We nearly had The New Republic!

PSA: Sektori is lush (people still use that word right?)

I wish my chair would stop periodically sinking. I feel like the Titanic

My partner: I've installed KOTOR. Me: Great! Me again: Oh it looks awfully old. Aren't there any mods for it? Her: Will it be complicated? Me: I don't think so. Me again: Oh. kotor.neocities.org

Love this!

Eurogamer has a new editor-in-chief and it's @christapsell.bsky.social. He's perfect for the role. He's a relentless force behind the scenes for bettering the site and holding it to the highest standard

Amazon Game Studios mandates use of AI and everything goes wrong. A depressing parable for 2026. Fantastic report by @connormakar.bsky.social

"I think every time a new James Bond is cast it's talked about in every part of Britain, so let's have it happen to us."

Nothing starts the morning better than a good Slay the Spire 2 run

For some reason I'm watching all Star Wars productions in timeline order. Started off surprisingly well with The Acolyte but then came the dreaded prequels. I've softened a bit on them. They do move more pace than I remember. One thing I don't remember realising when I watched Phantom Menace...

Coming in late and hot and a little bit fighty on Mixtape. And also sort of accientally on reviewing and cynicism and author intent. And how, as a self-referencing celebration of teen cringe, this game sort of presents itself as the antidote to all that. I loved it.

Can everyone just stop releasing games for a bit so I can catch up please

Delayed huh?! (I've seen this show and it's great) www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Haha! Good job!

Interesting if slightly depressing talking with a friend about AI who works in middle management. Says its fairly common for companies there for companies to cut 10% of workforce in order to invest that money into AI, and hopefully get 10% more production capacity in return.

Today's delayed hot take. The Acolyte: I quite liked that

Excited to say the fourth Heaven’s Vault novel outsold this car in just a few hours!

Interesting to see the Hasbro CEO here be 'I'm all for AI' before Hasbro issues a statement in response all like 'whoa no we're not doing it for D&D and Magic and video games - promise!' newsletter.smartbrief.com/servlet/Arch...

Scorching hot take incoming! I watched One Battle After Another last night and it was good

Without stating your age post your favorite film released the year you turned 18. (Love that this is the option for me)

Chatting to someone brought this back into mind and I'm never sorry I rewatched it www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAb8...

"Thank you, Bertie, for asking the important questions."

It's interesting hearing how much @ioi.dk had to do to the existing Hitman engine - especially with regards to combat - to beef it up for a Bond experience. And that people are starting to realise how different the two franchises are? That's good news as far as IOI is concerned

The problem with seeing video game presentations is that I then want to play said video game and can't think about anything else

sorry (not sorry?)

At last! #hades2

Totally did not expect The Blood of Dawnwalker to remind me of Crackdown, but here we are

This was a weird one. Baffled at the choice of demo level. I'm hoping it just doesn't paint the game in the best light and isn't indicative of the whole. I fear the latter

My Brighton peeps interested in diverse books 👇🏽

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Predator Badlands: better than expected

Well, we actively train adults not to imagine. Part of “growing up” is looking at clouds and seeing clouds rather the castles or dragons.

This is an important project and it is up against so many challenges—more so than most development projects. Please support if you can.

*casts disperse corpo-talk*

"Marathon runners urged to take simple steps to avoid phone snatching," says email. ... Penny: *drops* They're not talking about the game.

TIL how to turn off the keyboard language shortcut in Windows that keeps making me have a minor meltdown

'How about a dungeon which is also a playful history lesson of the form?' DIE RPG's new campaign book sounds great. Journey through the different decades of ttrpg dungeon design. Okay yes please backed www.backerkit.com/c/projects/r...

'The game is good but'

Limbo

I'm making one last push to let people know about this online talk -- sponsored by the British Library in conjunction with their current exhibition on fairy tales. The live stream starts at 7:30 tonight, but if you buy a ticket *before* the event you can watch it any time over the next 7 days.

Apropos of nothing other than that I've been watching it nearly every night for a few months now: I'm loving Critical Role Season 4. Brennan is a marvel, I love the 'three breakout groups' idea, and the influx of new players is great. Everyone seems very sharp, very clued in

Late to this but this Cook's megadungeon sounds really cool www.polygon.com/jewel-in-the...

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

All I can think of after reading the Slay the Spire 2 patch notes www.eurogamer.net/slay-the-spi...

LOVE this. Just imagine what might happen if the investigations that the EU Commission is pledging to do here result in online games not being able to just disappear.

Arg! How did I miss this? www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FH7LXMF...

Hello! I have built a new thing that I hope will be useful to people. It's a calendar of *new* games coming out over the next year. Every release schedule I see includes ports and Nintendo Switch 2 Editions and I hate it, so I made this. I hope you find it useful! releasecalendar.games

I still can't quite digest these numbers. 30 million sales for It Takes Two?! That's gigantic. Even A Way Out's 13m is surprising. They both make Split Fiction's otherwise very impressive 7m look paltry

Excited for this! Still very fond of Call of the Sea

Faith scared me silly; it is good