Jon Hicks
@jonhicks.com
Currently: Editorial Director, GamesIndustry.biz. Formerly: Editorial Director at Gamer Network, stage stuff at Rezzed/EGX, EIC OXM, words in lots of places.
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This week our Patreon operatives' mission is to listen to us laugh at Sam Fisher, in the first of the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell novelisations (it is called Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell). Featuring advanced Krav Maga techniques, and covert spy @johnnyohnny.bsky.social
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November 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This week our Patreon operatives' mission is to listen to us laugh at Sam Fisher, in the first of the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell novelisations (it is called Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell). Featuring advanced Krav Maga techniques, and covert spy @johnnyohnny.bsky.social
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Outstanding failure of journalism by the Times: cold-mailing "Bill DeBlasio" and failing to check that it was the *correct* Bill de Blasio. This story also gets bonus marks for "interview conducted through Ring doorbell" www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Outstanding failure of journalism by the Times: cold-mailing "Bill DeBlasio" and failing to check that it was the *correct* Bill de Blasio. This story also gets bonus marks for "interview conducted through Ring doorbell" www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
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Friends if you work at a creative tech/games/etc company in and around London, and you'd be willing to hire some internship/placement students for 2-3 months over summer, please let me know! I have incredibly smart and engaged undergrads looking for summer opportunities.
October 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Friends if you work at a creative tech/games/etc company in and around London, and you'd be willing to hire some internship/placement students for 2-3 months over summer, please let me know! I have incredibly smart and engaged undergrads looking for summer opportunities.
I am enjoying our book club. The actual books, not so much, although the trend is improving.
The second episode of Text Adventure is live for Patreon backers, in which @edwinet.bsky.social joins us to judge the prequel to Mass Effect: Andromeda and Nate attempts to guess what Asari look like. Find it on Patreon and Spotify. www.patreon.com/posts/text-a...
September 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I am enjoying our book club. The actual books, not so much, although the trend is improving.
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A new public episode! We gather to discuss important matters of Mario, Silksong and Strange Antiquities, and Nate prepares a quiz about strange things of antiquity. Find it wherever you get your pods.
September 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A new public episode! We gather to discuss important matters of Mario, Silksong and Strange Antiquities, and Nate prepares a quiz about strange things of antiquity. Find it wherever you get your pods.
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We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically:
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f
Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at james.archer@rockpapershotgun.com
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f
Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at james.archer@rockpapershotgun.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically:
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f
Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at james.archer@rockpapershotgun.com
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f
Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at james.archer@rockpapershotgun.com
Comiserations to today's Games Media Main Character.
September 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Comiserations to today's Games Media Main Character.
I would absolutely watch this show.
ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy likes the idea of a Kleya and Vel ‘Nazi hunters’ spin-off series in which the duo hunt after former Imperials following the fall of the Empire with the assistance of Dedra Meero in a Hannibal Lector-esque role.
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September 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I would absolutely watch this show.
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A new public episode! Alice went to Gamescom and she's here to talk about the games she saw, the PR she robbed, and the tractor she stood in front of. Find it on Patreon or wherever you get your pods. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
September 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A new public episode! Alice went to Gamescom and she's here to talk about the games she saw, the PR she robbed, and the tractor she stood in front of. Find it on Patreon or wherever you get your pods. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
In which we launch a series with the single games novel I already owned, which turned out to be terrible. Fun episode though.
New for Patreons: the first episode of Text Adventure, our videogame book club! @brendyc.bsky.social joins us to discuss Assassin's Creed Brotherhood by Oliver Bowden, which turns out to be bad in an extremely videogames way. Listen on Patreon now: www.patreon.com/posts/text-a...
September 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In which we launch a series with the single games novel I already owned, which turned out to be terrible. Fun episode though.
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@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
August 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
Big news from the old country. I'm excited for them. Rich was never short of ideas and that brand has a peerless reputation, I look forward to seeing where they take it.
We're excited and proud to announce that Digital Foundry is now fully independent, having parted ways amicably with IGN. In this DF Direct Special, we share our thoughts and aspirations for the future of the channel: youtu.be/tl7bIJ2yu4I
August 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Big news from the old country. I'm excited for them. Rich was never short of ideas and that brand has a peerless reputation, I look forward to seeing where they take it.
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Here’s to @grahamsmith.bsky.social, signing off from RPS after 20 years in game journalism with the wisest thoughts about games media you’ll read www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-p...
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The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web.
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July 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Here’s to @grahamsmith.bsky.social, signing off from RPS after 20 years in game journalism with the wisest thoughts about games media you’ll read www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-p...
I wish them every success, but "[ex-big studio person] presents live-service game" feels like an announcement from a different era.
Blizzard co-founder and former CEO launches new sci-fi live-service game Wildgate
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July 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I wish them every success, but "[ex-big studio person] presents live-service game" feels like an announcement from a different era.
I went to an offsite in... 2010, maybe, at which a speaker from a financial firm stated with absolute certainty the state pension age would be 72 by the time most of us retired. Bleak.
Labour to review state pension age as Liz Kendall warns ‘people are not saving enough for their retirement’ - UK politics live
Labour to review state pension age as Liz Kendall warns ‘people are not saving enough for their retirement’ - UK politics live
Work and pensions secretary announces next statutory government review into retirement age
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July 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I went to an offsite in... 2010, maybe, at which a speaker from a financial firm stated with absolute certainty the state pension age would be 72 by the time most of us retired. Bleak.
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🚨 🚨 🚨 EXCELLENT NEW STAMP ALERT 🚨 🚨 🚨
July 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
🚨 🚨 🚨 EXCELLENT NEW STAMP ALERT 🚨 🚨 🚨
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A new regular episode! Alice is off, so it fell to Nate and Jonty to despair over the Microsoft layoffs, cherish some good news for games media and workshop a Quake 2/Kumars at Number 47 crossover. Available on Acast and wherever you get your pods. shows.acast.com/total-playti...
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July 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A new regular episode! Alice is off, so it fell to Nate and Jonty to despair over the Microsoft layoffs, cherish some good news for games media and workshop a Quake 2/Kumars at Number 47 crossover. Available on Acast and wherever you get your pods. shows.acast.com/total-playti...
Big news from Develop: they're finally renovating the MyHotel in Brighton. A cruel twist for the Gamer Network diaspora who endured the previous decor.
July 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Big news from Develop: they're finally renovating the MyHotel in Brighton. A cruel twist for the Gamer Network diaspora who endured the previous decor.
This was fun. I now have a slightly deeper understanding of the fact that in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, and also the loungehammer music is still stuck in my head a month later.
A new Patreon episode, in which noted expert Nate explains Warhammer. Come for the extremely unlicenced Loungehammer music, stay for Paul Blart: Space Marine and Alice getting extremely furious about her faction assignment: www.patreon.com/posts/premiu...
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July 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This was fun. I now have a slightly deeper understanding of the fact that in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, and also the loungehammer music is still stuck in my head a month later.
This counts as good news, I think, although that's strictly relative these days: www.axios.com/2025/07/02/k...
Kotaku sells to Gizmodo owner Keleops
The Root is now the only media brand left at G/O Media.
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July 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This counts as good news, I think, although that's strictly relative these days: www.axios.com/2025/07/02/k...
A view from the South London diaspora.
June 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A view from the South London diaspora.
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Leftfield submissions are now open for EGX London, Oct 24th-26th: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...
June 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Leftfield submissions are now open for EGX London, Oct 24th-26th: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...
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A new Patreon episode: papal proclamations to save gaming, while outwitting the dastardly Gamer Satan and his efforts to create Games 2. Just think, in other podcasts that might seem weird. Listen on Patreon or Spotify: www.patreon.com/posts/131820...
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June 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A new Patreon episode: papal proclamations to save gaming, while outwitting the dastardly Gamer Satan and his efforts to create Games 2. Just think, in other podcasts that might seem weird. Listen on Patreon or Spotify: www.patreon.com/posts/131820...
Wild data point I heard last week: previous government knew nothing about games. Jeremy Hunt needed to have *FIFA* explained to him. Current administration much savvier, apparently.
My column this week: how if you want to understand the forces shaping politics, both at an electoral and ideological level, you have to understand videogames:
If you don’t understand Nintendo Switch 2, you won’t understand the modern world
No savvy politician can get away with treating gaming as if it were a passing fad
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June 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Wild data point I heard last week: previous government knew nothing about games. Jeremy Hunt needed to have *FIFA* explained to him. Current administration much savvier, apparently.