I tweet a lot about video games. Writes for @GamerMatters and @GamerMalayaMy. Amirul, Meon, Meck, meckronos.
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Shiva, please hold Mariah back! Don't let her break free! I beg of you! 😫🙏
- Final Fantasy IX (PS1)
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I'm old.
my textbooks had amazing photoshopped airbrush collages.
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The fight keeps heating up, Tōkon Warriors! 🔥
To celebrate the launch of our first DLC character, Phoenix Cyclops, and to thank you for your incredible support since launch, we're giving ALL players a FREE Magik "Phoenix Five" costume!
🔥 Bring the fiery power of the Phoenix Five to the battlefield with Magik's new look!
Claim it via the in-game Newsfeed before 30 November PT!
#MARVELTokon
Sigh
Najib Expected To Pay RM50 Million Fine Today For His House Arrest
The former prime minister is expected to serve the remainder of his sentence at his residence in Kuala Lumpur.
Read the full story here: says.com/my/news/najib-expec…
Crazy if Ubisoft picked up Arkane.
Dark Messiah 2 might be real.
Bloomberg: Multiple companies have made offers to Microsoft Corp. to acquire Arkane Studios. "Ubisoft Entertainment SA made a bid for the studio, as have at least two other gaming companies" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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it’s almost been 15 years since skyrim released. in that time, vanillaware already made 13 Sentinels
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On this day 9 years ago, Facebook user 'cartoonfartcat' posted a four-panel webcomic of a man deciding not to have sex with a woman after noticing a picture of Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban on her dresser.
As the man walks away outside, former Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra watches the man from his window.
Like a sleeper car.
Amazing to see GT remains an institution. And a money-making one at that.
Explains all the free updates it still getting.
Gran Turismo 7, which launched in March 2022, has sold 12.7M copies (@alineaanalytics estimates)
This amounts to $840M in revenue, second only to Spider-Man 2’s $1.3B – if we’re talking PlayStation first-party for this generation.
Games like Ghost of Yotei, Helldivers 2, Astro Bot, and Wolverine (2.7M now, by the way) hit the headlines for us core gamers, but GT7 has outearned them all life-to-date on ONE platform (yes, even Helldivers 2).
Gran Turismo 7 still brings in around 3M players every month (and between 400K and 700K active players per day). It’s also an evergreen seller every year. Looking at its post-launch years, Gran Turismo 7 generated:
- $189.7M in 2023 via 2.9M copies
- $161.3M in 2024 via 2.7M copies
- $119.1M in 2025 via 1.7M copies
This year, Gran Turismo 7 has already sold 1.3M copies, generating $74.7M. Every December is comfortably GT7’s biggest month of the year (except launch), and the gap is widening there. December generated 2.1x a normal month in 2023, and by 2025 that had grown to 2.8x.
As the typical months cool off with age, Christmas always holds strong, so the holiday period is becoming a bigger slice of Gran Turismo 7 yearly revenue.
For Gran Turismo 7, the week around Christmas does 3x to 5x a typical week – three years running:
- Christmas week 2023: $14.7M (4.6x the year’s median week)
- Christmas week 2024: $9.3M (3.3x)
- Christmas week 2025: $8.5M (4.6x)
These Christmas peaks happened at the full $59.99 (Gran Turismo 7 wasn’t discounted at all in December 2023 or December 2025). And although there was a discount late in December 2024, GT7’s peak week that year still happened at full price.
You can really see why Sony hasn’t added this one to PlayStation Plus, eh? Say it after me: Subscriptions cannibalise premium revenue.
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Metaphor can be blunt with its metaphors but judging by the reactions, it hasn't been blunt enough lmao
