As a politician, aren't you supposed to support the will of the public? Like the 60% of respondents who replied to the public consultation last year and said they wanted wildlife on the banknotes?
as a jrpg fan, my primary interests in video games are raising and lowering sewer gates, such as to manipulate the water level
Every MP who voted for this bill is a coward who is willing to throw our fundamental human rights under the bus.
Best get a stopwatch ready to measure time to "YOU'RE a level 2 helmet".
I don't know if you've heard but Promise Mascot Agency is a pretty cool game. If you like a Yakuza-inspired narrative, collect-a-thons, and a banger soundtrack, look no further.
I keep seeing Pokopia mentioned in the same breath as Animal Crossing. I've only seen videos of Pokopia but surely the best comparison is Dragon Quest Builders - they seem so similar. That's not to demean either title, just... Are folks not able to conceptualise Nintendo cosy games outside of AC?
The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.
Slender (PC, 2012)
This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.
We really need to work on being more rude and dismissive to sociopaths. Not enabling them. Thinking they’ve got a point.
“No. You don’t fit in. You’re awful to us. We shun you.”
Basic primate stuff. Send them out of the little fire circle, so they can go and cuddle their money in the woods.
Maybe we should be clearer. Jobs aren’t at risk from AI. They’re at risk from amoral shitbag short term spec capitalists using AI against a weakly unionised workforce and broken government.
I take issue with this in so many ways, it's either deliberate rage bait or the ramblings of an idiot.
Mild Concord defence - if it had been able to last a bit of time in a live environment and active player feedback, I think it could have been decent. What launched was far from perfect (tracing the ugly in-game seams of its development was king of fascinating), but there was something there.
The chart asks "what type of gamer are you"? New school : Highguard Old school: Concord Retro: LawBreakers Ancient: Evolve Pre Historic: Battleborn
Didn't you just prove that the lyrics are clever, i.e. everyone knows how the seasons and the tides work, same as everyone knows about the provenance of Del's gear? The preceding line even says about not asking questions.
This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal
This. I can't think of any other reason why these incredibly talented folks, literal faces of the site, weren't given a final moment in the spotlight and a more than deserved fond farewell. It leaves an extremely bitter taste to an already disheartening situation.
Hello everyone. I come with the sad news that as you are no doubt already aware, we're saying goodbye to several of our friends and colleagues here at Eurogamer. Leaving us are Tom Orry, our editorial director; our video team of Ian Higton, Zoe Delahunty-Light, and Alix Attenborough; Alex Donaldson, our editor-at-large; and Will Judd, who worked across Digital Foundry, hardware and deals. I'll start with Tom, who over the past year-plus had made himself a hugely valuable source of advice, expertise, desert-dry humour and world class poker faces (I think we just about made him laugh once, for a moment, on his final day). Tom initially began the role when Tom Phillips was our editor-in-chief here, mostly working away diligently in the background in a two-Tom-tandem doing editorial director things, before taking on a more prominent role on the site itself over the past 11 or 12 months, gracing us with some signature console nostalgia and unjustifiably intense Project Gotham Racing enthusiasm. Tom, Dom, Alex and I, along with the rest of the team, worked together closely on what a 'new Eurogamer' might look like last year, and his experience in running multiple games media sites was consistently our rock to lean on. While he may have initially seemed an outsider of sorts compared to Eurogamer chiefs of old - at least to some on the surface, coming from his 20-plus years across our sister sites VG247 and USGamer, and before that the cult-favourite site he founded in our once-rival VideoGamer - I can't stress enough how much Tom 'got' Eurogamer. His goal was for us to be at the heart of the big stories that mattered most to our readers with original, diligent reporting and on-the-button commentary, and that will absolutely continue. In immaculately on-brand, limelight-dodging Orry style, Tom opted to sneak his farewell into this past weekend's What We've Been Playing column, but I'll be damned if he gets away with it that easily. Sorry Tom. Here's what he had to say…
From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙
I honestly believe Farage's undoing will be how twitchy and defensive and huffy he gets at the slightest bit of what he perceives as criticism. He's even worse than Starmer with it.
this sucks. no patience for the people laughing at it, calling it concord 2.0, etc. if 2 million people pick up a game, and you have to shutter it and lay everyone off, it doesn't matter if the game is good or bad. it's a symptom of a much bigger and deeper problem.
doesn't have to be like this, video game industry. this is a man-made problem that is solvable! a sustainable industry is possible! you just gotta commit to it instead of trying to make the next fortnite!
30 years ago Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club accurately predicted that men under late capitalism, empty consumers who had come to think of themselves as “the middle children of history” with no great wars to fight, would eventually prank and shitpost their way into fascism.
Jesus. Another boarded up unit. This is all so fucking wasteful. Running everything for the benefit of speculation rather than commerce is so destabilising. All the pointless destruction of stuff that made things feel normal, even the dull shit. The knock-ons always unforeseen, chaotic.
If you liked the gameplay of Ni No Kuni and felt you would also enjoy that if the story was about depressed pseudo-French people, Clair Obscur may appeal.
Genuinely gutted to hear it. In a way, I always thought of you as the BBC continuity announcer for Eurogamer. The voice of the channel, a figurehead. I continued to think this despite repeated exposure to your onstream antics, with EG and on P32. All the best, can't wait to see what's next for you.
The culture the BBC produces isn't what people "attack".
something v encouraging to see lately is how clear eyed people have become about assigning fault to institutions rather than individuals. BAFTA/BBC tried to throw that poor man under the bus by seating him where they did and airing what they did but no one’s buying it
This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.
