Freelance Friday is here again! This week, @geeky.bsky.social returns to Rogue to advocate for Oaken Tower, which is currently "just" a demo. www.rogue.site/editorials/o...

What an incredible start to this F1 race

Loving Marathon so far

The first streaming service to sort out a license agreement with record companies to allow streamers to stream music will immediately get me to sign up. It feels like there's a lot of money being left on the table by those companies now because there's no sensible way to do it

Super excited to head back into Marathon later. With that, Resi 9, Esoteric Ebb, Slay the Spire 2 and more coming in the next few weeks, it's a crazy good time for people who like games! #gaming

Isn't it weird how we, as a community/society, switched from saying: "I like/don't like that" to: "that's good/bad" -as if we're the authority on quality and personal taste doesn't matter?

Really enjoying Marathon, the pve is actually interesting and keeps you on your toes and I've had some of the best PvP fights I've ever had in an extraction shooter.

We're joined by @geeky.bsky.social this week to talk about the recent practice of hate campaigning for games long before they release. www.rogue.site/editorials/h...

Really excited to have @geeky.bsky.social on Rogue this week!

I'm looking for other creators planning on playing #Marathon when it launches for the server slam Hit me up with your links or give me recommendations!

I'm really looking forward to trying HighGuard when I get back from my trip in a week and a bit, but I'm genuinely worried they'll shut it down before then. The way the gaming community has rallied around crying out for it's failure is insane to me. Don't we want indie studios making new games?

Just watching Twin Peaks for the first time, and this coupled with finding out about the Peacemaker intro is making me a little less fond of Alan Wake 2. I thought it was crazy creative and now I'm seeing it was just full of references to things I hadn't seen, that border on just stealing bits.

I left Twitter because of the bots and terrible takes and self promotion and needless arguments. Spent a week on Threads and it's increasingly the same. Maybe a good idea to keep my circle of who I follow pretty small on here. I just want to have somewhere to vent and read interesting things.

My email and twitter DMs are just full of constant bot/AI spam now. How the hell do people get messages from real strangers anymore, I'm assuming everything is spam if I don't know the sender.

I miss the time when games were about adventures and experiences instead of making progress.

Excited for a new @destinythegame.bungie.net raid today - it's always a fun thing to explore!

Ok I love the #MarioKartWorld photo mode

So many great games at the moment, Nightreign, F125, Clair Obscure, Monster Train 2, AND there's a new console tomorrow, a new Mario Kart, a Dune MMO AND Keigh3 - another great time to be a gamer

Just broke my Camera Mount because I'd over-tightened a joint and when I went to move it, it snapped something in the base instead. FML

I'm so confused by the ending of #AssassinsCreedShadows - I thought I was doing a side mission then the credits just rolled. I feel like that could have been an amazing ten hour game, but the narrative completely lacked structure or direction for a 50 hour game

I'm so happy Serif Affinity just added an object select tool, it was literally the only thing that always tempted me back towards Photoshop.

Watching Conclave and it weirdly fits in neatly with the Fast and the Furious series. What a cinematic universe!

Elon Musk could pay to rebuild Los Angeles after the worst fire it's ever suffered, and he would still be by far the richest man that has ever lived. He won't though. Eat the rich

Playing GTA V again is reigniting my love of gaming. And making me question why I spent so long playing COD when I wasn't enjoying it.

So how on earth do I preorder an #nvidia 5090 in the UK? Never bought a GPU at launch

Had a tight chest and shallow breathing for a couple of days and it got quite bad tonight so rang 111 at midnight on a Saturday. Within half an hour a paramedic had turned up and done an ECG, checked my oxygen levels and blood pressure etc and reassured me it's a virus For free I love the #NHS

Wow so @rockstargames.com have banned me from ever playing any of their games on Steam because the e-mail I connected GTA IV to for their social club over a decade ago doesn't exist anymore.

The new Gaming PC is alive, and booted first time! Still need to check temps etc and get the new GPU when they come out next month, but I'm so happy it all works!

Look what just came through my letterbox... Time to build a new PC?

Finished Cyberpunk at last and had a good time with it. Feels a bit like it ran out of Steam and good while before the ending though, not sure it needed to be 50 hours long.

Merry Christmas 🎄

Maybe I'm enjoying Cyberpunk so much because a world where the super rich are buying government influence and stamping on the middle classes and below to like their own pockets feels a lot more relevant right now. Elon Musk is truly a dystopian villain.

I really didn't like Cyberpunk 2077 at launch, not even because of the bugs, I just didn't think it was a good game. Playing it again now and I absolutely love it, what a difference!

Made a conscious effort to make higher quality videos and avoid generic 'content' over the last 7 days and views have absolutely dropped off a cliff. Demoralising doesn't begin to cover it. YouTube is so difficult to get right.

Imagine if our public services (energy, health, transport, communications, basic food production and distribution etc) weren't run for profit for shareholders and the organisations running them had strict limits on wages like MPs. Almost like we wouldn't have a cost of living crisis

Just gave Caves of Qud a try before I stream some tomorrow and I've never seen a game with this kind of interface cope with controller inputs so well! One day I'll be able to play everything on an Xbox controller...

Finished Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and got every achievement except for the one about getting every note (that's crazy). It was good, like 8/10. Pretty much the perfect Indiana Jones game.

Running a 'just for fun' community night on #callofduty Black Ops 6 Prop Hunt from about 7.30pm GMT - join the stream on twitch.tv/GeekyPastimes to join in!

Holy crap, that is a pretty impressive announcement, can't wait to give #NightReign a try. Pretty sure I don't believe Keighley when he says there's bigger surprises to come unless they shadow drop GTA VI

I need to stop replying to every YouTube comment

Any #GameDevelopers care to share things that they wish gamers understood about game development for a video I'm putting together? Happy to get replies on this, or DMs, or e-mails. Happy for you to be anonymous or not in the video.

I should just make my bio on socials 'No worries if not'. Feel like I live my professional life constantly worried that I'm being rude by asking for too much.

My progress from day one -> day two of using #Blender. The second image is after about 5 hours with the program doing that famous tutorial. This is addictive!

Made a deeply silly video on YouTube today, but really trying to make my videos 'entertainment' and not just 'content'. I want them to be memorable for something. Hopefully it pays off in ad revenue and views eventually!

Finally found a way to display my COD Next invite from 2023! Bonus points if you can identify the other two things

I get a weird kick out of game launches where the servers collapse like Path of Exile 2 is right now. Like we're all in this together, let's laugh at how silly this is, it's great. This is how communities are made

Oh wow Indiana Jones is REALLY good

Citadelle Des Morts complete - had an awesome time on the map - managed to get it done on our first go too (although it took many hours). Black Ops 6 is shaping up to be one of the all-time best COD games

It's new cod zombies map day! These are so rare, it's super exciting, and THEN I get to play Indiana Jones tomorrow. Feels like Christmas