In the excitement of seeing #saintsfc mount a winning second-half comeback last night, I missed that Eastleigh managed the same, albeit a goal less, away to Solihull. What a night for the SO postcode havers.

Leicester 3 - 4 Southampton Extended Highlights

Age verification? I used to spend these.

Football is ridiculous.

BLOODY HELL. #saintsfc

Bloody hell! #saintsfc

If your review average is a 7 because everybody gave you a 7, that's one thing. If your average is a 7 because it's half 10s and half 4s, that is how you know it's The Good Stuff

Bloody hell. #saintsfc

Physically buzzing to play this.

Hearing Foals' 'Cassius' really does snap me back to a place and time. The place being my office, the time being when that band was in town seeing various interested record labels. Saw that band a lot early doors. Happy it worked out for them - and how I wish my body still felt like it did at 27.

The game. A while back I wrote a lot of words about its setting for a future issue of lock-on so, maybe, that'll come out in, like, 2028? In time for the game's 40th anniversary. Also, someone should let me write the book on this one. For the audience of eight folks who'd buy it. Go on.

dracula the undead, intro sequence, lynx (1992) www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6tp...

print ad, imagery (1999) archive.org/details/Comp...

With the new SS86 Soundwave in the post, the #deskbot of the day has been the very classy Core version of the same cassette recorder bastard. Just a classic design. It so rarely misses.

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A show I guess I booked, 16(?) years ago. @petefrasermusic.bsky.social I know we remember the Rolo/Manatees gig, but this one? I assume it happened but my memory is blank. Any recollection @andrewhungmusic.bsky.social ?

Rewatched the movie last night.

This isn't new news, so believe me when I say I sigh every time I see a peer on here start using this platform. (I know some of you don't, and some of you have moved when you found out, and you're the good eggs.)

What if film night with the kids is Master and Commander? What then?

Ten years ago today, I held my first book for the first time. A great feeling. Had two books out in 2016. One in 2019. Two in 2024. One in 2026?

Fashionably late, but the new Pupil Slicer - @pupilslicer.bsky.social - album, Fleshwork, absolutely rules. Go get that in you.

A few folks have asked me if a particular Alien/s game is in the book. They all are! All officially licensed games. All AvP games. Plus fan games and cancelled games and games that are Alien/s but not officially. And when a film has multiple distinct games, they all get their own chapter.

The hunt is on. Step into the world of Horizon Hunters Gathering, a new co-op action game from Guerrilla coming to PS5 and PC: play.st/3ZPOtYi

Really good video here on T2 games, but also speaks to how, in the 80s and 90s, there wasn't always a rush to get a film license game out. Home video was massive, so you could still tie a release into that success. Also, with Aliens done, does someone wanna pay me to do a Terminator book?

If I keep saying it, one day... Snatcher. Remake? Unnecessary. Just put the PAL Sega version on the eshop with touchscreen shooting and menu controls.

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Who wore it better?

Rip Tear We'll be there

Idk guys, not sure Ethan Harlow is a real person...

It's a while til it's released - officially at the end of August - but if any book-reviewing types out there are interested in receiving an advance (digital) copy of Aliens: The Video Games for coverage purposes, please let me know. Cos that can be arranged. I'm very up for chats, too.

Today's #deskbot has your back. You have got, this.

Nice to see Retro Gaming keeping some fine company in an Amazon best-sellers list right now. (Waves upwards to @mackeza.bsky.social.)

This means you'll be able to pick up a copy of my book on 50 years of home gaming history, The Console, at Debug Games Festival. Or pick it up and have a leaf through the pages, at least. Every little helps.

This is my favourite post here. No contest. Inspired.

Every weekend I look at what you lot are posting and how do you have time? My Saturday and Sunday is always Work. Not Week Work. But Still Work. Are your homes messy af? When are you doing the laundry or the big shop or fixing a door or getting the car checked or hoovering top to bottom or getting l

*Special offer* pre-orders for Aliens: The Video Games will run in March. So while it is out there now for pre-orders at a number of retailers (and those retailers may respect the forthcoming saving), my advice is to wait a few weeks and save a few quid. But please do buy it. Please. Thanks.

In March/April I want to be doing whatever I can to promote Aliens: The Video Games. Some fun stories in the book to recount to folks with podcasts and blogs. It's releasing in August but the key pre-order push is around Alien Day, April 26. I will reach out to known folks but, recommendations?

People, please. Come on now. Live.

BRIGHTON, I'm doing a Super Nintendo event at Loading Bar on February 17 with the esteemed @chrisbratt.bsky.social of People Make Games. Ticket price includes a Nintendo-themed special cocktail - come along! luma.com/mkp59tca

A cheery #deskbot for a sunny Wednesday.

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Kotaku is hiring for *three* positions: - Staff reporter: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi... - Nights and weekends editor: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi... - Community editor: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...

1980s: we broke our own toys. 2020s: we can now buy them broken.

People who use Linktrees: worth it? Even at a free level? (I wanna put something together to get all the Alien book links in one place.)

You know what's utterly gorgeous? Atari arcade flyers from the 1970's. Look at these beauts for Dominos, Touch Me and Starship 1.

Polygon ran a piece the other week about there being no great darts games and, excuse me...

Freelance Work: I'm on the hunt for a coder/webdev to assist on @rpgsite.net enhancing & maintaining our 100% custom backend, Mist Engine, & on spinning up exciting new projects. Knowledge of Elixir/Phoenix a must, Go desirable. Rates negotiable, and a chance for regular recurring work out of this.

Some He/Him-Men, earlier. (The number of fragile manbabies I have seen get upset over that, tis laughable.)