Recent Sony game studio acquisitions - 2021: Nixxes - 2021: Firesprite (layoffs in 2024) - 2021: Bluepoint (closed in 2026) - 2022: Valkyrie Entertainment - 2022: Haven Studios - 2022: Bungie (layoffs in 2024; new game soon) - 2022: Neon Koi (closed in 2024) - 2023: Firewalk (closed in 2024)

This has baffled me so much I didn't do any kanji practice for over a week and I think I've forgotten every kanji I've ever known

New book alert, yay! 💖 I'm a huge fan of Roberto Calasso, I've never read anyone else who can weave historical nonfiction and fantasy together as well as he could ⭐️

TWO SUNNY DAYS IN ONE WEEK!

Aiming to attack life like the Bluetit wrestling with a peanut in my garden this morning

Had the pleasure of drinking Brewdog at a charity do once: Found it surprisingly down to earth and very funny.

Seeing the sun today for the first time in (literal) months has completely revitalised me, I feel like I found a potion while suffering poison damage

Got the @cultofthelamb.bsky.social Woolhaven DLC, time to reinstate the Cult of Seeds ✌🏻🌱✌🏻😈

Got passed over for an opportunity I was very interested in, time to stick on a Pink Floyd record and sulk

Trying eldritch rituals to try and convince the Steam Deck that it does in fact want to display on the television 😔

Just announced - The Best of British Science Fiction 2025, published by Newcon. Includes the fabulous Dark Matter by Caitriana NicNeacail, our winning story for the @cymerafestival.co.uk / Shoreline of Infinity Scottish competition. Published in Issue 39. www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

(Upon spotting a sticker on my AirPod case) Weird way for my ancestors to contact me but sure

My wonderful buddy @onelittleapple.bsky.social is part of a brand new comic anthology celebrating alternative worlds! Back it on kickstarter for 17 cool new stories from celebrated comic artists ✨🌳

There are many lookalike kanji but for some reason 彼 波 疲 are really tripping me up recently ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

Sent out like a million pitches today, time to go eat a comically oversized burger and zone out

I would commit a crime if the dragon quest metal slime asked me nicely

Hey look! A new book! Some of you may have caught The Packet serialised in ParSec magazine but this is its first outing as physical book. If you like stormy sea voyages and sci-fi, this is the one for you. Out in April, opening for pre-order now. www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Every so often my PC will make an absolutely cursed graphical salad and I just put the monitor off and pretend I didn't see it

Playing some MtG today with my ⭐️ sexy bahamut ⭐️ sleeves

POV you're studying Japanese and you make a grammar breakthrough at the cost of remembering the last 20-30 kanji you learned

please know when I use the ✨ emoji, I do not mean anything to do with AI. they stole my emoji from me.

"The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." archive.is/hvRv2

I think I should play Cairn because I developed a weird fascination with trying to climb all the mountains in Breath of the Wild while it was raining / freezing / boiling

Took the bird feeders in to clean / replace and no joke, I've locked the backdoor and looked outside to see a very disgruntled robin, an industrious and hungry wren, and two indignant goldfinches #birdwatching #sorryguys

Gonna try my FF7 Commander deck tonight methinks 🤔 I want to see Cloud

Made nachos yesterday... 😌

Yes... when we were buying our house my gran told me to look at the topography and see if we were above or below the nearby river, thankfully I am a *geography nerd* and already knew the water level of the surrounding area (we're above it, of course)

Fantastic, gimme another

Can you help to support the future of #videogames in #Scotland? We have a motion lodged in parliament for a debate around the Games Action Plan, which would put it right at the forefront of the government's to do list. Please ask your MSPs to support the motion. scottishgames.net/2026/01/26/t...

2025 was brutal for games media, but I'm seeing some glimmers of hope as worker-owned sites like @aftermath.site, @rascal.news, and @giantbomb.bsky.social have carved out vital spaces in the games community. Earlier this year, I made a huge Indie Games Media starter pack for y'all. Let's celebrate.

I did the @rspb.bsky.social #BigGardenBirdwatch today and you can tell who rules my roost, lol 🥇😭🎉 #goldfinchenjoyer #minikingsofthecastle

One of the most beautiful documents ever created: the leaflet that everyone received when Britain's NHS was launched (1948) "Everyone—rich or poor, man, woman or child—can use it... There are no charges, except for a few special items...it will relieve your money worries in time of illness”

✨Games for the Weans✨is looking for creators who want to do something amazing in 2026, and help the UK's leading gaming service for children in hospital with a charity fundraising stream. No 24-hour challenges or outlandish forfeits necessary, no follower count too small 🎮

In a world of AI slop shortcuts in gaming, I am reminded that for The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa, the developer's 60 year old father learned pixelart in MSPaint to help make the game If it matters enough to you, you can always learn too, even at 60

One of life's greatest pleasures: writing in a cafe with a little coffee and a quiet group of patrons

Good fucking grief. A bald eagle - how patriotic. Shame there's absolutely nothing Scottish about it 🙄 love to have slop walls in my city

what... having just finished a replay of FF15 it absolutely should have had golf, I'm crying

Happy Birthday Larry! 🥳 🎉🎂🎁❤️ This week, Larry the Cat from Downing Street in the UK turns 19 years old. That's >90 yrs old in comparative human years. #cat #celeb #larrythecat #uk

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

My plans didn't materialise this afternoon so I stayed in and made a bowl of lazy ramyeon 🍜🩷

Amazing what ancient people built even though they were all skeletons

Kind of unreasonably excited to be eating chicken tendies tonight as part of my 💜💅🏻 girl dinner 🙏🏻🩷

Visited a pair of cuties today 🐈🧡

my armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail is a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!

First writing date of the year 💖

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What's the deal with Rumiko Takahashi's signature hand pose? aftermath.site/whats-the-deal...

ngl I'd play this

Okay it's the final party and I'm attending through sheer dedication and willpower and the promise of perhaps a beer