I had a lot of fun contributing to Video Game Maps: NES & Famicom - Deluxe Edition from Retro Game Books which features maps from 200+ games and is 628 pages long. Games I wrote about include Ultima, Metal Gear, Faxanadu, and Kid Icarus. It's coming soon!

I was thrilled to see this statue of Duke Caboom. I spent so much time sculpting the character and the motorcycle- every expression on his face, every part of his bike, meticulously crafted and iterated upon. So many good memories seeing him up close like this!

Thanks @ryokuma01 for sharing this special collection of short stories published in Japan by @halcon_staff a few years ago. It has a story in the Mecha/USJ universe called the Quiet Border. It also has one of my favorite short stories called "Gradients" about a man who can fly.

With Wind Waker trending, wanted to reshare this essay about rediscovering the game with my kid and how the experience helped me rethink the triforce quest (she helped edit this piece too and gave lots of good feedback, haha)

As confirmed earlier through our official channels, in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the PHYSINT project. PHYSINT is an important project both to me personally and to KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS. Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner. In the course of seeking advice and pursuing negotiations with people across many fields, we found in XBOX a partner with whom we share a common vision for the future, and we have decided to team up with them once again. Please rest assured that development of PHYSINT, our genre-defining action-espionage title, is ongoing and will continue moving forward.

Delighted to learn Estados Unidos de Japon was a bestseller in Spain last month thanks to @GigameshTienda! I'd heard it had sold out at on the first day at Celsius Festival, so I'm very grateful to Spanish readers for checking out this alternate history with mechas!