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Bertie

@clert

Associate editor at Eurogamer. Writes, sometimes podcasts, talks a lot. I'd rather live in a fantasy land. (He/him)

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a man wearing a white tank top and blue pants is standing in a dark room ALT: a man wearing a white tank top and blue pants is standing in a dark room

Brb replacing my headphone's ear pad

10.03.2026 13:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You're going to have to carry them you know!

10.03.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Look at that mane! 😍

10.03.2026 11:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a person wearing a scarf and glasses is looking out a car window . ALT: a person wearing a scarf and glasses is looking out a car window .

The absolute nonchalance of The Regent in Slay the Spire 2

10.03.2026 11:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing! I can't wait to see Johnny and Chris try to play PUBG 🀫

10.03.2026 11:30 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Slay the Spire 2 is like when I had my second child. It’s a little different than the first one, but you love it unconditionally."

"I'd let this game babysit my children."

"Slay the spire... my coconut bear, what do i say"

09.03.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Steam reviews for Slay the Spire 2 that are better than anything I could write:

"i slaaayyyyy the spire πŸ’…πŸ’…πŸ’…πŸ’…πŸ’…πŸ’…πŸ’…πŸ’…πŸ’…"

"Everything good about the first one, but more and prettier."

"I want to knock on the door of my neighbor at 4AM to tell them I just beat A10 with ironclad."

1/2

09.03.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is really cool!

09.03.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome to One More Catch PokΓ©mon Go coverage is evolving...

One More Catch’s 10% off forever launch offer ends tonight! Subscribe to a new publication - run by just a single person (hello!) with no investors, publisher backing, or use of AI - and get perks like bonus articles for just Β£3.60 a month / Β£36 a year. It’ll mean a great deal to have your support:

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a woman is wearing a sequined jacket and earrings and says `` im smart ! huh ? '' . ALT: a woman is wearing a sequined jacket and earrings and says `` im smart ! huh ? '' .

Proud moment in an interview recently (embargo this week) when the presenting party said: "And we know you're quite knowledgeable on Dungeons & Dragons so if you really want to go super-thorough, super-deep on mechanics, please by all means go ahead."

My inner nerd never felt so validated

09.03.2026 10:11 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Banana Life Sim on Steam Banana Life Sim is a game in which you can become a banana.

"..."

"Top-line features: You're a banana; You're in the forest; There are other bananas around you; And not only bananas"

"..."

"I've made a Steam page already."

store.steampowered.com/app/4486370/...

09.03.2026 10:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A banana on a crate by a river.

A banana on a crate by a river.

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"Exactly."

09.03.2026 10:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine pitching this to a board.

"You know what we need?"

"A live service win?"
"An Ultimate Team game of our own?"
"Pay to win?"

"No! A game about being a banana."

"..."

"A game in which you can become a banana and do all the things bananas usually do."

"But bananas don't do anything."

09.03.2026 10:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Me: Concentrate, Bertie

My brain:

09.03.2026 09:28 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Co-op works brilliantly in Slay the Spire 2 - it's already MVP of the wildly popular sequel I had wondered how new this would feel; I wonder no more. A new era for Slay the Spire has begun.

My restrained and professional opinion of Slay the Spire 2 so far: 😍

www.eurogamer.net/co-op-works-...

07.03.2026 09:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love this sort of constant fiddling with a game's innards to make it just so. A positive side effect of live service games? Or an excuse to keep changing your mind and alter things?

06.03.2026 13:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Diablo 4's in good shape at the moment, and the skill overhaul is a lovely thing

06.03.2026 10:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Water firms sent bailiffs to tens of thousands of homes for debts under Β£1,000 Most recorded visits are for smaller debts, data from England and Wales suggests, though method of recovery is a postcode lottery

This is absolutely disgusting. Water companies including Southern Water have been using bailiffs for debt collection - in a cost of living crisis (!) and while they continue to pollute our waterways and despite outages and poor service. Shame on them. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

06.03.2026 07:47 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Twitch Twitch is the world

Been face-down in a Diablo 4 piece for later but now I'm turning my attention to the real thriller of the day. No not Marathon but Slay the bloody Spire 2!

Impromptu stream as I feel the game out for the first time with the lovely @midessie.bsky.social www.twitch.tv/midessie

05.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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spongebob is writing on a piece of paper with a pen . ALT: spongebob is writing on a piece of paper with a pen .

A blank doc with "***head / ***strap / ***body" at the top - another day begins

05.03.2026 09:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman

I think a lot about how when "Lord of the Flies" happened IRL, the boys worked together to build a little community until they were rescued. But these were Tongans and not British.

www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...

04.03.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 362 πŸ” 87 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 7

I love this so much. And I remember the stink it caused! I actually think it's a really important video that showcased a side of games we all know is there but people didn't want us to talk about. (How many cameras were there?) But that's another point for another day.

04.03.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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…

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).πŸ’™

04.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 458 πŸ” 107 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 16
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πŸ“– THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!

www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope

100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max...

ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!

04.03.2026 09:54 πŸ‘ 623 πŸ” 311 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 111

This is the BEST news!

04.03.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google Recorder's transcriber thinks that "Lord of Hatred" sounds like "Florida Patriot"

03.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s actually FEWER MisΓ©rables

03.03.2026 15:28 πŸ‘ 5082 πŸ” 989 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 36

Brilliant!

03.03.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a blue shirt is standing in a dark room and says i 'm not a smart man . ALT: a man in a blue shirt is standing in a dark room and says i 'm not a smart man .

TIL that "combinatorics" is a word

03.03.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

haha - I am!

03.03.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0