imagine being so good at a crime that they actually rename the crime after you, like if you were so great at doing murders nobody called it "getting murdered" anymore but instead called it "getting [your name]d." For Charles Ponzi, this is no mere hypothetical

Blerrrrgh

Absolutely unhinged, bravura episode of Industry this week. Stellar performances from Kit Harrington and especially Marisa Abela. That look at the end. Oof.

I'm not sure what the total marketing budget for Hamnet is, but at least $10k appears to have been spent on ads just targeted at me. If you are reading this, I am begging you to stop.

Solid night spent at the Matriarch farm.

This is a cool new role in video working across @gamesradarplus.bsky.social and @pcgamer.com in the UK. Please share if you think you know people who'd be interested. apply.workable.com/j/29B1BC6C85

Irony might be dead, but subtlety has certainly been nuked into atoms.

Excuse me for stating the obvious, but the GOP's defense of the Minnesota shooting - which is on video for *everyone* to see - really is that 1984 quote writ large: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Reporter: "And was it a productive vacation." Me [glances at PR]: "I prefer not to speak."

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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Hard to think of an adaptation I’d like to see less.

FWIW out of curiosity I googled how old Casey Hudson is and AI generated result at the top’s best guess was “20s or 30s” so I’m in no rush to chat with it.

Genuinely excited to explain* to a whole new generation of Gamers that the Space Marines are not in fact the good guys *bore

Always expect the unexpected from Remedy.

Not Timmy’s first rodeo. #TheGameAwards

And this is why I work in the best place in the world.

"I think that each project I make in whatever medium it will be, will largely be unconnected," says Blue Prince developer Tonda Ros.

I also find the whole ‘call your senator’ thing as a response deeply depressing. Does that ever do anything? I can’t recall in 10 years here one of them saying “well I was going to do this heinous thing but the the answerphone filled up.”

I genuinely struggle to explain to people back home how useless the dems are.

Mamdani winning feels like the first green shoot of recovery in this long-ass year. All my life I’ve heard these dire warnings of “if so and so wins then all the rich will leave”. Don’t threaten us with a good time. (They never do either.)

it's obviously important that zohran won. but it's equally important that cuomo and the despicable, racist, contemptuous, arrogant, loathesome forces arrayed behind him were brutally defeated. they banked on new yorkers hating and fearing each other. and they lost. what a town.

Commendable of Apple to hire every single recongnisable character actor in Britain to appear in Down Cemetery Road.

I feel like my main metric for measuring the internet is how often I internally say “oh my god please shut the fuck up” while looking at it, and these days it really is please shut the fuck up almost all the way down.

I got broken up with via in-game Scrabulous message. She offered to still finish the game afterwards.

Horror tropes that mark a movie out as made by hacks: * Young couple mourning death of a child is haunted by the manifestation of their trauma * Child draws ominous crayon scrawls at school * Crow flies into window as portent of impending doom (Last one did happen to me and was scary tbf.)

Real opening paragraph in an Official Nintendo Magazine feature "I once punched my younger brother so hard in the chest that he vomited up that morning's breakfast - cornflakes mainly. It wasn't technically the Heimlich manoevre, as he wasn't choking and I wasn't trying to save him-"

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

The @pcgamer.com team is constantly introducing me to cool games I hadn't heard of. @dilfpatrol.bsky.social turned me on to Sword Hero recently and it looks sick.

I talked to Glen Schofield about maybe the most fascinating and volatile moment of FPS history - when he took the reins of the world's most anticipated game amid the breakdown of Infinity Ward. www.pcgamer.com/games/call-o...

We joke about Steam reviews but sometimes they get their point across in a single sentence whereas it takes me about 1,800 words. Anyway, I made a quiz where you try to guess the game based only on a blurb from a Steam review. Pretty much everyone is is acing it. www.pcgamer.com/games/can-yo...

alright calm down borderlands

I strongly believe in the breadth and influence of independent art, to grant us oblique angles on the world and ourselves. But also every indie game is somewhere on this spectrum:

In the second edition of my FPS column, FOV 90, we're talking FPS rotations: Do you cycle between a handful of familiar shooters that continue to be great? www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/wh...

HELLUVA game between the Storm and Aces. (This is also me hard launching my new sport fandom.)

It’s giving agents Johnson and Johnson from Die Hard.

Somehow, now feels like the exact right time to get into Sisters of Mercy. 🦇

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I feel like whenever this guy appears on your screen you know some horrendous shit is about to go down.

Take some time out of your Silksonging to read @dilfpatrol.bsky.social on cool indie horror and the eternal value of tank controls: "Caput Mortum ... makes the controls one of your primary enemies, elevating a pretty good horror game to a truly memorable one."

Holy smokes, just saw that @pcgamer.com covered the Palestine games charity bundle too!!! Thank you so much for the coverage!! ❤️ www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...

Hello, I am sad about the videogame. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/as...

Paige Bueckers is unreal.

This was a painful story to write about my favourite game, but I fear that, if anything, I am underselling the size of the problems it now faces. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/i-...

Strong recommend from me for Together, the new Alison Brie and Dave Franco body horror movie. Creepy, funny, and surprisingly sweet in places. 💀💀💀💀 Here's the trailer, but as ever you're better off not watching the trailer and going in cold. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZDs...

Destiny 2 Economy Team Lead. I honestly believe I could fix it. (And it is unlikely I would do worse.) *cries in Unstable Cores*

Honestly, I kinda love this for Ben Affleck.