great game!

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underrated. hell, under-played entirely.

going to the cinema to watch advertisements and spending 12 dollars on pretzel sticks

there's a lad on tiktok that isn't, charitably, camera-ready, and they've gotten a brand deal to advertise some game and all of the comments are like "when are they announcing toothpaste DLC". seems very mean to not consider this stuff when you're doing your talent booking and ad spend.

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every pub i walk past now has these vibrant cartoony posters all clearly drawn by the same artist, that person must be making some serious bank

There's "discourse" around Mina the Hollower having so many difficulty/customization options you're almost crafting your own game, and people are sharing specific sets of customizations to essentially form redesign mods, and gamers are upset Opinion: Someone should make a game that's ONLY this

difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations

Are you trying to be funny?

Some of you on here

dir. Matt Johnson, 2023

imagine bleeding out here

So cinematic 😍

man, how good would a data centre look here

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Your mangled brain would like you to know there is a boxer called Contact Mike. YOU - Yeah? Any news on my wife's name? How about my mother? ENCYCLOPEDIA - Nope.

(probably not playing it, we don't need to get into it) if you hear any game release date and immediately go "nah you won't" you'll be right more than you're wrong

oof

why are IOI the only developers who can actually put a realistic club in a game

Really enjoyed this conversation with Eurogamer's new editor-in-chief, @christapsell.bsky.social on this month's episode of The Games Press. Here he is talking about the lessons learned from being a lifelong Man United fan as he envisions his team's role in the games media going forward.

what it's like to be BOGGLED

imagining doing the "first impression of me" post and everyone is like. yeah i thought you were a cunt.

writing tips - experimental fiction edition. you might think that experimental fiction is the type of writing that needs the fewest rules. you'd be dead wrong

i'm in Belfast, the Big Apple

been waiting for a thoughtful article about those caleb hammer financial audit videos. that have the presence of being about fiscal responsibility while basically being an episode of jeremy kyle

love that tweet that was like. A24 is like what a guy in new york would shout if he saw keifer sutherland

having the reaction to Astro Bot i think everyone did at release: the loco roco level is so good i wish anyone, in the world, would ever make a damn video game again

Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, and we're all supposed to just... keep going to work?

It's called a "tea" shirt because Marlon Brando popularized them with his "brewed"-ing performance in A Streetcar Named Desire

I'd love to speak to any Korean journalists, political commentators or experts on Korean culture for a Guardian story that I'm working on - any help would be massively appreciated! #journorequest

[GAMES JOURNALIST THAT'S BEEN TO JAPAN ONCE:] in a way, Mina truly is for Everyone

The best advice I ever got when I started freelancing was, if you have to turn down work, always suggest someone else who could do it. I have been so lucky to benefit from that over the years.

computer. play golden brown by the stranglers. 2x speed. 4hrs

clearing out some old files - throwback to when i got Neil Newbon to do the Jane Speech for @ign.com

i don't share this because it's my best work, but it's been a while since i've made a graphic within 5 minutes of learning something exists. i'm wicked at this.

fucked up how the temp hits 27 degrees and Heartbeats by The Knife makes it onto the playlist

much love to the irreplaceable PEELANDER Z gofund.me/16404cdd9

Blaseball ass name

bond... game's bond

because it was the first truly pop album she recorded, sandwiched perfectly between the stifling constraints of country and the excess of what would follow

when i was in secondary school then there were two guys who would headbutt each other as hard as possible & go to the nurse's office whenever they wanted to get out of a class and one day i suggested that they just pretend to feel sick instead and the way they looked at me, i felt like prometheus

don't know why all the good games drop during the summer. you're expecting me to play Enter The Chronosphere while it's 32 degress out. mate i'm outside.

I did this last year. Dreamed that Pret sold a cookie called Hairy Man. He had a solid choc chest of hair and choc sprinkle body hair. Woke up, drew it, then baked it. Him.

texting jim

Bluesky is not "dying", in fact it's about to become the next Martha's Vineyard