Shocked & heartbroken to say Team17 PR & Events dept & thus my role have been made redundant. ✨Looking for new roles using my 15 years supporting projects & brands across Marketing, PR, Brand & Comms✨ I appreciate any help that comes my way. Dhia libh uilig💚 (More info in post under this)

Well, while it didn’t quite happen in the way I was planning, I have been let go from TheGamer after multiple years. It was a wonderful time with my incredible colleagues, but circumstances haven’t allowed that to go any further. As such, I am now open to any and all other opportunities!

My visit to Galway for FÍS has mainly been convincing seagulls that my food is not their food, actually

everything is always So Expensive

And you can celebrate the day that’s in it by reading something I wrote! www.thegamer.com/after-playin...

Sometimes I’m so locked in my own little bubble of life I do forget I am, in fact, trans. Weird feeling! So, uh, happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ destroy your local terf

this is a lovely list of wonderful and talented trans writers, flattered to be part of it 💜 i would like to add @dykedeitz.bsky.social, @lesbiankakyoin.bsky.social, @lexluddy.xyz and @kellymerka.bsky.social 💜 follow, support, employ and love the trans writers you know

It's here! This has been an utter joy to work on for Dragon Age 2's 15th anniversary. Huge thank you to David Gaider for taking me through how he and all of the writers managed to get this fan favourite story finished, with no time for redrafts www.thegamer.com/dragon-age-2...

I always want to do more to fix how shitty and evil the world is, but even if it’s small, I’m happy I have the privilege to never step foot in America and contribute money to their barbarous war economy. Every cent spent there is eventually answered in blood.

I'm launching a site! Booster Pack is an independently run and community-funded site dedicated to TCGs like Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, Lorcana, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Been working on this for a while, and I'm excited to finally be showing it off! www.boosterpack.site @boosterpacksite.bsky.social

I never played a Fatal Frame game before. Turns out, I really like Fatal Frame www.thegamer.com/fatal-frame-...

Romeo is a Dead Man reviews are all over the place, and that absolutely tracks. It's filled to the brim with odd moments and decisions. It's fun enough, but its frenetic and bewildering narrative choices made it hard to parse and difficult to score. More from me: www.thegamer.com/romeo-is-a-d...

I had the chance to sit down with Blizzard’s Hearthstone team to see how they reimagined Warcraft’s end-of-the-world storyline for the card game. The devs apparently love making us feel the end of the world. My interview ✧˚ · . www.thegamer.com/hearthstone-...

Announcing Bog Bodies from Dreamfeel! A "short hike”-alike 3d adventure set in a far future Ireland populated only by radioactive talking cats. Players explore a late 19th c inspired landscape full of strange characters and stories...

Whoops forgot to say I reviewed Code Vein 2. It’s a good time! I got weirdly attached to the characters and, especially, my wife Josée www.thegamer.com/code-vein-2-...

Under all the mechanical violence, MIO: Memories In Orbit is a gentle game about caring for a broken world. It just makes you earn every feeling. My full review! ↓ ⋆｡°✩ www.thegamer.com/mio-memories...

I'm starting the year with a new byline, and of course, a Warframe article, because I know my shit! For @escapistmag.bsky.social, I wrote a guide about how to get and best build Uriel, the latest Warframe added in The Old Peace update. Give it a read! www.escapistmagazine.com/warframe-uri...

Look lads you got that second amendment for a reason and I’m just not seeing you ever using it for the right reasons

My final bit of writing for 2025. "Something great happened here, but it’s over with."

It is my absolute honor to have written for Spine for the first time in years! 2025 saw me going through an enormous amount of loss, but even though things are certainly challenging, I'm still here. HUGE kudos to my brother @diegoarguello.bsky.social for the titanic effort of putting this together!

Always honored to write for of Into The Spine, and it’s incredible to see that, even in an industry bleeding talent, that talent refuses to give up. I lost co-workers I loved working with in 2025, so massive thanks to @diegoarguello.bsky.social for letting me write about the power of community.

this was an immeasurable effort from everyone involved. the list is packed with calls to action and donation funds. folks wrote about anything from games to movies and books. we didn’t include anything published or developed by microsoft, and avoided games with gen ai like the plague

I played games this year www.thegamer.com/game-of-the-...

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

You can shoot Miles and he complains about it in Metroid, so all the talking kinda balances out

My review is up for Octopath Traveler 0! It's got some blemishes, but hot damn, it's got heart. Easily the best story in the series, and unequivocally the boldest. www.thegamer.com/octopath-tra...

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is almost two decades in the making and it's arguably worth the wait? #MetroidPrime4 A faithful evolution of the series with a great world and strong characters that carried me all the way through to the end. Here's my full review: www.thegamer.com/metroid-prim...

JRPG actually means J’adore Role-Playing Game

I just don’t know how you all have the time for these takes

My review of The Outer Worlds 2! I adored it, but had a lot to say about how I feel Obsidian needs to be more earnest. The best moments are when the writing takes the setting and themes seriously www.thegamer.com/the-outer-wo...

My heart is utterly broken for everyone who got laid off today, I don't have the words to express how angry and scared this makes me. TG will never be the same, and it sucks.

It's been a hard week for the folks over at TheGamer. If you find yourself recently laid off, please reach out about potential freelance work for Pad & Pixel. Just HMU. And take care of yourself.

This feels far too evergreen, but we're always open for feature pitches at [email protected], and my personal email is in bio. I get to work with so many brilliant writers, and there's always room for more ❤️

After 6 years with TheGamer, Valnet has decided to shut down features and lay off the entire team, including me. I don't know what's next for me but I intend to stay in games, whether that's at another outlet, consulting, or PR. If you have any leads, I'd appreciate any help

If anyone who was laid off from TheGamer today has a piece they were working on and need a home for, Skybox wants to hear from you, and we pay pretty well. We can't make up for you being laid off, but we'll do what we can.

I got laid off from TheGamer today, along with the entire Features team (go give @epicswitzer.bsky.social and @hallafyre.bsky.social a follow!) Needless to say, I'm now looking for work. I'm open to roles in: -Journalism -PR -Copywriting -Copy editing -Games writing -Scriptwriting

Please, give these wonderful writers, those who I would call friends, the place they deserve to create the incredible writing they’ve been trying so hard to do for years

I just want us to be respected. Is that so much to ask for? For the industry to in any way care for the talent that creates your profits? I was physically shaking with anger and sadness earlier. I just want us to be happy doing our jobs. I never felt like that was much to ask

Valnet unfortunately let go of the entire TheGamer features team today alongside several other staff members. Many incredibly talented and hard working writers I've had the pleasure of working with over the past several years.

Please follow and support what they do next, as all three of them are tremendous talents who deserve the very best. @funnelchest94.bsky.social @epicswitzer.bsky.social @hallafyre.bsky.social No matter what they end up doing, they're going to kick ass and do themselves proud.

I'd love it if my friends would stop getting laid off. Just saying.

TheGamer is losing so much talent today, it breaks my heart. On a personal and professional level, I cannot put the loss into words. Everyone being laid off today is incredible and would be an asset to your team. They have jumped through more hoops than you can imagine. Hire them!

May as well be everyday at this point

Branden is such an incredible editor, writer and basically everything else. There’s seriously nothing he can’t do, digitally or physically, and he would make an incredible addition to any team

Turns out I’m great at managing dinosaurs and terrible at keeping fences intact. My Jurassic World Evolution 3 review is up: www.thegamer.com/jurassic-wor...

I made a game! Last weekend, I and six pals created O.R.C. in a couple of hours. We playtested once and decided that it was good enough to launch into the world, so if you've always wanted a dexterity dice game about rowdy orc cheerleaders, grab it for free here! sledgehammer-gaming.itch.io/orc

I have fulfilled a lifelong ambition. I have finally had an article published on a Star Trek website!

Man, I really am just using this site to announce when more of my colleagues leave, huh? Happens a bit too often!

Not the best weekend, but really really proud and excited to share my Ninja Gaiden 4 review :) Definitely my Game of the Year, surprising no one - www.thegamer.com/ninja-gaiden...