celebrating silksong's release by rereading my 2020 interview with team cherry in apwot, where we talked about game jams, bug clothes, and croissants. still think it's one of my best articles

Hey we have a super limited number of all Knock! issues now in stock!! These are genuinely some of my favourite OSR books so I’m so glad we can finally have some copies

I had a dream last night that there were loads of mistakes in the latest print runs 🤪

Well this has turned out quite nice indeed! 📚

This is genuinely what a Labour government thinks terrorism looks like in the UK right now and I'm losing my god damn mind

I handed in the final APWOT 5 PDF to the printers today 🎉 Now I have to do everything I can to not look at it again because I know I WILL find some mistake in there and I'll be horrified 😅

Downy Snagret

If I'm understanding correctly, Trump's new tariffs are going to cause problems for APWOT and that's bumming me out. Running a small business is hard enough without Brexit and Trump just continually messing with us over the last decade. I just want people to be able to get my magazine damn. 🫠

This goes so hard.

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.

What is a haiku? A miserable little pile of syllables

So good to see Arkane's workers push for this! Also a great example of one of the core benefits of unionization, which is just "creating a structure for discussion and systems to make collective decisions." Always much harder to get action at scale like this if there isn't already organization.

Absolutely sucks to see people I care about succumb to ai offloading. Piece by piece replacing their creativity, voice and opinions with dice rolls. Not faster or better, just less present in their own lives.

He got their asses

I've looked & I could have missed it, maybe its saved in their drafts but @ukieofficial.bsky.social TIGA, BFI, that new video game council. Which UK body representing games is stepping up to publicly speak about the mass censorship of the cultural form they represent? www.polygon.com/news/615910/...

It’s so funny to me that this Mii I made when I was 13 years old or whatever and haven’t changed since is now on a museum ticket.

BitSummit! 🦝 ✉️ @denkiworks.bsky.social

Paying my respects at the kong shrine. 🙇‍♂️🙏🍌

Today I went to a bathhouse in Kyoto. Inside there was a yakuza guy who must have been senior, covered in irezumi body tattoos. He was soaking in a bath that had a sign saying “electric water” with a cartoon of a man getting electrocuted and his skeleton showing. Hardest thing I’ve ever seen.

Third time visiting Japan, and for the third time Edit Mode is closed when I’m in Kyoto 😭. I’m like Jafar trying to get into the cave of wonders over here.

I travelled 5500 miles so I could stare at my phone but in a place with a ✨nice ambience ✨

A new Game Informer just arrived in the mail. It’s 2025. What a miracle. Shout-out to the team at @gameinformer.com for making all of this happen!

Was in the tube just now and was trying to listen to the audio announcements when a little child in a pram shouted “Alexa Stop” 🙈

Here are the retail and subs covers of Edge 413, out today. Inside, we talk to Pragmata leads Cho Yonghee and Naoto Oyama as they enter the home stretch of a lengthy mission into space. Capcom’s sci-fi adventure heads up our summer preview special, featuring 100 games to watch.

only a few hours left! buy my games people say they're really good (i'm people)

This is such a wonderful idea! If you’re a game dev and want to contribute something, there’s still a few days left to do so 🇵🇸

u ready for 116 pages of nonsense

This is such a relief and so unbelievably helpful. For a little while I can afford to not have to take on as much freelance work as usual, and can focus more on working on APWOT. I can't thank you all enough for backing and signal boosting, it has such a big impact on my ability to do this. 🙇🫂🙏

Been posting a lot about the Kickstarter recently but this is much more important. 👇 Consider lending support to the #stopkillinggames campaign. Every game that becomes forever unplayable is a huge loss both to the culture and history of the gaming medium! 👾 eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

I'm so happy with how this campaign has gone, it's going to be really useful for the year ahead and help me spend more time focusing on APWOT. I'm truly grateful to everyone who has donated! Thank you so much 🙇 24 hours to go still! 🥳

My favourite thing about APWOT is I’ll pick up an issue to skim and then end up just sitting for an hour or so engrossed by the stunning visuals and beautiful words that radiate love for gaming. Huge recommend: kickstarter to reprint the first three issues is almost at its goal! 👇

STARTING TOMORROW we'll be raising money for Trans Lifeline w/ special guests @senabryer.com, @grubb.wtf, @merrittk.com, @adashtra.bsky.social, @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social, and many more! LINK: twitch.tv/bloodgodpod DONATE: tiltify.com/@seamoosi/bl...

We (critics, commentators, players) pontificate endlessly about Kojima: a visionary, postmodern prophet! Yet he has become, almost by stealth, gaming's preeminent sentimentalist. He and his team speak in such an emotionally direct way through images and gameplay. www.eurogamer.net/death-strand...

UK launches new $40.5m fund to support British game development www.gamesindustry.biz/uk-launches-...

I'm well and truly at *that* point of the campaign now lol 🙈

APWOT is generally some of the best games-related publications you can get. Absolutely worth it, incredible writing and art, and after being the coffee table book for some time, they're so pretty that they retire to a place of honour in my book cabinet for future reference.

I just backed The APWOT Trilogy Reprint by @apwot.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...

We, @limitbreak.co.uk won tonight. This was my acceptance speech. This is my message to the games industry. Thank you all 💖

Absolutely overwhelmed by how incredible D.K Bananaza looks. Oh my word what a GAME. The pace of that direct was just amazing, just a complete bombardment of amazing features and great ideas. I'm finally genuinely excited about my switch 2 lol

This was such a great piece by @radishgames.com! Full of wisdom distilled from one of the industry’s greatest minds 🧠

This was a fun interview, but perhaps I revealed... TOO MUCH? :0 YOU can be the judge, if you back the reprint of the A Profound Waste of Time.

Yoooo yes everyone support my dude @indiana-jonas.bsky.social 's game! 🔥🔥🔥

Hello. Here are some things you can probably do in 30 hours: Play Portal ~10 times Watch LOTR extended edition almost 3 times Back Crescent County on Kickstarter and then tell everyone about the campaign before it ends! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...

What is a video game?

LAST NIGHT WE HIT 300% FUNDED, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! 🌈🌟🤘

Today is Good Afternoon’s first expo booth at Interactive Futures in Leamington Spa. I am very proud of our 2D cardboard tiny office concept. But let us pray the heavy duty velcro holds and it doesn’t crush anyone.

To A T is a video game that just makes you feel good. aftermath.site/to-a-t-game-ke...

Got one! 🥳