Wrote a thing

My newsletter has hit a brick wall in terms of subs and paying members. Both have hardly moved in about three weeks. If you follow me, please take a look at last week's and consider signing up to receive this week's on Thursday lowpolymess.com/15-kid-talk/

Read this. You might enjoy it, you might not. Either way the number goes up and I become slightly happier. I've been conditioned to only find contentment through the number going up. Please make the number go up. Number go up. lowpolymess.com/13-lost/

Update: James Bond rights holders Amazon MGM say they have "a great relationship" with 007 First Light devs IO Interactive, but that it's "still too early to discuss future projects"

Shocked & heartbroken to say Team17 PR & Events dept & thus my role have been made redundant. ✨Looking for new roles using my 15 years supporting projects & brands across Marketing, PR, Brand & Comms✨ I appreciate any help that comes my way. Dhia libh uilig💚 (More info in post under this)

Lads, is it the fascism to mildly criticise a billionaire for reportedly treating one of his employees in a manner that seems from the currently available evidence to have been unnecessarily harsh, while also acknowledging that payment processors influencing where nsfw games can live is also bad

Heya folks, I am really excited that for the first time ever @startmenu.bsky.social will have a writer representing us at SGF. Brandon is lovely and I am trying to get him in contact with as many cool folks as possible. If you are happy to say hi to him let me know!

It's time

I finally managed to pick a watch

Last push for this today now the US is awake. I write about stuff and things in a weekly newsletter. It's free to read, but I'd really like it to pay for itself through paid subs. If you enjoy it, put your money where your eyes read. This week it's about a bowl lowpolymess.com/12-retail-th...

I've not finished it yet, so have some utter filth

I think at this point I'd trust Pato O'Ward to have a 1953 Morris Minor with 100k miles on the clock in contention to win the Indy 500

Dang, I can't hang with the Wang in Zero Parades, so ZA/UM's thought violation gun won't stop going bang www.rockpapershotgun.com/dang-i-cant-...

Read this! lowpolymess.com/10-mixed-up/

While I'm at it, I've also played a bit of the other hugely popular open world racer (well, DLC) out today. It's like Forza, but you're being caught doing 90mph in a saucily-paintjobbed Kenworth W900

Horizon 5 came out around the time I was starting to try and get into games journo after leaving uni. I didn't have any real clue how to go about convincing someone to pay me to yak about it, so did that on a personal blog. Here I am yacking about Horizon 6 for a site people actually know exists

New Trinca Perspective on IGN: If GTA 6 is $100 I'll eat a bag of raw onions youtu.be/M-0039P4QnE?...

Editors, I’m looking to do more freelance reviews. Unfortunately, work hasn’t paid me for last month and I’m struggling to make ends meet while I wait for that (it’s three weeks late now). I can also help with guides, interviews, previews — anything you need.

I'm looking for paid consultancy work. You can get advice from the man I'm calling Mr Games Media (VideoGamer, USGamer, VG247, Eurogamer) by simply giving me money. You can also read my newsletter/blog for free, but I'd recommend paying for that too. lowpolymess.com

Update to the update: Following about 50 Assassin's Creed Hexe devs reportedly being taken off the game, Ubisoft say team switches are "a standard part of how we operate"

In these troubling times, we can all take solace in the fact that if you make it big enough, decades on from your death someone might run a totally non-dodgy ad campaign promoting your greatest knee-slappers

Been a while since I've done a hardwarey feature, naturally it went exactly as planned

Don't get a chance to go back and re-evaluate a game I've reviewed often, but you best believe the one with northerners was always going to be an exception

Quick reminder that I'm an accomplished mock reviewer, trusted by lots of hit-making indie publishers including Devolver and 11 Bit Studios, as well as AAA folks I can't name cos I'm good with an NDA. If you reckon some of your followers could make use of my services, a repost is always appreciated!

Five articles in to my newsletter, and I'm pretty pleased with it. It's fun to write things that simply wouldn't exist on most websites, even if they are veering away from video games. If you haven't taken a look yet, the latest is about how I almost pissed myself lowpolymess.com/5-the-suffer...

Rebecca knows where it's at (it's at my newsletter, to be clear). If anyone wants one, I'll make custom Audrey the Spider plush toys for £300 a pop + postage. Can't guarantee the quality.

[Not an AF joke] I'm now deputy editor on RPS! Supporters can read all about it, which admittedly isn't much, because "I'm now deputy editor on RPS" basically covers everything www.rockpapershotgun.com/letter-from-...

DLSS 5 will never produce anything as impressive or as beautiful as V-Rally 3 on the Game Boy Advance: the Trinca Perspective youtu.be/r7i5C8GmnKM?...

Can confirm the red pudding train is a really useful engine, even if no one else in the game seems to fancy using it

Red Bull-linked f1 people when there's a one week gap where nothing happens between races two and three of the season

Befuddled please-help-with-article-research post #231231: I'm looking for examples and discussion of "postcolonial open worlds" (inc discussion of the validity of that term), together with formally unusual writing about open worlds.

From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙

Already feels strange cut off from work. I don't like it. Please get in touch if you have any opportunities.

Sadly my role as Video Producer on Eurogamer's YouTube channel has been made redundant. After 7 years it's a heart-breaking goodbye, but I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be continuing to create the deepest of dives into videogame lore on my own YouTube channel! 🔍 YouTube.com/ZoeDels

PERSONAL NEWS: After 13 years working as a (legendary) video producer for @eurogamer.bsky.social I have been made redundant in the recent Gamer Network cuts. I loved that job so much (probably too much) and I will miss the people and the opportunities it gave me, but I'm not ready to give up yet!

🔴LIVE FROM 6:30PM GMT🔴 I may have been made redundant but I won't let that ruin a good Friday chaos stream! Join me for a look at the Marathon Server Slam, followed by REPO from 8pm and @PUBG customs from 9:30! Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/lFGivJj... or on twitch.tv/platform32

Alex is also great, an endless font of in-depth game knowledge and journalistic wisdom

Without both Tom and Dom not just deciding I was worth taking a chance on at VG back in 2023, but providing all the support anyone could ask for as I worked to grow and repay their faith, I genuinely don't know where I'd be.

RIP, the dwarf series and books have made me smile in tough times more often than I can count