lol it looks like ass! Such a terrible job. Shame too cause I love custom branded Switch stuff.

Make all games journalist independent, allow real voices and real thoughts to be spread. To paraphrase George Orwell, "Anything other than the truth is just marketing." He said it far more eloquently, but it rings no less true, and I'd like to think readers can smell the marketing a mile away.

To everyone who has lost a job: You ARE skilled, you ARE valuable, you ARE a great, fantastic, wonderful writer with things worth saying, reading, and hearing. Don't let a soulless company or person tell you otherwise. They are wrong. You wouldn't be losing a job if you weren't amazing at it first.

A household name if it would make them money or appear to be losing less. @ba-original.bsky.social is where I write these days and is completely independent and also worth adding to your daily reading. It's so incredibly sad to see hundreds of my peers out of work...

Conversation and not mind-numbing AI-generated slop. You deserve better, and your time is limited as well. Make the most of it. Right, back to the cozy open-world game where everything makes sense.

Been a while since I've done a decent thread and that felt good. I love sharing and talking about games. I'm doing as much as I can with the time I have, but there's a lot of great journalism out there so please go and read it! Use your brain, engage it with intelligent...

Astrobotanica has a demo! At last, we can try it! I'm very excited about this one. It's a kind of cozy crafting game about growing plants as an alien on a prehistoric Earth so you can make enough of the right elements for your home planet's atmosphere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI7y...

Last one for this thread because I'm knackered and if I want to have any hope of doing my dailies in Infinity Nikki, getting a match of Dead by Daylight in, trying out the ARC Raiders Server Slam, AND playing Pokemon Legends ZA, I've got to stop somewhere...

New Secret Mode game, Nutmeg, has a dem out! It looks amazing, very much up my alley with the old football (yes, UK football) cards. I love it and desperately want to try it so will do my best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y8w...

Dark Heresy is the other, and that one's not even out yet! store.steampowered.com/app/3710600/...

2 Warhammer games coming to Switch 2, which is awesome! Rogue Trader is the one I'm most excited about. store.steampowered.com/app/2186680/...

I'm hoping to test it out so watch this space.

In a classic me, and sort of strange way, I've been chatting with people close to the MCON controller, which is now available to purchase here: ohsnap.com/collections/... It's a really inteesting magnetic controller for your smartphone, looks to be one of the best.

I got a very cool Hell Is Us email and I'm very sad I can't jump on the opportunity but just know if I had the time to make it to chat with a certain gravelly voiced actor I would! I really, really would. Maybe in 2026.

Here's a cool game, Schematic Void. It's a puzzle title where you're finishing an unfinished game by completing puzzles. It starts simple and gets incredibly complex later on. I'm pretty jazzed about it and hope it lives up to the big vision promises. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWo...

It's going to be free-to-play and out this year, supposedly. I'll reserve judgement for when I've played it because I really don't know for sure what I'll think of it. I'd like to enjoy it, but we've been down this road a lot and so many games like this haven't hit.

Quantic Dream is a dev with a troubled history regarding its people, but its games have always, I thought, been rather groundbreaking. Its newly revealed game, Spellcaster Chronicles, is a 3v3 multiplayer affair I'm not massively certain about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEXC...

Milestone's upcoming racer, Screamer, piqued my interest with its very first trailer. Now we've got a look at a new team, Jupiter Stormers, a bunch of scientists-turned racers, and I love them. I adore the story behind this team and their looks, just fab. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCzB...

I had completely forgotten about Simon The Sorceror until I heard about the prequel this week. I really enjoyed the original and will definitely be diving in when I get the chance. Don't you think it looks good? www.youtube.com/watch?v=J28o...