Fun at the Play Expo today in Blackpool. Got my Llamasoft Spectrum game signed by Jeff Minter, checked out some indie games, bought Xeno Crisis on GBA, caught up with Brenda & John Romero & and narrowly beat Charles Cecil at Galaxian!

Looking forward to this later today at @fiveriserecords.bsky.social!

this is great, I just hope the new showrunner doesn't let her down

Excite! New Roland TR-1000 announced - mixes digital sounds with - finally - analogue sounds from the 808 and 909 drum machines! Pricey though - £2699. I'll be sticking with my TR8S for now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5q...

Win a fantastic LEGO Bowser at our New Horizons conference on 16th Oct in Middlesbrough and support @safeinourworld.org

Enter our giveaway for a chance to win a copy of Dicealot on launch day! WARNING: You will become addicted to this game 👀

This looks super - congrats @danthat.bsky.social! Lovely to see @disappointment.bsky.social in this too.

I want to see more kind, supportive and progressive policies from Labour - that’s how you beat mean, angry, spiteful parties like Reform & the Tories.

Good point against a good team but gutted - 2 mins away from a well-deserved victory. Leeds 2 Bournemouth 2.

Was listening to Avalon yesterday - bloody love that track.

Great new Hockney “20 Flowers” exhibition at Salts Mill in #saltaire. Hockney continuing to use iPad for his painting.

Still have mine! This was a good Christmas.

The BBC was not, repeat not, fucking about on Saturday nights in 1976

Great to see The Beano and DC Thomson celebrated in Dundee at the V&A and with a Desperate Dan & Minnie the Minx statue! Big part of my childhood.

The V&A building in Dundee is just fantastic. Designed by Kengo Kuma & uses different materials & textures including concrete, wood and even stone stairs embedded with fossils.

On the train up to Dundee to attend the SGDA’s games event. Coffee helping…

The brilliant Maisie Adam is coming to our New Horizons conference on 16th October, interviewed by @dringo.bsky.social! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/game-repub...

Still my favourite album. Looking forward to this 40th anniversary reissue - the separate blu-ray release also has a new 30-minute Pleasuredome remix.

Back at our old uni for an open day! Good old Lancaster. #bowland #pendle

OMG. I watched open-mouthed. Incredible.

Yeeesss! #nintendodirect

Three gaming industry summits will take place at EGX at MCM London Comic Con this year. www.gamesindustry.biz/three-gaming...

The #NintendoDirect is now starting: www.youtube.com/live/tpso9Kk...

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

New @bobpetesarah.bsky.social album is fantastic. Contributions from amazing musicians incl Vince Clarke, Erol Alkan, Paul Hartnoll, Augustin Bousfield & Confidence Man - with some music recorded in Saltaire!

Really enjoyed my couple of days in Newcastle/Gateshead - nice event last night at The Baltic, some really incisive and honest dev talks and met some more great games companies based up in the NE!

You can catch up to my hour of radiogram broadcasting at www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... It features music from @apta.bsky.social @polypores.bsky.social @sulkrooms.bsky.social and @loulayorke.bsky.social amongst others.

FACT - The only remedy for that Back To School feeling is to spend 5 minutes nominating a studio, an individual, an inspiring person and the BEST GAME Made in The North for the Game Republic Awards. Here's the link to nominate ⭐https://gamerepublic.net/awards/⭐ #gamedev

Finished a 2nd run of watching all of Game of Thrones with the family - yeah, still brilliant, and actually geeked out understanding a bit more about all the different houses. Also, I really enjoyed the final series - thought it was truncated when I first saw it, but it is utterly epic.

Your mam shouts at hotels and your dad paints roundabouts

Short feature on Devcom/Gamescom from last week now up on GR with my thoughts and some of the industry topics being discussed - with photos, including the fantastic Capcom & Nintendo stands!

Oh well - the company was great (big thanks to @thisisbastion.bsky.social & Epic) & I enjoyed the posh FAB ice lollies at half-time! #ALAW

Gotta say, the cast list for Last One Laughing UK 2 is looking particularly fantastic. Bob Mortimer (returning champ) David Mitchell Mel Giedroyc Alan Carr Romesh Ranganathan Amy Gledhill Maisie Adam Gbemisola Ikumelo Sam Campbell Diane Morgan 👌

See you Gamescom/Devcom - great event. Hope to be here in Cologne again next year!

The Vectrex Mini at Gamescom! Kickstarter launching soon - 149 euros with 12 games. Amoled screen and bluetooth controller that works with original Vectrex with a dongle.

Devcom! Nice to be back in sunny Cologne.

Every day we stray further from god

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Yay - my Nintendo Space Firebird has been fixed!

Confirm this works!

Saw this at Day of the Devs during GDC - great fun.

Really excited about this announcement - we are hosting an exclusive session at our New Horizons conference in Middlesbrough on 16th Oct with MachineGames' Creative Director Axel Torvenius talking with @lukethehebble.bsky.social about the fantastic Indiana Jones and the Great Circle!

I love my job.

Today is the day!! Nominations are open until 30th September 2025 for the Game Republic Awards and this year we are also announcing a special new Martyn Brown Rising Star Award as well 📢https://gamerepublic.net/news/game-republic-awards-launched-for-2025/ #gamedev #indiegamedev

What?? No! But I thought they were just legitimately concerned mums & dads, not like the rotten terrorists holding up bits of card saying "genocide's bad"

Englaaaannndddd!!!!

Blown away by the response to this. Over half the print run went in less than 24 hours. Thanks to everyone who grabbed a copy!

Blimey. DK Bananza is soooo good. Looks gorgeous, the sound is brilliant and the HD rumble 2 works so well. Nintendo magic.

DK old vs new! Looking forward to jamming this Switch 2 cartridge into an N64 later. ;-)