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...

I can't run for @specialeffect.org.uk with the RKG chums this year due to unsexy injury, but that won't stop me asking you to donate some money to this amazing charity www.justgiving.com/page/rkg?utm...

A quarter of a century later, I still think about a Syphon Filter preview that described a taser turning a bad guy's "guts to soup"

The biggest compliment I can give to the new Resi is that, after seeing a hands-off presentation, I was really unsure if I'd even get through the hands-on, but I did it for YOU news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...

I knew I'd like @mixtapegame.bsky.social. I didn't know I'd like it this much: news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...

In April, I made the rarest of pilgrimages: to Tokyo, and the top of a skyscraper, to meet Hideo Kojima. I went with one question: why still make games? At 61, he has made them for almost forty years. But he has seen his end. My latest for GQ: www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hide...

I haven't quite hit Balatro levels of obsession, but I just hit an unlock in Monster Train 2 that was basically a midseason twist, and it's thoroughly blown my mind

I just bought a pear and I'm very excited

If Chelsea ruin a season where, against all reasonable logic, both Spurs and Betis win European trophies, I will consider it an attack on my person

"em dashes are a sign that something was written by AI" you are simply jealous that i've memorized that I can hold alt and press 0151 on the numpad to produce an em dash whenever i desire. look: —. it's beautiful. i'll even do it again: —

Many happy new Golden Idol DLC returns to you all

This morning, in my rearview mirror, I saw another driver take down an entire hardboiled egg in one gulp, maybe one chew. I've been thinking about it ever since, and I've come to the conclusion that it was a threatening power play.

Drop Duchy is part-Carcassone, part-rock paper scissors, and a lot of Tetris, and I'm really into it

Even if I didn't have a sentimental attachment, Eric Dier winning the Bundesliga would be worth celebrating simply for this picture

I'm hiring a UK-based Features Editor on @gibiz.bsky.social. I fully intend to continue the site's long history of exceptional original features – come help me make it happen! Link here: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Predictably loving Promise Mascot Agency, and particularly how - between this and Paradise Killer - Kaizen seem to love playing with how you explore an open world. There's so much smart, rewarding stuff underneath the silliness in both games.

StreetPass Mansion walked so that Blue Prince could run

I don't know if anyone else has had the thought - "surely the Marks and Spencer BIG DADDY bar can't just be a nearly half-kilo boutique Snickers rattling around loose in a cardboard box?" Everyone, dreams can come true:

They’ve asked me onto the BBC Nottingham breakfast show on Tuesday. They’re gonna make me do the Big Ron voice. God knows what I’m going to say “Give your wife the best. Give her the news with Clare Runacres” This continues to be ridiculous www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hey guess what, I'm obsessed with Blue Prince. My notebook is a mess, my brain is on fire, this game is extremely cool. Some words: news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...

I, for one, am excited for Red Faction: Gorilla