I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Atomfall klaxon. Some amazing company we're keeping here too.

How do I explain to the spud that this is a terrible design for a weapon & he should be ashamed for even asking for it? Where's Jonathan Ferguson (the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK) when you need him?

A kind soul brought some gingerbread folk to the office and supplied icing and edible eyes for decoration. I am very proud of my creation but others say he makes them 'uncomfortable'! How rude! He even put pants on!

Companies' desperate scramble to rebrand everything they do as somehow "AI" reminds me of the 80s when everything had to have 'turbo' written on it. Except infinitely more lame.

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

james cameron every couple of years for some reason:

My biggest hater take is probably that I find Fortnite to be absolutely dystopian. It's giving me feelings of dread and despair to see all these intellectual properties™ come together in a franchise slurry.

Okay, so "Last Christmas" was - in my opinion, obviously - a terrible song when it was released and time has not improved it. Moving on, I am reminded of how Jona Lewie's "Stop the Cavalry" became a Christmas song, much to his bafflement.

It's the first day of Advent (well, technically the second day, I'm told, but sod that), so I am going to inflict my annual torture upon you all. It's time for MALENGINE'S ADVENT ADVENTURE.

This weekend's job was to finish painting and fit this replacement leg/parchment "flying stand" to one of Celestine's Geminae Superior. They look great and are surprisingly robust but are a nightmare to transport. The previous one had already broken more than once so a a full replacement was needed.

"That can't be; that's inside the room." ~ "It's reading right man, look!" ~ "Well, you're not reading it right!" All shot using real figures, lighting and miniature sets. I digitally illustrated the glow on the shoulder flashlights. The rest is all real #aliens #scifi #photography #miniatures

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Dungeons & Dragons Set 1: Basic Rules (1985). Players' Manual, Page 2:

Dungeons & Dragons Set 1: Basic Rules (1985). Players' Manual, Page 2:

Shared Fantasy, the first sociological monograph about roleplaying games, is about a period when established players are dealing with a new wave of younger players with different priorities. The period is 1978.

A lovely retrospective on the 360, pretty much my favourite console of all time. I still have my slim edition but seeing the original white edition with its box, the green and orange baggies, etc. brings back a lot of good memories.

Flying visit to @retrocollective.co.uk 's The Cave today to give a talk about the varied roles in game development to a bunch of visiting students. Lots of good questions and follow-up chats so at least some of them must have been awake by the end! One of the tutors was a big Sniper Elite fan too!

Check out little me on the left. Rocking a cracking bowl cut and barrel of 'tude. And it was the 80s. Everyone's shorts were like that. Don't judge me.

Hey all, do I have any UK based concept artists following me (or who knows anyone) who would be up for a long term 22 month contract working on Dragonwilds at Jagex? Remote with a very occasional day in office in Cambridge. Development experience and fantasy genre work is a must. Mid level role.

I mean don't get me wrong, the trailer is fun, but tonally it's very weird if you have any comprehension of the original.

Kill Bill, the movie where folks are regularly chopped up gratuitously, appearing in Fortnite, a game regularly played by kids across the world...? Sometimes I wonder if I'm in a coma and my fantasy world is slowly unravelling.

"Yeah, my son, Jimmy, watches this cop show, TJ Lazer, and this Lazer guy does this every time he takes down a bad guy. So naturally, my kid thinks every good cop should be... And you don't want to disappoint him." All shot using real figures, lighting and miniature sets. #robocop #photography

gofund.me/b185e3ad3 I need some help.

This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.

Horses doesn't sound like something I would ever play but that doesn't matter. That's not the point.

Remember that time someone sold gamer girl bath water? There's a business opportunity here, just saying...

Thanks to my refusal to give up on the ergonomic layout I have been forced to become one of those keyboard wankers.

Right, I've finally managed to get it to stop looking like Bungle's taken a dump in it. Keys seem nice - mercifully not clicky but still quite noisy. Not convinced about the keycaps but I guess those can be changed if I feel like it.

Thanks to my refusal to give up on the ergonomic layout I have been forced to become one of those keyboard wankers.

You don't have to like the Epic Store but monopolies are bad, mmkay?

Sound on.

Was looking for another file and found this thing I'd forgotten I'd made. It was a mistake to ever allow me near video editing software.

In the original arcade version of Final Fight, there's a third button whose function is to escape grabs. It's not wired by default in arcade machines, but was left in the game code and can be accessed via emulation. Here, I tested it via MiSTerFPGA. It was probably used by the devs during QA.

Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves These always make me smile

It's Monday. So I thought I'd checka my email. flashy: homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210... tubey: youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?si

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw. ( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

So this one time in Germany my dad insisted on buying this fish paste in a tube. Like, a metal toothpaste tube. It looked utterly unappetising to the rest of us but he was unrepentant. He always had a thing for stinky fish-based stuff and this was no different. 1/

And suddenly the world seemed a little less bleak. At least for a moment. youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?...

I went to university to study Chemistry and discovered I hated it. I also discovered I didn't hate programming.

EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum". PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...

Bodied by my eldest , frankly

The Busy World of Doctor Who

LimitBreak is a wonderful initiative. Well worth supporting if you're a company in a position to do so.

Not mine original on Instagram but SO my generation.

It's easy to be cyclical about award ceremonies but it was a genuine privilege to witness this in person. www.gamesradar.com/games/jrpg/c...

We didn't win an award but the lady in the cloakroom said she liked my waistcoat by so who's the real winner?