🚨Test Results🚨
Doctors called with my results. The tumour was 100% benign, I've been given the all clear.
I genuinely feel weak with overwhelming relief, my legs have stopped working. I can finally move on with my life🖤
✨Life Update✨
Doctors found a tumour in my neck. A pleomorphic adenoma, and a big one at 5cm. It’s been excised today and it’s now off to the lab for testing and results. The wonderful staff at
@uclh
are taking great care of me though, a genuinely wonderful team 🖤
“Hi, you clearly missed my previous email. Can you please give me x6 PS5 codes for (insert game name), my readers have been asking for my honest opinion. My blog, legitgamereviews/wordpress, has 950,000 readers per month. With my review, your game will be a big success”
✨Life Update✨
Doctors found a tumour in my neck. A pleomorphic adenoma, and a big one at 5cm. It’s been excised today and it’s now off to the lab for testing and results. The wonderful staff at
@uclh
are taking great care of me though, a genuinely wonderful team 🖤
*Taps the mic🎙️*
Ending the week with some excellent news, your 4th favourite PR person in games has been promoted to 💫Account Director💫. Shoutout to my wonderful team and anyone that’s supported me over the years, I wouldn’t have got here without you. You’re all real ones!
Some personal news, I received a promotion today to PR Manager which is pretty cool to end the week with. You can expect to still see me in your inboxes but with the addition of an updated email signature🙂
I don't know who needs to hear this but being rude to PRs over code isn't a good look for you. Being passive-aggressive, taking shots at bigger sites in our inboxes, "do you not know who I am" style emails, suggesting PRs aren't working quickly enough, none of it is necessary!
Very excited to finally reveal what I've been up to the last couple of weeks, we started a brand new agency!
Feels great to be reunited with some good friends and we're all hyped to build something new together.
Give us a follow and come along for the journey.
We're excited to be able to announce 1UP PR, a new video games PR agency!
We're a small team at the moment, but already have some fantastic clients and big plans for the future.
You can get in touch with us at hello
@1uppr
.net, but I'm sure you'll be hearing from us soon!
Personal News: Thrilled to announce I’ve joined
@WeAre_Premier
as part of their wonderful
@premier_games
team. Working on some incredibly cool stuff that I’m hyped about!
You can now reach me at Kris.Wall
@premiercomms
.com. Let’s talk video games!
🚨Work News🚨
Exciting times for the
@premier_games
team as we’re now representing EA’s titles in the UK.
As a massive Respawn Entertainment and Apex Legends fan, I’m so hyped I get to work on it now with the team!
Premier is now proudly representing EA for several titles in the UK, including:
The Sims 4
Apex Legends
Immortals of Aveum
Battlefield 2042
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
+ more
If you're in the UK games media and want to speak with us, email EA (at) premiercomms (dot) com. Thanks!
💫Life Update💫
We paid our deposit, secured our venue & we now have a wedding date, 28th September, 2024. We’re getting married in 387 days! It’s starting to feel very real now!
Here’s a photo of us at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge shortly after we got engaged almost a year ago now.
Happy Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League day!
Sadly, Director Waller didn’t select me for her Task Force X, but I’ve had an absolute blast getting to help out on this game. Being able to visit Rocksteady was a dream!
🚨Content Creators🚨
Once Human has launched today!
If you're interested in jumping in and taking a look, drop me a DM or email as we have some item codes available to aid your survival in the game.
🌟 The Moment Has Arrived! Once Human's Global Release is Live! 🌟 PLAY FREE NOW!
Click to check out the trailer and dive into a unique post-apocalyptic survival experience! If today was doomsday, who would you team up with to rock out until the end? 🎶💥
It’s That Time Again!
Starting the day with some personal news: I’ll be leaving Heaven Media in April. A new opportunity has called out to me and while I’ll miss my wonderful team loads, I’m really excited for what’s next.
More details soon 👀
Emo Thread Time: Streets of Rage is a series that holds a huge amount of sentimental value to me. SOR 2 is in my top 10 games of all time but it’s a series that also reminds me of growing up and playing video games with my Dad.
“Hi, you must have missed my previous email. Can I please have 5 Midnight Suns codes for my WordPress blog? Can I just say, I think it’s really unfair that you prioritise IGN, GameSpot and all those outlets”
For Mental Health Awareness Month, can we normalise guys telling their male friends they love them, normalise men being open and honest with each other on their feelings and it not being seen as a sign of weakness.
Hearing that yet more wedding guests are quietly annoyed about decisions I’m making to celebrate my day with my partner but won’t talk to me directly about it. I do not have time for this, but I do have plenty of time to amend the guest list.
Good News Alert: Finally got my scan and test results back today and they're all clear so I don't have cancer, which is honestly a massive relief to hear as my mental wellbeing has been in freefall worrying about it.
PR counts 🙏
I’m Kris. I’m a PR Manager working with Skybound Games, Slitherine Games, Frontier Developments & more. Been in games almost 6 years & love what I do.
When I’m not working I’m talking about Burnout, John Wick, Bo Burnham’s Inside and metal.
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
So far, the hardest part of going mostly alcohol free is all the people that keep asking me why I’ve gone mostly alcohol free, asking is it wasting money buying alcohol free beers, or asking if I’m ’having a phase’. All you need to know is I feel much better for doing it, thanks.
How was your day? Mine was excellent, thanks! Pedro Pascal and Jon Favreau were there to celebrate the opening of The Forge in London for The Mandalorian S3. Grateful to experience it all in person. Living my best life with a blue milk in hand!
#TheMandalorianForge
Another update.
Doctors and surgical team visited, they said the surgery was a success and it came out in one piece. It was bigger than initially thought at 7cm. But they’re happy that it pretty much looked benign. They just want the histology results in order to be conclusive.
✨Life Update✨
Doctors found a tumour in my neck. A pleomorphic adenoma, and a big one at 5cm. It’s been excised today and it’s now off to the lab for testing and results. The wonderful staff at
@uclh
are taking great care of me though, a genuinely wonderful team 🖤
Top Gun has got me thinking about the best film sequels that have been made. Seeing as nobody asked, here’s my Top 5 sequels:
1. Aliens
2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
3.
#TopGunMaverick
4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
5. Blade II
What are your Top 5 film sequels?
Matt Berry being cast as Cogsworth immediately makes Fallout the best game to TV adaptation. I’m sorry The Last of Us, you should have cast Matt Berry as Joel.
I see the industry salary discourse has come around again so I’m here to tell you if your response is “well I did this role back in 2003 for 5K a year, lol”, don’t bother. Just because some things have always sucked, it doesn’t mean people need to continue sucking it up.
VERY excited to reveal that skate. is going to be launching into Early Access in 2025. I'm so hyped to be a small part of this one with EA and Full Circle!
we're incredibly stoked to announce that skate. will be launching in Early Access in 2025. we'll share more details on what to expect in the coming months.
“Hi. I hope this email finds you well. Can I please request x6 codes for your new game? Any/All formats is fine. I know I’m not IGN or GameSpot but my readers are keen to hear my opinion and through this collaboration I know I can make your game a big success”
My toxic PR trait is being so overwhelmingly grateful that someone, anyone, has responded to an email that my response is so cloying with gratitude that it appears false and disingenuous. And they never respond again 😅
🚨UK/EU Games Journos🚨
The next Marvel Rivals beta kicks off tomorrow night at 11pm BST / 12am CEST and we've got access codes for PlayStation, Xbox and PC Steam available.
Drop me a DM, or send me and
@ChrisHaems
an email at netease at premiercomms dot com.
RTs appreciated!
Personal news: It’s with a heavy heart that I announce I’m leaving
@1UP_PR
and I wish them the best. I’ll be jumping into freelance PR. If you need some PR support, short/long term, multiple projects, or just help in a busy period, drop me a a DM or email (in bio) and let’s talk!
Unfortunately I have to inform you all that today’s hospital results have revealed I’m not dying and you’re all stuck with me for awhile. How long this will be I’m not sure, I haven’t decided yet.
As someone that’s always struggled with their self-image since my teens, I feel immense relief to see a picture of myself and think “Actually, I look alright”. It’s been a long journey.
(A professional photographer has definitely helped me out here though 😅)
#NewProfiePic
Ending the week on a high, just over halfway through my probation at Premier and I've already been offered a permanent position, so I guess I must be doing something right! Very happy to be a part of the games team, we've got some really fun stuff coming up!
Additionally, and I cannot stress this enough, please do not find me on Facebook and send me a passive aggressive PM asking if I'm checking my emails. I'm always reading my emails.
“Hi, you must have missed my previous email. Can I please have 5 Midnight Suns codes for my WordPress blog? Can I just say, I think it’s really unfair that you prioritise IGN, GameSpot and all those outlets”
A new Alien movie will inevitably bring the Alien 3 haters out of the woodwork so I’m here to tell you that you are, and always have been, wrong about that movie.
It's hard to overstate just how much harder Google has made my job when it comes to coverage tracking for games. How much key coverage it's burying, how much rubbish it's dragging to the surface that's ripping others off. It's the complete opposite of a helpful content update.
An absolute all-timer day at work today. Finally got to visit one of my favourite dev studios. One of those days where you���re like yeah, I love what I get to do!
I don’t know who needs to hear this but basic manners when requesting review codes goes a long way. It takes seconds to say “please” and “thank you”, don’t act like a savage! 🙏
Clocked out of work and ready for my holiday next week. Before then, it’s time for some emotion on main. Feeling very grateful for my current role, I love the team I work with, the clients + games I get to work on, and the opportunities I’m granted. Feels like I’m where I belong!
And my first PS5 game is Returnal. It’s already kicking my ass but I’m blown away how good it all looks. And that haptic feedback is a giant chef’s kiss !
I feel unbearably embarassed to be English today. I should know better than to be doom-scrolling but it has sent me into a downward spiral this morning. The absolute state of this country.
“It’s been a great year for games”
Yeah but it’s been an even more brutal year for the games industry. Feels weird enjoying anything when the human cost has been on a scale unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.
You really have no idea how badly stress has messed up your body, how much it’s absolutely ravaged your immune system, until you have the opportunity to stop and figure out how to switch off. Instead of resting you just exist in a weird state of shell shock. Listen to your body!
Jesus, decent Fleetwood Mac tickets range between £103 and £230 !!! Genuinely surprised the £88 ones aren't being labelled Poor People Tickets, you'll be able to sit outside the venue by the bins and hope they play that one from Top Gear & Guardians of the Galaxy.
Heads up that if I catch you sharing any info on Wolverine, it’s an immediate block from me. It’s not even a leak, it’s stolen information including private personnel details. Please try and show some respect!
I don't know who needs to hear this but if you're emailing me for review code and I ask you for some info, it's never a good look to attempt any variant of "Do you know who I am?".
Thank you for coming to my TED talk on requesting review code.
My Sony Pulse Headset arrived in excellent, brand new condition from
@currys
/
@DPDCare
after detouring through what I can only assume was a football pitch.
🚨UK/EU Content Creators & Streamers🚨
The Marvel Rivals beta has started!
We are now able to offer the remaining Marvel Rivals beta codes we have out to creators and streamers. If you missed out, drop us a DM/email.
x1 per person
PS5 codes will only work across EU regions
🚨UK/EU Games Journos🚨
The next Marvel Rivals beta kicks off tomorrow night at 11pm BST / 12am CEST and we've got access codes for PlayStation, Xbox and PC Steam available.
Drop me a DM, or send me and
@ChrisHaems
an email at netease at premiercomms dot com.
RTs appreciated!
A lot of praise for The Punisher quite rightly goes towards Jon Bernthal, but I definitely feel not enough people mention how great
@benbarnes
is throughout the whole thing, his take on Billy Russo is excellent !
Ahead of Gamescom next week, a polite reminder that if we’re chatting and I’m constantly looking around, I’m not ignoring you or trying to get away, I struggle with a sensory overload if there’s too many conversations and/or background noises around us, I am actually listening 🖤
Me and
@SallyM0nster
are absolutely thrilled to announce that Bella Mae arrived into the world on April 4th at 14:53, we are completely and utterly in love with her little face.
People look at you funny when you tell them your kid is one of your best friends but I feel I’ve genuinely lucked out, my kid is into video games, TMNT, Transformers and spooky stuff. All she wants to do is have fun and laugh, why wouldn’t you want to be around that energy.
Taking the docs advice and using some annual leave to take next week off to unplug, spend some time with the family and sleep. I'm so burned out at the moment that I feel hollow. And being honest, as much as I love what I do, I'm really struggling with how toxic the industry is.