Pre-Order: ASTROBOT - Nendoroid Surprise Astro 1.0 Figures (Boxset) $65.99 via Good Smile US. https://ow.ly/6xAv50YKLpX

Nendoroid Surprise Astro 1.0 - ASTROBOT 6Pack BOX up for preorder on Hobby-Genki ($60) buff.ly/u3d9TMl #ad
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DAEMON X MACHINA: Titanic Scion (X) $33.20 via Amazon (Prime Eligible). #ad https://ow.ly/Ihy550YKWIv

PlayStation DualSense Wireless Controller – 007 First Light Limited Edition up for preorder at Target ($84.99) buff.ly/zS7RGmU

not live yet:
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PlayStation 5 Pro Console (used - like new) is $692.67 on Amazon Resale amzn.to/4bVaB9y #ad

price increases to $899 next week

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Sony PlayStation 5 Slim Console Digital Edition - Fortnite Flowering Chaos Bundle $399.99 via GameStop. #ad https://ow.ly/k0tu50YzFc8

w/ Disc Drive $449.99 https://ow.ly/y6au50YzFca

PS5 Gets Higher Prices Again Starting April 2nd. https://ow.ly/VVkz50YzF6l

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Starfield Premium Edition $65.99

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Here's the List of PS5 Pro Games That Will Support the Newly Upgraded PSSR Sony is set to release an update that will enhance PSSR for the PS5 Pro sometime in March, and here are the games that will benefit from it.

Sony is set to release a PS5 update this March that will enhance the PSSR functionality in the PS5 Pro.

Here are the known games that will benefit from it:
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(PCDD) Halo Franchise Sale via Steam. #ad https://ow.ly/4aIX50YmAZ3

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

Battlefield 6 Vehicles in Beta Were "Weak" Admits DICE, Calls Balancing It "Tricky" The vehicles in the Battlefield 6 open beta were weak admits DICE, though they'd rather have that than have it overpowered during testing.

DICE admits vehicles were "weak" in the Battlefield 6 open beta, and how balancing it was "tricky" was players learned how to take them out.

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#Battlefield6

Battlefield 2042 Player Count Increases Over 500% Following BF6 Beta; Free Battle Pass Grants BF6 Rewards Battlefield 2042's player count hikes up to over 500% following the Battlefield 6 beta, as a new free Battle Pass awards BF6 items.

Battlefield 2042's player count rises to over 500% following the BF6 beta, as a free Battle Pass grants BF6 rewards:
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#BF6Beta #Battlefield6

Battlefield 6 Beta Surpasses 500K Players on Steam, Beating Call of Duty's All-Time High The Battlefield 6's beta has now surpassed 500K players on Steam alone, and has beaten Call of Duty's all-time high on the platform.

The Battlefield 6 beta has now surpassed 500K players on Steam alone and has beaten Call of Duty's all-time high! This is insane.

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#Battlefield6 #BF6beta

Some of This Year’s Biggest Video Games Were Made From Home The debate over whether great video games can be made remotely isn’t much of a debate at all

I wrote this piece in 2023, naming EA's Respawn as one of the studios that has benefited from allowing employees to work remotely.

Now, following big layoffs last month and this week's return-to-office announcement, Respawn may become a very different company.

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Video-Game Companies Have an AI Problem: Players Don’t Want It Publishers like EA and Take-Two are warning shareholders about the potential “reputational” risks of AI

Video game companies are infamous for trying to avoid and mitigate risk at all cost. With industry growth flattening and development budgets swelling, aren't the stakes too high for these companies to rely on genAI? Are the potential savings really worth that risk? www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Video-Game Companies Have an AI Problem: Players Don’t Want It Publishers like EA and Take-Two are warning shareholders about the potential “reputational” risks of AI

In recent weeks, video game publishers Take-Two and EA both warned investors about potential "reputational" risks to the use of gen-AI in games. It's a problem that all game companies will soon need to confront: Players hate genAI.

This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

How ‘Hitman’ Developer Became One of the Largest Independent Game Companies Eight years ago, IO Interactive was bleeding money. Now it’s one of the biggest privately owned video-game companies in the world.

Eight years ago, Hitman developer IO Interactive was bleeding so much money that Square Enix paid to get rid of it.

Now it's one of the largest privately owned video-game companies in the world, with 500 employees.

I spoke to IO's CEO about how that happened: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Xbox Executives Were Blown Away by an Upcoming Game. Then They Canceled It. Blackbird, a new game from ZeniMax Online Studios, impressed Xbox boss Phil Spencer earlier this year

NEW: In March, Xbox boss Phil Spencer was so impressed by the demo of a Zenimax game codenamed Blackbird that Matt Booty had to tell him to stop playing so the meeting could continue. Yesterday, they canceled it.

Inside one of Xbox's most shocking cancellations: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

And finally there’s Asobi. Named after Team Asobi. Developers of Astro Bot ^^