Ben Borthwick

Some Thing wicked this way comes.

@bouphe.bsky.social ^ I feel this is extremely your sort of thing

Meow, That's What I Call Music!

Two images from two scenes of Scrubs, one from the original series in Season 1 in which JD daydreams he's a wrestling character called The Intern, next to a shot from the 2026 reboot season in which he daydreams he's a similar wrestler, this time wearing a muscle suit and throwing Elliot (also in a wrestling persona with a muscle suit) over his head.

Minor new-Scrubs spoilers but:

How it started vs How it's going

Literally first game in the Nintendo Indie World showcase is about dead dogs reuniting with their owners in heaven when the latter die. No one's feelings will survive.

It seems Insomnia Gaming Festival is dead again, cancelling their upcoming i74 event citing an inability to secure adequate sponsorship and exhibitor presence, with no current plans for any future events: x.com/IGFestUK/sta...

PERSONAL NEWS: After 13 years working as a (legendary) video producer for @eurogamer.bsky.social I have been made redundant in the recent Gamer Network cuts. I loved that job so much (probably too much) and I will miss the people and the opportunities it gave me, but I'm not ready to give up yet!

Gah chuffing 'ell Ian, sorry to hear :(

I mean the fact the Pikachu have names already makes Pokémon Winds and Waves pretty cool, in my book.

be sure to open a window and ask the street urchins below if it is safe to leave the domicile when it's over

JFC. Spent a few hours away from the internet after being bummed out from the EG layoff news and now come back to this. What a fucking state of things.

Games media set for more layoffs, as IGN-owned Eurogamer cuts editorial staff | VGC Gamer Network brands including Outside Xbox are facing another wave of cuts…

The games media is set for yet more layoffs, after IGN-owned Eurogamer and its network of sites launched another wave of editorial cuts this week, VGC understands.

vgc.news/news/games-m...

Flashbacks to helping out with the research for the 20th anniversary book and making very similar exclamations 😂

Dat's a Double Dog Day.

ABC’s ‘The Rookie’ to Crossover With Dropout’s ‘Game Changer’ in March Episode It's the crossover no one knew they needed: ABC's "The Rookie" will air an episode "prominently" featuring the cast of Dropout's "Game Changer."

Not the way I expected @samreich.bsky.social to answer for his @gamechangershow.bsky.social crimes but I'll take it variety.com/2026/tv/news...

also a child Blobby as per the 1994 Amiga game

Well, here's a thing. (Can't wait!)

The AI exec says there won’t be AI slop.

Scene from The Simpsons of Moe chasing away aliens with a board with a nail in it.

Same energy. Although the big orange goofus doesn't realize this is supposed to be a joke.

Old Hashtag United football shirts and soccer jerseys A collection of Hashtag United shirts from 2016 to 2023. A part of the online history of football kit from Isthmian Premier Division and all over the world.

@lukeplunkett.com in trying to idly look up one I vaguely semi-remembered (unsuccessfully) I stumbled upon this team, Hashtag United, which has apparently had not one, not two, but THREE different videogame sponsors: www.oldfootballshirts.com/en/teams/h/h...

NGL, this is the first I'd heard that VG had passed over to another set of new owners after my redundancy in 2024 (despite hearing about the casino games logo stuff 4 months ago) but yeah somehow I'm less surprised this is what wound up happening. What are we even doing? Thoughts to all effected.

Such a good move imo, for all of you - gaming's platform "separation" isn't what it was when Oxtra started & this frees you all up for more cool stuff - OXbox can cover more than 'just' Xbox & OXtra can now give more output for creative freedom, win-win! Looking forward to seeing the evolution!

From such humble beginnings come big stinky cat friends.

(More seriously we're very grateful you did, congratulations on your anniversary and here's to much more of creating the good-weird-fun-shit that makes the world a little better you do so well.)

honestly for a split second I thought I was looking at the mountains of Japan or similar

Blimey - does that mean to your dream-mind if you're bad at match-3 puzzlers it's the ducking stool? 😰

I did, and so I did.

and this is the kind of shit we lose with AI, imagine a Packard Bell tower trying to sit in that even the CD ROM drive couldn't make it classy

Aberdeen finally sees sunshine for first time since 21 January The last reported sunshine had been on 21 January - the longest sunless period since records began in 1957.

(For any international friends reading this is a genuine news story from today, for context) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...