Just had a house rental I've been trying to organise for a month fall through

"Radio stops this whole thing from being a game about missions and objectives and set-pieces and instead makes it a game about a culture and people." Catch up on this week's article on Jet Set Radio Future here: vist.ly/4vuuu

When you rewatch High School Musical 2 as an adult and realise the whole thing is about social class 😳

Once again, the point of placeholder is to be replaced and thus easy to identify. If you're using machineslop to get "as close as possible" - that's not "placeholder", that's either being incredibly ignorant or being a liar hoping to get away with it. There's really no third option.

A placeholder asset is supposedly to obviously look WIP so it can be easily spotted and replaced later, no? Then why would you need Gen-AI to make something that looks finished at first glance?

Mum just sent me a video of Pingu going 'noot noot' to the tune of Gorillaz' Feel Good Inc. Truly, nobody knows me better

That's all our articles on Radios now live! Are any of these your jam? Read here: vist.ly/4vpw6

You know if you share others art you give them a chance to get followers and some reach and a real chance to make print orders or find freelance work. You can act like sharing and engaging with art is a waste of time but there is a real chance to help other artists in a positive way easily.

I was so locked in for the Shadow of the Erdtree preview event you have no idea

No matter how prepared you think you are. It is not enough

Our final Radios piece. We couldn't leave out Jet Set Radio when looking at Radios in games so we brought in Christian Donlan to take a look at the cultural phenomena of Radio in JSR Future. Enjoy!

I have some admin tasks which keep popping up over and over again every time I think I’ve completed them, like incredibly boring zombies. Visa application done? No, more paperwork required. Health insurance sorted? Nope, time to chase the insurance company again. I will never be free

Awesome article from Donlan this week, on how Jet Set Radio Future's implementation of radio sees it used as a unifying cultural force that spurs characters to action. (Also - how cool does this article look on the website?)

Thought I'd have a browse on my local Facebook Marketplace today

why the hell would i use DLSS5 when i could literally just do this instead

Catch up on our interview with Mark Lampert - audio director on multiple Fallout games - who walked us through the design process behind the series' iconic Pip-Boy radios. 🔗 vist.ly/4v4aq

I wrote this one! This was a really fascinating interview with Mark. I loved hearing about all the tricks required to get the radio stations to work within strict music licensing constraints, and how this shaped the Pip-Boy radio's design. Check it out!

Every time I publish an article I get a text about 5 minutes later from my mum saying ‘brilliant stuff’ 🥺 my no.1 fan

Now that I have a metal plate in my arm, does that make me cyberpunk? What buffs did I get?

Why did I do a healthy shop. Now I have no snacks 😠

"Nostalgia Power - the Origin and Evolution of Fallout's Pip-Boy Radios" by Emma Kent for the increasingly brilliant @eteogames.bsky.social Archetypes. Read it here: www.eteogames.com/nostalgia-po...

Our first Archetypes Interview! @goneefk.bsky.social spoke to Mark Lampert about producing Fallout's Radios - a really fantastic insight into the process of making a Radio System in a game Enjoy!

I wrote this one! This was a really fascinating interview with Mark. I loved hearing about all the tricks required to get the radio stations to work within strict music licensing constraints, and how this shaped the Pip-Boy radio's design. Check it out!

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Really excited to share this one - thanks so much to @robzacny.bsky.social for the commission and the edit

RIP my personal SEO, about to be ruined forever

Trump has got to be the biggest argument against Realist IR theory’s assertion that individual interests don’t affect state behaviour lol

Catch up on this week's Archetypes article, which muses on GTA V's radio stations, nostalgia, and the messy realities of US urban infrastructure. 🔗 vist.ly/4uayb

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

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Remember kids, if you think a freelancer is charging a lot of money, that their fee also goes towards... -Taxes -Sick days -Holidays/annual leave -Pensions -Fallow periods of little work -Emergency savings for when clients pay late (or not at all) ...and probably even more things beyond that!

Throw on FlyLo FM and dig into our latest piece, from our newest Archetype - Radios. Boen Wang's nostalgia tinged dissection of Radio in GTA V

Love this personal essay by Boen linking GTA V's radio stations to nostalgia, driving, and the messy realities of US urban infrastructure. A great start to this month's theme of Radios!

Big thanks to @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social and @edwinet.bsky.social for the shoutout in today's Sunday Papers post! If you enjoyed my work at Eurogamer, please do check out youtube.com/platform32 as I'll be hitting the ground running with that from tomorrow! www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-p...

Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and the COOP Banking app being unavailable

From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙

Interesting how the reduced number of web3/crypto emails I receive nowadays has synchronised perfectly with an increase in AI emails. Almost like it's the same people sending them

This is so true. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of it all, and insignificant in the face of massive systemic problems. Keep loudly voicing opposition, but start with the small things. If everyone did something to help within their communities, the world would be so much kinder

Relevant once again

new gorillaz day mostly an excuse to revisit the greatest tweet ever made

Interrupting the doom and gloom to announce that I skied a whole run backwards for the first time today. It's a little win but I'll take it

love media consolidation

I think it really says a lot that the forces gutting media jobs are not willing to actually publicly embrace that their output is generated by AI. Instead, they have to create fake humans with fake names and fake profile pictures and bios, cardboard standees of humans, to maintain the illusion.

Our roundup article on Skyboxes is up! Go read if you like clouds. Both the mass of condensed water vapour, and the Final Fantasy character.

Ziff Davis are fucking vandals. The way they've treated these sites is a truly rotten business.

I don’t know what to say. Congrats to Ziff Davis for ruining a great thing (again)

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When you accidentally click on an AI assistant feature

Some news - today I’m launching One More Catch, an independent publication covering Pokémon Go and the next generation of Pokémon games: @onemorecatch.site