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The one but possibly not only!

25 y.o

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Digam Olá para a conta da putaria.

Não eu não vou usar ela como a nova forma de dar like em putaria. Eu sou feliz no main
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:3
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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(And yes, the dynamic nature of the market in 2025, particularly with subscription services, Fortnite, etc, etc means that sales alone don't tell the whole story. But I think it's interesting.)
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Still have some big weeks of potential sales to come, but this part of the market hasn't been this competitive in 20 years.

Twenty years!

Wild.

Anyways, source of the stats is Circana's Retail Tracking Service.
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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The last Shooter genre game to outsell Call of Duty in the US market over a full year was Gears of War, in 2006. The last FPS to do so was Star Wars: Battlefront II a year prior.

A Call of Duty game has been the US market's best-seller in 13 of the past 16 years (GTAV, RDRII, Hogwarts Legacy).
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I'm disappointed paid items and loot boxes are coming to Fortnite. It's clear they're spooked by Roblox and worried they're losing younger players, so they're incorporating the worst parts of Roblox. I wrote about what parents can do for @crossplayblog.bsky.social www.crossplay.news/p/fortnite-i...
What Parents Should Know About the Loot Box Changes Coming to Fortnite
For now, "Battle Royale" mode seems off limits. But within other "Island" experiences, you should be aware of what you can and cannot control for your children.
www.crossplay.news
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Tbh kids today have no idea how hyped Spore was before it came out. It was GTA VI levels of hype for its day and then it came out and was just Spore.
I’m excited to sit down with this new game I bought. It’s called Spore ever heard of it? Now where is my cd-drive….
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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To this day this is how I feel about Pac-Man on the Atari 2600.

Sonuvabitch I was robbed.
I spent my allowance on that piece of shit and I'm still kinda mad about it.
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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literally nobody else in the entire retro computing community I've seen so far has done this, and this is a VERY conservative group. fuck John Carmack.
I just learned that John Carmack misgendered and deadnamed Rebecca Heineman in his "tribute" over on Twitter. He probably thinks it's okay when talking pre-transition days, but FYI, most trans people hate that. Worse, he never calls her "she," switching to "they" for recent memories. Fuck that guy.
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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John Carmack making a eulogy post for Rebecca Heineman and deadnaming and misgendering her throughout, that classic Carmack tact and thoughtfulness
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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New commemorative illustration for Street Fighter 6 reaching 6 million units sold worldwide.
twitter.com/StreetFighte...
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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NEWS: White House is *eliminating* protections for gov’t workers who blow the whistle about illegal acts, per Reuters

Translation: Trump can fire federal employees who point out that he’s broken the law.

That’s pretty damn dark.
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Art of the deal
U.S. Soybean Imports to China Halted for Second Month; Brazilian Supplies Jump
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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'Nvidia is making money selling shovels in a gold rush. But one thing to bear in mind is this: the main reason that anyone remembers the shovel vendors of the late 1800s is that there didn’t turn out to be all that much gold in the end.' garymarcus.substack.com/p/nvidias-ea...
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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sickos
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Nvidia misses its earnings goals? Stock market crash. Nvidia meets its earnings goals? Stock market crash. Nvidia exceeds its earnings goals? Believe it or not, stock market crash.
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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🐈
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Content - Battlefield 6 launched as the best-selling game in franchise history, with its October 2025 volume surpassing the lifetime sales total of the previous record holder, Battlefield 1.
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Content - Battlefield 6 debuted as the best-selling game of 2025 year-to-date. Battlefield 6 is currently the best-selling game of 2025 on both the Xbox and the PC aggregated storefront charts, while ranking 2nd year-to-date on PlayStation (behind only NBA 2K26).
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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2025 Year-to-Date Top 20 Best-Selling Premium Games - U.S. (Dollar Sales, Physical and Digital from digital data sharing publishers, excludes add-on content)
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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October 2025 Top 20 Best-Selling Premium Games - U.S. (Dollar Sales, Physical and Digital from digital data sharing publishers, excludes add-on content)
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Among video games selling 1 new physical unit in Oct (US):

360 Burnout Paradise
3DS Carnival Games: Wild West 3D
GBA Incredibles 2: Rise of the Underminer
NDA Imagine Fashion Stylist
PC Spore
PS2 Backyard Baseball (!!!!)
PS3 Hasbro Family Game Night 3
PS4 Cooking Mama Cookstar
XBX Ultra Bust A Move
What games only sold one copy?
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Pretty good explanation of the k shaped economy that's also impacting the US games market.

We're seeing the highest percentage of console buyers being from high income households in tracked history.

youtube.com/shorts/RbSJt...
What is the k-shaped economy?
YouTube video by CNN
youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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A nice reminder for me to once again recommend this game to people.

For millennials, yo I stan this game.

For the alphas, Mafia is bussin' fr fr.

I'm too scared of Zoomers to even try.
Mafia: The Old Country adds "Free Ride" update, free for all players

▪️Classic difficulty, photo mode
▪️Car and horse races
▪️New combat and stealth challenges
▪️Open world explorable in "freeform"
▪️New cars, outfits, weapons, charms
▪️New secrets
▪️First-person driving
▪️Plus more

➡️ youtu.be/gWhxvIBimaU
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM