England won last night, which means that I saw a very old lady, waiting for the tube, asking people to throw a football at her so that she could head the ball onto the tracks. All the young people around her shouted, "no!"

I was Quite Busy yesterday, but the @wire.xbox.com team put up *so much cool stuff* that I, with deep bias, think you should look at. I got to reveal a big chunk of the cast of Fable, and only slightly revealed how excited I am that Natasia Demetriou is in it: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

Scavengers Reign would be a breathtaking must-watch if it was JUST a series of “alien flora and fauna” animated vignettes. The fact it’s also heart-tearingly human, tense, thrilling, and terrifying make it an all-timer. Don’t miss your opportunity to see it.

Mixtape made me want to recover a hard drive so I could find decades-old songs written by a friend who died tragically young That's the review

Good evening, I wrote a big juicy recap of the Stranger than Heaven event if you want a nice bedtime read. I am extremely JAZZED for this one hehe 🎷

IGN is hiring! We're looking for a US-based news editor working West Coast hours. They will report into me (hello, I'm the director of news at IGN!), and get to do all sorts of cool stuff about video games and entertainment. Lots more at the link! www.ziffdavis.com/careers/jobs...

Just saw an ad for Odoo

Xbox Games Showcase will air on Sunday, June 7 – immediately followed by Gears of War: E-Day Direct. Details inside: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

I can't really tell you how excited I am by Pragmata - but I tried: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

Not me, but after watching The Witch, a lady in the cinema shouted "THAT WAS BULLSHIT", someone else shouted "NO IT WASN'T", and then the original lady's boyfriend *took the other guy's side* That's cinema, baby

This was a fun interview! Reanimal is very cool, as are its devs

My favourite little detail from our Fable coverage yesterday - those mockumentary-style to-camera interviews from the last two trailers are actually part of how the game will tell its story:

TR-49 is up there with the best of Inkle. It looks like codebreaking, but it's really about deduction. A game that remembers that, if you're coming through dozens of pages of text, all that text should be wildly interesting in and of itself - discovering this world is as fun as solving the mystery.

And of course, @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social got stuck into Fable and asked Playground Games every possible question you could possibly have about this highly-anticipated return to Albion. Punt some poultry and dive on in 'ere: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

The big dog @thewillennium.bsky.social wrangled some excellent new info on Beasts of Reincarnation, a game that features an even bigger dog. Grab your dog and get in here. If you don't have a dog, sorry news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

A NICE SURPRISE? In this economy? @mike-nelson.bsky.social has sculpted a looovely piece about Double Fine's pottery brawler with insight from the game's Project Lead, bust out the fine china for this read (and drop it on the floor): news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

The endlessly cool Xbox Wire team put together four deep-dives into the four games we just showed at the Developer Direct. Please allow me to pill you on Forza Horizon 6, a game I did not see creeping up my most-anticipated list: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

It should not be allowed that a new Inkle game is out in two days - because it should be out now. Having to wait for a new Inkle game is an issue for governments to solve.

Do not watch this if you haven't seen Marty Supreme... but if you have... You have to hear Josh Safdie's original ending for the movie. Dynamite. youtube.com/clip/UgkxKFm...

me: are you sure I can't just bring a vegan roast from asda? mammy: no it's absolutely no trouble, don't you be running around the shops

And I will continue to go on about it, such good stuff in here

I haven't seen a single news report that tells me whether Netflix buying WB means it owns the Nemesis System patent yet

The first playable character ever created for the Tony Hawk's series was Bruce Willis

There's a Vampire Survivors spin-off. It's a roguelike deckbuilder. It's also an old-school dungeon crawler. It's also probably other, stranger things. I am hideously psyched - and I got to speak to Luca from Poncle all about where the hell this came from.

Please, Tarsier, when you've finished up on Reanimal, there are fun guys like me who'd like lost classic, Statik to come out on new VR headsets: youtu.be/i7MVb_rv5sQ?...

I love this piece from @mike-nelson.bsky.social - a character build guide for The Outer Worlds 2 with a difference: every entry was contributed by a member of the game's QA team. news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/1...

Told you

I feel like it's gone undersung that Rise of the Golden Idol's DLC this year (which is now all out there), has effectively been an entire new game's worth of cases - and it works like a side-quel (ugh) to both of the first two games. Honestly, just an incredible thing.

Look, sometimes you're just trying to take a picture of Wayne Rooney on the TV, but you accidentally capture a frame in a dissolve, and it looks like Noah Hawley was trying to communicate that Wayne had deep thoughts about Mo Salah

I'm doing my first ever livestream 😬 Join me for 'UNKNOWN TREASURES', where I spin rogue forgotten vinyl that I've found in charity shops and we listen to it for the first time together. First stream 📅 Thu 25 Sep 🕘 9-10pm UK Smash that sub button or whatever: youtube.com/@unknowntreasuresmichaelm

This is going to be a treat.

A post in which I resist the primal urge to just extend the word "Yesssssss" to 15,000 characters

"Golf"

The amazing thing about video games is that they can really let you express a different side of yourself, something that perhaps you couldn't or wouldn't reveal in the real world

The worst part is I didn't even need to look at the original message to know which boss this is.

Little entry I couldn't include from my notes for this piece: "Fucking hell it looks good" news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...

There Are No Ghosts at the Grand has been an exciting weirdo enigma to me since it was revealed, so I was very happy to ask @fridaysundae.bsky.social a lot of questions that effectively boiled down "what the hell is this game?" on the Xbox Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pGR...

Very proud of the sheer number of organic, free-range, homegrown words that the @wire.xbox.com team has put together for gamescom. Some favourites:

Of course, in England, RoboCop was released as RobbieBobby

Absolutely incredible news for all the cool guys

Hello, it's me with a message that should have come in January: Citizen Sleeper 2 is properly magnificent. If you're at all interested in seeing how RPGs can do things differently, but with a core of that "I wonder what would happen if THIS person was in THIS place" storytelling, try it.

I am once again calling on World Science to ensure that all my mosquito bites just "turn off" when I get home from holiday

Just remembering the most potent visual signifier I've ever seen live: When I was on jury duty, the lawyer for the (deeply, obviously guilty) defendant kept having his wig slide off while he tried to speak.

I haven't spoken enough about how Rematch is the best, so here's an interview I did because Rematch is the best: news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...

1. "Head of HR"

just let gargamel have the smurfs. who cares

I have been affected by the recent restructures at Bethesda, After an amazing 8 years i am on the lookout for new opportunities in Community, Marketing, and beyond. Slide into those DM's for a chat. It's been an incredible run. Very proud of what was achieved.

The @wire.xbox.com team is expanding - we're looking for an LA-based writer to help us with event coverage and more. Details here: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...