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For months, @jacksonwryan.com has been looking into why so many video games sites have become full of gambling and casino stories, unusual author images, and, most recently, the use of AI. We've connected these sites to Clickout Media. Here's what we've learned.
Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew
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A pleasure to play a small role in bringing this great piece on the creation of Nick Valentine from Fallout 4 to life!
That spirited up-and-comer Jeremy Peel: he's really got a future in this business.
Jeremy Peel, I think I've heard the name ๐ค
Cover of (I must remain) The Glad Cowboy, by me. It's a freeware bit of cowboy art with a smiling emoji over it.
I just released another short ttrpg zine.
(I must remain) THE GLAD COWBOY is storygame where one player plays a Glad Cowboy and the other player plays The Repressed Horror At The Thing They Did. #ttrpg #indiettrpg
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I'm ashamed for you ๐
Lovejoy returns. But brace yourselves, the character in the books is quite a bit of a bastard.
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Bungie make such incredible worlds, with some great writing, amazing music, beautiful aesthetics and design and glorious shooting - and then hide/ruin it by making it only yawn-inducing multiplayer.
Graphic made to look like the page of a yearbook, featuring photos of all of the guests included in No Small Games' 3rd year as a podcast. The photos feature many of the guests smiling, posing in goofy ways, and generally being their lovely selves!
Graphic meant to look like a page of a yearbook, featuring black and white screenshots from a few of the games featured in the past year of the No Small Games podcast, including Wanderstop, In Stars & Time, Afterlove EP and more.
We present to you No Small Games cohort of 2025-2026, looking cute as ever! Thank you to all our amazing guests who did us the honor of coming on to share their love of indie games!
You can hear all our highlights from Year 3 of NSG in our Yearbook Episode Vol. 3, coming TOMORROW!
He did a magnificent job as The Ship
At 4pm on Saturday the 7th, BBC Radio 4 Extra are re-broadcast my adaptation of Iain M. Banksโ โThe State of the Artโ starring the late Sir Antony Sher as the ship. So pleased thatโs going to be out there again.
The observatory on top is too perfect.
'So, what you you do for a living?'
"When darkness falls, I go to the horrible abomination, climb a ninety-storey staircase over five million dead people, and when I reach the obelisk, I take out a telescope and stare into the infinite void. And yourself?"
Just to point out that I published/updated two articles today on my Patreon.
The first (below) is an article about a ship from The Expanse, where the designer discusses the reasons behind its design.
The second is an update to my piece on ALL the spaceships from For All Mankind (next post).
It's all looking rather Ladybird book here this afternoon.
Not sure if @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social would agree
absolutely take advantage of this opportunity. ONE MESSAGE REMAINS is magnificent.
Shark!
or Paul Bettany loved his take on Chaucer
INTERNSHIP ROLES ๐จ Come work with us at Rebellion on exciting games.
If you have a cool art portfolio but 0 industry experience under your belt, you should apply.
- Concept Art Internship wrkbl.ink/dK6mBOJ
- Environment Art Internship wrkbl.ink/3jsfWAQ
- Weapon Art Internship wrkbl.ink/3IgFN8X
The Wurzels are masters of their craft: a cover is always a risky business
Stoneybridge, perspective host for the 1996 Olympic Games
Itโs 33 years since the final episode of Absolutely was shown on Channel 4
"Please please please, leave me alone."
This came up on the Virtual Jukebox this morning and what a banger of a cover it is @markwebsteresq.bsky.social
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A photo-realistic illustration of a traditional skipping rope lying on a tiled floor. The handles of the skipping rope are made of wood and painted red and yellow.
Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
Skipping rope
(4th Picture Book, 1971)
Artist: Harry Wingfield
We've all shot the bucket.
#marketday
These people need to get out more.
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The cover of The Power Fantasy #16.
Happy The Power Fantasy #16 day!
Brace yourself
