This guy had it all figured out
@schillingc
Editorial director, @lostincult. Author of Heartbeats, Dreams and Laser Eyes: 15 Years of Simogo; Outer Wilds: Design Works; IMMORTALITY: Design Works. Critic (games/film). Formerly deputy editor, Edge. chris@lostincult.co.uk.
This guy had it all figured out
Same! I appreciated the different flavour of paranormal mystery overall (probably wise if they're going for the anthology approach) but the mirror has such amazing potential for frights. While I quite enjoyed how they did use it, it felt like a slight missed opportunity.
Give me a little gold star for putting the bins out, is all I'm saying
I mean, being acknowledged/rewarded for helpful acts in ways we rarely are in real life is surely a not-insignificant part of why some of us play video games in the first place. These are fairer worlds. Our own is badly designed
tbf I was deeply traumatised when the singer casually declared that he'd killed a dinosaur before exhorting everybody to follow suit
Amigara Fault dude crawling into his hole shouting "I'm loading the next zone!"
video games like
never too early to treat yourself to a little existential crisis
Is the game actually good or is it just constantly giving you little tasks and patting you on the head when you complete them, temporarily slaking your perpetual longing for recognition?
Good luck with this, guys. Rooting for you.
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"We stole from you and assumed your identity (badly) but we're not sorry β you'll just have to go out of your way to tell us stop stealing and pretending to be you if you don't want us to continue doing it." Absolute scum.
A booklet of cosmic poetry, resting among the leaves of a plant.
A booklet of cosmic poetry, open ajar.
I donβt know how common it is to get your poetry in print, even the smallest sample, but Iβm truly grateful β€οΈ
Shipped together with the beautiful deluxe dissection of our Ultros from @gaminginthewild.com and @lostincult.co.uk.
Someday, there might be more π±
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A large single page comic illustration. We look down on a woman in a jumpsuit and work vest, sitting on the edge of a fountain, dipping a red glowing bottle into the dark water. An open red bag rests at by her feet. At the top of the fountain is a huge stone head, a sleeping face carved from the cliff behind the fountain, with water pouring from its mouth into one small pool before flowing into the larger base of the fountain.
A woman in a practical jumpsuit and vest sits in the foreground while behind her a crowd in similar gear move under a large stone tower with stained glass windows, built around a huge pipe rising off-panel. Beyond that rooftops recede to a distant dark wall under an iron sky of pipes
A four panel page, showcasing a tall long armed and long haired slender man with black artificial eyes as he crawls through the depths of an industrial super structure before emerging onto one of its walkways outside under a dark green sky pierced with light by a red sun. He walks to the edge of the structure's walkway and looks down into a distant sea.
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Mrs Gilfillan did well to deliver the eulogy while holding her breath
24 lines in - "oh yeah, almost forgot: his relatives and friends were there as well"
"I'm the front man and you're the guitarist with mystique. That's the dynamic we agreed on."
This Jack White "backlash" is preposterous. An entirely manufactured controversy over nothing.
Yeah, all he said was that it's become popular for songs to have autobiographical elements, particularly pertaining to high-profile break-ups β which is entirely true β and then said he personally doesn't find that particularly interesting to write about, which is a perfectly normal opinion to hold.
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
Was thinking that - can't recall the last time a team hit a full set of pens so consistently well
AGENT ASHCROFT? WELL HOW THE HELL ARE YOU? UMBRELLA? GOOD IDEA, YOU NEVER KNOW WITH THIS WEATHER.
The outer box for Outer Wilds: Design Works. A sandy kraft-coloured rigid box with the Outer Wilds logo printed at the top in black.
The cover for Outer Wilds: Design Works. A metallic silver-grey case dominated by a large black circleβa black holeβat its center.
A double-page spread from Outer Wilds: Design Works. The left page has a vivid orange background and shows two line-art sketches of the scout ship in varying stages of design.
A set of art prints fanned out on a wooden surface. Each is styled as a retro travel poster for a different planet from Outer Wilds, under the banner "Outer Wilds Ventures."
My deluxe copy of Outer Wilds: Design Works arrived from @lostincult.co.uk over the weekend and, damn, it's lovelyβwhich seems only fitting, as Outer Wilds is one of the most creative and beautiful games I've ever played.
Pacclabmech is not mehee - well, obviously, we all know it's Zendaya
If you're in any way local to Panic you should totally do this. I got the chance to play Big Walk for a few hours last year and it was pretty much the most fun I had playing video games in 2025
I just think the expense of something like that sequence one generation on is going to have the people holding the purse strings frowning and shaking their heads
Alan Ritchson's Netflix joint War Machine (timing!) is fun at first, and impressively pitiless β you know the supporting cast is in trouble when everyone has a number rather than a name. Set-pieces are decent, supported by better-than-usual FX, but the script is *begging* for a Shane Black punch-up.
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Edge Issue 261 - Christmas 2013
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I mean, less remarkable when you consider the number of studios that would be afforded the time and money to create such a sequence these days
Oh, maybe not then, ha ha. Mine was the Inkle book.