Wot I've been doing for the past few years

Might be some of my stuff in this

Buy @foddy.net's cool video game, you will not regret

Baby Steps is genius and somehow truly thrilling in pajamas. OUT NOW by Bennett Foddy, Gabe Cuzzillo, and Maxi Boch! store.steampowered.com/app/1281040/...

Really cool to see @pcgamer.com go all in on Baldur’s Gate 2 anniversary coverage, and unambiguously credit it for casting the mould that western RPGs are made in.

Literally, the best pinball video game ever.

Glad to hear GDC is addressing developers' understandable concerns by *checks notes* hold on *checks notes again, disbelievingly* rebranding as 'Festival of Gaming'

Finally getting round to Öoo, the latest from Elechead genius NamaTakahashi, and cor, this puzzler really has the juice, the sauce AND the gravy. Lovely stuff. store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...

Silent Hill f has become my surprise of the year. It forges a new identity for the series; takes that uneasy atmosphere and makes it a little more gruesome; has a very compelling narrative that goes to some very interesting places and deals with some heavy themes. GOTY contender.

An extremely important petition. #FreePoinpy www.change.org/p/free-poinpy

it probably would not be good to meet a giant spider lady irl. however, we all can agree giant spider ladies are hot. there's thousands of years of history to prove it. this is why fiction is good and why trying to ban various "unhealthy" fiction is annoying and miserable.

Wowee

A fair and much appreciated write-up - thanks!

Yep – an interesting game in a properly beautiful world. Worth seven or eight hours of your time

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Wrote about the idiot newsletter.hitpoints.co/336-boss-bat...

If there's options in a menu, that ends up being in the back of your mind as a way out of a tough situation. "Is this too hard because I'm not prepared enough, or is it too hard because I should be playing on an easier difficulty?". it can make things muddled and confusing

Look, I’m not going to actively encourage you to risk giving Jacob RSI but I’m also not going to discourage you from buying his amazing book

Oh hey, just so you know, I'm available to review Hades II if you'd like words from someone who's written 500+ unbylined reviews for Edge magazine. I've put 60 hours into the various Early Access versions, if that helps sweeten the deal at all...

Man’s one of the best in the biz.

Randy! Please stop posting!

Trying out Indy on GeForce Now's fancy new RTX 5080 update. I like donuts and bandages. I'm a donuts and bandages kind of hero guy. But also, fuck me, it's nigh-on impossible to see or feel that this is streaming. Looks insane.

This. It's why they have so much energy for it. It's an all-encompassing hobby. These guys need to have a project which is not destructive. I am fairly sure brexit happened because there were so many men of a certain age who had nothing better to do that by hypnotised by Farage's frogface.

This is the closest you can get to a pad smasher on Everybody's Golf

This is going to be brilliant. Roll on February

Some people seem to have forgotten that you can praise someone for a critical review of a highly anticipated game without suggesting that those who enjoyed it more are in any way less honest or just got “caught up in the hype”

Incredible that those covering far right march in London are failing to link to history of far right in UK. Tell it how it is: this extremist movement is the descendant of the BNP, Combat-18, Moseley's black shirts. Either short memories or deliberate forgetting.

Because the entire UK political and media apparatus is on twitter reading the firehouse of bullshit jettisoned from the US and thinking that's what's most important to people who live in Midsomer Norton.

Steadily making my way through Silksong. This is a game to luxuriate in, I consider. A world of rare richness that deserves be savoured. This is a place to be respected - nay, feared - I tell myself, as I fail to pogo jump on three flowers and fall into a pit of spikes for the 17th time

I think if we’re honest with ourselves we all have a bit of computer madness. But I suspect one of the main reasons I’ve avoided going fully off the deep end is that I’m simply too tired

The Ninendo direct auto-played me into this trailer with its 🎶saxophone🎶 and now the weekend has officially started youtu.be/uHGShqcAHlQ?...

Going for Completionist++ is almost certainly the stupidest decision I've ever made. But I have done it.

hey real quick, any of you speak a Canadian First Nations language or know someone who does? Help needed on something small to annoy a racist.

DF Direct Weekly #230 is now on early access to backers of our Supporter Program, talking Switch 2 ray tracing, 007 First Light and Hollow Knight: Silksong. Meanwhile, what's the deal with Switch 2 carts not being fast enough to support Star Wars Outlaws? patreon.com/digitalfoundry

I think is actually essential. I will vote for whoever campaigns on this issue.

Unambiguous. Protect trans youth.

PC Gamer wrote up one of the more fascinating stories to come out of my recent interview with Glen Schofield. www.pcgamer.com/games/call-o...

Shout out to the way we announced my wife’s pregnancy 10 years ago

Miserable. Firaxis is a den of talent and has been a training ground for some of the strategy genre’s finest designers for decades.

Properly mad that

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info

Would people be willing to pay more for Silksong? Sure. Is it worth more? No idea. Is it nice to have an interaction with capitalism that isn't designed by a team of data analysts to take you for the absolute maximum possible? Yeah.

Little entry I couldn't include from my notes for this piece: "Fucking hell it looks good" news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...

I'm hearing that IMMORTALITY is today's hot-button issue, which is a good time to remind you that you can still buy the standard edition of LIC's Design Works book www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/immor...

There Are No Ghosts at the Grand has been an exciting weirdo enigma to me since it was revealed, so I was very happy to ask @fridaysundae.bsky.social a lot of questions that effectively boiled down "what the hell is this game?" on the Xbox Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pGR...

Hadn't intended for there to be such a long gap between newsletters btw, but between work and school holidays, I burned out bad. Had to write this one on my phone in a soft play centre cafe, to give you a sense of how little time I've had lately. (And why it may contain typos and nonsense).

Some good news for a change

Er, you might want to rethink this one, Cineworld