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Now: @GoingAnalogShow . Before: EGM/1UP, GamesBeat, PlayStation, Blizzard. ❤️s: Michigan Wolverines, board/video games, @chrispyha . Opinions: mine!
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I'm "danshoehsu" on Blue Sky and Facebook.
"dan_shoe_hsu" on Instagram and Threads.
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Unfortunately a third of my team was let go today, including myself. I feel absolutely terrible for the others. One just signed a lease, another just got married, another just moved here for the job and was here barely a month, and so on. I wish I could fix this for them.
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Two months of
#PlayStation5
and I still hold down the “home” button to turn the machine off.
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I’m super excited to announce that I’m joining
@Blizzard_Ent
as Senior Director/Editor-in-Chief of Online Products (basically: I’ll be creating a new in-house editorial team). Today is day one!
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Me, 15 years ago: pissed at everyone who scanned EGMs for the internet, hurting our sales.
Me, today, trying to reference an old issue: I wish more people scanned EGMs back in the day.
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Bob Ross or Diablo (the video games) quote?
(One of the teams in our department at Blizzard created this for a holiday party activity.)
#blizzlife
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This was hell to coordinate. And 9/11 almost canceled this issue. (thread)
This classic issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly came out almost 20 years ago.
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It was a great run at Blizzard. I made so many lifelong friends and have definitely gained tons of XP. When I first got the opportunity, one of the biggest factors was to work at one of top (and one of my fave) video game publishers in the world. How many people get to do that?
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We needed an easy way to see how we’ve all aged, so I present to you our “annual 1UP Network/Ziff Davis/EGM reunion” photo.
Seeing these fools is definitely the highlight of
#GDC
for me! We missed a few folks who left earlier or who couldn’t make it at all. 😢 Next year!
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I don’t have any business/work to do at E3, but I’m going anyways. I can’t break this streak. This will be number 23 for me!
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He did EGM first. 😙
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Although I’m out of a job for now, I’ve been very fortunate in my career getting to work at so many amazing places.
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EGM reunion last night! (2000s/San Francisco/print era) It was great catching up with these wonderful people. They're all doing amazing things now. (And some of them really made me really appreciate not having any kids right now.) :)
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I really like PS4's motion-based pointing for typing letters. So much nicer than manually moving a cursor around. (R3 to activate)
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One of the gals at PlayStation did this to her nails. That's dedication.
http://t.co/JVcZQGIyrm
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Hey
@UPS
, can your drivers just take the extra half-second to set something down even somewhat gently? This was a $300 order. Luckily no damage.
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I've literally reviewed hundreds and hundreds of video games (at one point, we counted close to 700 in the mid-2000s). I don't remember playing them all. But I'll never forget playing this one.
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EGM fans: You're going to love this episode. We go deep, deep behind-the-scenes on what went on at the magazine. The antics, the nonsense, why we did the things we did, some dirty laundry.... lots of juicy details, some of which we might later regret discussing out loud.
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Thank you all for the outpouring of love ♥️. Especially from these guys! (It seems a few people think I ran Blizzard, so I'm flattered. Also, why Vietnam? At least pick the big Asian country for better odds.)
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EGM fans: You’ll appreciate this article. I talk a lot about the magazine business, competitors, how I got started, why I loved the mag before I even got there…
Thx for the interview,
@american80s
!
EGM retrospective is done! I spoke to former editor
@DanShoeHsu
about the magazine’s legacy (and its global impact). If you enjoyed EGM back in the day plz click the link 👉 🌴☀️
#EGM
#RetroGaming
#Sega
#Sonic
#nintendo
#videogames
#NeoGeo
#PCengine
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Pyre has taken over some of
@PlayStation
's elevators to celebrate the big launch tomorrow!
@SupergiantGames
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Excited to announce I'm joining
@PlayStation
's 3rd-Party Relations Team: Sr Mgr Partner Alliance, helping their indie, F2P, and 3PP efforts!
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My new desk/office at Blizzard! So much space...I think I’m going to host some touch football games here.
(Actually, the rest of my team will be moving in next week.)
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A Disney mod for Mortal Kombat. This should go over well with one of those parties.
Original/full video:
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Blizzard’s been awesome in taking care of all of us during
#silveradofire
. Support staff, PTO, hotel reimbursement, canceling or rescheduling of meetings...whatever you need if you’ve had to evacuate your home.
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I’ve always wanted to watch Star Wars Episode 9 a second time, thinking maybe it’s not as bad as I remembered.
I just turned it off after 10 minutes.
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Super Mario Bros. 3 > Super Mario World.
WHO'S WITH ME
35 years ago today (10/23). I dreamt about this game constantly when I was a kid. The art direction and world design were unmatched. Many say SMW is the better game, and gameplay-wise it may well be, but for art and imagination, SMB3 is hard to beat
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At EGM, I made and enforced this rule: reviewers were not to discuss thoughts or scores with each other before committing to their own scores. First time they learned of their fellow reviewers’ opinions on a game they reviewed together was when they were already on paper proof.
From the beginning I had a rule to never read another game review before writing my own:
1) Ensured my confidence wasn't shaken if they liked it way more/less than me.
2) Ensured my opinion wasn't subtly swayed.
3) Ensured no specific turns of phrase seeped into my subconscious.
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We rented a theater tonight for a private watch party for Shang-Chi. Can't wait! I've successfully avoided spoilers all weekend long.
28 vaccinated friends...comes out to $7.30 a person. That's cheap. Probably like silent-film era cheap.
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I've worked at PlayStation. I will be working for Microsoft soon. Feels like I'm missing someone.
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We took a risk with this cover. No central image, no identifiable game character or franchise. But it worked out and sold really well for us on newsstands.
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EGM fans: take a look way behind the scenes with us.
The Dan 'Shoe' Hsu interview. I spoke to the former editor of EGM about his time in the industry, the review crew, and why Acclaim pulled their advertising over this Turok review. Read more 👉 🌴🌞
#RetroGaming
#Sega
#Nintendo
Huge thanks to
@DanShoeHsu
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I'm looking for a content writer intern! Details: paid internship for a student; 12 weeks in 2021 (with potential to convert to full-time); plays Blizzard games; knows how to write, can easily spot the mistake in this Tweet. Apply here:
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I think EGM
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Thank you so, so much to everyone who reached out to me today. I'm overwhelmed with the thoughtful messages. I really appreciate it.
Job-wise, I'm doing well. Didn't get laid off today. But a lot of other people did, so please send them your love and support if you know them.
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This issue was so much fun to work on. And I remember how amazing it was to have early access to the machine (at E3, in our offices) because we were absolutely obsessed with Soul Calibur.
Every year for the Dreamcast anniversary think back to the days of working on this issue of EGM. It was an absolute beast to produce with
@DanShoeHsu
@johntv
@markmacd
@shawnimals
@superpac
and crew, but I think it might be my favorite issue of a magazine I was ever a part of
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We recently wrapped up Andor...and wowowow. It makes Mandalorian look like Baby Star Wars for Babies. The writing, the tension, the aesthetics....MORE ANDOR PLEASE.
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So,
@Seanbabydotcom
took the time to make this and send it to me after playing some Shadow of Mordor.
http://t.co/xCPpCBKNRz
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I used to avoid taking photos with developers. Felt weird. But I'm not a journalist now! Dinner with
@yu_suzuki_jp
.
http://t.co/ctWw028T7X
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Sure, sure...new Diablo, new Overwatch, etc...but here's the *real* big news for the day: Blizzard just released a beta of the new, redesigned ! You can check it out now by going to the desktop app: settings: beta.
More info:
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Raise your hands if it feels like your company is taking
#coronavirus
more seriously than the government is. 🤚
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People ask why so many are so eager to change their PSN IDs. Some that sounded cool when you were 13 may not sound so cool as an adult. Me? Mine was from my job at the time (“EGMShoe”).
What’s your reason?
It's official: the ability to change your PSN Online ID is coming. Here are the first details: Testing with select users starts soon, full rollout planned for early 2019
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Top Tweets at me since I announced my new gig: 1. Congrats. 2. Bring back Shenmue.
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This was one of our best-selling issues.
Ordered a new copy of the best issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly (150, January 2002). Some amazing games are reviewed here: Halo, MGS2, GTA3. The greatest games list is top-notch.
@Seanbabydotcom
’s Worst Games list is hilarious. So many memories.
@DanShoeHsu
@chespace
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Before I begin, I am NOT a spokesperson for Activision Blizzard. These are my own thoughts about the recent news surrounding our company. And here's what I told my team (four women, two men, not including me).
I was surprised and shocked like so many others. (1/7)
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The main tabletop gaming space/library at Blizzard. The huge gaming table (shown with the top on) puts mine to shame.
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Can't get over how great Minecraft Story Mode booth is.
@jobjstauffer
: designer modeled it 100% in Minecraft first.
http://t.co/FkVLlPVD8S
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It’s a four-table gaming day.
@chrispyha
and I are hosting about 16 of our vaxxed friends for 12+ hours of
#boardgames
over two floors. Reserving tomorrow to clean up and recharge our brains.
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Working on the Shenmue 3 bit for the press conference was the most stressful thing ever, esp with the
#SaveShenmue
crowd hounding me. :)
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Pretty awesome...our employer gave all of us $200 to give to a charity of our choice. No cost to us -- we just pick out the org we want to give to from a massive list. (I donated to science education since people seem to be afraid of facts these days.)
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Oh, one more: We just didn’t have a good backup plan. Didn’t feel right/fair/balanced doing more (or only) coverage for one system over the other. So we went all in on this concept and just hoped it’d work out.
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I’m so proud of my wife!! 😍🥰
Our own
@chrispyha
was on today’s episode of
#MasterMinds
on
@GameShowNetwork
. She literally owes one of her correct answers to a board game by
@parallelspiel
/
@Quinedgames
! (She talks more about this in this Thursday’s podcast.)
Nice work, Christina! 🤓
#boardgames
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In the end, some things were rushed. We didn’t see every launch-window game we wanted to. But everyone moved mountains (and giant dev kits) to make this work. I can’t tell you just how many global approvals needed to happen for this.
Still can’t believe it came together. (end)
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Ok all you people who have been bugging me non-stop about this -- here you go. Shenmue 3.
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Whenever a Marvel movie ends and people leave the theater right away as the credits start rolling, I think to myself, “newbs.”
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So much new-guy welcome swag! I need to find some Reaper gear, though.
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Bonus reading/watching/listening material for The Wolf Among Us fans
http://t.co/8FbRB6RuHu
http://t.co/gy4tg9lLSh
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Check out
@crecenteb
's coffee table. It is incredible! If he had me over, I don't think I could talk about anything else except thing thing.
(This is his photo, not mine.)
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Whoa,
@RonFunches
was an EGM fan! And these issues were during my run there.
(Capcom wasn't a huge fan of the zombie we had created for the cover, naturally, as it wasn't an official Resident Evil zombie.)
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The official answer key from Cynthia Northup, product manager for and creator of this quiz (she’s not on social media).
Again, this isn’t any official Blizzard thing. Just for fun for our department’s holiday party.
#blizzlife
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Old EGMs now get certificates of authenticity. Great, that makes me feel not-young.
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Pre-order for PSVR went live. I added to cart. Amazon *re-asked* for password. By the time I went to LastPass and back, sold out! So close.
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That was one of our best-selling covers. It led us to try out more covers that were just one giant headline (vs. a piece of character art), as you can see in the original pix in the thread below. I'm always surprised how many people bring up this issue.
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I did my little, tiny part in helping Shenmue III get announced at E3 2015, but at the time, I wondered if this game would ever come out.
So happy to see this arrive today. 🥳
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Despite having played four Elder Scrolls, Fallout 3/Vegas/4, I'm still always surprised how much content they pack into these games.
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Blizzard holiday party tonight! They’ll be closing Disneyland to the public, so crowds/lines will be nothing.
I’m already plotting out all the empty calories I’ll be consuming tonight.
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Weird times when we were reviewing Nintendo 64 games next to Dreamcast games. I wonder if that did any long-term damage to my eyeballs?
EGM, the original metacritic. Look at these multiple scores and aggregation. Loved how they handled game reviewing back in the day. Trusted this crew's opinions more than my teachers at the time haha!
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We just saw Barbie, and it was a lot of fun! I didn’t know much going in, so almost all of it was completely unexpected.
Bonus: Now I get to enjoy thinking about all the sad, insecure men who must be losing their shit over the film’s commentary.
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All I wanted for my birthday was to play board games. Thanks to these fine people for coming to the rescue.
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It's crazy to think back to playing Warcraft II over dial-up. Because I was at EGM (a console magazine) for so long, I even played War II on Saturn, StarCraft 64 on Nintendo 64, and Diablo (1!) on PlayStation (1!).
And now I work at Blizzard. That's nuts. And I'm old.
#blizzlife
Thank you for 30 years of memories!
Let’s celebrate together at BlizzConline, February 19th – 20th.
#Blizz30
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Wow...all the love and long hours that went into these, working with such talented, awesome, and funny people.
There are so many behind-the-scenes stories to tell here, enough to fill a book that I’ll never get around to writing.
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We really wanted to make this Xbox vs GameCube story work since the two were coming out around the same time.
And to their credit, Microsoft and Nintendo really tried to make it work for us, too.
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Been checking in on my former co-workers at PlayStation after weeks of checking in on former co-workers at Activision-Blizzard. What a crappy start to 2024 so far.
BREAKING: PlayStation is laying off around 900 people across the world, the latest cut in a brutal 2024 for the video game industry
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By far the cruelest thing I've seen while working at Blizzard.
When a new employee joins our dept., we normally give them boxes of donuts to encourage others to stop by and say hi.
During this work-from-home time, we still get the "welcome X" emails but only *photos* of donuts.
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This is going to make it very difficult to know how annoyed I should be at people who aren’t wearing masks.
BREAKING: U.S. health officials say fully vaccinated Americans don't need to wear masks outdoors anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers.
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Thanks to everyone trying to help me! I found what I was looking for via Scribd.
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My custom nameplate outside my office at Blizzard. (You can design your own using templates here.)
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When I got hired at EGM, editorial director told me to ALWAYS write for readers, never companies/advertisers. Stuck with me to this day.
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Out of all the PlayStation 5 games shown today, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart looked the most next-gen to me. The lighting was so yummy.
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My wife would be horrified to see this -- to see how I used to dress.
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Breaking the news a decade early.
Randomly flipping through
#EGM
204 (June 2006) and they had the sneakiest of peeks at FFVII Remake. Better late than never with that game!
@DanShoeHsu
@ShaneWatch
@SeeJackBoyer
@markmacd
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Oh my god, I just realized I've been in the games industry for 20 years now, to the month (started at EGM in April 1996). I need a nap.
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This is so cool: Metroid speedrunner (and my Blizzard coworker)
@toddcblank
’s framed childhood copy of Super Metroid plus a screen that auto updates to his best runs in various categories. Here’s his work: .
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That meant working on our schedule, with print lead times, with hardware/software that weren’t done yet.
Nintendo was always tough to work with. Took tons of comms and convincing, and even with Nintendo of America on board, doesn’t mean N of Japan was as well.
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