Astro Bot is like Marmite; you either love it or you're weird. Let me remind you why. www.gamesradar.com/games/platfo...

This DLC is so vastly inferior to the main game - abysmal writing, terrible mission design, bugs - I'm starting to wonder if it's Ubisoft's first release that used a significant amount of AI.

I just hit MR 30 in Warframe! I know that won't mean anything to at least 90% of you, but this is the culmination of a quite frankly embarrassing number of gameplay hours, and it makes me very happy.

Cool free stuff alert: They're giving away the base version of Warhammer: Vermintide 2 this weekend. Really good co-op first-person brawler about the world's most dysfunctional friend group fighting through the ratpocalypse. There's some decent DLC but they've added a LOT for free over the years.

Improvement patreon.com/berkeleymews

Great suggestions here, all better than the ones they've actually used so far tbh.

Grove of the Felled Olives https://store.steampowered.com/app/4084390/ Grove of the Felled Olives is a free virtual memorial dedicated to the over 60,000 humans killed in Gaza between Oct '23 and July '25. Pay respects to each of the departed in a peaceful refuge for their memory.

If you'd like to help me make more time for the comic, and get early access to pages among other things, please consider supporting me on patreon. There's a bunch of tiers, and any support, however small or for however long, is greatly appreciated www.patreon.com/c/sammgreer

Macc clearly a lightning rod for shifts in British politics. First the parliamentary seat flips to Labour after being Tory for god knows how long. Now a Green councillor elected right in the middle of town!

Please donate to a GoFundMe to help Mark @pretendasaur.com recover from a brain injury. I wish him only the best and hope this will help him on his way! www.gofundme.com/f/wkngf-supp...

What many politicians don't realise - or want to understand - is that many of the "highly-skilled" immigrants whose labour they crave were raised by the same asylum seekers and refugees they openly despise. They take the racist political rhetoric personally, and act accordingly. Why wouldn't they?

You'd be forgiven for having forgotten about - or even being completely unaware of - Fairgames. But it will, I argue, be a deciding factor in the future of Sony's live service strategy. www.gamesradar.com/games/action...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

You may be torn on the idea of engaging with something funded by the Saudi royal family, but I'm finding this Assassin's Creed Mirage DLC set in ancient Saudi Arabia very educational. It's giving me a crash course in how not to write a videogame.

I feel like there's a huge gulf between the breathless commentary from analysts and executives around the Steam Machine, and the appetite the paying public have for it - especially if it's weighed down with a heavy price tag, as seems increasingly likely. www.gamesradar.com/hardware/ask...

I would put it like this. Minority communities and the majority of the majority community have integrated v.well. However, a significant minority of the majority community and a significant majority of the political class are stubbornly refusing to integrate, and that is where the real problem lies.

Wednesdays is ✨ free ✨ for World Children's Day in order to raise awareness about child sexual abuse. Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/... or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays before November 21th 9PM CET!

I’m super happy to officially announce our next project, spearheaded by @threeohfour.bsky.social! “Gilt” is a sci-fi/fantasy game about a priest haunted by a dying God. Learn more (and wishlist!) over here: store.steampowered.com/app/3979770

Listing any one of her accomplishments feels like it it does it justice, and listing all of them would take hours. What a legend, what a loss.

Hey, friends! I’m guesting in a class tomorrow and apparently it’s open to anyone, so here’s the link! competitiveedgevoice.com/guest-webina...

Just finished listening to Tim Curry's autobiography, read by the great man himself. Love it, love it, love it. One of the best audiobooks I've listened to this year, and I listen to a LOT of audiobooks.

We Grew Up In War is part of the Czech and Slovak Games Week on Steam rn and it's showcasing its Ukranian storyline for the first time, which I wrote. Wishlist the game and discover many more cool games from the region! store.steampowered.com/curator/4147...

You know, there's one website that hasn't gone down... That could keep you entertained while you wait... iteatsplanets.com

If you know anybody who needs cartoonishly exaggerated evidence before they'll accept that Labour has become a far-right party, may I suggest you direct them to the name of their latest racist policy paper.

I feel like if Half-Life 3 is announced, I'm the only person on the internet whose head won't explode. They're good games, sure, but I've played an awful lot of better ones. I'll be more concerned with the fact that the industry will have lost one of its longest-running jokes.

Oscar's views on this align with mine about 90%, and he expresses them brilliantly.

This is Nazi shit, in the literal sense of being a policy adopted by the Third Reich.

*Shakira as guardian of a crossroads in a fantastical land* I'm on tonight You know my hips don't lie (no fighting) And my knees don't tell the truth Which path should you take? (you may ask one question)

HUGE SCOOP

I just watched V for Vendetta, and while I'd like to talk about how it hits harder than ever today (and Natalie Portman's fragile English accent), to be honest, I just keep thinking about how I want to watch a 45 minute scene of V setting up all those dominoes.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

The new Call of Duty looks really fun. To write about I mean, not to play.

I'm alarmed to learn that Metroid Prime 4 gives Samus a comic relief sidekick for an unknown period, something it seems 80% of journos who attended the preview *hated*. Seems from a distance like a jaw-dropping misstep, and makes me feel less bothered about the fact that I can't afford to buy it.

We sent Ashley to a mystical forest for this wonderful preview. Despite the '4' in the title, this Metroid certainly feels different.

They really are determined to hand this year to Battlefield, huh.

And @luke-k.bsky.social ties it into Wolverine as well!

You guys wanna see a dead body?

I felt that there weren't enough words on the internet, so I threw some more onto the pile (and I'm far from done). Many thanks to @mroscartk.bsky.social for allowing me to put down what happened when I revisited Spider-Man 2 for the first time since launch. www.gamesradar.com/games/spider...

The IWGB has just announced that 220 letters, signed by Rockstar staff, have now been delivered to leadership at the company, demanding the immediate reinstatement of their fired colleagues.

Ooh, I might actually go back and finish my second playthrough, and perhaps go for at least one more!

A website I respect very much has posted a lengthy piece on the Steam hardware announcements that reads disappointingly, embarrassingly, cringe-inducingly like a press release.

Really just wondering what else Prince* Andrew knows and how much is being paid for his silence by whom (beyond the two free houses home and abroad). *not too bothered about removing that title as it’s not much of a sanction

Certainly looks like the kind of thing Beck would use.

Good shout, but not formally recognised as instruments. Though I would've loved to listen to the Soundgarden song PotsAndPansMan.

Are spoons the only objects that double as both musical instruments and kitchenware? Like, you wouldn't try to eat a flan with a banjo, or play a spatula solo.

Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied: "Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

I've got a review to write soon that I've been thinking about a lot. I already have a lot I want to say, but I won't have much space to say it in. Reviews like that are fun little puzzles to solve, though; I'm looking forward to it.