Heck yesssss! Sure, it's been a hot minute since I read books 1 & 2, but OH WELL, I guess I'll just have to go back to the beginning and read them again, what a terrible state of affairs...

Someone pointed out that not all of the Star Fox crew have zipper pulls on their jackets, so can't actually do them up, and I can't stop thinking about it

Enjoyed what I played of Bond. IO could have very easily made Hitman with more of a moral compass, but they've reshaped their excellent stealth in neat ways and taken a good swing (sometimes with a novelty mug in their fist) at boisterous action and set pieces. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

Went swimming for the first time in about 15 years this morning. Used to go 5-6 times a week as a teen, but man alive, age has certainly caught up with me.

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I'll tell you what's the real design crime of 'multi-phase boss fights with no checkpoints': When each phase of said HOUR-LONG boss fight is also punctuated with several unskippable cutscenes that you have to sit through all over again!

Still in a bit of a Xenoblade 3 pit at the moment, but cor, April is absolutely stacked with great new games to play. Alongside Titanium Court, also installed and ready to go are: - Opus: Prism Peak - Moves of the Diamond Hand - No More Work For Ito - Hermit and Pig - Replaced... VIDEO GAAAMESSSS!

This really was the hot sauce/juice/gravy when I played it during IGF. Excited to dig in properly!

Holy shit, this is an *absurdly* good bundle

The best thing about the British Museum's Samurai exhibition isn't actually in the museum itself - it's this YT vid they made looking at how games have interpreted famous warriors from history, and it's really quite good. youtu.be/lqO1QxAvX6U?...

Optician: Congrats, your eyesight is slightly better than it was two years ago. Also the optician, seconds later: But give it ten years and it will likely start getting really bad again, so you better get all your reading in now while you still can... 💀

Every open world game needs a "pointless" horse behaviour section in their design document.

There's no better April Fool than chopping your 9 carriage train down to 5 and only having 3 of them be standard class.

Alarmo finally earning its keep after today's update.

I still think it's a crime and travesty that 'Bow Wow Wow, Bow Wow Wow' isn't included in the main FF7 Rebirth soundtrack.

What is Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's best music track and why is it Final Fantasy 5's Battle on the Big Bridge remix? open.spotify.com/track/5UxUgD...

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

Heck yes, Moves of the Diamond Hand Chapter 2 here we gooooo. (Chapter 1 is already available in the demo - it's great!)

No DLSS could improve upon the perfection that is my Starfield dad. www.rockpapershotgun.com/please-tell-...

Coming back to Xenoblade 3 after a four-year hiatus(!), I think I've discovered the real reason RPGs have so many sidequests. It's so future you (who leaves the game two thirds of the way through for some reason) can ease yourself back in nice and slowly, free of stress and pain.

Seriously? Opt-out via email is a laughably inadequate recourse for selling a product that verges on impersonation and profits on unearned credibility.

Like, I'm not even kidding, if you actually want my real, human advice about video games writing, I will give that to you. Directly. For free. Grammarly's fake approximation of what I think and value can get right in the bin. Utter garbage.

The heck?

Now it's time to be a serious adult.

Got to experience both sides of Battersea Power Station's Chimney Lift today - the cool and very quick journey up to the top, *and* the 12 flights of steps back to ground level after an evacuation alarm was triggered 💀

Alix was such a trooper behind the scenes at Gamer Network, turning round endless RPS@PAX clips overnight on weekends while myself and other team members were out in the US, and always lending a helping hand in our hour of need. It's gutting that the GN cuts have hit him too.

Everyone mentioned here deserves better, but shout out to video editor Alix who was the 'invisible' team member of the RPS Video gang. Edited our first six months of the channel, took my rambling notes and turned them into some early wins. Was an exciting, fulfilling time. Hope someone snaps him up.

From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙

A brilliant little game you - YES, YOU! - should play immediately.

Gross that Ziff Davis are using Eurogamer like this to promote IGN nonsense on the day it's revealed they're gutting EG's staff. A comically tone-deaf company.

I'm so outraged by Ziff Davis' continued vandalism of Gamer Network. The total mismanagement of everything they've done to all my former colleagues makes my blood absolutely boil.

Ah, that's a real shame. This sounded so ambitious when I spoke to Jake for Eurogamer two years ago. Would have loved to have seen this studio get a proper chance to succeed.

Can't believe it didn't really register at the time, but listening to fingerspit's soundtrack for The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood in isolation is SO. DANG. GOOD, Y'ALL. fingerspit.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...

Why did they call it Untitled John Wick Game and not Baba Yaga Is You?

One of my grand, blue sky ideas for RPS was essentially exactly this. It would borrow the bones of a bookstagram challenge I was doing at the time, going deep on games from a different country each month. Totally unworkable with the resources we had, mind, but I'd love to see someone try it someday.

We had to take an injured sparrowhawk to the vets today. I've never seen an expression that better encapsulates the modern moment than this little guy's.

Utterly inhaled Inkle's TR-49 this weekend. What a brilliant little thing. To say much about it would veer into spoiler territory, but this is such a smartly conceived deduction game, and undeniably one of Inkle's best to date. And it's less than £6! A STEAL. store.steampowered.com/app/3838370/...

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.

Nectar Wrapped is getting serious with its regional stats. Makes my previous accolade of being the #1 buyer of 'big pack' Rice Krispies cereal in Bath's big Sainsbury's look like child's play...

From one human being slowly cooked by cats and blankets to another, Happy New Year, folks!

Loads of games I didn't play this year but these are easily the most memorable ones I did: 1. Donkey Kong Bananza 2. Split Fiction 3. The Roottrees are Dead 4. Promise Mascot Agency 5. Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist 6. The Horror at Highrook 7. Strange Jigsaws 8. Öoo 9. Drop Duchy 10. Wednesdays

If Father Castle decides you've been naughty, you get a copy of Astro Bot on PS5. If he decides you've been nice, you get Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour.

The Daily Express TV desk is out of control.

It's indulgent, but I'm reposting this thread again because it made me chuckle so much. Current favourite: Blake Manor.

Strong sunrise giving me strength in the face of a 5 carriage (down from 9) train to London this morning 🥲

Proud to support Pinky for mayor of Steam Replay 2025!

Having a go-to recommendation is so much harder for books than games, I find. Personal tastes are trickier to gauge, and my reading habits are... probably more niche than most. The one I do tend to fall back on, though, is "Strange Beasts of China" by Yan Ge. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

You like Assassin's Creed, do you? Well, can I interest you in... more Assassins Creed???

Have belatedly started reading Erin Morgenstern's "The Starless Sea" and I'm surprised by how much video game stuff is in it. That said, early evidence suggests it's all *very* early 2010s gaming discourse, though, which... Hmm. Feels strangely quaint somehow.

Netflix now owning the Nemesis system: every time you down-thumb a show, the more aggressively it appears in your feed, regardless of genre.

Second year in a row for @amosroddy.bsky.social. The Citizen Sleeper soundtracks are just such a constant fixture on my weekly train rides to London these days, and at the risk of pulling an Abba, thanks for all the great music!