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Gene Park
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@washingtonpost video games critic | co-host of Punching Up, a Nintendo podcast | Twitch affiliate | Pacific Roots | @csuf Titan | cancer survivor
Dec 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
i see games journalists wish for recognition for their work. i have a polite suggestion!

Join the many affiliate groups that exist, particularly for journalists of color! @NABJ, @NAHJ, @ONA and @aaja ALL have annual awards programs AND provide excellent networking opportunities lobby your employer to submit your work to these groups. these are prestigious awards! you will compete against the likes of WaPo and NYT! and honestly games journos could contribute MUCH to the digital training already offered by each group.
Feb 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
he’s not wrong. It’s a marvel movie with whedon dialogue (but mostly written a bit better than the MCU) my favorite thing about the Souls genre is that FromSoft kept lying to Sony about Demons Souls progress as an “Elder Scrolls” killer and PlayStation never knew about how players die until it was too late. lying is great sometimes
Feb 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
is it? I am from the pacific islands. My temperature is always around 77-80 degrees. Some people are just built different.

This is why I don’t have roommates. I lived with five white men at one time who needed the house to be around 60 every day. It was hell. I am a child of the pacific. I will never get used to cold weather. I miss the warmth of the ocean, as it God Himself drew me a bath.
Feb 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
pointing out that a corporation is giving you nothing despite you offering $10 more isn’t complaining. It’s pointing out that fact. If that fact makes you uncomfortable, Sony is the one that’s made it a reality. journalists will point out things like the confusing Cyberpunk region lock situation or the Horizon $10 sneaky charge because that’s our job to let consumers know. Stop making it about journalists when they’re pointing out a mere fact about any company
Aug 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
no review copy for me. I downloaded last night and it’s just like part 1, complete with largely meaningless open world map. Perfect lol that’s not snark either. I adored that NMH1 had a map that meant nothing to the game.
Aug 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Journalists got to see 16 minutes of new “Elden Ring” footage. What I saw was a game that already looks polished, with a pretty thorough look at its many new features.

washingtonpost.com/video-games/20… Stealth from “Sekiro” lives in “Elden Ring,” as multiple routes even through its “legacy dungeons” offer new ways to tackle or even sneak past challenges. But the fights are very much a return to the slow and steady Souls formula.

washingtonpost.com/video-games/20…
Aug 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
im watching and i choked on my potato chips. today is too wild I at this point I’m half expecting ye will set themselves all on fire and the church will fly up like a rocket
Apr 22, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
More entertainment news outlets should cover anime. They’re watched by millions and this one in particular at one point was America’s most in demand show, yet not a blip in newspaper feature sections.

vice.com/en/article/7kv… Anime has been the premiere source of television for an entire generation or two and American newspapers spend so much and stretch themselves just to cover a single evening of the oscars that increasingly no one cares about
Apr 22, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I asked Yoko Taro where I should send my therapy bill. My review of Nier Replicant.

Spoiler warning: My review discusses the existence of a new story segment in "Nier Replicant." Don't read if you want even the new features spoiled for you.

washingtonpost.com/video-games/re… the way Nier Replicant twists itself, it feels like an experimental pop album playing with genre. some of it will be frustrating. but Nier was never interested in compromising itself, and Taro was right to push through, otherwise we'd never get Automata.

washingtonpost.com/video-games/re…
Feb 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
man who's DMCA'ing me Image lol rage against the machine hit me with a DMCA. The video wasn’t even a straight replay of the song it had commentary. SMH
Feb 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Neera's hearing continues to be a gift the whole 2-minute exchange is almost as entertaining
Jan 20, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Congratulations America, we have a new president. here are the 5 greatest presidents in video game history.

washingtonpost.com/video-games/20… maybe one day we'll have another president who values Hedgehogs Sonic and Shadow enough to keep a photo of them on the Resolute Desk

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Jan 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
here’s how gaming 5+ hours a day since i was a kid made me an antisocial adult ImageImageImageImage spent my childhood unlocking all 13 endings to chrono trigger, had 99 hours of play on the Japanese import of Final Fantasy 7, and this is how ive functioned as a social adult. Tragic ImageImageImageImage
Jan 11, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
i don't know what is going on but i guess i'll buy Tenet on sale for $20 i can confirm it's real.

tenet in 4K is really only $20 already
Jan 4, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
One thing I adore about Assassin's Creed Valhalla's storytelling is how Eivor speaks with clear intent and emotional clarity. She always speaks in a manner so she is never misinterpreted or misunderstood.

also Valhalla might be my fave AC game ever now?

washingtonpost.com/video-games/re… i'm also grateful that one reader left a comment saying that my piece was about "perception and shared experience." exactly. that's the most fascinating theme of Assassin's Creed Valhalla. washingtonpost.com/video-games/re…
Jan 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
the way he just shoved the broom in her face always kills me cowboy bebop the movies aerial dogfight scene was a creative apex for our species Image
Jan 3, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“The little device is designed to do one thing: open cans. Study the parts, study the can, figure out what the can-opener inventor was thinking when they tried to solve this problem.

Open the can Shinji.” Image Bean dad: “My kid is fine!”

The kid: Image
Apr 17, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
I've been working on this story for a while. The Metaverse is the next version of the Internet. And some believe that as of today, Fortnite has the best chance at doing it. washingtonpost.com/video-games/20… This piece was partially inspired by @ballmatthew's great February essay, linked below.

But it's also Epic Games's very public ambition to create the Metaverse. Fortnite is far from done.

And the Metaverse seems more realistic in our current situation

matthewball.vc/all/themetaver…
Nov 18, 2019 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Google Stadia was unplayable at times. That won't be acceptable for any gamer.

But it's hard to "review" Stadia since it's an ongoing service. It's like reviewing YouTube on its first day.

But if we were to talk about what it is now: It's not good.

washingtonpost.com/video-games/re… here is my Google Stadia review in one GIF.

this is on The Washington Post's Gigabit Ethernet last week.
Jul 10, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Lion King is fascism for furries washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0… Mufasa is a lion supremacist and it was good that he died.
Apr 12, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Not only are there a bunch of fake Katie Bouman @instagram accounts now, but they’re spreading the lie about her colleague writing most of the code and commenters are just eating it up anyway thinking they’re replying to the real deal. They even made a fake account for the guy. for more on that falsehood going around: washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04…