One of gaming's most baffling phenomenons is the Scrandle community's bias against pies. The fuck is wrong with everyone who voted for this?

Says something about the last year of the game that my response to this is less sadness and more relief that it's not being made to shamble along any further.

Reviewed the new Forza. TL;DR - It's good - Japan was a great choice - I hate every single character in this thing - I am unreasonably annoyed by the bit with the mech www.pcgamer.com/games/racing...

Just a heads up: I don't have an X account. @HJRwithpen on X isn't me and is, in fact, some weirdo impersonating me. If you could report 'em that'd be appreciated. x.com/HJRwithpen

Every time someone makes fun of PCG's headline length, I put in a support ticket to get the maximum size bumped up another 50 characters.

Finally got around to watching Oppenheimer, and while it was generally good, the bit where he happens to translate /that/ quote from the Bhagavad Gita mid-sex scene is maybe the most cringe bit of filmmaking I've seen this decade.

It's my last day of work this year, which means everyone who has added a meeting to my diary for this afternoon is being added to a list.

Not entirely sure what this console is for any more.

Didn't quite manage to argue my way into getting Blue Prince the main GOTY award, but this is a good list regardless.

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New episode! The podcast eats itself. An episode of The Back Page, all about the back pages of games magazines. Our guest is @octaeder.bsky.social! Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/59QW...

100! PC! Games! www.pcgamer.com/games/the-to...

Me, only remembering that this accursed website exists because someone linked to a dogshit take.

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

This wasn't a particularly fun review to write, but I'm really not gelling with Destiny 2's new systems. So much of the game right now feels worse than it did two weeks ago. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/de...

WWE ain't got nothing on the style and grace of the Japanese pros.

As part of @pcgamer.com's Witcher 3 10th anniversary celebrations, I was asked to write about the whole Tub Geralt thing, aka, the most notable thing I have done in my career. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/ce...

This really rings hollow when "lawless space cowboy shit" is already a rich vein of Destiny storytelling, but also one severely lacking in the current version of the game. This just reads as Bungie jettisoning the 'vibe' already built in favour of the version of it that lets them have lightsabers.

Based on what I've played so far, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 feels like a real modern Oblivion successor. Only instead of helping Sheogorath unleash a storm of burning dogs, you're tracking the village idiot to his sauerkraut den because he's stolen half the cabbages.

If you’d like to follow the PC Gamer team on Bluesky, here’s a starter pack with everyone On Here so far.

I will say this for The Game Awards: it's an audacious excercise in branding. The discourse every year suggests that people genuinely believe it's /the/ de facto official industry award show, but like, they just called it that. It's a trick. A spell that only works if you believe.

At the point of Satisfactory where I know just enough to be dangerous. It's all nightmare spaghetti factories and "fuck it, that'll do".

*Extremely just played Final Fantasy 16 voice* "Mayhap, you prick"

Me, shouting to the heavens because I stubbed my toe on the bedside table: "Fuck SBMM"

At 2,595 words, this is actually one of my shorter Destiny 2 reviews. Even shorter version: it's good. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/de...

Wrote a bit about what PC Gamer's Baldur's Gate 3 review means in the context of a media outlet that hasn't given out a 97 score in 16 years and/or ever. https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-is-pc-gamers-highest-scoring-game-in-16-years-heres-why/

I threatened to do it yesterday, so here it is: andor scenes as dril tweets

A snake, going about her important snake business.