Be like Megan; watch this film.

Chimneys, turrets, the usual

Angie Lewin - Autumn Teasels. #Linocut

Who'd be the director of a live service game? Not me. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ma...

Valve's new Steam Machine was 14 years (and one big failure) in the making. Here's the twisty story behind the Steam maker's decade-long quest to bring PCs to the living room: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Spurned lovers return from the grave, ghost ships materialise on the sea, a bird’s eerie cry lures the unsuspecting to their deaths. Welcome to the unsettling world of the French weird. Danse Macabre: An Anthology of French Weird is available online and in store today. #BritishLibraryPublishing

The wreck of the cruise ship MS World Discoverer, slowly being taken over by nature. She struck an uncharted reef in the Solomon Islands in 2000 and has remained there ever since. #Cruiseships #Shipwrecks #Pacific

It's just all kinds of wrong. www.instagram.com/reel/DasOQEI...

I wrote about James Bond, games where anything could break out, and (lightly) the squandering of everything. Big notional essay.

I told Jay the first time I played if it ever became a real thing I’d back it at the highest tier. Today I keep that promise. I’ve had debates for years about who would buy this thing. So I rest today & do paperwork & watch the opening of this crowdfund to see what Wizard Madness ensues.

It’s the 14th, so for a limited time only, if you haven’t caught up with Series 2 of Broken Veil (and would rather a one off purchase than a channel sub) we’re making the whole series available for £14. www.patreon.com/collection/2...

This week's Respec podcast is out. We talk the Xbox layoffs, launching the site, the fight to keep discs, some retro nostalgia, and as two eras of VG247 collide, it all naturally ends in bullying: www.respec.net/podcast/95-r...

Launching a new website about video games today. Meet @respec.net. A sibling to @rpgsite.net, a spiritual successor to VG247, & a brother from another mother to other 100% independent UK media brands like @videogameschronicle.com and @trueachievements.com. www.respec.net/feature/87-w...

... then carry that experience into contemporary reflection." — Read Camille Deschapelles' paper, 'Around the Round Table: Moral Archaeology in King Arthur Pendragon' in the Journal of Board Game Academics: boardgameacademics.com/around-the-r...

Charles R. Saunders (1946-2020) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Ken Kelly, 1981; R, James Gurney, 1985 #fantasy #books

Citizen Vigilante is a low-budget action thriller starring actor Armie Hammer as a vigilante who hunts down migrant criminals in Europe. The movie faced a muted reception - until #ElonMusk posted it to his hundreds of millions of followers on X.com.

I did enjoy the Young Ones edition of @allbritishcomedy.bsky.social but not one mention of Filthy, Rich and Catflap‽ Not of an oversight, folks. open.spotify.com/episode/7iwx...

Oh good heavens

It may be 22 years old, but damn, that's still one fine arse. Classic VIZ comic strip ‘Vidal Baboon' print signed by Barney Farmer and Lee Healey etsy.me/4hus2zU

I agree with this- The Mighty Dead is a wonderful book. Lyrical, surprising, and informative. share.google/V2pswbND5joD...

Game Pass wasn't the bad idea. The bad idea was trying to shift Xbox into a subscription-based service group with a massive sub count to align with things like Office 365 in the first place. If anything was going to be able to meet that goal, it was Game Pass. The goal itself was unrealistic.

The goal was 100M subs. And that Xbox would "exit the gaming business" were it not reached. wccftech.com/microsoft-ma...

WE ARE LIVE! Help us have a great first day? We REALLY want to make this SFF anthology work & start a new annual SFF Best Of series! Head to locusmag.com/anthology (link in bio) to get a pledge in! Be a part of something special! #BacktheBook Sharing helps us tremendously:)

You turn your back for 5 minutes and www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

In this heat‽ 🤢 www-cambridge--news-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.camb...

New interview: I asked Meta’s EMEA Vice president about harmful design, online safety, ad fraud, privacy concerns for its line of smart glasses, and more. Full interview (with transcript) here: uk.themedialeader.com/its-not-like... Some takeaways in the thread below: (1/x)

Nice one! @wargamer.com takes a look at Maskwitches, which is about to launch as a new ready to ship campaign in celebration of the ENnies. Check it out! www.wargamer.com/maskwitches-... #maskwitches #ttrpg

“A kingfisher, like a streak of living sapphire, flashes across the water. He knows better than the fishermen how to catch fish” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

50 years ago. I've never asked @radiodotun.bsky.social if he was there. www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...

This short essay on how AI is changing language is worth a read, but it’s bitterly depressing — I’ve spent years learning to how to write and think, in a style that is specific to me. AI false positives scares me as an author, and saddens me as a citizen www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

"The Tube was obviously not the work of one man; but if the entire concept of an underground railway has a progenitor, it’s this guy."

Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co

File under: The more complicated you make problems seem, the easier it is to avoid responsibility for them. Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers economist.com/science-and-... from The Economist

I spoke to the director and top designer of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. They were remarkably candid, telling me that the experience made them dislike making games. But now they're teaming up on an indie project to get their passion back. New column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Dear god. When will the IPA nightmare end?

Any guesses? #whatsinthebox

Unlooked for lyricism? We haz it. www.rockpapershotgun.com/i-attended-a...

Mini of the month - John Blanche Entry 17 by @mxhollyclara.bsky.social We Are Legion #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

Earlier today in Kotaku Slack, @duckvalentine.bsky.social couldn't remember the name of Naughty Dog's upcoming space game "Intergalactic." Instead she posted these names which I now want to be made official.

I've just discovered that the late Celia Humphris from Trees was, later, Celia Drummond, the voice of the train I took to work for years. I only know about Trees because of that really good recent Stewart Lee video about Hackney record shops.

The urge to copy a Fighting Fantasy book into Twine, just to see, has needlessly arisen

Why does football-mad Scotland produce so few world class players? Answers with me & Charlie Methven on the pod that takes you inside the football boardroom. 🎧 pod.fo/e/43bec2 📺 youtu.be/xYkyuUr8xCQ?...

NEW: Xbox confirms to Bloomberg News that it has pulled out of IO Interactive's 'Project Fantasy' video game. “We expect to invest about the same in content as we did last year. What's changing is where we're investing and the kinds of projects we're backing.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I cannot wait to pop into the Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street one lunchtime and get some work done on my laptop. I might ask, with a smile, for a pint of Man In Box, and meet some gay friends for a drink and maybe even a swear. Good riddance, you mad, mad, mad brewery lunatic.

The cover is live for my & Carlos Greaves' new book!!! Complete with a very kind endorsement from Nikki Glaser. Preorder now: store.mcsweeneys.net/products/obe...

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

RIP, Penelope Keith. You will be on our Christmas tree again this year, as always.