showing up to a meeting at work all sweaty and out of breath because i just finished a boss battle in a review game

first up: silent hill f www.theverge.com/games/782012...

i know there's a lot happening in the world, but this is also going to be a very good week for video game reviews

reviewed Silent Hill F, whose tilt towards action is fundamental to depicting Hinako's eruption of rage. she is a bonafide star in this stellar, sinister, but not especially scary return for the venerable horror series. words over @theverge.com www.theverge.com/games/782012...

world cup finals, baby

if youre looking for something to read this weekend, i have a good website for ya www.theverge.com/entertainment

it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible aftermath.site/silksong-hol...

Him definitely falls apart in its last act, but I don't think it's *quite* the tire fire some have made it out to be. Lots of solid ideas that don't coalesce the way they need to, but it's the kind of weird mess that makes for good conversations after you've seen it. My review:

Finally wrote about Trails, the series that’s winning by basically doing the opposite of what everyone else is www.theverge.com/games/781492...

how im going to get through the morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqwc...

gonna start prefacing all communication with "look, im trying"

the megalopolis doc is real good stuff www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

talked to Bennett Foddy about Baby Steps and watching men struggle unnecessarily www.wired.com/story/baby-s...

Spoke with director Uta Briesewitz about why she doesn’t really want you to think of American Sweatshop as a thriller and why she went out of her way to not show you the horrific things content moderators are forced to witness

I dug into that recent Pokémon patent on @theverge.com in the interest of getting some facts straight www.theverge.com/games/779062...

productivity lifehack: add the thing you just did a second ago to your to do list, then cross it off. feels great

ok i lied one final piece out of tiff. saw 25 movies this year, with some real good stuff www.theverge.com/toronto-inte...

For today’s Observer magazine I interviewed Brett Goldstein at the house he’s renovating in Fulham, about the secret tape that made him Roy Kent, his new film’s rejection of algorithmic love, and why, after 5 years in the froth of success, he’s ready to put down roots: observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

the biggest voice reveal since chris pratt's mario www.theverge.com/netflix/7775...

talked to the director of exit 8 about making a video game adaptation inspired by let's plays and advice from miyamoto www.theverge.com/interview/77...

Spoke with the creative team behind Women Wearing Shoulder Pads about how, when you're paying homage to Almodóvar, you gotta lean into the queerness

my 10 year old just said "actually it's a manga" to me

planning to disassociate from reality tomorrow (for obvious reasons)

nintendo is about to air an hour-long livestreamed presentation dedicated entirely to the next picross 3d

was thinking a lot about movie theaters while watching frankenstein and wake up dead man www.theverge.com/netflix/7764...

My first bit of writing since getting laid off… is about a camera battery cover? Shout out to @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social and @rubeck.bsky.social for giving this piece a home! unwinnable.com/2025/09/11/t...

here's my (probably) last dispatch out of tiff. i was going to lead with the smashing machine, but the only headline i could come up with was "rock smash, movie good" www.theverge.com/toronto-inte...

it's the five year anniversary of when i edited a special issue about playstation's 25th anniversary www.theverge.com/2019/12/3/20...

day 6 of the toronto international film festival. supplies are running low, sleep comes in fits and starts. i cant remember a time i wasnt sitting in a movie theater. but at least we have daily film roundups www.theverge.com/film/773480/...

i really dug frankenstein, but also dont sleep on eternity www.theverge.com/toronto-inte...

hey it's deadman irl

personally i think everyone should read reviews and cultural criticism because i have no other marketable skills

highly recommend reading the cultural criticism discourse while waiting in line to see a movie for a review

you can keep up with my (hopefully coherent) daily ramblings about film right here www.theverge.com/film/773480/...

arco is extremely my shit. scavengers reign meets time masters meets castle in the sky www.theverge.com/toronto-inte...

you can keep up with my (hopefully coherent) daily ramblings about film right here www.theverge.com/film/773480/...

spent about 12 hours in movie theatres yesterday and then wrote this (posting this from a different movie theatre) www.theverge.com/movie-review...

i know this is the least important thing in the world rn but the new knives out rules

i live in constant fear that one day ill be asked my letterboxd top 4

Had a great chat with Julian Glander about his new feature Boys Go to Jupiter, what shape he thinks America’s current political climate would be, and why open source programs like Blender are doing infinitely more to “democratize” art than generative AI

alt headline: oldboy's still got it www.theverge.com/movie-review...

this post is also where i reveal i still travel with a 3ds

who wants to help me pull off the heist of the century

good morning here is my first dispatch out of tiff this year www.theverge.com/film/769133/...

a year after publishing my star wars outlaws review i just realized the headline shouldve been "grand theft watto"

not so sure about attending a film festival in silent hill

about to watch so many movies

when rinoa gets a text

I talked with fans in the Silksong community about how they've been passing time waiting for this game, whether that meant releasing a video on YouTube every day for years, or role-playing on Reddit www.wired.com/story/how-fa...