If you're stuck for things to do in this intolerable heat, you can join Laura and I for an hour of discussion about gooey shapeshifter on shapeshifter action.

If you're stuck for things to do in this intolerable heat, you can join Laura and I for an hour of discussion about gooey shapeshifter on shapeshifter action.

NEW: Towards the end of 2025 and heading into 2026, I spoke to studio heads in South Korea about the broad adoption of AI across the country's increasingly globalised entertainment industry — particularly in animation — and the uncertainty therein.

Gearing up to self-publish my second piece of in-depth journalism in the space of a month, and it would sure be nice to be paid for work at some point — or for a better job to become apparent — because hot damn.

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To uncharacteristically weigh in on current gaming events: I worked in branding for a long time, built brands, and taught folks how to maintain them. I have no explanation for what Microsoft is doing with XBOX. Real case study in incompetently demolishing an established brand vibes.

You're telling me we could have had literal "who would win between a robot and a hundred Godzillas?" and instead we got COVID?

(With a hello to my close personal friend, Jeffrey Combs) Laura and I dip into his first appearance as Weyoun in my ongoing quest — abetted by rank luck of the draw — to convince Laura that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the best Star Trek.

The one major flaw in @thqnordic.com and @ashbornegames.com's demo of The Guild - Europa 1410? That a preview that already feels like a full game teases something somehow even grander in scope and I cannot play that right now. As a sicko for a good menu, this one got me.

the switch 2 is a remake, and so are its biggest games

Looking forward to seeing how Nintendo leaning into photorealistic 3D for N64 remakes renders this fucker.

Updating my press credentials to once again say someone should let me review the Starfox 64 remake.

Solarpunk is keen you don't compare it to other survival sims, even as it borrows liberally from all of them. The real problem is it can't knit what it cribs together into anything like a compelling (or complete) experience and misses the point of the genre by a wide mark. My review:

Turns out it’s a great week for snails. Here’s one doing kisses with a leaf while its friend watches.

Inordinately thrilled to have captured a snail sipping my pond.

Inordinately thrilled to have captured a snail sipping my pond.

As a former full-time freelancer, one aspect that is aggravating about the Long Covid/Wired feature is how hard it is to get longform features accepted at publications. Like, this likely passed an editor's meeting, not just one person accepting a pitch.

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

Based on the evidence of its preview build, Dragon Shelter isn't going to be revolutionising the farm sim when it releases in September. But it has enough charm and novelty to suggest it could rise to the top of an already crowded genre with the right direction.

There is so much potential in a video game that treats war like a horror game rather than an arcade shooting gallery — doubly so one that casts you as a non-combatant. Even acknowledging its Early Access status, Medic Pacific War ain’t it. It has pretensions, but not intention or execution.

Slop. Thanks for the very easy question, The Guardian.

Not now, thing that lives inside fog.

Jupiter says Trans Rights. (source: The Hubble Telescope - this is a UV capture of the planet)

Listen I don't want to see NSFW content on my feed and also I want people to be able to post, discuss, celebrate, and support NSFW content without their whole account being shadowbanned by puritanical tech bros trying to kick us back a century or two. These two positions are entirely compatible.

I've never related to Picard more than seeing his bemused look in response to a child telling him about weird radishes. Join us on our uncanny run of rolling *very good* episodes of Star Trek.

Me, when I try to socialise:

In other news: having not clicked with previous Lego games, I’m surprised by how much I enjoyed Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. Which does just enough iterating on the Lego formula to elide most of the frustrations I had with previous titles.

NEW: For two years, I’ve been speaking to multiply-marginalised advocates within the gaming accessibility community about the ways it excludes them, makes professional opportunities inaccessible, and robs them of the community they need. blog.geoffreybunting.co.uk/discriminati...

I've posted this before but friend group 🚩 1. Are you allowed to disagree without getting punished or yelled at? 2. Is there a in/out crowd mentality? 3. Is there a main person? Are they shielded from criticism and can do no wrong in the eyes of others? 4. Are you defending the leader to outsiders?

Marx dreamed of a world where you wouldn't be pigeonholed by your job. As he put it, a man could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and critique ideas at dinner without ever being a hunter, fisherman, or critic.

I just want to report, research, and cite my little stories and get paid for them and have benefits and see people I love and care about getting the same! Instead I and everyone I know is cobbling four dayjobs together and begging you to subscribe to our newsletters.

Watching yet another bullshit legacy media plagiarism scandal unfold and I am just hopping mad about all the incredibly talented writers, reporters, photographers, and editors out there who love their work and have integrity and are scrabbling for a dwindling number of freelance assignments.

Not exactly a novel take, but I cannot stress how little we need video games to be films that last 300 hours and take a decade to make.

In my lifetime, I’ve trained for *three separate* high-skill careers that offered stable middle-class intellectual work in my parents’ life but no longer earn a living wage today.

Wow, I can't believe Labour's tactic of yelling "DON'T VOTE FOR THESE GREEN CUNTS, THEY'RE DANGEROUS, VOTE FOR US, WE HATE IMMIGRANTS IN A BETTER WAY THAN REFORM!" hasn't led to them keeping all their council seats.

Sending editors my Star Fox 64 high scores instead of clips from now on, so they'll know I'm cool to work with.

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Behold, everything is good and right with the world at last because Laura rolled Deep Space Nine and now I get to be real wanky about this show I love. Huzzah!

Writers, please: you are not above children's material. Not every children's property needs to be reimagined with a darker, more adult vibe. Even ignoring that Casper does not require reimagining anyway, we can keep kid's stuff as kid's stuff.

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA