Katharine Castle
@karthupial.bsky.social
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UX writer. Former games journalist. Views are my own. DFTBA.
https://www.instagram.com/karthupial
Heck yes, Moves of the Diamond Hand Chapter 2 here we gooooo. (Chapter 1 is already available in the demo - it's great!)
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No DLSS could improve upon the perfection that is my Starfield dad.
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Please tell me I'm not the only one with a terrifying Starfield dad
We lament the horrifying appearance of our in-game dad in Starfield.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/please-tell-me-im-not-the-only-one-with-a-terrifying-starfield-dad
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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.
6 days ago
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Wes Fenlon
11 days ago
Seriously? Opt-out via email is a laughably inadequate recourse for selling a product that verges on impersonation and profits on unearned credibility.
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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.
15 days ago
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The heck?
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Now it's time to be a serious adult.
16 days ago
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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 💀
16 days ago
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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.
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17 days ago
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17 days ago
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.
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From myself and the whole team at
@eurogamer.bsky.social
, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙
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A brilliant little game you - YES, YOU! - should play immediately.
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18 days ago
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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.
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23 days ago
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood Original Soundtrack, by fingerspit
38 track album
https://fingerspit.bandcamp.com/album/the-cosmic-wheel-sisterhood-original-soundtrack
about 1 month ago
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Why did they call it Untitled John Wick Game and not Baba Yaga Is You?
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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.
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about 2 months ago
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.
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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.
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TR-49 on Steam
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3838370/TR49/
about 2 months ago
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Graham Smith
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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
.
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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...
2 months ago
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From one human being slowly cooked by cats and blankets to another, Happy New Year, folks!
3 months ago
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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
3 months ago
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The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast
3 months ago
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.
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The Daily Express TV desk is out of control.
3 months ago
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3 months ago
It's indulgent, but I'm reposting this thread again because it made me chuckle so much. Current favourite: Blake Manor.
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Strong sunrise giving me strength in the face of a 5 carriage (down from 9) train to London this morning 🥲
3 months ago
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Proud to support Pinky for mayor of Steam Replay 2025!
3 months ago
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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.
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‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone
Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/13/this-extraordinary-story-never-goes-out-of-fashion-30-authors-on-the-books-they-give-to-everyone?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
3 months ago
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You like Assassin's Creed, do you? Well, can I interest you in... more Assassins Creed???
3 months ago
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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.
3 months ago
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Netflix now owning the Nemesis system: every time you down-thumb a show, the more aggressively it appears in your feed, regardless of genre.
4 months ago
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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!
4 months ago
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No, *YOU'RE* obsessed with video game music.
4 months ago
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I've been clearing out some boxes from underneath the bed recently and found all sorts of random/defunct technology I'd semi-forgotten about. Some key highlights: - half a Gtech vacuum that was sent to me by mistake - unopened Magic Leap One glasses - a 3DS NFC reader - this honking great WoW mouse:
4 months ago
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🎵It's the moooost wonderful tiiiime of the yeeeear!!🎵
4 months ago
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A John Lewis velvet Bon-Bon cushion? Or a covert nod that the family you're visiting for Christmas is actually in league with Umbrella Corporation?
4 months ago
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The Back Page gets the VIDEOVERSE treatment! Thanks for 5 years of the podcast, giant men!
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Hold up, why has no one made a bigger thing about Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment having both incredi musou action *AND* half a Star Fox game hidden inside it??? An insane mash-up that Koei Tecmo has absolutely nailed - all with a bangin' battle theme to boot!
4 months ago
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Playing Dishonored: Death of the Outsider for the first time and hot damn, what a great video game, amirite?
4 months ago
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Instant wishlist, heck yeah. January can't come soon enough.
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Earning a C on easy in that brutal 10-minute-gauntlet final level is the best I'll ever achieve in life.
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On
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this morning: well, the picture says it all, really. (Oh, and some hints for our next game, too.)
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How Inkle's Heaven's Vault started life as a Doctor Who game, before it was exterminated
Inkle's Jon Ingold on how Heaven's Vault started life as a Doctor Who game.
https://www.eurogamer.net/how-inkles-heavens-vault-started-life-as-a-doctor-who-game-before-it-was-exterminated
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Videoverse is so dang good. Heartfelt, funny, and a love letter to consoles, self-discovery and early online communities. If you missed it on PC, you have no excuse not to pick it up now. It's out everywhere!
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4 months ago
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Been thinking about Flat Eye again recently after rediscovering its wonderfully ambient soundtrack, and cor, more people should have played that game! A speculative management sim from the devs behind Night Call, I mean, what's not to like?
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Flat Eye on Steam
Flat Eye is a resource management sim with an emphasis on story and narrative choices. Oversee the world’s leading technological hub while you explore stories linked to discoverable technology and int...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1358840/Flat_Eye/
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How lucky we are to have Cas and the team throwing everything at every issue of APWOT. An honour to be asked to contribute - so many great writers I can't wait to dig into. Its annual arrival is a highlight of my gaming year. Treat yourself to a copy and you won't be disappointed.
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You're all sleeping on Drop Duchy, a Tetris-infused deck-building roguelike that's also sort of a city builder, and you don't even know it.
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Drop Duchy on Steam
Build your duchy piece by piece in this refreshing hybrid rogue-lite game. Use block-dropping mechanics to collect resources, recruit troops to fight against belligerent armies, and let every block sh...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2525310/Drop_Duchy/
5 months ago
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Some great horror book picks in here. Would also add Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium and Hye-Young Pyun's The Hole if you're after some more sinister reads!
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Incredible evening hearing Sayaka Murata talk about Vanishing World, the reality of modern relationships (with real and non-real people) and *checks notes*, yep, "caves of meat" tonight at the London Literature Festival.
5 months ago
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