Can't even open the windows because of smoke from the Dovestones fire. Guess I'll die 🤷

Would love to know how the BBC works out what's news. There's a massive plume of smoke over two of the largest urban areas in the UK, and it's in eighth place, folded into a story about the heatwave.

Oh my god not Sam Neill 😭

It may actually, in fact, be coming home

Don't talk too much about stuff going on in my personal life, but two films I watched last year ("SORRY, BABY" and "SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING") really felt like they were tailor-made for my brain in the exact moment I saw them. Two really healing and freeing experiences, which I'm grateful for.

Well, it's been real you guys. variety.com/2026/digital...

I'm so close to getting a gabecube for emulation, apparently bloodborne runs at 60fps cleanly on there

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...

Children of Men: The Musical would be dope by the way

Currently getting "baked" (making a pasta bake to have for my tea)

I've "had a drink or two"

I miss EGX. Remember when they said it was coming back to Birmingham and then just completely ghosted anyone who asked when.

Somehow convinced my girlfriend to watch Seven Samurai with me if I watched A Bug's Life with her. Not sure who's getting played here.

I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards

My parents were low income so I often just browsed game shops as a kid. Sometimes mum let me get a game. It'd cost her whole day's wage and a chunk of our rent. Dad once told me to check under the car seat and Pokemon Red was there in a bag. Ownership isn't the only thing we lose with physical media

"Remothered Remastered" is such a fucking funny title

Some words from me about Sony's baffling decision.

I'm doing my first proper go of Ocarina of Time. When I was a kid I don't even think I made it to Death Mountain, certainly didn't reach the time skip. Pretty good game, that. Not sure it needs a remake.

I've been primarily PC gaming since I was a kid and it sucked once they phased out physical media. Made my peace with it over time with stuff like GOG, emulation, etc but for consoles it'll suck even worse when Microsoft/Sony owns the entire ecosystem in where you obtain your new games from.

Your last chance to play Tokyo Jungle

Wonderful! Time for a celebration... Cheese for everyone!

Quite relieved that I jumped off the Xbox ship after the 360 and went back to PC gaming because holy shit imagine having to rebuild your game library now on a brand new platform

what studios are they gonna have left

Final day of the quarter always makes me a bit nervous as a salaried employee

testing out some strats

I got my PC at the very end of 2020 and luckily I don't play many AAA games on it, so I can probably hold out until 2028/29ish but man if these hardware prices don't start creeping down by then I'm going to be having words

You can play as a cat in this

So the game can change, remove stuff, get censored, or even be taken from your library entirely and there's nothing you can do about it.

took me a solid 20 minutes to get the heart piece from here

Older UK homes not having air-con, fair enough fair enough. New builds not having it is a fkin bizarre choice. The summers are only going to get hotter, lads.

Just found out Hitman: Absolution got contracts mode back on Nintendo Switch. It was removed from other platforms nearly a decade ago, so it's great to see the mode preserved like this. Might be worth me picking it up at some point.

Thief: Pulse of Promise is a new officially licensed 140-page graphic novel set between the events of the Thief video games Thief: The Dark Project and Thief II: The Metal Age. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

this is what Kingdom Hearts looks like to normal people

In case you, too, needed this today:

Technically, they’re Remains now.

it's so much easier to enjoy video games when you turn off reposts and have aggressive mute filters on bluesky

biggest news of the day

Finished my Rocky watchthrough and WHAT A GOOD FRANCHISE THIS IS

oh my god

Gears of War: E-Girl

somehow unlocked achievements in Far Cry 5 eleven years before the game came out

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Not that I'm not excited to see more of Dylan in Control Resonant, but designing Jesse like *this* and not making her playable should be some kind of crime.

A few years late to this, but Red Rooms is one of the most chilling thrillers I've seen in ages. Incredible standout performances and some killer cinematography. boxd.it/ym4c

seems kinda in bad taste to launch your accolades trailer on the same day it's reported your studio is laying off a bunch of devs

truly one of the most original Letterboxd reviews I've ever seen

35 is no age. I'm almost there. RIP.

Mortal Shell 2 has a giant woman

Well up for Control Resonant later this year. @remedygames.com never miss. Alan Wake 1 is the reason I became a writer. Immediately after finishing the game I sought out Twin Peaks and Stephen King, things escalated from there.