Samuel Roberts
@SamuelWRoberts
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UK PR Manager at Bethesda (contract). Co-host of @backpagepod . Formerly of @frontierdev and @pcgamer . Apologies in advance for my Twitter. Opinions mine. He/him
Bath, UK.
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Big Robocop/opening of Metal Gear Solid 4 energy to this.
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tfw you wonder who the other person in the google doc is and it turns out you've got the article open in two tabs
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Millennials when Jeff Bridges says 'THE GRID' on the Tron Legacy soundtrack:
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The novelty of seeing this every day will never wear off.
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Delighted to share that as of today, I'm UK PR Manager at Bethesda!
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Watching Harrison Ford solemnly discuss the abuse of technology in Blade Runner 2049 while emojis fly beneath him.
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Adult friendships are mostly people saying 'we should go to the pub some time' with about a 10% eventual success rate.
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@TheAVClub
You either die a Jim Morrison or live long enough to see yourself become Van Morrison
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After 30 minutes at the blackjack table in GTA's casino, I have...broken even. Time to move into professional gambling.
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Delighted to say I'm now a PR Manager
@frontierdev
, working on
@EliteDangerous
and ace-looking 40K game
@ChaosGate
!
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Sonic 1. Level select. Went straight to the last level and ended Robotnik's reign of terror over the animals of Mobius.
What video games have you cheated at, thus resulting in you being a Fake Gamer™?
I've been cheating at Sims since the first game. Rosebud.
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Tomorrow is my last day on PC Gamer after 5.5 years. In that time, the website has more than doubled in audience size, we launched an E3 show, a UK consumer show, and made a lot of magazines. Delighted I could play my part. Gave it my very best.
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This issue's fake back cover for a novel based on The Division 2, which me and
@Octaeder
enjoyed writing a bit too much.
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I've been promoted to UK editor-in-chief of PC Gamer, which is fantastic. Honestly never thought I'd go above games editor 8 years ago.
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That Currys voucher for Zelda has restarted the UK economy.
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The slightly cursed FFX memes account on FB that posted this intended it as an insult but I think it's actually dead-on:
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I never owned Unreal Tournament, but I think I played the demo, which had several stages, for 50 hours.
Did anyone else play like 99% demos growing up and only get like 1 ~full~ game a year? This has to have been a common thing.
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Why was this droid programmed to feel pain via the feet?
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Delighted to be handling UK PR for this!
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Today is my last day
@frontierdev
. I worked with some of my favourite ever people in this job – and I'll miss them dearly. New things await in 2024!
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Still regularly delighted when I remember that the last Sonic racing game had Football Manager from Football Manager as a guest character.
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If Uncharted 3 is now ten years old, then so too is 'pie + chips £3'. Just the most optimistic London pricing I've ever seen.
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One of my favourite PCG boxouts ever from this month's Mass Effect Andromeda review, by
@CThursten
, with tiny drink icons by John Strike.
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The making of any game from the PS2 era is like "we made this miraculous genre-shifting game in 10-18 months with 25 people, and then we were knackered for the rest of our lives."
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"What's the most important thing you contributed to PC Gamer this week, Samuel?" they'll say.
"Read what's in the red box," I'll reply.
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It says a lot about the gentle nature of Bath that a drunk man yelling "fuck Radiohead!" is the most threatened I've felt in four years of living here.
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This image of the new Netflix show Space Force is such a good sell it basically doesn't need a trailer.
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12 years later, I've just learned if you hit R1 and look left while Johnson is handing Snake the medal in MGS3's ending, there's Ocelot.
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Aerith's all like "I was raised in the slums" when she grew up in a detached house with a garden that has its own waterfall.
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Just took Ratchet and Clank for a spin. Has extra appeal knowing that by being a rare PS5 owner, I am depriving a child of a delightful experience.
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I hope someone publishes 'A crime author reviews Detective Pikachu'.
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Death Stranding will be ten minutes of Norman Reedus strapped to a baby and Lea Seydoux's umbrella, then a five-hour documentary of Kojima at the developers he visited while he should've been working on the game.
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@CoolComicArt
Linked to this: I quite like the very extreme origins of comics Bane, but the idea of him being excommunicated by the League of Shadows is pretty cool
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The kind of graffiti truth bombs you only get in a gaming bar toilet.
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Tempted to start a YouTube channel where I can only review games I bought for under £1 at CEX.
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Welcome to a new PC Gamer quiz called 'Destiny exotic or craft beer?'
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Further proof that Dragon Age II is amazing. If you order 30 drinks in the Hanged Man in Kirkwall, the patrons shout 'HAWKE' when you enter.
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Three months at Bethesda as of yesterday. Very much enjoying it so far!
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Today is my last day on
@techradar
after 2 years. Thanks so much to
@superbeav
and
@Keith_Walker
for trusting me to kick off a whole channel – I worked as hard as I could, and will miss the team a great deal!
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As a games journalist what I'm really invested in is people with anime avatars telling me what I can and can't write about.
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Dishonored really deserved a documentary this good. Just a great watch.
Our hour-long documentary on the design of the Dishonored franchise is now live.
Featuring insight into gameplay, level design, narrative, voice-acting, cut-content and so much more. Our sincere thanks to
@ArkaneStudios
for talking to us.
WATCH HERE:
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Shout out to other Millennials who never engaged in build mechanics in games ever who are now cobbling together the naffest creations you've ever seen in Zelda.
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I wrote about Crackdown 3, which is like Crackdown 1 but with a black hole gun, which is all I wanted, really.
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Of the fewer than 50,000 humans left alive in Battlestar Galactica, why are there so many goddamned journalists?
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Trying to guess the Black Mirror episode plots by name. "Hang the DJ" – a bold vision of a world in which Morrissey never became yer dad.
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The Sun using their watermark on that Hancock photo like a late '90s IGN screenshot.
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My parents really do have the TV smoothing on. Fuck sake.
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There was a PCG or Zone Star Wars special that had demos of X-Wing Alliance, X-Wing Vs TIE Fighter, Mysteries of the Sith, Yoda Stories and more on it that I sunk a whole summer into (Star Wars games were my everything at 11).
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Starring Ethan Hawke as Kevin Bacon
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Babe are you OK? You've barely touched your copy of 24 season 1 on UMD.
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That was my last day as editor of PC Gamer, after a mere 47 issues. What a pleasure to have that job, running the first games mag I loved.
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Every time a JRPG gets a 9, I buy it, add it to a vast pile labelled 'may play if able to retire', then wait for the next one.
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After a massive year for traffic, we're hiring a games/entertainment staff writer on
@techradar
! Come work with a great team, and we'll teach you what we know.
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"You look like a fucking Jedi ghost," says an unnamed friend about this photo taken with
@AlexBolton_PR
, who looks like a different species to me.
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@VICEUK
The idea of Kate Nash and Lily Allen being 'too innovative' for this list is the best bit.
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7/10 is not a bad score.
What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
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@GIBiz
Is that because he thought Knack would rule out the need for all other singleplayer games?
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No doubt to watch Little Britain series 1 on UMD.
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Hello! I'm hiring a Junior PR Manager to work closely with me at Frontier. A little (but not tons) of PR experience is ideal – I'm just as interested in seeing passion or enthusiasm for our games in a cover letter.
DMs open if you have any questions!
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Doctor Manhattan's fatality will be spinning Alan Moore's grave at high speeds towards his opponents.
Injustice 3, featuring the Watchmen, has been seemingly teased by BossLogic
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Enjoying Hannibal season 3 a lot, as the show has completed its transformation from elevated case-of-the-week show to erotic and extravagant arthouse horror.
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Kwasi Kwarteng heads home to boot up Cities Skylines and bankrupts a city in under 40 minutes.
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Me 5 minutes after deciding it is time to read in bed:
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Trawling
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and remembered Perfect Dark's abandoned and deeply '90s GB camera face scanning:
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Watching Moon Knight. "I don't know what she sees in you," says one character to Oscar Isaac, the most handsome man in the universe.
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My dad DMing me an ominous Wordle warning at 7.30am this morning: 'beware American spellings.'
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The next game we're working on at
@frontierdev
is Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin, an RTS coming to PC, Xbox Series X/S and PS5.
LOOK HOW PRETTY IT IS
Wage brutal warfare in a realm-shattering real-time strategy game set in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar universe. Command unique factions in a story-driven campaign and test your mettle online. Coming 2023 to PC, PlayStation® 5 and Xbox Series X|S!
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That's game number two launched! You learn a ton each time.
Gonna eat a fuckin' gigantic chicken burger now.
The countdown has concluded and Deliver Us Mars is out now!
It’s time for your onward mission to begin...
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Have to share this because it made me chuckle: my parents got me a Moonpig card with the Arkham Knight key art on it.
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Me at 18: 'By my thirties I'll have all this figured out'
Me at 34: *long pause* 'just the two fudge bars today, I think'
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What was the first game you played where you thought, "Graphics cannot possibly get better than this?"
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Having Sky One, and therefore access to newer Simpsons episodes.
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The third Harry Potter film makes the first two look like PS2 cutscenes.
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@CoolComicArt
This was my induction into X-Men comics, such a hugely entertaining starting point (particularly felt like he grasped how to write Kitty Pryde). Putting the writer aside, think it holds up
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