@samuelhorti
Freelance editor and reporter, mainly about video games for PC Gamer, IGN, Rock Paper Shotgun, Remap Radio, and many others. Previously BBC News and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Portfolio is samuelhorti.com / email sphorti@gmail.com
It was a delight to chat with journalist Jack Ryan (@jacksonwryan.com) for Worth Reading this week, about his excellent (but distressing) piece in @aftermath.site about the way casinos, crypto, and AI are junking up your favorite web sites podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
One last plug for my @remapradio.bsky.social piece on the consolidation - and decay - of football video games, and the parallels with the sport itself. Thanks to @mossrc.bsky.social for his expert insight on the FIFA/PES rivalry (and much more!)
Haven't mentioned yet that I wrote the cover feature for the current issue of Edge. Pick up a copy while it's still on sale!
Did you know that No Law is a proper immersive sim, in the style of Deus Ex and Dishonored? I flew to Sweden in January so that you could read all about it.
It's March 11. When Momo died March 11, 2011, I said, fully serious "I'm not expecting to see my next birthday." That was 15 years ago. 15 years of still regularly fighting off that thought pattern, but I'm stil around. www.eurogamer.net/after-i-step...
Glad you enjoyed! (And thanks for flagging)
For the later crowd - I wrote about the mechanical and moral decay of the FIFA/EA FC series, the consolidation of the footy sim genre, and how it all mirrors trends in wider sport.
So glad I got the chance to write this. Thx @robzacny.bsky.social for the commission. Subscribe and read if you can!
It's rare a publication gives you so much space and flexibility to properly get into a topic - made for one of the more personal stories I've written in a while.
If you haven't already, subscribe to @remapradio.bsky.social! You won't regret it
Really excited to share this one - thanks so much to @robzacny.bsky.social for the commission and the edit
Here’s @samuelhorti.bsky.social on how the consolidation of soccer video games has mirrored the capture of the sport itself by some of the worst actors on the world stage. remapradio.com/other/enclos...
For @ign.com I wrote about my favourite part of Marathon: the classes! Clearly inspired by Apex Legends but Bungie has conjured some truly original abilities including a pickpocketing lasso drone.
www.ign.com/articles/mar...
Thanks @mattpurslow.bsky.social for the chance
V excited about a piece I've got coming out this week for @remapradio.bsky.social - one of the more personal pieces I've written recently. It's on the grim state of football sims and how it mirrors real-life sports.
Will share when live - huge thanks to @robzacny.bsky.social for commissioning it!
I hate to tell you this but my dad (old) literally did this yesterday...
Huge congrats, Malindy!
7 years after I started VGC, I’m incredibly proud of the editorial team. In particular, in the last 18 months, we visited the likes of Team Asobi, Capcom, Kojima Productions, and TPC, while interviewing Todd Howard, Hideki Kamiya, Sega, Square Enix, Konami, Sucker Punch, CD Projekt, and many more.
Got ya. Also looks like lots of tabs to click through on the bottom... anyway, will definitely check it out. Glad you're on it, you're the only person I've seen shouting about it!
Ah I've wanted to play this since reading your piece on it - sounds (and looks) incredible. Do you think it'd work with controller/on Steam Deck? It's marked as playable. Need a new go-to city builder, burned out on CS2 a while back
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glad you enjoyed it!
Congratulations Mark!
A new website about PC games, from me, @brendyc.bsky.social and @jonhicks.com.
Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like @jank.cool.
my new website, mothership.blog, is launching this monday!! it's going to be super fun and you will all enjoy reading it. we are independent and worker-owned and can't stay alive without subscribers, though, and we are currently running a lifetime 15% off deal that you should realllly be grabbing ->
I could have written 10k words on this game. It's remarkable. It's everything you want and need from a city-builder, but also there's transport tycoon and sid meier's colonization stuff in there as well, and even in EA it's almost perfect
Hello! Over the weekend, my article on some cool games reliving the spirit of Y2K went up on RPS! Feat @rj.dcellgames.com @davidjaumandreu.bsky.social
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Really enjoyed chatting to Kurt Kuhlmann, former Bethesda dev and Elder Scrolls "loremaster", about his decision to leave the studio and a promise Todd Howard made him about TES6 - a promise, he says, that was never fulfilled
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Reporting and writing this story consumed me at the tail end of 2025. I'll post my favourite details tomorrow but, for now, enjoy!!
Thanks to @mattleone.bsky.social for having me, all the interview subjects for talking to me, and @kim-hu.com for the incredible accompanying illustration.
Our next big project is live! @lewisgordon.bsky.social spent the past few months tracking down nine people who worked on DICE's innovative 2008 parkour runner.
Hearing Rematch in some GOTY lists (including
on @backpagepod.bsky.social) reminded me I forgot to post this. After a decade of trying I finally got good at an online game - and it wasn't everything I hoped it would be.
Wonderful illustration by Katherine (below!)
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