My last big one for the year is the second part of my interview with Alix Wilton Regan, aka Lara Croft. A nice way to round out 2025, and now my break begins. Two days of Christmas festivities with family, then off to Chicago to celebrate my wonderful friend @peterspittech.bsky.social’s wedding.

My last big one for the year is the second part of my interview with Alix Wilton Regan, aka Lara Croft. A nice way to round out 2025, and now my break begins. Two days of Christmas festivities with family, then off to Chicago to celebrate my wonderful friend @peterspittech.bsky.social’s wedding.

3 years ago I started work on a SIGNALIS video essay. It ended up feature length, and subsequently sat on my hard drive as a rough cut. Until today. After numerous passes, I've finally hit publish on The Emotional Horror of SIGNALIS. Hell can be a place of healing.

I’m gonna do something I very rarely do and advocate for myself openly: This year I’ve done some pretty wild stuff, spoken to some amazing people, and broken a few big stories. My role has become less focused on writing guff (although there will still be a little, gotta keep the lights on)

I’m gonna do something I very rarely do and advocate for myself openly: This year I’ve done some pretty wild stuff, spoken to some amazing people, and broken a few big stories. My role has become less focused on writing guff (although there will still be a little, gotta keep the lights on)

Hellllooo I had a lovely chat with Devora Wilde bout "mean women" and Lae'zel being gay (and Solasta 2 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33!) www.thegamer.com/devora-wilde...

Games media: a rising tide lifts all ships. Let’s source each other properly, yeah? If we all do that, we’ll get some level of trust from the hellscape that is google, and it will help to weed out the shitty scraper sites (I hope).

Me and Alix Wilton Regan have been planning to chat Perfect Dark for a while now. We finally managed that yesterday. Sounds like, as you might expect, it wasn’t handled too well. www.thegamer.com/joanna-dark-...

Me and Alix Wilton Regan have been planning to chat Perfect Dark for a while now. We finally managed that yesterday. Sounds like, as you might expect, it wasn’t handled too well. www.thegamer.com/joanna-dark-...

Legit one of the stinkiest TGA fits I’ve seen. Why is the suit so shiny? Why is it three sizes too big?

Geoff. It’s 3:30am here in the UK. I don’t need to be hearing Miss Piggy singing.

I love Jennifer English man. So well deserved.

LONG OVERDUE AND WELL DESERVED

Here it is! Absolute labour of love putting this together. From day one, Cyberpunk 2077 has been a story about mortality, and what it means to live on after you die. It was a pleasure to speak with Paweł Sasko and Cherami Leigh about this story. www.thegamer.com/the-making-o...

🚨 I reviewed KIRBY AIR RIDERS for Kotaku 🚨 Noise is not chaos! Quantity is not depth! Don't believe the siren song of the cult fanbase of the original! Once you get past all that, Air Riders is an extremely fun game that's kinda hard to play for more than an hour at a time!

Good podcast. You should check it out.

Fun little story after speaking to Abigail Thorn. Baldur’s Gate 3’s Nocturne was pitched to her as a “sexy demon” and was only changed as she was in the booth. www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate...

Skate’s early access launch pulled in over 20M players, a massive moment for the series. Steam numbers have dipped since, but the team says they’re focused on rebuilding trust and shaping the game fans want. I talked with the devs about what’s next. www.thegamer.com/skate-early-...

I spent a large portion of my day crunching numbers, finding out just how much Nintendo is neglecting marketing Metroid Prime 4, and oh boy. www.thegamer.com/nintendo-rea...

I spent a large portion of my day crunching numbers, finding out just how much Nintendo is neglecting marketing Metroid Prime 4, and oh boy. www.thegamer.com/nintendo-rea...

Forgot to share this last week but I wrote a little piece about Jennifer English's win at the Golden Joysticks and the sheer importance of queer joy in the lives of LGBTQ+ people: www.thegamer.com/clair-obscur...

Doing my second playthrough of Dispatch with my fiance and it’s great, but boy do the hacking sections really mess up the pacing when you’re playing with somebody else.

My album Defeater is streaming everywhere. This record is the sound of 39 minutes of rainfall while you sit inside with the windows open. FFO: Modern Baseball, The Wonder Years, boygenius, Future Teens, Spanish Love Songs.

Interesting comments in here from Horizon Steel Frontier’s executive producer. Suggests that Sony is the reason it’s not coming to PlayStation as NCSoft would have “no reason” not to bring it to the platform. www.thegamer.com/seems-like-s...

This is great, but the lack of Monster Train 2 is astonishing.

🚨new piece on kotaku... from me!🚨 I wrote about the hollow feeling of a story that mistakes movement for change. Hades II Isn’t a Story—It’s Maintenance:

I've launched a new interview series on women in esports! My first piece is with G2 Hel's Caltys, but I've already spoken to several more participants. If anyone feels they have a unique perspective worth sharing, then feel free to email me. www.thegamer.com/women-esport...

Saw Hanabie yesterday, who were, quite frankly, excellent.

Announcing that I’ve delayed my bedtime to play some more Pokemon

Tell me you didn’t read the 1,600 word interview with 11 members of the cast without telling me you didn’t read the 1,600 word interview with 11 members of the cast.

This is a fantastic project with an amazing cast! Sam has been working hard on this for a bit. So so great to see women and non-binary people championed in an industry that can often feel like it is not made for us at all

Here’s the reason I spoke to so many video game actors. I attended the launch of TIVA, an independently run audiobook series with all of your favourite voice actors, aiming to fight back against AI and corporations, featuring an all female/non-binary cast. www.thegamer.com/tiva-intervi...

I also spoke to Lae’zel actor Devora Wilde who told me how Baldur’s Gate 3 made her realise games could tell “proper stories”, and how it’s one of the best things she’s ever acted in. www.thegamer.com/devora-wilde...

Important piece this and also jelly you got to chat to her 🐣

Last week, I had the honour of attending an event with many of gaming's top actors. You'll find out what the event was for in the near future, and I'll have another larger report from it, but I also used it as an opportunity to discuss the many injustices video game actors still face.

Last week, I had the honour of attending an event with many of gaming's top actors. You'll find out what the event was for in the near future, and I'll have another larger report from it, but I also used it as an opportunity to discuss the many injustices video game actors still face.

Just binge-listened to three episodes of Critical Error while Pokemoning. While I don’t always necessarily agree with everything, these are two incredibly intelligent, articulate, and engaging gentlemen and you owe it to yourself to listen.

guys i recorded my first ever audiobook & im so proud 🥹 as a slow reader, this is a big deal for me - go listen to The Last Wishlist! it’s YA & the main character is from an russian immigrant household like me!!

This is such a bummer. TheGamer basically let me write whatever jokes I wanted about whoever I wanted in the video game industry - to the point of getting legal threats. Few places give freelancers that much freedom. It’s sad to see so many good staff writers and editors let go.

Several of my colleagues were laid off today, and seeing the usual reaction from the usual people pushed me to write a blog post (how retro) about the sad state of online discourse: jackcrustycoleman.com/2025/10/22/l...

We need to be angrier at how google is destroying the internet.

Unfortunately, my time as an Editor for TheGamer.com has come to an end. I met some of the best coworkers I've ever had there, I learned and grew a lot. If anyone is looking for a journo, especially for guides, reviews, VR, horror, and farming RPGs, I'd love to hear from you.

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

In light of being laid off from TheGamer today, I don't intend to let my passions die out. I'll continue to create work independently, and keep that excitement for whatever opportunities come my way in the future. This was a dream career, and I'm not done with it yet.

Nobody is as passionate about Ninja Gaiden as George

Another fun TGS piece just dropped. I spoke to Tomohiko Sho, one of the creators of the Musou genre, to reminisce about the past 25 years of Dynasty Warriors and what the series has become. Some really interesting quotes from one of the nicest devs out there. www.thegamer.com/dynasty-warr...

I wish they'd focus their energy on amplifying the longform, well-written stories that nobody reads because Google buries them

0 support for when new/non US writers actually manage to work through the quotes to do original reporting 1000000 tweets when they make a mistake