@thehawkeward.bsky.social happy birthday king 🎉

[LIVE NOW 🟢] hiiii this weekend I'm fundraising for the Starlight Children's Foundation!! Today (rn) I'm streaming Elden Ring and tomorrow I'll be streaming Infinity Nikki! ❤️ We have a few goals and a giveaway, so come hang out and donate if you're able!! ❤️ twitch.tv/watermeg

We're thrilled to partner with Starlight Children's Foundation for our first post-hibernation event! Join us to bring joy to hospitalized children this Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 💖 We'll be fundraising all September, stay tuned for schedules and info! Donate here: tiltify.com/starlight-ch...

Hades 2 is releasing soon I'm eating good this year

Silksong is a hard game! I'm definitely dying a lot. However because I played over 1000 hours of Hollow Knight randomiser and rotted my brain, I have no idea what a normal experience with that game looks like so have no basis for comparison! Is it harder? I couldn't possibly say.

Silksong day is upon us!

The Cosmos are BACK and we've got some exciting things coming! Watch this space for info about our first post-hibernation fundraiser and our plans for opening applications 🪐

Got this sick ass Tune & Fairweather Bloodborne art book for my birthday 😍

Announcing "10 years of this shit" This September marks 10 years since I started streaming. These last 10 years have been unimaginably wonderful and have honestly saved me. To celebrate, we'll be doing two special streams. There will be cake. There will be giveaways. There will be fun.

PUMPED to be participating this Tuesday in Food Fight hosted by @disheswithdana.bsky.social and Darth_Furbacca! Contestants have chosen a charity; donate to @twloha.bsky.social to either help or hinder me & my opponent for maximum chaos 😆 Extra thanks to @megabitez.bsky.social for the graphic!

Hobby spaces have a transphobia problem. open.substack.com/pub/quickpla...

Calling all Soulslike streamers! Do you stream any of the Dark Souls games or Elden Ring, are free in February 2026 and would like to support @specialeffect.org.uk? Reply and I'll add you to my list! Also plz tag friends you think might be interested 💙

I like the format I used for the last month of Update Patch for startmenu. Check out the full thing here!

Reviewers including No Pun Included and Shut Up & Sit Down are boycotting Codenames publisher CGE for releasing a new Harry Potter-themed game while ignoring JK Rowling’s anti-trans rhetoric: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

My final update patch of the month! Check them out ❤️

🔴 trying to get a date with my wife, I mean, not *with* my wife but she is also here, not to say I wouldn’t date my wife, I mean… anyway, here’s #MonsterProm twitch.tv/TheHawkeward

They've only gone and done it again with a new QuickPlay review! quickplay.substack.com/p/spilled

Wonder if she'll join Corbyn's new party, that would be a strong start for a Scottish wing.

This week's Update Patch, written by @shanodin.bsky.social, is full of controversy from an ever-more messy lawsuit to Steam acquiescing to the pressures of payment processes and an anti-porn lobbying group. www.patreon.com/posts/update...

Hi hello I've done it again, there's a new QuickPlay! I talk about The Stanley Parable and its reckoning with gamer agency and choice. open.substack.com/pub/quickpla...

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

This week @shanodin.bsky.social uses Update Patch to try to summarise the Subnautica 2 controversy, along with highlighting all the week's other news. www.patreon.com/posts/update...

I thought I thought this game was fine when I finished it, but rereading the review, maybe I didn't really like it 😅 quickplay.substack.com/p/deliver-us...

where's a good place to keep a Kindle? where should it live when not in use??

I'm back doing this month's updates for startmenu!

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

hey do you want to be tripped out AND sad about the world? Just watched this and thought it was a very clever video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysJe...

Sayonara Wild Hearts by @simogo.com was a wildly stylish ride through the emotions of heartbreak. It's utterly gorgeous. Read my full review here: quickplay.substack.com/p/sayonara-w...

I just watched @nopunincluded.com 's video "Is Every Game REALLY Political?" and it is absolutely exceptional. As an aspiring content creator, this kind of media does a lot in my brain. 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l6u...

The Lego tranquil garden is so cute 🥰

Hey folks, I'd love it if you could go and check out my Portal reivew - I'm really pleased with how it turned out but it hasn't gained much traction.

🕳🌈 BIG GAY DIG DAY 🌈🕳 It's time - we are finally live for our full day of DIGGING! and FUNDRAISING for TLC! my favorite activities! join in the dig, share the charity link, or just hangout for the vibes. we'll see you there! ⛏ watch: www.twitch.tv/notbella 🌈 donate: tilt.fyi/QekXx9AgAC

This was a triumph. quickplay.substack.com/p/portal

So the trailer for Project Hail Mary will be out soon and unless you've read the book I would highly recommend not watching it. Just wait and go to the cinema when it's out. I knew nothing when I read the book and it was a fantastic experience that had me hootin' and hollerin' and tearing up.

Tomorrow Night, 27th June 6:30pm UK Big Ol' Charity Stream for Mermaids UK! Playing REPO with Crowd Control (and you?), all proceeds to charity! We have Incentives and Milestones. See you there!

wishing you a happy wednesday along with some exciting news! 🎉 i'm participating in another @fractalofficial.bsky.social giveaway! 🤗 select me as your streamer and enter for a chance to win a newly released Scape headset! good luck! 💜 gleam.io/3GwBQ/fracta...

@ifbookspod.bsky.social guys can you consider this book it will definitely support the one book theory 😂

🌈✨ Join us for Pride Talks: Black Queer Representation in Media! ✨🌈 Sunday, June 22nd, 6 PM EST / 3 PM PST Featuring: @blackbeautyforever.bsky.social @fattummyt.bsky.social We’re talking about what it means to be seen in media as Black & queer. Watch live on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/marcylaycelle

On Monday I will be participating in the Pride Guild raid train event and it's MY BIRTHDAY 🎂 I'll be live at 9am and maybe trying to finish The Legend of Dragoon hehehe www.twitch.tv/ashiirosee

Some words by me, some of which are actually good, brought to you courtesy of @gnofhorror.com.

🌈 Big Gay Dig Day - 2025 🌈 Let's dig a big huge giant hole in Minecraft and fundraise for Transgender Law Center! Join me on the Cashew Town Minecraft server for the biggest and gayest hole of the year. ❤ 📅 Saturday June 28, 12pm ET donate: tilt.fyi/QekXx9AgAC info: notbel.la/events/bgdd2...

TAVERNTACULAR stream planned for this evening, here's a makeupless selfie because if I put on make up early *something* will make me cry Today is World Hunger Day and Concern Worldwide is hosting a VERY COOL event I'm pumped to be joining 💚🍽️

Okay a friend who I really trust and respect just said he was really impressed with how far my writing has come since I started quickplay.substack.com and it has absolutely made my day 🥰 go check it out and let me know what you think!

Newest QuickPlay is out - this time I played What Remains of Edith Finch. As a certified Walking Sim fan, I don't know how it took me eight years to get to this. open.substack.com/pub/quickpla...

hi friends! i'm participating in another @fractalofficial.bsky.social giveaway! enter for a chance to win a new Meshify 3 XL case! good luck! 💜 gleam.io/WcMAE/2-frac...

My first article is a reflection on the last month of games media discourse, squabbling, and layoffs, but it is mainly me just begging people to grow up and start building from the bottom. www.rewinder.co.uk/video-game-m...

This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10

I've been posting a lot about the books I've been reading over on my Instagram! If that interests you, give me a follow www.instagram.com/realshanodin

I reviewed Mouthwashing and found it to be heinous, despicable, an absolutely glorious spectacle of psychological horror. Spoiler free review, check it out! open.substack.com/pub/quickpla...

Friends, I was finally able to play a game and write about it for Quick Play! I decided to torture myself with the heinous spectacle of Mouthwashing, an instant horror must-play. open.substack.com/pub/quickpla...