Mark MacDonald
@markmacdo.bsky.social
SVP Production & Biz Dev at Enhance, host of 84play. Former 8-4, 1UP, EGM. For talk about Japan, games, and Japanese games, come: follow Gaming Jesus.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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今月のプレゼンで紹介される作品です！
- Agehabachi / 垓交官YUKI
- A-Blast! / Apollo
- Kowloon's Curse / REM
- MONOPHOBIA @ngamedev.bsky.social
- DOOM SPIRAL / Forbidden Saucery
- Agehabachi / 垓交官YUKI
- A-Blast! / Apollo
- Kowloon's Curse / REM
- MONOPHOBIA @ngamedev.bsky.social
- DOOM SPIRAL / Forbidden Saucery
January 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM
今月のプレゼンで紹介される作品です！
- Agehabachi / 垓交官YUKI
- A-Blast! / Apollo
- Kowloon's Curse / REM
- MONOPHOBIA @ngamedev.bsky.social
- DOOM SPIRAL / Forbidden Saucery
- Agehabachi / 垓交官YUKI
- A-Blast! / Apollo
- Kowloon's Curse / REM
- MONOPHOBIA @ngamedev.bsky.social
- DOOM SPIRAL / Forbidden Saucery
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Sometimes you just have to let @lopatto.bsky.social say it out loud www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Sometimes you just have to let @lopatto.bsky.social say it out loud www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
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ICYMI during the holidays, these were my five favourite video games of 2025.
Special props to Baby Steps and Lumines Arise for being utterly magnificent in their own unique (and harrowing, in the case of Baby Steps) ways.
Special props to Baby Steps and Lumines Arise for being utterly magnificent in their own unique (and harrowing, in the case of Baby Steps) ways.
Chris Kerr's top 5 games of the year - 2025 Wrap-Up
Chris Kerr's top 5 games of the year - 2025 Wrap-Up
Here's to video games and the people who make them.
www.gamedeveloper.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:57 PM
ICYMI during the holidays, these were my five favourite video games of 2025.
Special props to Baby Steps and Lumines Arise for being utterly magnificent in their own unique (and harrowing, in the case of Baby Steps) ways.
Special props to Baby Steps and Lumines Arise for being utterly magnificent in their own unique (and harrowing, in the case of Baby Steps) ways.
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Honored to see Lumines Arise nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design and Family Game of the Year in the 29th Annual #DICEAwards! 🙏🏻💜
Check out all the nominees here: https://www.interactive.org/awards/29th_dice_awards_finalists_93k3p1.asp
lumines.game @official-aias.bsky.social
Check out all the nominees here: https://www.interactive.org/awards/29th_dice_awards_finalists_93k3p1.asp
lumines.game @official-aias.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Honored to see Lumines Arise nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design and Family Game of the Year in the 29th Annual #DICEAwards! 🙏🏻💜
Check out all the nominees here: https://www.interactive.org/awards/29th_dice_awards_finalists_93k3p1.asp
lumines.game @official-aias.bsky.social
Check out all the nominees here: https://www.interactive.org/awards/29th_dice_awards_finalists_93k3p1.asp
lumines.game @official-aias.bsky.social
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Once again,
Öoo has been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Game Design at the D.I.C.E. Awards!
Huge thanks to @official-aias.bsky.social for the honor, and to everyone who has supported the game.
#DICEAwards
Öoo has been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Game Design at the D.I.C.E. Awards!
Huge thanks to @official-aias.bsky.social for the honor, and to everyone who has supported the game.
#DICEAwards
January 9, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Once again,
Öoo has been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Game Design at the D.I.C.E. Awards!
Huge thanks to @official-aias.bsky.social for the honor, and to everyone who has supported the game.
#DICEAwards
Öoo has been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Game Design at the D.I.C.E. Awards!
Huge thanks to @official-aias.bsky.social for the honor, and to everyone who has supported the game.
#DICEAwards
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Honored to see Lumines Arise on The AV Club's list of the Best Games of 2025! 💜🌟
"...absolutely worth rising up to."
📖 https://www.avclub.com/best-games-2025-clair-obscur-silksong-despelote @avclub.com
"...absolutely worth rising up to."
📖 https://www.avclub.com/best-games-2025-clair-obscur-silksong-despelote @avclub.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Honored to see Lumines Arise on The AV Club's list of the Best Games of 2025! 💜🌟
"...absolutely worth rising up to."
📖 https://www.avclub.com/best-games-2025-clair-obscur-silksong-despelote @avclub.com
"...absolutely worth rising up to."
📖 https://www.avclub.com/best-games-2025-clair-obscur-silksong-despelote @avclub.com
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Friend of the show and former EGM editor Che Chou joins us to ring in 2026 with another freeform Q&A ep fueled by bourbon and filled with New Year's resolutions, holiday memories, GOTY talk, and Cybermorph. HNY! 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...
January 2, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Friend of the show and former EGM editor Che Chou joins us to ring in 2026 with another freeform Q&A ep fueled by bourbon and filled with New Year's resolutions, holiday memories, GOTY talk, and Cybermorph. HNY! 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...
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Not surprised but deeply impressed nonetheless that Kyle kept up with this very cool thread that wrapped up yesterday.
Get to know my game taste in 365 games!
For 2025, I'm going to post every day about a game that has been meaningful to me. Might not be the "best" games, or even my "favorites," but they're all ones that have stuck with me in one way or another, in rough ascending order of impact.
Mega Daily 🧵
For 2025, I'm going to post every day about a game that has been meaningful to me. Might not be the "best" games, or even my "favorites," but they're all ones that have stuck with me in one way or another, in rough ascending order of impact.
Mega Daily 🧵
January 1, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Not surprised but deeply impressed nonetheless that Kyle kept up with this very cool thread that wrapped up yesterday.
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In Zelda 2, a woman appears in each town, beckoning Link into her home. They disappear inside and Link's health begins to refill.
One reddit user recently asked if this scene was *intentionally* suggestive. While that seems very unlikely, I thought I'd look into it.
One reddit user recently asked if this scene was *intentionally* suggestive. While that seems very unlikely, I thought I'd look into it.
December 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
In Zelda 2, a woman appears in each town, beckoning Link into her home. They disappear inside and Link's health begins to refill.
One reddit user recently asked if this scene was *intentionally* suggestive. While that seems very unlikely, I thought I'd look into it.
One reddit user recently asked if this scene was *intentionally* suggestive. While that seems very unlikely, I thought I'd look into it.
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皆さん、こんにちは！
BitSummitへの応募締切は12月31日（応募料：2,750円）ですので、ぜひお忘れなく。
レイトエントリーは2026年1月16日まで受付（応募料：5,500円）しています。
詳細は bitsummit.org をご覧ください。
BitSummitへの応募締切は12月31日（応募料：2,750円）ですので、ぜひお忘れなく。
レイトエントリーは2026年1月16日まで受付（応募料：5,500円）しています。
詳細は bitsummit.org をご覧ください。
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
皆さん、こんにちは！
BitSummitへの応募締切は12月31日（応募料：2,750円）ですので、ぜひお忘れなく。
レイトエントリーは2026年1月16日まで受付（応募料：5,500円）しています。
詳細は bitsummit.org をご覧ください。
BitSummitへの応募締切は12月31日（応募料：2,750円）ですので、ぜひお忘れなく。
レイトエントリーは2026年1月16日まで受付（応募料：5,500円）しています。
詳細は bitsummit.org をご覧ください。
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Hello everyone! Just want to remind you that the deadline for BitSummit submissions is December 31st (submission fee: ¥2750). Late entries are open until January 16, 2026 (¥5500). Looking forward to seeing your games! For more information visit bitsummit.org.
December 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Hello everyone! Just want to remind you that the deadline for BitSummit submissions is December 31st (submission fee: ¥2750). Late entries are open until January 16, 2026 (¥5500). Looking forward to seeing your games! For more information visit bitsummit.org.
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Gertie and her creature companion must venture into dungeons & lush forests on a quest to fulfill a coven’s oath.
Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3041680/...
Summon Hints from the Coven: wildflowerinteractive.substack.com
Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3041680/...
Summon Hints from the Coven: wildflowerinteractive.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Gertie and her creature companion must venture into dungeons & lush forests on a quest to fulfill a coven’s oath.
Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3041680/...
Summon Hints from the Coven: wildflowerinteractive.substack.com
Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3041680/...
Summon Hints from the Coven: wildflowerinteractive.substack.com
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👀🫣
FINALLY!! 👀 #TheGameAwards
Subscribe to our Substack for Wildflower updates: wildflowerinteractive.substack.com
See ya Thursday
Subscribe to our Substack for Wildflower updates: wildflowerinteractive.substack.com
See ya Thursday
December 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
👀🫣
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Not So Random, #RandomGameSaturday
Today is the 24th anniversary of Rez, so here’s a bunch of versions of Rez.
Today is the 24th anniversary of Rez, so here’s a bunch of versions of Rez.
November 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Not So Random, #RandomGameSaturday
Today is the 24th anniversary of Rez, so here’s a bunch of versions of Rez.
Today is the 24th anniversary of Rez, so here’s a bunch of versions of Rez.
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The new episode of the MinnMax Show is now live on YouTube and podcast platforms! Guest host Kyle Bosman recruits @markmacdo.bsky.social and @pokachee.bsky.social to finally figure out what type of game Lumines is and what those little blocks are called. www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ts...
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The new episode of the MinnMax Show is now live on YouTube and podcast platforms! Guest host Kyle Bosman recruits @markmacdo.bsky.social and @pokachee.bsky.social to finally figure out what type of game Lumines is and what those little blocks are called. www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ts...
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Lumines Arise is an almost perfect zen puzzle game
Lumines Arise is an almost perfect zen puzzle game
Headphones on.
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Lumines Arise is an almost perfect zen puzzle game
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Lumines Arise is the kind of game that I won’t delete from my hard drive because I will always want the option to lose myself to the game periodically, which Arise is consistently excellent at.
Our review: gameinformer.com/review/lumin...
Our review: gameinformer.com/review/lumin...
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Lumines Arise is the kind of game that I won’t delete from my hard drive because I will always want the option to lose myself to the game periodically, which Arise is consistently excellent at.
Our review: gameinformer.com/review/lumin...
Our review: gameinformer.com/review/lumin...
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🎉 Lumines Arise Available Now for PS5 and Steam 🚀
Light, sound and haptics unite your senses. Feel the good vibes. Puzzle differently.
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2370000/Lumines_Arise
PS5: store.playstation.com/concept/10011885
lumines.game #LuminesArise
Light, sound and haptics unite your senses. Feel the good vibes. Puzzle differently.
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2370000/Lumines_Arise
PS5: store.playstation.com/concept/10011885
lumines.game #LuminesArise
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🎉 Lumines Arise Available Now for PS5 and Steam 🚀
Light, sound and haptics unite your senses. Feel the good vibes. Puzzle differently.
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2370000/Lumines_Arise
PS5: store.playstation.com/concept/10011885
lumines.game #LuminesArise
Light, sound and haptics unite your senses. Feel the good vibes. Puzzle differently.
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2370000/Lumines_Arise
PS5: store.playstation.com/concept/10011885
lumines.game #LuminesArise
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Lumines Arise review: Enhance's Tetris Effect follow-up is another audio-visual delight, but it sacrifices some substance for its supreme style.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
www.videogameschronicle.com/review/lumin...
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
www.videogameschronicle.com/review/lumin...
Lumines Arise review: Tetris Effect follow-up is an audio-visual delight | VGC
Enhance’s high-energy music puzzler sacrifices some substance for supreme style…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Lumines Arise review: Enhance's Tetris Effect follow-up is another audio-visual delight, but it sacrifices some substance for its supreme style.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
www.videogameschronicle.com/review/lumin...
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
www.videogameschronicle.com/review/lumin...
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Perfect excuse to #84bump right here
🤖🌟 Issue 6 of APWOT is live on Kickstarter! 🌟🤖
Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation.
Get in there!
💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫
Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation.
Get in there!
💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Perfect excuse to #84bump right here
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Big congrats to @ancientgames.bsky.social @yuzokoshiro.bsky.social on today’s Japanese physical release of EARTHION!🚀✨🥳 Super proud of the @sdxgames.bsky.social versions we made, and especially stoked that we teamed up with 8BitDo (the best!) on this rad M30! ❤️ superdeluxegames.jp/collections/...
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Big congrats to @ancientgames.bsky.social @yuzokoshiro.bsky.social on today’s Japanese physical release of EARTHION!🚀✨🥳 Super proud of the @sdxgames.bsky.social versions we made, and especially stoked that we teamed up with 8BitDo (the best!) on this rad M30! ❤️ superdeluxegames.jp/collections/...
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I do not post on social media, but I feel in the age of AI slop and digital only releases, something physical, beautiful and created with such care should be shouted from the rooftops.
@apwot.bsky.social keep doing what your doing!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...
@apwot.bsky.social keep doing what your doing!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...
A Profound Waste of Time: Issue 6
The beloved gaming mag returns, with Astro Bot's Nicolas Doucet, Danganronpa's Kazutaka Kodaka, Team Ninja's Fumihiko Yasuda and more!
www.kickstarter.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I do not post on social media, but I feel in the age of AI slop and digital only releases, something physical, beautiful and created with such care should be shouted from the rooftops.
@apwot.bsky.social keep doing what your doing!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...
@apwot.bsky.social keep doing what your doing!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...
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👁️ We blinked, and suddenly it's now SIX days until Lumines Arise launches. 🚀
『Lumines Arise』発売まであと6日！ いよいよ1週間を切りました！
#LuminesArise #ルミネス lumines.game
『Lumines Arise』発売まであと6日！ いよいよ1週間を切りました！
#LuminesArise #ルミネス lumines.game
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
👁️ We blinked, and suddenly it's now SIX days until Lumines Arise launches. 🚀
『Lumines Arise』発売まであと6日！ いよいよ1週間を切りました！
#LuminesArise #ルミネス lumines.game
『Lumines Arise』発売まであと6日！ いよいよ1週間を切りました！
#LuminesArise #ルミネス lumines.game
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We're kicking off a series of music game oral histories with a look back at Rez Infinite -- and why it's been nine years without a follow-up.
After nine years, Rez Infinite remains gaming’s greatest tease
“If we're using the word ‘prologue,’ obviously something has to come after...”
www.designroom.site
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
We're kicking off a series of music game oral histories with a look back at Rez Infinite -- and why it's been nine years without a follow-up.