Slow Horses is back. To celebrate, listen to our episode with Daniel Pemberton, composer of the show’s theme tune (and many more), who reveals how Rolling Stones’ frontman Mick Jagger recorded the song’s vocals — using a studio on his ‘back-up’ island: www.patreon.com/posts/daniel...

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more like department of homies' insecurities

Fix your brain and heart

everyone has already got the explicit discourse on this covered so i will simply add its insanely funny to say this as the developer of games where you kill like. ten thousand guys

A 2TB Series X is now $50 more expensive than a 2TB PS5 *Pro*. Microsoft is actively trying to not sell consoles

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

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

Re. RPS freelance, I now have a budget for irregular (maybe 6-12 pieces a year) 2000-3000 wordish, more granular and specific reporting and investigative criticism that broaches a new topic or addresses a gap in knowledge regarding something familiar.

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...

"ok mr dillon first I need to ask you a few quick security questions. could you please tell me how your name appears on the front your bank card?" "i think a big machine in a factory just stamps it on there?"

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Randy! Please stop posting!

Sorry but thank you

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

According to Nintendo, both titles feature improved UI, motion controls options, an in-game music player, new Storybook content, and enhanced resolution. For Nintendo Switch 2, a free update will add 4K resolution support for both titles.

Will someone please find iNiS and show them this

Kash rallying the troops by trying to do the Tommy Lee Jones "I want a hard target search of every residence, warehouse, henhouse, and outhouse" speech from The Fugitive and he gets a really bad nosebleed halfway through.

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

They learned the left one from Resident Evil and the right one Silent Hill

New all-timer ratio just dropped

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Until this week, it's been impossible to play the games of the 1993 Pioneer LaserActive without one of the vanishingly rare, disintegrating consoles. Here's the story of the guy who's been trying to fix that for years -- and all the hardware and software he had to build to make it possible.

My book, Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun, is out next February! It is a lively cultural history of the world's most beloved video game company, drawing from 20 years' worth of reporting and interviews. Pre-order here: linktr.ee/super_nintendo

Newly elected Green Party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked, would he ever work with Keir Starmer?

As someone who didn't quite latch onto Hollow Knight despite multiple attempts, Nathan Brown of @hitpoints.bsky.social is a bit sad all these Silksong-induced indie game delays are going to make the coming month a little less interesting. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/bonu... [PAYWALLED]

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

yo this guy is cooking

When independent media outlets like VGC are finally killed off, YouTube videos like this, which (despite appreciated praise) read our feature out verbatim, AFTER TURNING ON AD BLOCK, and then don’t mention us AT ALL, won’t have any content left to source www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9wc...

Ya girl is a columnist now!! 👁️🫦👁️ Big thanks to the @thisweekinvideogames.com team for asking me to do my thing on an ✨OFFICIAL PUBLICATION✨! I promise you will only regret it a lot.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

The Playdate can finally emulate the Game Boy!! Here's how a duo harnessed the system's underpowered hardware to make a kickass emulator

The idea that 'AI can speed up dev cycles' would require a premise that dev cycles are long because people are taking forever to make assets (so you could replace them with shoddy slop and it'd go faster), which you could only believe is true if you've never actually tried to make a video game

New Peel Perspective post just dropped for subscribers! It's about social climbing, after a fashion. www.patreon.com/posts/137077...

Just imagining the tone of this post if a triple-A company took this line

This how to participate for FFXIV's MH collab is so fucking funny

Geoff Keighley’s greatest achievement is disproving the maxim that practice makes perfect. If anything he’s getting worse the more of these things he puts on

This week, just when they announce an Enhanced Edition, we get a Shenmue related question on University Challenge. #UniversityChallenge #Shenmue

Thanks to everyone who grabbed my Ridge Racer Type 4 fanzine. It's been a real buzz seeing it out in the wild. Physical copies still available at ultrabrilliant.etsy.com!

Saving this for later

Okay, since the Deluxe Editions of IMMORTALITY: Design Works are arriving now, I think I can (finally!) post about it. This has obviously been a dream project to be involved with and I'm so grateful to everyone at @lostincult.co.uk and @halfmermaid.co that helped make it a reality (1/5)

Due to POPULAR DEMAND I'm doing another print run of my Ridge Racer Type 4 fanzine. - 40 pages, 7 original essays - Deep dives into the game's visual design, soundtrack, storytelling, and more - Printed on 170gsm silk paper stock with a heavyweight 350gsm cover 🔗 ultrabrilliant.etsy.com

Solid imo

Come back to the naughties! www.theguardian.com/games/2025/a...

itch your statement has failed to appease the people that really matter: self declared community leader engagement farmers who think posting is organizing. you have lost reddit gold for this one

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad is out today in UK paperback. The book tells the true story of the botanists who worked at world’s first seed bank during the siege of Leningrad. It’s a finalist in the Orwell Prize and the 2025 Royal Society Prize. Pick up a copy wherever you get your books.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Ralph is one of the sharpest critics working in games, and his journey to running one of Australia’s largest and most impactful channels is fascinating.

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

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