Ash Paulsen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Creator & co-founder of @GVGOfficial . Former GameXplain-er. VGM lover + Mega Man superfan. #BlackLivesMatter . Pro-choice. LGBTQ+ rights = human rights. He/him.
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I can’t believe how fast time flies. One year ago today,
@GVGOfficial
was born as I embarked on one of the greatest adventures of my life alongside my dear friends and co-founders
@SteveMBowling
and
@Bitnerd_
, and what an incredible, rewarding first year it’s been! (thread)
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Feels especially relevant today. Iwata-san’s regard for the people behind the games we play is just one of so many characteristics that made him such a legendary industry leader
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Give whoever tweeted this a raise RIGHT NOW Nintendo
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I know, the Switch's hardware is ancient and
#TearsOfTheKingdom
isn't 60fps etc. etc. but I'm still just floored by how pretty this game manages to be given its massive size and scope
#Zelda
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Helping my dad go through old boxes in storage today
Anyone up for decades-old Nintendo jelly pops?
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Leaf and Ivysaur making a strong early case for having
#SmashBrosUltimate
’s most adorable victory animation. 💗
#Pokemon
#SmashBros
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I’m sure I’m not the first to notice this, but I’m seeing two possible hints Sakurai may have dropped in Sephiroth’s Smash trailer even before One-Winged Angel starts! First, we only see one of Pit’s wings in full view... and then Kazooie puts one of her wings on Banjo’s head. 👀
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This is SO COOL
Mega Man animation illusion.
#megaman
#capcom
#gamer
#gaming
#videogames
#retrogaming
#nintendo
#supernintendo
#megamanx
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Oh COME ON Nintendo this is just CRUEL
Random: Nintendo Shows Switch Owners How To Delete Games, Uses Super Mario Bros. 35 As An Example
#Random
#NintendoSwitch
#SwitcheShop
#Nintendo
#Japan
#SuperMario
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Shoutouts to whoever thought to marry Nickelodeon channel aesthetics to GIYGAS of all things, I love this
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WHAT
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For
#NationalVideoGameDay
, a small tribute to
@Sora_Sakurai
, a man who has literally made a career out of the celebration of video games and making childhood video game dreams come true. 🙌🏻
#SmashBros
#SmashBrosUltimate
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Just imagine going back in time and showing this to people (or even just your younger self) in the Brawl days.
#SmashBros
#NintendoSwitch
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I guess people are dunking on the Wii U today? I mean, it certainly had significant problems, but the Wii U walked so the Switch could run. I don't think the latter would exist today without the former.
Not to mention it had some amazing exclusives!
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The enormity of Microsoft acquiring Activision-Blizzard obviously can’t be overstated, but some of these “Sony and Nintendo might as well pack it in, it’s over, they lost video games” hot takes are making me roll my eyes so hard they might pop right out of my skull. Come on now.
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Technically a Taito character, but SNK licensed Puzzle Bobble so
BUB. FOR. SMASH.
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Like so many others, I am utterly heartbroken over Etika. Mental illness is one of the major silent killers of our generation and we need to address it directly and loudly. If you’re depressed, suicidally or not, it is NEVER your fault & there is NO shame in it. We can be better.
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Just got back from checking out the
#KirbyandtheForgottenLand
3D walkthrough event at Universal CityWalk!
Getting to take a selfie with the best-and-it’s-not-even-close Nintendo character = worth the trip alone. 😁
#Kirby
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End of an era. RiP StreetPass. 😭
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The GameCube controller: still the best of all time. It's not so much a "controller" as it is a natural extension of the human body. Almost 18 years later, this thing is still basically perfect... and not just because of
#SmashBros
(though that certainly counts)!
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"Diminutive Guardian?" ...Maybe I'm missing something, but why can't they just use its actual name? Weird.
#SmashBrosUltimate
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I love video games. Clearly! I’ve made them the cornerstone of a big part of my career.
But they don’t justify seething rage, harassment, and death threats. Video games are not THAT important.
Criticism and anger are fine. Express them maturely. Be nice. It truly is that easy.
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Hi all! I have a statement to make re: GameXplain + a new venture I'm starting:
Read:
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Whoa, never knew about this!
【３Ｄワールド】
ダブルチェリーで分身した仲間にヒップドロップをすると、分身を横取りすることができます。
分身したままゴールをするとスコアもアップします。
アイテムを取り逃したときは仲間から横取りしちゃうのもアリ？
#スーパーマリオ3Dワールド
#フューリーワールド
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Seeing a few comments on our Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age direct-feed video complaining that it looks like a PS2 game.
...
Now stay with me here, but that might possibly, perhaps, perchance be due to the fact that Final Fantasy XII is, in fact, a PS2 game? 🤔
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Damn… literally the end of an era. Among so many other things, my favorite game of all time wouldn’t be the same without his timeless work.
Rest in peace, legend 🙏🏻
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Now this is a hashtag I can get behind. Sakurai and his team have made countless dreams come true with
#SmashBrosUltimate
’s miracle roster whose existence, frankly, shouldn’t even be possible. Whoever the last fighter turns out to be,
#ThankYouSakurai
for your peerless work. 💗
Regardless of who gets announced as the final Smash Bros. DLC fighter, we only have one thing to say...
#ThankYouSakurai
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PEOPLE JUST BUY OKAMI ALREADY
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So. The location and retrieval of the Master Sword in
#TearsOfTheKingdom
is the best of any
#Zelda
game ever and it isn’t even CLOSE
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Yeah Metroid Dread demo that's awesome BUT THAT PUMPKIN THOUGH
Time to amp up the dread for an early Halloween treat.
A demo for the critically acclaimed
#MetroidDread
releases now! Now everyone can try Samus’ latest adventure by downloading the demo on
#NintendoSwitch
#eShop
!
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THE WHOLE GANG IS FINALLY BACK TOGETHER! I am so incredibly honored and happy beyond belief to welcome my dear friend
@JonComms
(back) to
@GVGOfficial
. It never would've felt complete without you, man. ❤️ HYPE TIIIIIIIIIIIIME
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Just peered down into the atrium and saw this wonderful Chocobo cosplayer warking it up.
#MAGFest
has officially arrived!
#MAGFest2020
#cosplay
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I know most people aren’t obsessed with video game music the way I am, but it’s still weird seeing so many Sephiroth in Smash reaction videos where people have no idea who it is until they see the splash screen (if even then!) and One-Winged Angel doesn’t clue them in at all...
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I feel kinda bad for the people who get angry over or can’t be excited for Smash reveals that don’t personally appeal to them. I have zero hype for Steve or Minecraft but I’ve still got a spring in my step today because it’s still new Smash content and Smash is awesome. 😄
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Crazy to think the
#Nintendo
Switch might get a whole new model before, like, a Netflix app. It’s so weird to me that we’re three and a half years into the Switch’s life and something as ubiquitous as Netflix is still missing.
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Hey
@NintendoAmerica
, if you’re listening at all,
#SuperMarioBros35
was super awesome and we’d really really really really like to see it return or endure in some form. No toxic internet rage here, just straight truth. Cheers!
#SuperMario35
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#MetroidDread
’s final boss fight is so unbelievably badass and well designed, my god what a rush and what a GAME
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No matter how great the rest has been,
#EVO2024
would have been incomplete without this cosplay duo
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#PokemonScarletViolet
’s performance issues being entirely the fault of outdated hardware is a weird take. Smash? MK8DX? Odyssey? XC3? Splatoon 2+3? Even BotW to a degree! Are we just gonna ignore the myriad Switch games to date that look great and still achieve good performance?
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Remember that time Nintendo surprised us with Super Mario Bros. 35 and it was amazingly fun and endlessly replayable
And then they killed it, took it away, because ?????
Still hurts
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Mai Shiranui does not appear as a cameo because, as Sakurai just put it, uh, "Smash is for good boys and girls." WOW. 😅
#SmashBros
#SmashBrosUltimate
#NintendoSwitch
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I really hope Etika is okay. This is horrifically sad if he isn’t. Anyone having a laugh about this because of potential mental illness has no idea how horrible it is to be in the place he is possibly in.
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I don’t recall using FUTURE SIGHT on NX REVEAL PREDICTIONS DISCUSSION, but apparently I did and it was super-effective!
...Seriously though, with the benefit of hindsight it’s wild how accurate even the exact wording of this prediction ended up being. 😦
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Not that this is news, but
@Sora_Sakurai
and his team are LEGENDS 🙌🏻
As of Kazuya’s reveal, we now have 17 third-parties in
#SmashBros
and 14 unique third-party franchises with at least one fighter.
So crazy how we went from 2 in Brawl, to 17 in Ultimate up to this point! If the final fighter is a third-party, we’ll be left with a TOTAL OF 18!!
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I know I speak for all of us at
@GameXplain
when I say we’ll miss the hell out of you and we’ve been incredibly lucky to have you, man. I’m lucky to call someone as kind, humble, and talented as you one of my good friends and I wish you nothing but the best going forward! 🙂💗
I'll unfortunately be leaving GameXplain before the end of September
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Just reflecting on how Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is an absolute masterpiece
That’s all, nothing else to see here
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I’m a pretty laid-back guy and I don’t let many things get under my skin, especially on Twitter, but “EarthBound music became popular because of TikTok” is just... I fucking can’t
This has to be a meme or joke I don’t get
It HAS to be 💀
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FINALLY, the cat’s out of the bag!!! I’ve known for awhile that the original voice cast was returning, but my dad
@yakkopinky
swore me to secrecy. Glad I can finally talk about it now! 😄
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge will bring back voice actors from the classic 1987 animated TV series when it's released this Summer. 🎙️🐢
We have 11 minutes of new gameplay on IGN to celebrate:
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Met my dad
@yakkopinky
at a studio in Burbank to record the audiobook version of the foreword I wrote for his upcoming book! I already knew I liked being in front of the mic in general through GX and the various podcasts I do, but turns out I REALLY enjoy this kind of work...
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You can’t make this shit up. Someone make it make sense
What an absolute clown show
Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio
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Our precious little girl Tala passed away last night in her sleep, peacefully and wrapped in her favorite blanket. I was sleeping right next to her and she was surrounded by love up to the very end. Rest in peace, sweet girl.
@CelestialRhaps
and I love you so much. 💗
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It isn’t often these days you’re met with patently damn good news, the kind of news that makes you go “Yeah, today’s gonna be a good one”
This is one of those days. Huge W right here 💪🏻
oh my goodness gracious. this is not an edit. we won. we won so hard.
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It’s a shame
#HyruleWarriors
: Age of Calamity came out so late in the year. Aside from how great it is in general, I don’t feel like its outstanding soundtrack has gotten anywhere near the attention it deserves. It’s the traditional
#Zelda
soundtrack Breath of the Wild never got.
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Leave it to Treehouse to crack you up and make you go WTF at the most unexpected times. :D
#SuperMarioMaker2
#NintendoSwitch
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Now this is the 2021 content I'm here for. Thank you, Twitter, for finally doing what you should've done around four years ago!
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Post-birthday dinner selfie with my dad
@yakkopinky
! Please join me in wishing him a VERY happy
#birthday
!
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Someone in our apartment complex just started practicing Undertale’s Megalovania on piano and I’m legit shook because I had no idea any of our neighbors were cool enough to be into video game music. NICE.
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You can only have three of these
#SNES
games. The others are nuked from existence. Choose wisely...
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So last night I was in my New York hotel room, looking for the TV remote. Totally normal thing, right? But I just can’t find it anywhere, so I call the front desk to see if it’s missing. Turns out it’s in this nondescript floor panel next to the bed. WHO WOULD THINK TO LOOK HERE?
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I can pretty easily overlook performance issues to a point and don't need state-of-the-art graphics or anything but YIKES
oof the reviews arent kidding about the terrible performance
#PokemonScarletViolet
#NintendoSwitch
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SUMMER GAME FEST IS ALREADY OVER WRAP IT UP
Five classic games featuring the Blue Bomber are now available to play for
#NintendoSwitchOnline
members!
#GameBoy
:
☑️ MEGA MAN: DR. WILY'S REVENGE
☑️ MEGA MAN II
☑️ MEGA MAN III
☑️ MEGA MAN IV
☑️ MEGA MAN V
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This is apparently what I do when I’m bored at Target. They were out of Es, so I had to improvise!
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I don’t care that
#PokemonSwordShield
isn’t out until November, Dynamaxed Yamper is the best thing in this game and no one will convince me otherwise.
#Pokemon
#PokemonSwordandShield
#NintendoSwitch
#E32019
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I don’t have any particular reason to tweet this right now, but who doesn’t appreciate a badass middle-of-the-night Mega Man GIF?
#MegaMan
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It shouldn't be this close. So embarrassed to be an American right now, my god. I'm sorry, rest of the world.
#ElectionNight
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Damn straight. Gatekeepers and gatekeeping can fuck right off until the end of time because hey guess what
GAMING
IS
FOR
EVERYONE
Period. End of story. 👌🏻
No amount of these comments and quote tweets will get me or other women to leave the gaming space.
We’re here to stay, and hopefully make it a better place than it was when we entered it.
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It would literally be one of the greatest pleasures of my life to watch this happen. Please let it be live.
Trump has signaled to allies that the Secret Service will have to drag him from the White House kicking and screaming
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I was initially hesitant to be interviewed for this article because I wanted no part in any sensationalist hit piece against GX or Andre, and that was my one stipulation for participation. Thank you so much for your honesty and integrity,
@patrickklepek
!
GameXplain is one of the most popular gaming news analysis channels on YouTube, especially for Nintendo fans. But former contributors described to me a dangerous workplace, one where they were severely overworked and underpaid. My story:
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Okay, look, I'm sure RDR 2 has great music... but Octopath Traveler got ROBBED SO HARD. :(
#TheGameAwards
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I know everyone’s hungry for a general
#Nintendo
Direct — I am too — but I hope the Direct-starved among you don’t ignore tomorrow’s
#IndieWorld
presentation out of spite. Indie devs deserve widespread support regardless of what Nintendo is or isn’t doing!
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Now that we have visual evidence of Luigi in Super Mario 64 and 2020 has gone even further off the rails, I fully expect to wake up tomorrow to the news that the Triforce really was obtainable in Ocarina of Time at some point in development. Don’t let me down, hackers!
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Holy shit.
#PokemonSwordShield
's gym leader battle theme SLAPS. I never expected them to take an electronic dancey approach and I am SO here for it.
Yeah... I'm super into this. This is great.
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If there’s one thing I have ZERO patience for, particularly in a professional setting, it’s planet-sized egos. Or egos period. I literally do not care how great you think you are at what you do, there’s always someone better — & chances are they’re humbler & easier to work with.
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STREETPASS RETURNS
Nintendo call you: you get to add one weird gimmick to the Switch 2. What is it?
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Man, I miss StreetPass so much. I’ve always wished the
#NintendoSwitch
had some sort of equivalent feature. Perhaps the real treasure was the friends we tagged along the way...
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Things worth being up at 6am for if you’re not getting paid for it:
1) Smash character reveal
2) —
Join Super
#SmashBrosUltimate
director Masahiro Sakurai on 1/16 at 6am PT for a roughly 35 minute video livestream featuring an in-depth look at an upcoming DLC fighter, which he will unveil in the video!
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Man… I’m willing and able to accept a certain amount of jank depending on a game’s development context and environment, but these rather critical Paper Mario emulation problems on N64 NSO have long since passed the point of absurd
This is no joke, Paper Mario 64 on Switch Online WILL crash whenever you hit the tree in Shiver City
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It warms my heart to see as much concern as I have for
@JonComms
’ wellbeing regarding timezone differences between him and the rest of the
@GVGOfficial
crew. 💗 Please rest assured, we’re all about family and physical + mental health first at GVG and that 100% applies to Jon too!
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Thank you all so, so much for helping us reach 100k and beyond. I’m incredibly honored and proud to share the love for this incredible milestone with our whole team! THE GOODEST OF VIBES 💗
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So much salt over Byleth in
#SmashBros
, as expected. I’m not thrilled either but damn, let
#FireEmblem3Houses
fans have their big day! Sakurai has already given us a previously unimaginable roster of dream characters. And 108x3 stages. And nearly 1,000 music tracks. I love Smash.
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Got to play
#SonicSuperstars
here at
#SDCC
and you were right
@SteveMBowling
, the physics feel spot-on and it just looks so damn CLEAN! Definitely some performance issues in the current build but I’m confident those will be ironed out by launch 🔥
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Today marks three years since I married the love of my life
@CelestialRhaps
and just over 11 years since we met! And I wouldn’t take a second of it back — spending my days with you has been my life’s greatest pleasure. Happy anniversary baby!!! 💗😘😍
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