Outstanding failure of journalism by the Times: cold-mailing "Bill DeBlasio" and failing to check that it was the *correct* Bill de Blasio. This story also gets bonus marks for "interview conducted through Ring doorbell" www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Friends if you work at a creative tech/games/etc company in and around London, and you'd be willing to hire some internship/placement students for 2-3 months over summer, please let me know! I have incredibly smart and engaged undergrads looking for summer opportunities.

I am enjoying our book club. The actual books, not so much, although the trend is improving.

A new public episode! We gather to discuss important matters of Mario, Silksong and Strange Antiquities, and Nate prepares a quiz about strange things of antiquity. Find it wherever you get your pods.

We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically: - Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already) - Dying Light: The Beast - Silent Hill f Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at [email protected]

Comiserations to today's Games Media Main Character.

I would absolutely watch this show.

A new public episode! Alice went to Gamescom and she's here to talk about the games she saw, the PR she robbed, and the tractor she stood in front of. Find it on Patreon or wherever you get your pods. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

In which we launch a series with the single games novel I already owned, which turned out to be terrible. Fun episode though.

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Big news from the old country. I'm excited for them. Rich was never short of ideas and that brand has a peerless reputation, I look forward to seeing where they take it.

Here’s to @grahamsmith.bsky.social, signing off from RPS after 20 years in game journalism with the wisest thoughts about games media you’ll read www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-p...

I wish them every success, but "[ex-big studio person] presents live-service game" feels like an announcement from a different era.

I went to an offsite in... 2010, maybe, at which a speaker from a financial firm stated with absolute certainty the state pension age would be 72 by the time most of us retired. Bleak.

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A new regular episode! Alice is off, so it fell to Nate and Jonty to despair over the Microsoft layoffs, cherish some good news for games media and workshop a Quake 2/Kumars at Number 47 crossover. Available on Acast and wherever you get your pods. shows.acast.com/total-playti...

Big news from Develop: they're finally renovating the MyHotel in Brighton. A cruel twist for the Gamer Network diaspora who endured the previous decor.

This was fun. I now have a slightly deeper understanding of the fact that in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, and also the loungehammer music is still stuck in my head a month later.

This counts as good news, I think, although that's strictly relative these days: www.axios.com/2025/07/02/k...

A view from the South London diaspora.

Leftfield submissions are now open for EGX London, Oct 24th-26th: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...

A new Patreon episode: papal proclamations to save gaming, while outwitting the dastardly Gamer Satan and his efforts to create Games 2. Just think, in other podcasts that might seem weird. Listen on Patreon or Spotify: www.patreon.com/posts/131820...

Wild data point I heard last week: previous government knew nothing about games. Jeremy Hunt needed to have *FIFA* explained to him. Current administration much savvier, apparently.

A note on how Geoff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez arrived at the Cannes event where she will be feted for her environmental activism. louispisano.substack.com/p/the-bezos-...

I missed the (free!) Warhammer 40k Typing of the Dead game. This feels like something OG RPS would have spent a week on. store.steampowered.com/app/3533730/...

This is bleak and upsetting for lots of reasons, one of which being how little it costs to buy a human head: www.reuters.com/investigates...

This episode includes possibly the most tedious game feature request imaginable. But we also found out how Alice will kill Nate so there's good lore in there too.

New coffee shop trend appears to be croissants which are the size of a cantaloupe melon, resemble the carapace of some alien insect, and explode into a cloud of pastry flakes when you attempt to consume them. Feels like I'm the subject of a prank TV show.

Dusted off my reviewing hat for Revenge of the Savage Planet, which is a good game that is trying too hard to be funny: www.videogameschronicle.com/review/reven...

After all that Brexit "deal" posturing, it's some small comfort to see the UK government on the other side of a duff trade deal that's been rushed through in an attempt to make the instigator look lke they're achieving something.

Unexpectedly powerful opsec: www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/n...

Dreadful news about Polygon. Media is a very hard business, but it doesn't have to be this way. (And also, weird choice of buyer given there are others in the market)

announcing layoffs on may first really is asking to have something really cool happen to you

Idly pondering the upper ceiling for the number of brand-name actors Wes Anderson can fit in a single film. Visions of a two-minute market scene in which the stalls are staffed by Jeremy Strong, Jon Hamm etc www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEuM...

Good on Ziff Davis for taking a swing, rather than taking the money: www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ign-and...

A new Patreon episode! As requested by listeners, it's insights and advice about writing. Plus, of course, first date etiquette when one of your arms is made out of cheese. Find it on Patreon or in your pod-catching apps. www.patreon.com/posts/premiu...

Gonna be another big day for people posting all-caps finance headlines.

Fascinated by this ad which (a) doesn't show the star/reason for the film's existence (b) looks like a PS3 cutscene.

Every day we learn anew just how much classified ads were perhaps the load-bearing pillar of American hegemony

In this episode I introduce Alice to a YouTube channel about sausages, which worked out perfectly.

Important context for the Amazon Bond announcement is that the character only has ten years before he’s in the public domain worldwide.

A new Patreon episode, in which Nate commends an army of laser-equipped crocodiles.

I'm annoyed Blue Prince isn't published by Ubisoft because of a theoretical reality where I could have written about it and used the subhead 'House of Yves'

Our first Patreon episode is live for subscribers! The best and worst takes of 2024, the importance of editors, the joy of newsreaders having to talk about Warhammer and at least one game recommendation. Available on Patreon now: www.patreon.com/posts/premiu...

Boston Market recently changed their name to Boston MARKET, a move that increased their market capitalization by 500%

Our first full episode, in which Nate confirms which sea animal he would forcibly transform me into. You just don't get this sort of reporting in other media.

I had a very dumb idea so I created a new social media site and registered 29 million accounts, including yours. skyspace.me

Join us on April 2 in central London to discuss what's next in mobile. Register for our debut event, Off the record, here: mobilegamer.biz/our-debut-ev...