Great piece from @jeremypeel.bsky.social here! www.gamesindustry.biz/the-painful-...

This week's PC Gamer column features a lot more genitalia than usual. I'll let you decide whether that's a good thing or not. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/th...

Jeff’s making some of today’s most engrossingly original and reactive RPGs. If you’re a Baldur’s Gate or New Vegas head who isn’t in it for the VFX, I reckon you’ll be into this.

🌐 NEUROCRACY 🌐 An episodic sci-fi hypertext game ✅ Fall into a wiki hole from the future ✅ Solve a murder across article edits ✅ Your investigation affects the outcome [citation needed] ⭐ "Ambitious" - The Guardian ⭐ "Brilliant" - Eurogamer ▶️ Dive in: omnipedia.app ▶️ More info: neurocracy.site

Today's Peel Perspective is about the creator of X-Com, the original design for Fortnite, and the battle for crossplay. www.patreon.com/posts/139263...

Man’s one of the best in the biz.

Not only am I communications director at Failbetter Games, I am also available for indie games marketing help. Typically I focus on Steam store pages. Get them right, and everything else becomes easier. My services are as follows:

Social media is especially grim this weekend, and I cannot recommend fallenlondon.com enough as a nicotine patch for doomscrolling. Read fun snippets of text, keep your thumbs occupied, escape to a gothic fantasy in odd moments throughout your day. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/iv...

🚨 The penultimate episode of Neurocracy is now online! It introduces Spencer Hagen, a villain into whomst I have funnelled the entire breadth of my seething hatred for entitled tech bros ✍️🔥 Please join me in my blatant disdain for him and his ilk: omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/09/Spencer_Hagen

'The hunt for a Cold War immersive sim', featuring an interview with @spectra.bsky.social creator Ellis Tucci, is now free to read on The Peel Perspective: www.patreon.com/posts/138583...

Read on to discover the context of the phrase “closing the bulkhead doors on a rising mass of horse-headed abominations and dead-eyed Ana de Armas waxworks”. www.gamesradar.com/games/grand-...

“I am authorised to buy you a cup of tea.”

Hmm. Bloodlines 2 and The Outer Worlds 2 out the same week now. That's not *ideal* for me, as someone wanting to cover both.

PC Gamer wrote up one of the more fascinating stories to come out of my recent interview with Glen Schofield. www.pcgamer.com/games/call-o...

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info

I got laid off from Firaxis today. I helped ship Marvel's Midnight Suns DLC and Civilization VII, and would love to talk to you about mid level Producer roles.

I was a Firaxis narrative designer/writer and lost my job today. Any help sharing leads on new opportunities would be great! Over 3.5 years, I contributed to Civilization VII and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, helping turn maps, mechanics, and chaos into memorable stories. See my work benreeves.carrd.co

Miserable. Firaxis is a den of talent and has been a training ground for some of the strategy genre’s finest designers for decades.

This is my primary reason for believing that real writing will prevail over AI, for what it’s worth. Without a human being on the other end of the line, nothing is communicated.

A lot of this type of work is bread-and-butter for working VOs- corporate videos, e-learning, so we all lost our baseline income. I know plenty who have had to quit to support themselves elsewhere. AI voices are hideous to listen to and learn from, and the sooner everyone realised this the better.

I love that Fallen London needed 666 players to bring about the finale of its Estival story, and got almost ten times that.

Today's Peel Perspective for subscribers is about the way roguelikes tackle legacy, and the idea of living on in others. Sign up for a fiver a month and get top-tier games writing straight to your inbox. www.patreon.com/posts/137634...

Trained journalist writing important work question: does anyone outside the UK know what a party ring is?

Read the latest Peel Perspective article for free - an explainer on why rushed spin-off Fallout: New Vegas still looms so large in the public imagination (and that of the TV adaptation's showrunners). www.patreon.com/posts/137378...

The Peel Perspective is absolutely worth a sign up, while Jeremy is absolutely lovely to boot - get involved!

Read the latest Peel Perspective article for free - an explainer on why rushed spin-off Fallout: New Vegas still looms so large in the public imagination (and that of the TV adaptation's showrunners). www.patreon.com/posts/137378...

I interviewed one of the creators, Martin Edmondson, in 2011, and he told me he could complete the infamously hard underground parking garage level using just his feet (shoes and socks off, naturally).

Here's a 700-word explanation of why I, or anyone else, loved the original Driver. www.gamesradar.com/games/open-w...

Are you a game developer who, when faced with the prospect of making layoffs, found another way forward for their studio instead? If so, I'd love to speak to you for GamesIndustry.Biz. We're working on an article with the working title, 'You don't always have to make people redundant'. Get in touch!

doctor: blackpink in your area patient: sorry? doctor: yes, looks like it. I’ll prescribe a cream, but you can book a follow up appointment over the phone if it doesn’t clear up within a month

You can’t tell me what to do.

Just because easily-digitally-pirated work was repriced at zero in a post-Napster digital panic spasm, doesn’t mean that charging for it is weird outlier behaviour. It’s what you’d expect to do, if you thought about it for more than a moment.

Here's a trivia question that could really help me out: can you name an American videogame set outside the US? Bonus points if it's an indie.

New Peel Perspective post just dropped for subscribers! It's about social climbing, after a fashion. www.patreon.com/posts/137077...

Seeing people go "Reviews aren't needed for this. People will buy it regardless," and like... reviews aren't just a thing to be used by people to decide if they should buy something. A critical appraisal of a game is still worth having even if a bunch of fans are going to buy it anyway.

I respect this.

Review: Gamescom Opening Night Live fed gaming’s most fervent fandoms and came out alive - if only just, writes @jeremypeel.bsky.social. vgc.news/features/opi...

Review: Gamescom Opening Night Live fed gaming’s most fervent fandoms and came out alive - if only just, writes @jeremypeel.bsky.social. vgc.news/features/opi...

Please find attached: some praise and criticism for Gamescom’s Opening Night Live. www.videogameschronicle.com/features/opi...

Here. We. Go. 6pm BST @ lostincult.co.uk. Be there.

Damnit, my wife's playing Max Richter's On the Nature of Daylight in the next room and now this work email I'm writing is deeply and inexplicably moving.

An exclusive for you: the former director of DayZ worked alongside the current director of Clockwork Revolution on a Wasteland-universe survival game at InXile. "There was a robotic sperm whale off the coast, and it was called Roby Dick." www.pcgamer.com/games/surviv...

Thanks to everyone who grabbed my Ridge Racer Type 4 fanzine. It's been a real buzz seeing it out in the wild. Physical copies still available at ultrabrilliant.etsy.com!

Recognising these mistakes can honestly transform your writing. If the language you use in a sentence creates a sense of physical space or motion, even an abstract one, that sense ought to carry through to the end. You’re conjuring an image with its own internal logic. What goes up must come down.

Got ON: Volume One but waiting for Volume Two? Now's your chance to get Volume Two and save 50% on a beautiful slipcase designed to showcase them both! on.games/compendium 🚨 Hurry, Compendium sale ends at midnight tonight!

I was really happy with the way the Vagabond’s story turned out - anyone who’s played House of Many Doors knows I love it when an RPG companion has their own agenda, but Failbetter let me dial this up to 11 with Old Tom! Amazing article, thank you @jeremypeel.bsky.social 😁

Ever had something so shocking happen to you in a game that you needed to talk about it? I felt physically compelled to get this story out of my head and onto the page. Without that catharsis I genuinely didn’t know how to process and move on. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/a-...

Absolutely loved this piece on a defining Sunless Skies experience by @jeremypeel.bsky.social All credit for the story in question should go to @skelicopter.bsky.social, who wrote the Amiable Vagabond with such relish and inventiveness. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/a-...