Easily in my top 3 showcases every year - looking forward to wishlisting basically everything as per!

Garden Denied Chilling Festival of Play

Olympic ice hockey Qs - How can you have refs from the same countries as the teams playing? - How have they not penalised the US more? Blatant stuff not being given

I'm delighted to say that I'm curating the first ever Games for Change Summit at London Games Festival. More details in this week's Video Games Industry Memo, sponsored by k-ID. videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/games-for-...

Awesome night at the Royal Festival Hall finally getting to see @awintory.bsky.social conduct live at the BAFTA games concert! Huge props to the BBC concert orchestra & singers, especially the percussionists at the back getting a real workout! Loved it all but Journey (obviously) stole the show!

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Geoff clearly needed that extra ad revenue for all the wire work #TheGameAwards

My Slow Game Club mod care package (aka gift version) just arrived & it’s looking great! And this is just the cherry on the cake that is 12 highly-rated indie games (1 per month), dev Q&As and a community Discord. Awesome gift idea and funds raised go to @intogames.bsky.social www.slowgame.club

My Games 'I finally got around to playing/completing & liked the best' of the Year list is as follows (no particular order): - Case of the Golden Idol - Dredge - The Artful Escape - Stacking - Portal - Monument Valley - Journey - Maze Mice

The best video game doc crew take on one of the best games ever made in a multi-part series? Stranger Things can wait. Watch this.

Think I just completed Reddit... Was in a thread about best & worst live gigs at 1am, scrolled down a long way & out of nowhere someone mentions a tiny band I only saw (& hung out backstage with) in 2008 because my one of my uni mates knew them from back home. Niche & useless music knowledge.

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

I'm begging NFL commentators to stop talking about Europeans 'liking' kicks. It's so tired.

Can't remember the last time I saw a bundle this good if you are into these kinds of games www.humblebundle.com/games/indie-...

Just in case you care @jesawyer.bsky.social & @obsidianent.bsky.social - your game Pentiment was just an answer on University Challenge!

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Evangelical Authoritarianism - it's in the game

every time a remake or remaster gets announced and you remember every hour and cent spent on dredging up the past could have spent on something new

Everyone needs to watch 'The Last Castle' - he had far bigger films but I guarantee you it's the most relevant one for the current state of the world www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

boy howdy am i tired of the daily "man who sells Thing says Thing very important" tech story

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Happy Silksong to all who celebrate!

So I entered a prize draw for @lovetrails.bsky.social festival-goers and...I only went and WON IT! A huge giftcard from Passenger outdoor clothing, 4-person high-end inflatable tent from Dometic & a year's supply of Goodrays drinks (all 16 crates of them). Easily the biggest prize I've ever won!

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

This face (but older w/ glasses) will be at @developconference.com tomo & Weds - so please grab me if you want to talk games events, charity partnerships, social impact, etc. I'll be getting new headshots whilst I'm there so this might be the last you see of this fresh face pic!

Got here about a year ago…from ‘the other place’ Currently trying to find an events or social impact/CSR role in games after 10+ years managing large events projects & partnerships for some of the UK’s biggest charities. Hoping the industry stops imploding long enough to give me a chance

Xbox really trolling the Turn10 employees (& everyone else) they fired this week, huh? #layoffs

Summer Games Fest was a bit all over the shop this year - tech issues, clashing timetables, gen AI (even in 'green games' showcase!), Splitgate edgelord guy and a lot of samey titles. Found a few new games that look cool but nowhere near previous years.

Well maybe don't put the nation's favourite sport (by a mile) behind multiple massive paywalls then! Arguably it would be better for the game overall if the PL made less money to stop it pulling further away from fans, UK football pyramid & other European leagues www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For all my Playstation & Switch playing friends, these look incredible! (And @lostincult.co.uk also make loads of great gaming artbooks, vinyls, etc)

Ten of my favourite video games of all time, in no particular order: * Fallout 1 * Fallout 3 * Pokemon Red * Slay the Spire * Curious Expedition 1 * GTA Vice City * Tetris * Super Mario Land 2 * Shogun: Total War * Crash Bandicoot 1

Terrible 10 mins for the Colts in the NFL draft - Cam Ward to the Titans, Travis Hunter to the Jags and the Browns loading up on picks to grab Arch Manning next year. We’re probably going to have both good TEs taken before us aswell 🤦

Great 2hrs of advice on how to do charity fundraising streams from @specialeffect.org.uk @lomadiah.bsky.social & @thormungandr.com - covering all the basic how-tos but also covering self-care, game selection, stream vibes & charity wants/needs (starts at 17mins) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty6j...

This is such a cool read

At the Centre for Alternative tech in Wales for a wild wood-crafting course tomo. Was a present from my sis who thinks I need to start touching grass again. But I’m looking at the fence post in the 2nd pic thinking that’s a great platforming section 🤣

10 degrees C & ☀️ is the best weather

Yep, can vouch for this. My dad died early and had a horrific last few months thanks to hospital failings, even though he got the 'right care' according to this article. He didn't. He got the barest of minimums - and clearly some people aren't even getting that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Equal parts hilarious and sad to see another major charity I used to work for finally do the thing they turned down my business-case for 8 years earlier. And even then, they do it in the least inspired, most low-effort way possible that I told them wouldn't have worked then and 100% will not now.

The Hives for video game trailer music are still undefeated - and it makes even more sense for Helldivers #TheGameAwards

Oh damn - dice-based chill city builder made by @bithellgames.bsky.social . I'm in. Bring it to all the platforms please!

Want to own a rare piece of gaming history and support an amazing cause at the same time? 💸 We’ve just launched our store on eBay to raise vital funds for young people from low-income backgrounds pursuing careers in games! Auctions close at 19:00 GMT, 17th Nov 👉 www.ebay.co.uk/usr/intogameshub

My early Christmas present to myself just arrived. The book and especially the extras on the DVD look awesome. Thanks @timoflegend.bsky.social & @doublefine.com for putting so much effort into the set on top of what was (imo) already the best games industry doc ever made. Gonna enjoy this!

Finally using the social media liferaft I got on months ago…from ‘the other place’ Currently trying to find a social impact/CSR role in games after 10+ years managing large events for some of the UK’s biggest charities. Hoping more industry folk and companies join soon