Laurie
@theeggman64.bsky.social
Gamer. Fan of action adventures, indies and VR. Dad of three, and owner of a very cute puppy. Host of CrossButton VR podcast and regular contributor to Lost in Cult journals. Hyped for Ghost of Yotei!
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Laurie
@theeggman64.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Intro post time then…
I’m Laurie, an avid gaming industry watcher. Lifelong Nintendo fan, now mainly playing on PS5. Huge advocate for the magic of VR gaming.
Fav game: Cyberpunk 2077. See other favourites in the image below!
My rule for social media: no drama.
I’m Laurie, an avid gaming industry watcher. Lifelong Nintendo fan, now mainly playing on PS5. Huge advocate for the magic of VR gaming.
Fav game: Cyberpunk 2077. See other favourites in the image below!
My rule for social media: no drama.
I'm really enjoying DK Bananza. It's just so much fun to explore and destroy everything - from a game design perspective I can't imagine how hard it is to create a level that can be almost completely destroyed but still works.
January 7, 2026 at 9:37 AM
I'm really enjoying DK Bananza. It's just so much fun to explore and destroy everything - from a game design perspective I can't imagine how hard it is to create a level that can be almost completely destroyed but still works.
Finished stranger things - a few plot holes but they did a great job of capping it all off in a satisfying way. If you look at the whole five seasons (and the play) as a complete story then it’s a pretty damn epic bit of storytelling.
January 7, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Finished stranger things - a few plot holes but they did a great job of capping it all off in a satisfying way. If you look at the whole five seasons (and the play) as a complete story then it’s a pretty damn epic bit of storytelling.
These were my top games of 2025. A stand out incredible year in my book, I’ll remember these games for a long time. Love how many of the below games are all new IP too. Hat tip to Gamepass too for keeping me so well entertained.
January 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM
These were my top games of 2025. A stand out incredible year in my book, I’ll remember these games for a long time. Love how many of the below games are all new IP too. Hat tip to Gamepass too for keeping me so well entertained.
It's an easy win for Ghost Town for me, but Of Lies and Rain deserves a mention too. Hitman VR is remarkable, it's like 20+ games in one as each level is like it's own holodeck playground to get lost in - worth buying PSVR2 just for this one game IMO.
🎆 Happy New Year from VRGS! 🎆
Before we look ahead to 2026, what was your VR GOTY for 2025? Here's a few of our picks:
🦕 Arken Age
🤖 Roboquest VR
👨🦲 Hitman
👻 Ghost Town
🕯️ The Midnight Walk
🚨 Laser Dance
🎲 Demeo x D&D: Battlemarked
📦 Deadly Delivery
🔫 Deadpool
Before we look ahead to 2026, what was your VR GOTY for 2025? Here's a few of our picks:
🦕 Arken Age
🤖 Roboquest VR
👨🦲 Hitman
👻 Ghost Town
🕯️ The Midnight Walk
🚨 Laser Dance
🎲 Demeo x D&D: Battlemarked
📦 Deadly Delivery
🔫 Deadpool
January 5, 2026 at 2:03 PM
It's an easy win for Ghost Town for me, but Of Lies and Rain deserves a mention too. Hitman VR is remarkable, it's like 20+ games in one as each level is like it's own holodeck playground to get lost in - worth buying PSVR2 just for this one game IMO.
Happy new year Bluesky! I opened my Switch 2 over Christmas and I've been loving DK Bananza, MK World and Mario Party Jamboree so far. Had some great Jamboree fun with the kids over the holidays.
January 5, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Happy new year Bluesky! I opened my Switch 2 over Christmas and I've been loving DK Bananza, MK World and Mario Party Jamboree so far. Had some great Jamboree fun with the kids over the holidays.
Digital sales on PS5 increased from 70% to 76% year on year. So yeah, given the trend will continue for the next few years, there’s no way PS6 will have a disc drive.
May 14, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Digital sales on PS5 increased from 70% to 76% year on year. So yeah, given the trend will continue for the next few years, there’s no way PS6 will have a disc drive.
Played a good few more hours of Avowed last night. Also, I love Avowed.
May 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Played a good few more hours of Avowed last night. Also, I love Avowed.
Good review here for The Midnight Walk. Happily a patch is on the way for the low resolution in VR, which will address one of the main criticisms here too. www.pushsquare.com/reviews/psvr...
Review: The Midnight Walk (PSVR2) - Dark, Melancholic, and Hauntingly Beautiful
Can it walk the walk?
www.pushsquare.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Good review here for The Midnight Walk. Happily a patch is on the way for the low resolution in VR, which will address one of the main criticisms here too. www.pushsquare.com/reviews/psvr...
I’d definitely be up for playing an updated version of GTA IV. I can’t remember why, but I never finished it on PS3 and it always annoyed me that I never went back and completed it.
May 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I’d definitely be up for playing an updated version of GTA IV. I can’t remember why, but I never finished it on PS3 and it always annoyed me that I never went back and completed it.
Pics from my helicopter ride over London with my son today! Epic day out.
May 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Pics from my helicopter ride over London with my son today! Epic day out.
Been playing Super Mario Bros Wonder again, and I swear this is the greatest ever Mario game. Pure creativity, fun, silliness and perfectly judged challenge. Simply wonderful.
May 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Been playing Super Mario Bros Wonder again, and I swear this is the greatest ever Mario game. Pure creativity, fun, silliness and perfectly judged challenge. Simply wonderful.
GTA 6 is looking insane in the new trailer. Rockstar are just on another level - let’s hope it plays as good as it looks!
May 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
GTA 6 is looking insane in the new trailer. Rockstar are just on another level - let’s hope it plays as good as it looks!
No GTA? No problem! Here’s the games I hope to play this year anyway…
South of Midnight
Ghost of Yotai
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Jedi Survivor
Days Gone Remastered
Star Wars Outlaws Expansion
Blue Prince
Citizen Sleeper 2
Silksong
Switch 2 will be held til Xmas, so there’s that too!
South of Midnight
Ghost of Yotai
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Jedi Survivor
Days Gone Remastered
Star Wars Outlaws Expansion
Blue Prince
Citizen Sleeper 2
Silksong
Switch 2 will be held til Xmas, so there’s that too!
May 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
No GTA? No problem! Here’s the games I hope to play this year anyway…
South of Midnight
Ghost of Yotai
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Jedi Survivor
Days Gone Remastered
Star Wars Outlaws Expansion
Blue Prince
Citizen Sleeper 2
Silksong
Switch 2 will be held til Xmas, so there’s that too!
South of Midnight
Ghost of Yotai
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Jedi Survivor
Days Gone Remastered
Star Wars Outlaws Expansion
Blue Prince
Citizen Sleeper 2
Silksong
Switch 2 will be held til Xmas, so there’s that too!
Just watched Thunderbolts*. First impression? Best MCU thing since Endgame. Florence Pugh rules.
May 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Just watched Thunderbolts*. First impression? Best MCU thing since Endgame. Florence Pugh rules.
The 2TB Series X is now more expensive than the PS5 Pro in America.
Microsoft Raises the Price of All Xbox Series Consoles, Xbox Games Confirmed to Hit $80 This Holiday www.ign.com/articles/mic...
Xbox Series X now $599.99
Xbox Series X now $599.99
May 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The 2TB Series X is now more expensive than the PS5 Pro in America.
This gen is crazy
BREAKING: Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide. The Xbox Series X is going up by $100 to $599.99, the Xbox Series S is now $379.99, and some new Xbox games will be $79.99 later this year. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/659430/...
Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide
New Xbox first-party games are going up in price later this year.
www.theverge.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This gen is crazy
While I didn’t get Glastonbury tickets, I’m making my own festival line up for the same weekend. Got tickets to see Haim in Margate’s Dreamland on the Friday, followed by Linkin Park at Wembley Stadium on the Saturday. Now I just need a Sunday headliner…
May 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
While I didn’t get Glastonbury tickets, I’m making my own festival line up for the same weekend. Got tickets to see Haim in Margate’s Dreamland on the Friday, followed by Linkin Park at Wembley Stadium on the Saturday. Now I just need a Sunday headliner…
A great example of how modern life is rubbish - trying to book a trip to Disneyland. The website has a queue to access it. Tickets are dated, there's 14 days for 7, early park access, virtual queue apps, Lightning Lanes, Dining Plans. Has no-one stepped back to ask, what the fuck are we doing here?
April 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
A great example of how modern life is rubbish - trying to book a trip to Disneyland. The website has a queue to access it. Tickets are dated, there's 14 days for 7, early park access, virtual queue apps, Lightning Lanes, Dining Plans. Has no-one stepped back to ask, what the fuck are we doing here?
Likelihood of 2025 ending up as one of the best ever years in gaming?
April 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Likelihood of 2025 ending up as one of the best ever years in gaming?
Reposted by Laurie
Ghost Town is out and we have it a glowing review! Which you can watch in the link below.
We also wanted to let you know that we have an affiliate link that can save you 10% off your purchase.
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Review - youtu.be/8l01oTHMI7w
Enjoy!
We also wanted to let you know that we have an affiliate link that can save you 10% off your purchase.
10% off - meta.com/affiliates/Ajp…
Review - youtu.be/8l01oTHMI7w
Enjoy!
April 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Ghost Town is out and we have it a glowing review! Which you can watch in the link below.
We also wanted to let you know that we have an affiliate link that can save you 10% off your purchase.
10% off - meta.com/affiliates/Ajp…
Review - youtu.be/8l01oTHMI7w
Enjoy!
We also wanted to let you know that we have an affiliate link that can save you 10% off your purchase.
10% off - meta.com/affiliates/Ajp…
Review - youtu.be/8l01oTHMI7w
Enjoy!
This is true, there’s been loads of opportunities to preorder a Switch 2 here, all the main retailers keep getting restocks.
I feel like it was a lot easier to preorder a Switch 2 in the UK than it has been in the US. We had Argos, Amazon UK, and even Amazon Spain taking orders without websites crashing
April 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is true, there’s been loads of opportunities to preorder a Switch 2 here, all the main retailers keep getting restocks.
People upset at the lack of physical copies in Collectors Editions - the vast majority are buying games digitally, and many players only own digital-only consoles too. Having physical editions just complicates things unnecessarily, when the majority don't want/need them.
April 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
People upset at the lack of physical copies in Collectors Editions - the vast majority are buying games digitally, and many players only own digital-only consoles too. Having physical editions just complicates things unnecessarily, when the majority don't want/need them.
Here's UploadVR's excellent written review by the ever-busy @henrystockdale.com, which aligns with my views on the game exactly. Now we just need @fireproofgames.com to announce a follow up in what deserves to be an on-going franchise.
Ghost Town is a brilliant supernatural puzzle adventure from The Room VR studio that you won't want to miss.
Our full review: www.uploadvr.com/ghost-town-v...
Our full review: www.uploadvr.com/ghost-town-v...
April 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Here's UploadVR's excellent written review by the ever-busy @henrystockdale.com, which aligns with my views on the game exactly. Now we just need @fireproofgames.com to announce a follow up in what deserves to be an on-going franchise.
I've now finished Ghost Town on Quest 3, and it's one of my favourite VR games ever. It does everything so well, and I can't wait for other people to play it. Please check out our review video below, and drop us a sub while you are there 😜
Ghost Town releases today on Quest! So here are our thoughts.
This was recorded a day before we finished the game, but rest assured we'll be speaking more about this during the next full episode!
Go listen to our spoiler-free review now
youtu.be/8l01oTHMI7w
This was recorded a day before we finished the game, but rest assured we'll be speaking more about this during the next full episode!
Go listen to our spoiler-free review now
youtu.be/8l01oTHMI7w
April 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I've now finished Ghost Town on Quest 3, and it's one of my favourite VR games ever. It does everything so well, and I can't wait for other people to play it. Please check out our review video below, and drop us a sub while you are there 😜