Leon Hurley
@leonhurley.bsky.social
Guides boss at GamesRadar. Formerly Kotaku, Official PlayStation, teacher, musician, scientist. Did a lot of jobs, basically. Likes horror, game dev, made a banjo once.
Oh my God, I think they're going to get Rocky right.
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Oh my God, I think they're going to get Rocky right.
This is just such a lovely, kinetic and characterful UI.
My strategy game, MORSE released this week!
MORSE teaches you Morse Code through timing, tactics and telegraphy. Learn a secret language, build your own telegraph and jump head first down the rabbit hole of ham radio. 🔥⚓️⚫️➖
#hamradio #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #morsecode
MORSE teaches you Morse Code through timing, tactics and telegraphy. Learn a secret language, build your own telegraph and jump head first down the rabbit hole of ham radio. 🔥⚓️⚫️➖
#hamradio #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #morsecode
November 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is just such a lovely, kinetic and characterful UI.
Made a stupidly hard quiz where you have to identify the Call of Duty game by just the face on the box alone. Having literally just made it I only scored 18 out of 22. www.gamesradar.com/games/call-o...
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Made a stupidly hard quiz where you have to identify the Call of Duty game by just the face on the box alone. Having literally just made it I only scored 18 out of 22. www.gamesradar.com/games/call-o...
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Well this sucks, because I did really want to play this but AI for voice work is a top tier no.
Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice.
They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.
They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Well this sucks, because I did really want to play this but AI for voice work is a top tier no.
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
I like that Obsidian is really digging into difficult decisions and grey area wins with Avowed and Outer Worlds 2. But only for other people. My playthrough must be flawless and fail free.
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I like that Obsidian is really digging into difficult decisions and grey area wins with Avowed and Outer Worlds 2. But only for other people. My playthrough must be flawless and fail free.
As an English person that doesn’t follow or understand any sport, my current understanding of the situation is that baseball is evil now?
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
As an English person that doesn’t follow or understand any sport, my current understanding of the situation is that baseball is evil now?
Best Outer Worlds 2 experience so far: accidentally finding what was clearly the end of an undiscovered mission where everyone was all ‘we are ready to die’ and immediately slaughtered by my companions, without me having any idea what was going on. 10/10, would get everyone killed again.
a man in a suit with a bolo tie around his neck is holding a jacket
ALT: a man in a suit with a bolo tie around his neck is holding a jacket
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Best Outer Worlds 2 experience so far: accidentally finding what was clearly the end of an undiscovered mission where everyone was all ‘we are ready to die’ and immediately slaughtered by my companions, without me having any idea what was going on. 10/10, would get everyone killed again.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
Whenever I see anyone talking about LLMs like they're alive or AGI is near, I assume they either know nothing about them, or they're on a grift.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Whenever I see anyone talking about LLMs like they're alive or AGI is near, I assume they either know nothing about them, or they're on a grift.
Excellent that I now have to use a VPN to see images on a coding forum but also need to turn it off so I can search for what I need in the first place. Well done internet.
October 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Excellent that I now have to use a VPN to see images on a coding forum but also need to turn it off so I can search for what I need in the first place. Well done internet.
I predict this is going to be ‘take a day off and get the popcorn’ levels of absolute disaster.
October 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I predict this is going to be ‘take a day off and get the popcorn’ levels of absolute disaster.
Remember seeing this EVERWHERE when it came out but never read it because I thought it was an author I didn’t like who did boring people just talking stuff. Did a double take seeing the TV Glow director was adapting it and holy shit I completely missed what this was about, so I’m going in.
October 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Remember seeing this EVERWHERE when it came out but never read it because I thought it was an author I didn’t like who did boring people just talking stuff. Did a double take seeing the TV Glow director was adapting it and holy shit I completely missed what this was about, so I’m going in.
The most boring search in the world, trying to find the make of a kitchen tap, somehow incudes one of the most horrific murders I’ve ever read about as the fifth result.
October 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The most boring search in the world, trying to find the make of a kitchen tap, somehow incudes one of the most horrific murders I’ve ever read about as the fifth result.
This is one of the most beautifully weird things I’ve seen in a longtime. Just jaw dropping art design and creativity, like a Laika fever dream.
🎉 KEEPER HAS AWAKENED 🎉
Watch this brand new launch trailer full of otherworldly eye candy, and then get ready for a reality-bending experience full of surprise, absurdity and delight!
** OUT NOW on Xbox and Steam**
@xbox.com / @steampowered.com
doublefine.com/games/keeper
Watch this brand new launch trailer full of otherworldly eye candy, and then get ready for a reality-bending experience full of surprise, absurdity and delight!
** OUT NOW on Xbox and Steam**
@xbox.com / @steampowered.com
doublefine.com/games/keeper
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is one of the most beautifully weird things I’ve seen in a longtime. Just jaw dropping art design and creativity, like a Laika fever dream.
A dead giveaway Bloodlines 2 wasn't what The Chinese Room wanted to do is when a character who's whole thing is 'not going out' appears in your hallway with a mission. However that objective was meant to start clearly got cut & this was the only solution. The dialogue even covers the contradiction.
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A dead giveaway Bloodlines 2 wasn't what The Chinese Room wanted to do is when a character who's whole thing is 'not going out' appears in your hallway with a mission. However that objective was meant to start clearly got cut & this was the only solution. The dialogue even covers the contradiction.
Bloodlines 2 plays like a game that was patched together out of whatever was done when the time was up. Characters you've done missions with introduce themselves for the first time hours later, there are very few set pieces but lots of objectives to fight enemy groupings on the general map.
October 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Bloodlines 2 plays like a game that was patched together out of whatever was done when the time was up. Characters you've done missions with introduce themselves for the first time hours later, there are very few set pieces but lots of objectives to fight enemy groupings on the general map.
Reanimal is SO Little Nightmares 3 in all but name. Same basic game, feel, atmosphere; everything. Right down to things like discarded human skins being draped around exactly like the empty clothes were in LN2.
October 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Reanimal is SO Little Nightmares 3 in all but name. Same basic game, feel, atmosphere; everything. Right down to things like discarded human skins being draped around exactly like the empty clothes were in LN2.
HOW AM I ONLY JUST FINDING OUT NOW THERE’S A REANIMAL DEMO! JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT OF BEING ONLINE.
October 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
HOW AM I ONLY JUST FINDING OUT NOW THERE’S A REANIMAL DEMO! JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT OF BEING ONLINE.
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Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.
October 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.
Fixing this required pretty much 4-5 complete re-writes, discovering a different problem each time until I finally found the root cause nowhere near where I thought it would be. It was not fun.
At a stage of debugging where sometimes the code repeats twice before it breaks, sometimes it’s six, sometimes it just keeps going. Great, thanks. Easy.
October 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Fixing this required pretty much 4-5 complete re-writes, discovering a different problem each time until I finally found the root cause nowhere near where I thought it would be. It was not fun.