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Hit Points by Nathan Brown
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A newsletter about the game industry, by consultant, writer and former Edge editor Nathan Brown.

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The perfect dad-joke doesnt exi-
November 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I wrote about that yesterday too! newsletter.hitpoints.co/339-objection/
October 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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A rare sojourn outside the paywall to explain why it's okay not to care about the EA buyout. Go! It's free!
October 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Very good comment that pretty much sums up my thoughts on the matter
September 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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A 2TB Series X is now $50 more expensive than a 2TB PS5 *Pro*. Microsoft is actively trying to not sell consoles
September 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Wrote about the idiot

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September 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Randy! Please stop posting!
September 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Will someone please find iNiS and show them this
September 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Going for Completionist++ is almost certainly the stupidest decision I've ever made. But I have done it.
September 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Solid imo
August 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Oh hey I did this! On why we all slow down to rubberneck at public game-industry drama
August 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Basically punched the air at every bullet point on this list until I got to this bit, at which point I screamed ‘YES’ repeatedly. Graham is the best
July 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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July 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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A free one on how these clowns can get absolutely fucked newsletter.hitpoints.co/324-going-da...
When Tango and Arkane Austin got whacked last year, I called it cultural vandalism. This is too, of course, but I have a simpler description for it. This is loser shit. Phil Spencer has spent ten years and, at a conservative estimate, eighty billion dollars taking Xbox from last place to last place, and now the game is up he is systematically dismantling the largest and most powerful videogame business the world has ever seen like he’s on some anti-Brewster’s Millions shit, torching the legacies of endless cherished studios and game series while trying to convince us all that everything is going to plan. He is fucking useless and it is all absolutely pathetic, though that doesn't make it any easier to witness. A quarter of a century ago, Microsoft entered the videogame industry with an eye on global domination. Today it is merely a stain on it.
July 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Somebody ring the bell
July 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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I will obviously write a newsletter about all this in a day or two, but equally I could just copy/paste what I wrote the last time and be done with it. Pricks newsletter.hitpoints.co/261-dishonou...
July 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Oh stick it up your bollocks
July 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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There were 770 games at not-E3 this year. Is this good? Was it fun? Trying to make some sense of it all in here newsletter.hitpoints.co/320-sensory-...
Keighley’s schtick these days is to clumsily retrofit some sort of kumbaya-ish narrative onto the paid-for parade of games he is about to show off. Last year, it was all about the indies, baby. This year it was discovery, peppered with a bizarre, factually suspect and, given the recent discourse around Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, thoroughly ill-advised fixation on developer team sizes. As Hit Points has pointed out several years in a row now, it is not Geoff’s fault that he has slimmer pickings at his summer showcases than he does at The Game Awards in December. There is so much more competition at this time of year. But I do wish he would stop trying to pretend that the vast majority of the games he shows off are there for any other reason than that they were available and their cheques have cleared. This year’s show portrayed a game industry dominated by anime gacha games, Soulslikes and extraction nonsense, and while there’s a degree of truth to that it’s not exactly something to crow about. Does the man have no taste, or does he simply not care? Judging by his choice of footwear, it’s probably a bit of both.
June 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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June 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Finally common sense prevails
June 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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First try. Retiring undefeated
June 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Ghouls. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/m...
May 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Wrote a free one about, well, you know.

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May 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Showman, I take it all back
April 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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A truly terrifying, erm, prospect

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April 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM