tomtom94
@tomtom94.bsky.social
Socials Manager for Endpoint, general nerd, Counter-Strike reply guy.
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A rundown of Saudi government-funded investment in the video game industry since 2022
I figured it'd be impactful to see all of this in one list
From yesterday's Game File: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-saudi-a...
I figured it'd be impactful to see all of this in one list
From yesterday's Game File: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-saudi-a...
![In September 2024, Savvy CEO Brian Ward was elected as one of the board of directors for The Embracer Group, the Swedish gaming conglomerate that owns the rights to Lord of the Rings and Tomb Raider franchises. Savvy is the second-largest shareholder of Embracer.
In May 2025, Savvy-owned Scopely completed its $3.5 billion purchase of most of the game portion of Niantic, including its popular mobile game Pokémon Go
Also in 2025, SNK’s newest fighting game, Fatal Fury: City of Wolves, had “one of the most aggressive [marketing campaigns] we’ve seen for a fighting game,” per Fighters Generation. City of Wolves’ promotional campaign included an unusually large $2.5 million tournament prize pool, the branding of one of the year’s biggest—and Saudi-backed—boxing matches as “Fatal Fury,” and multiple and a musical number in the middle of Wrestlemania 41, the biggest event of the year from Saudi government financial partner WWE. (Despite all that hype, poor sales led to the resignation of SNK’s CEO.)
In summer 2025, the eSports World Cup featured a spin-off New Global Sport Conference, which included a talk with Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. During that talk, Guillemot confirmed a free-to-consumers mini-expansion to 2023’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage. The add-on will be set in 9th century AlUla, which is located in what is now Saudi Arabia. (Ubisoft has declined to confirm that the Saudis are financing the 2025 expansion, but Game File sources familiar with the project are under the impression it is. A Ubisoft rep told me earlier this month that the game update “was made possible thanks to the support of local and international organizations…”)
Over the past several years, the Public Investment Fund has purchased large stakes of publicly traded gaming companies, holding 6.5% of EA rival and Grand Theft Auto maker Take Two, 6.6% of Capcom and 4.2% of Nintendo, among others](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fs2pfwz4ohuc7nhlshklw55d/bafkreieluwfxrfitmqqzqbtpe4ougk6h63om3xctbwb5ndszhrjbuhcede@jpeg)
September 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A rundown of Saudi government-funded investment in the video game industry since 2022
I figured it'd be impactful to see all of this in one list
From yesterday's Game File: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-saudi-a...
I figured it'd be impactful to see all of this in one list
From yesterday's Game File: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-saudi-a...
Everything is fucking Gamergate
Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos
September 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Everything is fucking Gamergate
Fucking Gamergate jumpscare
July 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Fucking Gamergate jumpscare
Today, like every day, is a Very Normal day in Britain
June 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Today, like every day, is a Very Normal day in Britain
I like the look of The War Between The Land and the Sea but... as a Doctor Who spin-off... this is such nerd shit
June 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I like the look of The War Between The Land and the Sea but... as a Doctor Who spin-off... this is such nerd shit
I should have posted here as well, but fewer of the esports crowd have made their way here yet:
I have a normie job, so I'm leaving full-time esports (for now).
tomtom94.medium.com/leaving-full...
I have a normie job, so I'm leaving full-time esports (for now).
tomtom94.medium.com/leaving-full...
Leaving full-time esports
It’s been a hell of a ride.
tomtom94.medium.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I should have posted here as well, but fewer of the esports crowd have made their way here yet:
I have a normie job, so I'm leaving full-time esports (for now).
tomtom94.medium.com/leaving-full...
I have a normie job, so I'm leaving full-time esports (for now).
tomtom94.medium.com/leaving-full...
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He started as a huge Endpoint fan. We brought him on to steal his memes.
Our Community-turned-Socials Manager @tomtom94.bsky.social is off to new pastures. While his next chapter isn’t in esports, we know his passion will keep him close.
Thanks for an amazing 4 years. Wishing you all the best.
Our Community-turned-Socials Manager @tomtom94.bsky.social is off to new pastures. While his next chapter isn’t in esports, we know his passion will keep him close.
Thanks for an amazing 4 years. Wishing you all the best.
May 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
He started as a huge Endpoint fan. We brought him on to steal his memes.
Our Community-turned-Socials Manager @tomtom94.bsky.social is off to new pastures. While his next chapter isn’t in esports, we know his passion will keep him close.
Thanks for an amazing 4 years. Wishing you all the best.
Our Community-turned-Socials Manager @tomtom94.bsky.social is off to new pastures. While his next chapter isn’t in esports, we know his passion will keep him close.
Thanks for an amazing 4 years. Wishing you all the best.
Lux is probably the best Doctor Who episode since Demons of the Punjab*.
*Or for the Chibnall haters, the best since World Enough and Time.
*Or for the Chibnall haters, the best since World Enough and Time.
April 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Lux is probably the best Doctor Who episode since Demons of the Punjab*.
*Or for the Chibnall haters, the best since World Enough and Time.
*Or for the Chibnall haters, the best since World Enough and Time.
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I really can’t get over that all this, the threatening to invade Canada, the torturing of that German guy with a green card, the soon to happen deaths of millions of people from the dismantling of USAID, is a response to the absolute dipshit question “has wokeness gone too far?”
March 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I really can’t get over that all this, the threatening to invade Canada, the torturing of that German guy with a green card, the soon to happen deaths of millions of people from the dismantling of USAID, is a response to the absolute dipshit question “has wokeness gone too far?”
Who can forget when Joe Biden introduced a blanket ban on trans people visiting the United States?
February 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Who can forget when Joe Biden introduced a blanket ban on trans people visiting the United States?
I feel @shadowtodd.bsky.social will appreciate that The Darkness have just put out a new single that is a funny take on being a touring rock band:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDld...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDld...
The Darkness - Walking Through Fire (Official Visualiser)
YouTube video by The Darkness
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February 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I feel @shadowtodd.bsky.social will appreciate that The Darkness have just put out a new single that is a funny take on being a touring rock band:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDld...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDld...
The BBC carried an opinion piece about how Trump 2.0 was smarter than the original. We're absolutely fucked aren't we?
January 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The BBC carried an opinion piece about how Trump 2.0 was smarter than the original. We're absolutely fucked aren't we?
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January 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's cool that Coffeezilla is doing a big breakdown of gambling in Counter-Strike, but I also feel like nothing is going to change. We had the chance with the CSGOLotto drama, and everyone decided it was basically fine
December 17, 2024 at 7:13 PM
It's cool that Coffeezilla is doing a big breakdown of gambling in Counter-Strike, but I also feel like nothing is going to change. We had the chance with the CSGOLotto drama, and everyone decided it was basically fine
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every site needs a version of somethingawful's "we can just ban you" policy to use against bad actors who make a game of ruining the site while making sure to always stay 1% shy of violating the rules as-written
December 13, 2024 at 9:14 PM
every site needs a version of somethingawful's "we can just ban you" policy to use against bad actors who make a game of ruining the site while making sure to always stay 1% shy of violating the rules as-written
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A bit embarrassing honestly that so many people think it's okay to amplify what lunatics such as RFK happen to be (perhaps) correct about. Oh, he believes in a good night's sleep?! We can work with that! Please.
No. RFK Jr has dedicated the past two decades of his life to making it more likely that children will die of preventable illnesses.
The only "good stuff" he believes is that Americans should eat better and exercise more, something every institution of public health already promotes constantly.
The only "good stuff" he believes is that Americans should eat better and exercise more, something every institution of public health already promotes constantly.
Harris had an opportunity to appeal to the RFK voters who just want healthy food and she blew it.
By blowing RFK off entirely, it invited people to assume that Harris opposed RFK's entire agenda, even the good stuff.
By blowing RFK off entirely, it invited people to assume that Harris opposed RFK's entire agenda, even the good stuff.
December 13, 2024 at 9:43 PM
A bit embarrassing honestly that so many people think it's okay to amplify what lunatics such as RFK happen to be (perhaps) correct about. Oh, he believes in a good night's sleep?! We can work with that! Please.
My latest for Rush B Media: a feature on CYPHER built out of an interview at EPIC 43.
Next up will likely be a piece on the four-year anniversary of the ESL-FACEIT merger.
rushbmedia.com/cypher-still...
Next up will likely be a piece on the four-year anniversary of the ESL-FACEIT merger.
rushbmedia.com/cypher-still...
CYPHER: Still knocking on the door of tier 1 - Rush B Media
After the BLAST Paris Major 2023, the world was Cai “CYPHER” Watson’s oyster. Having turned heads with his…
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December 6, 2024 at 9:31 AM
My latest for Rush B Media: a feature on CYPHER built out of an interview at EPIC 43.
Next up will likely be a piece on the four-year anniversary of the ESL-FACEIT merger.
rushbmedia.com/cypher-still...
Next up will likely be a piece on the four-year anniversary of the ESL-FACEIT merger.
rushbmedia.com/cypher-still...
Sounds like a you issue my guy
December 4, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Sounds like a you issue my guy
VP are Russian Falcons
December 2, 2024 at 12:15 PM
VP are Russian Falcons
The script for this is as depressing as it is predictable
November 30, 2024 at 2:27 PM
The script for this is as depressing as it is predictable
Please someone put Checo out of his misery
November 29, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Please someone put Checo out of his misery
Decided to remind myself about 1xBet and
How is this company still going
How is this company still going
November 28, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Decided to remind myself about 1xBet and
How is this company still going
How is this company still going
I took a look at the UKCS team that was considered one of the best of the world in the earliest das of Global Offensive. Took a while to get it out but it's here!
ukcsgo.com/stung-by-a-r...
ukcsgo.com/stung-by-a-r...
November 25, 2024 at 6:00 PM
I took a look at the UKCS team that was considered one of the best of the world in the earliest das of Global Offensive. Took a while to get it out but it's here!
ukcsgo.com/stung-by-a-r...
ukcsgo.com/stung-by-a-r...
This is my shocked face
November 25, 2024 at 2:58 PM
This is my shocked face