7 years after I started VGC, I’m incredibly proud of the editorial team. In particular, in the last 18 months, we visited the likes of Team Asobi, Capcom, Kojima Productions, and TPC, while interviewing Todd Howard, Hideki Kamiya, Sega, Square Enix, Konami, Sucker Punch, CD Projekt, and many more.

Hey babes, I'm Malindy, your writer, narrative designer, journalist, localiser and all around words person: Portfolio - malindysportfolio.notion.site/Malindy-Hetf... LinkedIn - de.linkedin.com/in/malindyhe... Blog - malindy.medium.com

⚽️ Special offer ⚽️ We are offering £5.00 off the Collector’s Edition of our book - A Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games (Captain’s Edition): www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/... #bitmapbooks #bookstagram #gaming #football #soccer @mossrc.bsky.social

A new website about PC games, from me, @brendyc.bsky.social and @jonhicks.com. Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like @jank.cool.

my new website, mothership.blog, is launching this monday!! it's going to be super fun and you will all enjoy reading it. we are independent and worker-owned and can't stay alive without subscribers, though, and we are currently running a lifetime 15% off deal that you should realllly be grabbing ->

I could have written 10k words on this game. It's remarkable. It's everything you want and need from a city-builder, but also there's transport tycoon and sid meier's colonization stuff in there as well, and even in EA it's almost perfect

Hello! Over the weekend, my article on some cool games reliving the spirit of Y2K went up on RPS! Feat @rj.dcellgames.com @davidjaumandreu.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-game-dev...

Really enjoyed chatting to Kurt Kuhlmann, former Bethesda dev and Elder Scrolls "loremaster", about his decision to leave the studio and a promise Todd Howard made him about TES6 - a promise, he says, that was never fulfilled www.pcgamer.com/games/the-el...

Reporting and writing this story consumed me at the tail end of 2025. I'll post my favourite details tomorrow but, for now, enjoy!! Thanks to @mattleone.bsky.social for having me, all the interview subjects for talking to me, and @kim-hu.com for the incredible accompanying illustration.

Our next big project is live! @lewisgordon.bsky.social spent the past few months tracking down nine people who worked on DICE's innovative 2008 parkour runner.

use your eyes www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

Hearing Rematch in some GOTY lists (including on @backpagepod.bsky.social) reminded me I forgot to post this. After a decade of trying I finally got good at an online game - and it wasn't everything I hoped it would be. Wonderful illustration by Katherine (below!) remapradio.com/articles/the...

So very tired, but I couldn't let 2025 end without taking stock of Microsoft's embarrassing treatment of gaming, Windows, and indeed human beings while it chases the AI money train

It was deeply cathartic to be asked to contribute some thoughts to this piece on the use of LLM chatbots in NPC dialogue. And a privilege to be among such insightful company. Very grateful to @samuelhorti.bsky.social for giving us so much breadth and depth to discuss such a hefty topic.

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

There are a ton of wonderful people in this article discussing the realities of LLM based character interaction I always return to the fact that parser games are not mainstream juggernauts and that people don't want to have to learn to be improv actors to participate as a character in a setting

i got to rant about LLM chatbots in games + my fears about the dead future that tech oligarchs want for all of us, alongside some very clever + thoughtful folks. thanks so much @samuelhorti.bsky.social for giving me the space & time to articulate all of this

I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...

Delighted to see this piece up! Massive thank you to all the women who shared their experience with me for this 🖤 www.gamesindustry.biz/a-decade-on-...

@mikebithell.bsky.social Hi Mike, hope all well - any chance you could follow or DM me? I wanted to discuss an article with you. Cheers

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...

Honored to be featured on the freshly-relaunched @aftermath.site with this new piece! It's about AI and Fascism, and also the beloved Y2K-era teen comedy Mean Girls.

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

Hitman's Paris level was originally gigantic, with a multi-storey restaurant in addition to the palace. This was cut early on, but was eventually re-used as the starting point of the Bangkok hotel level - hence the slightly incongruous French colonial architecture. www.techradar.com/gaming/hitma...

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE

The #BlueJays are three outs away from winning the World Series... and Jeff Hoffman will need to go through Shohei Ohtani. This is as good at baseball gets.

Bo Bichette just hit a three-run shot off the Flight Deck in centre field. 442 feet. A career-defining moment for Bichette. Wow. Shohei Ohtani is walking off the mound. #BlueJays up, 3-0.

With multiple conflicting interviews around Arc Raiders' use of AI, I tried to pick apart what is and isn't "generative," how much that distinction matters ethically, and the tension between today's efficiency tools and tomorrow's eliminated jobs.

Playing Arc Raiders for review - if anyone wants to test out teaming up with comms, give me a shout!

Hi everyone, I'm urgently looking for any work. I'm a writer and narrative designer, I offer game consultations and mock reviews, I localise between German and English, I can write copy. If it needs words, I'll do it! Here's some games I've written on in the past:

I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

For @ign.com: An inside look at how Sony secured GTA as a PS2 exclusive and how it helped the console 'win' that generation. With new details on the exclusivity deal, how Sony nearly missed out on exclusivity in the US, and how Xbox could've derailed it. www.ign.com/articles/how...

I dug up the predecessor to Battlefield, judged by Gamespot reviewer Erik Wolpaw to be "really goofy" and "enthusiastically mediocre". www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ba...

For @ign.com: An inside look at how Sony secured GTA as a PS2 exclusive and how it helped the console 'win' that generation. With new details on the exclusivity deal, how Sony nearly missed out on exclusivity in the US, and how Xbox could've derailed it. www.ign.com/articles/how...

@blakemurphy.bsky.social is the Davis Schneider start a surprise for you? I know JS likes him against LHP... but he's only OPSing 708 against lefties this year, only a smidge over Lukes, who offers better defence and is playing very well

In which I come clean about the degree to which a hi-fi system might be serving as a fun alternative to therapy. remapradio.com/articles/the...

And while I'm making my (glorious?) return to social media... oh hey, I'm writing this, it should be pretty cool.

For the Guardian, I spoke to Speculative Agency about All Will Rise, a card game about environmenral activism that hopes to show that community will win out. Thanks again for having me, @meghna.bsky.social 😗 www.theguardian.com/games/2025/a...

If you haven't read Jason's latest on AI yet, it's well worth making the time. Made me flit between despair and hope several times

I spent a couple of months putting this feature together, with exclusive interviews from MachineGames and other Wolfenstein veterans. I like to think a reader would come out of it understanding the games industry a little better.

I'm still very keen to speak to people with insight into the FIFA vs PES rivalry - I'm writing a longform piece for an independent outlet. DMs open, or I'm [email protected]

Statement made: #BlueJays sweep Yankees to take over 1st place in the AL East Story: www.mlb.com/bluejays/new...

For GQ, I spoke to some of the world's best Mario Kart players (including Alberto, arguably the GOAT) about the wild, painful, joyous race for world records after release day. Been a real joy getting to know this community, would love to report on them more! www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/mari...

Had a quiet spell last week, so decided to brush up on my video editing skills and put together a 51 minute (!) video on all question mark panel locations in Mario Kart World. I'm planning to make more YouTube videos between paid work, so any subs, likes, and general support would be welcome!

I spoke to @mrsambarlow.bsky.social on Her Story's 10th anniversary. We discussed how his grandmothers shaped the game, whether he'd make a sequel, and why a popular interpretation of the story makes him uncomfortable (the "true" narrative remains a mystery). www.gamespot.com/articles/a-d...

Samuel did a great job with this one, give it a read. Personally I only know Deus Ex from the later games but this was a really fascinating warts-and-all look at where the franchise started.

For my first GameSpot byline, I spoke to Deus Ex designer @stevepowers.bsky.social about his generous, extravagant version of Hong Kong, 25 years on. We spoke about fever dreams, inauthenticity, and hand modelling... Thx @sporkyreeve.bsky.social for commissioning www.gamespot.com/articles/how...

I'm reporting a story for an independent outlet about the rivalry between FIFA and Pro Evo Soccer in 2000s/10s - do you know devs who worked on those series or who would have an insight about football/soccer games in that period? Please send them my way, DM or [email protected]. Shares appreciated!

We've been kind of slammed @404media.co recently, but thought we would take a minute to reflect on the impact of some of our bigger stories recently. We believe that reporting from a small team can make tangible change and that you don't have to be part of a big organization to do investigative work

One of the things I'll be doing as a freelancer is writing about Fortnite for @pcgamer.com - a mixture of guides, features, and interviews. Here's a tier list of this season's weapons, featuring a byline headshot from about 10 years ago (I need to get that changed!) www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-bes...