We regret to inform you that the secretive unregulated currency used to finance paramilitary groups, assassins and the mob was also used by an international nonce network

It's a banger, get it bought 💪

We're in the age of Anichebe

Bloody hell, I've only gone and written an actual effing book. Uncorrected proofs go out tomorrow for the purposes of securing swanky endorsements. If you'd like to get your copy when it launches later this year, you can buy Power Play here: linktr.ee/Power_play_b...

Presumably, he's a sibling of

Moltbook is a LARP that got out of hand

“Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for children” what is this sentence, what is this world

Thank you to everyone who subscribes to my silly little newsletter about video games. Genuinely humbled to have so many of you on board 🙏

So much of the Government's approach to tax and debt at the moment is like working with the most delinquent business imaginable. HMRC owes you money? Impossible to get it. You owe them cash, whether actually or hypothetically? Aggressively chased.

I preferred the Englishman, Irishman, and Scotsman jokes, to be honest with you

I’ve spent months investigating the results of the 2025/2026 season and I’m convinced Luton Town are the Premier League Champions, Champions League Winners, and have lifted the World Cup too. Bias: it’s fantastic 🫡

I like to describe this chunk of the article as “please don’t sue us, Nintendo.”

maybe if we weren't so glued to our phones we could be doing more deaths? makes you think

Props to the Court of Appeal judges, who delivered a spectacularly well-reasoned analogy that explains why we should consider in-game currencies as property. videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/thou-shalt...

Ta very much to @georgeosborn.bsky.social for the Steel Century Groove (@slothgloss.bsky.social) shout out in today's VGIM! A "dancing mech extravaganza" is a great way to describe the game 🕺🏾🤖

The UK Court of Appeal has ruled that gold pieces in Runescape is a form of property that can be stolen under the UK's Theft Act. But why did the judges rule that they're stealable swag? And what does it mean for the games biz? VGIM investigates: videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/thou-shalt...

Further evidence that generative AI is likely to be the sloppy seconds for the masses, while the people who have actual wealth will stick to the real human thing

Yes, I am narrating this. Yes, I am excited to be doing so. www.audible.co.uk/pd/Power-Pla...

Yes, I am narrating this. Yes, I am excited to be doing so. www.audible.co.uk/pd/Power-Pla...

Kotaku is hiring for *three* positions: - Staff reporter: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi... - Nights and weekends editor: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi... - Community editor: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...

It's also so bizarre to do this when the obvious strategy is to 'clear house', using Reform as a way to bleed the nutters out while moving back into the traditional Tory political heartland that made it the most successful political party of the 20th century. Signed, not that George Osborne

We'll also accept style, control, damage, and aggression

That glugging noise you can hear is the Kool-Aid sliding down the throats of government ministers

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

It’s that time again 😭 Sweet Baby Inc are a team of Writers & Narrative Designers, and we did not work on Highguard. Ask yourselves what it is about Highguard that reactionaries have connected to us. That should clarify who they are and what they’re upset about.

A valuable reminder that the venn diagrams of "politically popular" and "irredeemably stupid policy" overlap often

Strong agree with Stephen. You can take as many journalists out to coffee as you like, but if what you're selling is stinky then it ain't gonna work.

*presses record button on dictaphone* ...more like Suella Less-Than-Braverman. *presses stop button on dictaphone* heh.

Can't wait for the official release of NEOM: Over Budget Project Management Simulation 2026

Seeing the US government flail in trying to frame these as anything but executions by incompetent trigger happy goons makes me feel like I owe an apology to the FSB morons I mocked for trying to stage an apartment as a Ukrainian terror plot but planting a copy of The Sims III instead of 3 SIM cards.

I've been getting a few emails asking whether or not I'm heading off to GDC this year. The answer is no. I will be in the States in 2026 for the North American book launch and to embark on a mini tour in September. But the vibes and cost of GDC are completely off for me. Soz 😬

Anthropic's philosopher is giving off very strong vibes

Bellingcat founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social: It's "really important to get analysis of events" like the Pretti shooting "out to the public quickly, especially when it's clear the US government, ICE, and DHS are willing to immediately start lying about what’s happening" www.cnn.com/2026/01/24/m...

WTH is this

I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors

An iconic winning moment, akin to Jairzinho pelting one in against Italy in the 1970 World Cup Final #TheTraitors

Round of applause 👏 #TheTraitors

I chatted with a former foreign intel official at The State Department about Russia's use of games for disinformation and this is a prime example of it in action. Fabricate a story. Push through content farms. Someone, somewhere takes the bait. Fake story gets 'multiplied' into outsized influence.

To add to Colm's excellent points: a thoughtful book recommendation is one of the best presents you'll ever get. When someone has thought about who you are and what interests you OR they've decided to show you an aspect of themselves via a recommendation? Elite tier gifting 👌

I believe that AI will cause a revolution. Unfortunately for CEOs, it's looking like it'll be the France in 1789 kind.

I went to Pocket Gamer Connects this week and all I got was this lousy newsletter. Stop by for the latest VGIM, which takes a look at what on earth the UK Video Games Council is banging on to the government about. videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/a-uk-video...

seems like the team at Futurlab haven't met authors heh heh heh heh heh *sobs*

Mark Rutte has handed Donald Trump a piece of paper with ‘turn over to read our Greenland offer’ on both sides & that will occupy him for weeks

Iceland at Davos

People say that they've never seen a world leader behave like this before, but those people obviously haven't seen President Benson's speech to the Japanese Prime Minister in Hot Shots: Part Deux youtu.be/P1m6oAs2X_g?...

China has the largest installed wind capacity in the world.

I love how commentary on an average Trump speech is exactly the same thing you're whispering to a friend about a terrible person at a party

The book has cleared legal read. Unpaid invoices have been successfully chased. Signatures are landing on documents. All hail the new age of Osborn (a brief half day period where I don't feel haggard and horrible)