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Games @ GQ. Elsewhere otherwise. My mum says she’s very proud.

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2 years
@stillgray rich coming from a melting waxwork of a deep sea fish.
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5 years
@ultrabrilliant Feels less rushed than season 8 to be fair.
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Microsoft has a market cap larger than the GDP of all but five countries in the world. Entire NATIONS. And it can’t sustain the team that made Hifi Rush? Fuck off.
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5 years
Was just told a story by a friend about her work colleague who went on a first date, ordered a bottle of wine (and subsequently two more) and mis-read the price as £50.00 instead of the actual £5000, and now has a ten year direct debit to The Shard to pay off her huge wine debt.
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4 years
a nice moment. not pictured: me lurking like gollum
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5 years
"When I first started Reynholm Industries I had just two things in my possession: a dream, and six million pounds"
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On 2015/12/16 I became independent. No office, just a tiny room, no staff, no machines nothing. All I had was this KJP logo, notepad & pen and my own PC. I started to work on the concept while recruiting staffs, finding office & game engine. Had dream and connection that's all.👍
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@ZeroSuitCamus imagine eating literal bollocks and still being stick thin
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3 years
The lunar lander scene in TLOU2 is perfect.
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4 years
In 2018, I had dinner with @Neil_Druckmann and @grosstastic to start a 2 year behind-the-scenes profile of #TheLastofUsPartII After what feels like a lifetime, and with 10 days to go, this is how @Naughty_Dog created a classic amidst catastrophe:
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3 years
Found out yesterday that my dad has me in his phone as Sam White. Full name. His own son.
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@LeeAndersonMP_ Was he a twat as well
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@redletterdave it was YOU
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3 years
Uncharted 4 is really fucking good isn’t it.
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4 years
Hands. Face.
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'Hands. Face. Space': UK government to relaunch Covid-19 slogan
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I thought it would be cool to get a consensus on the 100 Greatest Games of All Time. I contacted hundreds of people from Ninja to Naughty Dog – and then counted thousands of votes. With the help of my long-time editor we put together the ultimate list:
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looks like he just landed a bullseye in the white house darts tourney
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5 years
For 2 years I've been between London and LA to tell the story of TLOU: Part II. So gutted for @Neil_Druckmann and a team who I've watched putting their all into it. From everything I've seen and played, it's worth an even longer wait. Fuck COVID!
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4 years
There’s a moment in that Quartering video where he scrolls through Metacritic moaning about Gamespot’s low 7/10, spots a 6/10 written by a man just below it, literally almost goes ‘huh’ before returning to focusing on the 7/10 written by a woman. That’s all you need to know.
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3 years
thinking about all the people buying OLEDs this week who won't turn motion smoothing off
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7 years
ROYAL BABY ROYAL BABIES ROYAL BABY³ ROYAL BABY: RESURRECTION #royalbaby
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It’s criminal how easy it is to spend £40 now. Two onions and some bits? £40. Modest one course dinner with non-alcoholic drinks? £40. Why aren’t we rioting
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1 year
Watching the original Pirates of the Caribbean and noticed they change the colour of Jonathan Pryce’s wig to denote a flashback - even though it’s a wig for the character.
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7 years
woman who called election accuses man of attempting to win that election.
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Theresa May says Jeremy Corbyn is trying to "sneak into No 10" #BBCElection #GE2017
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4 years
Rockstar spoke to me about the new GTA: Online update. It's new island paradise looks brilliant, was developed entirely from home, and gives us a good sense of what to expect from GTA 6:
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4 years
TLOU2 getting those BAFTA noms reminded me of a funny story I couldn’t write about in my piece. But it is my closest experience of how video games are terrible until they aren’t. And how I never realised *just how late in the day* shit comes together. Spoilers ahead.
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5 years
Imagine going on a first date and coming away with a decade of debt.
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3 years
TLOU2 combat at 60fps
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3 years
“I once told 70 million people that they couldn’t see their dying loved ones while I held a secret party in the office.”
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4 years
this is the worst thing i have ever seen
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2 years
@MarinaPurkiss @JeremyVineOn5 @theJeremyVine "take us back in EU" is first sign of pig-shit stupidity.
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3 years
How Xbox outgrew the console: I spent time with @XboxP3 and his A-Team to talk the last 20 (and the next 20) years of #Xbox . Xbox One, Game Pass, Halo Infinite, xCloud, $7.5BN buyouts, The Elder Scrolls 6, succession planning. We covered it all. #Xbox20
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6 years
I hung out with Dan Houser and others from @RockstarGames to document the making of #RedDeadRedemption2 . We also talked GTA 6, Trump, racism, feminism, crunch, the trouble with realistic birds, and the benefits of running a company with your brother.
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2 years
@aIIegoricaI As someone renovating a house and righting the wrongs of a generation before us: It’s mad how bad the majority of people’s taste is.
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2 years
Leaks suck, man. Devs put their heart and soul into something for years. It’s not some public service you have a right to see. I was covering @Neil_Druckmann and team when the TLOU2 leaks came out. It is demoralising. It is stressful. Teams don’t need this. Don’t do it!!!
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4 years
It's still v cool to me to get games in this slot. Thanks to everyone <3
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1 year
@sophielouisecc read a fucking history book you plank
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1 year
It is weird - and I knew this would come up. We tried. Trust me, we tried. And we were stonewalled at every turn. Nintendo told us it would be minimum of a year to get it signed off. Then we got told a flat no. Same with other studios in JP.
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Is it just me or is it weird that there’s not a single Japanese dev or journalist in the list of people asked? Even though Japanese titles make up 4 of the top 10?
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4 years
Bribing me with food @Neil_Druckmann ? Pathetic.
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3 years
Deathloop has me replaying Dishonored 2 for the Nth time and I don’t know who needs to hear this but play Dishonored fuckin 2.
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1 year
@helen Don’t forget that you get the excitement of a part of your body failing about once per month
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1 year
Last month I spent a few days with Todd Howard & team and played 8+ hours of #Starfield 📷. We talked about their biggest, most roleplay-ey game ever. Plus! Tom Cruise. Space invites. Existential dread. Broken eyes. TES6. Game design flaws of LIFE ITSELF
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8 years
Jeremy Corbyn: I love my mum Right-wing press: Jeremy Corbyn fucks his mum
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2 years
The best Friday of my life.
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I could write a book about this experience, but in short: Part II is even better than the original, avoids predictability, raises the bar on game writing. It’s a triumph against adversity (both for diverse storytelling and for ND) and is the best PlayStation game this generation.
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3 years
@helen Mine asks the big questions
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@AlanFreestone You’re not cancelled, you’ve just publicly outed yourself as a fucking moron.
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3 years
Asked my nana how she was. Seems she's having a big one.
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5 years
A few weeks after I interviewed Ken Levine, he quit. It was the last interview he did at Irrational. A year after I interviewed Dan Houser, he quit. It is the last interview he did at Rockstar. All I can say is, I'm sorry to the dev I'm profiling next.
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Booked a 9AM showing for Bond. Cinema is empty, clean and the pick n mix has just been restocked. I feel like I have discovered fire.
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2 years
this is like something out of GTA5
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. @elonmusk knows how to get down
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One interesting thing I did like while receiving ballots are the games which only got one vote, but a vote at the TOP of someone's list. The deep cut faves. These are the games that fit into that category.
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Sam White
1 year
I thought it would be cool to get a consensus on the 100 Greatest Games of All Time. I contacted hundreds of people from Ninja to Naughty Dog – and then counted thousands of votes. With the help of my long-time editor we put together the ultimate list:
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7 years
Even on a fourth(ish) replay, every room in Dishonored 2 is an actual treat.
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@piersmorgan Piers there is literally a video of you saying exactly this.
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3 years
me, 21, looking at pic of me, 19: I was so thin! im fat now. me, 23, looking at pic of me, 21: I was so thin! im fat now. me, 27, looking at pic of me, 23: I was so thin! im fat now. me, 29, looking at pic of me, 27: I was so thin! im fat now.
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4 years
What is a last of us?
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2 years
@nadhimzahawi You really are a prick
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4 years
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
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2 years
HBO of Us is really good. Episode 3 is a masterpiece. Several game moments made even better with some subtle changes and really shocking impact. A bunch of additions and deviations that are complete successes. And an absolutely perfect Ellie despite all my reservations.
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3 years
Devastating news this morning. Hug your loved ones, drive safely, and never take things for granted. Xxxxx
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5 years
my brother just got 7 A**s and 3 A*s but he also recently put milk in a kettle and broke it. You can have good grades AND be a spectacularly stupid motherfucker.
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3 years
Ladies and gentlemen, the week.
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2 years
@RupertMyers Any cunt with an excel spreadsheet shirt should fuck off
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@philmarshall44 @AvaSantina And you turned out a prick.
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@francisobrienUK @Topfluffer His name is Bertie and his Instagram is everything.
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6 months
I do not understand how publisher model can work if every game has to sell 20m copies. The entire point is to allow small to coexist with big. Even more frustrating when your entire business model is a sub service you keep saying is a success that means game sales aren’t the goal
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pleeth mr Dunuld just one more suckle from the teet of power
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4 years
Just finished The Game for a second time.
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2 years
It’s actually embarrassing how little my day has to be inconvenienced before I’ll decide I’m ordering takeout.
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4 years
Have become addicted to Resetera threads of assumptions/criticisms about TLOU2 from people who have not played it. Nothing will ever fascinate me more than the self-assuredness of a gamer.
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@Cobratate @GretaThunberg This is the weakest thing I’ve ever seen
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4 years
Pretty
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@LeeAndersonMP_ An actual chair would be more useful.
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8 years
TAKE BACK CONTROL TAE BACK CONTROL BAKE BACK CONTROL BAKE BACK BONTROL BAK BAK BROL BAKE BROK BOL HO DOR HODOR HODOR #BBCDebate
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3 years
My 11 y/o neff is completely deaf. Recently his internal processors (which mean he can hear) failed. Had to miss first weeks of big school having a big painful operation. I'm giving him a Nintendo Switch to cheer him up. BUT he needs GAMES. PRs and nice people: plz help?
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3 years
@gankstrr Lucy leaves for 5 minutes and
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3 years
Lord of the Rings is going to get fully Star Warred isn’t it. It’ll be 2035 and I’ll be watching a 10 part series about how Gothmog the orc’s face got fucked up.
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim original anime is reportedly set for release in April 2024 by Warner Bros. Set 200 years before The Hobbit, it will explore the exploits of Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan and the creation of Helm’s Deep.
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@sairaspooks Kissing and he asks if you’re ready for nobby
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@IsabelOakeshott Why’d you write a book for him before deciding to be the hero, hmmmm?
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8 years
@sunny_hundal I just don't get it. I don't get what's different now to when they voted yesterday. How are people this irresponsibly dumb.
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8 years
Your mum's fave
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4 years
Lastly, a boring thing: pieces like this are really hard to realise. We first talked about it in 2017. As a freelancer, they’re basically impossible to make financially viable. Please read and RT to make it all worthwhile.
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10 years
Polygon continues its best-in-class analytical critique http://t.co/zGgCGKqOTU
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8 years
Poor white idiots can no longer moan about "the bankers" because they're officially worse.
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3 years
Of all the complimentary PR packages I’ve ever received, this is the best.
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2 years
@suzseddon I see a prick – who's supposedly a writer but can't use grammar – using Twitter
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3 years
Some say he’s replaying The Witcher 3 for a fifth time.
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10 years
Want to feel really old? This is what the Tellytubbies baby looks like now http://t.co/lQA6IKGgzI
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