From father of the hydrogen bomb to son of Bowser

Quick look at the state of Nintendo Switch Online:

• Active accounts (played at least one game in the past year) are up from 117 million in 2023 to 128 million in 2025
• However, paid NSO subscribers are down from 38 million in 2023 to 34 million in 2025
• Likely due to AC, MonHun etc. dropping off

Ye olde Batman #500 poster. Today is a good day to own this.

Very, very excited for the Knightfall animated films. I grew up with Knightfall and KnightQuest in the '90s. I hope the art and animation to justice to the story—especially the KnightQuest portion of the story, where the "Shadow of the Bat" comics looked like nothing else in Batman's history.

After many years of NDA.... I'm proud to announce I FINALLY HAVE A PUBLIC PORTFOLIO!! I'm still looking for work, so please check it out, share, throw it at your studio leadership etc. Thanks for the support ❤️
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The artwork and animation in Shinobi: Art of Vengeance are gorgeous. Even though it's a mix of 2D and 3D elements, there's a coherence to everything. And when something stands out, it's because they want it to. LizardCube are giving Vanillaware a run for their money.

"LoveDrug" by Lady Gaga is fantastic. I love that I was introduced to it by a film about old folks in a retirement home. Appropriate that they turned to Lady Gaga for the part of the film that focuses on the younger characters. youtu.be/tDwm4PdoYPw

As someone that's bored by 90% of JRPGs feeling visually and tonally indistinguishable from one another, I'm glad Final Fantasy has the guts to keep trying stuff. Even Xenoblade, which once pushed boundaries with 1 & X, feels far too predictable nowadays. www.videogameschronicle.com/features/int...

In anticipation of Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, I went back and decided to replay Shinobi 3DS... and my views on it have changed a lot over time.

Initially, I wasn't all that fond of it. I felt it played more like Revenge of Shinobi than Shinobi III. But that's only true to an extent. [1/4]

@historyofhyrule.com There you are! I stopped seeing you on Twitter (hadn't checked it in ages), and I couldn't for the life of me remember what the account was actually called, so it took a bit to track you down on here. Glad to see you're still at it!

To everyone playing #XenobladeChroniclesX, I'd highly recommend turning the "Enemy Markers" option off under Settings. It's so distracting, you'll spend more time staring at the enemy info than actually looking at the gorgeous environments. Think of it as Immersive Mode.

Returning to Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness after so many years, I can't help but fall in love with it all over again, despite its many flaws. It has so many great ideas—the dialogue trees, the multiple pathways and shortcuts through stages, and the way they've chosen to characterise Lara. [1/5]

Playing the heck out of Angel of Darkness remaster with @stellalune.bsky.social's guide open in the background. I feel like I'm 12 again.

An at-a-glance summary of Sony's revenue and operating income for each division. Games are doing well, with PS5 Pro, PlayStation Plus subscriptions, and third-party software sales all having contributed to a 37% increase in profit. Music is still a big, consistent contributor as well.

So, here's what I've been able to suss out about Square Enix's new "Creative Studio" structure, along with each studio head, based on the credits of a few games released over the past several months. More info will become available over time, as they release more games and we see more credits. [1/6]

Not too shabby for being away from online a while! Armored Core VI's multiplayer is still a lot of fun—but incredibly hard, because everyone still playing is a mecha anime pilot god. #AC6

Time for some #Xenoblade Chronicles X development history! Slightly long thread, but a lot of this stuff isn't widely known, so hopefully people will find it enlightening. Keep in mind that a lot of this will only make sense if you've actually played X. [1/?]

Here's a look at the last few years of Monolith Soft's growth in an admittedly not-so-tidy infographic.