Negotiations with cafe staff for the wifi code are ongoing

Started a new article series on PC Gamer this weekend, in which I crack open the Steam libraries of developers and feast on the gooey insides. First up is @danthat.bsky.social, who discussed his love for XCOM 2 and got slightly mad at me about Snipping Tool. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

So much bigger than you think.

Oh yeah baby

I'm still looking for full-time or contract work – I'm a narrative design generalist with credits on multiple shipped titles. I focus on taming the complexity of narrative systems, writing prose, and leading narrative teams. brunodias.dev/bio

Well, damn. Never thought I’d see the day when all my teenage CRPGs were prestige dramas.

One important life skill is the ability to discern, through intuition and experience, the best moment to play the DLC during a pre-existing single-player campaign. Get it wrong and you’ve just paid extra to mess up a game’s pacing and difficulty curve.

I'm starting to fill up my freelance calendar for next month onwards. Get in touch if you need an extremely experienced and adaptable freelance games developer.

Get your hands off South Yorkshire. I’m horrified to hear that Barnsley council “has been using AI assistants for the last couple of years in adult social care and children’s services”. That sounds like the desperate act of an underfunded area, not a leap forward. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

For PC Gamer I wrote about the distinct melancholic magic of GTA IV. They’ll never make one quite like this again and that’s fine cos I have this one. www.pcgamer.com/games/grand-...

For PC Gamer I wrote about the distinct melancholic magic of GTA IV. They’ll never make one quite like this again and that’s fine cos I have this one. www.pcgamer.com/games/grand-...

Want to see your writing in glorious print? In ON3 we are going to mentor and showcase new voices. Email [email protected] with an example of your work and any relevant experience by 8th Feb. on.games #GamesJournalism #GamesWriting

Okay wow. We're SO CLOSE to 100 reviews. When we get 100, the algorithm sits up and PROPERLY takes notice of us, which will make a *world* of difference. The strongest way right now to support Size Five is to grab a copy and drop a review asap. Your help means everything to me, thank you ❤️

Fill yer belly with Bellic chat. Proud of how deep this one goes.

Biggest collars in podcasting. Aside from Harry Hill’s, obviously.

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

Coming Friday! Who would finish a 30-hour game just for one podcast? Us, apparently. And @jeremypeel.bsky.social! Three Giant Men Play Grand Theft Auto IV is this week's episode. Here's a preview:

A new website about PC games, from me, @brendyc.bsky.social and @jonhicks.com. Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like @jank.cool.

Let's. Go. Bowling.

Extremely good fun. Come for the insight, stay for my wordless Phil Collins impersonation

This is a classic episode. If you have any preconceptions about Phil Fish, I guarantee they'll be smashed by this conversation.

Extremely good fun. Come for the insight, stay for my wordless Phil Collins impersonation

The key quote in here is “animosity du jour”. There’s always an animosity du jour in videogames now. And, well: there are healthier ways to find your sense of belonging and community than by participating in a pile-on. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/fo...

Yep, I feel this. Jody Macgregor has me nodding along to a defence of an XCOM spin-off I haven't played. www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...

I think if you charge a handheld games console and then, later, it turns out to be no longer charged without anybody playing on it, that’s an affront to man and beast. Failing to hold a charge is a crime in the court of any god with their priorities straight

I often type a half-remembered idiom into google and find it incredibly damning that the AI Overview avoids correcting me. It'll be like "three bushes is worth one hand? sure, somebody's probably said that once, you clever boy." No, tell me the precise way in which I'm wrong! That's what I need!

BIG NEWS! In March, 2026, we release Queen’s Wish: The Judgment, the conclusion to the series! This final chapter will be released as free DLC for Queen’s Wish 2: The Tormentor. Queen's Wish 2 is on sale on Steam this week ... store.steampowered.com/app/1947750/...

"What's your favourite Beatles album, then?" "Tough one! I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"

Richard Ayoade is to my knowledge the only writer to include a footnote that simply reads ‘haul ass to the appendix (p. 236)’ but there’s still time for the rest of us to improve

An interactive story that evokes And Then There Were None as much as Bilbo Baggins’ birthday party - before building to a point of quite thrilling overwhelm.

If it was normal for films to feel as electric, nerve-jangling and novel as the 28 Years Later series I don’t think I could take it. I’d be constantly overloaded by pure Cinema and then who would unload the dishwasher?

I'm writing a Dark Souls 2 article for RPS and I'm looking for a few quotes from game devs / designers to contextualize its reputation... is Dark Souls 2 the best or worst designed? good-weird or bad-weird? why? replies open

Reminder that video game journalism cannot exist without functioning newsrooms that have the capacity to mentor and train new talent and the bandwidth to pursue long-form investigative pieces and break news—all while paying writers a living wage.

Read my nostalgic investigation into EverQuest 2’s in-game pizza ordering instead, it’s way more endearing than anything ‘agentic’ www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/ju...

[Brandon Flowers voice at the castle roundtable, singing softly but getting louder with each repetition] I’ve got traits but I’m not a Traitor

I want more Dias-flavoured games, please and thank you.

Oh hey I write free ones every Friday now, tell your friends newsletter.hitpoints.co/352-dark-nig...

HEY HEY it's NEWS 'O CLOCK. 'EARTH MUST DIE' is coming out on the 27th of Jan, which is alarmingly soon! Please pop over here and wishlist it, and do share if you're able. Thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

My Video Game Visual Voice Reel! Featuring voice acting from Dread Delusion, Old Skies (my BAFTA Breakthrough), Harold Halibut, Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader, The Seance of Blake Manor, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, Lord Winklebottom Investigates, Mutropolis, Loco Motive, PRIM, and more!

Still looking for someone who can speak from this perspective. Do you exist? If so, let me know!

"Weak password". Alright, I've barely woken up. My brain's in retrograde. Don't be a dick.

Ever think the most discombobulating aspect of the Traitors setup is simply giving adults uninterrupted time to make friends?

Glad to see contemporary coverage of Emily Short's Counterfeit Monkey (2012?). Incredible piece of interactive fiction: bsky.app/profile/jere... Also: one of the best parts of playing Short's work is all of her accompanying blog posts.

Just imagine the decrepitude had he edited a games magazine in the noughties eh @backpagepod.bsky.social

I finished Emily Short’s Counterfeit Monkey and it was excellent. Hope you’re well.

This was the least approachable aspect of Divinity and I’m glad to see the back of it! www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/di...

The cool thing about living in the far future is that I can now fully appreciate main menus that genuinely wouldn’t have run properly on my PC. Would have loved to navigate to graphics settings but it would’ve tanked the framerate, no can do

I might as well just put this out there, but DMs are open if anyone wants to hire a writer/editor/multimedia person with: > 15 yrs experience writing/producing video & podcasts for major outlets (PC Gamer, IGN) > Known for fast, clean copy > WFH with HD game capture and high-quality VO capability

I'm wrapping up a major contract this month, so: hire me! I'm a writer/narrative designer/systems designer with a decade of industry experience and a lot of experience taming the complexity of intricate systems. Let me build your storylet system or write disquieting prose for you!

Bonkers that Arc Raiders won ‘most innovative’ in Steam’s community awards. An exquisite refinement of something Hunt Showdown was doing half a decade ago.