Jonathan Burke ➡️ 🟦☁️

Can we please go a few days without game industry layoffs? the weekend does not count.

@MikeyDowling Happy birthday, friend! good seeing you! have fun today

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Eight years ago, we released God of War (2018). At the time, it was simply known internally as INT8, our eighth developed game. Eight years later, that detail has taken on new meaning as we celebrate everything this journey has become. Thank you for joining us on the adventure!

What a week huh?

@SeraPhiim_ @PlayStationES Kratos to Óliver: "BOY"

Hoy he venido muy bien acompañada a las oficinas de @PlayStationES !! Óliver ha flipado con Kratos 🤣🤣

Experience an untold chapter in Kratos’ journey set during the harsh years of Spartan training alongside his brother Deimos. Through endless trials, their minds, bodies, and hearts have been molded to become Spartan soldiers for whom duty and honor mean everything. store.playstation.com/concept/100127…

@bearmccreary The soundtrack to Sons of Sparta is top tier. I absolutely love it!

... Surprise! #GodOfWar Sons of Sparta is out TODAY, and my new soundtrack drops this weekend. Scoring this game was a dream come true. - Did you catch my new theme for young Kratos in this reveal trailer?? See you in Sparta. youtube.com/watch?v=eFhOo6…

It's finally happening!!! Honored to help out my friends at @SonySantaMonica by scoring their official announcement teaser for the #GodOfWar trilogy remake. And that's not the only God of War news today... youtube.com/watch?v=G_tq12…

Kratos' kinetic combat finds a new genre. 2D action platformer God of War Sons of Sparta is available today on PS5. Read up on all the 20th anniversary celebrations: play.st/46ARJKY

@jonford543 @SonySantaMonica Happy holidays, sir

Thanks @SonySantaMonica for the Christmas Card! Definitely going to frame it today! Looks awesome!

She wanted to play tag with a skunk. Skunk didn't get the memo. She's a sad pupper, but she'll be okay. Got 95% of it off. Working from home tomorrow to keep an eye on her.

@d_linkski 36 will be a good year. Happy early birthday!

I'll be 36 tomorrow (yes I'm old), but 35 wasn't a bad year. I don't know if it was a game I worked on, the surgeries, getting myself out of debt, or the way I resisted all the opportunities I had to be fucking miserable, but I wouldn't change anything. 36 might be alright.

Hotpot! Freaking autocorrect

Hospital time

@BT_BlackThunder true story

@McMoobwich Gdamn, friend. This is the way to birthday.

Homemade birthday pho

I left my draupnir, my chains, and my leviathan on the bottom

three years and no God of War news got me like Dear @SonySantaMonica, I wrote you but you still ain’t callin’

@mowseler 👏

Finally got my keyboard set up. It’s been almost ten years since I touched the keys 😭 Took a bit of trial and error and isn’t the full version I used to play, but I was able to do the Crystal Theme from Final Fantasy mostly successfully lol. I feel happy 😊

@VaultOfDaedalus @JovialTrash @philbuckenham I completely forgot I sent that to you. Glad it has a great home with a great human!

Some notable 'thank you' shout outs for contributing to the cause 🥹 @JovialTrash for the EXCEEDINGLY RARE Fallout 3 dev shirt ❤️ @IridiumGameDev for the signed Fallout 4 Perk Poster you sent me a decade ago 😅 @philbuckenham for always drawing my Comfort Characters™ 🙏

Finally got around to some inventory management after having it in my stash box for far too long! 😤

@d_linkski Metal music is strong. Like metal. So you are basically indestructible atm.

Annual reminder: If you're here for TennoCon, and I don't notice you, it's not because I hate or even dislike you. It's because I'm exhausted and being held together with duct tape and (probably) metal music.

Cloud and Sephiroth from @FinalFantasyVII, Serge from @ChronoGame, and 2B from @NieRGame are ready to be rescued in #AstroBot!

@d_linkski I feel like there's a line between constructive criticism and shit posting. I feel like constructive criticism is appreciated by most teams. Certainly by ours. Tearing something apart for clout or because you wanted a different game is not useful though.

I'm normally hesitant to share how I feel about games because it's a small industry and I know most people are doing their best, but Letterboxd has allowed me to write "this movie is ok, but not great" and now I feel unstoppable.

@KhojanMike Sometimes we're even working on something else already while another thing is closing out. Crazy. I know.

@IridiumGameDev Yes. Often multiple somethings until we figure out exactly what to focus on.

I'm always entertained by articles that just say "[x game studio] is working on their next game!". No one is sitting around between games twiddling their collective thumbs. We're always up to no good - or good - or somewhere in the middle - but there's always something.