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Independent games media gains another soldier, and it's one of the best to ever do it. LJJ will be on VGC during SGF to talk all about LFG. Big day for acronym fans.

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Trying to win the new World Cup mode in Football Manager with Che Adams up front. Might as well try to play Elden Ring with my toes.

Boss man making serious moves. Can’t help but think I single handedly funded this.

The Witcher 3 DLC? In this economy? youtu.be/G5dvWBF4FpM?...

This console war key jangling is baffling. It can’t be long until they bring back the blades or Microsoft Points.

me: "Shorter games are great!" me when I've finished a short game I'd like more of:

Run it back.

It's very funny to see people say that Bond isn't a womaniser in First Light. The bloke shags about 5 different lassies, and can flirt with basically every other female NPC. To be fair, the folk complaining have never actually spoken to a woman, so I can understand why they'd miss that.

Sorry, but whenever anyone mentions Mina the Hollower, I can only think of these two.

Genuinely quite sad that I've got nothing left to play of this. I hope Tac Sim is supported for a long time, or we get a cheeky expansion. Hell of a game.

There’s yer dinner. What a game!

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James Bond’s jacket in First Light is doing something to me. Truly Drive levels of “no you couldn’t pull this jacket off, but you’ll try anyway white boy”.

The PS6 is going to come in somewhere around $40,000.

Dinner of Kings.

A bridge to Witcher 4? Probably means W4 is a 2028 game.

The abuse I get for my accent directly correlates to the score I give to a game.

007 First Light is a GOTY frontrunner. My review:

I love video game journalism, and to somehow mark the 15th anniversary of my retirement from it, I wrote a feature article about a memorable video game expansion celebrating its own 10th anniversary.

Bank Holiday Tomorrow 😎 Absolute mountain of stuff to do so I’ll be working anyway 😎

I’ve just been told that while it’s not everyone, most of the staff at TheGamer are essentially now freelancers.

“Your article must achieve X traffic or you won’t be paid,” is the death rattle of a conglomerate that knows making money from ads is long, long over. This is what happens before mass site closures. Beyond grim.

Not much Infamous chat this week, but quite a lot of me shouting "Xbox," which is just as exciting. Get it in all the usual places.

I know some people pure loved it, but after they messed up the Desmond stuff, they should have just left the modern-day stuff completely. DESMOND MILES SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE PROTAGONIST IN WATCH DOGS.

Pokemon Go 2 to the polls

That’s not cheese, it’s house paint.

Oh hell yeah brother

It’s getting to the point where I’ll genuinely be shocked the next time someone is next to me on a flight.

Doesn't shock me. I think we've sold more tickets to VGC Live than Sackboy did on PC.

To anyone who was actually at this, you have my deepest sympathies.

Me pretending I'm above review discourse and bored with it, only to read absolutely every single snidey comment and subtweet:

GTA 6 was supposed to be out next week.

This is what prompted this btw

Here's my Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight review. My shorter review is this: There's a Limmy reference in here that made me drop my controller. What a game!

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight review: If no one else will make a new Arkham, TT Games will. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ www.videogameschronicle.com/review/lego-...

I absolutely love video games, btw. Absolutely love them.

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God bless the Xbox 360

As is almost always the case, the Scottish election results have restored a bit of faith in humanity and reaffirmed that we simply couldn't be more different from England, and the union needs to end.

I wonder if anyone will ever make a game better than Tetris Effect.

Mixtape reviews are crazy. I knew I loved it, but I wondered if it would hit for everyone. Glad it has, good for them.