Vikki B.
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Writer of commercial fiction. Reporter of video games. Critic of everything. Find me @Eurogamer @GIbiz @IGN @NME . I can't believe it's a real job, either.
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Dude just straight up disclosed an employee's disability status publicly on Twitter. Looking forward to the court case.
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We made those alcoholic milkshakes from the
@BaileysOfficial
commercials and holy mother of Easter, they were incredible. 😍
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So. A few months back I had horrendous buyers remorse when I pre-ordered an eye-wateringly expensive
#SilentHill2
Red Pyramid Thing figurine. Today, a box bigger than my fully grown Labrador arrived…
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Covers the weekend news desk, they said. It's usually quiet, they said.
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Hello! Are you in games media and looking for regular weekend work? You need demonstrably awesome news writing skills as well as be able to work autonomously for a fab site. You’ll be expected to hit the ground running tho, so this won’t suit beginners I’m afraid. LMK!
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If PR types could get into the habit of putting time-to-completion estimates in their review guides, that would be glorious.
Would help prevent reviewing crunching and help us better balance our work.
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July marks my fourth anniversary manning
@eurogamer
's weekend newsdesk. Time flies when you're having fun! 💖
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Okay. So. Bit overwhelmed by the replies, texts, comments, DMs, and calls(!) but thank you so, so much to each and every one of you who's reached out. ❤️
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Hey games Twitter! Shocking for me, I know, but I'm going to be at E3 this year! I'm self-funding my trip and am 100% freelance, so if you're looking for a *highly experienced* and *super rad* writer to cover appts/previews on the ground (non-public days), pls get in touch!
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I paid $400 to
@LimitedRunGames
to ship the
@deadspace
CE to me in the UK. The website said the game was region-free, but my DLC codes are region locked and despite asking LRG twice to put this right for me, they’re refusing.
@EA
@MotiveStudio
@PlayStationEU
- can you help?
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I also wrote this, too!
That's right! I'm DELIGHTED to say that
@whynowgaming
has picked up my weekly column, so if you were a fan when it was
@NME
, please stop by and check it out! (If nothing else, hopefully the hits will mean they keep me on! 🤣)
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@LeviGratton
I posted this several hours ago and before H added extra context. You may be right, but there is a difference between owing the choice to disclose something yourself and your boss announcing it to a billion people on Twitter.
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Just had a surveyor around to value the house and belatedly realised I didn’t hide these. So now they’ll be a lovely surprise in the slide show presented to my mortgage provider.
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Having one of the worst Christmases of my life but hey, I have a lovely home and (most of the time) a lovely family so from my home to yours, Nadolig Llawen / Merry Christmas / Happy holidays 🎄(Yes, I know I’m not allowed alcohol with my meds but sush it’s Christmas!)
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I can't imagine any scenario where a 52/48 split will blow apart an entire population and wreak financial and moral panic for years to come.
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I don’t get a lot of press kits so this rad one for
@WiredP
’s
#ArcadeParadise
has made my day! Thank you!
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Here's a thing I wrote a looooong time ago about
#TheLastOfUs
's astonishing ending. All my words are my babies, ofc, but this is still one of my favs, I think.
Spoilers, natch.
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Today marks my fifth anniversary - that's half a decade! - of joining Team
@Eurogamer
. Time flies when you're having fun! 💖
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I've been doing this a long time, I get plenty of work, and I'm about to hit my half-decade at EG so: I'm okay. I mean, I WASN'T, but I am now! And I have no intention of changing my voice - which has been cultivated over 15y doing this - even if it is full of run-on sentences.
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The only way I’ve been able to maintain my work is to freelance, widely & wildly. I rarely feel like I belong. It sucks when you’re overlooked for award noms, preview opps & you’re not on the staff page. I work 7d a wk. But at least I earn a good wage by casting that wide net.
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I wrote this! Thanks so much to GQ for the opportunity, my ed for shining up my words, and uber thanks to
@Mangaminx
@WeveGotBibinho
@animturnbull
@trashcrone
@Solidus5nake
and
@shaneerinelvis
for talking to me! 💖
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Hey PR! Cld you pls do me a favour and put what platforms your game is coming to at the bottom of every press release? Yes, even if you're already told us! You'd be AMAZED how many don't and the less time I waste googling details & images, the more time I have to cover your news!
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Why yes, he has just discovered watermelon and reckons it’s the best thing ever!!
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Have had a horrible week. Lost a long-term retainer. Not enough sleep. I try not to doubt my work but been feeling really low and paralysed with self-doubt.
And then the ~loveliest~ project just fell into my lap. 💖
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Today is the first anniversary of losing my beloved father-in-law to covid. Still feel like he was robbed from us.
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Hey, team. We can take issue with an outlet's editorial position/decisions without shitting on individual writers.
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Oh, the pain of wanting to go outside but knowing it’s too cold to go outside so you try to do both…
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Just sent off an application to join my local Citizens Advice team as a volunteer. Not sure if I have what they need, but I'm sick of sitting here being angry and helpless about the state of our country - would rather channel that energy somewhere more positive!
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Just received my belated Mother’s Day presents! My boy knows his mum so well. 🥰
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The amazing thing about this photo is no one ever sees Corvo like this - sweet and still and calm - because his default mode when other people are around is “batshit”.
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These energy price hikes were not an inevitability. It is not all attributable to global challenges and a war. Our govt has done nothing, is doing nothing, will do nothing. Ofgem is protecting profits, not people. Am so, so, so fucking angry.
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My fab bro
@Romity459
just dropped off belated Christmas gifts and this bad boy with amongst the spoils! 👀 (Fork for scale!!)
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Bongiorno from Rome! It is VERY hot, but we’re here! Health isn’t great - cannot get my heart rate under control which means I could only have the one glass of Prosecco :( - but we’re taking it verrrry easy and enjoying the sights. ✨
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It’s reasonable to divorce someone if they keep singing the same two lines of the same song over and over again, right?
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Delighted to finally be able to tell you that I was on the jury panel for this! It's the first time I've been a BAFTA judge, and it was wonderful to have been part of it - thank you, BAFTA!
Winner of the Performer in a Leading Role BAFTA is…
@JaneLizPerry
as Selene Vassos in Returnal! 👏
#BAFTAGames
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There was nowhere else anyone in the UK could get the CE.
@LimitedRunGames
were the only retailer. I genuinely believe I’ve been missold this and they’re refusing to do anything. And the website is STILL misleading!!!
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And don't you dare let anyone make you feel guilty about it
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If game publishers are excited about NFTs, we probably shouldn’t be
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Uh, for those that don't know: 20 years ago I co-founded (and still run) the world's biggest Silent Hill Forum and its sister site,
@silenthillheavn
.
So... yeah. Super nerd right here. Unabashed. Unfaltering. I know A LOT about the series.
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I'm hosting this! I may be great, I may be terrible - come join us and find out!
Fancy a career in games? Join
@BAFTACymru
at MIDDAY TODAY for top tips on where to begin with building your own Game Start-Up. Sign up for free now 👇
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Have a review due today but I've written 137 words, the last 11 of which has been: "fuck off no way is he gonna land that is he??"
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Please don't challenge my Silent Hill knowledge. You'll lose.
Morris is 100% her name. The OTHER name is a complete spoiler for anyone who'd played the first game, so Morris - taken from her VA - was used in official marketing materials.
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No-one double-checked that hashtag, huh.
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Didn't think it was going to be a gaggle of ex-footballers that would restore my faith in the British public, and yet here we are.
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Had an absolute blast with New Tales from the Borderlands! If you're worried it won't boast the humour or pathos of its predecessor, worry not - it's wonderful!
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Love it when my news shifts coincide with April 1. It's awesome. So relaxing. So much fun.
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Best Valentine's Day I ever had was 20 years ago and heard my boy's heartbeat for the very first time during an antenatal scan. ❤️
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I bet
#HorizonForbiddenWest
didn’t expect it’d be competing for coverage with big planes today.
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Good.
🏫Those under 26 are increasingly under the sway of cultural socialism, and not tackling it is producing a strongly Left-wing generation
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Two years old today. 💖 Penblwydd hapus to our very own High Chaos Corvo. 🥰
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Gave blood today. Nurse spotted a big, black bruise on my arm and asked if I was okay. Very grateful for NHS staff noticing and checking in. Did feel stupid when I had to explain that I fell down a manhole in my own back garden on Tuesday though…
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Just wrote up an entire story, CMSed it, and was JUST about to post it when I realised I was breaking an embargo. Rad.
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Mastodon is the most confusing thing I've seen in ages and I play Destiny 2, ffs.
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That little red bit in the top-right corner about Destiny 2? It's meeeee! 💖 This issue also has a review from me (my first in aaaaages), so please buy it!
PLAY
#20
is out now! Assassin's Creed Mirage leaps onto the cover as it leads the way for the series' exciting future. Available in shops, or we ship globally online.
#assassinscreed
Sub:
Buy:
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Have written 24 news stories, a 1500 word review, and a (corporate) 600 word interview/blog post since getting back from London on Thursday night.
I just want to lie down now. 😩
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Once again: check your scheduled posts/social media posts. Just in case.
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My Martha Is Dead review will go live tomorrow over at
@eurogamer
, but spoilers: it's a disturbing game and the face peeling isn't even the worst of it. It's a deeply upsetting, gratuitously gory game that you should prob avoid if you've issues with pregnancy loss or self-harm.
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Just realised my cappuccino left chocolate lines around my mouth so I've been walking around looking like The Joker made out with Willy Wonka.
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