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Edmond Tran
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// Managing Editor, @ThisWeekInVideogames.com
// Managing Editor, GamesHub (2021-2023)
// Senior Editor and Video Producer, GameSpot (2008-2020)
// Multi-Award-Winning, Token Asian
// Contact: DM's open, edmond@thisweekinvideogames.com
I didn't get to visit Valve in Washington, but I DID get to ask them some questions about the beautifully bulbous 2015 Steam Controller and its big-ass trackpads, which they said “will always hold a special place in our heart.”
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I regret to inform you that once again, I was forced to look at tiny speadsheets and do maths to prove to myself that I wasn't going absolutely insane (I love you Gematsu)
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
you have to hand it to him
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
australian indie developer deciding on a setting:

australia
November 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Clocking on for two hours of serving trick-or-treaters and blasting Vince Guaraldi on repeat
October 31, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This is an extremely hyper-specific Sydneysider post but it's giving City Extra menu
October 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
this has probably been asked before but is there any good writing out there about how the rise of cosy games is a capitalist psyop
October 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
hell yea dude
October 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Holy crap the BBC actually gave the keys to Bluey to an Australian game dev this time. A Brisbane dev, even!

www.bluey.tv/blog/blueys-...
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Okay so the BBC says he can run at least 1,225km/h but also:

www.sciencefocus.com/science/soni...
October 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Yessssss
October 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Last week the ABC asked if they could come to my house and film me playing fighting games really badly for national TV

(and also get some background on the increasing Saudi involvement in the games industry)

(also Ronaldo was there for some reason)

iview.abc.net.au/video/SEGS20...
October 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Just remembered I still had beer in the hotel fridge
October 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Oh no online media outlets truly are dead
October 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Made a beeline for the first pho place I could find in Melbourne and chose one where the head chef was all over the logo and wall art, for a laugh.

Self aggrandising totally justified though so well played
October 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Mildly stunned to remember a time when EA was genuinely an exciting publisher
October 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I like how IO Interactive announced "Chinese people" at Tokyo Game Show 2025
September 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
So there's this... perk for gooner whales where you slowly reveal a "saucy" portrait of the character as you get more duplicates, and yeah this is okay, but for some reason bear still need a shirt
September 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Hamazaki recast is also uhhhhhhhh gonna take some getting used to
September 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
removing kiryu's dirty cigarette habit so you can sell more copies to the youths
September 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The recasting of Rikiya is NOT going down well
September 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
here comes the feeling
September 23, 2025 at 5:54 AM
i played one set and they upgraded me to a lobby where everyone's on fucking fire help
September 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
playing 2XKO with all of my friends ☹️
September 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Join us on Sept 12 at 6am PT for a #NintendoDirect! Tune in for roughly 60 minutes of Masahiro Sakurai chain-smoking cigarettes and talking about the car he owned when he was 23.
September 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM