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Bentendo
@bentendo.bsky.social
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Thirty something cake 🍰 obsessed gamer 👾 Whovian 👽 who also enjoys a good cuppa 🫖 and a bit of photography 📸 oh, and wrestling 🤼… just, things, okay? 😂
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bentendo.bsky.social
The PAL version of #LuigisMansion differs from NTSC by changing the post-game content, Hidden Mansion mode. It completely enhances the whole quest by mirroring the map, changing enemy and key items placement, modifying stats and reducing health item locations. #Switch2 #NSO
October 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
bentendo.bsky.social
Well… looks like it’s time! 😅 #AnimalCrossing #NintendoSwitch #NintendoSwitch2 #NewHorizons #ACNH
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
bentendo.bsky.social
@playtonicgames.com not sure what’s going on in the Switch 2 version of #YookaReplaylee here!
October 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
bentendo.bsky.social
At O2 Shepherd’s Bush to finally see @the8bitbigband.bsky.social live here in the UK. I’m betting (hoping) we start with #WiiSports, but we shall see! Going to be amazing I’m sure. 🙌 #The8BitBigBand
October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
bentendo.bsky.social
@playtonicgames.com I’m all for physical costing more than digital (the logical way around) but when #YookaReplaylee is DOUBLE the cost physically, and that’s without kickstarter discount for digital purchases… there needs to be some form of promo code for Amazon or something backers can receive?
September 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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John C. McGinley has joined Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, and Judy Reyes in ABC's upcoming Scrubs reboot.

For more on Deadline's coverage: bit.ly/4g8VoDe
John C. McGinley Will Return As Dr. Cox In ABC's Scrubs Reboot | Via: Deadline | Credit: Getty Images
September 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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ignunion.bsky.social
Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:
Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.
August 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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duckvalentine.bsky.social
Shared with permission: my incredible colleague, NVC producer Red Rigos, was impacted by IGN's layoffs yesterday. We're heartbroken: Red is kind, funny, talented, and dedicated and has been a huge part of NVC's growth and success.

Please hire him: www.redrigos.com/ign
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August 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
bentendo.bsky.social
I’m calling it now, #CMPunk will win the World Heavyweight Championship in the main event of #WrestleMania Sunday next year in Las Vegas. This story will run through #SurvivorSeries War Games, the #RoyalRumble, and into Mania. #SummerSlam  #WWE
August 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
bentendo.bsky.social
There’ll 100% be at #Summerslam a Roman lifting Bronson moment that’s commented on as being like when Hogan slammed Andre. #WWE
August 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
bentendo.bsky.social
@square-enix-games.com revealing all these HD-2D titles at the Partner Showcase, and all I’m wanting is the #Terranigma trilogy remaking! #IllusionofGaia (Time here in the UK) is such a classic! #SquareEnix #NintendoDirect
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August 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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ign.com
Donkey Kong Bananza's barely been out for a week but already one very determined player has completed the game without touching a single banana.
Someone's Already Completed Donkey Kong Bananza Without Touching A Single Banana — 'It's Honestly A Fun Challenge'
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July 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
bentendo.bsky.social
@nintendolife.com would it be possible to start curating a list of Switch games that have variable resolution so that we can see which games automatically look sharper oh Switch 2? Surprised no major outlet has made such a list yet… #Switch2 #Nintendo #NintendoLife
July 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
bentendo.bsky.social
@jon.gvg.io you going to see @the8bitbigband.bsky.social in London in September? If so, what have you made of their new album today? #the8bitbigband
July 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
bentendo.bsky.social
For those unaware the 5th album by @the8bitbigband.bsky.social, #OrchestratorEmulator, is now out on streaming services.

It’s not often an album releases with zero filler, but this is one of them!

Looking forward to seeing them at Shepherd’s Bush in London come September. 😎

#The8BitBigBand
July 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
bentendo.bsky.social
@digitalfoundry.bsky.social a rendering query I have regarding this effect I’m seeing more and more in games. I refer to it as a “net curtain” effect where edges of your objects (sometimes intentionally transparent) have this mesh like edging around them. Is it rendered, or is it a DLSS artefact?
July 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
bentendo.bsky.social
@modernvintagegamer.com I wondered if it would be a useful project for you to consider (for people unaware) to write an article / make a video that defines each Switch 1 title that uses dynamic resolution as a cheat sheet for games that look good on Switch 2? ☺️ #NintendoSwitch2 #Switch2
June 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
bentendo.bsky.social
@jon.gvg.io nice of Nintendo to clarify spines for you on their app yesterday! 😉😂
May 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
bentendo.bsky.social
@jon.gvg.io When you walk through MK:Centre with your 3DS on you in 2025, and a green light appears! 😱 We 100% need a UK StreetPass event me thinks Jon! #Nintendo #3DS #StreetPass
May 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
bentendo.bsky.social
@nintendousa.bsky.social need to update #NintendoToday to rotate on pictures and concept art. You can’t even pinch to zoom! #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch2
April 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
bentendo.bsky.social
Let’s remember when seeing @ign.com and other gaming outlets cover #NintendoSwitch2 content in the coming weeks that not everywhere is the US and not everywhere is getting price hikes. Some countries have already started preorders, with cheap physical games. There is positive #Nintendo news to cover
April 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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daniel.gvg.io
Wow this whole tariff situation really filters out who reads or has common sense
April 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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jon.gvg.io
as hoped EU retailers are not following suggested retail price

Nintendo list DK physical as 80 Euros. Retailers are starting to list games at 60 instead
April 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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cheesemeister.bsky.social
Dear Mario, I've baked a cake for you. I thought Trump's tariffs would allow a 449 dollar price, but they're far higher than expected, so it'll cost even more than that. Peach
April 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
bentendo.bsky.social
Anyone figured out borders on #Duckstation ’s Android build yet? Added files where the settings asks you to, but they still don’t show. 😖
January 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM