

What in the bad faith? They literally did. They hated it and wanted it gone before it was eve released. There were several articles, my guy. Many. The discourse won't go because they already got their hate out there. In fact they still hate it for really dumb non-reasons.

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Nick Calandra

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3 months

Alright. Here’s the deal. If you are not an asshole, people do not ban you from their communities. That’s it. That’s the rule, as long as you are not an asshole, then nobody has a problem with you. An utterly, completely incomprehensible thing to understand.

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3 months

@nickjcal The reason I cared about comminuty managers is that they started calling gamers racists, bigots, sexists and transphobes. Blanket statements with no evidence. Allthewhile saying that they hate white males, gamers and wished gamers would go away. You are a deliberate liar.

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Nick Calandra

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@Iron_Stylus I like out of everyone that has called him out… he still has not screenshotted, tagged or called me out by name (first AND last, cause he kept the legal threat one vague lol) I wonnnnnnder why.

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Nick Calandra

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2 months

Frankly because he’s evolving this into a “they want you dead” situation has me more concerned about someone actually getting hurt because of him. His rhetoric has shifted from they’re invading your hobby to conspiracy level violence. People following him don’t know better.

Damion Schubert - @ZenOfDesign.com on bsky

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2 months

Mr. Kern is definitely not exaggerating.

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Nick Calandra

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8 months

Thanks for covering! @PaulTassi

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Nick Calandra

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3 months

Mentions getting filled with a bunch of dummies from the Asmongold video now. I'd ask that you don't engage with them as it just blows up my notifications and wastes your time. I hope Asmongold brings him on stream to show off the game - you'll have an answer then.

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2 months

Tend to agree with this. Spencer came off as genuine for a lot of years, and I think his heart is in the right place for what it’s worth. But his legacy is shaping up to be a big spender and a silver tongue who just has not delivered results.

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Genuinely curious what the "savior of Xbox" Phil Spencer has actually done that is successful the last number of years? All I see is a lot of failure. A lot of promises broken. A lot of lies. Zero leadership & accountability. Congrats on spending $100 Billion on studios I guess

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Nick Calandra

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1 month

Alright, since @Grummz continues to target and lie, here's my final statement on this as I'm now seeking legal action. 1. His address was not shared anywhere. Ever. 2. This is the public filing from 6Sense he's referring to. 3. He proclaims I want him killed, this is 100% false

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Nick Calandra

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4 months

Quick statement from me as The Escapist will be uploading their first video since the split today and I want to make Second Wind's stance clear on it. Please, please leave the editors alone who are working there now. We know them, and it's going to be rough for them. Thank you.

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Nick Calandra

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Btw, for PR, Devs and Friends, I was shut out of my email / Slack while I was being fired, so I didn't get to collect any of my things or documents from that before I got booted. nickjcal242 @gmail .com is the email to hit me at now. Got booted so fast I didn't get to say bye!

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2 months

For those reaching out I'm fine. Frustrated of course that I let myself get fooled, but that's the risk of doing an investigation like this. Never had someone completely fake an entire identity on me, so valuable lesson there. They got their "win" today I guess lol.

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Nick Calandra

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7 months

Just sayin, most people that launch a game and have it fail don't immediately nuke their entire company, personal socials, linkedin etc from orbit. Immediately changes the context of a failed game launch to an outright scam and running off with the money.

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Nick Calandra

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3 months

Hey a bunch of you are in my mentions trying to get through to some of these people. Please don’t waste your time. They “act” in good faith with you to waste your time. Unless you’re laughing at them, not worth the brain power to figure them out.

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

3 months

😂 til I learned I’m mainstream media.

Damien Lawardorn

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3 months

@nickjcal Nah, you're just part of the evil, biased mainstream. Nothing else to it, apparently... 🤔

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3 months

Ran into @Hbomberguy at GDC!

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1 month

Reminder, they're totally not OK with this stuff.

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3 months

Woke up to literally thousands of notifications on here. That was scary. Then I saw it was all people enjoying the joke I wrote. That was fun. +1 to points in faith in humanity.

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3 months

I'm still digging into @Grummz and Em-8er obviously, but I wanted to do a little fact check on him for the public. He claims the IndieGoGo campaign was for Milestone 3 funding ONLY, and not the full game. He says that campaign is complete. It is not. He is lying again.

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8 months

Did we just somehow launch a brand new thing in less than 48 hours via @SecondWindGroup ? Yea, I think we fuckin did! Incredible reception from the community. Amazing.

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3 months

Fun fact to start your Tuesday. Most of games discourse on social media is done by people who haven’t even played the game they are mad about, especially the drama YouTubers. Something that has become painfully obvious the last few weeks.

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5 months

Same thing in games media. The amount of times I had to explain why Yahtzee, the man who reviews a game and animates a video every single week, doesn’t have time for multiple videos a week to my “bosses” is more times than I can recount.

Marty O'Donnell

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The problem I have with most game industry C-suite folks is that basically none of them have ever actually created any part of any game in their entire career. Some of them play games but most do not. Therefore I just don’t trust their judgement. Many truly creative people are

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And to @smashjt who claimed in his video today that I was using my mother as a shield while she was in the hospital this week recovering from her attempt. You are an absolute shitstain of a person, and I hope you never go through what I just did this week. Fuck you.

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7 years in the making. $100,000+ raised. 2 years without updates. Own community calling it a scam on Reddit / YouTube. Suddenly after reporting the game is back on track and has new stuff ready to go! Must just be a total coincidence.

Syeed Ali 🌷🍁

@SyeedAnneAli

3 months

This thread is the state of "investigative" "journalism". I have been there from the beginning and can say every last point is either lazy/misinformation or has a conversation behind it. The only valid takeaway is there are funded promises without reasonable results. #ember

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Nick Calandra

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A lot of people are asking how we're moving so fast. I had to relay my business plans to my corporate owners week after week after week for five years... they never listened, they never took advantage of my ambition. This has all been pent up ambition that I never utilized.

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2 months

For additional context:

From the Helldivers community on Reddit: Spitz is no longer the Community Manager.

Explore this post and more from the Helldivers community

www.reddit.com

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Nick Calandra

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Showed my friends a bunch of the YouTube thumbnails made about me this week last night and we had a big laugh about it. Some of them were pretty funny, especially this one lol. I think I'm coping and seething correctly?

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Nick Calandra

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11 months

Baldur's Gate III is so damn good. Every time I think I've figured out a solution to something, I think of another and it just... works. Larian is the master of RPGs... and immersive sims too. If you're new to their games, don't rush it. Explore, explore and explore.

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Nick Calandra

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2 months

Same energy.

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Nick Calandra

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3 months

Sorry followers! I’m tired of this stuff happening in a space I care about and that has given me my career. I’m tired of seeing people who do good in the industry deal with this stuff. Hopefully between The Day Before, Kern, whatever, a thread showing their grift helps.

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And then the comments just assumed everyone in Japan is too polite to be honest with their answer and basically stereotyped them to fit their own narrative with the answer they wanted to have. Legitimately one of the funniest / saddest things I’ve seen in recent memory.

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Nick Calandra

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6 months

CEO went around telling people I was useless. Thought he “owned” our community and team, and knew video better than the people hired to do it. Now I’m leading a new independent media group.

Del Walker 🇵🇸

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I wanna hear stories of how someone tried to screw you over but you succeeded anyway. That's my love language.

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2 months

As an update on Em-8er, a “new” demo has been released, and after two years of raising money through subscriptions and “skin” packs up until Nov 2023, there has literally been zero progress made on the game. It’s just consolidating all the tech experiments into one build.

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1 month

I'm not sure I've ever seen someone try to monetize "NPC Interactions" lol

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1 month

Well, as usual these folks are trying to actually dox me now so if you see any of my information, including addresses, family names etc, please let me know so I can report it and keep receipts for proper authorities.

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Remember all that digging I did back on The Day Before? Yea, I like this sort of work. It just keeps getting more and more interesting the more you dig on obvious fraudsters!

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8 months

@sam4c I don't want their money. They can keep it.

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

8 months

Thank you for covering.

VGC

@VGC_News

8 months

The long-running video review series Zero Punctuation is seemingly ending, after its creator and multiple other journalists resigned from publication The Escapist.

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Nick Calandra

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8 months

If you enjoyed what we did at The Escapist, you're going to love Second Wind. It's going to be exactly what we envisioned with The Escapist with none of the roadblocks. Informative, interesting and entertaining, with the best crew in the business.

Get more from Second Wind on Patreon

Premium Videos, Podcasts, and Livestreams

www.patreon.com

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

2 months

Welp fair enough. He seems to have got me on this. I'll happily retract. The constant manipulation, and lying is hard to verify, and he faked an identity to get me. I gave him the benefit of the doubt, hoping to help get his money back and he used that.

Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

2 months

Welp, I have official confirmation now on Merk Kern coercing Gigabear (his top backer) into speaking positively on his project... from Gigabear himself. I received an anon tip that confirms what I suspected in my reporting. The tweet from Gigabear confirms this convo happened.

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Nick Calandra

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5 months

The fact that farm sims and creature collectors are BOOMING right now and Xbox has not announced a new Viva Piñata is a genuine travesty.

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

8 months

Alright, I'm finally going to go get more than 2 hours of sleep. Thank you so, so much for supporting our team and for the over 1700 of you that already signed up to the Patreon. The version of The Escapist that we built was all of our lives for the last four years.

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

6 months

I’m very excited and proud to say that @SecondWindGroup is officially incorporated! After 15 years of covering games, it’s surreal to be in control of my own future finally, alongside the amazing team that we spent the last 8 years building. Thank you to everyone supporting us.

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

8 months

15 years of working in games media to get to this moment. The excitement around what we're doing with @SecondWindGroup has me the happiest I've ever felt in my life. We're going to make you all proud and really bring something fresh and exciting to games / entertainment.

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

8 months

Now that I have everyone’s attention… maybe I finally have the reach to force Xbox to make a sequel to Viva Piñata…

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

6 months

Can we stop writing headlines that make it sound like it’s a bad thing for a game ending development? The expectation that games are worked on forever has gotta go.

IGN

@IGN

6 months

Mojang has announced the end of development on Minecraft Legends less than a year after the game came out.

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

3 months

I’m going to make this very clear since you’re trying to paint me out as a liar in multiple places. YOU posted very public statements about your feelings towards Kern and his IndieGoGo campaign. Anyone can see those. I have shared statements YOU made, multiple times.

GIGABEAR

@Pandacausal

3 months

@Insanity_Prawn @wind_flux @nickjcal I don't have an issue with resurfacing the statements. I never even attempted to deny writing them. It's intentionally leaving out my own retraction of those statements which misleads people into believing Mark took my money for nothing that I'm taking issue with.

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

8 months

These are the independent media groups that I very closely studied and modeled after for Escapist and now Second Wind. If you’re looking for guidelines to follow, these are among the best, and none of them rely on infinite growth models to do what they love. They laid the path.

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

3 months

And this is why I highlight whenever someone makes a threat towards me, however "innocent" it may seem. People like Kern are making their intentions very clear with what he's trying to do. It's not a conversation he, or his followers want to have, they just want a fight.

John Phipps: All Your Valor Are Belong to Me

@MagitekDad

3 months

Ah so we've reached the "you know what I changed my mind, go ahead and harass people over video games" stage. This is pretty blatant. Eventually this dude is gonna get someone hurt or worse, mark my word.

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

2 months

@MagitekDad Can’t be from me, I’m not working next week so my video is still a couple weeks out lol

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Nick Calandra

@nickjcal

3 months

I've had fun digging, but I'm working on something cool today so I'll continue later. Here's his motive though for all this. In case you were wondering. It's money.

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