Nat Smith 🦝🎀🔪
@stottybairn.bsky.social
Senior Staff Writer @ PCGamesN | Guides • Reviews • Features ✍️
Queer, northern, loud and proud 🏳️🌈 she/her. Grammatically troublesome.
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Queer, northern, loud and proud 🏳️🌈 she/her. Grammatically troublesome.
💌 | nat.smith@pcgamesn.com
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Chuffed to bits - I've been promoted to Senior Staff Writer at @pcgamesn.com!! 🧡🤍🖤
Oppy, I've joined a cult! Pacific Drive's Whispers in the Woods DLC has me flinching at crash-test dummies and the radio, but it's okay, because my station wagon screams whenever anything tries to grab it. @ironwood.bsky.social knocked it out of the park.
The scariest horror game I've played this year is actually DLC for 2024's best driving sim
The Whispers in the Woods DLC is the perfect excuse to return to Pacific Drive, and its horror is worth the pain of its new systems.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Oppy, I've joined a cult! Pacific Drive's Whispers in the Woods DLC has me flinching at crash-test dummies and the radio, but it's okay, because my station wagon screams whenever anything tries to grab it. @ironwood.bsky.social knocked it out of the park.
Good thread.
Here is some advice to literally any reporter working for a major outlet: use this time to build up a following, an independent one who knows you for you, interact with your readers and tell them you appreciate them, get your outlet to buy you a DSLR and tripod and a good mic, and your own list.
If you work as a staff writer for a newspaper or magazine, here are things you rarely worry about:
1. getting a regular paycheck
2. health insurance
3. marketing/distributing your work
4. finding someone to cover for you when you have an emergency
5. access to editors
6. advertising/subscriptions
1. getting a regular paycheck
2. health insurance
3. marketing/distributing your work
4. finding someone to cover for you when you have an emergency
5. access to editors
6. advertising/subscriptions
July 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Good thread.
Reposted by Nat Smith 🦝🎀🔪
I finished Date Everything! and have a hot take on how this portrays our relationships with objects.🔥From commodities to labor, this dating sim has a lot to say about things. How does this relate to gijinka and our fondness for things? Read more here. 👇 nicollelamerichs.com/2025/07/06/d...
Date Everything! and our Parasocial Relationships with Things
The 2025 dating sim Date Everything! is a cozy experience, set in your own home. The set-up is simple. You can date every object in the house, from your wall and ceiling to your coffee machine. The…
nicollelamerichs.com
July 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I finished Date Everything! and have a hot take on how this portrays our relationships with objects.🔥From commodities to labor, this dating sim has a lot to say about things. How does this relate to gijinka and our fondness for things? Read more here. 👇 nicollelamerichs.com/2025/07/06/d...
My post-mortem for FBC Firebreak covers the 2008 financial crisis, Halo ODST, Hotel California, and how to become a Big Daddy in Bioshock. Pretty proud of this one. 🔥📉
FBC Firebreak is dead on arrival, and I’m not convinced Control’s FPS spinoff can be saved
As Nightreign snatches success from the jaws of mediocrity, Remedy’s FBC Firebreak dredges up the worst of tacked-on multiplayer.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
My post-mortem for FBC Firebreak covers the 2008 financial crisis, Halo ODST, Hotel California, and how to become a Big Daddy in Bioshock. Pretty proud of this one. 🔥📉
Reposted by Nat Smith 🦝🎀🔪
My feelings covering Summer Game Fest, in LA, as the daughter of a Mexican immigrant.
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June 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My feelings covering Summer Game Fest, in LA, as the daughter of a Mexican immigrant.
pentopixels.com/article/summ...
pentopixels.com/article/summ...
Shout out to Rhys Darby for playing the Terraria day theme before his set and sending me into a spiral trying to work out where I'd heard it before
May 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Shout out to Rhys Darby for playing the Terraria day theme before his set and sending me into a spiral trying to work out where I'd heard it before
Still on my remaster bullshit.
If you're playing Onimusha 2 with analog controls, you're not playing Onimusha 2.
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If you're playing Onimusha 2 with analog controls, you're not playing Onimusha 2.
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Mixing Resident Evil and Sekiro, Capcom's latest remaster proves that tank controls are still king
The Onimusha 2 remaster is a major win for videogame preservation, even if Capcom’s hands-off approach conserves decades-old flaws.
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May 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Still on my remaster bullshit.
If you're playing Onimusha 2 with analog controls, you're not playing Onimusha 2.
www.pcgamesn.com/onimusha-2/r...
If you're playing Onimusha 2 with analog controls, you're not playing Onimusha 2.
www.pcgamesn.com/onimusha-2/r...
Remasters are weird because I get to review my favourite games from 20 years ago.
"I had my worries that we'd end up with the videogame equivalent of Cecilia Giménez getting her hands on a 19th-century fresco."
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"I had my worries that we'd end up with the videogame equivalent of Cecilia Giménez getting her hands on a 19th-century fresco."
www.pcgamesn.com/oblivion-rem...
After Starfield, Oblivion Remastered is the last gasp of a dying age for Bethesda
Oblivion Remastered transports me back to the simple joys of mid-noughties Bethesda, but nostalgia can’t save it from the UE5 jitters.
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May 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Remasters are weird because I get to review my favourite games from 20 years ago.
"I had my worries that we'd end up with the videogame equivalent of Cecilia Giménez getting her hands on a 19th-century fresco."
www.pcgamesn.com/oblivion-rem...
"I had my worries that we'd end up with the videogame equivalent of Cecilia Giménez getting her hands on a 19th-century fresco."
www.pcgamesn.com/oblivion-rem...
it's amazing how I can track my ADHD flare-ups by how many tabs I have open at the end of the day
May 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
it's amazing how I can track my ADHD flare-ups by how many tabs I have open at the end of the day
Thank you so much to Hoyoverse for the #gifted Charlotte Tilbury x Genshin Impact skincare collection! ✨ @genshinimpact-en.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Thank you so much to Hoyoverse for the #gifted Charlotte Tilbury x Genshin Impact skincare collection! ✨ @genshinimpact-en.bsky.social
lets go girls
May 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
lets go girls
May 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I have SO much to play and write so tell me why I just bought the God Eater trilogy on Steam like I have any time at all to play it (spoiler: it's bc it's like 90% off and £7 for the lot, BUT STILL).
April 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I have SO much to play and write so tell me why I just bought the God Eater trilogy on Steam like I have any time at all to play it (spoiler: it's bc it's like 90% off and £7 for the lot, BUT STILL).
Napoli ➡️ Ischia 💚🤍❤️
April 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Napoli ➡️ Ischia 💚🤍❤️
Had the absolute pleasure of editing @tjohnlinward.bsky.social's Nine Sols retrospective. One of those pieces that's a privilege to read before everyone else. Take a look!
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The best Metroidvania since Hollow Knight came from the least likely developer
Red Candle’s creative director explains how an obscure Taiwanese studio went from cult horror games to Metroidvania soulslike Nine Sols.
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April 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Had the absolute pleasure of editing @tjohnlinward.bsky.social's Nine Sols retrospective. One of those pieces that's a privilege to read before everyone else. Take a look!
www.pcgamesn.com/nine-sols/in...
www.pcgamesn.com/nine-sols/in...
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Bored with the sunshine? Why not listen to me rattling on about games with @stottybairn.bsky.social and there's Ben F from Rebellion to talk #Atomfall.
Caution- this edition contains egregious mentions of @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social and user caution is advised.
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Caution- this edition contains egregious mentions of @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social and user caution is advised.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Radio 5 Live - Let's Talk About Tech, Game On - It's Cumbria, but not as we know it. And it's BAFTA time again!
Game On - It's Cumbria, but not as we know it. And it's BAFTA time again!
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April 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Bored with the sunshine? Why not listen to me rattling on about games with @stottybairn.bsky.social and there's Ben F from Rebellion to talk #Atomfall.
Caution- this edition contains egregious mentions of @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social and user caution is advised.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Caution- this edition contains egregious mentions of @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social and user caution is advised.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Heeeere it is! I'm over on BBC Radio 5 Live with @adamrosserradio.bsky.social
talking BAFTA Game Awards and Atomfall! 📻
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talking BAFTA Game Awards and Atomfall! 📻
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Radio 5 Live - Let's Talk About Tech, Game On - It's Cumbria, but not as we know it. And it's BAFTA time again!
Game On - It's Cumbria, but not as we know it. And it's BAFTA time again!
www.bbc.co.uk
April 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Heeeere it is! I'm over on BBC Radio 5 Live with @adamrosserradio.bsky.social
talking BAFTA Game Awards and Atomfall! 📻
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
talking BAFTA Game Awards and Atomfall! 📻
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Did a cool thing :) watch this space
April 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Did a cool thing :) watch this space
WHEW, just caught up on all my notifications! Thank you so much for the love, you're all so sweet. 💖
April 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
WHEW, just caught up on all my notifications! Thank you so much for the love, you're all so sweet. 💖
What do you MEAN an amazing opportunity has been sat in my Twitter message requests for TWO WHOLE DAYS??? 😃😃😃😃
April 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
What do you MEAN an amazing opportunity has been sat in my Twitter message requests for TWO WHOLE DAYS??? 😃😃😃😃
Chuffed to bits - I've been promoted to Senior Staff Writer at @pcgamesn.com!! 🧡🤍🖤
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Chuffed to bits - I've been promoted to Senior Staff Writer at @pcgamesn.com!! 🧡🤍🖤
March 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Atomfall is this year's Pacific Drive: a survival RPG that's familiar but fresh, with enough mystery to keep you dialled in to its northern charm.
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Atomfall review - a survival sandbox built on the best of British sci-fi
Rebellion’s Atomfall is a delightful romp full of mystery, though its Bethesda-style trappings hold it back from the forefront of its genre.
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March 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Atomfall is this year's Pacific Drive: a survival RPG that's familiar but fresh, with enough mystery to keep you dialled in to its northern charm.
www.pcgamesn.com/atomfall/rev...
www.pcgamesn.com/atomfall/rev...