Brian Crecente
@crecente.bsky.social
President Pad & Pixel video game consulting
https://linktr.ee/crecente
BAFTA member
Kotaku founder
Polygon co-founder
Former video game editor Rolling Stone, Variety
https://linktr.ee/crecente
BAFTA member
Kotaku founder
Polygon co-founder
Former video game editor Rolling Stone, Variety
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Brian Crecente
@crecente.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Game | Brian Crecente | Substack
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(Re) intro time.
I run a consultancy for video games, tech, and toys. Clients include Epic Games and LEGO!
You may also know me as the founder of Kotaku, cofounder of Polygon, video games editor at Rolling Stone and Variety.
I still write, but mostly for clients and my column.
game.substack.com
I run a consultancy for video games, tech, and toys. Clients include Epic Games and LEGO!
You may also know me as the founder of Kotaku, cofounder of Polygon, video games editor at Rolling Stone and Variety.
I still write, but mostly for clients and my column.
game.substack.com
Now we know how long it takes to rewrite thousands of emails in a way that’s not traceable.
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Now we know how long it takes to rewrite thousands of emails in a way that’s not traceable.
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See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is your reminder that the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X is not an Xbox and the Steam Machine is not a console. If you buy either thinking they are you’re likely to be disappointed.
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This is your reminder that the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X is not an Xbox and the Steam Machine is not a console. If you buy either thinking they are you’re likely to be disappointed.
Gummies don’t have a best by date, they have a best high date.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Gummies don’t have a best by date, they have a best high date.
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
November 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Reposted by Brian Crecente
Tyson regularly contaminates its food with things like metal shavings, rubber pieces, lead particles.
The first two are the result of a manufacturing.
The last one is deliberate, they put lead on chicken breading to slightly increase the weight to sell less chicken for more money.
The first two are the result of a manufacturing.
The last one is deliberate, they put lead on chicken breading to slightly increase the weight to sell less chicken for more money.
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Tyson regularly contaminates its food with things like metal shavings, rubber pieces, lead particles.
The first two are the result of a manufacturing.
The last one is deliberate, they put lead on chicken breading to slightly increase the weight to sell less chicken for more money.
The first two are the result of a manufacturing.
The last one is deliberate, they put lead on chicken breading to slightly increase the weight to sell less chicken for more money.
Lmfao
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Lmfao
Sooooo what I’m hearing is that a pound is way too much meat.
Important question currently being debated.
How much meat, by weight, is in a sandwich you make for yourself. If you eat meat.
How much meat, by weight, is in a sandwich you make for yourself. If you eat meat.
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Sooooo what I’m hearing is that a pound is way too much meat.
Important question currently being debated.
How much meat, by weight, is in a sandwich you make for yourself. If you eat meat.
How much meat, by weight, is in a sandwich you make for yourself. If you eat meat.
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Important question currently being debated.
How much meat, by weight, is in a sandwich you make for yourself. If you eat meat.
How much meat, by weight, is in a sandwich you make for yourself. If you eat meat.
This hurts my heart in a good way.
November 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This hurts my heart in a good way.
In case someone was wondering. Epstein asked if Putin had a video of Trump giving Clinton a blowjob.
To protect my sanity and try to get rid of any image forming in my head I’m going to believe it was a joke.
To protect my sanity and try to get rid of any image forming in my head I’m going to believe it was a joke.
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In case someone was wondering. Epstein asked if Putin had a video of Trump giving Clinton a blowjob.
To protect my sanity and try to get rid of any image forming in my head I’m going to believe it was a joke.
To protect my sanity and try to get rid of any image forming in my head I’m going to believe it was a joke.
I was just talking to two people about this!!
Hey, what are people looking at to differentiate between 2D art created by a person vs. being AI-generated? Other than obvious stuff like anatomical incorrectness and garbled non-text.
I feel like I've gotten pretty adept at spotting genAI photos but I still don't have a feel for genAI 2D art.
I feel like I've gotten pretty adept at spotting genAI photos but I still don't have a feel for genAI 2D art.
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I was just talking to two people about this!!
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A brilliant move by Trump to remove tariffs, which were essentially a tax on consumers, to ensure that beef and coffee is more affordable.
I hope the President that added the tariffs in the first place is ashamed of the pain they caused the American people.
I hope the President that added the tariffs in the first place is ashamed of the pain they caused the American people.
BREAKING: President Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices.
Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
A brilliant move by Trump to remove tariffs, which were essentially a tax on consumers, to ensure that beef and coffee is more affordable.
I hope the President that added the tariffs in the first place is ashamed of the pain they caused the American people.
I hope the President that added the tariffs in the first place is ashamed of the pain they caused the American people.
People get riled up on social media about the dumbest shit.
It’s such weird fucking behavior.
Yes, I know it’s always been like this. But I still want to shout at the clouds.
It’s such weird fucking behavior.
Yes, I know it’s always been like this. But I still want to shout at the clouds.
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
People get riled up on social media about the dumbest shit.
It’s such weird fucking behavior.
Yes, I know it’s always been like this. But I still want to shout at the clouds.
It’s such weird fucking behavior.
Yes, I know it’s always been like this. But I still want to shout at the clouds.
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Quick note: if I post something and you have an issue with it please don’t feel free to let me know because I’m very unlikely to care what you think. Sounds harsh I know but happens to be true.
November 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Quick note: if I post something and you have an issue with it please don’t feel free to let me know because I’m very unlikely to care what you think. Sounds harsh I know but happens to be true.
There’s a huge difference between “like AI art style” and using AI. Has anyone confirmed or asked if this was AI generated?
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This isnt "back end optimization", this isnt "helping artists do their jobs", this is replacing talent with actual slop. This is why i think more individuals AND news outlets need to talk about the problems of genAI. They think they can feed players slop and some of'em let them.
This isnt "back end optimization", this isnt "helping artists do their jobs", this is replacing talent with actual slop. This is why i think more individuals AND news outlets need to talk about the problems of genAI. They think they can feed players slop and some of'em let them.
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There’s a huge difference between “like AI art style” and using AI. Has anyone confirmed or asked if this was AI generated?
Get to know your mutuals. List ten random things you like.
1. Pencils
2. A good scare
3. Weird little gadgets
4. A good book I can’t stop reading
5. The warmth of the sun
6. The air after a hard rain
7. Live music in weird places
8. Quiet little moments of joy
9. Writing
10. Solitude
1. Pencils
2. A good scare
3. Weird little gadgets
4. A good book I can’t stop reading
5. The warmth of the sun
6. The air after a hard rain
7. Live music in weird places
8. Quiet little moments of joy
9. Writing
10. Solitude
Get to know your mutuals. List ten random things you like.
1. Pencils
2. The dark
3. Helping worms and snails cross the street
4. Comfort over style
5. Potatoes
6. Fairy lights
7. Colours
8. Autumn
9. Mugs
10. Flat spoons
1. Pencils
2. The dark
3. Helping worms and snails cross the street
4. Comfort over style
5. Potatoes
6. Fairy lights
7. Colours
8. Autumn
9. Mugs
10. Flat spoons
Get to know your mutuals, list ten random things you like
Waterfalls
Dancing
All the musics
Dresses
Mushrooms
Words
Dancing
Fires
Night skies
Yer Da
Waterfalls
Dancing
All the musics
Dresses
Mushrooms
Words
Dancing
Fires
Night skies
Yer Da
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Get to know your mutuals. List ten random things you like.
1. Pencils
2. A good scare
3. Weird little gadgets
4. A good book I can’t stop reading
5. The warmth of the sun
6. The air after a hard rain
7. Live music in weird places
8. Quiet little moments of joy
9. Writing
10. Solitude
1. Pencils
2. A good scare
3. Weird little gadgets
4. A good book I can’t stop reading
5. The warmth of the sun
6. The air after a hard rain
7. Live music in weird places
8. Quiet little moments of joy
9. Writing
10. Solitude
Dude can’t stop himself from accusing other people of all the things he does.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Justice Department quietly replaced 'identical' Trump signatures on recent pardons
President Donald Trump is facing new scrutiny over the use of a replicated signature on several recent pardons.
apnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Dude can’t stop himself from accusing other people of all the things he does.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Happy “Why the fuck doesn’t The Onion own Infowars” day for those who celebrate!
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Happy “Why the fuck doesn’t The Onion own Infowars” day for those who celebrate!
Reposted by Brian Crecente
It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
Hey heads up world. I will go bankrupt if I party hard, live in mansions, drive sexy cars, and jet set. So you’re going to have to give that all to me. In sure you understand
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Hey heads up world. I will go bankrupt if I party hard, live in mansions, drive sexy cars, and jet set. So you’re going to have to give that all to me. In sure you understand