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Content Director @FutureGamesShow and @GoldenJoysticks . Founder @GTAVoclock , gaming news analysis, #MUFC fan.
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Hand-drawing the MGS2 tanker demo map, getting high on truffled hotel meats, and PS3’s wild initial misfire - just a sample of topics from this super-fun chat with
@BackPagePod
and the charming
@SamuelWRoberts
and
@mrbasil_pesto
about the glory days of PS2
New episode! Games magazine rivalries with
@DanDawkins
. Enjoy some great stories about working in print during the PS2 era, as Dan discusses his history on PSM2 and more.
Listen anywhere you get podcasts:
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Death Stranding review: “Think 2001, The Road, The Leftovers, Silent Hill and Planet Earth reinterpreted as three days of UPS contract work.”
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@DHSCgovuk
This is misleading, and a shocking abuse of an official account to try and whip up jealousy and ill feeling toward young health workers
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The 20 seconds of this Kendrick Lamar performance we’ve been allowed to hear were good
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@Digbylj
This *is* about class and education. And another codified symbol used to exclude those who aren’t from preferential, fast-tracked, routes. You are saying she has to comply to norms of enunciation associated with privilege. That’s not levelling up, it’s punching down.
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Emily Maitlis, super hero, utterly bemused by a Trump conspiracy theorist and not pandering to the new BBC missive of recognising all - often cretinous - views.
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@rcbregman
I watched this and thought it was remarkably unreasonable, especially Michael Portillo’s blithe dismissal of inequality. The whole thing had the air of a boys club. Alan Johnson is a Labour politician, so his acquiesce was especially disappointing.
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Looks way better from this angle, the buttons look a lot more raised. I briefly feared some kind of cyber haptic feedback at the expense of a satisfying depression, like the iPhone 8 home key.
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Wait, those cool Bethesda guys from the Rage 2 presentation are actually the same size?
Oh.
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Thrilled to confirm that
@EmilyroseLA
and
@nolan_north
and are hosting the
#FutureGamesShow
this Saturday, June 6th at 1430 PT / 2230 BST
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Highlights of that Wired
#PS5
expose, in broad order of significance:
- Solid state drive
- Ray tracing (currently the preserve of $10k graphic cards)
- Backward compatible
- PS VR compatible
- 3D audio (a bit vague?)
- cross platform release, with Death Stranding PS4 / PS5
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Glad we’ve seen sense on face coverings, but why wait 11 days? Is that enough time for Cummings to launch a mask factory we can award a contract to?
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Variety was one of the first outlets to report on
#GTA6
- and it reads like a pre-write with (I assume) early access. Or at least the skeleton of the story pre written.
I managed to grab these images before the story got amended (note how the trailer ‘debuted Tuesday morning’)
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Seeing a lot of this. To note: Microsoft have a market cap of circa $1.5 Trillion and just bought a $7.5 billion company (1:200). Sony have a cap of $92m to Take Two's $18.2m (1:5). A lot of variables notwithstanding, this isn't comparing apples to apples.
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I've been looking at hundreds of CVs for various roles and - if this is any help at all - here are some thoughts on common do's and don'ts 🧵 (1/6)
- Do write a role-specific intro letter that shows interest in your employer. Generic = bin.
- Do keep that brief (150 ish words).
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Yes,
@GTAVoclock
will return at 6pm GMT on Wednesday Nov 29 i.e. tomorrow!
It's exciting - and reflective - to revisit the show 10 years+ later, not least for the volume of (amazing) messages from people saying they used to listen when they were 14 and now have kids 🙃
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Hey, last year Kojima couldn't accept his
@GoldenJoysticks
award because he was - his words - 'chained to his desk'. HOW WE LAUGHED
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@Peston
As Acting Prime Minister, Robert, how do you feel about the leaking of official information to the press?
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Martinez, a model of humility and restraint, holds a toy baby with an Mbappe face mask during Argentina’s World Cup victory parade
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I just found an old 'Best PS2 Games' list on
@GamesRadar
that said God of War 2 was the best PS2 game of all time. I'd like to send a hand-written apology to everyone who witnessed this outrage.
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Kermode’s ability to unhook cynicism and temper critique to capture the sheer thrill of the moment has always marked him out as one of the very best movie reviewers - this is as thrilling as his Toy Story work
My delirious five star
@ObsNewReview
review of the head spinning whirl that is MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN. If you have tears, prepare to shed them ....
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A reminder, if we ever needed it, that if you've got something nice to say to someone: say it. If you've got something to apologise for, however daft: get it said. We don't get long. Most of it is noise. Be kind to each other.
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Wiltshire towns don’t even pretend anymore, it’s just out there
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Genuinely appalled that we’re on the cusp of delivering a generation-defining act of self-harm - based on a three-year-old referendum won on lies and illegal practice - railroaded by a cabal of self-interested millionaires and a complicit, hate-fuelled, press.
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We're hiring!
We have two great roles working in our new
@FutureGamesShow
video team
Presenter / Producer
Social Video & Community Manager
If you can script, host, edit, design thumbs, nail angles and headers… we're all ears!
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Excited to be 'leading' Team GB in the
@RockstarGames
'Independence Day' live stream tomorrow
http://t.co/mYlFK5rWPK
http://t.co/7bDje4KgqX
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Just bumped into the lovely
@YongYea
one of the finest Death Stranding / MGS sleuths and YouTubers
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@charlieparrish
I’ve not watched enough Ndombele to comment but everything about this is classic Jose, like Luke Shaw 2017. It’s not that José is wrong, you just wonder why it needs to be so barbed and snide. Make or break, I guess.
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Nissan receive £61m post-Brexit bribe, while the DVLA’s computer system is so old that people are forced into work causing mass COVID outbreak infecting 500. This govt doesn’t fight fires, but headlines.
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Hey, we're looking for freelance writers (pref. with experience) to work on a regular basis - potentially on a fixed contract. Experience of competitive online games highly advantageous, as is video and CMS experience. Paid work, obv - let me know :)
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A reminder to read
@NaomiAKlein
Shock Doctrine whose arguments feel like they’ve shifted from outlier to dominant discourse
A few years ago, the ultra-rich funded deathly-dull technocrats. Now they fund killer clowns. Why? Because the nature of capitalism has changed. My column.
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Watched The Matrix with my 12 yo son. Wished him goodnight and turned the bedroom light off. “Do you mind leaving it on?”, he said. “Isn’t it a bit late to read?” I replied. “You’ve just made me watch The Matrix”, he said, “I’ve got a lot to think about”.
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Please don't take me home, I just don't want to go work, don't take me home, we want to stay here
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Super excited to confirm I'm the new Global EIC of
@GamesRadar
- and won't make it entirely about Kojima, honest
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I played
#PES2020
and find myself torn: the game is brilliant, but the new name, curious focus on legendary players and (during my demo) a host of technical errors created a - perhaps unnecessary - air of desperation
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We're looking for experienced news freelancers (games / ents), who can work between the hours of 17.00 - 00.00 PDT (01.00 - 09.00 GMT). Doesn't have to be the full shift, perhaps a 4x hours block. Also: looking for weekend news freelancers - hours flexible. Hit me up.
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Honestly, the LVG-out crew are picking the wrong match as 'evidence' here
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This week has been a bit of a Hellmouth, but my son got his first phone and so far our conversation has been so wholesome I could cry
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Sony and Microsoft join forces for a cloud gaming service and beyond? *rubs rabbit foot* I wrote this a few months ago when speculating how the next gen might start to play out
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Enjoyed a wonderful hour listening to
@michaelsheen
and David Tennant on their podcast. Really identified with themes of identity (as a fellow departed Welshie), and vulnerability. So much great trivia, esp. Michael’s dad being world’s
#1
Jack Nicholson impersonator. Check it out
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#MUFC
, again, resembling a high functioning alcoholic: swathes of largely incoherent stumbling, with 10 mins of breathtaking clarity
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Gammon on train shouting “We got him out! The terrorist sympathising, racist old fool. Bye bye Corbyn” - and I snapped and called him a ‘bigoted arsehole’ almost leading to a fight. And there’s your legacy Boris: Britain can finally come together.
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@IanDunt
@simonbrew
I screen-capped that at the time for sharing on here because it was so obviously ludicrous but we're so inured to hypocrisy I'm doing it more as therapy for myself. How - HOW - is it always like this? So predictably, tediously, muddled, weak and contradictory?
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Delighted to work with
@totalfilm
on some exclusive Mads Mikkelsen quotes about Death Stranding requiring players to collaborate globally - then lost the run of myself explaining why that might be significant
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God of War looks like the best God of War since God of War
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Do I think there will be another generation of console boxes? Yes. Do I think streaming is the future? Yes. Will this cause an unecessary level of angst despite its inevitability over a certain horizon? Yes.
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What is clear, is that Sony know their base - and market space - which they will clearly target: games load quicker, backward compatible, cross-platform, PS VR compatible; it’s a ‘traditional’ console power / value sell. On surface, at least.
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HOLY SHIT KEANU REEVES that was one of the all time game cameo reveals - perhaps those Lady Gaga rumours weren’t ambitious enough?
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"Snake, it might have been so different if I'd voted in 2017"
(and, to a lesser extent, not shot my mentor in 1964)
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@AndyMitten
Utterly humiliating. Couldn’t play the occasion. But the progress to this point is tangible and - generously - that’ll be the end of any kind of complacency, or post-trophy easing, if that was creeping in.
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Ok, this is amazing. Sign up to the
@GamesRadar
newsletter and you can get the
@GoldenJoysticks
Presents: Metal Gear Solid book I edited a few years back for FREE, with words from
@superbunnyhop
@SimonParkin
@Octaeder
and more great writers
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I promised I’d finish RDR2 over Xmas,,but here I am, joyfully surrendering my free time for the words ‘no spawn timer’
From tomorrow until 01/01 in
#StarWarsBattlefrontII
, all bets are off in Galactic Assault! 9 heroes available per side, -75% Battle Points for heroes, vehicles and reinforcements, and no spawn timer. Have fun and a Happy New Year! See you in 2019!
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I've been working on a Death Stranding explainer - in as much as it's possible to explain it - for
@keefstuart
and
@guardian
for a few weeks. Thrilled it's finally live, and hope it *sort-of* explains the game's (divisive) appeal to a wider audience.
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Jürgen, refusing to talk to The Sun, not (just) because he’s Liverpool manager, but because of their behaviour / politics
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I have, quite literally, spent the morning herding kittens after we found a stray cat who had given birth in the hedge outside our house! We were a bit worried for the kittens for a bit, but all healthy, and now on way to the vets
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Re: Last RT Top 100 games of 2014. Gender of lead playable character. Blue = Male. Red = User choice. Orange = Female
http://t.co/yw42ALYJnU
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Playing PS4 for first time in months - and by 'playing' I mean 'watching a download bar'.
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My Alien Covenant review: It's f**king terrible. Aggressively terrible. It made me angry like no film in the last 10 years. So predictable.
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@sophielouisecc
That’s 0.3% of all union members and you can’t blame them for showing solidarity. What a spurious argument.
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Just started watching Brooklyn 9-9 and feel like telling everyone how good it is but I might as well be shouting “Hoo-boy, has anyone tried Ice Cream? Trust me on this. That stuff is GREAT”.
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So… I've written quite a lot of words about the most plausible Death Stranding plot theories. Perhaps too many words for most folk, but far too few for those committed to unlocking the game's mysteries.
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One of our company’s new senior team members uses his spare time as an *organ transplant pilot who flies hearts and kidneys across the US*.
In 120 hours play, I once made the top 5 leaderboard on Star Wars Battlefront 2’s Galactic Assault mode
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Blade Runner 2049 was sensational. Utterly distinct, yet complementary, to the original. Imaginative as to make me gasp. Powerful to make me sigh. I'm in real danger of dredging out the superlatives, but it feels entirely appropriate.
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Delighted to be working on an MGS anthology with
@superbunnyhop
@JunkerHQnet
and
@liquidmatt
http://t.co/nB9MBVo4yr
http://t.co/aTRvWDFUCS
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Ah 2013, when Kojima used to tweet pics of him with Norman Reedus and we all thought nothing of it
http://t.co/wr4s2gYUOm
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@naomirwolf
‘Children being asked to wear cloth masks during a pandemic’ doesn’t feel like an all-time violation of human rights, unless I’ve misunderstood several thousand years of history
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Essential E3 packing done. Probably should have prioritised checking my passport.
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Why MG Survive is the safest of Konami's potentially bad decisions - and six alternatives
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Imagine if Norman Reedus' face animated like Sara Ryder while he was cuddling the oil baby - or if Death Stranding was even a game
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The Mass Effect: Andromeda backlash backlash has begun and we're still 59 hours before the review
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At my mum’s house and completely forgot I used to make replica, concave, skate decks out of multi-ply card. My kids counted 81 of them.
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I edited a PlayStation magazine for almost a decade and don't recall Crash Bandicoot giving me sweet diddly squat on my birthday. Nintendo's automated e-mail, however, shows why folk are
#Ninty4LIfe
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This took *ages*: How consoles are becoming mobile phones and updates dulled our dreams
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Shout out to everyone who worked at Future during the 00s and remembers what we fondly called 'The Games Cage'. A literal cage. A mess of wires and pads.
I present to you the Decanter Tasting Suite, which is an actual room in a Future building.
HA! Ahahaha. Ahahahahaha.
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I made some predictions about 'MGSV' in early 2012. Six months before MGS: GZ was confirmed. So far, so good...
http://t.co/mzyDoncFky
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Assassin's Creed taking an early lead in the 'games that borrow something from Zelda: BOTW at E3 2017' competition (And Destiny, Dark Souls)
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I met Jackie Charlton on a FIFA trip back when I had ludicrously long hair and I remember him saying “Next question from that little gurl over there” after I put up my hand during a Q&A.
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Pretty amateur mistake showing TLOU after Knack 2. It's like an indoor firework after a supernova
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Bad news friends, I now have all the stones:
1) SEO
2) Auto-play video
3) eCommerce
4) Ad Block
5) Fortnite
6) That Thing You Like is Actually Rubbish
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A fine examination of a game that deserved its plaudits - and deserves a bigger audience - from
@schillingc
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E3 was a logistical nightmare, likely a financial disaster, and home to some of the most appalling public f*ck ups you'd rarely wish on your worst enemy
It was also *by a distance* the most exciting, energising, event in our calendar, despite failing all rationality tests
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