Damn, my heart goes out to any Destiny and Bungie devs that have been let go today. It was undoubtedly one of the best teams in gaming that seemed to be repeatedly let down by upper leadership and I can’t see these losses as anything other than a catastrophic blow to the studio

Rare, great job opening in UK games media here, as Eurogamer is looking for a News Editor. You'll get to work with some of the best in the business, as well as share a shiny new office with me for a few days a week. Get involved. jobs.jobvite.com/ign/job/oeke...

Big position up for grabs for UK folks - Eurogamer is hiring a News Editor:

I wasn’t expecting anything other than the established format from GTA6’s cover art but this is all I can think

Austin cooked

Just a reminder that I will be at Gamescom again this year, if any editors are looking for writers to cover the show, and if any publishers or PR want to organise some appointments.

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

Why does every Nintendo Direct sound like this?

As someone who has only just got into Smash Bros Ultimate, I was highly disappointed by the lack of Smash Bros Ultimate announcements during today’s Direct

[dies in guides writer]

This DMZ mode looks naff but it’s hilarious that it’s all just the spectator cam of the idiot teammate who went off on his own and got killed and his two chums make no effort to bring him back and just leave

Games industry stop releasing games on September 24 challenge (impossible)

Oh right so the Doom Dark Ages DLC is just trying to make it more like Eternal, the better game

Good god Campaign Evolved is just not it. I can’t see it as anything other than the final boss of Halo maximalism

Noticed Aerith was suspiciously absent from that FF7 Revelations trailer… what’s with that??

We’ve now entered the gooner bait portion of SGF

Get in the sonic racing game shinji

Honestly think Galactic Racer is my most anticipated game of this year, it looks so sick

What if Geoff was like “you know what? This year’s SGF is kind of mid actually. Not the biggest or best one, I have to say”

Oh no there’s a bingus plushie

Fey is Shrek, the cube is Donkey, the ribbon/sword is Puss in Boots and the Egyptian lady is Lord Farquaad, it’s that simple

Hmm cautiously optimistic about this one. Looks like it has more sauce than Forza Horizon 6, but it sounds very ambitious and I hope it doesn’t fall into a trap of trying to compete with FH in terms of scale. I don’t want another massive map and a bajillion cars!

The MW4 logo really is awful with that "4 but make it look Hangul". Unsurprisingly the characters aren't especially accurate and it's quite funny that this was the closest translation I could get

it is what it isssssssssss

Boy I should really play The Witcher 3 huh

YouTube app settings > Time management > Shorts Feed Limit

Who up yanking their yoke

I said I wanted to average reading one book per month this year to improve on last year’s efforts and become a bit more consistent. Anyway, it’s almost the end of May and I’ve just finished my first book…

On Thursday evening Valnet issued new contracts to writers at TheGamer instituting a minimum article viewership threshold for payment. Most writers already have pay tied to article performance, but this new system would mean that if a piece didn't get X number of clicks you wouldn't be paid for it.

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Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" www.gamesradar.com/games/destin...

Even though the writing was on the wall given the post-Final Shape performance and shift to Marathon, I’m shocked that this is end. Not even scaling back, just cutting losses altogether.

Network N has decided to cut PCGamesN’s guides team, which means I’m out of a job from mid-June. This is the best job I’ve ever had, and I’m heartbroken to see my team broken up like this. If you're looking to bolster your guides team with one of the best to ever do it, my DMs are open.

Today is, sadly, my last day at GamesRadar+ after a very fun three-and-a-bit years. Forgive my self-indulgence, then, as I link to a few pieces that I liked. Starting with that time I wrote about David Lynch's The Angriest Dog in the World. www.gamesradar.com/comics/david...

I think Forza Horizon 6 is probably the best in the series and definitely one of the best racing games you can play right now and yet I found it so rarely genuinely fun. Japan is a way better setting than FH5’s Mexico but everything is just so ehhhh

And both of them involve the Eldar which is why they’re the best faction

Me: Phew, games industry discourse sure was having a mad one last week! Edge: Hold my beer (To be clear, not read any of this myself yet but the timing is very funny)

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Went to see Mortal Kombat 2 which was awful but the whole trip was worth it because I saw this cat that I haven’t seen for a while in the car park afterwards

Happy 100, big man

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It’s never not funny

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Worth pointing out that this is concerning because: A) it’s exactly something I would do B) I’ve not played Marathon in over two weeks

Had a dream last night that I was playing Marathon and randomly happened upon a full bag of gold loot in Pinwheel Base with 1:40 on the clock. Filled my inventory, legged it out because a Rook was chasing me, then panicked so much finding an exfil I accidentally yeeted myself off the map