Sacked Rockstar employees waiting to find out if they qualify for a relief hearing that could see their roles reinstated 'We were sacked from Rockstar North for trying to unionise' www.bbc.com/news/article...

My report: Former Build a Rocket Boy devs speak about the studio’s culture, crunch and MindsEye’s disastrous launch www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dream scenario: The Rock is nominated for an Oscar. "And the winner is... Timothee Chalamet!" *Rock rips off Tuxedo, ring entrance music plays...*

Random DuckDuckGo Easter Egg. Searching for Sonic the Hedgehog creates... an entirely new species of creature?! WHAT HAVE I DONE?

The intensity of these messages is quite something. Makes the usual “SKONG!” demands look like one of those flowers that blooms once a decade…

SKON-… Err… Skong?

Cross-gen titles, big focus on social play, genuinely valuable upscales of previous gen bangers, “60fps? How about 120?” This hasn’t blown my socks off yet games-wise but it’s smart

Some big 2005 Eyetoy energy about these new Switch 2 features so far and I’m not mad about it

Twitch 2

“Launches on the same day as Nintendo Switch 2” An outrageous tease

Starting to think they should rename it ‘Not an April Fool’s Disclaimer Day’

Hellblade II is nominated in 11 out of 14 categories at this year's Bafta Game Awards www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Finally finished Red Dead Redemption 2 last night. A glaring gap in my gaming history corrected. (🙂) Tom - 1 Backlog - 256 (😢)

Can’t see that anyone’s picked this up yet. Don’t Nod says it’s reached an agreement with unions and staff on cutbacks first proposed last October. www.dontnod-bourse.com/en/financial...

Access is patchy ATOW as I assume it's getting hammered with traffic, but very excited to get stuck into this when things have stabilised a bit

Super-pleased that we got to cover this year’s @gaconf.bsky.social awards. Congrats to all the winners! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Awesome that IGN are co-streaming this

A weekly highlight - thoroughly recommended!

Bold day for a hardware announcement (Looks nice though)

Unconfirmed: This extra port will be named ALARMO HOLE

Nintendo totally fell for my reverse-psychology gambit. #Manifesting

I’ll be happy to be wrong on this but that rumoured Thursday Switch 2 announcement… ATOW it’s 18:00 on Wednesday in Japan. Feels like we’d have heard something by now if it was going to happen tomorrow, no?

Oh piss off, time. 👴

A busy night at The Game Awards. Here’s what went down from me and @tomrjourno.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Give me a single screenshot from a video game that immediately makes you hear the soundtrack in your head.

Had a statement through from Funko’s reps on the itch.io downtime. TL;DR: They say the takedown request didn’t come directly from them, wasn’t meant to take out the whole platform and they’ve contacted itch.

M'learned colleague @andrewrgrs.bsky.social interviewed Troy Baker about becoming Indiana Jones. Cutting room floor: Not only did Troy surprise Andrew by knowing where Birmingham (UK) was, he said that he'd been switched on to its restaurant scene by the Weasley twins www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Step aside, Florida man… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lowkey the world’s most dangerous job

Love that today's featured Wikipedia article is the entry for Donkey Kong Country. Less of a fan of the realisation it came out - ULP! - 30 years ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_...

Please note there is only a brief mention of the Nintendo Switch successor in this article I wrote www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have a problem...

There will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during this post. (Dammit.)

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