For my 31st birthday, I’m entering The Grid

With all these wonderful new followers, suppose I better talk about the game projects I’ve been lucky to be a part of! 🧵 below:

Wonder what the Venn diagram is of people boycotting Disney who are now fawning over and sharing the Mando & Grogu trailer.

Crikey, LOTS of new followers! 👋🏻 Hey! I’m Gavin, a games writer/story designer with an IG50 award to my name. I’m currently working with Serious Point and Fairer Games on their awesome projects; but I’m very much open to take on paid writing and narrative work. Portfolio in bio!

Need to try and get physical versions whenever my quotes and stars get featured on a poster!

SAVE the DATE - Game Narrative Networking - London, UK Evening of Friday 3rd October... details and booking to follow next week. Watch this space * Shares welcome. *You enter the internet. Do you - A) Stare at the screen in hope? B) Open a new tab to join the other 278 you have open? C) Panic?

It’s such a heavy, scary time to be a Black person or a minority in the UK and US right now. More and more people are done hiding their hate and bigotry. Check in on us, and each other.

Hey! I have no idea how to do this, I’ve never made a List or Starter Pack before, but: ⭐️ If you’re a Games Writer/Narrative Designer looking for work, and you’d like to be added to my Starter Pack, lmk! ⭐️ If you’re looking to hire a Games Writer/Narrative Designer, check out this Starter Pack!

One Screening After Another

budding and emerging film critics – talking shorts' european workshop for film criticism is taking applications until october 5th! a rare opportunity for mentorship and experience in criticism talkingshorts.com/european-wor...

Also got a new interview out with @moviemarker.bsky.social! Had a chat with Solo director Sophie Dupuis and actor Felix Maritaud. One of my favourite interviews; was a lot of fun but also rather profound. www.moviemarker.co.uk/interview-wi...

Latest @filmhounds.co.uk review is a weird one… Ebony & Ivory is not the Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder biopic you might think it is. Out in cinemas this Friday! filmhounds.co.uk/2025/09/ebon...

If anyone happens to have a Surprise Film ticket going, you’d be my hero #LFF @lffstubs.bsky.social

Some nice morning reading for ya: my @moviemarker.bsky.social review of Solo, which is out in UK cinemas next week Certainly had some thoughts! www.moviemarker.co.uk/solo-%E2%98%...

Please vote for The Mental Health Shelf and share, this is the final push - www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting

A suitable lager for celebrating surviving the Great North Run.

Runner Kong ready for the #GNR2025 You can still donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/gavin-s...

Attending #LFF as accredited press? Unsure about how organise your time and make the most out of covering the festival? Then we have a guide for you! We’ve updated the London Film Festival Press Guide from last year with handy info, tips and tricks. Do share with journo colleagues!

Many new film critics and creators are applying for #LFF accreditation. I had a lot of questions on my first time, so we’ve re-edited a segment from our chat with Filmhounds editor-in-chief @supergavigator.bsky.social, where he shares advice for first-timers. Hope it helps: pod.fo/e/325e8c

Please, enjoy me popping my pants on this fine sunny Friday

NW: Good Boy If they kill the dog, I swear…

📢 Job Opportunity 📢 We're looking for an enthusiastic, hard-working and experienced publicist or senior publicist to join our team! We're looking for a candidate with 1-3+ years of experience in games journalism or influencer management who can work in the UK. Info below.

Happy Take Your Clown Makeup Off Day!

Full review of The Long Walk: filmhounds.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

The BFI #LFF programme has been announced, and we at @filmhounds.co.uk have picked out ten films you should keep an eye on. It’s a hell of a lineup this year! filmhounds.co.uk/2025/09/what...

Let’s see what the BFI have been cooking up for this year!

Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:

I am exhausted after #TheLongWalk  The most heart-wrenching film you’ll see this year. Tense as hell, horrifying, yet has a heartfelt, bittersweet core. The writing and performances are stellar, but David Jonsson is on another level. I’m in awe.

Sat down for The Long Walk

#Sundance2025 Audience Award winner #Twinless comes out this weekend! It was one of the most memorable films of the festival for me; James Sweeney, who directs and stars, has a really unique sensibility. Our diversity review by @supergavigator.bsky.social: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

An evening with the Warrens!

We’ve hit £200 for my Great North Run fundraiser! Means that I have to do a half-marathon dressed as Donkey Kong 🙊 Know what happens if we hit the £350 target before the run this Sunday? I dress up as Elphaba instead… Donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/gavin-s...

Don’t have many training sessions left before the Great North Run… Which means there’s not much time left to hit the fundraising target! www.justgiving.com/page/gavin-s...

Certainly lots to like in #CaughtStealing, but can’t help but feel like something is missing. My @filmhounds.co.uk review: filmhounds.co.uk/2025/08/caug...

Just a reminder… Still short of the fundraising target, if anyone can spare anything at all, it’d be massively appreciated. If not, sharing and retweeting would help a tonne! Not long until the Great North Run 👀 www.justgiving.com/page/gavin-s...

I’ll have a full Caught Stealing review coming soon. In the meantime, let me warn my fellow bisexuals that plan on watching this film. Kravitz and Butler together? Oh my…

And the second part of our double bill today:

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Got a double bill today, starting with:

Goddamn, In/Frame/Out (one of my closest friends and up there with the absolute best film critics online) had his channel deleted out of nowhere for completely horseshit reasons. Not sure what to do about it on here except express complete disbelief. Years of passion just gone. HELL WORLD

New @filmhounds.co.uk review just dropped! Had no idea what I was getting into with The Ceremony, but turns out this is a terrific feature debut with strong character work. And it’s bloody gorgeous too. filmhounds.co.uk/2025/08/the-...

Sakurai is so real for opening up the direct like that 🥲

Reminder: you’ve got little over two weeks to force me to run a half marathon dressed as Donkey Kong! All in the name of charity, of course. Donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/gavin-s...

HEY WRITERS: Tony Gilroy will not be releasing the Andor scripts due to AI scraping concerns (understandable but sad), but the script for season 2 episode 9, "Welcome to the Rebellion," is now available for download on Disney's Emmy consideration site: assets.debut.disney.com/documents/An...

To celebrate Motherboard arriving in UK cinemas today, we have an exclusive clip from the film to share! Read our ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review here: filmhounds.co.uk/2025/08/moth...

Issue 25 of @filmhounds.co.uk is now available! Exclusive interviews with Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona, the Philippou brothers, and more. Grab your copy: filmhounds.bigcartel.com

See you all at the Picturehouse and Festival Hall 🫡

AdventureX, the narrative gaming expo in November, is still looking for sponsors - if you know any companies (development, hardware, software etc) that might be a good fit and interested, let me know or tag them in the comments! www.adventurexpo.org/sponsorship @adventurex.bsky.social

With Issue #25 nearly ready, @filmhounds.co.uk is open to pitches for our next print issue! I'm looking for timely pitches for Oct/Nov releases and anniversaries. Wildcard angles welcome as always. Unpaid (sorry). Send pitches via email: [email protected]