Tired: Esdeekid is secretly Timmy Chalamet Wired: UK rap now sounds like it’s recorded over the Wolfenstein 3D soundtrack and is the better for it youtu.be/StwmlDe6vE4?...

Okay this is some strong as hell maths. Can't tell you how much buying the Size Five games helps me out. If you follow me but don't own these yet, please grab them now. It's the *actual best Christmas present* to help keep my weird little company afloat. Thank you.

Me logging into COD

There is nothing more festive than being hunted by robots, I say! And it is with that sentiment in mind that I bring you Sir, You Are Being Hunted, beloved and seminal stealth and survival game from Big Robot, a gift of 40% off. Cheers!

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 55% off in the Steam Winter Sale! Inspired by movies such as The Wicker Man & the works of M.R. James, with a little pinch of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft - our folk horror adventure is the perfect play for Christmas! store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

The best-worst thing anyone asked me to do this year.

Spiderweb Software is in the Steam Winter Sale, and all our indie RPGs are even cheaper! Avernum 4: Greed and Glory got great reviews from critics and players, and now is at a nice discount. Geneforge 2 and Queen's Wish 2 also quite cheap. Drop by ... store.steampowered.com/publisher/sp...

The fundamental thesis of The Warriors is that, no matter how ridiculously-dressed someone might look as an individual, if there are eight other dudes wearing the exact same and a straight face, they’re a kind of cool that can’t be fucked with

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

Nice, I'm in the credits of the best game of the year. Maybe consider booking me as a mock reviewer on your game project in 2026!

I'm wistful today.

This album is the hip hop equivalent of an isometric CRPG. Just has that feel. Strange to think it was yet to celebrate its 10th anniversary when I discovered it.

Delighted to see this piece up! Massive thank you to all the women who shared their experience with me for this 🖤 www.gamesindustry.biz/a-decade-on-...

I need to return to the original Mechanicus and get it finished. Some of the most poetic prose I've read in a game.

one of Eric Fenstermaker's greatest works imho

I need to start quoting Popeye more often in matters of principle

Glad to hear this. Dambuster did miracles with Dead Island 2 in the circumstances. Real tactile, emergent combat magic. Electrified pools, physics surprises, all that.

Poured myself into this list of my favourite Fallout characters, which pulls together some fascinating walking contradictions and downright idiots from across the series and the TV show. www.pcgamer.com/games/fallou...

Then: Baby’s got the Strands Now: Set me loose in them Sunless Skies (literally my most-played game of 2025)

Firing up YouTube to find that Tim Cain posted a video called ‘What is an immersive sim?’ one minute ago. Well damn, I’m in.

'Waving away an overattentive waiter as though dispersing an aromatic belch'. Chef's kiss.

🎄 Christmas at ON just got better with free UK shipping until midnight Friday 19th - and it’s the last chance to order in time for Christmas delivery. Discover the ON Christmas Edition and our full range now at on.games #ChristmasGifts #IndiePublishing #GamesMagazine

I didn’t watch the awards part of the Geoffs, but I do think there’s an incentive for such shows to build repetition into the structure. That’s how the Oscars typically makes headlines - by showering a single winner with an overwhelming number of gongs

a lovely snippet from our latest episode which shows the importance of developers sharing their creative process. Without @obsidianent.bsky.social showing their work via devlogs, we may never have gotten the beautiful isometric world of Disco Elysium.

Nope. Not what that term means. If you're making a follow-up and you've got the license, it's just a successor.

did u kno if you’re in the UK rn and you’re worried about the virulent strains of flu going around you can go to your local Boots and pay £20 to get a jab that will save you from having to touch an overworked NHS this winter even tho Wes streeting should be supporting doctors & welcoming more nurses

God, Wes Streeting's anti-strike fearmongering sounds *exactly* like the Conservatives did for a decade. Same style of government, different name.

If you're into the craft of games journalism, I think you ought to be reading @lewispackwood.bsky.social. Just an incredibly consistent output of thoughtful features at an astonishing rate lately. Stuff that holds your attention and teaches you something. www.gamesindustry.biz/authors/lewi...

Why’ve you made my daily searches so powerfully odd, @failbettergames.com?

Everyone’s talking about the gamer warden? About time somebody locked up those nerds I guess

A week of 50% off our blue-skies-and-space-ruins robot ghost story:

Fallen London regularly delights me by turning the most mundane game aspects into wicked surprises. In this case: an inventory item which might spring to life and eat your candles at any time.

Wonderful words from Wes. Google’s AI summaries can no more replace internet browsing than an A4 sheet of bullet points could replace a magazine. Efficiency is not the point. At least, not always.

*googles Disappearing inventory items in Fallout 2* Sorry, they've been doing sodding what??

Must have been terrifying to live in the 1970s when - according to the TV adventure dramas I’ve watched from the period - any soldier could be rendered instantly unconscious with a karate chop to the small of the back

You can turn the Christmas Edition into the Jeremy Peel Edition by picking the Wolfenstein cover, to match my mega-feature on the series within. Most ambitious piece of writing I’ve produced this year!

Everyone’s losing it over a ludonarrative diss from Ian Bogost, expertly-tuned to upset 99 games industry employees in 100? You there boy, what year is this?

This year, much of my focus has been on PC Gamer's Weird Weekend column, which I flagrantly abused to fill some hyper-specific knowledge gaps that have bugged me for ages. Since the year's nearly up, I thought I'd put together a thread of my favourite pieces: www.pcgamer.com/tag/weird-we...

An owner that understood the value of a great game studio with rare institutional knowledge wouldn't let Eidos Montréal be wounded over and over, imo.

⏰ THIS IS IT! FINAL 48 HOURS TO BACK THE APWOT 6 KICKSTARTER! 🤖✨ Link below! 👇

Repeatedly asking the supermarket staff for a 'chocolate battle pass' and feigning misunderstanding when they ask if I mean 'advent calendar'

God yes. I wish more people thought of journalism as a secondary skill for fiction writing. It brings you ideas and gets you out of your own perspective.

Okay, parser games are fun.

The new issue is out today. @jeremypeel.bsky.social plays Toxic Commando and talks with Tim Willits. After that, he interviews Failbetter about moving on from the Fallen London universe. @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social writes her first ever article for Edge, about the growing chaos of game prices.

"The industry's finest sustainable storyteller" is an appellation that we'll wear with pride. Thank you, @jeremypeel.bsky.social and the Edge team, for this wonderful profile in January's issue.

Writing reviews of Megadeth and Morrissey for the school paper and having teachers I didn’t know pull me out of class to chat thrash metal and miserable indie stars.

Running Man is real good. Efficient storytelling with flair. Furious, to the point of fuming, in its tone. Reviews have been mixed but I would say: don’t mistake slick and fun for frivolous.

Wall-jumping is back in COD, but it's not nearly so radical as what came before. Really enjoyed chatting to Glen Schofield about the dangerously divisive boost jump. www.pcgamer.com/games/call-o...

This is the first bundle I've felt compelled to buy in about a decade. Fair play.